Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.
 
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
 
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
 
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
 
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
 
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
 
Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters
which were under the firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament: and it was so.
 
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day.
 
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:
and it was so.
 
Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that
it was good.
 
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
 
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose
seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
 
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third
day.
 
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
 
Genesis 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
 
Genesis 1:16 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.
 
Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth,
 
Genesis 1:18 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.
 
Genesis 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth
day.
 
Genesis 1:20 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.
 
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God
saw that it was good.
 
Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply
in the earth.
 
Genesis 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth
day.
 
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the earth after his kind: and it was so.
 
Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
 
Genesis 1:26 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.
 
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image
of God created he him; male and female created he them.
 
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 
Genesis 1:29 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.
 
Genesis 1:30 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.
 
Genesis 1:31 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.
 
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and
all the host of them.
 
Genesis 2:2 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.
 
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
 
Genesis 2:4 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,
 
Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the
earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD
God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a
man to till the ground.
 
Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground.
 
Genesis 2:7 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.
 
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
 
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
 
Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
 
Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
 
Genesis 2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is
bdellium and the onyx stone.
 
Genesis 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the
same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
 
Genesis 2:14 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.
 
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into
the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
 
Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
 
Genesis 2:17 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.
 
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
 
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every
beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam
called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
 
Genesis 2:20 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.
 
Genesis 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof;
 
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from
man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
 
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man.
 
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
 
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife,
and were not ashamed.
 
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden?
 
Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of
the fruit of the trees of the garden:
 
Genesis 3:3 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.
 
Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not
surely die:
 
Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing
good and evil.
 
Genesis 3:6 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.
 
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they
knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together,
and made themselves aprons.
 
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in
the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of
the garden.
 
Genesis 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto
him, Where art thou?
 
Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and
I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
 
Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
 
Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be
with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
 
Genesis 3:13 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.
 
Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
 
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
 
Genesis 3:16 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.
 
Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which
I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the
ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
of thy life;
 
Genesis 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
 
Genesis 3:19 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.
 
Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she
was the mother of all living.
 
Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God
make coats of skins, and clothed them.
 
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become
as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live
for ever:
 
Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the
garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
 
Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east
of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
 
Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and
bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
 
Genesis 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
 
Genesis 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
 
Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his
flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel
and to his offering:
 
Genesis 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not
respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
 
Genesis 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth?
and why is thy countenance fallen?
 
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and
if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
 
Genesis 4:8 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.
 
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
 
Genesis 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
 
Genesis 4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath
opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
 
Genesis 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a
vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
 
Genesis 4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is
greater than I can bear.
 
Genesis 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the
face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall
be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
 
Genesis 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever
slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the
LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
 
Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD,
and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
 
Genesis 4:17 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.
 
Genesis 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat
Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat
Lamech.
 
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of
the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
 
Genesis 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as
dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
 
Genesis 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the
father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
 
Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer
of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain
was Naamah.
 
Genesis 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,
Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I
have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
 
Genesis 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech
seventy and sevenfold.
 
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son,
and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me
another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
 
Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and
he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of
the LORD.
 
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the
day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
 
Genesis 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them,
and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
 
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and
begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called
his name Seth:
 
Genesis 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth
were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred
and thirty years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat
Enos:
 
Genesis 5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred
and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and
twelve years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
 
Genesis 5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and
five years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat
Mahalaleel:
 
Genesis 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight
hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and
ten years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and
begat Jared:
 
Genesis 5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight
hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred
ninety and five years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years,
and he begat Enoch:
 
Genesis 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty
and two years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah:
 
Genesis 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat
Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty
and five years:
 
Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God
took him.
 
Genesis 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven
years, and begat Lamech.
 
Genesis 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty and nine years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years,
and begat a son:
 
Genesis 5:29 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.
 
Genesis 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred
ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
 
Genesis 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred
seventy and seven years: and he died.
 
Genesis 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah
begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
 
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that
they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
 
Genesis 6:3 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.
 
Genesis 6:4 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.
 
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
 
Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
 
Genesis 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me
that I have made them.
 
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
 
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just
man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
 
Genesis 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence.
 
Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
 
Genesis 6:13 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.
 
Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou
make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with
pitch.
 
Genesis 6:15 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.
 
Genesis 6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a
cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt
thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third
stories shalt thou make it.
 
Genesis 6:17 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.
 
Genesis 6:18 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.
 
Genesis 6:19 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.
 
Genesis 6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind,
two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
 
Genesis 6:21 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.
 
Genesis 6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
 
Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy
house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in
this generation.
 
Genesis 7:2 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.
 
Genesis 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and
the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
 
Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain
upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of
the earth.
 
Genesis 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD
commanded him.
 
Genesis 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood
of waters was upon the earth.
 
Genesis 7:7 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.
 
Genesis 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean,
and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
 
Genesis 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark,
the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
 
Genesis 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the
waters of the flood were upon the earth.
 
Genesis 7:11 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.
 
Genesis 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and
forty nights.
 
Genesis 7:13 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;
 
Genesis 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the
cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,
every bird of every sort.
 
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and
two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
 
Genesis 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of
all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
 
Genesis 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and
the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up
above the earth.
 
Genesis 7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased
greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the
waters.
 
Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the
earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven,
were covered.
 
Genesis 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and
the mountains were covered.
 
Genesis 7:21 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:
 
Genesis 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of
all that was in the dry land, died.
 
Genesis 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was
upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they
that were with him in the ark.
 
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred
and fifty days.
 
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing,
and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a
wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
 
Genesis 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of
heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
 
Genesis 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the
waters were abated.
 
Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
 
Genesis 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the
tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month,
were the tops of the mountains seen.
 
Genesis 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
 
Genesis 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
 
Genesis 8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the
waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
 
Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her
foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were
on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and
took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
 
Genesis 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he
sent forth the dove out of the ark;
 
Genesis 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and,
lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that
the waters were abated from off the earth.
 
Genesis 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth
the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
 
Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first
year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters
were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering
of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was
dry.
 
Genesis 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
 
Genesis 8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
 
Genesis 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy
sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
 
Genesis 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is
with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon
the earth.
 
Genesis 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife,
and his sons' wives with him:
 
Genesis 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl,
and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark.
 
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took
of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
 
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD
said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as
I have done.
 
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall
not cease.
 
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
 
Genesis 9:2 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.
 
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
 
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat.
 
Genesis 9:5 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.
 
Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood
be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
 
Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
 
Genesis 9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,
saying,
 
Genesis 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,
and with your seed after you;
 
Genesis 9:10 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.
 
Genesis 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither
shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;
neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
 
Genesis 9:12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant
which I make between me and you and every living creature that is
with you, for perpetual generations:
 
Genesis 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for
a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
 
Genesis 9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud
over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
 
Genesis 9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between
me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters
shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
 
Genesis 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look
upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God
and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
 
Genesis 9:17 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.
 
Genesis 9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
 
Genesis 9:19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was
the whole earth overspread.
 
Genesis 9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted
a vineyard:
 
Genesis 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he
was uncovered within his tent.
 
Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness
of his father, and told his two brethren without.
 
Genesis 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it
upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the
nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and
they saw not their father's nakedness.
 
Genesis 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his
younger son had done unto him.
 
Genesis 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of
servants shall he be unto his brethren.
 
Genesis 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant.
 
Genesis 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in
the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
 
Genesis 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and
fifty years.
 
Genesis 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and
fifty years: and he died.
 
Genesis 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the
flood.
 
Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai,
and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
 
Genesis 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and
Togarmah.
 
Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish,
Kittim, and Dodanim.
 
Genesis 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in
their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in
their nations.
 
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut,
and Canaan.
 
Genesis 10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and
Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba,
and Dedan.
 
Genesis 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one
in the earth.
 
Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore
it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
 
Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
 
Genesis 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
 
Genesis 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is
a great city.
 
Genesis 10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim,
and Naphtuhim,
 
Genesis 10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came
Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
 
Genesis 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
 
Genesis 10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgasite,
 
Genesis 10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
 
Genesis 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites
spread abroad.
 
Genesis 10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon,
as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom,
and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
 
Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families,
after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
 
Genesis 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children
born.
 
Genesis 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
 
Genesis 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and
Gether, and Mash.
 
Genesis 10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
 
Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one
was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his
brother's name was Joktan.
 
Genesis 10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
 
Genesis 10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
 
Genesis 10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
 
Genesis 10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were
the sons of Joktan.
 
Genesis 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
unto Sephar a mount of the east.
 
Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families,
after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
 
Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after
their generations, in their nations: and by these were the
nations divided in the earth after the flood.
 
Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech.
 
Genesis 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the
east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there.
 
Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make
brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter.
 
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a
name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth.
 
Genesis 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men builded.
 
Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and
they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now
nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to
do.
 
Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
 
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon
the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
 
Genesis 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because
the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and
from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all
the earth.
 
Genesis 11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an
hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
 
Genesis 11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and
begat Salah:
 
Genesis 11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
 
Genesis 11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg:
 
Genesis 11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred
and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
 
Genesis 11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred
and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat
Serug:
 
Genesis 11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred
and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
 
Genesis 11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah:
 
Genesis 11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred
and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
 
Genesis 11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
 
Genesis 11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
 
Genesis 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the
land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
 
Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of
Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
 
Genesis 11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
 
Genesis 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of
Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son
Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the
Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there.
 
Genesis 11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran.
 
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of
thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,
unto a land that I will shew thee:
 
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will
bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing:
 
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed.
 
Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years
old when he departed out of Haran.
 
Genesis 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his
brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered,
and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth
to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they
came.
 
Genesis 12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place
of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in
the land.
 
Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto
thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar
unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
 
Genesis 12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the
east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west,
and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,
and called upon the name of the LORD.
 
Genesis 12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the
south.
 
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram
went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was
grievous in the land.
 
Genesis 12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to
enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I
know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
 
Genesis 12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the
Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife:
and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
 
Genesis 12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may
be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of
thee.
 
Genesis 12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come
into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very
fair.
 
Genesis 12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and
commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into
Pharaoh's house.
 
Genesis 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he
had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and
maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
 
Genesis 12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with
great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
 
Genesis 12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this
that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she
was thy wife?
 
Genesis 12:19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might
have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take
her, and go thy way.
 
Genesis 12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and
they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
 
Genesis 13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife,
and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
 
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and
in gold.
 
Genesis 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to
Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Hai;
 
Genesis 13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make
there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the
LORD.
 
Genesis 13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks,
and herds, and tents.
 
Genesis 13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they
might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they
could not dwell together.
 
Genesis 13:7 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.
 
Genesis 13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I
pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we be brethren.
 
Genesis 13:9 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.
 
Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the
plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the
LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the
LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
 
Genesis 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and
Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from
the other.
 
Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot
dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward
Sodom.
 
Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners
before the LORD exceedingly.
 
Genesis 13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was
separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the
place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
 
Genesis 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed for ever.
 
Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then
shall thy seed also be numbered.
 
Genesis 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it
and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
 
Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt
in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an
altar unto the LORD.
 
Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king
of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
Tidal king of nations;
 
Genesis 14:2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and
with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber
king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
 
Genesis 14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of
Siddim, which is the salt sea.
 
Genesis 14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
 
Genesis 14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and
the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth
Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
 
Genesis 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan,
which is by the wilderness.
 
Genesis 14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is
Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
 
Genesis 14:8 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;
 
Genesis 14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal
king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five.
 
Genesis 14:10 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.
 
Genesis 14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and
Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
 
Genesis 14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who
dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
 
Genesis 14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told
Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were
confederate with Abram.
 
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken
captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house,
three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
 
Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his
servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah,
which is on the left hand of Damascus.
 
Genesis 14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also
brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also,
and the people.
 
Genesis 14:17 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.
 
Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread
and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
 
Genesis 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of
the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
 
Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath
delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of
all.
 
Genesis 14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me
the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
 
Genesis 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift
up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of
heaven and earth,
 
Genesis 14:23 That I will not take from a thread even to a
shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine,
lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
 
Genesis 14:24 Save only that which the young men have eaten,
and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre; let them take their portion.
 
Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto
Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and
thy exceeding great reward.
 
Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me,
seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this
Eliezer of Damascus?
 
Genesis 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no
seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
 
Genesis 15:4 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.
 
Genesis 15:5 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.
 
Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to
him for righteousness.
 
Genesis 15:7 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.
 
Genesis 15:8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I
shall inherit it?
 
Genesis 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three
years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three
years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
 
Genesis 15:10 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.
 
Genesis 15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases,
Abram drove them away.
 
Genesis 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep
fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon
him.
 
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy
seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
 
Genesis 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will
I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
 
Genesis 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou
shalt be buried in a good old age.
 
Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come
hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
 
Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went
down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning
lamp that passed between those pieces.
 
Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with
Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
 
Genesis 15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the
Kadmonites,
 
Genesis 15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims,
 
Genesis 15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
 
Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and
she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
 
Genesis 16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD
hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid;
it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened
to the voice of Sarai.
 
Genesis 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the
Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
 
Genesis 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and
when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in
her eyes.
 
Genesis 16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee:
I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she
had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between
me and thee.
 
Genesis 16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in
thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
 
Genesis 16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain
of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
 
Genesis 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest
thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the
face of my mistress Sarai.
 
Genesis 16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to
thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
 
Genesis 16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will
multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for
multitude.
 
Genesis 16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold,
thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name
Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
 
Genesis 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be
against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
 
Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake
unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here
looked after him that seeth me?
 
Genesis 16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi;
behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
 
Genesis 16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his
son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
 
Genesis 16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when
Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
 
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the
LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
 
Genesis 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee,
and will multiply thee exceedingly.
 
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with
him, saying,
 
Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and
thou shalt be a father of many nations.
 
Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,
but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have
I made thee.
 
Genesis 17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I
will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
 
Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and
thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed
after thee.
 
Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after
thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of
Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
 
Genesis 17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my
covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
generations.
 
Genesis 17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between
me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you
shall be circumcised.
 
Genesis 17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your
foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and
you.
 
Genesis 17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be
circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he
that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger,
which is not of thy seed.
 
Genesis 17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is
bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant
shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
 
Genesis 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from
his people; he hath broken my covenant.
 
Genesis 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife,
thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
 
Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of
her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations;
kings of people shall be of her.
 
Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and
said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an
hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old,
bear?
 
Genesis 17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might
live before thee!
 
Genesis 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a
son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and
with his seed after him.
 
Genesis 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I
have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make
him a great nation.
 
Genesis 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac,
which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next
year.
 
Genesis 17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up
from Abraham.
 
Genesis 17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that
were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money,
every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the
flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto
him.
 
Genesis 17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
 
Genesis 17:25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
 
Genesis 17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and
Ishmael his son.
 
Genesis 17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house,
and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
 
Genesis 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
 
Genesis 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from
the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
 
Genesis 18:3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in
thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
 
Genesis 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
 
Genesis 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye
your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
 
Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it,
and make cakes upon the hearth.
 
Genesis 18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf
tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it.
 
Genesis 18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which
he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them
under the tree, and they did eat.
 
Genesis 18:9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife?
And he said, Behold, in the tent.
 
Genesis 18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee
according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have
a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
 
Genesis 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken
in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
 
Genesis 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also?
 
Genesis 18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did
Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am
old?
 
Genesis 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time
appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life,
and Sarah shall have a son.
 
Genesis 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she
was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
 
Genesis 18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked
toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the
way.
 
Genesis 18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
thing which I do;
 
Genesis 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great
and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him?
 
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the
LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
 
Genesis 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
 
Genesis 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have
done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto
me; and if not, I will know.
 
Genesis 18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and
went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
 
Genesis 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also
destroy the righteous with the wicked?
 
Genesis 18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the
city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the
fifty righteous that are therein?
 
Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should
be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of
all the earth do right?
 
Genesis 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for
their sakes.
 
Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and
ashes:
 
Genesis 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And
he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
 
Genesis 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I
will not do it for forty's sake.
 
Genesis 18:30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be
angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found
there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
 
Genesis 18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to
speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found
there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
 
Genesis 18:32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I
will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found
there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
 
Genesis 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
 
Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet
them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
 
Genesis 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray
you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash
your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And
they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
 
Genesis 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned
in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
 
Genesis 19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city,
even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and
young, all the people from every quarter:
 
Genesis 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where
are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto
us, that we may know them.
 
Genesis 19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut
the door after him,
 
Genesis 19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so
wickedly.
 
Genesis 19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not
known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye
to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing;
for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
 
Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again,
This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:
now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they
pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the
door.
 
Genesis 19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot
into the house to them, and shut to the door.
 
Genesis 19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of
the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.
 
Genesis 19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any
besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
 
Genesis 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry
of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD
hath sent us to destroy it.
 
Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law,
which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this
place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one
that mocked unto his sons in law.
 
Genesis 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels
hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity
of the city.
 
Genesis 19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his
hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him
forth, and set him without the city.
 
Genesis 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them
forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind
thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain,
lest thou be consumed.
 
Genesis 19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
 
Genesis 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy
sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed
unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain,
lest some evil take me, and I die:
 
Genesis 19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and
it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a
little one?) and my soul shall live.
 
Genesis 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city,
for the which thou hast spoken.
 
Genesis 19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do
anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the
city was called Zoar.
 
Genesis 19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered
into Zoar.
 
Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
 
Genesis 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain,
and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground.
 
Genesis 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt.
 
Genesis 19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the
place where he stood before the LORD:
 
Genesis 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and
toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke
of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
 
Genesis 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the
cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot
out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities
in the which Lot dwelt.
 
Genesis 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell
in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
 
Genesis 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our
father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in
unto us after the manner of all the earth:
 
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we
will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
 
Genesis 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night:
and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
 
Genesis 19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the
firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with
my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go
thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our
father.
 
Genesis 19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night
also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
 
Genesis 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by
their father.
 
Genesis 19:37 And the first born bare a son, and called his
name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
 
Genesis 19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called
his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon
unto this day.
 
Genesis 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south
country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in
Gerar.
 
Genesis 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my
sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
 
Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and
said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which
thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
 
Genesis 20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said,
LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
 
Genesis 20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she,
even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my
heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
 
Genesis 20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also
withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee
not to touch her.
 
Genesis 20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is
a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and
if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die,
thou, and all that are thine.
 
Genesis 20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and
called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears:
and the men were sore afraid.
 
Genesis 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him,
What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that
thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
 
Genesis 20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest
thou, that thou hast done this thing?
 
Genesis 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the
fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my
wife's sake.
 
Genesis 20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the
daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she
became my wife.
 
Genesis 20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander
from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy
kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we
shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
 
Genesis 20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and
restored him Sarah his wife.
 
Genesis 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before
thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
 
Genesis 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 all
other: thus she was reproved.
 
Genesis 20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare
children.
 
Genesis 20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of
the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
 
Genesis 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the
LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
 
Genesis 21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his
old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
 
Genesis 21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was
born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
 
Genesis 21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight
days old, as God had commanded him.
 
Genesis 21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son
Isaac was born unto him.
 
Genesis 21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that
all that hear will laugh with me.
 
Genesis 21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham,
that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a
son in his old age.
 
Genesis 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham
made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
 
Genesis 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which
she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
 
Genesis 21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be
heir with my son, even with Isaac.
 
Genesis 21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's
sight because of his son.
 
Genesis 21:12 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.
 
Genesis 21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make
a nation, because he is thy seed.
 
Genesis 21:14 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 Beersheba.
 
Genesis 21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she
cast the child under one of the shrubs.
 
Genesis 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a
good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see
the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up
her voice, and wept.
 
Genesis 21:17 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.
 
Genesis 21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine
hand; for I will make him a great nation.
 
Genesis 21:19 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.
 
Genesis 21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt
in the wilderness, and became an archer.
 
Genesis 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
 
Genesis 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech
and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham,
saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
 
Genesis 21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou
wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's
son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee,
thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast
sojourned.
 
Genesis 21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
 
Genesis 21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well
of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
 
Genesis 21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this
thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but
to day.
 
Genesis 21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them
unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
 
Genesis 21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
 
Genesis 21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these
seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
 
Genesis 21:30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou
take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have
digged this well.
 
Genesis 21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because
there they sware both of them.
 
Genesis 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then
Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and
they returned into the land of the Philistines.
 
Genesis 21:33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and
called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
 
Genesis 21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land
many days.
 
Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God
did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said,
Behold, here I am.
 
Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.
 
Genesis 22:3 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.
 
Genesis 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and saw the place afar off.
 
Genesis 22:5 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.
 
Genesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering,
and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand,
and a knife; and they went both of them together.
 
Genesis 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said,
My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold
the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?
 
Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself
a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
 
Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him
of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order,
and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
 
Genesis 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took
the knife to slay his son.
 
Genesis 22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
 
Genesis 22:12 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.
 
Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son.
 
Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place
Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD
it shall be seen.
 
Genesis 22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out
of heaven the second time,
 
Genesis 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD,
for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy
son, thine only son:
 
Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies;
 
Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
 
Genesis 22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they
rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at
Beersheba.
 
Genesis 22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it
was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born
children unto thy brother Nahor;
 
Genesis 22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and
Kemuel the father of Aram,
 
Genesis 22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph,
and Bethuel.
 
Genesis 22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did
bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
 
Genesis 22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she
bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
 
Genesis 23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty
years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
 
Genesis 23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron
in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and
to weep for her.
 
Genesis 23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and
spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
 
Genesis 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me
a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead
out of my sight.
 
Genesis 23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying
unto him,
 
Genesis 23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among
us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us
shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury
thy dead.
 
Genesis 23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the
people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
 
Genesis 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your
mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and
intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
 
Genesis 23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which
he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as
it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a
buryingplace amongst you.
 
Genesis 23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and
Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the
children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his
city, saying,
 
Genesis 23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and
the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the
sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
 
Genesis 23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people
of the land.
 
Genesis 23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the
people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray
thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of
me, and I will bury my dead there.
 
Genesis 23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
 
Genesis 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four
hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury
therefore thy dead.
 
Genesis 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham
weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience
of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current
money with the merchant.
 
Genesis 23:17 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah,
which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was
therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in
all the borders round about, were made sure
 
Genesis 23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of
the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his
city.
 
Genesis 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in
the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is
Hebron in the land of Canaan.
 
Genesis 23:20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were
made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the
sons of Heth.
 
Genesis 24:1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and
the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
 
Genesis 24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his
house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy
hand under my thigh:
 
Genesis 24:3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of
heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife
unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I
dwell:
 
Genesis 24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
 
Genesis 24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the
woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I
needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
 
Genesis 24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou
bring not my son thither again.
 
Genesis 24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my
father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake
unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I
give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou
shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
 
Genesis 24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow
thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not
my son thither again.
 
Genesis 24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of
Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
 
Genesis 24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of
his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in
his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
Nahor.
 
Genesis 24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the
city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time
that women go out to draw water.
 
Genesis 24:12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I
pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my
master Abraham.
 
Genesis 24:13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and
the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
 
Genesis 24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom
I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink;
and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:
let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant
Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness
unto my master.
 
Genesis 24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking,
that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder.
 
Genesis 24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a
virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the
well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
 
Genesis 24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let
me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
 
Genesis 24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and
let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
 
Genesis 24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said,
I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done
drinking.
 
Genesis 24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the
trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for
all his camels.
 
Genesis 24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to
wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
 
Genesis 24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done
drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel
weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of
gold;
 
Genesis 24:23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I
pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge
in?
 
Genesis 24:24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of
Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
 
Genesis 24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw
and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
 
Genesis 24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped
the LORD.
 
Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master
Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and
his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my
master's brethren.
 
Genesis 24:28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's
house these things.
 
Genesis 24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was
Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
 
Genesis 24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and
bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he
came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the
well.
 
Genesis 24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD;
wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house,
and room for the camels.
 
Genesis 24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded
his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and
water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
 
Genesis 24:33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he
said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said,
Speak on.
 
Genesis 24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
 
Genesis 24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and
he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and
silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels,
and asses.
 
Genesis 24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my
master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he
hath.
 
Genesis 24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt
not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in
whose land I dwell:
 
Genesis 24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to
my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
 
Genesis 24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman
will not follow me.
 
Genesis 24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I
walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and
thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my
father's house:
 
Genesis 24:41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when
thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou
shalt be clear from my oath.
 
Genesis 24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O
LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way
which I go:
 
Genesis 24:43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it
shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw
water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of
thy pitcher to drink;
 
Genesis 24:44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will
also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD
hath appointed out for my master's son.
 
Genesis 24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart,
behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and
she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her,
Let me drink, I pray thee.
 
Genesis 24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from
her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
 
Genesis 24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art
thou? And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and
the bracelets upon her hands.
 
Genesis 24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the
LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had
led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter
unto his son.
 
Genesis 24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my
master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
 
Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The
thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.
 
Genesis 24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go,
and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
 
Genesis 24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant
heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the
earth.
 
Genesis 24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he
gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
 
Genesis 24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that
were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the
morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
 
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the
damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she
shall go.
 
Genesis 24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the
LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my
master.
 
Genesis 24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and
enquire at her mouth.
 
Genesis 24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt
thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
 
Genesis 24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her
nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
 
Genesis 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou
art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and
let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
 
Genesis 24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode
upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took
Rebekah, and went his way.
 
Genesis 24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi;
for he dwelt in the south country.
 
Genesis 24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at
the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold,
the camels were coming.
 
Genesis 24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
 
Genesis 24:65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is
this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had
said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered
herself.
 
Genesis 24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had
done.
 
Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's
tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved
her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
 
Genesis 25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was
Keturah.
 
Genesis 25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan,
and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
 
Genesis 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons
of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
 
Genesis 25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of
Keturah.
 
Genesis 25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
 
Genesis 25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham
had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
 
Genesis 25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's
life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
 
Genesis 25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good
old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his
people.
 
Genesis 25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the
cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
Hittite, which is before Mamre;
 
Genesis 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of
Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
 
Genesis 25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham,
that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well
Lahairoi.
 
Genesis 25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare
unto Abraham:
 
Genesis 25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael,
by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
 
Genesis 25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
 
Genesis 25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
 
Genesis 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are
their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes
according to their nations.
 
Genesis 25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael,
an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost
and died; and was gathered unto his people.
 
Genesis 25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is
before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
 
Genesis 25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's
son: Abraham begat Isaac:
 
Genesis 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took
Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram,
the sister to Laban the Syrian.
 
Genesis 25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife,
because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and
Rebekah his wife conceived.
 
Genesis 25:22 And the children struggled together within her;
and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire
of the LORD.
 
Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in
thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy
bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other
people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
 
Genesis 25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,
behold, there were twins in her womb.
 
Genesis 25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an
hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
 
Genesis 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand
took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and
Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
 
Genesis 25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter,
a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
 
Genesis 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his
venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
 
Genesis 25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the
field, and he was faint:
 
Genesis 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee,
with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his
name called Edom.
 
Genesis 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
 
Genesis 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die:
and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
 
Genesis 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he
sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
 
Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of
lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his
way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
 
Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the
first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
 
Genesis 26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not
down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
 
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and
will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give
all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware
unto Abraham thy father;
 
Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars
of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and
in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
 
Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
 
Genesis 26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
 
Genesis 26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife;
and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my
wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for
Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
 
Genesis 26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long
time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his
wife.
 
Genesis 26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a
surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister?
And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
 
Genesis 26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done
unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife,
and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
 
Genesis 26:11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He
that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
 
Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in
the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
 
Genesis 26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and
grew until he became very great:
 
Genesis 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession
of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied
him.
 
Genesis 26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had
digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had
stopped them, and filled them with earth.
 
Genesis 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for
thou art much mightier than we.
 
Genesis 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent
in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
 
Genesis 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which
they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the
Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he
called their names after the names by which his father had called
them.
 
Genesis 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and
found there a well of springing water.
 
Genesis 26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's
herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the
well Esek; because they strove with him.
 
Genesis 26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that
also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
 
Genesis 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another
well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it
Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us,
and we shall be fruitful in the land.
 
Genesis 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
 
Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night,
and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am
with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my
servant Abraham's sake.
 
Genesis 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon
the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there
Isaac's servants digged a well.
 
Genesis 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and
Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his
army.
 
Genesis 26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to
me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
 
Genesis 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was
with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even
betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
 
Genesis 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not
touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and
have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the
LORD.
 
Genesis 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and
drink.
 
Genesis 26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and
sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed
from him in peace.
 
Genesis 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's
servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had
digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
 
Genesis 26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of
the city is Beersheba unto this day.
 
Genesis 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife
Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite:
 
Genesis 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to
Rebekah.
 
Genesis 27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and
his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him,
Behold, here am I.
 
Genesis 27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the
day of my death:
 
Genesis 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy
quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some
venison;
 
Genesis 27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and
bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee
before I die.
 
Genesis 27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his
son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring
it.
 
Genesis 27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,
Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
 
Genesis 27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I
may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
 
Genesis 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to
that which I command thee.
 
Genesis 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two
good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy
father, such as he loveth:
 
Genesis 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he
may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
 
Genesis 27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
 
Genesis 27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall
seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and
not a blessing.
 
Genesis 27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy
curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
 
Genesis 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his
mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father
loved.
 
Genesis 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son
Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob
her younger son:
 
Genesis 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats
upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
 
Genesis 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread,
which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
 
Genesis 27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
 
Genesis 27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy
first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I
pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
 
Genesis 27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou
hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD
thy God brought it to me.
 
Genesis 27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray
thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son
Esau or not.
 
Genesis 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he
felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are
the hands of Esau.
 
Genesis 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were
hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
 
Genesis 27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he
said, I am.
 
Genesis 27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat
of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought
it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he
drank.
 
Genesis 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near
now, and kiss me, my son.
 
Genesis 27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled
the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the
smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath
blessed:
 
Genesis 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and
the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
 
Genesis 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to
thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow
down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed
be he that blesseth thee.
 
Genesis 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an
end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from
his hunting.
 
Genesis 27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it
unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise,
and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
 
Genesis 27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou?
And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
 
Genesis 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said,
Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and
I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him?
yea, and he shall be blessed.
 
Genesis 27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he
cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
 
Genesis 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and
hath taken away thy blessing.
 
Genesis 27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for
he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my
birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And
he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
 
Genesis 27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I
have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him
for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and
what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
 
Genesis 27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one
blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
 
Genesis 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of
the dew of heaven from above;
 
Genesis 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve
thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
 
Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The
days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
 
Genesis 27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told
to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and
said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth
comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
 
Genesis 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee
thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
 
Genesis 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy
brother's fury turn away;
 
Genesis 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee,
and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send,
and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you
both in one day?
 
Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of
the land, what good shall my life do me?
 
Genesis 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and
charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.
 
Genesis 28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel
thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
 
Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of
people;
 
Genesis 28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee,
and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land
wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
 
Genesis 28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to
Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
 
Genesis 28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and
sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and
that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt
not take a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
 
Genesis 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother,
and was gone to Padanaram;
 
Genesis 28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan
pleased not Isaac his father;
 
Genesis 28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the
wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's
son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
 
Genesis 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went
toward Haran.
 
Genesis 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried
there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the
stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down
in that place to sleep.
 
Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels
of God ascending and descending on it.
 
Genesis 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I
am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
 
Genesis 28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to
the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall
all the families of the earth be blessed.
 
Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee
in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into
this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that
which I have spoken to thee of.
 
Genesis 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
 
Genesis 28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this
place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the
gate of heaven.
 
Genesis 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took
the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
 
Genesis 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but
the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
 
Genesis 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be
with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me
bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
 
Genesis 28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in
peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
 
Genesis 28:22 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.
 
Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the
land of the people of the east.
 
Genesis 29:2 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.
 
Genesis 29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep,
and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
 
Genesis 29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be
ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
 
Genesis 29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of
Nahor? And they said, We know him.
 
Genesis 29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said,
He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
 
Genesis 29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it
time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the
sheep, and go and feed them.
 
Genesis 29:8 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.
 
Genesis 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with
her father's sheep; for she kept them.
 
Genesis 29:10 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.
 
Genesis 29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice,
and wept.
 
Genesis 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's
brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her
father.
 
Genesis 29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings
of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told
Laban all these things.
 
Genesis 29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone
and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
 
Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my
brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me,
what shall thy wages be?
 
Genesis 29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the
elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
 
Genesis 29:17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful
and well favoured.
 
Genesis 29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve
thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
 
Genesis 29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to
thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
 
Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they
seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
 
Genesis 29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for
my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
 
Genesis 29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the
place, and made a feast.
 
Genesis 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took
Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto
her.
 
Genesis 29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his
maid for an handmaid.
 
Genesis 29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold,
it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done
unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then
hast thou beguiled me?
 
Genesis 29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our
country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
 
Genesis 29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also
for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
years.
 
Genesis 29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he
gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
 
Genesis 29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his
handmaid to be her maid.
 
Genesis 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved
also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other
years.
 
Genesis 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he
opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
 
Genesis 29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she
called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked
upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
 
Genesis 29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and
said, Because the LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore
given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
 
Genesis 29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and
said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I
have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
 
Genesis 29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she
said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.
 
Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no
children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
 
Genesis 30:2 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?
 
Genesis 30:3 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.
 
Genesis 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and
Jacob went in unto her.
 
Genesis 30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
 
Genesis 30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also
heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his
name Dan.
 
Genesis 30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare
Jacob a second son.
 
Genesis 30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I
wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his
name Naphtali.
 
Genesis 30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took
Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
 
Genesis 30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
 
Genesis 30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his
name Gad.
 
Genesis 30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
 
Genesis 30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will
call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
 
Genesis 30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother
Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy
son's mandrakes.
 
Genesis 30:15 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.
 
Genesis 30:16 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.
 
Genesis 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived,
and bare Jacob the fifth son.
 
Genesis 30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because
I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
 
Genesis 30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the
sixth son.
 
Genesis 30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good
dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him
six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
 
Genesis 30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called
her name Dinah.
 
Genesis 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to
her, and opened her womb.
 
Genesis 30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God
hath taken away my reproach:
 
Genesis 30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The
LORD shall add to me another son.
 
Genesis 30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph,
that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
 
Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have
served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I
have done thee.
 
Genesis 30:27 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.
 
Genesis 30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will
give it.
 
Genesis 30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have
served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
 
Genesis 30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came,
and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath
blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for
mine own house also?
 
Genesis 30:31 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.
 
Genesis 30:32 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.
 
Genesis 30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time
to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every
one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown
among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
 
Genesis 30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be
according to thy word.
 
Genesis 30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled
and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the
brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
 
Genesis 30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself
and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
 
Genesis 30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of
the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and
made the white appear which was in the rods.
 
Genesis 30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before
the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
 
Genesis 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and
brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
 
Genesis 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the
faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in
the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and
put them not unto Laban's cattle.
 
Genesis 30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger
cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of
the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
rods.
 
Genesis 30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not
in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
 
Genesis 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much
cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
 
Genesis 31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying,
Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that
which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
 
Genesis 31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and,
behold, it was not toward him as before.
 
Genesis 31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land
of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
 
Genesis 31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the
field unto his flock,
 
Genesis 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's
countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of
my father hath been with me.
 
Genesis 31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served
your father.
 
Genesis 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my
wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
 
Genesis 31:8 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.
 
Genesis 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your
father, and given them to me.
 
Genesis 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle
conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
 
Genesis 31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,
saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
 
Genesis 31:12 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.
 
Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee
out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
 
Genesis 31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him,
Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's
house?
 
Genesis 31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath
sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
 
Genesis 31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our
father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever
God hath said unto thee, do.
 
Genesis 31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his
wives upon camels;
 
Genesis 31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his
goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he
had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the
land of Canaan.
 
Genesis 31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had
stolen the images that were her father's.
 
Genesis 31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the
Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
 
Genesis 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up,
and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount
Gilead.
 
Genesis 31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob
was fled.
 
Genesis 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued
after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount
Gilead.
 
Genesis 31:24 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.
 
Genesis 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched
his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the
mount of Gilead.
 
Genesis 31:26 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?
 
Genesis 31:27 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?
 
Genesis 31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my
daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
 
Genesis 31:29 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.
 
Genesis 31:30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone,
because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet
wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
 
Genesis 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I
was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force
thy daughters from me.
 
Genesis 31:32 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.
 
Genesis 31:33 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.
 
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in
the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found them not.
 
Genesis 31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease
my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of
women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.
 
Genesis 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and
Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my
sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
 
Genesis 31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what
hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my
brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
 
Genesis 31:38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes
and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy
flock have I not eaten.
 
Genesis 31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto
thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it,
whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
 
Genesis 31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me,
and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
 
Genesis 31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I
served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years
for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
 
Genesis 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham,
and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent
me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour
of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
 
Genesis 31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These
daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children,
and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine:
and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their
children which they have born?
 
Genesis 31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant,
I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
 
Genesis 31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a
pillar.
 
Genesis 31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones;
and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there
upon the heap.
 
Genesis 31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob
called it Galeed.
 
Genesis 31:48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me
and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
 
Genesis 31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between
me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
 
Genesis 31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou
shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us;
see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
 
Genesis 31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and
behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
 
Genesis 31:52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness,
that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt
not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
 
Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God
of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of
his father Isaac.
 
Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and
called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and
tarried all night in the mount.
 
Genesis 31:55 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.
 
Genesis 32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God
met him.
 
Genesis 32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's
host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
 
Genesis 32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his
brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
 
Genesis 32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak
unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
with Laban, and stayed there until now:
 
Genesis 32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and
menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord,
that I may find grace in thy sight.
 
Genesis 32:6 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.
 
Genesis 32:7 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;
 
Genesis 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and
smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
 
Genesis 32:9 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:
 
Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies,
and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant;
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become
two bands.
 
Genesis 32:11 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.
 
Genesis 32:12 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.
 
Genesis 32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of
that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
 
Genesis 32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two
hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
 
Genesis 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine,
and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
 
Genesis 32:16 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.
 
Genesis 32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau
my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou?
and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
 
Genesis 32:18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's;
it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is
behind us.
 
Genesis 32:19 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.
 
Genesis 32:20 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.
 
Genesis 32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself
lodged that night in the company.
 
Genesis 32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two
wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed
over the ford Jabbok.
 
Genesis 32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook,
and sent over that he had.
 
Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a
man with him until the breaking of the day.
 
Genesis 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against
him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of
Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
 
Genesis 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And
he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
 
Genesis 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he
said, Jacob.
 
Genesis 32:28 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.
 
Genesis 32:29 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.
 
Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel:
for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
 
Genesis 32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon
him, and he halted upon his thigh.
 
Genesis 32:32 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.
 
Genesis 33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and,
behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided
the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
 
Genesis 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children
foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost.
 
Genesis 33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself
to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
 
Genesis 33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and
fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
 
Genesis 33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and
the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The
children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
 
Genesis 33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their
children, and they bowed themselves.
 
Genesis 33:7 And Leah also with her children came near, and
bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
 
Genesis 33:8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove
which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of
my lord.
 
Genesis 33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep
that thou hast unto thyself.
 
Genesis 33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have
found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of
God, and thou wast pleased with me.
 
Genesis 33:11 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.
 
Genesis 33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us
go, and I will go before thee.
 
Genesis 33:13 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.
 
Genesis 33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his
servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that
goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come
unto my lord unto Seir.
 
Genesis 33:15 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.
 
Genesis 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
 
Genesis 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an
house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.
 
Genesis 33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem,
which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and
pitched his tent before the city.
 
Genesis 33:19 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.
 
Genesis 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it
EleloheIsrael.
 
Genesis 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare
unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
 
Genesis 34:2 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.
 
Genesis 34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of
Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
 
Genesis 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying,
Get me this damsel to wife.
 
Genesis 34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his
daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and
Jacob held his peace until they were come.
 
Genesis 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto
Jacob to commune with him.
 
Genesis 34:7 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.
 
Genesis 34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of
my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him
to wife.
 
Genesis 34:9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your
daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
 
Genesis 34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be
before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions
therein.
 
Genesis 34:11 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.
 
Genesis 34:12 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.
 
Genesis 34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor
his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah
their sister:
 
Genesis 34:14 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:
 
Genesis 34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will
be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
 
Genesis 34:16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we
will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and
we will become one people.
 
Genesis 34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be
circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
 
Genesis 34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem
Hamor's son.
 
Genesis 34:19 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.
 
Genesis 34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate
of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
 
Genesis 34:21 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.
 
Genesis 34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to
dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they are circumcised.
 
Genesis 34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and
every beast of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them,
and they will dwell with us.
 
Genesis 34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened
all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
 
Genesis 34:25 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.
 
Genesis 34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the
edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and
went out.
 
Genesis 34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and
spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
 
Genesis 34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their
asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the
field,
 
Genesis 34:29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones,
and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was
in the house.
 
Genesis 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have
troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the
land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in
number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and
slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
 
Genesis 34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as
with an harlot?
 
Genesis 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel,
and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared
unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
 
Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all
that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you,
and be clean, and change your garments:
 
Genesis 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; 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.
 
Genesis 35:4 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.
 
Genesis 35:5 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.
 
Genesis 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of
Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with
him.
 
Genesis 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place
Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from
the face of his brother.
 
Genesis 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was
buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth.
 
Genesis 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came
out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
 
Genesis 35:10 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.
 
Genesis 35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be
fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be
of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
 
Genesis 35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to
thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the
land.
 
Genesis 35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he
talked with him.
 
Genesis 35:14 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.
 
Genesis 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God
spake with him, Bethel.
 
Genesis 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but
a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labour.
 
Genesis 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour,
that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this
son also.
 
Genesis 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in
departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but
his father called him Benjamin.
 
Genesis 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to
Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
 
Genesis 35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is
the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
 
Genesis 35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond
the tower of Edar.
 
Genesis 35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that
land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's
concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were
twelve:
 
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
 
Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
 
Genesis 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan,
and Naphtali:
 
Genesis 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and
Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padanaram.
 
Genesis 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,
unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned.
 
Genesis 35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and
fourscore years.
 
Genesis 35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was
gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
 
Genesis 36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is
Edom.
 
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan;
Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
 
Genesis 36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of
Nebajoth.
 
Genesis 36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare
Reuel;
 
Genesis 36:5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah:
these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land
of Canaan.
 
Genesis 36:6 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.
 
Genesis 36:7 For their riches were more than that they might
dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could
not bear them because of their cattle.
 
Genesis 36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
 
Genesis 36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father
of the Edomites in mount Seir:
 
Genesis 36:10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the
son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife
of Esau.
 
Genesis 36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho,
and Gatam, and Kenaz.
 
Genesis 36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son;
and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah
Esau's wife.
 
Genesis 36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and
Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.
 
Genesis 36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the
daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she
bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
 
Genesis 36:15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke
Zepho, duke Kenaz,
 
Genesis 36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these
are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these
were the sons of Adah.
 
Genesis 36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke
Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the
dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons
of Bashemath Esau's wife.
 
Genesis 36:18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife;
duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that
came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
 
Genesis 36:19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and
these are their dukes.
 
Genesis 36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who
inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
 
Genesis 36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the
dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
 
Genesis 36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam;
and Lotan's sister was Timna.
 
Genesis 36:23 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and
Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
 
Genesis 36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah,
and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the
wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
 
Genesis 36:25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
 
Genesis 36:26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and
Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
 
Genesis 36:27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and
Zaavan, and Akan.
 
Genesis 36:28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
 
Genesis 36:29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites;
duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
 
Genesis 36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are
the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of
Seir.
 
Genesis 36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land
of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of
Israel.
 
Genesis 36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the
name of his city was Dinhabah.
 
Genesis 36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of
Bozrah reigned in his stead.
 
Genesis 36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani
reigned in his stead.
 
Genesis 36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who
smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the
name of his city was Avith.
 
Genesis 36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in
his stead.
 
Genesis 36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the
river reigned in his stead.
 
Genesis 36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor
reigned in his stead.
 
Genesis 36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar
reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his
wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter
of Mezahab.
 
Genesis 36:40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of
Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their
names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
 
Genesis 36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
 
Genesis 36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
 
Genesis 36:43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of
Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their
possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
 
Genesis 37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was
a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
 
Genesis 37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and
the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil
report.
 
Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his
children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him
a coat of many colours.
 
Genesis 37:4 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.
 
Genesis 37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his
brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
 
Genesis 37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this
dream which I have dreamed:
 
Genesis 37:7 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.
 
Genesis 37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed
reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And
they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
 
Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his
brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and,
behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me.
 
Genesis 37:10 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?
 
Genesis 37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father
observed the saying.
 
Genesis 37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's
flock in Shechem.
 
Genesis 37:13 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.
 
Genesis 37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether
it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring
me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he
came to Shechem.
 
Genesis 37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was
wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What
seekest thou?
 
Genesis 37:16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray
thee, where they feed their flocks.
 
Genesis 37:17 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.
 
Genesis 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he
came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
 
Genesis 37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this
dreamer cometh.
 
Genesis 37:20 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.
 
Genesis 37:21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of
their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
 
Genesis 37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but
cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand
upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver
him to his father again.
 
Genesis 37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto
his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat
of many colours that was on him;
 
Genesis 37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and
the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
 
Genesis 37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted
up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites
came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and
myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
 
Genesis 37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is
it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
 
Genesis 37:27 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.
 
Genesis 37:28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and
they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to
the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought
Joseph into Egypt.
 
Genesis 37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold,
Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
 
Genesis 37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The
child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
 
Genesis 37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of
the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
 
Genesis 37:32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they
brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know
now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
 
Genesis 37:33 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.
 
Genesis 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth
upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
 
Genesis 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to
comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I
will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father
wept for him.
 
Genesis 37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
 
Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went
down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite,
whose name was Hirah.
 
Genesis 38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain
Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in
unto her.
 
Genesis 38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called
his name Er.
 
Genesis 38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she
called his name Onan.
 
Genesis 38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and
called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
 
Genesis 38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose
name was Tamar.
 
Genesis 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight
of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
 
Genesis 38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's
wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
 
Genesis 38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and
it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he
spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his
brother.
 
Genesis 38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD:
wherefore he slew him also.
 
Genesis 38:11 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.
 
Genesis 38:12 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.
 
Genesis 38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father
in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
 
Genesis 38:14 And she put her widow's garments off from her,
and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an
open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that
Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
 
Genesis 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an
harlot; because she had covered her face.
 
Genesis 38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go
to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that
she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give
me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
 
Genesis 38:17 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?
 
Genesis 38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And
she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in
thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she
conceived by him.
 
Genesis 38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her
vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
 
Genesis 38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend
the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but
he found her not.
 
Genesis 38:21 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.
 
Genesis 38:22 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.
 
Genesis 38:23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we
be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
 
Genesis 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after,
that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath
played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by
whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
 
Genesis 38:25 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.
 
Genesis 38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath
been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah
my son. And he knew her again no more.
 
Genesis 38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail,
that, behold, twins were in her womb.
 
Genesis 38:28 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.
 
Genesis 38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand,
that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou
broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was
called Pharez.
 
Genesis 38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the
scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
 
Genesis 39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an
Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had
brought him down thither.
 
Genesis 39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a
prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the
Egyptian.
 
Genesis 39:3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and
that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
 
Genesis 39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served
him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had
he put into his hand.
 
Genesis 39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made
him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the
LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and
in the field.
 
Genesis 39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and
he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And
Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
 
Genesis 39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his
master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with
me.
 
Genesis 39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife,
Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and
he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
 
Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I;
neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because
thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and
sin against God?
 
Genesis 39:10 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.
 
Genesis 39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph
went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the
men of the house there within.
 
Genesis 39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie
with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got
him out.
 
Genesis 39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had
left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
 
Genesis 39:14 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:
 
Genesis 39:15 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.
 
Genesis 39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his
lord came home.
 
Genesis 39:17 And she spake unto him according to these words,
saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came
in unto me to mock me:
 
Genesis 39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and
cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
 
Genesis 39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the
words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this
manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
 
Genesis 39:20 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.
 
Genesis 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him
mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the
prison.
 
Genesis 39:22 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.
 
Genesis 39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing
that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that
which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
 
Genesis 40:1 And it came to pass after these things, that the
butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord
the king of Egypt.
 
Genesis 40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers,
against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the
bakers.
 
Genesis 40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the
captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was
bound.
 
Genesis 40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with
them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
 
Genesis 40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man
his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation
of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt,
which were bound in the prison.
 
Genesis 40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and
looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
 
Genesis 40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him
in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so
sadly to day?
 
Genesis 40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream,
and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do
not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
 
Genesis 40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and
said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
 
Genesis 40:10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was
as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the
clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
 
Genesis 40:11 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.
 
Genesis 40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the
interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
 
Genesis 40:13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine
head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou
wast his butler.
 
Genesis 40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee,
and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me
unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
 
Genesis 40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of
the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should
put me into the dungeon.
 
Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation
was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and,
behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
 
Genesis 40:17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all
manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out
of the basket upon my head.
 
Genesis 40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the
interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
 
Genesis 40:19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy
head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds
shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
 
Genesis 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was
Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants:
and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief
baker among his servants.
 
Genesis 40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his
butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
 
Genesis 40:22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had
interpreted to them.
 
Genesis 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but
forgat him.
 
Genesis 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years,
that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
 
Genesis 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
 
Genesis 41:3 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.
 
Genesis 41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat
up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
 
Genesis 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and,
behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
 
Genesis 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the
east wind sprung up after them.
 
Genesis 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank
and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
 
Genesis 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit
was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of
Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his
dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
 
Genesis 41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying,
I do remember my faults this day:
 
Genesis 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me
in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the
chief baker:
 
Genesis 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we
dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
 
Genesis 41:12 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.
 
Genesis 41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so
it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
 
Genesis 41:14 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.
 
Genesis 41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a
dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard
say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
 
Genesis 41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in
me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
 
Genesis 41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream,
behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
 
Genesis 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
 
Genesis 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them,
poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw
in all the land of Egypt for badness:
 
Genesis 41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up
the first seven fat kine:
 
Genesis 41:21 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.
 
Genesis 41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears
came up in one stalk, full and good:
 
Genesis 41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and
blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
 
Genesis 41:24 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.
 
Genesis 41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of
Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
 
Genesis 41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the
seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
 
Genesis 41:27 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.
 
Genesis 41:28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto
Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
 
Genesis 41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty
throughout all the land of Egypt:
 
Genesis 41:30 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;
 
Genesis 41:31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by
reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
 
Genesis 41:32 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.
 
Genesis 41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet
and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
 
Genesis 41:34 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.
 
Genesis 41:35 And let them gather all the food of those good
years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and
let them keep food in the cities.
 
Genesis 41:36 And that food shall be for store to the land
against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of
Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
 
Genesis 41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of all his servants.
 
Genesis 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find
such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
 
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God
hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as
thou art:
 
Genesis 41:40 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.
 
Genesis 41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set
thee over all the land of Egypt.
 
Genesis 41:42 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;
 
Genesis 41:43 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.
 
Genesis 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and
without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the
land of Egypt.
 
Genesis 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah;
and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest
of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
 
Genesis 41:46 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.
 
Genesis 41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth
brought forth by handfuls.
 
Genesis 41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven
years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in
the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every
city, laid he up in the same.
 
Genesis 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea,
very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
 
Genesis 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the
years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of On bare unto him.
 
Genesis 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and
all my father's house.
 
Genesis 41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For
God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
 
Genesis 41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in
the land of Egypt, were ended.
 
Genesis 41:54 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.
 
Genesis 41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the
Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
 
Genesis 41:56 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.
 
Genesis 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for
to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
 
Genesis 42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt,
Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
 
Genesis 42:2 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.
 
Genesis 42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in
Egypt.
 
Genesis 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not
with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall
him.
 
Genesis 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among
those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
 
Genesis 42:6 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.
 
Genesis 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and
he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land
of Canaan to buy food.
 
Genesis 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not
him.
 
Genesis 42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed
of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness
of the land ye are come.
 
Genesis 42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy
food are thy servants come.
 
Genesis 42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy
servants are no spies.
 
Genesis 42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the
nakedness of the land ye are come.
 
Genesis 42:13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren,
the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the
youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
 
Genesis 42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I
spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
 
Genesis 42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh
ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come
hither.
 
Genesis 42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother,
and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved,
whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely ye are spies.
 
Genesis 42:17 And he put them all together into ward three
days.
 
Genesis 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do,
and live; for I fear God:
 
Genesis 42:19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be
bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the
famine of your houses:
 
Genesis 42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall
your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
 
Genesis 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily
guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is
this distress come upon us.
 
Genesis 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not
unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not
hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
 
Genesis 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them;
for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
 
Genesis 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept;
and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from
them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
 
Genesis 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with
corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give
them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
 
Genesis 42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and
departed thence.
 
Genesis 42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his
ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it
was in his sack's mouth.
 
Genesis 42:28 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?
 
Genesis 42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the
land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
 
Genesis 42:30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake
roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
 
Genesis 42:31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no
spies:
 
Genesis 42:32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is
not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of
Canaan.
 
Genesis 42:33 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:
 
Genesis 42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then
shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so
will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the
land.
 
Genesis 42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks,
that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and
when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they
were afraid.
 
Genesis 42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye
bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye
will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
 
Genesis 42:37 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.
 
Genesis 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you;
for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall
him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
 
Genesis 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
 
Genesis 43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the
corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto
them, Go again, buy us a little food.
 
Genesis 43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did
solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face,
except your brother be with you.
 
Genesis 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go
down and buy thee food:
 
Genesis 43:5 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.
 
Genesis 43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with
me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
 
Genesis 43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our
state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have
ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of
these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring
your brother down?
 
Genesis 43:8 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.
 
Genesis 43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou
require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before
thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
 
Genesis 43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had
returned this second time.
 
Genesis 43:11 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:
 
Genesis 43:12 And take double money in your hand; and the money
that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again
in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
 
Genesis 43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto
the man:
 
Genesis 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,
that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be
bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
 
Genesis 43:15 And the men took that present, and they took
double money in their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went
down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
 
Genesis 43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said
to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and
make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
 
Genesis 43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man
brought the men into Joseph's house.
 
Genesis 43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were
brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money
that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought
in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and
take us for bondmen, and our asses.
 
Genesis 43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's
house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
 
Genesis 43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first
time to buy food:
 
Genesis 43:21 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.
 
Genesis 43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands
to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
 
Genesis 43:23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God,
and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your
sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
 
Genesis 43:24 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.
 
Genesis 43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph
came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
 
Genesis 43:26 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.
 
Genesis 43:27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is
your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
 
Genesis 43:28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in
good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads,
and made obeisance.
 
Genesis 43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother
Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger
brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious
unto thee, my son.
 
Genesis 43:30 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.
 
Genesis 43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and
refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
 
Genesis 43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them
by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by
themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the
Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
 
Genesis 43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according
to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and
the men marvelled one at another.
 
Genesis 43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before
him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of
their's. And they drank, and were merry with him.
 
Genesis 44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying,
Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and
put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
 
Genesis 44:2 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.
 
Genesis 44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were
sent away, they and their asses.
 
Genesis 44:4 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?
 
Genesis 44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and
whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
 
Genesis 44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these
same words.
 
Genesis 44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord
these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to
this thing:
 
Genesis 44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks'
mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how
then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
 
Genesis 44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both
let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
 
Genesis 44:10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto
your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye
shall be blameless.
 
Genesis 44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack
to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
 
Genesis 44:12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and
left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
 
Genesis 44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man
his ass, and returned to the city.
 
Genesis 44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's
house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the
ground.
 
Genesis 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that
ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly
divine?
 
Genesis 44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord?
what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's
servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
 
Genesis 44:17 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.
 
Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my
lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's
ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou
art even as Pharaoh.
 
Genesis 44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a
father, or a brother?
 
Genesis 44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an
old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his
brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his
father loveth him.
 
Genesis 44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down
unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
 
Genesis 44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave
his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would
die.
 
Genesis 44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your
youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no
more.
 
Genesis 44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy
servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
 
Genesis 44:25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a
little food.
 
Genesis 44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest
brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the
man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
 
Genesis 44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know
that my wife bare me two sons:
 
Genesis 44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely
he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
 
Genesis 44:29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief
befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave.
 
Genesis 44:30 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;
 
Genesis 44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad
is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring
down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the
grave.
 
Genesis 44:32 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.
 
Genesis 44:33 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.
 
Genesis 44:34 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.
 
Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all
them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out
from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made
himself known unto his brethren.
 
Genesis 45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house
of Pharaoh heard.
 
Genesis 45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph;
doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him;
for they were troubled at his presence.
 
Genesis 45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to
me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
 
Genesis 45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with
yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before
you to preserve life.
 
Genesis 45:6 For these two years hath the famine been in the
land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall
neither be earing nor harvest.
 
Genesis 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a
posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
 
Genesis 45:8 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.
 
Genesis 45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto
him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all
Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
 
Genesis 45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and
thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy
children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that
thou hast:
 
Genesis 45:11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are
five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that
thou hast, come to poverty.
 
Genesis 45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my
brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
 
Genesis 45:13 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.
 
Genesis 45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and
wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
 
Genesis 45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept
upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
 
Genesis 45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's
house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh
well, and his servants.
 
Genesis 45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy
brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the
land of Canaan;
 
Genesis 45:18 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.
 
Genesis 45:19 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.
 
Genesis 45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all
the land of Egypt is your's.
 
Genesis 45:21 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.
 
Genesis 45:22 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.
 
Genesis 45:23 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.
 
Genesis 45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed:
and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
 
Genesis 45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the
land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
 
Genesis 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he
is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart
fainted, for he believed them not.
 
Genesis 45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which
he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph
had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
 
Genesis 45:28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is
yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
 
Genesis 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had,
and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his
father Isaac.
 
Genesis 46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the
night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
 
Genesis 46:3 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:
 
Genesis 46:4 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.
 
Genesis 46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of
Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and
their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
 
Genesis 46:6 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:
 
Genesis 46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he
with him into Egypt.
 
Genesis 46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel,
which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn.
 
Genesis 46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and
Hezron, and Carmi.
 
Genesis 46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman.
 
Genesis 46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and
Merari.
 
Genesis 46:12 And the sons of Judah; 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.
 
Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and
Job, and Shimron.
 
Genesis 46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and
Jahleel.
 
Genesis 46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto
Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his
sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
 
Genesis 46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni,
and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
 
Genesis 46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and
Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah;
Heber, and Malchiel.
 
Genesis 46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to
Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen
souls.
 
Genesis 46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and
Benjamin.
 
Genesis 46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of On bare unto him.
 
Genesis 46:21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher,
and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim,
and Ard.
 
Genesis 46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to
Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
 
Genesis 46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
 
Genesis 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shillem.
 
Genesis 46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave
unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the
souls were seven.
 
Genesis 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt,
which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the
souls were threescore and six;
 
Genesis 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in
Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which
came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
 
Genesis 46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to
direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen.
 
Genesis 46:29 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.
 
Genesis 46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die,
since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
 
Genesis 46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his
father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him,
My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of
Canaan, are come unto me;
 
Genesis 46:32 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.
 
Genesis 46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall
call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
 
Genesis 46:34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been
about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our
fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every
shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
 
Genesis 47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My
father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and,
behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
 
Genesis 47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men,
and presented them unto Pharaoh.
 
Genesis 47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your
occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are
shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
 
Genesis 47:4 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in
the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their
flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now
therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of
Goshen.
 
Genesis 47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father
and thy brethren are come unto thee:
 
Genesis 47:6 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.
 
Genesis 47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set
him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
 
Genesis 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
 
Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years
of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained
unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days
of their pilgrimage.
 
Genesis 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from
before Pharaoh.
 
Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren,
and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of
the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
 
Genesis 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his
brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according
to their families.
 
Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the
famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land
of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
 
Genesis 47:14 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.
 
Genesis 47:15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and
in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and
said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for
the money faileth.
 
Genesis 47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will
give you for your cattle, if money fail.
 
Genesis 47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and
Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the
flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and
he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
 
Genesis 47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the
second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord,
how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of
cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our
bodies, and our lands:
 
Genesis 47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we
and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may
live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
 
Genesis 47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for
Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the
famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
 
Genesis 47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities
from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end
thereof.
 
Genesis 47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for
the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat
their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not
their lands.
 
Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have
bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed
for you, and ye shall sow the land.
 
Genesis 47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that
ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall
be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for
them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
 
Genesis 47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us
find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants.
 
Genesis 47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt
unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except
the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
 
Genesis 47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the
country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew,
and multiplied exceedingly.
 
Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven
years.
 
Genesis 47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and
he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,
and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in
Egypt:
 
Genesis 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt
carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as thou hast said.
 
Genesis 47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto
him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
 
Genesis 48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one
told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his
two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
 
Genesis 48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son
Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat
upon the bed.
 
Genesis 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared
unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
 
Genesis 48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude
of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an
everlasting possession.
 
Genesis 48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which
were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee
into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
 
Genesis 48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them,
shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their
brethren in their inheritance.
 
Genesis 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died
by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a
little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the
way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
 
Genesis 48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are
these?
 
Genesis 48:9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons,
whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I
pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
 
Genesis 48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that
he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
 
Genesis 48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to
see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
 
Genesis 48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his
knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
 
Genesis 48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right
hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand
toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
 
Genesis 48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid
it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand
upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh
was the firstborn.
 
Genesis 48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom
my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all
my life long unto this day,
 
Genesis 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless
the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my
fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in
the midst of the earth.
 
Genesis 48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his
right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he
held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto
Manasseh's head.
 
Genesis 48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my
father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his
head.
 
Genesis 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my
son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall
be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
 
Genesis 48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee
shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as
Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
 
Genesis 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but
God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your
fathers.
 
Genesis 48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above
thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow.
 
Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall
you in the last days.
 
Genesis 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of
Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
 
Genesis 49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power:
 
Genesis 49:4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because
thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he
went up to my couch.
 
Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of
cruelty are in their habitations.
 
Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto
their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their
anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a
wall.
 
Genesis 49:7 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.
 
Genesis 49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's
children shall bow down before thee.
 
Genesis 49:9 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?
 
Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
shall the gathering of the people be.
 
Genesis 49:11 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:
 
Genesis 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth
white with milk.
 
Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and
he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto
Zidon.
 
Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between
two burdens:
 
Genesis 49:15 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.
 
Genesis 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes
of Israel.
 
Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in
the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall
fall backward.
 
Genesis 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
 
Genesis 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at the last.
 
Genesis 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall
yield royal dainties.
 
Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words.
 
Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough
by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
 
Genesis 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at
him, and hated him:
 
Genesis 49:24 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:)
 
Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help
thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of
heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings
of the breasts, and of the womb:
 
Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above
the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on
the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
 
Genesis 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he
shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
 
Genesis 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and
this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them;
every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
 
Genesis 49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to
be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave
that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
 
Genesis 49:30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah,
which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
buryingplace.
 
Genesis 49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife;
there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried
Leah.
 
Genesis 49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is
therein was from the children of Heth.
 
Genesis 49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his
sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the
ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
 
Genesis 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept
upon him, and kissed him.
 
Genesis 50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians
to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
 
Genesis 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are
fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians
mourned for him threescore and ten days.
 
Genesis 50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past,
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have
found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of
Pharaoh, saying,
 
Genesis 50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there
shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and
bury my father, and I will come again.
 
Genesis 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,
according as he made thee swear.
 
Genesis 50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with
him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house,
and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
 
Genesis 50:8 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.
 
Genesis 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and
horsemen: and it was a very great company.
 
Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad,
which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and
very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father
seven days.
 
Genesis 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said,
This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name
of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
 
Genesis 50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he
commanded them:
 
Genesis 50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan,
and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace
of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
 
Genesis 50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his
brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after
he had buried his father.
 
Genesis 50:15 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.
 
Genesis 50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father did command before he died, saying,
 
Genesis 50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee
now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did
unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of
the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
spake unto him.
 
Genesis 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before
his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
 
Genesis 50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in
the place of God?
 
Genesis 50:20 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.
 
Genesis 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you,
and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly
unto them.
 
Genesis 50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's
house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
 
Genesis 50:23 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.
 
Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God
will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the
land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
 
Genesis 50:25 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.
 
Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years
old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
 
Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel,
which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with
Jacob.
 
Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
 
Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
 
Exodus 1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
 
Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of
Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
 
Exodus 1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
generation.
 
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and
increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty;
and the land was filled with them.
 
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew
not Joseph.
 
Exodus 1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of
the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
 
Exodus 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they
multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any
war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and
so get them up out of the land.
 
Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to
afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh
treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
 
Exodus 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they
multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the
children of Israel.
 
Exodus 1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to
serve with rigour:
 
Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage,
in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the
field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with
rigour.
 
Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives,
of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the
other Puah:
 
Exodus 1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to
the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son,
then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall
live.
 
Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the
king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
 
Exodus 1:18 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?
 
Exodus 1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the
Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively,
and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
 
Exodus 1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the
people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
 
Exodus 1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared
God, that he made them houses.
 
Exodus 1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every
son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter
ye shall save alive.
 
Exodus 2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took
to wife a daughter of Levi.
 
Exodus 2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when
she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
 
Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for
him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch,
and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the
river's brink.
 
Exodus 2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be
done to him.
 
Exodus 2:5 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.
 
Exodus 2:6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and,
behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said,
This is one of the Hebrews' children.
 
Exodus 2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I
go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may
nurse the child for thee?
 
Exodus 2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid
went and called the child's mother.
 
Exodus 2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this
child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
And the women took the child, and nursed it.
 
Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his
name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
 
Exodus 2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was
grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their
burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his
brethren.
 
Exodus 2:12 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.
 
Exodus 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two
men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did
the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
 
Exodus 2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge
over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the
Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
 
Exodus 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to
slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in
the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
 
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and
they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their
father's flock.
 
Exodus 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but
Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
 
Exodus 2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said,
How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
 
Exodus 2:19 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.
 
Exodus 2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he?
why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat
bread.
 
Exodus 2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he
gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
 
Exodus 2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name
Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
 
Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the
king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason
of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage.
 
Exodus 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered
his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
 
Exodus 2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God
had respect unto them.
 
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in
law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside
of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
 
Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a
flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
 
Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
 
Exodus 3:4 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.
 
Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy
ground.
 
Exodus 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses
hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
 
Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction
of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
 
Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a
good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
 
Exodus 3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of
Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
 
Exodus 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto
Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt.
 
Exodus 3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go
unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egypt?
 
Exodus 3:12 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.
 
Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto
the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is
his name? what shall I say unto them?
 
Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he
said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath
sent me unto you.
 
Exodus 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations.
 
Exodus 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and
say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
 
Exodus 3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the
affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,
and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
 
Exodus 3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt
come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and
ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into
the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
 
Exodus 3:19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let
you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
 
Exodus 3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt
with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and
after that he will let you go.
 
Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of
the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye
shall not go empty.
 
Exodus 3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and
of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and
upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
 
Exodus 4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will
not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
 
Exodus 4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine
hand? And he said, A rod.
 
Exodus 4:3 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.
 
Exodus 4:4 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:
 
Exodus 4:5 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.
 
Exodus 4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now
thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom:
and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
 
Exodus 4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again.
And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of
his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
 
Exodus 4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe
thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they
will believe the voice of the latter sign.
 
Exodus 4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe
also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou
shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry
land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall
become blood upon the dry land.
 
Exodus 4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not
eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
 
Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's
mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the
blind? have not I the LORD?
 
Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and
teach thee what thou shalt say.
 
Exodus 4:13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the
hand of him whom thou wilt send.
 
Exodus 4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know
that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet
thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
 
Exodus 4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his
mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do.
 
Exodus 4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and
he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and
thou shalt be to him instead of God.
 
Exodus 4:17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand,
wherewith thou shalt do signs.
 
Exodus 4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in
law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto
my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet
alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
 
Exodus 4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return
into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
 
Exodus 4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them
upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took
the rod of God in his hand.
 
Exodus 4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to
return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before
Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his
heart, that he shall not let the people go.
 
Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the
LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
 
Exodus 4:23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may
serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay
thy son, even thy firstborn.
 
Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the
LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
 
Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the
foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a
bloody husband art thou to me.
 
Exodus 4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband
thou art, because of the circumcision.
 
Exodus 4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness
to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
kissed him.
 
Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who
had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
 
Exodus 4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all
the elders of the children of Israel:
 
Exodus 4:30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had
spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
 
Exodus 4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that
the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had
looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and
worshipped.
 
Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told
Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
 
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should
obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither
will I let Israel go.
 
Exodus 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert,
and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
 
Exodus 5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do
ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you
unto your burdens.
 
Exodus 5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now
are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
 
Exodus 5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters
of the people, and their officers, saying,
 
Exodus 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make
brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for
themselves.
 
Exodus 5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make
heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought
thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go
and sacrifice to our God.
 
Exodus 5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they
may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
 
Exodus 5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and
their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith
Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
 
Exodus 5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not
ought of your work shall be diminished.
 
Exodus 5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all
the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
 
Exodus 5:13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil
your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
 
Exodus 5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which
Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and
demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making
brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
 
Exodus 5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came
and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with
thy servants?
 
Exodus 5:16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they
say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but
the fault is in thine own people.
 
Exodus 5:17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye
say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
 
Exodus 5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no
straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
 
Exodus 5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see
that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not
minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
 
Exodus 5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way,
as they came forth from Pharaoh:
 
Exodus 5:21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you,
and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword
in their hand to slay us.
 
Exodus 5:22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD,
wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that
thou hast sent me?
 
Exodus 5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name,
he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy
people at all.
 
Exodus 6:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see
what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let
them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his
land.
 
Exodus 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am
the LORD:
 
Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I
not known to them.
 
Exodus 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them,
to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage,
wherein they were strangers.
 
Exodus 6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children
of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have
remembered my covenant.
 
Exodus 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the
LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will
redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
 
Exodus 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will
be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God,
which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
 
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning
the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
 
Exodus 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but
they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for
cruel bondage.
 
Exodus 6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he
let the children of Israel go out of his land.
 
Exodus 6:12 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold,
the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall
Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
 
Exodus 6:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and
gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt.
 
Exodus 6:14 These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The
sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
 
Exodus 6:15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman: these are the families of Simeon.
 
Exodus 6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi
according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari:
and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and
seven years.
 
Exodus 6:17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to
their families.
 
Exodus 6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and
Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an
hundred thirty and three years.
 
Exodus 6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are
the families of Levi according to their generations.
 
Exodus 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to
wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life
of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
 
Exodus 6:21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and
Zichri.
 
Exodus 6:22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and
Zithri.
 
Exodus 6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab,
sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 
Exodus 6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and
Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
 
Exodus 6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the
daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are
the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their
families.
 
Exodus 6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD
said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt
according to their armies.
 
Exodus 6:27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are
that Moses and Aaron.
 
Exodus 6:28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake
unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
 
Exodus 6:29 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the
LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto
thee.
 
Exodus 6:30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
 
Exodus 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee
a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
 
Exodus 7:2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron
thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children
of Israel out of his land.
 
Exodus 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my
signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may
lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my
people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
judgments.
 
Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD,
when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the
children of Israel from among them.
 
Exodus 7:6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them,
so did they.
 
Exodus 7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron
fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
 
Exodus 7:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
 
Exodus 7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a
miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
 
Exodus 7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they
did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod
before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
 
Exodus 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the
sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like
manner with their enchantments.
 
Exodus 7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they
became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
 
Exodus 7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened
not unto them; as the LORD had said.
 
Exodus 7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is
hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
 
Exodus 7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth
out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink
against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt
thou take in thine hand.
 
Exodus 7:16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the
Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that
they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou
wouldest not hear.
 
Exodus 7:17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I
am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine
hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be
turned to blood.
 
Exodus 7:18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and
the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of
the water of the river.
 
Exodus 7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take
thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt,
upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and
upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and
that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in
vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
 
Exodus 7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded;
and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the
river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants;
and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
 
Exodus 7:21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the
river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of
the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their
enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he
hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.
 
Exodus 7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither
did he set his heart to this also.
 
Exodus 7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river
for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the
river.
 
Exodus 7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD
had smitten the river.
 
Exodus 8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and
say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
 
Exodus 8:2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will
smite all thy borders with frogs:
 
Exodus 8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly,
which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy
bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants,
and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy
kneadingtroughs:
 
Exodus 8:4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon
thy people, and upon all thy servants.
 
Exodus 8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron,
Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the
rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the
land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of
Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 8:7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments,
and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said,
Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and
from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do
sacrifice unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when
shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy
people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they
may remain in the river only?
 
Exodus 8:10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it
according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none
like unto the LORD our God.
 
Exodus 8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy
houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall
remain in the river only.
 
Exodus 8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and
Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had
brought against Pharaoh.
 
Exodus 8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses;
and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and
out of the fields.
 
Exodus 8:14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the
land stank.
 
Exodus 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he
hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had
said.
 
Exodus 8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron,
Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may
become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 8:17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand
with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice
in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 8:18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to
bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon
man, and upon beast.
 
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the
finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened
not unto them; as the LORD had said.
 
Exodus 8:20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the
water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go,
that they may serve me.
 
Exodus 8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I
will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and
upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the
Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground
whereon they are.
 
Exodus 8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in
which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to
the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the
earth.
 
Exodus 8:23 And I will put a division between my people and thy
people: to morrow shall this sign be.
 
Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous
swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'
houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by
reason of the swarm of flies.
 
Exodus 8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and
said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
 
Exodus 8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we
shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our
God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
 
Exodus 8:27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness,
and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
 
Exodus 8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may
sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall
not go very far away: intreat for me.
 
Exodus 8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I
will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but
let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the
people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
 
Exodus 8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the
LORD.
 
Exodus 8:31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses;
and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
 
Exodus 8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also,
neither would he let the people go.
 
Exodus 9:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh,
and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my
people go, that they may serve me.
 
Exodus 9:2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold
them still,
 
Exodus 9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle
which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the
camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very
grievous murrain.
 
Exodus 9:4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of
Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of
all that is the children's of Israel.
 
Exodus 9:5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow
the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
 
Exodus 9:6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all
the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of
Israel died not one.
 
Exodus 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of
the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was
hardened, and he did not let the people go.
 
Exodus 9:8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to
you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it
toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
 
Exodus 9:9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of
Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man,
and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood
before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it
became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon
beast.
 
Exodus 9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses
because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and
upon all the Egyptians.
 
Exodus 9:12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
 
Exodus 9:13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith
the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may
serve me.
 
Exodus 9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon
thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that
thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
 
Exodus 9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may
smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut
off from the earth.
 
Exodus 9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee
up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be
declared throughout all the earth.
 
Exodus 9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people,
that thou wilt not let them go?
 
Exodus 9:18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it
to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt
since the foundation thereof even until now.
 
Exodus 9:19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all
that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which
shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the
hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
 
Exodus 9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the
servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into
the houses:
 
Exodus 9:21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left
his servants and his cattle in the field.
 
Exodus 9:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine
hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of
Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the
field, throughout the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven:
and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon
the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail,
very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of
Egypt since it became a nation.
 
Exodus 9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt
all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote
every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
 
Exodus 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of
Israel were, was there no hail.
 
Exodus 9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron,
and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is
righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
 
Exodus 9:28 Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be
no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and
ye shall stay no longer.
 
Exodus 9:29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out
of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the
thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that
thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD's.
 
Exodus 9:30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye
will not yet fear the LORD God.
 
Exodus 9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the
barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
 
Exodus 9:32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for
they were not grown up.
 
Exodus 9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and
spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail
ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
 
Exodus 9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and
the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants.
 
Exodus 9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither
would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by
Moses.
 
Exodus 10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh:
for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants,
that I might shew these my signs before him:
 
Exodus 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son,
and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my
signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I
am the LORD.
 
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said
unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt
thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that
they may serve me.
 
Exodus 10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold,
to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
 
Exodus 10:5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that
one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the
residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from
the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of
the field:
 
Exodus 10:6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of
all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which
neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since
the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he
turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
 
Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long
shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may
serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is
destroyed?
 
Exodus 10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto
Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but
who are they that shall go?
 
Exodus 10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with
our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks
and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the
LORD.
 
Exodus 10:10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with
you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for
evil is before you.
 
Exodus 10:11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the
LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from
Pharaoh's presence.
 
Exodus 10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine
hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come
up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even
all that the hail hath left.
 
Exodus 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of
Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that
day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind
brought the locusts.
 
Exodus 10:14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt,
and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they;
before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after
them shall be such.
 
Exodus 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so
that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the
land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and
there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs
of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste;
and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against
you.
 
Exodus 10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only
this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away
from me this death only.
 
Exodus 10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the
LORD.
 
Exodus 10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind,
which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea;
there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
 
Exodus 10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he
would not let the children of Israel go.
 
Exodus 10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine
hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of
Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
 
Exodus 10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven;
and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days:
 
Exodus 10:23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from
his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had
light in their dwellings.
 
Exodus 10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye,
serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed:
let your little ones also go with you.
 
Exodus 10:25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices
and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
 
Exodus 10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not
an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the
LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD,
until we come thither.
 
Exodus 10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he
would not let them go.
 
Exodus 10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take
heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest
my face thou shalt die.
 
Exodus 10:29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see
thy face again no more.
 
Exodus 11:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one
plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let
you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust
you out hence altogether.
 
Exodus 11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every
man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour,
jewels of silver and jewels of gold.
 
Exodus 11:3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of
the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land
of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of
the people.
 
Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight
will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
 
Exodus 11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall
die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne,
even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the
mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
 
Exodus 11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the
land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like
it any more.
 
Exodus 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not
a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how
that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel.
 
Exodus 11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me,
and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all
the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he
went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
 
Exodus 11:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not
hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land
of Egypt.
 
Exodus 11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before
Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would
not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
 
Exodus 12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land
of Egypt saying,
 
Exodus 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of
months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
 
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,
saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them
every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb
for an house:
 
Exodus 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb,
let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according
to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating
shall make your count for the lamb.
 
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the
first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the
goats:
 
Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of
the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of
Israel shall kill it in the evening.
 
Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on
the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses,
wherein they shall eat it.
 
Exodus 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast
with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall
eat it.
 
Exodus 12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water,
but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the
purtenance thereof.
 
Exodus 12:10 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.
 
Exodus 12:11 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.
 
Exodus 12:12 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.
 
Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the
houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I
smite the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 12:14 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.
 
Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the
first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for
whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
 
Exodus 12:16 And in the first day there shall be an holy
convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy
convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save
that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
 
Exodus 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened
bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of
the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your
generations by an ordinance for ever.
 
Exodus 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the month at even.
 
Exodus 12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your
houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that
soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he
be a stranger, or born in the land.
 
Exodus 12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your
habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
 
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel,
and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to
your families, and kill the passover.
 
Exodus 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in
the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two
side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you
shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
 
Exodus 12:23 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.
 
Exodus 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance
to thee and to thy sons for ever.
 
Exodus 12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the
land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised,
that ye shall keep this service.
 
Exodus 12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children
shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
 
Exodus 12:27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the
LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of
Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our
houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
 
Exodus 12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as
the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
 
Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD
smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the
captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
 
Exodus 12:30 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.
 
Exodus 12:31 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.
 
Exodus 12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have
said, and be gone; and bless me also.
 
Exodus 12:33 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.
 
Exodus 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was
leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes
upon their shoulders.
 
Exodus 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the
word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
 
Exodus 12:36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight
of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they
required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
 
Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses
to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men,
beside children.
 
Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and
flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
 
Exodus 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which
they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because
they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had
they prepared for themselves any victual.
 
Exodus 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who
dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
 
Exodus 12:41 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.
 
Exodus 12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD
for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night
of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations.
 
Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is
the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat
thereof:
 
Exodus 12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money,
when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
 
Exodus 12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat
thereof.
 
Exodus 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not
carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither
shall ye break a bone thereof.
 
Exodus 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
 
Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and
will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall
be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person
shall eat thereof.
 
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto
the stranger that sojourneth among you.
 
Exodus 12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
 
Exodus 12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the
LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by
their armies.
 
Exodus 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 13:2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever
openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of
beast: it is mine.
 
Exodus 13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day,
in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for
by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place:
there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
 
Exodus 13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
 
Exodus 13:5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into
the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that
thou shalt keep this service in this month.
 
Exodus 13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in
the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
 
Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and
there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall
there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
 
Exodus 13:8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying,
This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I
came forth out of Egypt.
 
Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine
hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law
may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought
thee out of Egypt.
 
Exodus 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his
season from year to year.
 
Exodus 13:11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee
into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy
fathers, and shall give it thee,
 
Exodus 13:12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that
openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast
which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD's.
 
Exodus 13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem
with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt
break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children
shalt thou redeem.
 
Exodus 13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time
to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By
strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the
house of bondage:
 
Exodus 13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let
us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore
I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males;
but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
 
Exodus 13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and
for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the
LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
 
Exodus 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the
people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of
the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest
peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return
to Egypt:
 
Exodus 13:18 But God led the people about, through the way of
the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up
harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for
he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with
you.
 
Exodus 13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
 
Exodus 13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar
of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of
fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
 
Exodus 13:22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day,
nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
 
Exodus 14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 14:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn
and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over
against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
 
Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,
They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
 
Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall
follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And
they did so.
 
Exodus 14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people
fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned
against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we
have let Israel go from serving us?
 
Exodus 14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people
with him:
 
Exodus 14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all
the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
 
Exodus 14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the
children of Israel went out with an high hand.
 
Exodus 14:9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the
horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army,
and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before
Baalzephon.
 
Exodus 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel
lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after
them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried
out unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 14:11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no
graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the
wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us
forth out of Egypt?
 
Exodus 14:12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in
Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For
it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we
should die in the wilderness.
 
Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand
still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to
you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall
see them again no more for ever.
 
Exodus 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold
your peace.
 
Exodus 14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest
thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward:
 
Exodus 14:16 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.
 
Exodus 14:17 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.
 
Exodus 14:18 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.
 
Exodus 14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp
of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the
cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
 
Exodus 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and
the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but
it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near
the other all the night.
 
Exodus 14:21 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.
 
Exodus 14:22 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.
 
Exodus 14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them
to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots,
and his horsemen.
 
Exodus 14:24 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,
 
Exodus 14:25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave
them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the
face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the
Egyptians.
 
Exodus 14:26 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.
 
Exodus 14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea,
and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared;
and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the
Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
 
Exodus 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots,
and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the
sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
 
Exodus 14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in
the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on
their right hand, and on their left.
 
Exodus 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the
hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the
sea shore.
 
Exodus 14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did
upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed
the LORD, and his servant Moses.
 
Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this
song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD,
for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he
thrown into the sea.
 
Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become
my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;
my father's God, and I will exalt him.
 
Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
 
Exodus 15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into
the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
 
Exodus 15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the
bottom as a stone.
 
Exodus 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in
power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
 
Exodus 15:7 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.
 
Exodus 15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were
gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the
depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
 
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I
will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I
will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
 
Exodus 15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered
them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
 
Exodus 15:11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who
is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing
wonders?
 
Exodus 15:12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth
swallowed them.
 
Exodus 15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which
thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto
thy holy habitation.
 
Exodus 15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall
take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
 
Exodus 15:15 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.
 
Exodus 15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the
greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till
thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which
thou hast purchased.
 
Exodus 15:17 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.
 
Exodus 15:18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
 
Exodus 15:19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots
and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again
the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went
on dry land in the midst of the sea.
 
Exodus 15:20 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.
 
Exodus 15:21 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.
 
Exodus 15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they
went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in
the wilderness, and found no water.
 
Exodus 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink
of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name
of it was called Marah.
 
Exodus 15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying,
What shall we drink?
 
Exodus 15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed
him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters
were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an
ordinance, and there he proved them,
 
Exodus 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the
voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his
sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I
have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth
thee.
 
Exodus 15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of
water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there
by the waters.
 
Exodus 16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness
of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of
the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
 
Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to
God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the
full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill
this whole assembly with hunger.
 
Exodus 16:4 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.
 
Exodus 16:5 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.
 
Exodus 16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of
Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought
you out from the land of Egypt:
 
Exodus 16:7 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?
 
Exodus 16:8 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.
 
Exodus 16:9 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.
 
Exodus 16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward
the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in
the cloud.
 
Exodus 16:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of
Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and
in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD your God.
 
Exodus 16:13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came
up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round
about the host.
 
Exodus 16:14 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.
 
Exodus 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said
one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And
Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given
you to eat.
 
Exodus 16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded,
Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every
man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man
for them which are in his tents.
 
Exodus 16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered,
some more, some less.
 
Exodus 16:18 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.
 
Exodus 16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the
morning.
 
Exodus 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but
some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
 
Exodus 16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man
according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
 
Exodus 16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
 
Exodus 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD
hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the
LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye
will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be
kept until the morning.
 
Exodus 16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses
bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
 
Exodus 16:25 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.
 
Exodus 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh
day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
 
Exodus 16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of
the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
 
Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye
to keep my commandments and my laws?
 
Exodus 16:29 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.
 
Exodus 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
 
Exodus 16:31 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.
 
Exodus 16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD
commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations;
that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an
omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be
kept for your generations.
 
Exodus 16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up
before the Testimony, to be kept.
 
Exodus 16:35 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.
 
Exodus 16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
 
Exodus 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys,
according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in
Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
 
Exodus 17:2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and
said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them,
Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
 
Exodus 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the
people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that
thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children
and our cattle with thirst?
 
Exodus 17:4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I
do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
 
Exodus 17:5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the
people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod,
wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
 
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the
rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall
come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so
in the sight of the elders of Israel.
 
Exodus 17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and
Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and
because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or
not?
 
Exodus 17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim.
 
Exodus 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and
go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of
the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
 
Exodus 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought
with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
hill.
 
Exodus 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand,
that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek
prevailed.
 
Exodus 17:12 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.
 
Exodus 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with
the edge of the sword.
 
Exodus 17:14 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.
 
Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of
it Jehovahnissi:
 
Exodus 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the
LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
 
Exodus 18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in
law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his
people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
 
Exodus 18:2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah,
Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
 
Exodus 18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was
Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
 
Exodus 18:4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God
of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the
sword of Pharaoh:
 
Exodus 18:5 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:
 
Exodus 18:6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro
am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
 
Exodus 18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and
did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their
welfare; and they came into the tent.
 
Exodus 18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD
had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and
all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the
LORD delivered them.
 
Exodus 18:9 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.
 
Exodus 18:10 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.
 
Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods:
for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
 
Exodus 18:12 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.
 
Exodus 18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat
to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the
morning unto the evening.
 
Exodus 18:14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did
to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the
people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand
by thee from morning unto even?
 
Exodus 18:15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the
people come unto me to enquire of God:
 
Exodus 18:16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I
judge between one and another, and I do make them know the
statutes of God, and his laws.
 
Exodus 18:17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing
that thou doest is not good.
 
Exodus 18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this
people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee;
thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
 
Exodus 18:19 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:
 
Exodus 18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and
shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that
they must do.
 
Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people
able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers
of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
 
Exodus 18:22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and
it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee,
but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier
for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
 
Exodus 18:23 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.
 
Exodus 18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in
law, and did all that he had said.
 
Exodus 18:25 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.
 
Exodus 18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the
hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they
judged themselves.
 
Exodus 18:27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he
went his way into his own land.
 
Exodus 19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel
were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they
into the wilderness of Sinai.
 
Exodus 19:2 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.
 
Exodus 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called
unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the
house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
 
Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how
I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
 
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and
keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me
above all people: for all the earth is mine:
 
Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and
an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto
the children of Israel.
 
Exodus 19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the
people, and laid before their faces all these words which the
LORD commanded him.
 
Exodus 19:8 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.
 
Exodus 19:9 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.
 
Exodus 19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people,
and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their
clothes,
 
Exodus 19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third
day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon
mount Sinai.
 
Exodus 19:12 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:
 
Exodus 19:13 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.
 
Exodus 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the
people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
 
Exodus 19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the
third day: come not at your wives.
 
Exodus 19:16 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.
 
Exodus 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp
to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
 
Exodus 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because
the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof
ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked
greatly.
 
Exodus 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long,
and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by
a voice.
 
Exodus 19:20 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.
 
Exodus 19:21 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.
 
Exodus 19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the
LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
 
Exodus 19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot
come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds
about the mount, and sanctify it.
 
Exodus 19:24 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.
 
Exodus 19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto
them.
 
Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
 
Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
 
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
 
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me;
 
Exodus 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love
me, and keep my commandments.
 
Exodus 20:7 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.
 
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 
Exodus 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
 
Exodus 20:10 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:
 
Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
 
Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days
may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 
Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
 
Exodus 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
 
Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
 
Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour.
 
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou
shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his
maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy
neighbour's.
 
Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain
smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar
off.
 
Exodus 20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and
we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
 
Exodus 20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God
is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces,
that ye sin not.
 
Exodus 20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near
unto the thick darkness where God was.
 
Exodus 20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say
unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with
you from heaven.
 
Exodus 20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither
shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
 
Exodus 20:24 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.
 
Exodus 20:25 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.
 
Exodus 20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar,
that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
 
Exodus 21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set
before them.
 
Exodus 21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall
serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
 
Exodus 21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by
himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
 
Exodus 21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have
born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be
her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
 
Exodus 21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my
master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
 
Exodus 21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he
shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his
master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve
him for ever.
 
Exodus 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant,
she shall not go out as the menservants do.
 
Exodus 21:8 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.
 
Exodus 21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall
deal with her after the manner of daughters.
 
Exodus 21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her
raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
 
Exodus 21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall
she go out free without money.
 
Exodus 21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be
surely put to death.
 
Exodus 21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him
into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall
flee.
 
Exodus 21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his
neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine
altar, that he may die.
 
Exodus 21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother,
shall be surely put to death.
 
Exodus 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if
he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
 
Exodus 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother,
shall surely be put to death.
 
Exodus 21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite another
with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his
bed:
 
Exodus 21:19 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.
 
Exodus 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with
a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
 
Exodus 21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he
shall not be punished: for he is his money.
 
Exodus 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so
that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he
shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will
lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
 
Exodus 21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give
life for life,
 
Exodus 21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot,
 
Exodus 21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for
stripe.
 
Exodus 21:26 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.
 
Exodus 21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his
maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's
sake.
 
Exodus 21:28 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.
 
Exodus 21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in
time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath
not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox
shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
 
Exodus 21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he
shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon
him.
 
Exodus 21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a
daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
 
Exodus 21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a
maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of
silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
 
Exodus 21:33 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;
 
Exodus 21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give
money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
 
Exodus 21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die;
then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and
the dead ox also they shall divide.
 
Exodus 21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in
time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely
pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
 
Exodus 22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill
it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four
sheep for a sheep.
 
Exodus 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten
that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
 
Exodus 22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood
shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have
nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
 
Exodus 22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,
whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
 
Exodus 22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be
eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another
man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his
own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
 
Exodus 22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the
stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed
therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
 
Exodus 22:7 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.
 
Exodus 22:8 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.
 
Exodus 22:9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox,
for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing
which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties
shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn,
he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
 
Exodus 22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an
ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or
driven away, no man seeing it:
 
Exodus 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them
both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods;
and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make
it good.
 
Exodus 22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make
restitution unto the owner thereof.
 
Exodus 22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for
witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
 
Exodus 22:14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it
be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall
surely make it good.
 
Exodus 22:15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not
make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
 
Exodus 22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed,
and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
 
Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him,
he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
 
Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
 
Exodus 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put
to death.
 
Exodus 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the
LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
 
Exodus 22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress
him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
child.
 
Exodus 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at
all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
 
Exodus 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you
with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.
 
Exodus 22:25 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.
 
Exodus 22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to
pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth
down:
 
Exodus 22:27 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.
 
Exodus 22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the
ruler of thy people.
 
Exodus 22:29 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.
 
Exodus 22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with
thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day
thou shalt give it me.
 
Exodus 22:31 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.
 
Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine
hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
 
Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil;
neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to
wrest judgment:
 
Exodus 23:3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his
cause.
 
Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going
astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
 
Exodus 23:5 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.
 
Exodus 23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in
his cause.
 
Exodus 23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent
and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
 
Exodus 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth
the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
 
Exodus 23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know
the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt.
 
Exodus 23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt
gather in the fruits thereof:
 
Exodus 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and
lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they
leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou
shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
 
Exodus 23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the
seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may
rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be
refreshed.
 
Exodus 23:13 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.
 
Exodus 23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year.
 
Exodus 23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread:
(thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee,
in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest
out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
 
Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy
labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of
ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast
gathered in thy labours out of the field.
 
Exodus 23:17 Three items in the year all thy males shall appear
before the LORD God.
 
Exodus 23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice
with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain
until the morning.
 
Exodus 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou
shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not
seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
 
Exodus 23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee
in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have
prepared.
 
Exodus 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him
not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is
in him.
 
Exodus 23:22 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.
 
Exodus 23:23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring
thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites,
and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will
cut them off.
 
Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve
them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow
them, and quite break down their images.
 
Exodus 23:25 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.
 
Exodus 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be
barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
 
Exodus 23:27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy
all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine
enemies turn their backs unto thee.
 
Exodus 23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall
drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before
thee.
 
Exodus 23:29 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.
 
Exodus 23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from
before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
 
Exodus 23:31 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.
 
Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods.
 
Exodus 23:33 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.
 
Exodus 24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD,
thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel; and worship ye afar off.
 
Exodus 24:2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they
shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
 
Exodus 24:3 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.
 
Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose
up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and
twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
 
Exodus 24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel,
which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of
oxen unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in
basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
 
Exodus 24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in
the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath
said will we do, and be obedient.
 
Exodus 24:8 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.
 
Exodus 24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel:
 
Exodus 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was
under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and
as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
 
Exodus 24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he
laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
 
Exodus 24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into
the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone,
and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou
mayest teach them.
 
Exodus 24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and
Moses went up into the mount of God.
 
Exodus 24:14 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.
 
Exodus 24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud
covered the mount.
 
Exodus 24:16 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.
 
Exodus 24:17 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.
 
Exodus 24:18 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.
 
Exodus 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 25:2 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.
 
Exodus 25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of
them; gold, and silver, and brass,
 
Exodus 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
and goats' hair,
 
Exodus 25:5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and
shittim wood,
 
Exodus 25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and
for sweet incense,
 
Exodus 25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and
in the breastplate.
 
Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell
among them.
 
Exodus 25:9 According to all that I shew thee, after the
pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments
thereof, even so shall ye make it.
 
Exodus 25:10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two
cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a
half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height
thereof.
 
Exodus 25:11 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.
 
Exodus 25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and
put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in
the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
 
Exodus 25:13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and
overlay them with gold.
 
Exodus 25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by
the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
 
Exodus 25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they
shall not be taken from it.
 
Exodus 25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony
which I shall give thee.
 
Exodus 25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two
cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a
half the breadth thereof.
 
Exodus 25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of
beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy
seat.
 
Exodus 25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other
cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the
cherubims on the two ends thereof.
 
Exodus 25:20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings
on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their
faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the
faces of the cherubims be.
 
Exodus 25:21 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.
 
Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will
commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two
cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things
which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of
Israel.
 
Exodus 25:23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two
cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
 
Exodus 25:24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make
thereto a crown of gold round about.
 
Exodus 25:25 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.
 
Exodus 25:26 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.
 
Exodus 25:27 Over against the border shall the rings be for
places of the staves to bear the table.
 
Exodus 25:28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood,
and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with
them.
 
Exodus 25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons
thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal:
of pure gold shalt thou make them.
 
Exodus 25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before
me alway.
 
Exodus 25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of
beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his
branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the
same.
 
Exodus 25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of
it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and
three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
 
Exodus 25:33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop
and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in
the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six
branches that come out of the candlestick.
 
Exodus 25:34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made
like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
 
Exodus 25:35 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.
 
Exodus 25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the
same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
 
Exodus 25:37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and
they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over
against it.
 
Exodus 25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes
thereof, shall be of pure gold.
 
Exodus 25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with
all these vessels.
 
Exodus 25:40 And look that thou make them after their pattern,
which was shewed thee in the mount.
 
Exodus 26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten
curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet:
with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
 
Exodus 26:2 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.
 
Exodus 26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to
another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
 
Exodus 26:4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of
the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise
shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the
coupling of the second.
 
Exodus 26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and
fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in
the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of
another.
 
Exodus 26:6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and
couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one
tabernacle.
 
Exodus 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a
covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
 
Exodus 26:8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits,
and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven
curtains shall be all of one measure.
 
Exodus 26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves,
and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth
curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 26:10 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.
 
Exodus 26:11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put
the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it
may be one.
 
Exodus 26:12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of
the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the
backside of the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 26:13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the
other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains
of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on
this side and on that side, to cover it.
 
Exodus 26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of
rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
 
Exodus 26:15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of
shittim wood standing up.
 
Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a
cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
 
Exodus 26:17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in
order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the
boards of the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 26:18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,
twenty boards on the south side southward.
 
Exodus 26:19 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.
 
Exodus 26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the
north side there shall be twenty boards:
 
Exodus 26:21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets
under one board, and two sockets under another board.
 
Exodus 26:22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou
shalt make six boards.
 
Exodus 26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of
the tabernacle in the two sides.
 
Exodus 26:24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and
they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one
ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two
corners.
 
Exodus 26:25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets
of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
 
Exodus 26:26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for
the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
 
Exodus 26:27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of
the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the
tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
 
Exodus 26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards
shall reach from end to end.
 
Exodus 26:29 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.
 
Exodus 26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to
the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
 
Exodus 26:31 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with
cherubims shall it be made:
 
Exodus 26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of
shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold,
upon the four sockets of silver.
 
Exodus 26:33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches,
that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the
testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy
place and the most holy.
 
Exodus 26:34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of
the testimony in the most holy place.
 
Exodus 26:35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and
the candlestick over against the table on the side of the
tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the
north side.
 
Exodus 26:36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the
tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
wrought with needlework.
 
Exodus 26:37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars
of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks
shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for
them.
 
Exodus 27:1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five
cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be
foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
 
Exodus 27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four
corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt
overlay it with brass.
 
Exodus 27:3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes,
and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his
firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
 
Exodus 27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of
brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the
four corners thereof.
 
Exodus 27:5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the
altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the
altar.
 
Exodus 27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of
shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
 
Exodus 27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the
staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
 
Exodus 27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was
shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
 
Exodus 27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle:
for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the
court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one
side:
 
Exodus 27:10 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.
 
Exodus 27:11 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.
 
Exodus 27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side
shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten.
 
Exodus 27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side
eastward shall be fifty cubits.
 
Exodus 27:14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be
fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
 
Exodus 27:15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen
cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
 
Exodus 27:16 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.
 
Exodus 27:17 All the pillars round about the court shall be
filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their
sockets of brass.
 
Exodus 27:18 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.
 
Exodus 27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the
service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of
the court, shall be of brass.
 
Exodus 27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel,
that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to
cause the lamp to burn always.
 
Exodus 27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the
vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall
order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a
statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the
children of Israel.
 
Exodus 28:1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his
sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and
Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
 
Exodus 28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother for glory and for beauty.
 
Exodus 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise
hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they
may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister
unto me in the priest's office.
 
Exodus 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a
mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron
thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office.
 
Exodus 28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine linen.
 
Exodus 28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and
of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
 
Exodus 28:7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined
at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
 
Exodus 28:8 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.
 
Exodus 28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on
them the names of the children of Israel:
 
Exodus 28:10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six
names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
 
Exodus 28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the
engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with
the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be
set in ouches of gold.
 
Exodus 28:12 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.
 
Exodus 28:13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
 
Exodus 28:14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of
wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen
chains to the ouches.
 
Exodus 28:15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment
with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make
it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine
twined linen, shalt thou make it.
 
Exodus 28:16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall
be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
 
Exodus 28:17 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.
 
Exodus 28:18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond.
 
Exodus 28:19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an
amethyst.
 
Exodus 28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a
jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
 
Exodus 28:21 And the stones shall be with the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the
engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be
according to the twelve tribes.
 
Exodus 28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at
the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
 
Exodus 28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings
of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the
breastplate.
 
Exodus 28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold
in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
 
Exodus 28:25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains
thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the
shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
 
Exodus 28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou
shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border
thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
 
Exodus 28:27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and
shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward
the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof,
above the curious girdle of the ephod.
 
Exodus 28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings
thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it
may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
 
Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of
Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he
goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD
continually.
 
Exodus 28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment
the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart,
when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the
judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD
continually.
 
Exodus 28:31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of
blue.
 
Exodus 28:32 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.
 
Exodus 28:33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make
pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about
the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
 
Exodus 28:34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and
a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
 
Exodus 28:35 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.
 
Exodus 28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and
grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE
LORD.
 
Exodus 28:37 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.
 
Exodus 28:38 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.
 
Exodus 28:39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen,
and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make
the girdle of needlework.
 
Exodus 28:40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and
thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for
them, for glory and for beauty.
 
Exodus 28:41 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.
 
Exodus 28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover
their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall
reach:
 
Exodus 28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons,
when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or
when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place;
that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for
ever unto him and his seed after him.
 
Exodus 29:1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them
to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take
one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
 
Exodus 29:2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered
with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten
flour shalt thou make them.
 
Exodus 29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring
them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
 
Exodus 29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them
with water.
 
Exodus 29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon
Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the
breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
 
Exodus 29:6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put
the holy crown upon the mitre.
 
Exodus 29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it
upon his head, and anoint him.
 
Exodus 29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon
them.
 
Exodus 29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and
his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office
shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt
consecrate Aaron and his sons.
 
Exodus 29:10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought
before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons
shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
 
Exodus 29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD,
by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Exodus 29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock,
and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour
all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
 
Exodus 29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the
inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the
altar.
 
Exodus 29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and
his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin
offering.
 
Exodus 29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his
sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
 
Exodus 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take
his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
 
Exodus 29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the
inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and
unto his head.
 
Exodus 29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar:
it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and
his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
 
Exodus 29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his
blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and
upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of
their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and
sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
 
Exodus 29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the
altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and
upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of
his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments,
and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
 
Exodus 29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the
rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above
the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
 
Exodus 29:23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled
bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread
that is before the LORD:
 
Exodus 29:24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and
in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering
before the LORD.
 
Exodus 29:25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and
burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour
before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of
Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the
LORD: and it shall be thy part.
 
Exodus 29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave
offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved,
and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of
that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
 
Exodus 29:28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute
for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave
offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of
Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their
heave offering unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons'
after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
 
Exodus 29:30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put
them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the
congregation to minister in the holy place.
 
Exodus 29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration,
and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
 
Exodus 29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the
ram, and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Exodus 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the
atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a
stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
 
Exodus 29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or
of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the
remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
 
Exodus 29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his
sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven
days shalt thou consecrate them.
 
Exodus 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin
offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when
thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to
sanctify it.
 
Exodus 29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the
altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy:
whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
 
Exodus 29:38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the
altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
 
Exodus 29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and
the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
 
Exodus 29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour
mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the
fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
 
Exodus 29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and
shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning,
and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour,
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 29:42 This shall be a continual burnt offering
throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak
there unto thee.
 
Exodus 29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel,
and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
 
Exodus 29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and
his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
 
Exodus 29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and
will be their God.
 
Exodus 29:46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God,
that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may
dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
 
Exodus 30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon:
of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
 
Exodus 30:2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit
the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall
be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
 
Exodus 30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top
thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns
thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
 
Exodus 30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under
the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides
of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the
staves to bear it withal.
 
Exodus 30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and
overlay them with gold.
 
Exodus 30:6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by
the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the
testimony, where I will meet with thee.
 
Exodus 30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every
morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon
it.
 
Exodus 30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall
burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations.
 
Exodus 30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor
burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink
offering thereon.
 
Exodus 30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns
of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of
atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it
throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 30:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 30:12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel
after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for
his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be
no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
 
Exodus 30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among
them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the
sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be
the offering of the LORD.
 
Exodus 30:14 Every one that passeth among them that are
numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering
unto the LORD.
 
Exodus 30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall
not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto
the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
 
Exodus 30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the
children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto
the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for
your souls.
 
Exodus 30:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 30:18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his
foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between
the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt
put water therein.
 
Exodus 30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and
their feet thereat:
 
Exodus 30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the
congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or
when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering
made by fire unto the LORD:
 
Exodus 30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet,
that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them,
even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
 
Exodus 30:22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 30:23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure
myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much,
even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two
hundred and fifty shekels,
 
Exodus 30:24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
 
Exodus 30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an
ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an
holy anointing oil.
 
Exodus 30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the
congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
 
Exodus 30:27 And the table and all his vessels, and the
candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
 
Exodus 30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his
vessels, and the laver and his foot.
 
Exodus 30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be
most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
 
Exodus 30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and
consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
 
Exodus 30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout
your generations.
 
Exodus 30:32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither
shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it
is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
 
Exodus 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever
putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his
people.
 
Exodus 30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet
spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with
pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
 
Exodus 30:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection
after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and
holy:
 
Exodus 30:36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put
of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation,
where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
 
Exodus 30:37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye
shall not make to yourselves according to the composition
thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
 
Exodus 30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell
thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
 
Exodus 31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 31:2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
 
Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in
wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner
of workmanship,
 
Exodus 31:4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass,
 
Exodus 31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in
carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
 
Exodus 31:6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all
that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all
that I have commanded thee;
 
Exodus 31:7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of
the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the
furniture of the tabernacle,
 
Exodus 31:8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure
candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
 
Exodus 31:9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his
furniture, and the laver and his foot,
 
Exodus 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister
in the priest's office,
 
Exodus 31:11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the
holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall
they do.
 
Exodus 31:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel,
saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign
between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know
that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
 
Exodus 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is
holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to
death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be
cut off from among his people.
 
Exodus 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is
the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work
in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
 
Exodus 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the
sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for
a perpetual covenant.
 
Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel
for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on
the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
 
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of
communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony,
tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
 
Exodus 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come
down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together
unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go
before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
 
Exodus 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden
earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and
of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
 
Exodus 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings
which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
 
Exodus 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned
it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and
they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt.
 
Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it;
and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to
the LORD.
 
Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered
burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
 
Exodus 32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down;
for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt,
have corrupted themselves:
 
Exodus 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which
I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be
thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt.
 
Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this
people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
 
Exodus 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax
hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of
thee a great nation.
 
Exodus 32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said,
LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou
hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and
with a mighty hand?
 
Exodus 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For
mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains,
and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy
fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
 
Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants,
to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I
will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land
that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall
inherit it for ever.
 
Exodus 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought
to do unto his people.
 
Exodus 32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount,
and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables
were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the
other were they written.
 
Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the
writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
 
Exodus 32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as
they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the
camp.
 
Exodus 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that
shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for
being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
 
Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto
the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger
waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake
them beneath the mount.
 
Exodus 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and
burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it
upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
 
Exodus 32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people
unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
 
Exodus 32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax
hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
 
Exodus 32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall
go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
 
Exodus 32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let
them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the
fire, and there came out this calf.
 
Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked;
(for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their
enemies:)
 
Exodus 32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and
said, Who is on the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all
the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
 
Exodus 32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his
brother, and every man his companion, and every man his
neighbour.
 
Exodus 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word
of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three
thousand men.
 
Exodus 32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to
the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that
he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
 
Exodus 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said
unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up
unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your
sin.
 
Exodus 32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh,
this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of
gold.
 
Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if
not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast
written.
 
Exodus 32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
 
Exodus 32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place
of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go
before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit
their sin upon them.
 
Exodus 32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made
the calf, which Aaron made.
 
Exodus 33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up
hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the
land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
 
Exodus 33:2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will
drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
 
Exodus 33:3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will
not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked
people: lest I consume thee in the way.
 
Exodus 33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they
mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
 
Exodus 33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the
children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up
into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore
now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do
unto thee.
 
Exodus 33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of
their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
 
Exodus 33:7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it
without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the
Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every
one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, which was without the camp.
 
Exodus 33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the
tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at
his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
tabernacle.
 
Exodus 33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the
tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of
the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
 
Exodus 33:10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at
the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,
every man in his tent door.
 
Exodus 33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a
man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp:
but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not
out of the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 33:12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest
unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom
thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name,
and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
 
Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace
in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I
may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy
people.
 
Exodus 33:14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee rest.
 
Exodus 33:15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with
me, carry us not up hence.
 
Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy
people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou
goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from
all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
 
Exodus 33:17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing
also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my
sight, and I know thee by name.
 
Exodus 33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
 
Exodus 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass
before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before
thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will
shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
 
Exodus 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there
shall no man see me, and live.
 
Exodus 33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me,
and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
 
Exodus 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth
by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover
thee with my hand while I pass by:
 
Exodus 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see
my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
 
Exodus 34:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables
of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables
the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
 
Exodus 34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the
morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the
top of the mount.
 
Exodus 34:3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any
man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor
herds feed before that mount.
 
Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the
first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto
mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand
the two tables of stone.
 
Exodus 34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with
him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
 
Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed,
The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth,
 
Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the
guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the
fourth generation.
 
Exodus 34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshipped.
 
Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy
sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a
stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take
us for thine inheritance.
 
Exodus 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all
thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all
the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou
art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing
that I will do with thee.
 
Exodus 34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day:
behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite.
 
Exodus 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be
for a snare in the midst of thee:
 
Exodus 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their
images, and cut down their groves:
 
Exodus 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
 
Exodus 34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of
the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his
sacrifice;
 
Exodus 34:16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons,
and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy
sons go a whoring after their gods.
 
Exodus 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
 
Exodus 34:18 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.
 
Exodus 34:19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every
firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
 
Exodus 34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with
a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his
neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none
shall appear before me empty.
 
Exodus 34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day
thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
 
Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the
year's end.
 
Exodus 34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren
appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
 
Exodus 34:24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and
enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when
thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
year.
 
Exodus 34:25 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.
 
Exodus 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou
shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not
seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
 
Exodus 34:27 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.
 
Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and
forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he
wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten
commandments.
 
Exodus 34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from
mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when
he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of
his face shone while he talked with him.
 
Exodus 34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw
Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid
to come nigh him.
 
Exodus 34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the
rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked
with them.
 
Exodus 34:32 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.
 
Exodus 34:33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put
a vail on his face.
 
Exodus 34:34 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.
 
Exodus 34:35 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.
 
Exodus 35:1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the
children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the
words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
 
Exodus 35:2 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.
 
Exodus 35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations
upon the sabbath day.
 
Exodus 35:4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD
commanded, saying,
 
Exodus 35:5 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,
 
Exodus 35:6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
and goats' hair,
 
Exodus 35:7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and
shittim wood,
 
Exodus 35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing
oil, and for the sweet incense,
 
Exodus 35:9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the
ephod, and for the breastplate.
 
Exodus 35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and
make all that the LORD hath commanded;
 
Exodus 35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his
taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
 
Exodus 35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy
seat, and the vail of the covering,
 
Exodus 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels,
and the shewbread,
 
Exodus 35:14 The candlestick also for the light, and his
furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
 
Exodus 35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the
anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the
door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
 
Exodus 35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen
grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
 
Exodus 35:17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their
sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
 
Exodus 35:18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the
court, and their cords,
 
Exodus 35:19 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.
 
Exodus 35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
departed from the presence of Moses.
 
Exodus 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him
up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought
the LORD's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
 
Exodus 35:22 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.
 
Exodus 35:23 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.
 
Exodus 35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and
brass brought the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was
found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
 
Exodus 35:25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin
with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of
blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
 
Exodus 35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in
wisdom spun goats' hair.
 
Exodus 35:27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to
be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
 
Exodus 35:28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
 
Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering
unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing
to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to
be made by the hand of Moses.
 
Exodus 35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See,
the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
 
Exodus 35:31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in
wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship;
 
Exodus 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and
in silver, and in brass,
 
Exodus 35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in
carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
 
Exodus 35:34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach,
both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
 
Exodus 35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work
all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman,
and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and
in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work,
and of those that devise cunning work.
 
Exodus 36:1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise
hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to
know how to work all manner of work for the service of the
sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
 
Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every
wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even
every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do
it:
 
Exodus 36:3 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.
 
Exodus 36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of
the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
 
Exodus 36:5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring
much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD
commanded to make.
 
Exodus 36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to
be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor
woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So
the people were restrained from bringing.
 
Exodus 36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the
work to make it, and too much.
 
Exodus 36:8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought
the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined
linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of
cunning work made he them.
 
Exodus 36:9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight
cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains
were all of one size.
 
Exodus 36:10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another:
and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
 
Exodus 36:11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one
curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in
the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the
second.
 
Exodus 36:12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty
loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the
coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
 
Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the
curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one
tabernacle.
 
Exodus 36:14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent
over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
 
Exodus 36:15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and
four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains
were of one size.
 
Exodus 36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and
six curtains by themselves.
 
Exodus 36:17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of
the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the
edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
 
Exodus 36:18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the
tent together, that it might be one.
 
Exodus 36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins
dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
 
Exodus 36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim
wood, standing up.
 
Exodus 36:21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the
breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
 
Exodus 36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from
another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty
boards for the south side southward:
 
Exodus 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the
twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons,
and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
 
Exodus 36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is
toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
 
Exodus 36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets
under one board, and two sockets under another board.
 
Exodus 36:27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he
made six boards.
 
Exodus 36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the
tabernacle in the two sides.
 
Exodus 36:29 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.
 
Exodus 36:30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets
were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
 
Exodus 36:31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
 
Exodus 36:32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of
the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle
for the sides westward.
 
Exodus 36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the
boards from the one end to the other.
 
Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made
their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the
bars with gold.
 
Exodus 36:35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of
cunning work.
 
Exodus 36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim
wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and
he cast for them four sockets of silver.
 
Exodus 36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of
needlework;
 
Exodus 36:38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and
he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but
their five sockets were of brass.
 
Exodus 37:1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two
cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half
the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
 
Exodus 37:2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and
without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
 
Exodus 37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by
the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it,
and two rings upon the other side of it.
 
Exodus 37:4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid
them with gold.
 
Exodus 37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides
of the ark, to bear the ark.
 
Exodus 37:6 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.
 
Exodus 37:7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of
one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
 
Exodus 37:8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another
cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made
he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
 
Exodus 37:9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high,
and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their
faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces
of the cherubims.
 
Exodus 37:10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits
was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a
cubit and a half the height thereof:
 
Exodus 37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made
thereunto a crown of gold round about.
 
Exodus 37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth
round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof
round about.
 
Exodus 37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the
rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
 
Exodus 37:14 Over against the border were the rings, the places
for the staves to bear the table.
 
Exodus 37:15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and
overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
 
Exodus 37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table,
his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to
cover withal, of pure gold.
 
Exodus 37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of
beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch,
his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
 
Exodus 37:18 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:
 
Exodus 37:19 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.
 
Exodus 37:20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like
almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
 
Exodus 37:21 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.
 
Exodus 37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same:
all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
 
Exodus 37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and
his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
 
Exodus 37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the
vessels thereof.
 
Exodus 37:25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the
length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was
foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns
thereof were of the same.
 
Exodus 37:26 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.
 
Exodus 37:27 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.
 
Exodus 37:28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and
overlaid them with gold.
 
Exodus 37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure
incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
 
Exodus 38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim
wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the
breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
 
Exodus 38:2 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.
 
Exodus 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots,
and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the
firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
 
Exodus 38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network
under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
 
Exodus 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the
grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
 
Exodus 38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and
overlaid them with brass.
 
Exodus 38:7 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.
 
Exodus 38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it
of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which
assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Exodus 38:9 And he made the court: on the south side southward
the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred
cubits:
 
Exodus 38:10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen
sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were
of silver.
 
Exodus 38:11 And for the north side the hangings were an
hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of
brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of
silver.
 
Exodus 38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty
cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of
the pillars and their fillets of silver.
 
Exodus 38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
 
Exodus 38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
 
Exodus 38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this
hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
 
Exodus 38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of
fine twined linen.
 
Exodus 38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the
hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the
overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of
the court were filleted with silver.
 
Exodus 38:18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was
needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the
breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
 
Exodus 38:19 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.
 
Exodus 38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the
court round about, were of brass.
 
Exodus 38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the
tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the
commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand
of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
 
Exodus 38:22 And Bezaleel the son Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 38:23 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.
 
Exodus 38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all
the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was
twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary.
 
Exodus 38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the
congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred
and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
 
Exodus 38:26 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.
 
Exodus 38:27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the
sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred
sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
 
Exodus 38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five
shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their
chapiters, and filleted them.
 
Exodus 38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents,
and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
 
Exodus 38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the
brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
 
Exodus 38:31 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.
 
Exodus 39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made
cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the
holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
 
Exodus 39:3 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.
 
Exodus 39:4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it
together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
 
Exodus 39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon
it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold,
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 39:6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of
gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the
children of Israel.
 
Exodus 39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that
they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 39:8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like
the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen.
 
Exodus 39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate
double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth
thereof, being doubled.
 
Exodus 39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first
row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first
row.
 
Exodus 39:11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond.
 
Exodus 39:12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an
amethyst.
 
Exodus 39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a
jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
 
Exodus 39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the
engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the
twelve tribes.
 
Exodus 39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the
ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
 
Exodus 39:16 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold
rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
 
Exodus 39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in
the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
 
Exodus 39:18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they
fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of
the ephod, before it.
 
Exodus 39:19 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.
 
Exodus 39:20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them
on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of
it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious
girdle of the ephod.
 
Exodus 39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings
unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be
above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate
might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work,
all of blue.
 
Exodus 39:23 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.
 
Exodus 39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe
pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
 
Exodus 39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the
bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round
about between the pomegranates;
 
Exodus 39:26 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.
 
Exodus 39:27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work
for Aaron, and for his sons,
 
Exodus 39:28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of
fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
 
Exodus 39:29 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 39:30 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.
 
Exodus 39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it
on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 39:32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the
tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
 
Exodus 39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the
tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars,
and his pillars, and his sockets,
 
Exodus 39:34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the
covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
 
Exodus 39:35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof,
and the mercy seat,
 
Exodus 39:36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the
shewbread,
 
Exodus 39:37 The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even
with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof,
and the oil for light,
 
Exodus 39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and
the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
 
Exodus 39:39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his
staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
 
Exodus 39:40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his
sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his
pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for
the tent of the congregation,
 
Exodus 39:41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy
place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons'
garments, to minister in the priest's office.
 
Exodus 39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so
the children of Israel made all the work.
 
Exodus 39:43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold,
they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done
it: and Moses blessed them.
 
Exodus 40:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Exodus 40:2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set
up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
 
Exodus 40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the
testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
 
Exodus 40:4 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.
 
Exodus 40:5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the
incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of
the door to the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 40:6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering
before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation.
 
Exodus 40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of
the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
 
Exodus 40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and
hang up the hanging at the court gate.
 
Exodus 40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint
the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and
all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
 
Exodus 40:10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt
offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it
shall be an altar most holy.
 
Exodus 40:11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and
sanctify it.
 
Exodus 40:12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with
water.
 
Exodus 40:13 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.
 
Exodus 40:14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them
with coats:
 
Exodus 40:15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint
their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting
priesthood throughout their generations.
 
Exodus 40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD
commanded him, so did he.
 
Exodus 40:17 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.
 
Exodus 40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened
his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars
thereof, and reared up his pillars.
 
Exodus 40:19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle,
and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark,
and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon
the ark:
 
Exodus 40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and
set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the
testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:22 And he put the table in the tent of the
congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without
the vail.
 
Exodus 40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the
LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the
congregation, over against the table, on the side of the
tabernacle southward.
 
Exodus 40:25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the
congregation before the vail:
 
Exodus 40:27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the
tabernacle.
 
Exodus 40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door
of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered
upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of the
congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
 
Exodus 40:31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their
hands and their feet thereat:
 
Exodus 40:32 When they went into the tent of the congregation,
and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Exodus 40:33 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.
 
Exodus 40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation,
and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
 
Exodus 40:35 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.
 
Exodus 40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their
journeys:
 
Exodus 40:37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they
journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
 
Exodus 40:38 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.
 
Leviticus 1:1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto
him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
 
Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall
bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the
flock.
 
Leviticus 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd,
let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his
own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 1:4 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.
 
Leviticus 1:5 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.
 
Leviticus 1:6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it
into his pieces.
 
Leviticus 1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire
upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
 
Leviticus 1:8 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:
 
Leviticus 1:9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in
water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 1:10 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.
 
Leviticus 1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar
northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall
sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
 
Leviticus 1:12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his
head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the
wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
 
Leviticus 1:13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with
water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the
altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 1:14 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.
 
Leviticus 1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar,
and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood
thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
 
Leviticus 1:16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his
feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the
place of the ashes:
 
Leviticus 1:17 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.
 
Leviticus 2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the
LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil
upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
 
Leviticus 2:2 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:
 
Leviticus 2:3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings
of the LORD made by fire.
 
Leviticus 2:4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering
baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
 
Leviticus 2:5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a
pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
 
Leviticus 2:6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil
thereon: it is a meat offering.
 
Leviticus 2:7 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in
the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
 
Leviticus 2:8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is
made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto
the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
 
Leviticus 2:9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering
a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 2:10 And that which is left of the meat offering
shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire.
 
Leviticus 2:11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the
LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor
any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
 
Leviticus 2:12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall
offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the
altar for a sweet savour.
 
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt
thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the
covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with
all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
 
Leviticus 2:14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy
firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering
of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even
corn beaten out of full ears.
 
Leviticus 2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay
frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
 
Leviticus 2:16 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.
 
Leviticus 3:1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace
offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or
female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his
offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the
blood upon the altar round about.
 
Leviticus 3:3 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,
 
Leviticus 3:4 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.
 
Leviticus 3:5 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.
 
Leviticus 3:6 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.
 
Leviticus 3:7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall
he offer it before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his
offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation:
and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about
upon the altar.
 
Leviticus 3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace
offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof,
and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone;
and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is
upon the inwards,
 
Leviticus 3:10 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.
 
Leviticus 3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it
is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 3:12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall
offer it before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 3:13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it,
and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the
sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar
round about.
 
Leviticus 3:14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
 
Leviticus 3:15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon
them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away.
 
Leviticus 3:16 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.
 
Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your
generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither
fat nor blood.
 
Leviticus 4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments
of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and
shall do against any of them:
 
Leviticus 4:3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according
to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which
he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for
a sin offering.
 
Leviticus 4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay
his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 4:5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the
bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the
congregation:
 
Leviticus 4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood,
and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the
vail of the sanctuary.
 
Leviticus 4:7 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.
 
Leviticus 4:8 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,
 
Leviticus 4:9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon
them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away,
 
Leviticus 4:10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the
sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon
the altar of the burnt offering.
 
Leviticus 4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh,
with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
 
Leviticus 4:12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth
without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured
out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are
poured out shall he be burnt.
 
Leviticus 4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin
through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the
commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be
done, and are guilty;
 
Leviticus 4:14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it,
is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for
the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Leviticus 4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay
their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the
bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 4:16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of
the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
 
Leviticus 4:17 And the priest shall dip his finger in some of
the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even
before the vail.
 
Leviticus 4:18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the
horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the
tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood
at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Leviticus 4:19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn
it upon the altar.
 
Leviticus 4:20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with
the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the
priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven
them.
 
Leviticus 4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the
camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin
offering for the congregation.
 
Leviticus 4:22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat
through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his
God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
 
Leviticus 4:23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to
his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a
male without blemish:
 
Leviticus 4:24 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.
 
Leviticus 4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the
sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the
altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the
bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
 
Leviticus 4:26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as
the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be
forgiven him.
 
Leviticus 4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through
ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the
commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be
done, and be guilty;
 
Leviticus 4:28 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.
 
Leviticus 4:29 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.
 
Leviticus 4:30 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.
 
Leviticus 4:31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as
the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings;
and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour
unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him,
and it shall be forgiven him.
 
Leviticus 4:32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he
shall bring it a female without blemish.
 
Leviticus 4:33 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.
 
Leviticus 4:34 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:
 
Leviticus 4:35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as
the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace
offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar,
according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the
priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath
committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
 
Leviticus 5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of
swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it;
if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
 
Leviticus 5:2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it
be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle,
or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden
from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
 
Leviticus 5:3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever
uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be
hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
 
Leviticus 5:4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to
do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall
pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth
of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
 
Leviticus 5:5 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:
 
Leviticus 5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the
LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a
lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
 
Leviticus 5:7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he
shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
 
Leviticus 5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who
shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring
off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
 
Leviticus 5:9 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.
 
Leviticus 5:10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt
offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall
be forgiven him.
 
Leviticus 5:11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves,
or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his
offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin
offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any
frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
 
Leviticus 5:12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the
priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and
burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire
unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
 
Leviticus 5:13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him
as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it
shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as
a meat offering.
 
Leviticus 5:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through
ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring
for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the
flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
 
Leviticus 5:16 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.
 
Leviticus 5:17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these
things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the
LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his
iniquity.
 
Leviticus 5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of
the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the
priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning
his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be
forgiven him.
 
Leviticus 5:19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly
trespassed against the LORD.
 
Leviticus 6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 6:2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the
LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him
to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence,
or hath deceived his neighbour;
 
Leviticus 6:3 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:
 
Leviticus 6:4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is
guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away,
or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was
delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
 
Leviticus 6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he
shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth
part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth,
in the day of his trespass offering.
 
Leviticus 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the
LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy
estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
 
Leviticus 6:7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him
before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of
all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
 
Leviticus 6:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the
law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of
the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the
fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
 
Leviticus 6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment,
and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up
the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on
the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
 
Leviticus 6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on
other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a
clean place.
 
Leviticus 6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in
it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it
every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and
he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
 
Leviticus 6:13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar;
it shall never go out.
 
Leviticus 6:14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the
sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
 
Leviticus 6:15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the
flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the
frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it
upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto
the LORD.
 
Leviticus 6:16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his
sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy
place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they
shall eat it.
 
Leviticus 6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given
it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it
is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass
offering.
 
Leviticus 6:18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall
eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations
concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that
toucheth them shall be holy.
 
Leviticus 6:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 6:20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons,
which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is
anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat
offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof
at night.
 
Leviticus 6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it
is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the
meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 6:22 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.
 
Leviticus 6:23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be
wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
 
Leviticus 6:24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 6:25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This
is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt
offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the
LORD: it is most holy.
 
Leviticus 6:26 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.
 
Leviticus 6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall
be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon
any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the
holy place.
 
Leviticus 6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden
shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be
both scoured, and rinsed in water.
 
Leviticus 6:29 All the males among the priests shall eat
thereof: it is most holy.
 
Leviticus 6:30 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.
 
Leviticus 7:1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass
offering: it is most holy.
 
Leviticus 7:2 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.
 
Leviticus 7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the
rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
 
Leviticus 7:4 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:
 
Leviticus 7:5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for
an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass
offering.
 
Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof:
it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
 
Leviticus 7:7 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.
 
Leviticus 7:8 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.
 
Leviticus 7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the
oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan,
shall be the priest's that offereth it.
 
Leviticus 7:10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and
dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
 
Leviticus 7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall
offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled
with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes
mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
 
Leviticus 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his
offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his
peace offerings.
 
Leviticus 7:14 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.
 
Leviticus 7:15 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.
 
Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow,
or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he
offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of
it shall be eaten:
 
Leviticus 7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice
on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
 
Leviticus 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his
peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be
accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it:
it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall
bear his iniquity.
 
Leviticus 7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing
shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the
flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
 
Leviticus 7:20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having
his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from
his people.
 
Leviticus 7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean
thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any
abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice
of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul
shall be cut off from his people.
 
Leviticus 7:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye
shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
 
Leviticus 7:24 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.
 
Leviticus 7:25 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.
 
Leviticus 7:26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood,
whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
 
Leviticus 7:27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of
blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
 
Leviticus 7:28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He
that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD
shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his
peace offerings.
 
Leviticus 7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring,
that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the
altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
 
Leviticus 7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the
priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace
offerings.
 
Leviticus 7:33 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.
 
Leviticus 7:34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have
I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of
their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest
and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children
of Israel.
 
Leviticus 7:35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron,
and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister
unto the LORD in the priest's office;
 
Leviticus 7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the
children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a
statute for ever throughout their generations.
 
Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the
meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass
offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the
peace offerings;
 
Leviticus 7:38 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.
 
Leviticus 8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 8:2 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;
 
Leviticus 8:3 And gather thou all the congregation together
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Leviticus 8:4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the
assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
 
Leviticus 8:5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the
thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
 
Leviticus 8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed
them with water.
 
Leviticus 8:7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with
the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon
him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and
bound it unto him therewith.
 
Leviticus 8:8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put
in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
 
Leviticus 8:9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the
mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the
holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Leviticus 8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed
the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
 
Leviticus 8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven
times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver
and his foot, to sanctify them.
 
Leviticus 8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's
head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
 
Leviticus 8:13 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.
 
Leviticus 8:14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering:
and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
bullock for the sin offering.
 
Leviticus 8:15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and
put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger,
and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the
altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
 
Leviticus 8:16 And he took all the fat that was upon the
inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and
their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.
 
Leviticus 8:17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and
his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Leviticus 8:18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering:
and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
 
Leviticus 8:19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about.
 
Leviticus 8:20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt
the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
 
Leviticus 8:21 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.
 
Leviticus 8:22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of
consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the
head of the ram.
 
Leviticus 8:23 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.
 
Leviticus 8:24 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.
 
Leviticus 8:25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the
fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and
the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
 
Leviticus 8:26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that
was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the
right shoulder:
 
Leviticus 8:27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his
sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and
burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were
consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire
unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a
wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it
was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Leviticus 8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the
blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and
upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments
with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons,
and his sons' garments with him.
 
Leviticus 8:31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil
the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of
consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall
eat it.
 
Leviticus 8:32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the
bread shall ye burn with fire.
 
Leviticus 8:33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of
your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he
consecrate you.
 
Leviticus 8:34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath
commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
 
Leviticus 8:35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep
the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
 
Leviticus 8:36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the
LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
 
Leviticus 9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses
called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
 
Leviticus 9:2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf
for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without
blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 9:3 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;
 
Leviticus 9:4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to
sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil:
for to day the LORD will appear unto you.
 
Leviticus 9:5 And they brought that which Moses commanded
before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the
congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 9:6 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.
 
Leviticus 9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and
offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an
atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering
of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD
commanded.
 
Leviticus 9:8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the
calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
 
Leviticus 9:9 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:
 
Leviticus 9:10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above
the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
 
Leviticus 9:11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire
without the camp.
 
Leviticus 9:12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons
presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon
the altar.
 
Leviticus 9:13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him,
with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the
altar.
 
Leviticus 9:14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and
burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
 
Leviticus 9:15 And he brought the people's offering, and took
the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it,
and offered it for sin, as the first.
 
Leviticus 9:16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered
it according to the manner.
 
Leviticus 9:17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an
handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt
sacrifice of the morning.
 
Leviticus 9:18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a
sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and
Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled
upon the altar round about,
 
Leviticus 9:19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the
rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and
the caul above the liver:
 
Leviticus 9:20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he
burnt the fat upon the altar:
 
Leviticus 9:21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron
waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
 
Leviticus 9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people,
and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin
offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
 
Leviticus 9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of
the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the
glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
 
Leviticus 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD,
and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which
when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
 
Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took
either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense
thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he
commanded them not.
 
Leviticus 10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and
devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the
LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh
me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held
his peace.
 
Leviticus 10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons
of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near,
carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
 
Leviticus 10:5 So they went near, and carried them in their
coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
 
Leviticus 10:6 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.
 
Leviticus 10:7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing
oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word
of Moses.
 
Leviticus 10:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
 
Leviticus 10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor
thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations:
 
Leviticus 10:10 And that ye may put difference between holy and
unholy, and between unclean and clean;
 
Leviticus 10:11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel
all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand
of Moses.
 
Leviticus 10:12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar
and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering
that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat
it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
 
Leviticus 10:13 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.
 
Leviticus 10:14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye
eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with
thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out
of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
 
Leviticus 10:15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall
they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it
for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and
thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath
commanded.
 
Leviticus 10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin
offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with
Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive,
saying,
 
Leviticus 10:17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in
the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you
to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for
them before the LORD?
 
Leviticus 10:18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in
within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy
place, as I commanded.
 
Leviticus 10:19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day
have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering
before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and if I had
eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in
the sight of the LORD?
 
Leviticus 10:20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.
 
Leviticus 11:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron,
saying unto them,
 
Leviticus 11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These
are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are
on the earth.
 
Leviticus 11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is
clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall
ye eat.
 
Leviticus 11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that
chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel,
because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is
unclean unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but
divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but
divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be
clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
 
Leviticus 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their
carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
 
Leviticus 11:9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the
waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the
seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
 
Leviticus 11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the
seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of
any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an
abomination unto you:
 
Leviticus 11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye
shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in
abomination.
 
Leviticus 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the
waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:13 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,
 
Leviticus 11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
 
Leviticus 11:15 Every raven after his kind;
 
Leviticus 11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the
cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
 
Leviticus 11:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the
great owl,
 
Leviticus 11:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier
eagle,
 
Leviticus 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and
the lapwing, and the bat.
 
Leviticus 11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four,
shall be an abomination unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping
thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet,
to leap withal upon the earth;
 
Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after
his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle
after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
 
Leviticus 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which
have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever
toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 11:25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of
them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 11:26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the
hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean
unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
 
Leviticus 11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all
manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you:
whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 11:28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean
unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the
creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the
mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
 
Leviticus 11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the
lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
 
Leviticus 11:31 These are unclean to you among all that creep:
whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean
until the even.
 
Leviticus 11:32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are
dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of
wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be,
wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall
be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
 
Leviticus 11:33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them
falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break
it.
 
Leviticus 11:34 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.
 
Leviticus 11:35 And every thing whereupon any part of their
carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges
for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean and
shall be unclean unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there
is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their
carcase shall be unclean.
 
Leviticus 11:37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any
sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
 
Leviticus 11:38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any
part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
 
Leviticus 11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he
that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the
even.
 
Leviticus 11:40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that
beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even.
 
Leviticus 11:41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
 
Leviticus 11:42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever
goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all
creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat;
for they are an abomination.
 
Leviticus 11:43 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.
 
Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore
sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither
shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
 
Leviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy,
for I am holy.
 
Leviticus 11:46 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:
 
Leviticus 11:47 To make a difference between the unclean and
the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast
that may not be eaten.
 
Leviticus 12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 12:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall
be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation
for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
 
Leviticus 12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin
shall be circumcised.
 
Leviticus 12:4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her
purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed
thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her
purifying be fulfilled.
 
Leviticus 12:5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be
unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue
in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
 
Leviticus 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are
fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb
of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a
turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, unto the priest:
 
Leviticus 12:7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an
atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of
her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a
female.
 
Leviticus 12:8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she
shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the
burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest
shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
 
Leviticus 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
 
Leviticus 13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a
rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his
flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto
Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
 
Leviticus 13:3 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.
 
Leviticus 13:4 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:
 
Leviticus 13:5 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:
 
Leviticus 13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the
seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the
plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him
clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be
clean.
 
Leviticus 13:7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin,
after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he
shall be seen of the priest again.
 
Leviticus 13:8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab
spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is a leprosy.
 
Leviticus 13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he
shall be brought unto the priest;
 
Leviticus 13:10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if
the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair
white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
 
Leviticus 13:11 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.
 
Leviticus 13:12 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;
 
Leviticus 13:13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if
the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him
clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
 
Leviticus 13:14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall
be unclean.
 
Leviticus 13:15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and
pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is
a leprosy.
 
Leviticus 13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed
unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
 
Leviticus 13:17 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.
 
Leviticus 13:18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin
thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
 
Leviticus 13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a white
rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be
shewed to the priest;
 
Leviticus 13:20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be
in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned
white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of
leprosy broken out of the boil.
 
Leviticus 13:21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold,
there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the
skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days:
 
Leviticus 13:22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
 
Leviticus 13:23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and
spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce
him clean.
 
Leviticus 13:24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof
there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a
white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
 
Leviticus 13:25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and,
behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be
in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the
burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is
the plague of leprosy.
 
Leviticus 13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold,
there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower
than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall
shut him up seven days:
 
Leviticus 13:27 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.
 
Leviticus 13:28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and
spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising
of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it
is an inflammation of the burning.
 
Leviticus 13:29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head
or the beard;
 
Leviticus 13:30 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.
 
Leviticus 13:31 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:
 
Leviticus 13:32 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;
 
Leviticus 13:33 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:
 
Leviticus 13:34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on
the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin,
nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall
pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
 
Leviticus 13:35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after
his cleansing;
 
Leviticus 13:36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold,
if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for
yellow hair; he is unclean.
 
Leviticus 13:37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and
that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed,
he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
 
Leviticus 13:38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of
their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
 
Leviticus 13:39 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.
 
Leviticus 13:40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head,
he is bald; yet is he clean.
 
Leviticus 13:41 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.
 
Leviticus 13:42 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.
 
Leviticus 13:43 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;
 
Leviticus 13:44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest
shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
 
Leviticus 13:45 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.
 
Leviticus 13:46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him
he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without
the camp shall his habitation be.
 
Leviticus 13:47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is
in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
 
Leviticus 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;
 
Leviticus 13:49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the
garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be
shewed unto the priest:
 
Leviticus 13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and
shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
 
Leviticus 13:51 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.
 
Leviticus 13:52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether
warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin,
wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be
burnt in the fire.
 
Leviticus 13:53 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;
 
Leviticus 13:54 Then the priest shall command that they wash
the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven
days more:
 
Leviticus 13:55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after
that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed
his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou
shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare
within or without.
 
Leviticus 13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague
be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it
out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or
out of the woof:
 
Leviticus 13:57 And if it appear still in the garment, either
in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a
spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with
fire.
 
Leviticus 13:58 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.
 
Leviticus 13:59 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.
 
Leviticus 14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of
his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
 
Leviticus 14:3 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;
 
Leviticus 14:4 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:
 
Leviticus 14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the
birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
 
Leviticus 14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and
the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip
them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed
over the running water:
 
Leviticus 14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be
cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him
clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
 
Leviticus 14:8 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.
 
Leviticus 14:9 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.
 
Leviticus 14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he
lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without
blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
 
Leviticus 14:11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall
present the man that is to be made clean, and those things,
before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation:
 
Leviticus 14:12 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:
 
Leviticus 14:13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where
he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the
holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the
trespass offering: it is most holy:
 
Leviticus 14:14 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:
 
Leviticus 14:15 And the priest shall take some of the log of
oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
 
Leviticus 14:16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in
the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil
with his finger seven times before the LORD:
 
Leviticus 14:17 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:
 
Leviticus 14:18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the
priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be
cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before
the LORD.
 
Leviticus 14:19 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:
 
Leviticus 14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering
and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make
an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
 
Leviticus 14:21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then
he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to
make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour
mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
 
Leviticus 14:22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such
as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and
the other a burnt offering.
 
Leviticus 14:23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for
his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the
trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave
them for a wave offering before the LORD:
 
Leviticus 14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass
offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the
trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of
him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot:
 
Leviticus 14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the
palm of his own left hand:
 
Leviticus 14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right
finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times
before the LORD:
 
Leviticus 14:28 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:
 
Leviticus 14:29 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.
 
Leviticus 14:30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves,
or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
 
Leviticus 14:31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a
sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat
offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is
to be cleansed before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 14:32 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.
 
Leviticus 14:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
 
Leviticus 14:34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which
I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy
in a house of the land of your possession;
 
Leviticus 14:35 And he that owneth the house shall come and
tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a
plague in the house:
 
Leviticus 14:36 Then the priest shall command that they empty
the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that
all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the
priest shall go in to see the house:
 
Leviticus 14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold,
if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes,
greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
 
Leviticus 14:38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to
the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
 
Leviticus 14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh
day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the
walls of the house;
 
Leviticus 14:40 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:
 
Leviticus 14:41 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:
 
Leviticus 14:42 And they shall take other stones, and put them
in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and
shall plaister the house.
 
Leviticus 14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in
the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he
hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
 
Leviticus 14:44 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.
 
Leviticus 14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones
of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house;
and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean
place.
 
Leviticus 14:46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the
while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 14:47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his
clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
 
Leviticus 14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon
it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after
the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the
house clean, because the plague is healed.
 
Leviticus 14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two
birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
 
Leviticus 14:50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an
earthen vessel over running water:
 
Leviticus 14:51 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:
 
Leviticus 14:52 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:
 
Leviticus 14:53 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.
 
Leviticus 14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of
leprosy, and scall,
 
Leviticus 14:55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a
house,
 
Leviticus 14:56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a
bright spot:
 
Leviticus 14:57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is
clean: this is the law of leprosy.
 
Leviticus 15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
 
Leviticus 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because
of his issue he is unclean.
 
Leviticus 15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue:
whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped
from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
 
Leviticus 15:4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue,
is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be
unclean.
 
Leviticus 15:5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
 
Leviticus 15:6 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.
 
Leviticus 15:7 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.
 
Leviticus 15:8 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.
 
Leviticus 15:9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath
the issue shall be unclean.
 
Leviticus 15:10 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.
 
Leviticus 15:11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue,
and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
 
Leviticus 15:12 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.
 
Leviticus 15:13 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.
 
Leviticus 15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them
unto the priest:
 
Leviticus 15:15 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.
 
Leviticus 15:16 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.
 
Leviticus 15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is
the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be
unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with
seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water,
and be unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 15:19 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.
 
Leviticus 15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her
separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth
upon shall be unclean.
 
Leviticus 15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
 
Leviticus 15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat
upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 15:23 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.
 
Leviticus 15:24 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.
 
Leviticus 15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many
days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the
time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her
uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be
unclean.
 
Leviticus 15:26 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.
 
Leviticus 15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be
unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even.
 
Leviticus 15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she
shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be
clean.
 
Leviticus 15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her
two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the
priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Leviticus 15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of
her uncleanness.
 
Leviticus 15:31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel
from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness,
when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
 
Leviticus 15:32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and
of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
 
Leviticus 15:33 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.
 
Leviticus 16:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of
the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and
died;
 
Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron
thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place
within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark;
that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy
seat.
 
Leviticus 16:3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with
a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering.
 
Leviticus 16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he
shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded
with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be
attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his
flesh in water, and so put them on.
 
Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the
children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and
one ram for a burnt offering.
 
Leviticus 16:6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin
offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for
himself, and for his house.
 
Leviticus 16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and present
them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 
Leviticus 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats;
one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
 
Leviticus 16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the
LORD's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
 
Leviticus 16:10 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.
 
Leviticus 16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin
offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for
himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin
offering which is for himself:
 
Leviticus 16:12 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:
 
Leviticus 16:13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire
before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the
mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
 
Leviticus 16:14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock,
and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and
before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his
finger seven times.
 
Leviticus 16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin
offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the
vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the
bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the
mercy seat:
 
Leviticus 16:16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy
place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and
because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall
he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth
among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
 
Leviticus 16:17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of
the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the
holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for
himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of
Israel.
 
Leviticus 16:18 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.
 
Leviticus 16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with
his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
 
Leviticus 16:20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the
holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the
altar, he shall bring the live goat:
 
Leviticus 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the
head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their
sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him
away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
 
Leviticus 16:22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their
iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the
goat in the wilderness.
 
Leviticus 16:23 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:
 
Leviticus 16:24 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.
 
Leviticus 16:25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn
upon the altar.
 
Leviticus 16:26 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.
 
Leviticus 16:27 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.
 
Leviticus 16:28 And he that burneth them shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall
come into the camp.
 
Leviticus 16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you:
that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye
shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be
one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
 
Leviticus 16:30 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.
 
Leviticus 16:31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye
shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
 
Leviticus 16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom
he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his
father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the
linen clothes, even the holy garments:
 
Leviticus 16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy
sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of
the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an
atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the
congregation.
 
Leviticus 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto
you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all
their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Leviticus 17:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 17:2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto
all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing
which the LORD hath commanded, saying,
 
Leviticus 17:3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel,
that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that
killeth it out of the camp,
 
Leviticus 17:4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the
LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed
unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off
from among his people:
 
Leviticus 17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring
their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that
they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them
for peace offerings unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 17:6 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.
 
Leviticus 17:7 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.
 
Leviticus 17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man
there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which
sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
 
Leviticus 17:9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even
that man shall be cut off from among his people.
 
Leviticus 17:10 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.
 
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and
I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for
your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the
soul.
 
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel,
No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that
sojourneth among you eat blood.
 
Leviticus 17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth
and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even
pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
 
Leviticus 17:14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of
it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of
Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the
life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall
be cut off.
 
Leviticus 17:15 And every soul that eateth that which died of
itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of
your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then
shall he be clean.
 
Leviticus 17:16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh;
then he shall bear his iniquity.
 
Leviticus 18:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein
ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of
Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye
walk in their ordinances.
 
Leviticus 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine
ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my
judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near
of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 18:7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of
thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt
not uncover her nakedness.
 
Leviticus 18:8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou
not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
 
Leviticus 18:9 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.
 
Leviticus 18:10 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.
 
Leviticus 18:11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter,
begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover
her nakedness.
 
Leviticus 18:12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
 
Leviticus 18:13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
 
Leviticus 18:14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is
thine aunt.
 
Leviticus 18:15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover
her nakedness.
 
Leviticus 18:16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
 
Leviticus 18:17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman
and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or
her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are
her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
 
Leviticus 18:18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister,
to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her
life time.
 
Leviticus 18:19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to
uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her
uncleanness.
 
Leviticus 18:20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy
neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
 
Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass
through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name
of thy God: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind: it is abomination.
 
Leviticus 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile
thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast
to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
 
Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these
things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out
before you:
 
Leviticus 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit
the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out
her inhabitants.
 
Leviticus 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my
judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations;
neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth
among you:
 
Leviticus 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the
land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
 
Leviticus 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye
defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
 
Leviticus 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these
abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off
from among their people.
 
Leviticus 18:30 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.
 
Leviticus 19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 19:2 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.
 
Leviticus 19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his
father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 19:4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves
molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 19:5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
 
Leviticus 19:6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and
on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall
be burnt in the fire.
 
Leviticus 19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it
is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
 
Leviticus 19:8 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.
 
Leviticus 19:9 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.
 
Leviticus 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither
shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave
them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely,
neither lie one to another.
 
Leviticus 19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely,
neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 19:13 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.
 
Leviticus 19:14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a
stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment:
thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the
person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy
neighbour.
 
Leviticus 19:16 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.
 
Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin
upon him.
 
Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge
against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 19:19 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.
 
Leviticus 19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that
is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed,
nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be
put to death, because she was not free.
 
Leviticus 19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto
the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
even a ram for a trespass offering.
 
Leviticus 19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him
with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin
which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be
forgiven him.
 
Leviticus 19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall
have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count
the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
 
Leviticus 19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof
shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.
 
Leviticus 19:25 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.
 
Leviticus 19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood:
neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
 
Leviticus 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads,
neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
 
Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh
for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to
be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become
full of wickedness.
 
Leviticus 19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits,
neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD
your God.
 
Leviticus 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and
honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your
land, ye shall not vex him.
 
Leviticus 19:34 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.
 
Leviticus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
 
Leviticus 19:36 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.
 
Leviticus 19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and
all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 20:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel,
Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones.
 
Leviticus 20:3 And I will set my face against that man, and
will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of
his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my
holy name.
 
Leviticus 20:4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide
their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech,
and kill him not:
 
Leviticus 20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and
against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a
whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among
their people.
 
Leviticus 20:6 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.
 
Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy:
for I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am
the LORD which sanctify you.
 
Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his
mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or
his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
 
Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with
another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his
neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely
be put to death.
 
Leviticus 20:11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife
hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely
be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
 
Leviticus 20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both
of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought
confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
 
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth
with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they
shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
 
Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is
wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that
there be no wickedness among you.
 
Leviticus 20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely
be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
 
Leviticus 20:16 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.
 
Leviticus 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his
father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her
nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and
they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath
uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
 
Leviticus 20:18 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.
 
Leviticus 20:19 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.
 
Leviticus 20:20 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.
 
Leviticus 20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it
is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness;
they shall be childless.
 
Leviticus 20:22 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.
 
Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the
nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these
things, and therefore I abhorred them.
 
Leviticus 20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit
their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land
that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which
have separated you from other people.
 
Leviticus 20:25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean
beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye
shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by
any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I
have separated from you as unclean.
 
Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am
holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be
mine.
 
Leviticus 20:27 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.
 
Leviticus 21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the
priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be
defiled for the dead among his people:
 
Leviticus 21:2 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.
 
Leviticus 21:3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto
him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
 
Leviticus 21:4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief
man among his people, to profane himself.
 
Leviticus 21:5 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.
 
Leviticus 21:6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not
profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made
by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore
they shall be holy.
 
Leviticus 21:7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or
profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her
husband: for he is holy unto his God.
 
Leviticus 21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he
offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I
the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
 
Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane
herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall
be burnt with fire.
 
Leviticus 21:10 And he that is the high priest among his
brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that
is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his
head, nor rend his clothes;
 
Leviticus 21:11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor
defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
 
Leviticus 21:12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor
profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing
oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
 
Leviticus 21:14 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.
 
Leviticus 21:15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his
people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
 
Leviticus 21:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of
thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not
approach to offer the bread of his God.
 
Leviticus 21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish,
he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a
flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
 
Leviticus 21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
 
Leviticus 21:20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a
blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones
broken;
 
Leviticus 21:21 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.
 
Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the
most holy, and of the holy.
 
Leviticus 21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come
nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane
not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
 
Leviticus 21:24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel.
 
Leviticus 22:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 22:2 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.
 
Leviticus 22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed
among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which
the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his
uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my
presence: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper,
or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things,
until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean
by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
 
Leviticus 22:5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing,
whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take
uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
 
Leviticus 22:6 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.
 
Leviticus 22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and
shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
 
Leviticus 22:8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with
beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 22:9 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.
 
Leviticus 22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing:
a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of
the holy thing.
 
Leviticus 22:11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money,
he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall
eat of his meat.
 
Leviticus 22:12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a
stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
 
Leviticus 22:13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or
divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's
house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but
there shall be no stranger eat thereof.
 
Leviticus 22:14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly,
then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give
it unto the priest with the holy thing.
 
Leviticus 22:15 And they shall not profane the holy things of
the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
 
Leviticus 22:16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of
trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do
sanctify them.
 
Leviticus 22:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all
the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of
the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will
offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill
offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt
offering;
 
Leviticus 22:19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without
blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
 
Leviticus 22:20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye
not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
 
Leviticus 22:21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill
offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted;
there shall be no blemish therein.
 
Leviticus 22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen,
or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD,
nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing
superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a
freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
 
Leviticus 22:24 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.
 
Leviticus 22:25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer
the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption
is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted
for you.
 
Leviticus 22:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is
brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and
from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 22:28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not
kill it and her young both in one day.
 
Leviticus 22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of
thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
 
Leviticus 22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall
leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do
them: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 22:32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I
will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD
which hallow you,
 
Leviticus 22:33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to
be your God: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 23:2 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.
 
Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day
is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
 
Leviticus 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy
convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
 
Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even
is the LORD's passover.
 
Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is
the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must
eat unleavened bread.
 
Leviticus 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
 
Leviticus 23:8 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.
 
Leviticus 23:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and
shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of
the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
 
Leviticus 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to
be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest
shall wave it.
 
Leviticus 23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the
sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt
offering unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two
tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by
fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering
thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
 
Leviticus 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched
corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought
an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
 
Leviticus 23:15 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:
 
Leviticus 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath
shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat
offering unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave
loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they
shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the
LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs
without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two
rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with
their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering
made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats
for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a
sacrifice of peace offerings.
 
Leviticus 23:20 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.
 
Leviticus 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that
it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile
work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
 
Leviticus 23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou
shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when
thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy
harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the
stranger: I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In
the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a
sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
 
Leviticus 23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month
there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for
it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the
LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be
afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his
people.
 
Leviticus 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work
in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his
people.
 
Leviticus 23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a
statute for ever throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
 
Leviticus 23:32 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.
 
Leviticus 23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The
fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of
tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation:
ye shall do no servile work therein.
 
Leviticus 23:36 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.
 
Leviticus 23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made
by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a
sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
 
Leviticus 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside
your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your
freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a
sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
 
Leviticus 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the
boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of
thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice
before the LORD your God seven days.
 
Leviticus 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD
seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your
generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
 
Leviticus 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that
are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
 
Leviticus 23:43 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.
 
Leviticus 23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel
the feasts of the LORD.
 
Leviticus 24:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring
unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps
to burn continually.
 
Leviticus 24:3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the
tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the
evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be
a statute for ever in your generations.
 
Leviticus 24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure
candlestick before the LORD continually.
 
Leviticus 24:5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve
cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
 
Leviticus 24:6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a
row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
 
Leviticus 24:7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each
row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering
made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 24:8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before
the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by
an everlasting covenant.
 
Leviticus 24:9 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.
 
Leviticus 24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose
father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel:
and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove
together in the camp;
 
Leviticus 24:11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the
name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses:
(and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of
the tribe of Dan:)
 
Leviticus 24:12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the
LORD might be shewed them.
 
Leviticus 24:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 24:14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the
camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head,
and let all the congregation stone him.
 
Leviticus 24:15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
 
Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD,
he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall
certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in
the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put
to death.
 
Leviticus 24:17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put
to death.
 
Leviticus 24:18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good;
beast for beast.
 
Leviticus 24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour;
as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
 
Leviticus 24:20 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.
 
Leviticus 24:21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore
it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
 
Leviticus 24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for
the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD
your God.
 
Leviticus 24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that
they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and
stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Leviticus 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai,
saying,
 
Leviticus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the
land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six
years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit
thereof;
 
Leviticus 25:4 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.
 
Leviticus 25:5 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.
 
Leviticus 25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for
you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy
hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
 
Leviticus 25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are
in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
 
Leviticus 25:8 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.
 
Leviticus 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile
to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of
atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your
land.
 
Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and
proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every
man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his
family.
 
Leviticus 25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you:
ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in
it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
 
Leviticus 25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto
you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
 
Leviticus 25:13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return
every man unto his possession.
 
Leviticus 25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or
buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one
another:
 
Leviticus 25:15 According to the number of years after the
jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the
number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
 
Leviticus 25:16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt
increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years
thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number
of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
 
Leviticus 25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but
thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
 
Leviticus 25:19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye
shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
 
Leviticus 25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the
seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our
increase:
 
Leviticus 25:21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the
sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
 
Leviticus 25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet
of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye
shall eat of the old store.
 
Leviticus 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the
land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
 
Leviticus 25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall
grant a redemption for the land.
 
Leviticus 25:25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold
away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem
it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
 
Leviticus 25:26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and
himself be able to redeem it;
 
Leviticus 25:27 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.
 
Leviticus 25:28 But if he be not able to restore it to him,
then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath
bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go
out, and he shall return unto his possession.
 
Leviticus 25:29 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.
 
Leviticus 25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a
full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be
established for ever to him that bought it throughout his
generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
 
Leviticus 25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no
wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the
country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the
jubile.
 
Leviticus 25:32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and
the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites
redeem at any time.
 
Leviticus 25:33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the
house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out
in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the
Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
 
Leviticus 25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities
may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
 
Leviticus 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in
decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a
stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
 
Leviticus 25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but
fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
 
Leviticus 25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury,
nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
 
Leviticus 25:38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth
out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to
be your God.
 
Leviticus 25:39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be
waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to
serve as a bondservant:
 
Leviticus 25:40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he
shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
 
Leviticus 25:41 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.
 
Leviticus 25:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth
out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
 
Leviticus 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but
shalt fear thy God.
 
Leviticus 25:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou
shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of
them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
 
Leviticus 25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that
do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families
that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall
be your possession.
 
Leviticus 25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for
your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they
shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the
children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with
rigour.
 
Leviticus 25:47 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:
 
Leviticus 25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again;
one of his brethren may redeem him:
 
Leviticus 25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may
redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may
redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
 
Leviticus 25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him
from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile:
and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of
years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with
him.
 
Leviticus 25:51 If there be yet many years behind, according
unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of
the money that he was bought for.
 
Leviticus 25:52 And if there remain but few years unto the year
of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his
years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
 
Leviticus 25:53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with
him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy
sight.
 
Leviticus 25:54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then
he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children
with him.
 
Leviticus 25:55 For unto me the children of Israel are
servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image,
neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any
image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the
LORD your God.
 
Leviticus 26:2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them;
 
Leviticus 26:4 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.
 
Leviticus 26:5 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.
 
Leviticus 26:6 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.
 
Leviticus 26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall
fall before you by the sword.
 
Leviticus 26:8 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.
 
Leviticus 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you
fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
 
Leviticus 26:10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the
old because of the new.
 
Leviticus 26:11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul
shall not abhor you.
 
Leviticus 26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your
God, and ye shall be my people.
 
Leviticus 26:13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth
out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen;
and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go
upright.
 
Leviticus 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will
not do all these commandments;
 
Leviticus 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your
soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my
commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
 
Leviticus 26:16 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.
 
Leviticus 26:17 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.
 
Leviticus 26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
 
Leviticus 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I
will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
 
Leviticus 26:20 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.
 
Leviticus 26:21 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.
 
Leviticus 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which
shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make
you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
 
Leviticus 26:23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these
things, but will walk contrary unto me;
 
Leviticus 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and
will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
 
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall
avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered
together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among
you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
 
Leviticus 26:26 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.
 
Leviticus 26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto
me, but walk contrary unto me;
 
Leviticus 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in
fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
 
Leviticus 26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and
the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
 
Leviticus 26:30 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.
 
Leviticus 26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring
your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour
of your sweet odours.
 
Leviticus 26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and
your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
 
Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and
will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,
and your cities waste.
 
Leviticus 26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long
as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then
shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
 
Leviticus 26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest;
because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
 
Leviticus 26:36 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.
 
Leviticus 26:37 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.
 
Leviticus 26:38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the
land of your enemies shall eat you up.
 
Leviticus 26:39 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.
 
Leviticus 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the
iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary
unto me;
 
Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them,
and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then
their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of
the punishment of their iniquity:
 
Leviticus 26:42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob,
and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
 
Leviticus 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall
enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and
they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,
even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul
abhorred my statutes.
 
Leviticus 26:44 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.
 
Leviticus 26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the
covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land
of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God:
I am the LORD.
 
Leviticus 26:46 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.
 
Leviticus 27:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Leviticus 27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be
for the LORD by thy estimation.
 
Leviticus 27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from
twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation
shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the
sanctuary.
 
Leviticus 27:4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall
be thirty shekels.
 
Leviticus 27:5 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.
 
Leviticus 27:6 And if it be from a month old even unto five
years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels
of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three
shekels of silver.
 
Leviticus 27:7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if
it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and
for the female ten shekels.
 
Leviticus 27:8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he
shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall
value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest
value him.
 
Leviticus 27:9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an
offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the
LORD shall be holy.
 
Leviticus 27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good
for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change
beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
 
Leviticus 27:11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they
do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the
beast before the priest:
 
Leviticus 27:12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be
good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it
be.
 
Leviticus 27:13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall
add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
 
Leviticus 27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be
holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it
be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it
stand.
 
Leviticus 27:15 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.
 
Leviticus 27:16 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.
 
Leviticus 27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of
jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
 
Leviticus 27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile,
then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the
years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall
be abated from thy estimation.
 
Leviticus 27:19 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.
 
Leviticus 27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he
have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any
more.
 
Leviticus 27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile,
shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession
thereof shall be the priest's.
 
Leviticus 27:22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field
which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his
possession;
 
Leviticus 27:23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth
of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall
give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 27:24 In the year of the jubile the field shall
return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the
possession of the land did belong.
 
Leviticus 27:25 And all thy estimations shall be according to
the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
 
Leviticus 27:26 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.
 
Leviticus 27:27 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.
 
Leviticus 27:28 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.
 
Leviticus 27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men,
shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
 
Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the
seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it
is holy unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his
tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
 
Leviticus 27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the
flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall
be holy unto the LORD.
 
Leviticus 27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad,
neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both
it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be
redeemed.
 
Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
 
Numbers 1:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of
the second month, in the second year after they were come out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
 
Numbers 1:2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their
polls;
 
Numbers 1:3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able
to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by
their armies.
 
Numbers 1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe;
every one head of the house of his fathers.
 
Numbers 1:5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand
with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 
Numbers 1:6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 
Numbers 1:7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 
Numbers 1:8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
 
Numbers 1:9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
 
Numbers 1:10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama
the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 
Numbers 1:11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 
Numbers 1:12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 
Numbers 1:13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 
Numbers 1:14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 
Numbers 1:15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
 
Numbers 1:16 These were the renowned of the congregation,
princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in
Israel.
 
Numbers 1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are
expressed by their names:
 
Numbers 1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together
on the first day of the second month, and they declared their
pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, by their polls.
 
Numbers 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them
in the wilderness of Sinai.
 
Numbers 1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls,
every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able
to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 1:22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that
were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by
their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
 
Numbers 1:24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
 
Numbers 1:26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six
hundred.
 
Numbers 1:28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:29 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 1:30 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;
 
Numbers 1:31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 1:32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children
of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the
house of their fathers, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
 
Numbers 1:33 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:35 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
 
Numbers 1:36 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;
 
Numbers 1:37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four
hundred.
 
Numbers 1:38 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;
 
Numbers 1:39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
 
Numbers 1:40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
 
Numbers 1:43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four
hundred.
 
Numbers 1:44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses
and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men:
each one was for the house of his fathers.
 
Numbers 1:45 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;
 
Numbers 1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
 
Numbers 1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers
were not numbered among them.
 
Numbers 1:48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 1:49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi,
neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
 
Numbers 1:50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the
tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and
over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the
tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister
unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
 
Numbers 1:51 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.
 
Numbers 1:52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their
tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own
standard, throughout their hosts.
 
Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the
tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the
congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall
keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
 
Numbers 1:54 And the children of Israel did according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
 
Numbers 2:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
 
Numbers 2:2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by
his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far
off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
 
Numbers 2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun
shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout
their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain
of the children of Judah.
 
Numbers 2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
 
Numbers 2:5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the
tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain
of the children of Issachar.
 
Numbers 2:6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 2:7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of
Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
 
Numbers 2:8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 2:9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an
hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four
hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
 
Numbers 2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the
camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the
children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 
Numbers 2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 2:12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of
Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 
Numbers 2:13 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
 
Numbers 2:14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons
of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
 
Numbers 2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
 
Numbers 2:16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were
an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred
and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in
the second rank.
 
Numbers 2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set
forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as
they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by
their standards.
 
Numbers 2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp
of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons
of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 
Numbers 2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 2:20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the
captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
 
Numbers 2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
 
Numbers 2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the
sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 
Numbers 2:23 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 2:24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were
an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout
their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
 
Numbers 2:25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the
north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of
Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 
Numbers 2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
 
Numbers 2:27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of
Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel
the son of Ocran.
 
Numbers 2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the
children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
 
Numbers 2:30 And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 2:31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan
were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six
hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
 
Numbers 2:32 These are those which were numbered of the
children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that
were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six
hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
 
Numbers 2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the
children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 2:34 And the children of Israel did according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their
standards, and so they set forward, every one after their
families, according to the house of their fathers.
 
Numbers 3:1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses
in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
 
Numbers 3:2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab
the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 
Numbers 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the
priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in
the priest's office.
 
Numbers 3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they
offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai,
and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
 
Numbers 3:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them
before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
 
Numbers 3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of
the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation,
to do the service of the tabernacle.
 
Numbers 3:8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of
Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
 
Numbers 3:9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to
his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of
Israel.
 
Numbers 3:10 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.
 
Numbers 3:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 3:12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among
the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth
the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites
shall be mine;
 
Numbers 3:13 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.
 
Numbers 3:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, saying,
 
Numbers 3:15 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.
 
Numbers 3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of
the LORD, as he was commanded.
 
Numbers 3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names;
Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
 
Numbers 3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by
their families; Libni, and Shimei.
 
Numbers 3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram,
and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
 
Numbers 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli,
and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the
house of their fathers.
 
Numbers 3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the
family of the Shimites: these are the families of the
Gershonites.
 
Numbers 3:22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the
number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those
that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind
the tabernacle westward.
 
Numbers 3:24 And the chief of the house of the father of the
Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
 
Numbers 3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the
tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the
tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
 
Numbers 3:26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for
the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the
altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service
thereof.
 
Numbers 3:27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and
the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites,
and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the
Kohathites.
 
Numbers 3:28 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.
 
Numbers 3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on
the side of the tabernacle southward.
 
Numbers 3:30 And the chief of the house of the father of the
families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
 
Numbers 3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table,
and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the
sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the
service thereof.
 
Numbers 3:32 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.
 
Numbers 3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the
family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
 
Numbers 3:34 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.
 
Numbers 3:35 And the chief of the house of the father of the
families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall
pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
 
Numbers 3:36 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,
 
Numbers 3:37 And the pillars of the court round about, and
their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
 
Numbers 3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward
the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation
eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the
charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel;
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
 
Numbers 3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses
and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout
their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were
twenty and two thousand.
 
Numbers 3:40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the
firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old
and upward, and take the number of their names.
 
Numbers 3:41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the
LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel;
and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among
the cattle of the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 3:42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all
the firstborn among the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 3:43 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.
 
Numbers 3:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn
among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites
instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the
LORD.
 
Numbers 3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two
hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the
children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
 
Numbers 3:47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the
poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them:
(the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
 
Numbers 3:48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd
number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
 
Numbers 3:49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that
were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
 
Numbers 3:50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he
the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
 
Numbers 3:51 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.
 
Numbers 4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
 
Numbers 4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the
sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their
fathers,
 
Numbers 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty
years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Numbers 4:4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in
the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
 
Numbers 4:5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall
come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail,
and cover the ark of testimony with it:
 
Numbers 4:6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers'
skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall
put in the staves thereof.
 
Numbers 4:7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a
cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and
the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread
shall be thereon:
 
Numbers 4:8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet,
and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall
put in the staves thereof.
 
Numbers 4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the
candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister unto it:
 
Numbers 4:10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof
within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
 
Numbers 4:11 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:
 
Numbers 4:12 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:
 
Numbers 4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar,
and spread a purple cloth thereon:
 
Numbers 4:14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels
thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the
fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of
the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers'
skins, and put to the staves of it.
 
Numbers 4:15 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.
 
Numbers 4:16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense,
and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the
oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in
the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
 
Numbers 4:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron
saying,
 
Numbers 4:18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the
Kohathites from among the Levites:
 
Numbers 4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not
die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his
sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and
to his burden:
 
Numbers 4:20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy
things are covered, lest they die.
 
Numbers 4:21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 4:22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,
throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
 
Numbers 4:23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years
old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the
service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Numbers 4:24 This is the service of the families of the
Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
 
Numbers 4:25 And they shall bear the curtains of the
tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering,
and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and
the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
 
Numbers 4:26 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.
 
Numbers 4:27 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.
 
Numbers 4:28 This is the service of the families of the sons of
Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge
shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 
Numbers 4:29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them
after their families, by the house of their fathers;
 
Numbers 4:30 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into
the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 
Numbers 4:31 And this is the charge of their burden, according
to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the
boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars
thereof, and sockets thereof,
 
Numbers 4:32 And the pillars of the court round about, and
their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their
instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall
reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
 
Numbers 4:33 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.
 
Numbers 4:34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the
congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their
families, and after the house of their fathers,
 
Numbers 4:35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work
in the tabernacle of the congregation:
 
Numbers 4:36 And those that were numbered of them by their
families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
 
Numbers 4:37 These were they that were numbered of the families
of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of
the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to
the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 
Numbers 4:38 And those that were numbered of the sons of
Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their
fathers,
 
Numbers 4:39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work
in the tabernacle of the congregation,
 
Numbers 4:40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout
their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand
and six hundred and thirty.
 
Numbers 4:41 These are they that were numbered of the families
of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD.
 
Numbers 4:42 And those that were numbered of the families of
the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of
their fathers,
 
Numbers 4:43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work
in the tabernacle of the congregation,
 
Numbers 4:44 Even those that were numbered of them after their
families, were three thousand and two hundred.
 
Numbers 4:45 These be those that were numbered of the families
of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to
the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 
Numbers 4:46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom
Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their
families, and after the house of their fathers,
 
Numbers 4:47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry,
and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 
Numbers 4:48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight
thousand and five hundred and fourscore,
 
Numbers 4:49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were
numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his
service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of
him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 5:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 5:2 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:
 
Numbers 5:3 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.
 
Numbers 5:4 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.
 
Numbers 5:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 5:6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or
woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass
against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
 
Numbers 5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have
done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal
thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto
him against whom he hath trespassed.
 
Numbers 5:8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the
trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD,
even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
atonement shall be made for him.
 
Numbers 5:9 And every offering of all the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be
his.
 
Numbers 5:10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his:
whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
 
Numbers 5:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against
him,
 
Numbers 5:13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid
from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be
defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be
taken with the manner;
 
Numbers 5:14 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:
 
Numbers 5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest,
and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an
ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an
offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
 
Numbers 5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her
before the LORD:
 
Numbers 5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen
vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle
the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
 
Numbers 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the
LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of
memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the
priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the
curse:
 
Numbers 5:19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and
say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou
hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy
husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the
curse:
 
Numbers 5:20 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:
 
Numbers 5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an
oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The
LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the
LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
 
Numbers 5:22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go
into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to
rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
 
Numbers 5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book,
and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
 
Numbers 5:24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter
water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
 
Numbers 5:25 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:
 
Numbers 5:26 And the priest shall take an handful of the
offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar,
and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
 
Numbers 5:27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then
it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done
trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly
shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a
curse among her people.
 
Numbers 5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean;
then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
 
Numbers 5:29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth
aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
 
Numbers 5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him,
and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before
the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
 
Numbers 5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and
this woman shall bear her iniquity.
 
Numbers 6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 6:2 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:
 
Numbers 6:3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong
drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong
drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
grapes, or dried.
 
Numbers 6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing
that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
 
Numbers 6:5 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.
 
Numbers 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the
LORD he shall come at no dead body.
 
Numbers 6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father,
or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they
die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
 
Numbers 6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the
LORD.
 
Numbers 6:9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he
hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave
his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he
shave it.
 
Numbers 6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles,
or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
 
Numbers 6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an
atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall
hallow his head that same day.
 
Numbers 6:12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of
his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost,
because his separation was defiled.
 
Numbers 6:13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days
of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
 
Numbers 6:14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one
he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering,
and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin
offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
 
Numbers 6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine
flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed
with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
 
Numbers 6:16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD,
and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
 
Numbers 6:17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of
peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened
bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
 
Numbers 6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his
separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in
the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
 
Numbers 6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of
the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one
unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the
Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
 
Numbers 6:20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering
before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave
breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink
wine.
 
Numbers 6:21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed,
and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that
that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so
he must do after the law of his separation.
 
Numbers 6:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 6:23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On
this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto
them,
 
Numbers 6:24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
 
Numbers 6:25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be
gracious unto thee:
 
Numbers 6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and
give thee peace.
 
Numbers 6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of
Israel, and I will bless them.
 
Numbers 7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully
set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it,
and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the
vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
 
Numbers 7:2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of
their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over
them that were numbered, offered:
 
Numbers 7:3 And they brought their offering before the LORD,
six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the
princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
tabernacle.
 
Numbers 7:4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 7:5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service
of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them
unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
 
Numbers 7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave
them unto the Levites.
 
Numbers 7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of
Gershon, according to their service:
 
Numbers 7:8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the
sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 
Numbers 7:9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because
the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they
should bear upon their shoulders.
 
Numbers 7:10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the
altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered
their offering before the altar.
 
Numbers 7:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer
their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the
altar.
 
Numbers 7:12 And he that offered his offering the first day was
Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
 
Numbers 7:13 And his offering was one silver charger, the
weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
 
Numbers 7:14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 
Numbers 7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar,
prince of Issachar, did offer:
 
Numbers 7:19 He offered for his offering one silver charger,
the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both
of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
 
Numbers 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of
the children of Zebulun, did offer:
 
Numbers 7:25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
 
Numbers 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur,
prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
 
Numbers 7:31 His offering was one silver charger of the weight
of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 
Numbers 7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,
prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
 
Numbers 7:37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 
Numbers 7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince
of the children of Gad, offered:
 
Numbers 7:43 His offering was one silver charger of the weight
of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 
Numbers 7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud,
prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
 
Numbers 7:49 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 
Numbers 7:54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
 
Numbers 7:55 His offering was one silver charger of the weight
of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 
Numbers 7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince
of the children of Benjamin, offered:
 
Numbers 7:61 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 
Numbers 7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,
prince of the children of Dan, offered:
 
Numbers 7:67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 
Numbers 7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran,
prince of the children of Asher, offered:
 
Numbers 7:73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 
Numbers 7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince
of the children of Naphtali, offered:
 
Numbers 7:79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 
Numbers 7:80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 
Numbers 7:81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
 
Numbers 7:82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 
Numbers 7:83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
 
Numbers 7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day
when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers
of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
 
Numbers 7:85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and
thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed
two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
 
Numbers 7:86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense,
weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
 
Numbers 7:87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve
bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve,
with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin
offering twelve.
 
Numbers 7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace
offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he
goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the
dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
 
Numbers 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one
speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark
of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto
him.
 
Numbers 8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 8:2 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou
lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against
the candlestick.
 
Numbers 8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over
against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 8:4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten
gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was
beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed
Moses, so he made the candlestick.
 
Numbers 8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel,
and cleanse them.
 
Numbers 8:7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them:
Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all
their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make
themselves clean.
 
Numbers 8:8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat
offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young
bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.
 
Numbers 8:9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole
assembly of the children of Israel together:
 
Numbers 8:10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD:
and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the
Levites:
 
Numbers 8:11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD
for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute
the service of the LORD.
 
Numbers 8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the
heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to
make an atonement for the Levites.
 
Numbers 8:13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and
before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 8:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among
the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
 
Numbers 8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt
cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
 
Numbers 8:16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the
children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even
instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I
taken them unto me.
 
Numbers 8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel
are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every
firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
 
Numbers 8:18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn
of the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron
and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the
service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of
Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel,
when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
 
Numbers 8:20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of
the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all
that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the
children of Israel unto them.
 
Numbers 8:21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed
their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the
LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
 
Numbers 8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do their
service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and
before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the
Levites, so did they unto them.
 
Numbers 8:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 8:24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from
twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait
upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
 
Numbers 8:25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease
waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
 
Numbers 8:26 But shall minister with their brethren in the
tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do
no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their
charge.
 
Numbers 9:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come
out of the land of Egypt, saying,
 
Numbers 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover
at his appointed season.
 
Numbers 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye
shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites
of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep
it.
 
Numbers 9:4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that
they should keep the passover.
 
Numbers 9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of
the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to
all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the
dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that
day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
 
Numbers 9:7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the
dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not
offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel?
 
Numbers 9:8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will
hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
 
Numbers 9:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 9:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any
man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a
dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the
passover unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even
they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs.
 
Numbers 9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor
break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the
passover they shall keep it.
 
Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a
journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul
shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not
the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall
bear his sin.
 
Numbers 9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and
will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance
of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he
do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for
him that was born in the land.
 
Numbers 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up
the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the
testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were
the appearance of fire, until the morning.
 
Numbers 9:16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and
the appearance of fire by night.
 
Numbers 9:17 And when the cloud was taken up from the
tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and
in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel
pitched their tents.
 
Numbers 9:18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of
Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they
pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they
rested in their tents.
 
Numbers 9:19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the
tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge
of the LORD, and journeyed not.
 
Numbers 9:20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon
the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they
abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the
LORD they journeyed.
 
Numbers 9:21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto
the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then
they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud
was taken up, they journeyed.
 
Numbers 9:22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a
year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining
thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and
journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
 
Numbers 9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the
tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they
kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by
the hand of Moses.
 
Numbers 10:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 10:2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece
shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling
of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
 
Numbers 10:3 And when they shall blow with them, all the
assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Numbers 10:4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the
princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather
themselves unto thee.
 
Numbers 10:5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on
the east parts shall go forward.
 
Numbers 10:6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the
camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they
shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
 
Numbers 10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered
together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
 
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow
with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for
ever throughout your generations.
 
Numbers 10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy
that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God,
and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
 
Numbers 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your
solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow
with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the
sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a
memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
 
Numbers 10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the
second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up
from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
 
Numbers 10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys
out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the
wilderness of Paran.
 
Numbers 10:13 And they first took their journey according to
the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 
Numbers 10:14 In the first place went the standard of the camp
of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his
host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 
Numbers 10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
 
Numbers 10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
 
Numbers 10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons
of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the
tabernacle.
 
Numbers 10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set
forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur
the son of Shedeur.
 
Numbers 10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 
Numbers 10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 
Numbers 10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the
sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they
came.
 
Numbers 10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of
Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host
was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 
Numbers 10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 
Numbers 10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 
Numbers 10:25 And the standard of the camp of the children of
Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps
throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
 
Numbers 10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 
Numbers 10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
 
Numbers 10:28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of
Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
 
Numbers 10:29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the
Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place
of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us,
and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good
concerning Israel.
 
Numbers 10:30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will
depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
 
Numbers 10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch
as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou
mayest be to us instead of eyes.
 
Numbers 10:32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it
shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same
will we do unto thee.
 
Numbers 10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD
three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went
before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting
place for them.
 
Numbers 10:34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day,
when they went out of the camp.
 
Numbers 10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward,
that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be
scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
 
Numbers 10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto
the many thousands of Israel.
 
Numbers 11:1 And when the people complained, it displeased the
LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the
fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in
the uttermost parts of the camp.
 
Numbers 11:2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses
prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
 
Numbers 11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah:
because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
 
Numbers 11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a
lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said,
Who shall give us flesh to eat?
 
Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt
freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick:
 
Numbers 11:6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing
at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
 
Numbers 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the
colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
 
Numbers 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and
ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans,
and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of
fresh oil.
 
Numbers 11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,
the manna fell upon it.
 
Numbers 11:10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their
families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the
LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
 
Numbers 11:11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou
afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in
thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon
me?
 
Numbers 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten
them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom,
as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land
which thou swarest unto their fathers?
 
Numbers 11:13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this
people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may
eat.
 
Numbers 11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone,
because it is too heavy for me.
 
Numbers 11:15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray
thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let
me not see my wretchedness.
 
Numbers 11:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me
seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the
elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto
the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there
with thee.
 
Numbers 11:17 And I will come down and talk with thee there:
and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it
upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with
thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
 
Numbers 11:18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves
against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in
the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for
it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you
flesh, and ye shall eat.
 
Numbers 11:19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five
days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
 
Numbers 11:20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your
nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have
despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him,
saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
 
Numbers 11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are
six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give
them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
 
Numbers 11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them,
to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered
together for them, to suffice them?
 
Numbers 11:23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand
waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to
pass unto thee or not.
 
Numbers 11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words
of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the
people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
 
Numbers 11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto
him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto
the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit
rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
 
Numbers 11:26 But there remained two of the men in the camp,
the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad:
and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were
written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they
prophesied in the camp.
 
Numbers 11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and
said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
 
Numbers 11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses,
one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid
them.
 
Numbers 11:29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my
sake? would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and
that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
 
Numbers 11:30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the
elders of Israel.
 
Numbers 11:31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and
brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it
were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey
on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two
cubits high upon the face of the earth.
 
Numbers 11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all
that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails:
he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them
all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
 
Numbers 11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth,
ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the
people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
 
Numbers 11:34 And he called the name of that place
Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that
lusted.
 
Numbers 11:35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah
unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
 
Numbers 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because
of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an
Ethiopian woman.
 
Numbers 12:2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by
Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
 
Numbers 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the
men which were upon the face of the earth.)
 
Numbers 12:4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto
Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of
the congregation. And they three came out.
 
Numbers 12:5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud,
and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and
Miriam: and they both came forth.
 
Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a
prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in
a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
 
Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all
mine house.
 
Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the
LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak
against my servant Moses?
 
Numbers 12:9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
them; and he departed.
 
Numbers 12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle;
and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron
looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
 
Numbers 12:11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I
beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done
foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
 
Numbers 12:12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is
half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
 
Numbers 12:13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her
now, O God, I beseech thee.
 
Numbers 12:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had
but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let
her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her
be received in again.
 
Numbers 12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days:
and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
 
Numbers 12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth,
and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
 
Numbers 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 13:2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe
of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among
them.
 
Numbers 13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them
from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the
children of Israel.
 
Numbers 13:4 And these were their names: of the tribe of
Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
 
Numbers 13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
 
Numbers 13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 
Numbers 13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
 
Numbers 13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
 
Numbers 13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
 
Numbers 13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
 
Numbers 13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of
Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
 
Numbers 13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
 
Numbers 13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
 
Numbers 13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of
Vophsi.
 
Numbers 13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
 
Numbers 13:16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent
to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun
Jehoshua.
 
Numbers 13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of
Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go
up into the mountain:
 
Numbers 13:18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that
dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
 
Numbers 13:19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether
it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in,
whether in tents, or in strong holds;
 
Numbers 13:20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean,
whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage,
and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of
the firstripe grapes.
 
Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the
wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
 
Numbers 13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto
Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak,
were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
 
Numbers 13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut
down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they
bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
 
Numbers 13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of
the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from
thence.
 
Numbers 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land
after forty days.
 
Numbers 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron,
and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the
wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them,
and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the
land.
 
Numbers 13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the
land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and
honey; and this is the fruit of it.
 
Numbers 13:28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in
the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover
we saw the children of Anak there.
 
Numbers 13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south:
and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in
the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the
coast of Jordan.
 
Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and
said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able
to overcome it.
 
Numbers 13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not
able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
 
Numbers 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land
which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The
land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that
eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw
in it are men of a great stature.
 
Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
 
Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice,
and cried; and the people wept that night.
 
Numbers 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto
them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would
God we had died in this wilderness!
 
Numbers 14:3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this
land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children
should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
 
Numbers 14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a
captain, and let us return into Egypt.
 
Numbers 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before
all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their
clothes:
 
Numbers 14:7 And they spake unto all the company of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to
search it, is an exceeding good land.
 
Numbers 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us
into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk
and honey.
 
Numbers 14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear
ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their
defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them
not.
 
Numbers 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with
stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of
the congregation before all the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this
people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me,
for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
 
Numbers 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and
disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and
mightier than they.
 
Numbers 14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians
shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might
from among them;)
 
Numbers 14:14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this
land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people,
that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth
over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a
pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
 
Numbers 14:15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one
man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will
speak, saying,
 
Numbers 14:16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this
people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath
slain them in the wilderness.
 
Numbers 14:17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD
be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
 
Numbers 14:18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing
the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation.
 
Numbers 14:19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this
people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou
hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
 
Numbers 14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to
thy word:
 
Numbers 14:21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be
filled with the glory of the LORD.
 
Numbers 14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory,
and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and
have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
 
Numbers 14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware
unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me
see it:
 
Numbers 14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another
spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring
into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
 
Numbers 14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in
the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness
by the way of the Red sea.
 
Numbers 14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
 
Numbers 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil
congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against
me.
 
Numbers 14:28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the
LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
 
Numbers 14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and
all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number,
from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
 
Numbers 14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 
Numbers 14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a
prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye
have despised.
 
Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in
this wilderness.
 
Numbers 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness
forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be
wasted in the wilderness.
 
Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched
the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear
your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of
promise.
 
Numbers 14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto
all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against
me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they
shall die.
 
Numbers 14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land,
who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against
him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
 
Numbers 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report
upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
 
Numbers 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land,
lived still.
 
Numbers 14:39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the
children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
 
Numbers 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat
them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and
will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we
have sinned.
 
Numbers 14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress
the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
 
Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye
be not smitten before your enemies.
 
Numbers 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there
before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned
away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
 
Numbers 14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses,
departed not out of the camp.
 
Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites
which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them,
even unto Hormah.
 
Numbers 15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I
give unto you,
 
Numbers 15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a
burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a
freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet
savour unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
 
Numbers 15:4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the
LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with
the fourth part of an hin of oil.
 
Numbers 15:5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink
offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice,
for one lamb.
 
Numbers 15:6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat
offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of
an hin of oil.
 
Numbers 15:7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the
third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 15:8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt
offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace
offerings unto the LORD:
 
Numbers 15:9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering
of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
 
Numbers 15:10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an
hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the LORD.
 
Numbers 15:11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one
ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
 
Numbers 15:12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so
shall ye do to every one according to their number.
 
Numbers 15:13 All that are born of the country shall do these
things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever
be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall
do.
 
Numbers 15:15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the
congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you,
an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall
the stranger be before the LORD.
 
Numbers 15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for
the stranger that sojourneth with you.
 
Numbers 15:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 15:18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
 
Numbers 15:19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread
of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 15:20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your
dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the
threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
 
Numbers 15:21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the
LORD an heave offering in your generations.
 
Numbers 15:22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these
commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
 
Numbers 15:23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the
hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and
henceforward among your generations;
 
Numbers 15:24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by
ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the
congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his
drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats
for a sin offering.
 
Numbers 15:25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all
the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their
offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin
offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
 
Numbers 15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among
them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
 
Numbers 15:27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he
shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
 
Numbers 15:28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the
soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before
the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven
him.
 
Numbers 15:29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth
through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children
of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
 
Numbers 15:30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously,
whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same
reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among
his people.
 
Numbers 15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD,
and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
 
Numbers 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the
wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the
sabbath day.
 
Numbers 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought
him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 
Numbers 15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not
declared what should be done to him.
 
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grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their
burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his
brethren.
 
Exodus 2:12 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.
 
Exodus 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two
men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did
the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
 
Exodus 2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge
over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the
Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
 
Exodus 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to
slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in
the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
 
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and
they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their
father's flock.
 
Exodus 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but
Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
 
Exodus 2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said,
How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
 
Exodus 2:19 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.
 
Exodus 2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he?
why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat
bread.
 
Exodus 2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he
gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
 
Exodus 2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name
Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
 
Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the
king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason
of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage.
 
Exodus 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered
his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
 
Exodus 2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God
had respect unto them.
 
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in
law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside
of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
 
Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a
flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
 
Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
 
Exodus 3:4 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.
 
Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy
ground.
 
Exodus 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses
hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
 
Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction
of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
 
Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a
good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
 
Exodus 3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of
Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
 
Exodus 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto
Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt.
 
Exodus 3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go
unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egypt?
 
Exodus 3:12 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.
 
Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto
the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is
his name? what shall I say unto them?
 
Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he
said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath
sent me unto you.
 
Exodus 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations.
 
Exodus 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and
say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
 
Exodus 3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the
affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,
and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
 
Exodus 3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt
come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and
ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into
the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
 
Exodus 3:19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let
you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
 
Exodus 3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt
with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and
after that he will let you go.
 
Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of
the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye
shall not go empty.
 
Exodus 3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and
of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and
upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
 
Exodus 4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will
not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
 
Exodus 4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine
hand? And he said, A rod.
 
Exodus 4:3 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.
 
Exodus 4:4 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:
 
Exodus 4:5 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.
 
Exodus 4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now
thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom:
and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
 
Exodus 4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again.
And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of
his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
 
Exodus 4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe
thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they
will believe the voice of the latter sign.
 
Exodus 4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe
also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou
shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry
land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall
become blood upon the dry land.
 
Exodus 4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not
eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
 
Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's
mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the
blind? have not I the LORD?
 
Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and
teach thee what thou shalt say.
 
Exodus 4:13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the
hand of him whom thou wilt send.
 
Exodus 4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know
that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet
thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
 
Exodus 4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his
mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do.
 
Exodus 4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and
he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and
thou shalt be to him instead of God.
 
Exodus 4:17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand,
wherewith thou shalt do signs.
 
Exodus 4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in
law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto
my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet
alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
 
Exodus 4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return
into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
 
Exodus 4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them
upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took
the rod of God in his hand.
 
Exodus 4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to
return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before
Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his
heart, that he shall not let the people go.
 
Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the
LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
 
Exodus 4:23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may
serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay
thy son, even thy firstborn.
 
Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the
LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
 
Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the
foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a
bloody husband art thou to me.
 
Exodus 4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband
thou art, because of the circumcision.
 
Exodus 4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness
to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
kissed him.
 
Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who
had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
 
Exodus 4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all
the elders of the children of Israel:
 
Exodus 4:30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had
spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
 
Exodus 4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that
the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had
looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and
worshipped.
 
Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told
Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
 
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should
obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither
will I let Israel go.
 
Exodus 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert,
and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
 
Exodus 5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do
ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you
unto your burdens.
 
Exodus 5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now
are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
 
Exodus 5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters
of the people, and their officers, saying,
 
Exodus 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make
brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for
themselves.
 
Exodus 5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make
heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought
thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go
and sacrifice to our God.
 
Exodus 5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they
may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
 
Exodus 5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and
their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith
Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
 
Exodus 5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not
ought of your work shall be diminished.
 
Exodus 5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all
the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
 
Exodus 5:13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil
your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
 
Exodus 5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which
Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and
demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making
brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
 
Exodus 5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came
and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with
thy servants?
 
Exodus 5:16 There is no strawoever 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.
 
Numbers 18:14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
 
Numbers 18:15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh,
which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts,
shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou
surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou
redeem.
 
Numbers 18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month
old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the
money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which
is twenty gerahs.
 
Numbers 18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a
sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they
are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and
shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 18:18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave
breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
 
Numbers 18:19 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.
 
Numbers 18:20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no
inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among
them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of
Israel.
 
Numbers 18:21 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.
 
Numbers 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth
come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin,
and die.
 
Numbers 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their
iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations, that among the children of Israel they have no
inheritance.
 
Numbers 18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which
they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to
the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among
the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
 
Numbers 18:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 18:26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them,
When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have
given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up
an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the
tithe.
 
Numbers 18:27 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.
 
Numbers 18:28 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.
 
Numbers 18:29 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.
 
Numbers 18:30 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.
 
Numbers 18:31 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.
 
Numbers 18:32 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.
 
Numbers 19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
 
Numbers 19:2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish,
and upon which never came yoke:
 
Numbers 19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest,
that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay
her before his face:
 
Numbers 19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood
with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
 
Numbers 19:5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her
skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
 
Numbers 19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop,
and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.
 
Numbers 19:7 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.
 
Numbers 19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in
water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until
the even.
 
Numbers 19:9 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.
 
Numbers 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it
shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
 
Numbers 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall
be unclean seven days.
 
Numbers 19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day,
and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not
himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be
clean.
 
Numbers 19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that
is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of
the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the
water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be
unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
 
Numbers 19:14 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.
 
Numbers 19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering
bound upon it, is unclean.
 
Numbers 19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a
sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or
a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
 
Numbers 19:17 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:
 
Numbers 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it
in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the
vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that
touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
 
Numbers 19:19 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.
 
Numbers 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not
purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD:
the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is
unclean.
 
Numbers 19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them,
that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his
clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be
unclean until even.
 
Numbers 19:22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall
be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until
even.
 
Numbers 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the
people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried
there.
 
Numbers 20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and
they gathered themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron.
 
Numbers 20:3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake,
saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before
the LORD!
 
Numbers 20:4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the
LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die
there?
 
Numbers 20:5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of
Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of
seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is
there any water to drink.
 
Numbers 20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the
assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared
unto them.
 
Numbers 20:7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly
together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock
before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou
shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt
give the congregation and their beasts drink.
 
Numbers 20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he
commanded him.
 
Numbers 20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation
together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye
rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
 
Numbers 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he
smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their beasts also.
 
Numbers 20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because
ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of
Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the
land which I have given them.
 
Numbers 20:13 This is the water of Meribah; because the
children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in
them.
 
Numbers 20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the
king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the
travail that hath befallen us:
 
Numbers 20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have
dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
fathers:
 
Numbers 20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our
voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt:
and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy
border:
 
Numbers 20:17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we
will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards,
neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by
the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to
the left, until we have passed thy borders.
 
Numbers 20:18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by
me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
 
Numbers 20:19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will
go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water,
then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else,
go through on my feet.
 
Numbers 20:20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom
came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
 
Numbers 20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through
his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
 
Numbers 20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
 
Numbers 20:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount
Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
 
Numbers 20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he
shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the
water of Meribah.
 
Numbers 20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up
unto mount Hor:
 
Numbers 20:26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them
upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his
people, and shall die there.
 
Numbers 20:27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they
went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
 
Numbers 20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put
them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the
mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
 
Numbers 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was
dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of
Israel.
 
Numbers 21:1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in
the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies;
then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
 
Numbers 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If
thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will
utterly destroy their cities.
 
Numbers 21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and
delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and
their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
 
Numbers 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of
the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the
people was much discouraged because of the way.
 
Numbers 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against
Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water;
and our soul loatheth this light bread.
 
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
 
Numbers 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We
have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against
thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.
And Moses prayed for the people.
 
Numbers 21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery
serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that
every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
 
Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon
a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any
man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
 
Numbers 21:10 And the children of Israel set forward, and
pitched in Oboth.
 
Numbers 21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at
Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the
sunrising.
 
Numbers 21:12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the
valley of Zared.
 
Numbers 21:13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the
other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out
of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
 
Numbers 21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of
the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
 
Numbers 21:15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down
to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
 
Numbers 21:16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the
well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
 
Numbers 21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well;
sing ye unto it:
 
Numbers 21:18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the
people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
 
Numbers 21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel
to Bamoth:
 
Numbers 21:20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the
country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward
Jeshimon.
 
Numbers 21:21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, saying,
 
Numbers 21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn
into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the
waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way,
until we be past thy borders.
 
Numbers 21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through
his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went
out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and
fought against Israel.
 
Numbers 21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword,
and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was
strong.
 
Numbers 21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel
dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all
the villages thereof.
 
Numbers 21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and
taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
 
Numbers 21:27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come
into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
 
Numbers 21:28 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.
 
Numbers 21:29 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.
 
Numbers 21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even
unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which
reacheth unto Medeba.
 
Numbers 21:31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
 
Numbers 21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took
the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
 
Numbers 21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan:
and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his
people, to the battle at Edrei.
 
Numbers 21:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I
have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his
land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of
the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
 
Numbers 21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his
people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed
his land.
 
Numbers 22:1 And the children of Israel set forward, and
pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
 
Numbers 22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel
had done to the Amorites.
 
Numbers 22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because
they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children
of Israel.
 
Numbers 22:4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall
this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox
licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor
was king of the Moabites at that time.
 
Numbers 22:5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son
of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the
children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a
people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the
earth, and they abide over against me:
 
Numbers 22:6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this
people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall
prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of
the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he
whom thou cursest is cursed.
 
Numbers 22:7 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.
 
Numbers 22:8 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.
 
Numbers 22:9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are
these with thee?
 
Numbers 22:10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of
Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
 
Numbers 22:11 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.
 
Numbers 22:12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with
them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
 
Numbers 22:13 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.
 
Numbers 22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went
unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
 
Numbers 22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more
honourable than they.
 
Numbers 22:16 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:
 
Numbers 22:17 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.
 
Numbers 22:18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of
Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,
I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or
more.
 
Numbers 22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here
this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
 
Numbers 22:20 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.
 
Numbers 22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled
his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
 
Numbers 22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and
the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against
him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were
with him.
 
Numbers 22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in
the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned
aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote
the ass, to turn her into the way.
 
Numbers 22:24 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.
 
Numbers 22:25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she
thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against
the wall: and he smote her again.
 
Numbers 22:26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood
in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right
hand or to the left.
 
Numbers 22:27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she
fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he
smote the ass with a staff.
 
Numbers 22:28 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?
 
Numbers 22:29 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.
 
Numbers 22:30 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.
 
Numbers 22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he
saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword
drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on
his face.
 
Numbers 22:32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him,
Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold,
I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before
me:
 
Numbers 22:33 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.
 
Numbers 22:34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I
have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against
me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back
again.
 
Numbers 22:35 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.
 
Numbers 22:36 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.
 
Numbers 22:37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly
send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me?
am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
 
Numbers 22:38 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.
 
Numbers 22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto
Kirjathhuzoth.
 
Numbers 22:40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to
Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
 
Numbers 22:41 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.
 
Numbers 23:1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven
altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
 
Numbers 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and
Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
 
Numbers 23:3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt
offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet
me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to
an high place.
 
Numbers 23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have
prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a
bullock and a ram.
 
Numbers 23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and
said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
 
Numbers 23:6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his
burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
 
Numbers 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the
king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of
the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
 
Numbers 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or
how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
 
Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from
the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and
shall not be reckoned among the nations.
 
Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number
of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be like his!
 
Numbers 23:11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done
unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou
hast blessed them altogether.
 
Numbers 23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to
speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
 
Numbers 23:13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with
me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou
shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them
all: and curse me them from thence.
 
Numbers 23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to
the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock
and a ram on every altar.
 
Numbers 23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt
offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
 
Numbers 23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his
mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
 
Numbers 23:17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his
burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
 
Numbers 23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up,
Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
 
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the
son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not
do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
 
Numbers 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and
he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
 
Numbers 23:21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither
hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with
him, and the shout of a king is among them.
 
Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were
the strength of an unicorn.
 
Numbers 23:23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this
time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God
wrought!
 
Numbers 23:24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion,
and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until
he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
 
Numbers 23:25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at
all, nor bless them at all.
 
Numbers 23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not
I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
 
Numbers 23:27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I
will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please
God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
 
Numbers 23:28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor,
that looketh toward Jeshimon.
 
Numbers 23:29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven
altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
 
Numbers 23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a
bullock and a ram on every altar.
 
Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to
bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for
enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
 
Numbers 24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel
abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of
God came upon him.
 
Numbers 24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the
son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
 
Numbers 24:4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which
saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having
his eyes open:
 
Numbers 24:5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy
tabernacles, O Israel!
 
Numbers 24:6 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.
 
Numbers 24:7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and
his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
 
Numbers 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it
were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his
enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through
with his arrows.
 
Numbers 24:9 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.
 
Numbers 24:10 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.
 
Numbers 24:11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought
to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept
thee back from honour.
 
Numbers 24:12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to
thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
 
Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver
and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do
either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith,
that will I speak?
 
Numbers 24:14 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.
 
Numbers 24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the
son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
 
Numbers 24:16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and
knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the
Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
 
Numbers 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him,
but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
and destroy all the children of Sheth.
 
Numbers 24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall
be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
 
Numbers 24:19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have
dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
 
Numbers 24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his
parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his
latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
 
Numbers 24:21 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.
 
Numbers 24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until
Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
 
Numbers 24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who
shall live when God doeth this!
 
Numbers 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim,
and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also
shall perish for ever.
 
Numbers 24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his
place: and Balak also went his way.
 
Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began
to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
 
Numbers 25:2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of
their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
 
Numbers 25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the
anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
 
Numbers 25:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads
of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun,
that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
 
Numbers 25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye
every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
 
Numbers 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came
and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of
Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
 
Numbers 25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation,
and took a javelin in his hand;
 
Numbers 25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent,
and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman
through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel.
 
Numbers 25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and
four thousand.
 
Numbers 25:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron
the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of
Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I
consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
 
Numbers 25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my
covenant of peace:
 
Numbers 25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him,
even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was
zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of
Israel.
 
Numbers 25:14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain,
even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the
son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
 
Numbers 25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was
slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people,
and of a chief house in Midian.
 
Numbers 25:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 25:17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
 
Numbers 25:18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they
have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of
Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
 
Numbers 26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the
LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, saying,
 
Numbers 26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout
their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
 
Numbers 26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them
in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
 
Numbers 26:4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old
and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of
Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
 
Numbers 26:5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of
Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of
Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
 
Numbers 26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi,
the family of the Carmites.
 
Numbers 26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they
that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and
seven hundred and thirty.
 
Numbers 26:8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
 
Numbers 26:9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and
Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the
congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the
company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
 
Numbers 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time
the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a
sign.
 
Numbers 26:11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
 
Numbers 26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of
Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the
Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
 
Numbers 26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul,
the family of the Shaulites.
 
Numbers 26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty
and two thousand and two hundred.
 
Numbers 26:15 The children of Gad after their families: of
Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the
Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
 
Numbers 26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the
family of the Erites:
 
Numbers 26:17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli,
the family of the Arelites.
 
Numbers 26:18 These are the families of the children of Gad
according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and
five hundred.
 
Numbers 26:19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and
Onan died in the land of Canaan.
 
Numbers 26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were;
of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of
the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
 
Numbers 26:21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
 
Numbers 26:22 These are the families of Judah according to
those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand
and five hundred.
 
Numbers 26:23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of
Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the
Punites:
 
Numbers 26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of
Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
 
Numbers 26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to
those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand
and three hundred.
 
Numbers 26:26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of
Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the
Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
 
Numbers 26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites
according to those that were numbered of them, threescore
thousand and five hundred.
 
Numbers 26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families were
Manasseh and Ephraim.
 
Numbers 26:29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of
the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the
family of the Gileadites.
 
Numbers 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the
family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
 
Numbers 26:31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and
of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
 
Numbers 26:32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites:
and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
 
Numbers 26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but
daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were
Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
 
Numbers 26:34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those
that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven
hundred.
 
Numbers 26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their
families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of
Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
 
Numbers 26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the
family of the Eranites.
 
Numbers 26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim
according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two
thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after
their families.
 
Numbers 26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of
Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the
Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
 
Numbers 26:39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of
Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
 
Numbers 26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard,
the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the
Naamites.
 
Numbers 26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their
families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five
thousand and six hundred.
 
Numbers 26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families:
of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families
of Dan after their families.
 
Numbers 26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to
those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four
thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 26:44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of
Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the
Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
 
Numbers 26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of
the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
 
Numbers 26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
 
Numbers 26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher
according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and
three thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 26:48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of
Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of
the Gunites:
 
Numbers 26:49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of
Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
 
Numbers 26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to
their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty
and five thousand and four hundred.
 
Numbers 26:51 These were the numbered of the children of
Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and
thirty.
 
Numbers 26:52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 26:53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an
inheritance according to the number of names.
 
Numbers 26:54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and
to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall
his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of
him.
 
Numbers 26:55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot:
according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall
inherit.
 
Numbers 26:56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof
be divided between many and few.
 
Numbers 26:57 And these are they that were numbered of the
Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the
Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari,
the family of the Merarites.
 
Numbers 26:58 These are the families of the Levites: the family
of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the
Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
 
Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the
daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she
bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
 
Numbers 26:60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 
Numbers 26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered
strange fire before the LORD.
 
Numbers 26:62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty
and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for
they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because
there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
 
Numbers 26:63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and
Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the
plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
 
Numbers 26:64 But among these there was not a man of them whom
Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
 
Numbers 26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely
die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save
Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 
Numbers 27:1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and
these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah,
and Milcah, and Tirzah.
 
Numbers 27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar
the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
 
Numbers 27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not
in the company of them that gathered themselves together against
the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and
had no sons.
 
Numbers 27:4 Why should the name of our father be done away
from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us
therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
 
Numbers 27:5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
 
Numbers 27:6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 27:7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou
shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their
father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their
father to pass unto them.
 
Numbers 27:8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his
inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
 
Numbers 27:9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his brethren.
 
Numbers 27:10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give
his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
 
Numbers 27:11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall
give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his
family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
 
Numbers 27:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into
this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel.
 
Numbers 27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be
gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
 
Numbers 27:14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the
desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me
at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
 
Numbers 27:15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
 
Numbers 27:16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all
flesh, set a man over the congregation,
 
Numbers 27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in
before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring
them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which
have no shepherd.
 
Numbers 27:18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua
the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand
upon him;
 
Numbers 27:19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before
all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
 
Numbers 27:20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him,
that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be
obedient.
 
Numbers 27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who
shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the
LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall
come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even
all the congregation.
 
Numbers 27:22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he
took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before
all the congregation:
 
Numbers 27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a
charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
 
Numbers 28:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them,
My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a
sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their
due season.
 
Numbers 28:3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering
made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the
first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt
offering.
 
Numbers 28:4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and
the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
 
Numbers 28:5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
 
Numbers 28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was
ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by
fire unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 28:7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth
part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou
cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink
offering.
 
Numbers 28:8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as
the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering
thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 28:9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year
without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering,
mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
 
Numbers 28:10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath,
beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
 
Numbers 28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall
offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one
ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
 
Numbers 28:12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals
of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
 
Numbers 28:13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a
sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 28:14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of
wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and
a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering
of every month throughout the months of the year.
 
Numbers 28:15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto
the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering,
and his drink offering.
 
Numbers 28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is
the passover of the LORD.
 
Numbers 28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the
feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
 
Numbers 28:18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye
shall do no manner of servile work therein:
 
Numbers 28:19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a
burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram,
and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without
blemish:
 
Numbers 28:20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled
with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two
tenth deals for a ram;
 
Numbers 28:21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every
lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
 
Numbers 28:22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an
atonement for you.
 
Numbers 28:23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in
the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
 
Numbers 28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily,
throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside
the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
 
Numbers 28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
 
Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring
a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye
shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
 
Numbers 28:27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet
savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of
the first year;
 
Numbers 28:28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with
oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one
ram,
 
Numbers 28:29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout
the seven lambs;
 
Numbers 28:30 And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement
for you.
 
Numbers 28:31 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without
blemish) and their drink offerings.
 
Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile
work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
 
Numbers 29:2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet
savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs
of the first year without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals
for a ram,
 
Numbers 29:4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the
seven lambs:
 
Numbers 29:5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to
make an atonement for you:
 
Numbers 29:6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his
meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat
offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner,
for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
 
Numbers 29:7 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:
 
Numbers 29:8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD
for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs
of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:9 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to
one ram,
 
Numbers 29:10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the
seven lambs:
 
Numbers 29:11 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside
the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering,
and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
 
Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye
shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and
ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
 
Numbers 29:13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young
bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they
shall be without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:14 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen
bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
 
Numbers 29:15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the
fourteen lambs:
 
Numbers 29:16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
 
Numbers 29:17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young
bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without
spot:
 
Numbers 29:18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering
thereof, and their drink offerings.
 
Numbers 29:20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams,
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
 
Numbers 29:21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 
Numbers 29:23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
 
Numbers 29:26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and
fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
 
Numbers 29:27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:28 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 
Numbers 29:29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams,
and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:31 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 
Numbers 29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams,
and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:34 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 
Numbers 29:35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn
assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
 
Numbers 29:36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one
ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
 
Numbers 29:37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for
the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 
Numbers 29:38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 
Numbers 29:39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your
set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for
your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your
drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
 
Numbers 29:40 And Moses told the children of Israel according
to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 30:1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes
concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing
which the LORD hath commanded.
 
Numbers 30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath
to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he
shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
 
Numbers 30:3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind
herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
 
Numbers 30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his
peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
 
Numbers 30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he
heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath
bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her,
because her father disallowed her.
 
Numbers 30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed,
or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
 
Numbers 30:7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at
her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and
her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
 
Numbers 30:8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that
he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that
which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of
none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
 
Numbers 30:9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is
divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand
against her.
 
Numbers 30:10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound
her soul by a bond with an oath;
 
Numbers 30:11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at
her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and
every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
 
Numbers 30:12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on
the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips
concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall
not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall
forgive her.
 
Numbers 30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the
soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it
void.
 
Numbers 30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at
her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all
her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he
held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
 
Numbers 30:15 But if he shall any ways make them void after
that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
 
Numbers 30:16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded
Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his
daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
 
Numbers 31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites:
afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
 
Numbers 31:3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some
of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
 
Numbers 31:4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the
tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
 
Numbers 31:5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of
Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
 
Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of
every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to
the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in
his hand.
 
Numbers 31:7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the
LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
 
Numbers 31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest
of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor
they slew with the sword.
 
Numbers 31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of
Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all
their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
 
Numbers 31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they
dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
 
Numbers 31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey,
both of men and of beasts.
 
Numbers 31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and
the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the
plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
 
Numbers 31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the
princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the
camp.
 
Numbers 31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the
host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, which came from the battle.
 
Numbers 31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the
women alive?
 
Numbers 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel,
through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the
LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the
congregation of the LORD.
 
Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
 
Numbers 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a
man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
 
Numbers 31:19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days:
whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any
slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day,
and on the seventh day.
 
Numbers 31:20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made
of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of
wood.
 
Numbers 31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war
which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which
the LORD commanded Moses;
 
Numbers 31:22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the
iron, the tin, and the lead,
 
Numbers 31:23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall
make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless
it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that
abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
 
Numbers 31:24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh
day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the
camp.
 
Numbers 31:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of
man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief
fathers of the congregation:
 
Numbers 31:27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them
that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between
all the congregation:
 
Numbers 31:28 And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of
war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of
the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the
sheep:
 
Numbers 31:29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar
the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
 
Numbers 31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt
take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the
asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them
unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
LORD.
 
Numbers 31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 31:32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which
the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy
thousand and five thousand sheep,
 
Numbers 31:33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
 
Numbers 31:34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
 
Numbers 31:35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of
women that had not known man by lying with him.
 
Numbers 31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that
went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven
and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
 
Numbers 31:37 And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six
hundred and threescore and fifteen.
 
Numbers 31:38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of
which the LORD's tribute was threescore and twelve.
 
Numbers 31:39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five
hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
 
Numbers 31:40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which
the LORD's tribute was thirty and two persons.
 
Numbers 31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's
heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
 
Numbers 31:42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses
divided from the men that warred,
 
Numbers 31:43 (Now the half that pertained unto the
congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
 
Numbers 31:44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
 
Numbers 31:45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
 
Numbers 31:46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
 
Numbers 31:47 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took
one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them
unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 31:48 And the officers which were over thousands of the
host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came
near unto Moses:
 
Numbers 31:49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken
the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there
lacketh not one man of us.
 
Numbers 31:50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the
LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and
bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for
our souls before the LORD.
 
Numbers 31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of
them, even all wrought jewels.
 
Numbers 31:52 And all the gold of the offering that they
offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty shekels.
 
Numbers 31:53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man
for himself.)
 
Numbers 31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of
the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into
the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the
children of Israel before the LORD.
 
Numbers 32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land
of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a
place for cattle;
 
Numbers 32:2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben
came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto
the princes of the congregation, saying,
 
Numbers 32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
 
Numbers 32:4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the
congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants
have cattle:
 
Numbers 32:5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in
thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a
possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
 
Numbers 32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the
children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye
sit here?
 
Numbers 32:7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the
children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD
hath given them?
 
Numbers 32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from
Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
 
Numbers 32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol,
and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of
Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had
given them.
 
Numbers 32:10 And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time,
and he sware, saying,
 
Numbers 32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt,
from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I
sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have
not wholly followed me:
 
Numbers 32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and
Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
 
Numbers 32:13 And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel,
and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all
the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was
consumed.
 
Numbers 32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers'
stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger
of the LORD toward Israel.
 
Numbers 32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet
again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this
people.
 
Numbers 32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will
build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little
ones:
 
Numbers 32:17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the
children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place:
and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of
the inhabitants of the land.
 
Numbers 32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until the
children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
 
Numbers 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side
Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on
this side Jordan eastward.
 
Numbers 32:20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this
thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
 
Numbers 32:21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before
the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
 
Numbers 32:22 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.
 
Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned
against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
 
Numbers 32:24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds
for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your
mouth.
 
Numbers 32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord
commandeth.
 
Numbers 32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all
our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
 
Numbers 32:27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed
for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
 
Numbers 32:28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel:
 
Numbers 32:29 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:
 
Numbers 32:30 But if they will not pass over with you armed,
they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
 
Numbers 32:31 And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants,
so will we do.
 
Numbers 32:32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the
land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this
side Jordan may be ours.
 
Numbers 32:33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of
Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of
Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with
the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country
round about.
 
Numbers 32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth,
and Aroer,
 
Numbers 32:35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
 
Numbers 32:36 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and
folds for sheep.
 
Numbers 32:37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
 
Numbers 32:38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being
changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which
they builded.
 
Numbers 32:39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh
went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which
was in it.
 
Numbers 32:40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of
Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
 
Numbers 32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the
small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
 
Numbers 32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages
thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
 
Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel,
which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under
the hand of Moses and Aaron.
 
Numbers 33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to
their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are
their journeys according to their goings out.
 
Numbers 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month,
on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the
passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the
sight of all the Egyptians.
 
Numbers 33:4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn,
which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the
LORD executed judgments.
 
Numbers 33:5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses,
and pitched in Succoth.
 
Numbers 33:6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in
Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
 
Numbers 33:7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto
Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before
Migdol.
 
Numbers 33:8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, 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.
 
Numbers 33:9 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.
 
Numbers 33:10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the
Red sea.
 
Numbers 33:11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped
in the wilderness of Sin.
 
Numbers 33:12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness
of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
 
Numbers 33:13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in
Alush.
 
Numbers 33:14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at
Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
 
Numbers 33:15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in
the wilderness of Sinai.
 
Numbers 33:16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and
pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.
 
Numbers 33:17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and
encamped at Hazeroth.
 
Numbers 33:18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
Rithmah.
 
Numbers 33:19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at
Rimmonparez.
 
Numbers 33:20 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched
in Libnah.
 
Numbers 33:21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at
Rissah.
 
Numbers 33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in
Kehelathah.
 
Numbers 33:23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in
mount Shapher.
 
Numbers 33:24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped
in Haradah.
 
Numbers 33:25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in
Makheloth.
 
Numbers 33:26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at
Tahath.
 
Numbers 33:27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at
Tarah.
 
Numbers 33:28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in
Mithcah.
 
Numbers 33:29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in
Hashmonah.
 
Numbers 33:30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at
Moseroth.
 
Numbers 33:31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in
Benejaakan.
 
Numbers 33:32 And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at
Horhagidgad.
 
Numbers 33:33 And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in
Jotbathah.
 
Numbers 33:34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at
Ebronah.
 
Numbers 33:35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at
Eziongaber.
 
Numbers 33:36 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in
the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
 
Numbers 33:37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in
mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
 
Numbers 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at
the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year
after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt,
in the first day of the fifth month.
 
Numbers 33:39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three
years old when he died in mount Hor.
 
Numbers 33:40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the
south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children
of Israel.
 
Numbers 33:41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in
Zalmonah.
 
Numbers 33:42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in
Punon.
 
Numbers 33:43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in
Oboth.
 
Numbers 33:44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in
Ijeabarim, in the border of Moab.
 
Numbers 33:45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in
Dibongad.
 
Numbers 33:46 And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in
Almondiblathaim.
 
Numbers 33:47 And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and
pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
 
Numbers 33:48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim,
and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
 
Numbers 33:49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth
even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
 
Numbers 33:50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of
Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
 
Numbers 33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
 
Numbers 33:52 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:
 
Numbers 33:53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the
land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess
it.
 
Numbers 33:54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an
inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give
the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less
inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where
his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall
inherit.
 
Numbers 33:55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of
the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those
which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and
thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye
dwell.
 
Numbers 33:56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do
unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
 
Numbers 34:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 34:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that
shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan
with the coasts thereof:)
 
Numbers 34:3 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:
 
Numbers 34:4 And your border shall turn from the south to the
ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth
thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on
to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
 
Numbers 34:5 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.
 
Numbers 34:6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have
the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
 
Numbers 34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the
great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
 
Numbers 34:8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto
the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall
be to Zedad:
 
Numbers 34:9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the
goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north
border.
 
Numbers 34:10 And ye shall point out your east border from
Hazarenan to Shepham:
 
Numbers 34:11 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:
 
Numbers 34:12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the
goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your
land with the coasts thereof round about.
 
Numbers 34:13 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:
 
Numbers 34:14 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:
 
Numbers 34:15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received
their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward,
toward the sunrising.
 
Numbers 34:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 34:17 These are the names of the men which shall divide
the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 
Numbers 34:18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to
divide the land by inheritance.
 
Numbers 34:19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe
of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 
Numbers 34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
 
Numbers 34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of
Chislon.
 
Numbers 34:22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
 
Numbers 34:23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the
tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
 
Numbers 34:24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
 
Numbers 34:25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
 
Numbers 34:26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
 
Numbers 34:27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
 
Numbers 34:28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
 
Numbers 34:29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide
the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of
Canaan.
 
Numbers 35:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of
Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
 
Numbers 35:2 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.
 
Numbers 35:3 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.
 
Numbers 35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give
unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and
outward a thousand cubits round about.
 
Numbers 35:5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the
east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand
cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the
north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the
midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
 
Numbers 35:6 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.
 
Numbers 35:7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the
Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with
their suburbs.
 
Numbers 35:8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the
possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye
shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few:
every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to
his inheritance which he inheriteth.
 
Numbers 35:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
Numbers 35:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
 
Numbers 35:11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of
refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth
any person at unawares.
 
Numbers 35:12 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.
 
Numbers 35:13 And of these cities which ye shall give six
cities shall ye have for refuge.
 
Numbers 35:14 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.
 
Numbers 35:15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the
children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner
among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may
flee thither.
 
Numbers 35:16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron,
so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be
put to death.
 
Numbers 35:17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone,
wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
 
Numbers 35:18 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.
 
Numbers 35:19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the
murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
 
Numbers 35:20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by
laying of wait, that he die;
 
Numbers 35:21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he
die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a
murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he
meeteth him.
 
Numbers 35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or
have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
 
Numbers 35:23 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:
 
Numbers 35:24 Then the congregation shall judge between the
slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
 
Numbers 35:25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out
of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall
restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and
he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was
anointed with the holy oil.
 
Numbers 35:26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without
the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
 
Numbers 35:27 And the revenger of blood find him without the
borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill
the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
 
Numbers 35:28 Because he should have remained in the city of
his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the
death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of
his possession.
 
Numbers 35:29 So these things shall be for a statute of
judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
 
Numbers 35:30 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.
 
Numbers 35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the
life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be
surely put to death.
 
Numbers 35:32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is
fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to
dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
 
Numbers 35:33 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.
 
Numbers 35:34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall
inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children
of Israel.
 
Numbers 36:1 And the chief fathers of the families of the
children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of
the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before
Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children
of Israel:
 
Numbers 36:2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give
the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and
my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
 
Numbers 36:3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the
other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their
inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and
shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are
received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
 
Numbers 36:4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel
shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall
their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe
of our fathers.
 
Numbers 36:5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel
according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons
of Joseph hath said well.
 
Numbers 36:6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command
concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to
whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their
father shall they marry.
 
Numbers 36:7 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.
 
Numbers 36:8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance
in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of
the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of
Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
 
Numbers 36:9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one
tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the
children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
 
Numbers 36:10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the
daughters of Zelophehad:
 
Numbers 36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their
father's brothers' sons:
 
Numbers 36:12 And they were married into the families of the
sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
 
Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and the judgments,
which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children
of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
 
Deuteronomy 1:1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all
Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over
against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and
Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
 
Deuteronomy 1:2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by
the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
 
Deuteronomy 1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in
the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses
spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the
LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
 
Deuteronomy 1:4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the
Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan,
which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
 
Deuteronomy 1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began
Moses to declare this law, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 1:6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
 
Deuteronomy 1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the
mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in
the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and
by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon,
unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
 
Deuteronomy 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in
and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed
after them.
 
Deuteronomy 1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am
not able to bear you myself alone:
 
Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and,
behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
 
Deuteronomy 1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a
thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath
promised you!)
 
Deuteronomy 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance,
and your burden, and your strife?
 
Deuteronomy 1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and
known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
 
Deuteronomy 1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which
thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
 
Deuteronomy 1:15 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:17 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the
things which ye should do.
 
Deuteronomy 1:19 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 Kadeshbarnea.
 
Deuteronomy 1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the
mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto
us.
 
Deuteronomy 1:21 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and
said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out
the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and
into what cities we shall come.
 
Deuteronomy 1:23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took
twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
 
Deuteronomy 1:24 And they turned and went up into the mountain,
and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
 
Deuteronomy 1:25 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
 
Deuteronomy 1:27 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have
discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller
than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and
moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
 
Deuteronomy 1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be
afraid of them.
 
Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he
shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in
Egypt before your eyes;
 
Deuteronomy 1:31 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD
your God,
 
Deuteronomy 1:33 Who went in the way before you, to search you
out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you
by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
 
Deuteronomy 1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words,
and was wroth, and sware, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of
this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give
unto your fathers.
 
Deuteronomy 1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see
it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon,
and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
 
Deuteronomy 1:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth
before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall
cause Israel to inherit it.
 
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said
should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no
knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and
unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
 
Deuteronomy 1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have
sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to
all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on
every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the
hill.
 
Deuteronomy 1:42 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:43 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.
 
Deuteronomy 1:44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that
mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and
destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
 
Deuteronomy 1:45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but
the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
 
Deuteronomy 1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according
unto the days that ye abode there.
 
Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me:
and we compassed mount Seir many days.
 
Deuteronomy 2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough:
turn you northward.
 
Deuteronomy 2:4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to
pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau,
which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye
good heed unto yourselves therefore:
 
Deuteronomy 2:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 2:6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye
may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye
may drink.
 
Deuteronomy 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all
the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great
wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with
thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
 
Deuteronomy 2:8 And when we passed by from our brethren the
children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the
plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by
the way of the wilderness of Moab.
 
Deuteronomy 2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the
Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not
give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar
unto the children of Lot for a possession.
 
Deuteronomy 2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
 
Deuteronomy 2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the
Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
 
Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but
the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them
from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto
the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
 
Deuteronomy 2:13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the
brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
 
Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from
Kadeshbarnea, 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.
 
Deuteronomy 2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against
them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were
consumed.
 
Deuteronomy 2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war
were consumed and dead from among the people,
 
Deuteronomy 2:17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 2:18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of
Moab, this day:
 
Deuteronomy 2:19 And when thou comest nigh over against the
children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I
will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any
possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for
a possession.
 
Deuteronomy 2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants:
giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them
Zamzummims;
 
Deuteronomy 2:21 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:
 
Deuteronomy 2:22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt
in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
 
Deuteronomy 2:23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even
unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor,
destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
 
Deuteronomy 2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over
the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the
Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and
contend with him in battle.
 
Deuteronomy 2:25 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.
 
Deuteronomy 2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 2:27 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.
 
Deuteronomy 2:28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may
eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will
pass through on my feet;
 
Deuteronomy 2:29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir,
and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall
pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
 
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us
pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made
his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as
appeareth this day.
 
Deuteronomy 2:31 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.
 
Deuteronomy 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, to fight at Jahaz.
 
Deuteronomy 2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us;
and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
 
Deuteronomy 2:34 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:
 
Deuteronomy 2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto
ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
 
Deuteronomy 2:36 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:
 
Deuteronomy 2:37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon
thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto
the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God
forbad us.
 
Deuteronomy 3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan:
and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.
 
Deuteronomy 3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I
will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy
hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of
the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
 
Deuteronomy 3:3 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.
 
Deuteronomy 3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there
was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities,
all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
 
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these cities were fenced with high walls,
gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
 
Deuteronomy 3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto
Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city.
 
Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the
cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
 
Deuteronomy 3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the
two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan,
from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
 
Deuteronomy 3:9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and
the Amorites call it Shenir;)
 
Deuteronomy 3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead,
and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of
Og in Bashan.
 
Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the
remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is
it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the
length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the
cubit of a man.
 
Deuteronomy 3:12 And this land, which we possessed at that
time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount
Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to
the Gadites.
 
Deuteronomy 3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being
the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all
the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land
of giants.
 
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country
of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called
them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
 
Deuteronomy 3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
 
Deuteronomy 3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I
gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and
the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the
children of Ammon;
 
Deuteronomy 3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast
thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the
salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
 
Deuteronomy 3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The
LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall
pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all
that are meet for the war.
 
Deuteronomy 3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your
cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in
your cities which I have given you;
 
Deuteronomy 3:20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your
brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the
land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and
then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have
given you.
 
Deuteronomy 3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying,
Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto
these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms
whither thou passest.
 
Deuteronomy 3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God
he shall fight for you.
 
Deuteronomy 3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 3:24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy
servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there
in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and
according to thy might?
 
Deuteronomy 3:25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good
land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
 
Deuteronomy 3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes,
and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
 
Deuteronomy 3:27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift
up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and
eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go
over this Jordan.
 
Deuteronomy 3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and
strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he
shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
 
Deuteronomy 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against
Bethpeor.
 
Deuteronomy 4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the
statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do
them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the
LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
 
Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command
you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep
the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
 
Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because
of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy
God hath destroyed them from among you.
 
Deuteronomy 4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God
are alive every one of you this day.
 
Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and
judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should
do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which
shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation
is a wise and understanding people.
 
Deuteronomy 4:7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God
so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we
call upon him for?
 
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath
statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day?
 
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have
seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy
life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
 
Deuteronomy 4:10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before
the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me
the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that
they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon
the earth, and that they may teach their children.
 
Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain;
and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with
darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
 
Deuteronomy 4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst
of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no
similitude; only ye heard a voice.
 
Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which
he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote
them upon two tables of stone.
 
Deuteronomy 4:14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to
teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the
land whither ye go over to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves;
for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
 
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a
graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male
or female,
 
Deuteronomy 4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
 
Deuteronomy 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the
ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath
the earth:
 
Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven,
and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even
all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and
serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations
under the whole heaven.
 
Deuteronomy 4:20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you
forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him
a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
 
Deuteronomy 4:21 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:
 
Deuteronomy 4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go
over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
 
Deuteronomy 4:23 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.
 
Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even
a jealous God.
 
Deuteronomy 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's
children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall
corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of
any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to
provoke him to anger:
 
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you
this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong
your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
 
Deuteronomy 4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the
nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,
whither the LORD shall lead you.
 
Deuteronomy 4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of
men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor
eat, nor smell.
 
Deuteronomy 4:29 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.
 
Deuteronomy 4:30 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;
 
Deuteronomy 4:31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he
will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the
covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
 
Deuteronomy 4:32 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?
 
Deuteronomy 4:33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking
out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
 
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a
nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by
signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a
stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that
the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
 
Deuteronomy 4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest
know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
 
Deuteronomy 4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice,
that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his
great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the
fire.
 
Deuteronomy 4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he
chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight
with his mighty power out of Egypt;
 
Deuteronomy 4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater
and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their
land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
 
Deuteronomy 4:39 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.
 
Deuteronomy 4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and
his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou
mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, for ever.
 
Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side
Jordan toward the sunrising;
 
Deuteronomy 4:42 That the slayer might flee thither, which
should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times
past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
 
Deuteronomy 4:43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
 
Deuteronomy 4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the
children of Israel:
 
Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes,
and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
after they came forth out of Egypt.
 
Deuteronomy 4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over
against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who
dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote,
after they were come forth out of Egypt:
 
Deuteronomy 4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of
Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this
side Jordan toward the sunrising;
 
Deuteronomy 4:48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river
Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
 
Deuteronomy 4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan
eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of
Pisgah.
 
Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto
them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in
your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do
them.
 
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in
Horeb.
 
Deuteronomy 5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this
day.
 
Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the
mount out of the midst of the fire,
 
Deuteronomy 5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time,
to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of
the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
 
Deuteronomy 5:6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
 
Deuteronomy 5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
 
Deuteronomy 5:8 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:
 
Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor
serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me,
 
Deuteronomy 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that
love me and keep my commandments.
 
Deuteronomy 5:11 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.
 
Deuteronomy 5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the
LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
 
Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy
work:
 
Deuteronomy 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD
thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine
ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that
is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may
rest as well as thou.
 
Deuteronomy 5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the
land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence
through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the
LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
 
Deuteronomy 5:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 5:17 Thou shalt not kill.
 
Deuteronomy 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
 
Deuteronomy 5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.
 
Deuteronomy 5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against
thy neighbour.
 
Deuteronomy 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's
wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field,
or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any
thing that is thy neighbour's.
 
Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your
assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud,
and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no
more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered
them unto me.
 
Deuteronomy 5:23 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;
 
Deuteronomy 5:24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath
shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his
voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that
God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
 
Deuteronomy 5:25 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.
 
Deuteronomy 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard
the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as we have, and lived?
 
Deuteronomy 5:27 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.
 
Deuteronomy 5:28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words,
when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard
the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken
unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
 
Deuteronomy 5:29 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!
 
Deuteronomy 5:30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
 
Deuteronomy 5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I
will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and
the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them
in the land which I give them to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD
your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right
hand or to the left.
 
Deuteronomy 5:33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD
your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be
well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land
which ye shall possess.
 
Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach
you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess
it:
 
Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to
keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee,
thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life;
and that thy days may be prolonged.
 
Deuteronomy 6:3 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.
 
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
 
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
 
Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day,
shall be in thine heart:
 
Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy
children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.
 
Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
 
Deuteronomy 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy
house, and on thy gates.
 
Deuteronomy 6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall
have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly
cities, which thou buildedst not,
 
Deuteronomy 6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou
filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not,
vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou
shalt have eaten and be full;
 
Deuteronomy 6:12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
 
Deuteronomy 6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve
him, and shalt swear by his name.
 
Deuteronomy 6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods
of the people which are round about you;
 
Deuteronomy 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among
you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee,
and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
 
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye
tempted him in Massah.
 
Deuteronomy 6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of
the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which
he hath commanded thee.
 
Deuteronomy 6:18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good
in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware
unto thy fathers.
 
Deuteronomy 6:19 To cast out all thine enemies from before
thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
 
Deuteronomy 6:20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
 
Deuteronomy 6:21 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:
 
Deuteronomy 6:22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great
and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
before our eyes:
 
Deuteronomy 6:23 And he brought us out from thence, that he
might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our
fathers.
 
Deuteronomy 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he
might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
 
Deuteronomy 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we
observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as
he hath commanded us.
 
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the
land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many
nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier
than thou;
 
Deuteronomy 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them
before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them;
thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
 
Deuteronomy 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them;
thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son.
 
Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following
me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD
be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
 
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall
destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down
their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
 
Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy
God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people
unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the
earth.
 
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor
choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for
ye were the fewest of all people:
 
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he
would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath
the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out
of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
 
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is
God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them
that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations;
 
Deuteronomy 7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face,
to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he
will repay him to his face.
 
Deuteronomy 7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments,
and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this
day, to do them.
 
Deuteronomy 7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken
to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God
shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware
unto thy fathers:
 
Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and
multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the
fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land
which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
 
Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there
shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle.
 
Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all
sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which
thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that
hate thee.
 
Deuteronomy 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which
the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity
upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be
a snare unto thee.
 
Deuteronomy 7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These
nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
 
Deuteronomy 7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt
well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto
all Egypt;
 
Deuteronomy 7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw,
and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so
shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art
afraid.
 
Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet
among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from
thee, be destroyed.
 
Deuteronomy 7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the
LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
 
Deuteronomy 7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those
nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume
them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
 
Deuteronomy 7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto
thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until
they be destroyed.
 
Deuteronomy 7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine
hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there
shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have
destroyed them.
 
Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn
with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on
them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it
is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into
thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt
utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a
cursed thing.
 
Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments which I command thee this
day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and
go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your
fathers.
 
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the
LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to
humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart,
whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
 
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to
hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither
did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth
not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
 
Deuteronomy 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither
did thy foot swell, these forty years.
 
Deuteronomy 8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that,
as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
 
Deuteronomy 8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of
the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
 
Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good
land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that
spring out of valleys and hills;
 
Deuteronomy 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig
trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
 
Deuteronomy 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without
scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
 
Deuteronomy 8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou
shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath
given thee.
 
Deuteronomy 8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God,
in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day:
 
Deuteronomy 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and
hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
 
Deuteronomy 8:13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,
and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast
is multiplied;
 
Deuteronomy 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget
the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage;
 
Deuteronomy 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible
wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water
out of the rock of flint;
 
Deuteronomy 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,
which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that
he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
 
Deuteronomy 8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the
might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
 
Deuteronomy 8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for
it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may
establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is
this day.
 
Deuteronomy 8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the
LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and
worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely
perish.
 
Deuteronomy 8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth
before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be
obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
 
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan
this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than
thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
 
Deuteronomy 9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the
Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who
can stand before the children of Anak!
 
Deuteronomy 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD
thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire
he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy
face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as
the LORD hath said unto thee.
 
Deuteronomy 9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the
LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land:
but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them
out from before thee.
 
Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land:
but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth
drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
 
Deuteronomy 9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God
giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy
righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
 
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst
the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that
thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto
this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so
that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
 
Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive
the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the
LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and
forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
 
Deuteronomy 9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of
stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written
according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the
mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
 
Deuteronomy 9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days
and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant.
 
Deuteronomy 9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee
down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought
forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly
turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have
made them a molten image.
 
Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I
have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
 
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and
blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a
nation mightier and greater than they.
 
Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and
the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant
were in my two hands.
 
Deuteronomy 9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned
against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had
turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded
you.
 
Deuteronomy 9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out
of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
 
Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the
first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor
drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing
wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
 
Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy
you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
 
Deuteronomy 9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have
destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
 
Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had
made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very
small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust
thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
 
Deuteronomy 9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at
Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
 
Deuteronomy 9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from
Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have
given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD
your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
 
Deuteronomy 9:24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from
the day that I knew you.
 
Deuteronomy 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days
and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD
had said he would destroy you.
 
Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O
Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which
thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought
forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
 
Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to
their wickedness, nor to their sin:
 
Deuteronomy 9:28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out
say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land
which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath
brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
 
Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance,
which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy
stretched out arm.
 
Deuteronomy 10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee
two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into
the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
 
Deuteronomy 10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that
were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put
them in the ark.
 
Deuteronomy 10:3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed
two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the
mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
 
Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the
first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto
you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
 
Deuteronomy 10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the
mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there
they be, as the LORD commanded me.
 
Deuteronomy 10:6 And the children of Israel took their journey
from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron
died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in
the priest's office in his stead.
 
Deuteronomy 10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and
from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
 
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of
Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand
before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name,
unto this day.
 
Deuteronomy 10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance
with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the
LORD thy God promised him.
 
Deuteronomy 10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the
first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened
unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
 
Deuteronomy 10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy
journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the
land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
 
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God
require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul,
 
Deuteronomy 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
 
Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens
is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
 
Deuteronomy 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to
love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all
people, as it is this day.
 
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your
heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
 
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and
Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which
regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
 
Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food
and raiment.
 
Deuteronomy 10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
 
Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt
thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
 
Deuteronomy 10:21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that
hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine
eyes have seen.
 
Deuteronomy 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made
thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
 
Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God,
and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.
 
Deuteronomy 11:2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with
your children which have not known, and which have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty
hand, and his stretched out arm,
 
Deuteronomy 11:3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did
in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto
all his land;
 
Deuteronomy 11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto
their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the
Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the
LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
 
Deuteronomy 11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness,
until ye came into this place;
 
Deuteronomy 11:6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the
sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and
all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of
all Israel:
 
Deuteronomy 11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of
the LORD which he did.
 
Deuteronomy 11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments
which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in
and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
 
Deuteronomy 11:9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land,
which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to
their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
 
Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to
possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out,
where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a
garden of herbs:
 
Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is
a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of
heaven:
 
Deuteronomy 11:12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the
eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning
of the year even unto the end of the year.
 
Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall
hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this
day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul,
 
Deuteronomy 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in
his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou
mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
 
Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy
cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
 
Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be
not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and
worship them;
 
Deuteronomy 11:17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against
you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that
the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off
the good land which the LORD giveth you.
 
Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in
your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your
hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
 
Deuteronomy 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children,
speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up.
 
Deuteronomy 11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts
of thine house, and upon thy gates:
 
Deuteronomy 11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the
days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
 
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these
commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD
your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
 
Deuteronomy 11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these
nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and
mightier than yourselves.
 
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet
shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from
the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall
your coast be.
 
Deuteronomy 11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before
you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the
dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he
hath said unto you.
 
Deuteronomy 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing
and a curse;
 
Deuteronomy 11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of
the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
 
Deuteronomy 11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the
commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way
which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye
have not known.
 
Deuteronomy 11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy
God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to
possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim,
and the curse upon mount Ebal.
 
Deuteronomy 11:30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the
way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites,
which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the
plains of Moreh?
 
Deuteronomy 11:31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to
possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall
possess it, and dwell therein.
 
Deuteronomy 11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes
and judgments which I set before you this day.
 
Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye
shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy
fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon
the earth.
 
Deuteronomy 12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places,
wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods,
upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every
green tree:
 
Deuteronomy 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break
their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew
down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of
them out of that place.
 
Deuteronomy 12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
 
Deuteronomy 12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God
shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even
unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
 
Deuteronomy 12:6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt
offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave
offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill
offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
 
Deuteronomy 12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your
God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye
and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
 
Deuteronomy 12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we
do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
 
Deuteronomy 12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to
the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
 
Deuteronomy 12:10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the
land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he
giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye
dwell in safety;
 
Deuteronomy 12:11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD
your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither
shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and
your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your
hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
 
Deuteronomy 12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your
God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants,
and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates;
forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
 
Deuteronomy 12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy
burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
 
Deuteronomy 12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose
in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings,
and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
 
Deuteronomy 12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat
flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,
according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given
thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the
roebuck, and as of the hart.
 
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall
pour it upon the earth as water.
 
Deuteronomy 12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the
tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the
firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows
which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering
of thine hand:
 
Deuteronomy 12:18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and
thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou
shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest
thine hands unto.
 
Deuteronomy 12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not
the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
 
Deuteronomy 12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy
border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat
flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat
flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
 
Deuteronomy 12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath
chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou
shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath
given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy
gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
 
Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so
thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them
alike.
 
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for
the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the
flesh.
 
Deuteronomy 12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it
upon the earth as water.
 
Deuteronomy 12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well
with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do
that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy
vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall
choose:
 
Deuteronomy 12:27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the
flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the
blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the
LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
 
Deuteronomy 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I
command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good
and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the
nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and
thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
 
Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared
by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee;
and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these
nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
 
Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:
for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they
done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters
they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
 
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to
do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
 
Deuteronomy 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a
dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
 
Deuteronomy 13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass,
whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods,
which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
 
Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth
you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your
heart and with all your soul.
 
Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and
fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye
shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
 
Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams,
shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away
from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust
thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk
in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
 
Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy
son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,
which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us
go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy
fathers;
 
Deuteronomy 13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are
round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the
one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
 
Deuteronomy 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken
unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou
spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
 
Deuteronomy 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand
shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the
hand of all the people.
 
Deuteronomy 13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he
die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy
God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house
of bondage.
 
Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and
shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
 
Deuteronomy 13:12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone
out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their
city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not
known;
 
Deuteronomy 13:14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and
ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
 
Deuteronomy 13:15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of
that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and
all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the
sword.
 
Deuteronomy 13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it
into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire
the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy
God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built
again.
 
Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed
thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness
of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee,
and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
 
Deuteronomy 13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the
LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee
this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy
God.
 
Deuteronomy 14:1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye
shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead.
 
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy
God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto
himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
 
Deuteronomy 14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
 
Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the
ox, the sheep, and the goat,
 
Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow
deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the
chamois.
 
Deuteronomy 14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and
cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the
beasts, that ye shall eat.
 
Deuteronomy 14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them
that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the
camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but
divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
 
Deuteronomy 14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof,
yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat
of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
 
Deuteronomy 14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the
waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
 
Deuteronomy 14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye
may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
 
Deuteronomy 14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
 
Deuteronomy 14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat:
the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
 
Deuteronomy 14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture
after his kind,
 
Deuteronomy 14:14 And every raven after his kind,
 
Deuteronomy 14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the
cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
 
Deuteronomy 14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the
swan,
 
Deuteronomy 14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant,
 
Deuteronomy 14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind,
and the lapwing, and the bat.
 
Deuteronomy 14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth is
unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
 
Deuteronomy 14:20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
 
Deuteronomy 14:21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of
itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy
gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien:
for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not
seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
 
Deuteronomy 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of
thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
 
Deuteronomy 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God,
in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the
tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the
firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn
to fear the LORD thy God always.
 
Deuteronomy 14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that
thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from
thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there,
when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
 
Deuteronomy 14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind
up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose:
 
Deuteronomy 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for
wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth:
and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
rejoice, thou, and thine household,
 
Deuteronomy 14:27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou
shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee.
 
Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring
forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt
lay it up within thy gates:
 
Deuteronomy 14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor
inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat
and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the
work of thine hand which thou doest.
 
Deuteronomy 15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt
make a release.
 
Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every
creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it;
he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother;
because it is called the LORD's release.
 
Deuteronomy 15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but
that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
 
Deuteronomy 15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you;
for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
 
Deuteronomy 15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments
which I command thee this day.
 
Deuteronomy 15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he
promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou
shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but
they shall not reign over thee.
 
Deuteronomy 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy
brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut
thine hand from thy poor brother:
 
Deuteronomy 15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,
and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which
he wanteth.
 
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy
wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is
at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou
givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it
be sin unto thee.
 
Deuteronomy 15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart
shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for
this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works,
and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
 
Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the
land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine
hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy
land.
 
Deuteronomy 15:12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an
Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then
in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
 
Deuteronomy 15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee,
thou shalt not let him go away empty:
 
Deuteronomy 15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy
flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that
wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto
him.
 
Deuteronomy 15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee:
therefore I command thee this thing to day.
 
Deuteronomy 15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will
not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house,
because he is well with thee;
 
Deuteronomy 15:17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it
through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for
ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
 
Deuteronomy 15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou
sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double
hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD
thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
 
Deuteronomy 15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd
and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou
shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the
firstling of thy sheep.
 
Deuteronomy 15:20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God
year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and
thy household.
 
Deuteronomy 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it
be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not
sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the
unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck,
and as the hart.
 
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof;
thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
 
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD
thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
 
Deuteronomy 16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover
unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place
which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
 
Deuteronomy 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it;
seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the
bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of
Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou
camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
 
Deuteronomy 16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with
thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing
of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even,
remain all night until the morning.
 
Deuteronomy 16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within
any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
 
Deuteronomy 16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the
passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season
that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
 
Deuteronomy 16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the
morning, and go unto thy tents.
 
Deuteronomy 16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and
on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy
God: thou shalt do no work therein.
 
Deuteronomy 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin
to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put
the sickle to the corn.
 
Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto
the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine
hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as
the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
 
Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy
God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and
thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you,
in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name
there.
 
Deuteronomy 16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
 
Deuteronomy 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles
seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy
wine:
 
Deuteronomy 16:14 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.
 
Deuteronomy 16:15 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.
 
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males
appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear
before the LORD empty:
 
Deuteronomy 16:17 Every man shall give as he is able, according
to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
 
Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in
all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy
tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
 
Deuteronomy 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not
respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the
eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
 
Deuteronomy 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou
follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee.
 
Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any
trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt
make thee.
 
Deuteronomy 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image;
which the LORD thy God hateth.
 
Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God
any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any
evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy
God.
 
Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy
gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath
wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in
transgressing his covenant,
 
Deuteronomy 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and
worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of
heaven, which I have not commanded;
 
Deuteronomy 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of
it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
 
Deuteronomy 17:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but
at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
 
Deuteronomy 17:7 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.
 
Deuteronomy 17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in
judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within
thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose;
 
Deuteronomy 17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the
Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and
enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
 
Deuteronomy 17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence,
which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew
thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they
inform thee:
 
Deuteronomy 17:11 According to the sentence of the law which
they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they
shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the
sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to
the left.
 
Deuteronomy 17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and
will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there
before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall
die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and
do no more presumptuously.
 
Deuteronomy 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell
therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all
the nations that are about me;
 
Deuteronomy 17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over
thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy
brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a
stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
 
Deuteronomy 17:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself,
that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply
to himself silver and gold.
 
Deuteronomy 17:18 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:
 
Deuteronomy 17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read
therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the
LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these
statutes, to do them:
 
Deuteronomy 17:20 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.
 
Deuteronomy 18:1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of
Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall
eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
 
Deuteronomy 18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among
their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said
unto them.
 
Deuteronomy 18:3 And this shall be the priest's due from the
people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or
sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the
two cheeks, and the maw.
 
Deuteronomy 18:4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine,
and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt
thou give him.
 
Deuteronomy 18:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out
of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire
of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
 
Deuteronomy 18:7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD
his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there
before the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside
that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
 
Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations.
 
Deuteronomy 18:10 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.
 
Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
 
Deuteronomy 18:12 For all that do these things are an
abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the
LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
 
Deuteronomy 18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess,
hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for
thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
 
Deuteronomy 18:15 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;
 
Deuteronomy 18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the
LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me
not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see
this great fire any more, that I die not.
 
Deuteronomy 18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well
spoken that which they have spoken.
 
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among
their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his
mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
 
Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I
will require it of him.
 
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak
a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet
shall die.
 
Deuteronomy 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we
know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
 
Deuteronomy 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the
LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the
thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken
it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
 
Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the
nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou
succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their
houses;
 
Deuteronomy 19:2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in
the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the
coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
 
Deuteronomy 19:4 And this is the case of the slayer, which
shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour
ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
 
Deuteronomy 19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his
neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the
axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve,
and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto
one of those cities, and live:
 
Deuteronomy 19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the
slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way
is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death,
inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
 
Deuteronomy 19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt
separate three cities for thee.
 
Deuteronomy 19:8 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;
 
Deuteronomy 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to
do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God,
and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities
more for thee, beside these three:
 
Deuteronomy 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so
blood be upon thee.
 
Deuteronomy 19:11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in
wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally
that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
 
Deuteronomy 19:12 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.
 
Deuteronomy 19:13 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.
 
Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's
landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance,
which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man
for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at
the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall the matter be established.
 
Deuteronomy 19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to
testify against him that which is wrong;
 
Deuteronomy 19:17 Then both the men, between whom the
controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests
and the judges, which shall be in those days;
 
Deuteronomy 19:18 And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and
hath testified falsely against his brother;
 
Deuteronomy 19:19 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.
 
Deuteronomy 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear,
and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
 
Deuteronomy 19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall
go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot.
 
Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine
enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than
thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee,
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
 
Deuteronomy 20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto
the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the
people,
 
Deuteronomy 20:3 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;
 
Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with
you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
 
Deuteronomy 20:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 20:6 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.
 
Deuteronomy 20:7 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.
 
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the
people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and
fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his
brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
 
Deuteronomy 20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made
an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains
of the armies to lead the people.
 
Deuteronomy 20:10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight
against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
 
Deuteronomy 20:11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of
peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people
that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they
shall serve thee.
 
Deuteronomy 20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but
will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
 
Deuteronomy 20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it
into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the
edge of the sword:
 
Deuteronomy 20:14 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.
 
Deuteronomy 20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which
are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these
nations.
 
Deuteronomy 20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the
LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save
alive nothing that breatheth:
 
Deuteronomy 20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely,
the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God
hath commanded thee:
 
Deuteronomy 20:18 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.
 
Deuteronomy 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time,
in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the
trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat
of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
 
Deuteronomy 20:20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they
be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and
thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with
thee, until it be subdued.
 
Deuteronomy 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and
it be not known who hath slain him:
 
Deuteronomy 21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come
forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round
about him that is slain:
 
Deuteronomy 21:3 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;
 
Deuteronomy 21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring down
the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown,
and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
 
Deuteronomy 21:5 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:
 
Deuteronomy 21:6 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:
 
Deuteronomy 21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have
not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
 
Deuteronomy 21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel,
whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy
people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
 
Deuteronomy 21:9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent
blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in
the sight of the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 21:10 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,
 
Deuteronomy 21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful
woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to
thy wife;
 
Deuteronomy 21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine
house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
 
Deuteronomy 21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and
bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that
thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be
thy wife.
 
Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in
her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt
not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of
her, because thou hast humbled her.
 
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and
another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved
and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
 
Deuteronomy 21:16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to
inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the
beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed
the firstborn:
 
Deuteronomy 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated
for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he
hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn is his.
 
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,
which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his
mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken
unto them:
 
Deuteronomy 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold
on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto
the gate of his place;
 
Deuteronomy 21:20 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.
 
Deuteronomy 21:21 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.
 
Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of
death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
 
Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon the
tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that
is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
 
Deuteronomy 22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his
sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any
case bring them again unto thy brother.
 
Deuteronomy 22:2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or
if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own
house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it,
and thou shalt restore it to him again.
 
Deuteronomy 22:3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and
so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy
brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do
likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
 
Deuteronomy 22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox
fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt
surely help him to lift them up again.
 
Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth
unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all
that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in
the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young
ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the
eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
 
Deuteronomy 22:7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and
take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest prolong thy days.
 
Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou
shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood
upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
 
Deuteronomy 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers
seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the
fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
 
Deuteronomy 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together.
 
Deuteronomy 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers
sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
 
Deuteronomy 22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four
quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
 
Deuteronomy 22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her,
and hate her,
 
Deuteronomy 22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and
bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and
when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
 
Deuteronomy 22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her
mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity
unto the elders of the city in the gate:
 
Deuteronomy 22:16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the
elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth
her;
 
Deuteronomy 22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech
against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet
these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall
spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
 
Deuteronomy 22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that
man and chastise him;
 
Deuteronomy 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred
shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel,
because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
 
Deuteronomy 22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of
virginity be not found for the damsel:
 
Deuteronomy 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the
door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone
her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in
Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou
put evil away from among you.
 
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married
to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man
that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away
evil from Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 22:23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed
unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with
her;
 
Deuteronomy 22:24 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.
 
Deuteronomy 22:25 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.
 
Deuteronomy 22:26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing;
there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man
riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this
matter:
 
Deuteronomy 22:27 For he found her in the field, and the
betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
 
Deuteronomy 22:28 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;
 
Deuteronomy 22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give
unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall
be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away
all his days.
 
Deuteronomy 22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor
discover his father's skirt.
 
Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his
privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of
the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the
congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he
not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into
the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation
shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
 
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with
water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because
they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
 
Deuteronomy 23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not
hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a
blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
 
Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their
prosperity all thy days for ever.
 
Deuteronomy 23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy
brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a
stranger in his land.
 
Deuteronomy 23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall
enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third
generation.
 
Deuteronomy 23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine
enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
 
Deuteronomy 23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not
clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then
shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the
camp:
 
Deuteronomy 23:11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he
shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall
come into the camp again.
 
Deuteronomy 23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the
camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
 
Deuteronomy 23:13 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:
 
Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of
thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before
thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean
thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
 
Deuteronomy 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the
servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
 
Deuteronomy 23:16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in
that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it
liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
 
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of
Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or
the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any
vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy
brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing
that is lent upon usury:
 
Deuteronomy 23:20 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.
 
Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy
God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will
surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
 
Deuteronomy 23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be
no sin in thee.
 
Deuteronomy 23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt
keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou
hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with
thy mouth.
 
Deuteronomy 23:24 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.
 
Deuteronomy 23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of
thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand;
but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing
corn.
 
Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her,
and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because
he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a
bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of
his house.
 
Deuteronomy 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she
may go and be another man's wife.
 
Deuteronomy 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write
her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth
her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took
her to be his wife;
 
Deuteronomy 24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may
not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for
that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the
land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance.
 
Deuteronomy 24:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper
millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
 
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren
of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or
selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil
away from among you.
 
Deuteronomy 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou
observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe
to do.
 
Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam
by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
 
Deuteronomy 24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing,
thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
 
Deuteronomy 24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom
thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
 
Deuteronomy 24:12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep
with his pledge:
 
Deuteronomy 24:13 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.
 
Deuteronomy 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that
is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy
strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
 
Deuteronomy 24:15 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.
 
Deuteronomy 24:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the
stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to
pledge:
 
Deuteronomy 24:18 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.
 
Deuteronomy 24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy
field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go
again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the
fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thine hands.
 
Deuteronomy 24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou
shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger,
for the fatherless, and for the widow.
 
Deuteronomy 24:21 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.
 
Deuteronomy 24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this
thing.
 
Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and
they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then
they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
 
Deuteronomy 25:2 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.
 
Deuteronomy 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed:
lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many
stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
 
Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth
out the corn.
 
Deuteronomy 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them
die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry
without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto
her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an
husband's brother unto her.
 
Deuteronomy 25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she
beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead,
that his name be not put out of Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's
wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the
elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto
his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my
husband's brother.
 
Deuteronomy 25:8 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;
 
Deuteronomy 25:9 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.
 
Deuteronomy 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The
house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
 
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men strive together one with another,
and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband
out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her
hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
 
Deuteronomy 25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye
shall not pity her.
 
Deuteronomy 25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers
weights, a great and a small.
 
Deuteronomy 25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers
measures, a great and a small.
 
Deuteronomy 25:15 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.
 
Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do
unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the
way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
 
Deuteronomy 25:18 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.
 
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God
hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to
possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
 
Deuteronomy 26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance,
and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
 
Deuteronomy 26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the
fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt
go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place
his name there.
 
Deuteronomy 26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall
be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the
LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD
sware unto our fathers for to give us.
 
Deuteronomy 26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of
thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD
thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down
into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a
nation, great, mighty, and populous:
 
Deuteronomy 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and
afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
 
Deuteronomy 26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our
fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction,
and our labour, and our oppression:
 
Deuteronomy 26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
 
Deuteronomy 26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and
hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and
honey.
 
Deuteronomy 26:10 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:
 
Deuteronomy 26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing
which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine
house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
 
Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the
tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of
tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates,
and be filled;
 
Deuteronomy 26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God,
I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and
also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to
the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy
commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not
transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
 
Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning,
neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor
given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the
voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that
thou hast commanded me.
 
Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from
heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast
given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth
with milk and honey.
 
Deuteronomy 26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee
to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and
do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
 
Deuteronomy 26:17 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:
 
Deuteronomy 26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to
be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou
shouldest keep all his commandments;
 
Deuteronomy 26:19 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.
 
Deuteronomy 27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded
the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you
this day.
 
Deuteronomy 27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass
over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with
plaister:
 
Deuteronomy 27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words
of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in
unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that
floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath
promised thee.
 
Deuteronomy 27:4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over
Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you
this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with
plaister.
 
Deuteronomy 27:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God
of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon
unto the LORD thy God:
 
Deuteronomy 27:7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and
shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the
words of this law very plainly.
 
Deuteronomy 27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake
unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this
day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the
LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day.
 
Deuteronomy 27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day,
saying,
 
Deuteronomy 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless
the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
 
Deuteronomy 27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to
curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
 
Deuteronomy 27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all
the men of Israel with a loud voice,
 
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or
molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands
of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the
people shall answer and say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father
or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's
landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander
out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of
the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's
wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of
beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:22 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.
 
Deuteronomy 27:23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in
law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour
secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an
innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the
words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
 
Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt
hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe
and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day,
that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of
the earth:
 
Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee,
and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God.
 
Deuteronomy 28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed
shalt thou be in the field.
 
Deuteronomy 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and
the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
 
Deuteronomy 28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
 
Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
 
Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise
up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come
out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
 
Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee
in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto;
and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:9 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that
thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid
of thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:11 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:12 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and
not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD
thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do
them:
 
Deuteronomy 28:14 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all
his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day;
that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
 
Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed
shalt thou be in the field.
 
Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
 
Deuteronomy 28:18 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
 
Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing,
vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto
for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish
quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou
hast forsaken me.
 
Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave
unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither
thou goest to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption,
and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme
burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew;
and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
 
Deuteronomy 28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be
brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
 
Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land
powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until
thou be destroyed.
 
Deuteronomy 28:25 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls
of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall
fray them away.
 
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of
Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the
itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
 
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and
blindness, and astonishment of heart:
 
Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind
gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and
thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man
shall save thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:30 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:31 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:32 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:33 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:
 
Deuteronomy 28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see.
 
Deuteronomy 28:35 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:36 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a
proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall
lead thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the
field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall
consume it.
 
Deuteronomy 28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them,
but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for
the worms shall eat them.
 
Deuteronomy 28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all
thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for
thine olive shall cast his fruit.
 
Deuteronomy 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou
shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
 
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the
locust consume.
 
Deuteronomy 28:43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up
above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
 
Deuteronomy 28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not
lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
 
Deuteronomy 28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon
thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be
destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he
commanded thee:
 
Deuteronomy 28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and
for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
 
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God
with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of
all things;
 
Deuteronomy 28:48 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:49 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;
 
Deuteronomy 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall
not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
 
Deuteronomy 28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and
the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall
not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy
kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates,
until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou
trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in
all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God
hath given thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own
body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness,
wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
 
Deuteronomy 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and
very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and
toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his
children which he shall leave:
 
Deuteronomy 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of
the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath
nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith
thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
 
Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you,
which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the
ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil
toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward
her daughter,
 
Deuteronomy 28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from
between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear:
for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the
siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee
in thy gates.
 
Deuteronomy 28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words
of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear
this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
 
Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues
wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and
of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long
continuance.
 
Deuteronomy 28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the
diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall
cleave unto thee.
 
Deuteronomy 28:61 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:62 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD
rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the
LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to
nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou
goest to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all
people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and
there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy
fathers have known, even wood and stone.
 
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no
ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD
shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and
sorrow of mind:
 
Deuteronomy 28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee;
and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance
of thy life:
 
Deuteronomy 28:67 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.
 
Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt
again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou
shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your
enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
 
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the
LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the
land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in
Horeb.
 
Deuteronomy 29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said
unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in
the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and
unto all his land;
 
Deuteronomy 29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have
seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
 
Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
 
Deuteronomy 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the
wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe
is not waxen old upon thy foot.
 
Deuteronomy 29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk
wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your
God.
 
Deuteronomy 29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the
king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us
unto battle, and we smote them:
 
Deuteronomy 29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an
inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the
half tribe of Manasseh.
 
Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and
do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
 
Deuteronomy 29:10 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,
 
Deuteronomy 29:11 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:
 
Deuteronomy 29:12 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:
 
Deuteronomy 29:13 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.
 
Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant
and this oath;
 
Deuteronomy 29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this
day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here
with us this day:
 
Deuteronomy 29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of
Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
 
Deuteronomy 29:17 And ye have seen their abominations, and
their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among
them:)
 
Deuteronomy 29:18 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;
 
Deuteronomy 29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the
words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying,
I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine
heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
 
Deuteronomy 29:20 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.
 
Deuteronomy 29:21 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:
 
Deuteronomy 29:22 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;
 
Deuteronomy 29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone,
and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any
grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah,
Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in
his wrath:
 
Deuteronomy 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath
the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this
great anger?
 
Deuteronomy 29:25 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:
 
Deuteronomy 29:26 For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not
given unto them:
 
Deuteronomy 29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in
this book:
 
Deuteronomy 29:28 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.
 
Deuteronomy 29:29 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.
 
Deuteronomy 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these
things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I
have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all
the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
 
Deuteronomy 30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and
shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this
day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul;
 
Deuteronomy 30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy
captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and
gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
scattered thee.
 
Deuteronomy 30:4 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:
 
Deuteronomy 30:5 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.
 
Deuteronomy 30:6 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.
 
Deuteronomy 30:7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses
upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted
thee.
 
Deuteronomy 30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of
the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this
day.
 
Deuteronomy 30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous
in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the
fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for
the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced
over thy fathers:
 
Deuteronomy 30:10 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.
 
Deuteronomy 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee
this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
 
Deuteronomy 30:12 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?
 
Deuteronomy 30:13 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?
 
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy
mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
 
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and
good, and death and evil;
 
Deuteronomy 30:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou
wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods,
and serve them;
 
Deuteronomy 30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall
surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the
land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 30:19 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:
 
Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and
that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto
him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou
mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
 
Deuteronomy 31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all
Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 31:2 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee,
and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou
shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as
the LORD hath said.
 
Deuteronomy 31:4 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your
face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the
commandments which I have commanded you.
 
Deuteronomy 31:6 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto
him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage:
for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD
hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause
them to inherit it.
 
Deuteronomy 31:8 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it
unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end
of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in
the feast of tabernacles,
 
Deuteronomy 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the
LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read
this law before all Israel in their hearing.
 
Deuteronomy 31:12 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:
 
Deuteronomy 31:13 And that their children, which have not known
any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long
as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy
days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present
yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give
him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves
in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
Deuteronomy 31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a
pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the
door of the tabernacle.
 
Deuteronomy 31:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:17 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?
 
Deuteronomy 31:18 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:19 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:20 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:21 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day,
and taught it the children of Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge,
and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring
the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and
I will be with thee.
 
Deuteronomy 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an
end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished,
 
Deuteronomy 31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 31:26 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck:
behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been
rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
 
Deuteronomy 31:28 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.
 
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will
utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I
have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days;
because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger through the work of your hands.
 
Deuteronomy 31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the
congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were
ended.
 
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
 
Deuteronomy 32:2 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:
 
Deuteronomy 32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
 
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all
his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just
and right is he.
 
Deuteronomy 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is
not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked
generation.
 
Deuteronomy 32:6 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?
 
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years
of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy
elders, and they will tell thee.
 
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations
their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the
bounds of the people according to the number of the children of
Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is
the lot of his inheritance.
 
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the
waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he
kept him as the apple of his eye.
 
Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth
them on her wings:
 
Deuteronomy 32:12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was
no strange god with him.
 
Deuteronomy 32:13 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;
 
Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat
of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the
fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of
the grape.
 
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art
waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness;
then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock
of his salvation.
 
Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange
gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
 
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to
gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom
your fathers feared not.
 
Deuteronomy 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art
unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
 
Deuteronomy 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them,
because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
 
Deuteronomy 32:20 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.
 
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that
which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their
vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are
not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
 
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and
shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with
her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
 
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend
mine arrows upon them.
 
Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured
with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send
the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the
dust.
 
Deuteronomy 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall
destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with
the man of gray hairs.
 
Deuteronomy 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I
would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
 
Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the
enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely,
and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not
done all this.
 
Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel,
neither is there any understanding in them.
 
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood
this, that they would consider their latter end!
 
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put
ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the
LORD had shut them up?
 
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our
enemies themselves being judges.
 
Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and
of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their
clusters are bitter:
 
Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the
cruel venom of asps.
 
Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and
sealed up among my treasures?
 
Deuteronomy 32:35 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.
 
Deuteronomy 32:36 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.
 
Deuteronomy 32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their
rock in whom they trusted,
 
Deuteronomy 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices,
and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and
help you, and be your protection.
 
Deuteronomy 32:39 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.
 
Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
live for ever.
 
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand
take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies,
and will reward them that hate me.
 
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and
my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain
and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the
enemy.
 
Deuteronomy 32:43 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.
 
Deuteronomy 32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of
this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of
Nun.
 
Deuteronomy 32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these
words to all Israel:
 
Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto
all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall
command your children to observe to do, all the words of this
law.
 
Deuteronomy 32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because
it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your
days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
 
Deuteronomy 32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame
day, saying,
 
Deuteronomy 32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto
mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against
Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the
children of Israel for a possession:
 
Deuteronomy 32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up,
and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in
mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
 
Deuteronomy 32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the
children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the
wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of
the children of Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but
thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children
of Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the
man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
 
Deuteronomy 33:2 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:3 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance
of the congregation of Jacob.
 
Deuteronomy 33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of
the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
 
Deuteronomy 33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his
men be few.
 
Deuteronomy 33:7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he
said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his
people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help
to him from his enemies.
 
Deuteronomy 33:8 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;
 
Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I
have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor
knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept
thy covenant.
 
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and
Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole
burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
 
Deuteronomy 33:11 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:12 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be
his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for
the deep that coucheth beneath,
 
Deuteronomy 33:14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by
the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
 
Deuteronomy 33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient
mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
 
Deuteronomy 33:16 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his
bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them
he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands
of Manasseh.
 
Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in
thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
 
Deuteronomy 33:19 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that
enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with
the crown of the head.
 
Deuteronomy 33:21 And he provided the first part for himself,
because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and
he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of
the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
 
Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he
shall leap from Bashan.
 
Deuteronomy 33:23 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:24 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy
days, so shall thy strength be.
 
Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun,
who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on
the sky.
 
Deuteronomy 33:27 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.
 
Deuteronomy 33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the
fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his
heavens shall drop down dew.
 
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto
thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who
is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found
liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
 
Deuteronomy 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto
the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against
Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto
Dan,
 
Deuteronomy 34:2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and
Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
 
Deuteronomy 34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of
Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
 
Deuteronomy 34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land
which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I
will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with
thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
 
Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in
the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
 
Deuteronomy 34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of
Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre
unto this day.
 
Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old
when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
 
Deuteronomy 34:8 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.
 
Deuteronomy 34:9 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.
 
Deuteronomy 34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel
like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
 
Deuteronomy 34:11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the
LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all
his servants, and to all his land,
 
Deuteronomy 34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the
great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
 
Joshua 1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD
it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun,
Moses' minister, saying,
 
Joshua 1:2 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.
 
Joshua 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread
upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
 
Joshua 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the
great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites,
and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be
your coast.
 
Joshua 1:5 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.
 
Joshua 1:6 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.
 
Joshua 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my
servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to
the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
 
Joshua 1:8 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.
 
Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good
courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD
thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
 
Joshua 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
saying,
 
Joshua 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people,
saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass
over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD
your God giveth you to possess it.
 
Joshua 1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to
half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
 
Joshua 1:13 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.
 
Joshua 1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle,
shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side
Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the
mighty men of valour, and help them;
 
Joshua 1:15 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.
 
Joshua 1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou
commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we
will go.
 
Joshua 1:17 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.
 
Joshua 1:18 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.
 
Joshua 2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two
men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And
they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and
lodged there.
 
Joshua 2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold,
there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to
search out the country.
 
Joshua 2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying,
Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into
thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
 
Joshua 2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and
said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they
were:
 
Joshua 2:5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of
the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the
men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall
overtake them.
 
Joshua 2:6 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.
 
Joshua 2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan
unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were
gone out, they shut the gate.
 
Joshua 2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto
them upon the roof;
 
Joshua 2:9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath
given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and
that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 
Joshua 2:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water
of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye
did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other
side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
 
Joshua 2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our
hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any
man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven
above, and in earth beneath.
 
Joshua 2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the
LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew
kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
 
Joshua 2:13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my
mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have,
and deliver our lives from death.
 
Joshua 2:14 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.
 
Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the
window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon
the wall.
 
Joshua 2:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain,
lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days,
until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
 
Joshua 2:17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of
this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
 
Joshua 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind
this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us
down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy
brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
 
Joshua 2:19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the
doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his
head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee
in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon
him.
 
Joshua 2:20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will
be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
 
Joshua 2:21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it.
And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the
scarlet line in the window.
 
Joshua 2:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and
abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the
pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
 
Joshua 2:23 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:
 
Joshua 2:24 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.
 
Joshua 3:1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they
removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children
of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
 
Joshua 3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the
officers went through the host;
 
Joshua 3:3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see
the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the
Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go
after it.
 
Joshua 3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about
two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye
may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this
way heretofore.
 
Joshua 3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
 
Joshua 3:6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up
the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And
they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
 
Joshua 3:7 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.
 
Joshua 3:8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark
of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the
water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
 
Joshua 3:9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come
hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
 
Joshua 3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the
living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out
from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the
Amorites, and the Jebusites.
 
Joshua 3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all
the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
 
Joshua 3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes
of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
 
Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of
the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD
of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the
waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down
from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
 
Joshua 3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from
their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark
of the covenant before the people;
 
Joshua 3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto
Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped
in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks
all the time of harvest,)
 
Joshua 3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood
and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is
beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the
plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the
people passed over right against Jericho.
 
Joshua 3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant
of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and
all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the
people were passed clean over Jordan.
 
Joshua 4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean
passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
 
Joshua 4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every
tribe a man,
 
Joshua 4:3 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.
 
Joshua 4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had
prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
 
Joshua 4:5 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:
 
Joshua 4:6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your
children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye
by these stones?
 
Joshua 4:7 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.
 
Joshua 4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua
commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan,
as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the
tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them
unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
 
Joshua 4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of
Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the
ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
 
Joshua 4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the
midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD
commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that
Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
 
Joshua 4:11 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.
 
Joshua 4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of
Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the
children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
 
Joshua 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over
before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
 
Joshua 4:14 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.
 
Joshua 4:15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
 
Joshua 4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the
testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
 
Joshua 4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying,
Come ye up out of Jordan.
 
Joshua 4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the
ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of
Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto
the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their
place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
 
Joshua 4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth
day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east
border of Jericho.
 
Joshua 4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of
Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
 
Joshua 4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying,
When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come,
saying, What mean these stones?
 
Joshua 4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying,
Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
 
Joshua 4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan
from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God
did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we
were gone over:
 
Joshua 4:24 That all the people of the earth might know the
hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD
your God for ever.
 
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the
Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the
kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the
LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children
of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted,
neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the
children of Israel.
 
Joshua 5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee
sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the
second time.
 
Joshua 5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised
the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
 
Joshua 5:4 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.
 
Joshua 5:5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised:
but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as
they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
 
Joshua 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came
out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of
the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them
the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would
give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
 
Joshua 5:7 And their children, whom he raised up in their
stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised,
because they had not circumcised them by the way.
 
Joshua 5:8 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.
 
Joshua 5:9 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.
 
Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and
kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in
the plains of Jericho.
 
Joshua 5:11 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.
 
Joshua 5:12 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.
 
Joshua 5:13 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?
 
Joshua 5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the
LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and
did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his
servant?
 
Joshua 5:15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto
Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon
thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
 
Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the
children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
 
Joshua 6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given
into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men
of valour.
 
Joshua 6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war,
and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
 
Joshua 6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven
trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the
city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
 
Joshua 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a
long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the
trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the
wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall
ascend up every man straight before him.
 
Joshua 6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and
said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven
priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the
LORD.
 
Joshua 6:7 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.
 
Joshua 6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the
people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of
rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the
trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
 
Joshua 6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew
with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the
priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
 
Joshua 6:10 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.
 
Joshua 6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going
about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the
camp.
 
Joshua 6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the
priests took up the ark of the LORD.
 
Joshua 6:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams'
horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew
with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the
rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on,
and blowing with the trumpets.
 
Joshua 6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once,
and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
 
Joshua 6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they
rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city
after the same manner seven times: only on that day they
compassed the city seven times.
 
Joshua 6:16 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.
 
Joshua 6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all
that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live,
she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the
messengers that we sent.
 
Joshua 6:18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the
accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of
the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and
trouble it.
 
Joshua 6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass
and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the
treasury of the LORD.
 
Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with
the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the
sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout,
that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
 
Joshua 6:21 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.
 
Joshua 6:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied
out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence
the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
 
Joshua 6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and
brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her
brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her
kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
 
Joshua 6:24 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.
 
Joshua 6:25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her
father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in
Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which
Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
 
Joshua 6:26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying,
Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth
this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his
firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of
it.
 
Joshua 6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was
noised throughout all the country.
 
Joshua 7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in
the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the
accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the
children of Israel.
 
Joshua 7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is
beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them,
saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and
viewed Ai.
 
Joshua 7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let
not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men
go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour
thither; for they are but few.
 
Joshua 7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three
thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
 
Joshua 7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six
men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto
Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts
of the people melted, and became as water.
 
Joshua 7:6 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.
 
Joshua 7:7 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!
 
Joshua 7:8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their
backs before their enemies!
 
Joshua 7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the
land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off
our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great
name?
 
Joshua 7:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up;
wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
 
Joshua 7:11 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.
 
Joshua 7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand
before their enemies, but turned their backs before their
enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you
any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
 
Joshua 7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify
yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O
Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take
away the accursed thing from among you.
 
Joshua 7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought
according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which
the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and
the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households;
and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by
man.
 
Joshua 7:15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the
accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath:
because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and
because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
 
Joshua 7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought
Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
 
Joshua 7:17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the
family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites
man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
 
Joshua 7:18 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.
 
Joshua 7:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray
thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto
him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
 
Joshua 7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have
sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done:
 
Joshua 7:21 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.
 
Joshua 7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the
tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under
it.
 
Joshua 7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent,
and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of
Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
 
Joshua 7:24 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.
 
Joshua 7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the
LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with
stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them
with stones.
 
Joshua 7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones
unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his
anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of
Achor, unto this day.
 
Joshua 8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be
thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise,
go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and
his people, and his city, and his land:
 
Joshua 8:2 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.
 
Joshua 8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up
against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of
valour, and sent them away by night.
 
Joshua 8:4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie
in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far
from the city, but be ye all ready:
 
Joshua 8:5 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,
 
Joshua 8:6 (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.
 
Joshua 8:7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize
upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your
hand.
 
Joshua 8:8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that
ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of
the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
 
Joshua 8:9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to
lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side
of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
 
Joshua 8:10 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.
 
Joshua 8:11 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.
 
Joshua 8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them
to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the
city.
 
Joshua 8:13 And when they had set the people, even all the host
that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the
west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the
valley.
 
Joshua 8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it,
that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went
out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time
appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were
liers in ambush against him behind the city.
 
Joshua 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were
beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
 
Joshua 8:16 And all the people that were in Ai were called
together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and
were drawn away from the city.
 
Joshua 8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that
went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and
pursued after Israel.
 
Joshua 8:18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the
spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into
thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his
hand toward the city.
 
Joshua 8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place,
and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they
entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city
on fire.
 
Joshua 8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they
saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven,
and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the
people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
 
Joshua 8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush
had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then
they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
 
Joshua 8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them;
so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some
on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them
remain or escape.
 
Joshua 8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him
to Joshua.
 
Joshua 8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of
slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness
wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the
edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the
Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the
sword.
 
Joshua 8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of
men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
 
Joshua 8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he
stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the
inhabitants of Ai.
 
Joshua 8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel
took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the
LORD which he commanded Joshua.
 
Joshua 8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever,
even a desolation unto this day.
 
Joshua 8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until
eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that
they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at
the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great
heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
 
Joshua 8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of
Israel in mount Ebal,
 
Joshua 8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the
children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of
Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up
any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD,
and sacrificed peace offerings.
 
Joshua 8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the
law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of
Israel.
 
Joshua 8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and
their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before
the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of
the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them;
half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over
against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had
commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
 
Joshua 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the
blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the
book of the law.
 
Joshua 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded,
which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with
the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were
conversant among them.
 
Joshua 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were
on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all
the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite,
and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite, heard thereof;
 
Joshua 9:2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight
with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
 
Joshua 9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua
had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
 
Joshua 9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they
had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and
wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
 
Joshua 9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old
garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry
and mouldy.
 
Joshua 9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and
said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far
country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
 
Joshua 9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites,
Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league
with you?
 
Joshua 9:8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And
Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
 
Joshua 9:9 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,
 
Joshua 9:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the
Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and
to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
 
Joshua 9:11 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.
 
Joshua 9:12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of
our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now,
behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
 
Joshua 9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were
new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our
shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
 
Joshua 9:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not
counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
 
Joshua 9:15 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.
 
Joshua 9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after
they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were
their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
 
Joshua 9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto
their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and
Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
 
Joshua 9:18 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.
 
Joshua 9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation,
We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore
we may not touch them.
 
Joshua 9:20 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.
 
Joshua 9:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but
let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the
congregation; as the princes had promised them.
 
Joshua 9:22 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?
 
Joshua 9:23 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.
 
Joshua 9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was
certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded
his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all
the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were
sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this
thing.
 
Joshua 9:25 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it
seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
 
Joshua 9:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of
the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
 
Joshua 9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the
LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
 
Joshua 10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec 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;
 
Joshua 10:2 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.
 
Joshua 10:3 Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto
Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto
Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
 
Joshua 10:4 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.
 
Joshua 10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king
of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king
of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and
went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon,
and made war against it.
 
Joshua 10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp
to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up
to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the
Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together
against us.
 
Joshua 10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the
people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
 
Joshua 10:8 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.
 
Joshua 10:9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went
up from Gilgal all night.
 
Joshua 10:10 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 Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and
unto Makkedah.
 
Joshua 10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before
Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD
cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and
they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
 
Joshua 10:12 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.
 
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is
not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in
the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
 
Joshua 10:14 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.
 
Joshua 10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto
the camp to Gilgal.
 
Joshua 10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a
cave at Makkedah.
 
Joshua 10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are
found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
 
Joshua 10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth
of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
 
Joshua 10:19 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.
 
Joshua 10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children
of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great
slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained
of them entered into fenced cities.
 
Joshua 10:21 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.
 
Joshua 10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and
bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
 
Joshua 10:23 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.
 
Joshua 10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those
kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel,
and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him,
Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they
came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
 
Joshua 10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be
dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD
do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
 
Joshua 10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them,
and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the
trees until the evening.
 
Joshua 10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down
of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off
the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid,
and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until
this very day.
 
Joshua 10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it
with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly
destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none
remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the
king of Jericho.
 
Joshua 10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel
with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
 
Joshua 10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king
thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge
of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none
remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the
king of Jericho.
 
Joshua 10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with
him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against
it:
 
Joshua 10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of
Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the
edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according
to all that he had done to Libnah.
 
Joshua 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish;
and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none
remaining.
 
Joshua 10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all
Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against
it:
 
Joshua 10:35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with
the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he
utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to
Lachish.
 
Joshua 10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with
him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
 
Joshua 10:37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of
the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and
all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining,
according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it
utterly, and all the souls that were therein.
 
Joshua 10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to
Debir; and fought against it:
 
Joshua 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the
cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword,
and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left
none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and
to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her
king.
 
Joshua 10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and
of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their
kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that
breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
 
Joshua 10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto
Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
 
Joshua 10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take
at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
 
Joshua 10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto
the camp to Gilgal.
 
Joshua 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had
heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to
the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
 
Joshua 11:2 And to the kings that were on the north of the
mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the
valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
 
Joshua 11:3 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.
 
Joshua 11:4 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.
 
Joshua 11:5 And when all these kings were met together, they
came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight
against Israel.
 
Joshua 11:6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid
because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver
them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses,
and burn their chariots with fire.
 
Joshua 11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,
against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon
them.
 
Joshua 11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of
Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and
unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and
they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
 
Joshua 11:9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he
houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
 
Joshua 11:10 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.
 
Joshua 11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein
with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was
not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
 
Joshua 11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the
kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of
the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded.
 
Joshua 11:13 But as for the cities that stood still in their
strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did
Joshua burn.
 
Joshua 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle,
the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every
man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had
destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
 
Joshua 11:15 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.
 
Joshua 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all
the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley,
and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the
same;
 
Joshua 11:17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir,
even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon:
and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
 
Joshua 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
 
Joshua 11:19 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.
 
Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts,
that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might
destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but
that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
Joshua 11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the
Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab,
and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains
of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
 
Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of
the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod,
there remained.
 
Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all
that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an
inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their
tribes. And the land rested from war.
 
Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the
children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other
side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon
unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
 
Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon,
and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon,
and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto
the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
 
Joshua 12:3 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 Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under
Ashdothpisgah:
 
Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of
the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
 
Joshua 12:5 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.
 
Joshua 12:6 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.
 
Joshua 12:7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua
and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west,
from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak,
that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of
Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
 
Joshua 12:8 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:
 
Joshua 12:9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is
beside Bethel, one;
 
Joshua 12:10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron,
one;
 
Joshua 12:11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish,
one;
 
Joshua 12:12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
 
Joshua 12:13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
 
Joshua 12:14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
 
Joshua 12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
 
Joshua 12:16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel,
one;
 
Joshua 12:17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
 
Joshua 12:18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
 
Joshua 12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
 
Joshua 12:20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of
Achshaph, one;
 
Joshua 12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo,
one;
 
Joshua 12:22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of
Carmel, one;
 
Joshua 12:23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king
of the nations of Gilgal, one;
 
Joshua 12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and
one.
 
Joshua 13:1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the
LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there
remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
 
Joshua 13:2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the
borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
 
Joshua 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the
borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite:
five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the
Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites;
also the Avites:
 
Joshua 13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of
the Amorites:
 
Joshua 13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon,
toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the
entering into Hamath.
 
Joshua 13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from
Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I
drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it
by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have
commanded thee.
 
Joshua 13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance
unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
 
Joshua 13:8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have
received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan
eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
 
Joshua 13:9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river
Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all
the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
 
Joshua 13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites,
which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of
Ammon;
 
Joshua 13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
 
Joshua 13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in
Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the
giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
 
Joshua 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not
the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the
Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
 
Joshua 13:14 Only unto the tribes of Levi he gave none
inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by
fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
 
Joshua 13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of
Reuben inheritance according to their families.
 
Joshua 13:16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the
bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the
river, and all the plain by Medeba;
 
Joshua 13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain;
Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
 
Joshua 13:18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
 
Joshua 13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in
the mount of the valley,
 
Joshua 13:20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and
Bethjeshimoth,
 
Joshua 13:21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the
kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,
whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and
Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in
the country.
 
Joshua 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did
the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were
slain by them.
 
Joshua 13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was
Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the
children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the
villages thereof.
 
Joshua 13:24 And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad,
even unto the children of Gad according to their families.
 
Joshua 13:25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of
Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer
that is before Rabbah;
 
Joshua 13:26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim;
and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
 
Joshua 13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and
Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of
Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
 
Joshua 13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad
after their families, the cities, and their villages.
 
Joshua 13:29 And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of
Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the
children of Manasseh by their families.
 
Joshua 13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all
the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair,
which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
 
Joshua 13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities
of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children
of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the
children of Machir by their families.
 
Joshua 13:32 These are the countries which Moses did distribute
for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan,
by Jericho, eastward.
 
Joshua 13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any
inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he
said unto them.
 
Joshua 14:1 And these are the countries which the children of
Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to
them.
 
Joshua 14:2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded
by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half
tribe.
 
Joshua 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes
and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites
he gave none inheritance among them.
 
Joshua 14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes,
Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the
Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs
for their cattle and for their substance.
 
Joshua 14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel did, and they divided the land.
 
Joshua 14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in
Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto
him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man
of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
 
Joshua 14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the
LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I
brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
 
Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made
the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my
God.
 
Joshua 14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the
land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance,
and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed
the LORD my God.
 
Joshua 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as
he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake
this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in
the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five
years old.
 
Joshua 14:11 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.
 
Joshua 14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the
LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the
Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if
so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive
them out, as the LORD said.
 
Joshua 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the
son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
 
Joshua 14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb
the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he
wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
 
Joshua 14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba;
which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had
rest from war.
 
Joshua 15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children
of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the
wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south
coast.
 
Joshua 15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the
salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
 
Joshua 15:3 And it went out to the south side to
Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the
south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and
went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
 
Joshua 15:4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out
unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at
the sea: this shall be your south coast.
 
Joshua 15:5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the
end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the
bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
 
Joshua 15:6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed
along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the
stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
 
Joshua 15:7 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 Enshemesh, and the
goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
 
Joshua 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of
Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is
Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that
lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end
of the valley of the giants northward:
 
Joshua 15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill
unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the
cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which
is Kirjathjearim:
 
Joshua 15:10 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 Bethshemesh, and
passed on to Timnah:
 
Joshua 15:11 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.
 
Joshua 15:12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the
coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round
about according to their families.
 
Joshua 15:13 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.
 
Joshua 15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak,
Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
 
Joshua 15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir:
and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
 
Joshua 15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
 
Joshua 15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of
Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
 
Joshua 15:18 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?
 
Joshua 15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast
given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave
her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
 
Joshua 15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Judah according to their families.
 
Joshua 15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the
children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were
Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
 
Joshua 15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
 
Joshua 15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
 
Joshua 15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
 
Joshua 15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron,
which is Hazor,
 
Joshua 15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
 
Joshua 15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
 
Joshua 15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
 
Joshua 15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
 
Joshua 15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
 
Joshua 15:31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
 
Joshua 15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all
the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and
Ashnah,
 
Joshua 15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
 
Joshua 15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
 
Joshua 15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
 
Joshua 15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
 
Joshua 15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
 
Joshua 15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
 
Joshua 15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
sixteen cities with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
 
Joshua 15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
 
Joshua 15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities
with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
 
Joshua 15:46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near
Ashdod, with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with
her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the
great sea, and the border thereof:
 
Joshua 15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and
Socoh,
 
Joshua 15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,
 
Joshua 15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
 
Joshua 15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities
with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
 
Joshua 15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
 
Joshua 15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and
Zior; nine cities with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
 
Joshua 15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
 
Joshua 15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their
villages:
 
Joshua 15:58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
 
Joshua 15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six
cities with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:60 Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah;
two cities with their villages:
 
Joshua 15:61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and
Secacah,
 
Joshua 15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six
cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites
dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
 
Joshua 16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from
Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the
wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,
 
Joshua 16:2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along
unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
 
Joshua 16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti,
unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the
goings out thereof are at the sea.
 
Joshua 16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim,
took their inheritance.
 
Joshua 16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according
to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance
on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
 
Joshua 16:6 And the border went out toward the sea to
Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward
unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
 
Joshua 16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to
Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
 
Joshua 16:8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the
river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their
families.
 
Joshua 16:9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim
were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the
cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt
in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto
this day, and serve under tribute.
 
Joshua 17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for
he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn
of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
 
Joshua 17:2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children
of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and
for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and
for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and
for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of
Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
 
Joshua 17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but
daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
 
Joshua 17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and
before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The
LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our
brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he
gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
 
Joshua 17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the
land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
 
Joshua 17:6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an
inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had
the land of Gilead.
 
Joshua 17:7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to
Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along
on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
 
Joshua 17:8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah
on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
 
Joshua 17:9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah,
southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the
cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north
side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:
 
Joshua 17:10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was
Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in
Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
 
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher
Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the
inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor
and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and
the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
 
Joshua 17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out
the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell
in that land.
 
Joshua 17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel
were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but
did not utterly drive them out.
 
Joshua 17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua,
saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to
inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath
blessed me hitherto?
 
Joshua 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great
people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for
thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if
mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
 
Joshua 17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not
enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of
the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean
and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
 
Joshua 17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to
Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and
hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
 
Joshua 17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood,
and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be
thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have
iron chariots, and though they be strong.
 
Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of
Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of
the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
 
Joshua 18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel
seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
 
Joshua 18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How
long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God
of your fathers hath given you?
 
Joshua 18:4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe:
and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the
land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and
they shall come again to me.
 
Joshua 18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah
shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph
shall abide in their coasts on the north.
 
Joshua 18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven
parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast
lots for you here before the LORD our God.
 
Joshua 18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the
priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben,
and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance
beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD
gave them.
 
Joshua 18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua
charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk
through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I
may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
 
Joshua 18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and
described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again
to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
 
Joshua 18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the
LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of
Israel according to their divisions.
 
Joshua 18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of
their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the
children of Joseph.
 
Joshua 18:12 And their border on the north side was from
Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the
north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the
goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
 
Joshua 18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz,
to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border
descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south
side of the nether Bethhoron.
 
Joshua 18:14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the
corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before
Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at
Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of
Judah: this was the west quarter.
 
Joshua 18:15 And the south quarter was from the end of
Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out
to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
 
Joshua 18:16 And the border came down to the end of the
mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and
which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended
to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and
descended to Enrogel,
 
Joshua 18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to
Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against
the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the
son of Reuben,
 
Joshua 18:18 And passed along toward the side over against
Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
 
Joshua 18:19 And the border passed along to the side of
Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the
north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was
the south coast.
 
Joshua 18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side.
This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the
coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
 
Joshua 18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and
Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
 
Joshua 18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
 
Joshua 18:23 And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,
 
Joshua 18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve
cities with their villages:
 
Joshua 18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
 
Joshua 18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
 
Joshua 18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
 
Joshua 18:28 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.
 
Joshua 19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for
the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families:
and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children
of Judah.
 
Joshua 19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and
Sheba, and Moladah,
 
Joshua 19:3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
 
Joshua 19:4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
 
Joshua 19:5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
 
Joshua 19:6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and
their villages:
 
Joshua 19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and
their villages:
 
Joshua 19:8 And all the villages that were round about these
cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to
their families.
 
Joshua 19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the
inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the
children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children
of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
 
Joshua 19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of
Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their
inheritance was unto Sarid:
 
Joshua 19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and
Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that
is before Jokneam;
 
Joshua 19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the
sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to
Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
 
Joshua 19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to
Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to
Neah;
 
Joshua 19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to
Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of
Jiphthahel:
 
Joshua 19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and
Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 19:17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the
children of Issachar according to their families.
 
Joshua 19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and
Chesulloth, and Shunem,
 
Joshua 19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
 
Joshua 19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
 
Joshua 19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and
Bethpazzez;
 
Joshua 19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah,
and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at
Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and
their villages.
 
Joshua 19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Asher according to their families.
 
Joshua 19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten,
and Achshaph,
 
Joshua 19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and
reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
 
Joshua 19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and
reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the
north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the
left hand,
 
Joshua 19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even
unto great Zidon;
 
Joshua 19:29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the
strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the
outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
 
Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two
cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Asher according to their families, these cities with
their villages.
 
Joshua 19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of
Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their
families.
 
Joshua 19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to
Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the
outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
 
Joshua 19:34 And then the coast turneth westward to
Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to
Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west
side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
 
Joshua 19:35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and
Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
 
Joshua 19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
 
Joshua 19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
 
Joshua 19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and
Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
 
Joshua 19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and
their villages.
 
Joshua 19:40 And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Dan according to their families.
 
Joshua 19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and
Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
 
Joshua 19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
 
Joshua 19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
 
Joshua 19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
 
Joshua 19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
 
Joshua 19:46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before
Japho.
 
Joshua 19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too
little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight
against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem,
Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
 
Joshua 19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Dan according to their families, these cities with
their villages.
 
Joshua 19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for
inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an
inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
 
Joshua 19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him
the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and
he built the city, and dwelt therein.
 
Joshua 19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers
of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an
inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing
the country.
 
Joshua 20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
 
Joshua 20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint
out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the
hand of Moses:
 
Joshua 20:3 That the slayer that killeth any person unawares
and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge
from the avenger of blood.
 
Joshua 20:4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities
shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall
declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they
shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place,
that he may dwell among them.
 
Joshua 20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then
they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he
smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
 
Joshua 20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand
before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the
high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer
return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto
the city from whence he fled.
 
Joshua 20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount
Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is
Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
 
Joshua 20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward,
they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the
tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,
and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
 
Joshua 20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the
children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among
them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee
thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until
he stood before the congregation.
 
Joshua 21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the
Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun,
and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children
of Israel;
 
Joshua 21:2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of
Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give
us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
 
Joshua 21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites
out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these
cities and their suburbs.
 
Joshua 21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the
Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of
the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the
tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen
cities.
 
Joshua 21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot
out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe
of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
 
Joshua 21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher,
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 
Joshua 21:7 The children of Merari by their families had out of
the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the
tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 
Joshua 21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the
Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by
the hand of Moses.
 
Joshua 21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of
Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these
cities which are here mentioned by name.
 
Joshua 21:10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families
of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for
theirs was the first lot.
 
Joshua 21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of
Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with
the suburbs thereof round about it.
 
Joshua 21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages
thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his
possession.
 
Joshua 21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest
Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer;
and Libnah with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her
suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her
suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her
suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of
those two tribes.
 
Joshua 21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her
suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her
suburbs; four cities.
 
Joshua 21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the
priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
 
Joshua 21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the
Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had
the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
 
Joshua 21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in
mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer
with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with
her suburbs; four cities.
 
Joshua 21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her
suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her
suburbs; four cities.
 
Joshua 21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with
her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
 
Joshua 21:26 All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the
families of the children of Kohath that remained.
 
Joshua 21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families
of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave
Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the
slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
 
Joshua 21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her
suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her
suburbs; four cities.
 
Joshua 21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her
suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her
suburbs; four cities.
 
Joshua 21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in
Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer;
and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs;
three cities.
 
Joshua 21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to
their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
 
Joshua 21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari,
the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam
with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs;
four cities.
 
Joshua 21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her
suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her
suburbs; four cities.
 
Joshua 21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with
her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim
with her suburbs,
 
Joshua 21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs;
four cities in all.
 
Joshua 21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by
their families, which were remaining of the families of the
Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
 
Joshua 21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the
possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities
with their suburbs.
 
Joshua 21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs
round about them: thus were all these cities.
 
Joshua 21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which
he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and
dwelt therein.
 
Joshua 21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according
to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a
man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all
their enemies into their hand.
 
Joshua 21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the
LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
 
Joshua 22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites,
and the half tribe of Manasseh,
 
Joshua 22:2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the
servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in
all that I commanded you:
 
Joshua 22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto
this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD
your God.
 
Joshua 22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your
brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get
you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which
Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
 
Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and
the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love
the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all
your heart and with all your soul.
 
Joshua 22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and
they went unto their tents.
 
Joshua 22:7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses
had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof
gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward.
And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he
blessed them,
 
Joshua 22:8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much
riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver,
and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
 
Joshua 22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the
children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan,
to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their
possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of
the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 
Joshua 22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan,
that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an
altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
 
Joshua 22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of
Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in
the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
 
Joshua 22:12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the
whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves
together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
 
Joshua 22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children
of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest,
 
Joshua 22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a
prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an
head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
 
Joshua 22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to
the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the
land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
 
Joshua 22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD,
What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of
Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye
have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against
the LORD?
 
Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from
which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a
plague in the congregation of the LORD,
 
Joshua 22:18 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.
 
Joshua 22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be
unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the
LORD, wherein the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession
among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us,
in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
 
Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass
in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of
Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
 
Joshua 22:21 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,
 
Joshua 22:22 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,)
 
Joshua 22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from
following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat
offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD
himself require it;
 
Joshua 22:24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this
thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our
children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
 
Joshua 22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us
and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no
part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease
from fearing the LORD.
 
Joshua 22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us
an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
 
Joshua 22:27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you,
and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the
LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may
not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the
LORD.
 
Joshua 22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they
should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that
we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD,
which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for
sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
 
Joshua 22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD,
and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for
burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside
the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
 
Joshua 22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of
the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were
with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased
them.
 
Joshua 22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said
unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to
the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is
among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the
LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the
hand of the LORD.
 
Joshua 22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and
the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the
children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of
Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
 
Joshua 22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and
the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up
against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children
of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
 
Joshua 22:34 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.
 
Joshua 23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD
had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about,
that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
 
Joshua 23:2 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:
 
Joshua 23:3 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.
 
Joshua 23:4 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.
 
Joshua 23:5 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.
 
Joshua 23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do
all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn
not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
 
Joshua 23:7 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:
 
Joshua 23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done
unto this day.
 
Joshua 23:9 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.
 
Joshua 23:10 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.
 
Joshua 23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye
love the LORD your God.
 
Joshua 23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto
the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you,
and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they
to you:
 
Joshua 23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will
no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they
shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides,
and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land
which the LORD your God hath given you.
 
Joshua 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all
the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls,
that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the
LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto
you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
 
Joshua 23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good
things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you;
so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have
destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God
hath given you.
 
Joshua 23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD
your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other
gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the
LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off
the good land which he hath given unto you.
 
Joshua 24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to
Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their
heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they
presented themselves before God.
 
Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the
flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the
father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
 
Joshua 24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side
of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and
multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
 
Joshua 24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave
unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children
went down into Egypt.
 
Joshua 24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,
according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought
you out.
 
Joshua 24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye
came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers
with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
 
Joshua 24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness
between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and
covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt:
and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
 
Joshua 24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites,
which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you:
and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land;
and I destroyed them from before you.
 
Joshua 24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose
and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of
Beor to curse you:
 
Joshua 24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he
blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
 
Joshua 24:11 And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho:
and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them
into your hand.
 
Joshua 24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them
out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not
with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
 
Joshua 24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not
labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of
the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
 
Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in
sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers
served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye
the LORD.
 
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD,
choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which
your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or
the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me
and my house, we will serve the LORD.
 
Joshua 24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that
we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
 
Joshua 24:17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up
and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and
preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the
people through whom we passed:
 
Joshua 24:18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the
people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will
we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
 
Joshua 24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve
the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not
forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
 
Joshua 24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods,
then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he
hath done you good.
 
Joshua 24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will
serve the LORD.
 
Joshua 24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses
against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve
him. And they said, We are witnesses.
 
Joshua 24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods
which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of
Israel.
 
Joshua 24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God
will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
 
Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that
day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
 
Joshua 24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the
law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an
oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
 
Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this
stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words
of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a
witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
 
Joshua 24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto
his inheritance.
 
Joshua 24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an
hundred and ten years old.
 
Joshua 24:30 And they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the
north side of the hill of Gaash.
 
Joshua 24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua,
and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which
had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
 
Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of
Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a
parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the
father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became
the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
 
Joshua 24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried
him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given
him in mount Ephraim. 
 
Judges 1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that
the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up
for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
 
Judges 1:2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have
delivered the land into his hand.
 
Judges 1:3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with
me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I
likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
 
Judges 1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the
Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of
them in Bezek ten thousand men.
 
Judges 1:5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought
against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
 
Judges 1:6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and
caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
 
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings,
having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their
meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And
they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
 
Judges 1:8 Now the children of Judah had fought against
Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the
sword, and set the city on fire.
 
Judges 1:9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to
fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in
the south, and in the valley.
 
Judges 1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in
Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they
slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
 
Judges 1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of
Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
 
Judges 1:12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
 
Judges 1:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger
brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
 
Judges 1:14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she
moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off
her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
 
Judges 1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou
hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And
Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
 
Judges 1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in
law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of
Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of
Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
 
Judges 1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they
slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed
it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
 
Judges 1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and
Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
 
Judges 1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the
inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
 
Judges 1:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and
he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
 
Judges 1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the
Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with
the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
 
Judges 1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against
Bethel: and the LORD was with them.
 
Judges 1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now
the name of the city before was Luz.)
 
Judges 1:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city,
and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into
the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
 
Judges 1:25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city,
they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go
the man and all his family.
 
Judges 1:26 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.
 
Judges 1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of
Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the
inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam
and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but
the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
 
Judges 1:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that
they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive
them out.
 
Judges 1:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that
dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
 
Judges 1:30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of
Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt
among them, and became tributaries.
 
Judges 1:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of
Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib,
nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
 
Judges 1:32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
 
Judges 1:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of
Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among
the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the
inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries
unto them.
 
Judges 1:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into
the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the
valley:
 
Judges 1:35 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.
 
Judges 1:36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up
to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
 
Judges 2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to
Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have
brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I
said, I will never break my covenant with you.
 
Judges 2:2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of
this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not
obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
 
Judges 2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out
from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and
their gods shall be a snare unto you.
 
Judges 2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD
spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the
people lifted up their voice, and wept.
 
Judges 2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and
they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
 
Judges 2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children
of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the
land.
 
Judges 2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of
Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who
had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
 
Judges 2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD,
died, being an hundred and ten years old.
 
Judges 2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance
in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of
the hill Gaash.
 
Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto
their fathers: and there arose another generation after them,
which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for
Israel.
 
Judges 2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of
the LORD, and served Baalim:
 
Judges 2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,
which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other
gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and
bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
 
Judges 2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and
Ashtaroth.
 
Judges 2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel,
and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled
them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round
about, so that they could not any longer stand before their
enemies.
 
Judges 2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD
was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD
had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
 
Judges 2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which
delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
 
Judges 2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges,
but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves
unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers
walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not
so.
 
Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the
LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of
their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD
because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them
and vexed them.
 
Judges 2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that
they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers,
in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them;
they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn
way.
 
Judges 2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel;
and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my
covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened
unto my voice;
 
Judges 2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from
before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
 
Judges 2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they
will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers
did keep it, or not.
 
Judges 2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without
driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand
of Joshua.
 
Judges 3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to
prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all
the wars of Canaan;
 
Judges 3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel
might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew
nothing thereof;
 
Judges 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the
Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in
mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of
Hamath.
 
Judges 3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know
whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD,
which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
 
Judges 3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the
Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites,
and Jebusites:
 
Judges 3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and
gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
 
Judges 3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of
the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and
the groves.
 
Judges 3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against
Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king
of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served
Chushanrishathaim eight years.
 
Judges 3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,
the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who
delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger
brother.
 
Judges 3:10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he
judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered
Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand
prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
 
Judges 3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the
son of Kenaz died.
 
Judges 3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the
sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of
Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of
the LORD.
 
Judges 3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and
Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm
trees.
 
Judges 3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of
Moab eighteen years.
 
Judges 3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the
LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera,
a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel
sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
 
Judges 3:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of
a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his
right thigh.
 
Judges 3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab:
and Eglon was a very fat man.
 
Judges 3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present,
he sent away the people that bare the present.
 
Judges 3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that
were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O
king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out
from him.
 
Judges 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a
summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I
have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
 
Judges 3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the
dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
 
Judges 3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the
fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger
out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
 
Judges 3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut
the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
 
Judges 3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when
they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they
said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
 
Judges 3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and,
behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they
took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen
down dead on the earth.
 
Judges 3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed
beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
 
Judges 3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew
a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel
went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
 
Judges 3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the
LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And
they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward
Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
 
Judges 3:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten
thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped
not a man.
 
Judges 3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of
Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
 
Judges 3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which
slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he
also delivered Israel.
 
Judges 4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the
sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
 
Judges 4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king
of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was
Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
 
Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for
he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he
mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
 
Judges 4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she
judged Israel at that time.
 
Judges 4:5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between
Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel
came up to her for judgment.
 
Judges 4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out
of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of
Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and
take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and
of the children of Zebulun?
 
Judges 4:7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon
Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his
multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
 
Judges 4:8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me,
then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not
go.
 
Judges 4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee:
notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for
thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a
woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
 
Judges 4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh;
and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah
went up with him.
 
Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of
Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the
Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is
by Kedesh.
 
Judges 4:12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of
Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
 
Judges 4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even
nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with
him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
 
Judges 4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the
day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is
not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount
Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
 
Judges 4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his
chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before
Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away
on his feet.
 
Judges 4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the
host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera
fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
 
Judges 4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of
Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between
Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
 
Judges 4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto
him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had
turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
 
Judges 4:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a
little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle
of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
 
Judges 4:20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the
tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of
thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
 
Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and
took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote
the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for
he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
 
Judges 4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out
to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the
man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold,
Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
 
Judges 4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan
before the children of Israel.
 
Judges 4:24 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.
 
Judges 5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on
that day, saying,
 
Judges 5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when
the people willingly offered themselves.
 
Judges 5:3 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.
 
Judges 5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou
marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the
heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
 
Judges 5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that
Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
 
Judges 5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days
of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked
through byways.
 
Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased
in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in
Israel.
 
Judges 5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was
there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
 
Judges 5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that
offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
 
Judges 5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in
judgment, and walk by the way.
 
Judges 5:11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers
in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the
righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the
inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of
the LORD go down to the gates.
 
Judges 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song:
arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam.
 
Judges 5:13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over
the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over
the mighty.
 
Judges 5:14 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.
 
Judges 5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even
Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley.
For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
 
Judges 5:16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the
bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were
great searchings of heart.
 
Judges 5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain
in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his
breaches.
 
Judges 5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded
their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
 
Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of
Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of
money.
 
Judges 5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera.
 
Judges 5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient
river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down
strength.
 
Judges 5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the
pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
 
Judges 5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse
ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the
help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
 
Judges 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber
the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
 
Judges 5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought
forth butter in a lordly dish.
 
Judges 5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to
the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she
smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his
temples.
 
Judges 5:27 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.
 
Judges 5:28 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?
 
Judges 5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned
answer to herself,
 
Judges 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey;
to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours,
a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of
needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take
the spoil?
 
Judges 5:31 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.
 
Judges 6:1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of
the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian
seven years.
 
Judges 6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and
because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the
dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
 
Judges 6:3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the
Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the
east, even they came up against them;
 
Judges 6:4 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.
 
Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents,
and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and
their camels were without number: and they entered into the land
to destroy it.
 
Judges 6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the
Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
 
Judges 6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel
cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
 
Judges 6:8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of
Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the
house of bondage;
 
Judges 6:9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and
drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
 
Judges 6:10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear
not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have
not obeyed my voice.
 
Judges 6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under
an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the
Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to
hide it from the Midianites.
 
Judges 6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and
said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
 
Judges 6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD
be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all
his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the
LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us,
and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
 
Judges 6:14 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?
 
Judges 6:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I
save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the
least in my father's house.
 
Judges 6:16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with
thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
 
Judges 6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in
thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
 
Judges 6:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto
thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he
said, I will tarry until thou come again.
 
Judges 6:19 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.
 
Judges 6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh
and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour
out the broth. And he did so.
 
Judges 6:21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the
staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the
unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and
consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of
the LORD departed out of his sight.
 
Judges 6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of
the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen
an angel of the LORD face to face.
 
Judges 6:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee;
fear not: thou shalt not die.
 
Judges 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and
called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites.
 
Judges 6:25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD
said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second
bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that
thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
 
Judges 6:26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the
top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second
bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove
which thou shalt cut down.
 
Judges 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did
as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared
his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could
not do it by day, that he did it by night.
 
Judges 6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the
morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove
was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered
upon the altar that was built.
 
Judges 6:29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this
thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the
son of Joash hath done this thing.
 
Judges 6:30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out
thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of
Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
 
Judges 6:31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him,
Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for
him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a
god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his
altar.
 
Judges 6:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal,
saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down
his altar.
 
Judges 6:33 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.
 
Judges 6:34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he
blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
 
Judges 6:35 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.
 
Judges 6:36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel
by mine hand, as thou hast said,
 
Judges 6:37 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.
 
Judges 6:38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow,
and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the
fleece, a bowl full of water.
 
Judges 6:39 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.
 
Judges 6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the
fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
 
Judges 7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people
that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of
Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side
of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
 
Judges 7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are
with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their
hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own
hand hath saved me.
 
Judges 7:3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the
people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return
and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the
people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
 
Judges 7:4 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.
 
Judges 7:5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and
the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water
with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
 
Judges 7:6 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.
 
Judges 7:7 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.
 
Judges 7:8 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.
 
Judges 7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD
said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have
delivered it into thine hand.
 
Judges 7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah
thy servant down to the host:
 
Judges 7:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward
shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then
went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the
armed men that were in the host.
 
Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the
children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers
for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand
by the sea side for multitude.
 
Judges 7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man
that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a
dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of
Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and
overturned it, that the tent lay along.
 
Judges 7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing
else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel:
for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
 
Judges 7:15 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.
 
Judges 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three
companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty
pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
 
Judges 7:17 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.
 
Judges 7:18 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.
 
Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him,
came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle
watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
 
Judges 7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and
brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and
the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried,
The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
 
Judges 7:21 And they stood every man in his place round about
the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
 
Judges 7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the
LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout
all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and
to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
 
Judges 7:23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together
out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and
pursued after the Midianites.
 
Judges 7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount
Ephraim, saying, come down against the Midianites, and take
before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the
men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters
unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
 
Judges 7:25 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.
 
Judges 8:1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou
served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to
fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
 
Judges 8:2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in
comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim
better than the vintage of Abiezer?
 
Judges 8:3 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.
 
Judges 8:4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and
the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing
them.
 
Judges 8:5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray
you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be
faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of
Midian.
 
Judges 8:6 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?
 
Judges 8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath
delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear
your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
 
Judges 8:8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them
likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of
Succoth had answered him.
 
Judges 8:9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying,
When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
 
Judges 8:10 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.
 
Judges 8:11 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.
 
Judges 8:12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after
them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and
discomfited all the host.
 
Judges 8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle
before the sun was up,
 
Judges 8:14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and
enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of
Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen
men.
 
Judges 8:15 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?
 
Judges 8:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of
the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of
Succoth.
 
Judges 8:17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the
men of the city.
 
Judges 8:18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner
of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As
thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a
king.
 
Judges 8:19 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.
 
Judges 8:20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay
them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he
was yet a youth.
 
Judges 8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall
upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose,
and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that
were on their camels' necks.
 
Judges 8:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou
over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou
hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
 
Judges 8:23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over
you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over
you.
 
Judges 8:24 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.)
 
Judges 8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And
they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the
earrings of his prey.
 
Judges 8:26 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.
 
Judges 8:27 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.
 
Judges 8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of
Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the
country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
 
Judges 8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in
his own house.
 
Judges 8:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body
begotten: for he had many wives.
 
Judges 8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also
bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
 
Judges 8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age,
and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of
the Abiezrites.
 
Judges 8:33 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 Baalberith their god.
 
Judges 8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD
their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their
enemies on every side:
 
Judges 8:35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of
Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he
had shewed unto Israel.
 
Judges 9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem
unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all
the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
 
Judges 9:2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of
Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of
Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you,
or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and
your flesh.
 
Judges 9:3 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.
 
Judges 9:4 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of
silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired
vain and light persons, which followed him.
 
Judges 9:5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and
slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten
persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest
son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
 
Judges 9:6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and
all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the
plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
 
Judges 9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood
in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried,
and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God
may hearken unto you.
 
Judges 9:8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over
them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
 
Judges 9:9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my
fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be
promoted over the trees?
 
Judges 9:10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and
reign over us.
 
Judges 9:11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake
my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the
trees?
 
Judges 9:12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and
reign over us.
 
Judges 9:13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my
wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the
trees?
 
Judges 9:14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come
thou, and reign over us.
 
Judges 9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye
anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my
shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour
the cedars of Lebanon.
 
Judges 9:16 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;
 
Judges 9:17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his
life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
 
Judges 9:18 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;)
 
Judges 9:19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with
Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in
Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
 
Judges 9:20 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.
 
Judges 9:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer,
and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
 
Judges 9:22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,
 
Judges 9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and
the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously
with Abimelech:
 
Judges 9:24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten
sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon
Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of
Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
 
Judges 9:25 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.
 
Judges 9:26 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.
 
Judges 9:27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered
their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went
into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed
Abimelech.
 
Judges 9:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech,
and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son
of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the
father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?
 
Judges 9:29 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.
 
Judges 9:30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the
words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
 
Judges 9:31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily,
saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to
Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
 
Judges 9:32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that
is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
 
Judges 9:33 And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as
the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and,
behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against
thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
 
Judges 9:34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were
with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four
companies.
 
Judges 9:35 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.
 
Judges 9:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul,
Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And
Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if
they were men.
 
Judges 9:37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come
people down by the middle of the land, and another company come
along by the plain of Meonenim.
 
Judges 9:38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth,
wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve
him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I
pray now, and fight with them.
 
Judges 9:39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and
fought with Abimelech.
 
Judges 9:40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him,
and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of
the gate.
 
Judges 9:41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out
Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
 
Judges 9:42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people
went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
 
Judges 9:43 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.
 
Judges 9:44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him,
rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the
city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that
were in the fields, and slew them.
 
Judges 9:45 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.
 
Judges 9:46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard
that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
 
Judges 9:47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the
tower of Shechem were gathered together.
 
Judges 9:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and
all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in
his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and
laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with
him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
 
Judges 9:49 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.
 
Judges 9:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against
Thebez, and took it.
 
Judges 9:51 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.
 
Judges 9:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought
against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it
with fire.
 
Judges 9:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone
upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
 
Judges 9:54 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 women slew him. And his young man
thrust him through, and he died.
 
Judges 9:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was
dead, they departed every man unto his place.
 
Judges 9:56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech,
which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
 
Judges 9:57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God
render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham
the son of Jerubbaal.
 
Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel
Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he
dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
 
Judges 10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and
died, and was buried in Shamir.
 
Judges 10:3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged
Israel twenty and two years.
 
Judges 10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass
colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair
unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
 
Judges 10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
 
Judges 10:6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the
sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods
of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the
gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines,
and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
 
Judges 10:7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel,
and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the
hands of the children of Ammon.
 
Judges 10:8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children
of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were
on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in
Gilead.
 
Judges 10:9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan
to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against
the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
 
Judges 10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,
saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have
forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
 
Judges 10:11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did
not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from
the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
 
Judges 10:12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the
Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered
you out of their hand.
 
Judges 10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods:
wherefore I will deliver you no more.
 
Judges 10:14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let
them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
 
Judges 10:15 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.
 
Judges 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among
them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the
misery of Israel.
 
Judges 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together,
and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled
themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
 
Judges 10:18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to
another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the
children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of
Gilead.
 
Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of
valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat
Jephthah.
 
Judges 11:2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's
sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him,
Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the
son of a strange woman.
 
Judges 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in
the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah,
and went out with him.
 
Judges 11:4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the
children of Ammon made war against Israel.
 
Judges 11:5 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:
 
Judges 11:6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our
captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
 
Judges 11:7 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?
 
Judges 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,
Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us,
and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all
the inhabitants of Gilead.
 
Judges 11:9 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?
 
Judges 11:10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The
LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy
words.
 
Judges 11:11 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.
 
Judges 11:12 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?
 
Judges 11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered
unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my
land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto
Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again
peaceably.
 
Judges 11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king
of the children of Ammon:
 
Judges 11:15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel
took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of
Ammon:
 
Judges 11:16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked
through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
 
Judges 11:17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom,
saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king
of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent
unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode
in Kadesh.
 
Judges 11:18 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.
 
Judges 11:19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us
pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
 
Judges 11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his
coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in
Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
 
Judges 11:21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all
his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so
Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
that country.
 
Judges 11:22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites,
from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto
Jordan.
 
Judges 11:23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed
the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou
possess it?
 
Judges 11:24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god
giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall
drive out from before us, them will we possess.
 
Judges 11:25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the
son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel,
or did he ever fight against them,
 
Judges 11:26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and
in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by
the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye
not recover them within that time?
 
Judges 11:27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou
doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge
this day between the children of Israel and the children of
Ammon.
 
Judges 11:28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon
hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
 
Judges 11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah,
and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh
of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the
children of Ammon.
 
Judges 11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said,
If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into
mine hands,
 
Judges 11:31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of
the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the
children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer
it up for a burnt offering.
 
Judges 11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon
to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his
hands.
 
Judges 11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come
to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the
vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of
Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
 
Judges 11:34 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.
 
Judges 11:35 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.
 
Judges 11:36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast
opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which
hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken
vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of
Ammon.
 
Judges 11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be
done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down
upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
 
Judges 11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two
months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her
virginity upon the mountains.
 
Judges 11:39 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,
 
Judges 11:40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament
the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
 
Judges 12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves
together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore
passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and
didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon
thee with fire.
 
Judges 12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were
at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called
you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
 
Judges 12:3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my
life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon,
and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye
come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
 
Judges 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of
Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote
Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of
Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
 
Judges 12:5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan
before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those
Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men
of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
 
Judges 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he
said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right.
Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and
there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two
thousand.
 
Judges 12:7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died
Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of
Gilead.
 
Judges 12:8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
 
Judges 12:9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom
he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his
sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
 
Judges 12:10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
 
Judges 12:11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel;
and he judged Israel ten years.
 
Judges 12:12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in
Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
 
Judges 12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a
Pirathonite, judged Israel.
 
Judges 12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that
rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight
years.
 
Judges 12:15 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.
 
Judges 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the
sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of
the Philistines forty years.
 
Judges 13:2 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.
 
Judges 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman,
and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not:
but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
 
Judges 13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not
wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
 
Judges 13:5 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.
 
Judges 13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A
man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the
countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him
not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
 
Judges 13:7 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.
 
Judges 13:8 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my
Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto
us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be
born.
 
Judges 13:9 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.
 
Judges 13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her
husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto
me, that came unto me the other day.
 
Judges 13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and
came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest
unto the woman? And he said, I am.
 
Judges 13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass.
How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
 
Judges 13:13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all
that I said unto the woman let her beware.
 
Judges 13:14 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.
 
Judges 13:15 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.
 
Judges 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though
thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt
offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For
Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
 
Judges 13:17 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?
 
Judges 13:18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why
askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
 
Judges 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and
offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did
wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
 
Judges 13:20 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.
 
Judges 13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to
Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of
the LORD.
 
Judges 13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely
die, because we have seen God.
 
Judges 13:23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were
pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering
and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us
all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such
things as these.
 
Judges 13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name
Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
 
Judges 13:25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at
times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
 
Judges 14:1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in
Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
 
Judges 14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother,
and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the
Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
 
Judges 14:3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is
there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among
all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the
uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get
her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
 
Judges 14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was
of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines:
for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
 
Judges 14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his
mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and,
behold, a young lion roared against him.
 
Judges 14:6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him,
and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing
in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had
done.
 
Judges 14:7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and
she pleased Samson well.
 
Judges 14:8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he
turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there
was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
 
Judges 14:9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on
eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and
they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey
out of the carcase of the lion.
 
Judges 14:10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson
made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
 
Judges 14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they
brought thirty companions to be with him.
 
Judges 14:12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a
riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the
seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you
thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
 
Judges 14:13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give
me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said
unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
 
Judges 14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth
meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could
not in three days expound the riddle.
 
Judges 14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they
said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare
unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with
fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
 
Judges 14:16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou
dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle
unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he
said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my
mother, and shall I tell it thee?
 
Judges 14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while
their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that
he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the
riddle to the children of her people.
 
Judges 14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the
seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey?
And what is stronger than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye
had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
 
Judges 14:19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he
went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took
their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which
expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up
to his father's house.
 
Judges 14:20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom
he had used as his friend.
 
Judges 15:1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the
time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid;
and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her
father would not suffer him to go in.
 
Judges 15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou
hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion:
is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee,
instead of her.
 
Judges 15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be
more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a
displeasure.
 
Judges 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and
took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in
the midst between two tails.
 
Judges 15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them
go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both
the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and
olives.
 
Judges 15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And
they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he
had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the
Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
 
Judges 15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done
this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
 
Judges 15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great
slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock
Etam.
 
Judges 15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah,
and spread themselves in Lehi.
 
Judges 15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up
against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to
do to him as he hath done to us.
 
Judges 15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top
of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the
Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done
unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I
done unto them.
 
Judges 15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind
thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.
And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall
upon me yourselves.
 
Judges 15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will
bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we
will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and
brought him up from the rock.
 
Judges 15:14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines
shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily
upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax
that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his
hands.
 
Judges 15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put
forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
 
Judges 15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps
upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
 
Judges 15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and
called that place Ramathlehi.
 
Judges 15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD,
and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of
thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the
hand of the uncircumcised?
 
Judges 15:19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw,
and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit
came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof
Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
 
Judges 15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the
Philistines twenty years.
 
Judges 16:1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot,
and went in unto her.
 
Judges 16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come
hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all
night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night,
saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
 
Judges 16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at
midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two
posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon
his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is
before Hebron.
 
Judges 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a
woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
 
Judges 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her,
and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength
lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may
bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us
eleven hundred pieces of silver.
 
Judges 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee,
wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be
bound to afflict thee.
 
Judges 16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with
seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak,
and be as another man.
 
Judges 16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her
seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him
with them.
 
Judges 16:9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her
in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon
thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is
broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
 
Judges 16:10 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.
 
Judges 16:11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with
new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be
as another man.
 
Judges 16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him
therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee,
Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And
he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
 
Judges 16:13 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.
 
Judges 16:14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto
him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of
his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the
web.
 
Judges 16:15 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.
 
Judges 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily
with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto
death;
 
Judges 16:17 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.
 
Judges 16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his
heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines,
saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart.
Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought
money in their hand.
 
Judges 16:19 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.
 
Judges 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee,
Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as
at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the
LORD was departed from him.
 
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his
eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of
brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
 
Judges 16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again
after he was shaven.
 
Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them
together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and
to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our
enemy into our hand.
 
Judges 16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their
god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our
enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
 
Judges 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry,
that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And
they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them
sport: and they set him between the pillars.
 
Judges 16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the
hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house
standeth, that I may lean upon them.
 
Judges 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all
the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the
roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson
made sport.
 
Judges 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord
God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee,
only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the
Philistines for my two eyes.
 
Judges 16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars
upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the
one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
 
Judges 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines.
And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon
the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead
which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in
his life.
 
Judges 16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father
came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him
between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his
father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
 
Judges 17:1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name
was Micah.
 
Judges 17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred
shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou
cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is
with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the
LORD, my son.
 
Judges 17:3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels
of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated
the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a
graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it
unto thee.
 
Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his
mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the
founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and
they were in the house of Micah.
 
Judges 17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an
ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became
his priest.
 
Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but
every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
 
Judges 17:7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of
the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
 
Judges 17:8 And the man departed out of the city from
Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he
came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
 
Judges 17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he
said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to
sojourn where I may find a place.
 
Judges 17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be
unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels
of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals.
So the Levite went in.
 
Judges 17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man;
and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
 
Judges 17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young
man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
 
Judges 17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do
me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
 
Judges 18:1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in
those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to
dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen
unto them among the tribes of Israel.
 
Judges 18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five
men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from
Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said
unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount
Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
 
Judges 18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the
voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither,
and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou
in this place? and what hast thou here?
 
Judges 18:4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah
with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
 
Judges 18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee,
of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be
prosperous.
 
Judges 18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before
the LORD is your way wherein ye go.
 
Judges 18:7 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.
 
Judges 18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and
Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
 
Judges 18:9 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.
 
Judges 18:10 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.
 
Judges 18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the
Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men
appointed with weapons of war.
 
Judges 18:12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in
Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day:
behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
 
Judges 18:13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and
came unto the house of Micah.
 
Judges 18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out
the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know
that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a
graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye
have to do.
 
Judges 18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house
of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and
saluted him.
 
Judges 18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their
weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the
entering of the gate.
 
Judges 18:17 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.
 
Judges 18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the
carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image.
Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
 
Judges 18:19 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?
 
Judges 18:20 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.
 
Judges 18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little
ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
 
Judges 18:22 And when they were a good way from the house of
Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were
gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
 
Judges 18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they
turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that
thou comest with such a company?
 
Judges 18:24 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?
 
Judges 18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy
voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and
thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
 
Judges 18:26 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.
 
Judges 18:27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and
the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that
were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of
the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
 
Judges 18:28 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 Bethrehob. And they built a city, and
dwelt therein.
 
Judges 18:29 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.
 
Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image:
and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his
sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the
captivity of the land.
 
Judges 18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which
he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
 
Judges 19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was
no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on
the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of
Bethlehemjudah.
 
Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and
went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and
was there four whole months.
 
Judges 19:3 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.
 
Judges 19:4 And his father in law, the damsel's father,
retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat
and drink, and lodged there.
 
Judges 19:5 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.
 
Judges 19:6 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.
 
Judges 19:7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in
law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
 
Judges 19:8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day
to depart; and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I
pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat
both of them.
 
Judges 19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his
concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's
father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward
evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to
an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow
get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
 
Judges 19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he
rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is
Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his
concubine also was with him.
 
Judges 19:11 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.
 
Judges 19:12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn
aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the
children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
 
Judges 19:13 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.
 
Judges 19:14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun
went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to
Benjamin.
 
Judges 19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to
lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street
of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house
to lodging.
 
Judges 19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work
out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he
sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
 
Judges 19:17 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?
 
Judges 19:18 And he said unto him, We are passing from
Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am
I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house
of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
 
Judges 19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our
asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy
handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there
is no want of any thing.
 
Judges 19:20 And the old man said, Peace be with thee;
howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the
street.
 
Judges 19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave
provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat
and drink.
 
Judges 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry,
behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the
house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master
of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came
into thine house, that we may know him.
 
Judges 19:23 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.
 
Judges 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his
concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do
with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so
vile a thing.
 
Judges 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man
took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they
knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and
when the day began to spring, they let her go.
 
Judges 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and
fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till
it was light.
 
Judges 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened
the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold,
the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house,
and her hands were upon the threshold.
 
Judges 19:28 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.
 
Judges 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a
knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together
with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the
coasts of Israel.
 
Judges 19:30 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.
 
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to
Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
 
Judges 20:2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the
tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the
people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
 
Judges 20:3 (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?
 
Judges 20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was
slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to
Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
 
Judges 20:5 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.
 
Judges 20:6 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.
 
Judges 20:7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here
your advice and counsel.
 
Judges 20:8 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.
 
Judges 20:9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to
Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
 
Judges 20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout
all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a
thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people,
that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according
to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
 
Judges 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the
city, knit together as one man.
 
Judges 20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the
tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done
among you?
 
Judges 20:13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of
Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and
put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not
hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
 
Judges 20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle
against the children of Israel.
 
Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that
time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew
sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered
seven hundred chosen men.
 
Judges 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred
chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair
breadth, and not miss.
 
Judges 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were
numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these
were men of war.
 
Judges 20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to
the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us
shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin?
And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
 
Judges 20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning,
and encamped against Gibeah.
 
Judges 20:20 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.
 
Judges 20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of
Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that
day twenty and two thousand men.
 
Judges 20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged
themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place
where they put themselves in array the first day.
 
Judges 20:23 (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.)
 
Judges 20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the
children of Benjamin the second day.
 
Judges 20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah
the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children
of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
 
Judges 20:26 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.
 
Judges 20:27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD,
(for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
 
Judges 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again
go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or
shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will
deliver them into thine hand.
 
Judges 20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
 
Judges 20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the
children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in
array against Gibeah, as at other times.
 
Judges 20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the
people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to
smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the
highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the
other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
 
Judges 20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are
smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of
Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the
highways.
 
Judges 20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their
place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in
wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the
meadows of Gibeah.
 
Judges 20:34 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.
 
Judges 20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the
children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty
and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
 
Judges 20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were
smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites,
because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set
beside Gibeah.
 
Judges 20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon
Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote
all the city with the edge of the sword.
 
Judges 20:38 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.
 
Judges 20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle,
Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about
thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down
before us, as in the first battle.
 
Judges 20:40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the
city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them,
and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
 
Judges 20:41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men
of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon
them.
 
Judges 20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men
of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook
them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the
midst of them.
 
Judges 20:43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and
chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah
toward the sunrising.
 
Judges 20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men;
all these were men of valour.
 
Judges 20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness
unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways
five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and
slew two thousand men of them.
 
Judges 20:46 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.
 
Judges 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the
wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon
four months.
 
Judges 20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the
children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword,
as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to
hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
 
Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying,
There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to
wife.
 
Judges 21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode
there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept
sore;
 
Judges 21:3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to
pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in
Israel?
 
Judges 21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people
rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings.
 
Judges 21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among
all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation
unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that
came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put
to death.
 
Judges 21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for
Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from
Israel this day.
 
Judges 21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain,
seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of
our daughters to wives?
 
Judges 21:8 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 Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
 
Judges 21:9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there
were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
 
Judges 21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand
men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite
the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with
the women and the children.
 
Judges 21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall
utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by
man.
 
Judges 21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by
lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to
Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
 
Judges 21:13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to
the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to
call peaceably unto them.
 
Judges 21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they
gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of
Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
 
Judges 21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because
that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
 
Judges 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How
shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are
destroyed out of Benjamin?
 
Judges 21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for
them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed
out of Israel.
 
Judges 21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our
daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed
be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
 
Judges 21:19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the
LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of
Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel
to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
 
Judges 21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,
saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
 
Judges 21:21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh
come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards,
and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and
go to the land of Benjamin.
 
Judges 21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their
brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be
favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to
each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at
this time, that ye should be guilty.
 
Judges 21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them
wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they
caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and
repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
 
Judges 21:24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that
time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out
from thence every man to his inheritance.
 
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every
man did that which was right in his own eyes.
 
Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled,
that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of
Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and
his wife, and his two sons.
 
Ruth 1:2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of
his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of
Moab, and continued there.
 
Ruth 1:3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left,
and her two sons.
 
Ruth 1:4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the
name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and
they dwelled there about ten years.
 
Ruth 1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the
woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
 
Ruth 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she
might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the
country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in
giving them bread.
 
Ruth 1:7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she
was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the
way to return unto the land of Judah.
 
Ruth 1:8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go,
return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you,
as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
 
Ruth 1:9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you
in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they
lifted up their voice, and wept.
 
Ruth 1:10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with
thee unto thy people.
 
Ruth 1:11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye
go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may
be your husbands?
 
Ruth 1:12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too
old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should
have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
 
Ruth 1:13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would
ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it
grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone
out against me.
 
Ruth 1:14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and
Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
 
Ruth 1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back
unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister
in law.
 
Ruth 1:16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will
go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God:
 
Ruth 1:17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be
buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death
part thee and me.
 
Ruth 1:18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go
with her, then she left speaking unto her.
 
Ruth 1:19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it
came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city
was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
 
Ruth 1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me
Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
 
Ruth 1:21 I went out full and the LORD hath brought me home
again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath
testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
 
Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her
daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of
Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley
harvest.
 
Ruth 2:1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man
of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
 
Ruth 2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go
to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I
shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
 
Ruth 2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after
the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field
belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
 
Ruth 2:4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto
the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The
LORD bless thee.
 
Ruth 2:5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the
reapers, Whose damsel is this?
 
Ruth 2:6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered
and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi
out of the country of Moab:
 
Ruth 2:7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather
after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath
continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a
little in the house.
 
Ruth 2:8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my
daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from
hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
 
Ruth 2:9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and
go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they
shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the
vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
 
Ruth 2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the
ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes,
that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
 
Ruth 2:11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully
been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law
since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy
father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come
unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
 
Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be
given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art
come to trust.
 
Ruth 2:13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my
lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast
spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto
one of thine handmaidens.
 
Ruth 2:14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither,
and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she
sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she
did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
 
Ruth 2:15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded
his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and
reproach her not:
 
Ruth 2:16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for
her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
 
Ruth 2:17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out
that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
 
Ruth 2:18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her
mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth,
and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
 
Ruth 2:19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou
gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did
take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with
whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I
wrought to day is Boaz.
 
Ruth 2:20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be
he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living
and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin
unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
 
Ruth 2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also,
Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all
my harvest.
 
Ruth 2:22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is
good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they
meet thee not in any other field.
 
Ruth 2:23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto
the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with
her mother in law.
 
Ruth 3:1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My
daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well
with thee?
 
Ruth 3:2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens
thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the
threshingfloor.
 
Ruth 3:3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy
raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not
thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and
drinking.
 
Ruth 3:4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt
mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and
uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what
thou shalt do.
 
Ruth 3:5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I
will do.
 
Ruth 3:6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to
all that her mother in law bade her.
 
Ruth 3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was
merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and
she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
 
Ruth 3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was
afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
 
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth
thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid;
for thou art a near kinsman.
 
Ruth 3:10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my
daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end
than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men,
whether poor or rich.
 
Ruth 3:11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all
that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that
thou art a virtuous woman.
 
Ruth 3:12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman:
howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
 
Ruth 3:13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning,
that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well;
let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of
a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee,
as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.
 
Ruth 3:14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she
rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be
known that a woman came into the floor.
 
Ruth 3:15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon
thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures
of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
 
Ruth 3:16 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.
 
Ruth 3:17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he
me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
 
Ruth 3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou
know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest,
until he have finished the thing this day.
 
Ruth 4:1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there:
and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he
said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned
aside, and sat down.
 
Ruth 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and
said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
 
Ruth 4:3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come
again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which
was our brother Elimelech's:
 
Ruth 4:4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before
the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt
redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell
me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee;
and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
 
Ruth 4:5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the
hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the
wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his
inheritance.
 
Ruth 4:6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself,
lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself;
for I cannot redeem it.
 
Ruth 4:7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel
concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all
things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour:
and this was a testimony in Israel.
 
Ruth 4:8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee.
So he drew off his shoe.
 
Ruth 4:9 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.
 
Ruth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have
I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon
his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from
among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are
witnesses this day.
 
Ruth 4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the
elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is
come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did
build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and
be famous in Bethlehem:
 
Ruth 4:12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom
Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee
of this young woman.
 
Ruth 4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he
went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a
son.
 
Ruth 4:14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD,
which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his
name may be famous in Israel.
 
Ruth 4:15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and
a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which
loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born
him.
 
Ruth 4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom,
and became nurse unto it.
 
Ruth 4:17 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.
 
Ruth 4:18 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat
Hezron,
 
Ruth 4:19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
 
Ruth 4:20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat
Salmon,
 
Ruth 4:21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
 
Ruth 4:22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
 
1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of
mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the
son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
 
1 Samuel 1:2 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.
 
1 Samuel 1:3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to
worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And
the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the
LORD, were there.
 
1 Samuel 1:4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he
gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters,
portions:
 
1 Samuel 1:5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he
loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
 
1 Samuel 1:6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to
make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
 
1 Samuel 1:7 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.
 
1 Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why
weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart
grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
 
1 Samuel 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh,
and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a
post of the temple of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed
unto the LORD, and wept sore.
 
1 Samuel 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts,
if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and
remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto
thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD
all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his
head.
 
1 Samuel 1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying
before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
 
1 Samuel 1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips
moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had
been drunken.
 
1 Samuel 1:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be
drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
 
1 Samuel 1:15 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.
 
1 Samuel 1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of
Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I
spoken hitherto.
 
1 Samuel 1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the
God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of
him.
 
1 Samuel 1:18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in
thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her
countenance was no more sad.
 
1 Samuel 1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and
worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house
to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD
remembered her.
 
1 Samuel 1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come
about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called
his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up
to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
 
1 Samuel 1:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her
husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I
will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there
abide for ever.
 
1 Samuel 1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what
seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the
LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son
suck until she weaned him.
 
1 Samuel 1:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with
her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of
wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and
the child was young.
 
1 Samuel 1:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to
Eli.
 
1 Samuel 1:26 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.
 
1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given
me my petition which I asked of him:
 
1 Samuel 1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as
long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped
the LORD there.
 
1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in
the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged
over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
 
1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none
beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
 
1 Samuel 2:3 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they
that stumbled are girded with strength.
 
1 Samuel 2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for
bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath
born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
 
1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth
down to the grave, and bringeth up.
 
1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth
low, and lifteth up.
 
1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and
lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among
princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the
pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world
upon them.
 
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the
wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man
prevail.
 
1 Samuel 2:10 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the
child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
 
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they
knew not the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 2:13 And the priest's custom with the people was,
that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came,
while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth
in his hand;
 
1 Samuel 2:14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or
caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest
took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites
that came thither.
 
1 Samuel 2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's
servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to
roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee,
but raw.
 
1 Samuel 2:16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail
to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul
desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it
me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
 
1 Samuel 2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great
before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a
child, girded with a linen ephod.
 
1 Samuel 2:19 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:20 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she
conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child
Samuel grew before the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons
did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that
assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
1 Samuel 2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for
I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
 
1 Samuel 2:24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I
hear: ye make the LORD's people to transgress.
 
1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall
judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat
for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of
their father, because the LORD would slay them.
 
1 Samuel 2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour
both with the LORD, and also with men.
 
1 Samuel 2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said
unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the
house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
 
1 Samuel 2:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of
Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn
incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the
house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the
children of Israel?
 
1 Samuel 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine
offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest
thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of
all the offerings of Israel my people?
 
1 Samuel 2:30 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:31 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:32 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.
 
1 Samuel 2:33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off
from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve
thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the
flower of their age.
 
1 Samuel 2:34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall
come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they
shall die both of them.
 
1 Samuel 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that
shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind:
and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine
anointed for ever.
 
1 Samuel 2:36 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD
before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days;
there was no open vision.
 
1 Samuel 3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was
laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he
could not see;
 
1 Samuel 3:3 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;
 
1 Samuel 3:4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here
am I.
 
1 Samuel 3:5 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:6 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was
the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.
 
1 Samuel 3:8 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and
it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD;
for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his
place.
 
1 Samuel 3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at
other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy
servant heareth.
 
1 Samuel 3:11 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:12 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house
for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made
themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
 
1 Samuel 3:14 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the
doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the
vision.
 
1 Samuel 3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son.
And he answered, Here am I.
 
1 Samuel 3:17 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:18 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.
 
1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and
did let none of his words fall to the ground.
 
1 Samuel 3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew
that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the
LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the
LORD.
 
1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now
Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched
beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
 
1 Samuel 4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array
against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten
before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field
about four thousand men.
 
1 Samuel 4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the
elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day
before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of
the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it
may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
 
1 Samuel 4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might
bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts,
which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of
God.
 
1 Samuel 4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came
into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the
earth rang again.
 
1 Samuel 4:6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the
shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in
the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the
LORD was come into the camp.
 
1 Samuel 4:7 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.
 
1 Samuel 4:8 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.
 
1 Samuel 4:9 Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye
Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they
have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
 
1 Samuel 4:10 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.
 
1 Samuel 4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of
Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
 
1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army,
and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with
earth upon his head.
 
1 Samuel 4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the
wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And
when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried
out.
 
1 Samuel 4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he
said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in
hastily, and told Eli.
 
1 Samuel 4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his
eyes were dim, that he could not see.
 
1 Samuel 4:16 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?
 
1 Samuel 4:17 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.
 
1 Samuel 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the
ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side
of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old
man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
 
1 Samuel 4:19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with
child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that
the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her
husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains
came upon her.
 
1 Samuel 4:20 And about the time of her death the women that
stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son.
But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
 
1 Samuel 4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The
glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken,
and because of her father in law and her husband.
 
1 Samuel 4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel:
for the ark of God is taken.
 
1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and
brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
 
1 Samuel 5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they
brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
 
1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow,
behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the
ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place
again.
 
1 Samuel 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning,
behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the
ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his
hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon
was left to him.
 
1 Samuel 5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any
that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in
Ashdod unto this day.
 
1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of
Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even
Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
 
1 Samuel 5:7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so,
they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us:
for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
 
1 Samuel 5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of
the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the
ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the
God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the
ark of the God of Israel about thither.
 
1 Samuel 5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it
about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very
great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small
and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
 
1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And
it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the
Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of
the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
 
1 Samuel 5:11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords
of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us
not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction
throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
 
1 Samuel 5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the
emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
 
1 Samuel 6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the
Philistines seven months.
 
1 Samuel 6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the
diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell
us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
 
1 Samuel 6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God
of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a
trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known
to you why his hand is not removed from you.
 
1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass
offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden
emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the
lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on
your lords.
 
1 Samuel 6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods,
and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give
glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his
hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your
land.
 
1 Samuel 6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the
Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought
wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they
departed?
 
1 Samuel 6:7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch
kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the
cart, and bring their calves home from them:
 
1 Samuel 6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the
cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a
trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it
away, that it may go.
 
1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own
coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but
if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us:
it was a chance that happened to us.
 
1 Samuel 6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and
tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
 
1 Samuel 6:11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart,
and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their
emerods.
 
1 Samuel 6:12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of
Bethshemesh, 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
Bethshemesh.
 
1 Samuel 6:13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat
harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the
ark, and rejoiced to see it.
 
1 Samuel 6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a
Bethshemite, 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.
 
1 Samuel 6:15 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 Bethshemesh
offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day
unto the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had
seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
 
1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden emerods which the
Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for
Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for
Ekron one;
 
1 Samuel 6:18 And the golden mice, according to the number of
all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords,
both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the
great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD:
which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the
Bethshemite.
 
1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they
had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people
fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people
lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a
great slaughter.
 
1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to
stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from
us?
 
1 Samuel 6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of
Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark
of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
 
1 Samuel 7:1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up
the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in
the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the
LORD.
 
1 Samuel 7:2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in
Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years:
and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel,
saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then
put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and
prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he
will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim
and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
 
1 Samuel 7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and
I will pray for you unto the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 7:6 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.
 
1 Samuel 7:7 And when the Philistines heard that the children
of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the
Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of
Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 7:8 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.
 
1 Samuel 7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for
a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the
LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
 
1 Samuel 7:10 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.
 
1 Samuel 7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and
pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under
Bethcar.
 
1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between
Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying,
Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
 
1 Samuel 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no
more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was
against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
 
1 Samuel 7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken
from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath;
and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the
Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
 
1 Samuel 7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his
life.
 
1 Samuel 7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to
Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those
places.
 
1 Samuel 7:17 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.
 
1 Samuel 8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he
made his sons judges over Israel.
 
1 Samuel 8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the
name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
 
1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned
aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
 
1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves
together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
 
1 Samuel 8:5 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.
 
1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said,
Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the
voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have
not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not
reign over them.
 
1 Samuel 8:8 According to all the works which they have done
since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this
day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so
do they also unto thee.
 
1 Samuel 8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit
yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the
king that shall reign over them.
 
1 Samuel 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto
the people that asked of him a king.
 
1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king
that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint
them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and
some shall run before his chariots.
 
1 Samuel 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands,
and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground,
and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and
instruments of his chariots.
 
1 Samuel 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be
confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
 
1 Samuel 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards,
and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his
servants.
 
1 Samuel 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of
your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
 
1 Samuel 8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your
maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and
put them to his work.
 
1 Samuel 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye
shall be his servants.
 
1 Samuel 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your
king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear
you in that day.
 
1 Samuel 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice
of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
 
1 Samuel 8:20 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.
 
1 Samuel 8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and
he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their
voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of
Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
 
1 Samuel 9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was
Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath,
the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
 
1 Samuel 9:2 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:3 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:4 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:5 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this
city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith
cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can
shew us our way that we should go.
 
1 Samuel 9:7 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?
 
1 Samuel 9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said,
Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of
silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
 
1 Samuel 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire
of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he
that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
 
1 Samuel 9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come,
let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
 
1 Samuel 9:11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they
found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them,
Is the seer here?
 
1 Samuel 9:12 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:
 
1 Samuel 9:13 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:14 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day
before Saul came, saying,
 
1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man
out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be
captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of
the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people,
because their cry is come unto me.
 
1 Samuel 9:17 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and
said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.
 
1 Samuel 9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the
seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with
me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee
all that is in thine heart.
 
1 Samuel 9:20 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?
 
1 Samuel 9:21 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite,
of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least
of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then
speakest thou so to me?
 
1 Samuel 9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought
them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place
among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
 
1 Samuel 9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion
which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
 
1 Samuel 9:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which
was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that
which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time
hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the
people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
 
1 Samuel 9:25 And when they were come down from the high place
into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the
house.
 
1 Samuel 9:26 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.
 
1 Samuel 9:27 And as they were going down to the end of the
city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us,
(and he passed on), but stand thou still a while, that I may shew
thee the word of God.
 
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it
upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the
LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
 
1 Samuel 10:2 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?
 
1 Samuel 10:3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and
thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee
three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and
another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a
bottle of wine:
 
1 Samuel 10:4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two
loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
 
1 Samuel 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God,
where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to
pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt
meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a
psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and
they shall prophesy:
 
1 Samuel 10:6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee,
and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into
another man.
 
1 Samuel 10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto
thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
 
1 Samuel 10:8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and,
behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and
to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou
tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
 
1 Samuel 10:9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back
to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those
signs came to pass that day.
 
1 Samuel 10:10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold,
a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon
him, and he prophesied among them.
 
1 Samuel 10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him
beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets,
then the people said one to another, What is this that is come
unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
 
1 Samuel 10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, But
who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also
among the prophets?
 
1 Samuel 10:13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he
came to the high place.
 
1 Samuel 10:14 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.
 
1 Samuel 10:15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee,
what Samuel said unto you.
 
1 Samuel 10:16 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.
 
1 Samuel 10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto the
LORD to Mizpeh;
 
1 Samuel 10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and
delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the
hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
 
1 Samuel 10:19 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.
 
1 Samuel 10:20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of
Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
 
1 Samuel 10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come
near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul
the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not
be found.
 
1 Samuel 10:22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if
the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold he
hath hid himself among the stuff.
 
1 Samuel 10:23 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.
 
1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him
whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all
the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the
king.
 
1 Samuel 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the
kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD.
And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
 
1 Samuel 10:26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there
went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
 
1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this
man save us? And they despised him, and brought no presents. But
he held his peace.
 
1 Samuel 11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped
against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash,
Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
 
1 Samuel 11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this
condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out
all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
 
1 Samuel 11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us
seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the
coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we
will come out to thee.
 
1 Samuel 11:4 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.
 
1 Samuel 11:5 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.
 
1 Samuel 11:6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he
heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
 
1 Samuel 11:7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in
pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the
hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after
Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the
fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one
consent.
 
1 Samuel 11:8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children
of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah
thirty thousand.
 
1 Samuel 11:9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus
shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that
time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came
and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
 
1 Samuel 11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we
will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth
good unto you.
 
1 Samuel 11:11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the
people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the
host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat
of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were
scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
 
1 Samuel 11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that
said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put
them to death.
 
1 Samuel 11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to
death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in
Israel.
 
1 Samuel 11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us
go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
 
1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there
they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they
sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and
there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
 
1 Samuel 12:1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have
hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have
made a king over you.
 
1 Samuel 12:2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and
I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I
have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
 
1 Samuel 12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the
LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose
ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I
oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind
mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
 
1 Samuel 12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor
oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
 
1 Samuel 12:5 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness
against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have
not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
 
1 Samuel 12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD
that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up
out of the land of Egypt.
 
1 Samuel 12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with
you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which
he did to you and to your fathers.
 
1 Samuel 12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers
cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which
brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in
this place.
 
1 Samuel 12:9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold
them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and
into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king
of Moab, and they fought against them.
 
1 Samuel 12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have
sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim
and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies,
and we will serve thee.
 
1 Samuel 12:11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and
Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your
enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
 
1 Samuel 12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the
children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a
king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
 
1 Samuel 12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have
chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set
a king over you.
 
1 Samuel 12:14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and
obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the
LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you
continue following the LORD your God:
 
1 Samuel 12:15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD,
but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the
hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
 
1 Samuel 12:16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing,
which the LORD will do before your eyes.
 
1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto
the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may
perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have
done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
 
1 Samuel 12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD
sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared
the LORD and Samuel.
 
1 Samuel 12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for
thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have
added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
 
1 Samuel 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye
have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following
the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
 
1 Samuel 12:21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go
after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are
vain.
 
1 Samuel 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his
great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you
his people.
 
1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin
against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you
the good and the right way:
 
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with
all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for
you.
 
1 Samuel 12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be
consumed, both ye and your king.
 
1 Samuel 13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned
two years over Israel,
 
1 Samuel 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel;
whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount
Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin:
and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
 
1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the
Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it.
And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let
the Hebrews hear.
 
1 Samuel 13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a
garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in
abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called
together after Saul to Gilgal.
 
1 Samuel 13:5 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 Bethaven.
 
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a
strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did
hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in
high places, and in pits.
 
1 Samuel 13:7 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.
 
1 Samuel 13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set
time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal;
and the people were scattered from him.
 
1 Samuel 13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to
me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
 
1 Samuel 13:10 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.
 
1 Samuel 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul
said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and
that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the
Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
 
1 Samuel 13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down
now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the
LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
 
1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done
foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy
God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have
established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
 
1 Samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD
hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath
commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast
not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
 
1 Samuel 13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal
unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were
present with him, about six hundred men.
 
1 Samuel 13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people
that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the
Philistines encamped in Michmash.
 
1 Samuel 13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the
Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way
that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
 
1 Samuel 13:18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron:
and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh
to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
 
1 Samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the
land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make
them swords or spears:
 
1 Samuel 13:20 But all the Israelites went down to the
Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and
his axe, and his mattock.
 
1 Samuel 13:21 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.
 
1 Samuel 13:22 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.
 
1 Samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to
the passage of Michmash.
 
1 Samuel 14:1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the
son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come,
and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the
other side. But he told not his father.
 
1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah
under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that
were with him were about six hundred men;
 
1 Samuel 14:3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother,
the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh,
wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
 
1 Samuel 14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan
sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a
sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side:
and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other
Seneh.
 
1 Samuel 14:5 The forefront of the one was situate northward
over against Michmash, and the other southward over against
Gibeah.
 
1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his
armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these
uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for
there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
 
1 Samuel 14:7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that
is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to
thy heart.
 
1 Samuel 14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over
unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
 
1 Samuel 14:9 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we
will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and
this shall be a sign unto us.
 
1 Samuel 14:11 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan
and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew
you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up
after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of
Israel.
 
1 Samuel 14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon
his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before
Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.
 
1 Samuel 14:14 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the
field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers,
they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great
trembling.
 
1 Samuel 14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin
looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on
beating down one another.
 
1 Samuel 14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with
him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had
numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
 
1 Samuel 14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark
of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of
Israel.
 
1 Samuel 14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the
priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines
went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw
thine hand.
 
1 Samuel 14:20 And Saul and all the people that were with him
assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold,
every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very
great discomfiture.
 
1 Samuel 14:21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the
Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the
camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be
with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
 
1 Samuel 14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid
themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines
fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
 
1 Samuel 14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the
battle passed over unto Bethaven.
 
1 Samuel 14:24 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and
there was honey upon the ground.
 
1 Samuel 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood,
behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth:
for the people feared the oath.
 
1 Samuel 14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged
the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the
rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put
his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
 
1 Samuel 14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy
father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed
be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were
faint.
 
1 Samuel 14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the
land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened,
because I tasted a little of this honey.
 
1 Samuel 14:30 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?
 
1 Samuel 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from
Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
 
1 Samuel 14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took
sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the
people did eat them with the blood.
 
1 Samuel 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people
sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he
said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
 
1 Samuel 14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the
people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and
every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not
against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people
brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them
there.
 
1 Samuel 14:35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same
was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 14:36 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down
after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of
Israel? But he answered him not that day.
 
1 Samuel 14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the
chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been
this day.
 
1 Samuel 14:39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel,
though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there
was not a man among all the people that answered him.
 
1 Samuel 14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side,
and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the
people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
 
1 Samuel 14:41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel,
Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the
people escaped.
 
1 Samuel 14:42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan
my son. And Jonathan was taken.
 
1 Samuel 14:43 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for
thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
 
1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan
die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid:
as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to
the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people
rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
 
1 Samuel 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the
Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
 
1 Samuel 14:47 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.
 
1 Samuel 14:48 And he gathered an host, and smote the
Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that
spoiled them.
 
1 Samuel 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui,
and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these;
the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger
Michal:
 
1 Samuel 14:50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the
daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was
Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
 
1 Samuel 14:51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the
father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
 
1 Samuel 14:52 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to
anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now
therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 15:2 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all
that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
 
1 Samuel 15:4 And Saul gathered the people together, and
numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten
thousand men of Judah.
 
1 Samuel 15:5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait
in the valley.
 
1 Samuel 15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get
you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them:
for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they
came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the
Amalekites.
 
1 Samuel 15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until
thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
 
1 Samuel 15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites
alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the
sword.
 
1 Samuel 15:9 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel,
saying,
 
1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be
king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not
performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried
unto the LORD all night.
 
1 Samuel 15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the
morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and,
behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on,
and gone down to Gilgal.
 
1 Samuel 15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him,
Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of
the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 15:14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating
of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I
hear?
 
1 Samuel 15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the
Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of
the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we
have utterly destroyed.
 
1 Samuel 15:16 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:17 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?
 
1 Samuel 15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said,
Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight
against them until they be consumed.
 
1 Samuel 15:19 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?
 
1 Samuel 15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed
the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent
me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly
destroyed the Amalekites.
 
1 Samuel 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and
oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly
destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
 
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the
LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken
than the fat of rams.
 
1 Samuel 15:23 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I
have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words:
because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
 
1 Samuel 15:25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and
turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 15:26 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid
hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
 
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the
kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a
neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
 
1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor
repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
 
1 Samuel 15:30 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul
worshipped the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 15:32 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.
 
1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women
childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And
Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
 
1 Samuel 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to
his house to Gibeah of Saul.
 
1 Samuel 15:35 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.
 
1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou
mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over
Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to
Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his
sons.
 
1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it,
he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and
say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew
thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I
name unto thee.
 
1 Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and
came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his
coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
 
1 Samuel 16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice
unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the
sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them
to the sacrifice.
 
1 Samuel 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he
looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before
him.
 
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have
refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh
on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
 
1 Samuel 16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass
before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
 
1 Samuel 16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said,
Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
 
1 Samuel 16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass
before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not
chosen these.
 
1 Samuel 16:11 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.
 
1 Samuel 16:12 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.
 
1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed
him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came
upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to
Ramah.
 
1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul,
and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
 
1 Samuel 16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now,
an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
 
1 Samuel 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are
before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an
harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is
upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be
well.
 
1 Samuel 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now
a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
 
1 Samuel 16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said,
Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, 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.
 
1 Samuel 16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and
said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
 
1 Samuel 16:20 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.
 
1 Samuel 16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him:
and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
 
1 Samuel 16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I
pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
 
1 Samuel 16:23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from
God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his
hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit
departed from him.
 
1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their
armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which
belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in
Ephesdammim.
 
1 Samuel 17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered
together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle
in array against the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 17:3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the
one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and
there was a valley between them.
 
1 Samuel 17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of
the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six
cubits and a span.
 
1 Samuel 17:5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and
he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was
five thousand shekels of brass.
 
1 Samuel 17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a
target of brass between his shoulders.
 
1 Samuel 17:7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's
beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron:
and one bearing a shield went before him.
 
1 Samuel 17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel,
and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in
array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you
a man for you, and let him come down to me.
 
1 Samuel 17:9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me,
then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and
kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
 
1 Samuel 17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of
Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
 
1 Samuel 17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of
the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
 
1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of
Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and
the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
 
1 Samuel 17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and
followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that
went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him
Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
 
1 Samuel 17:14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest
followed Saul.
 
1 Samuel 17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed
his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
 
1 Samuel 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and
evening, and presented himself forty days.
 
1 Samuel 17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for
thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves,
and run to the camp of thy brethren;
 
1 Samuel 17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of
their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their
pledge.
 
1 Samuel 17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel,
were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left
the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had
commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going
forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
 
1 Samuel 17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the
battle in array, army against army.
 
1 Samuel 17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the
keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and
saluted his brethren.
 
1 Samuel 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came
up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of
the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same
words: and David heard them.
 
1 Samuel 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the
man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
 
1 Samuel 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this
man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it
shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him
with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his
father's house free in Israel.
 
1 Samuel 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him,
saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this
Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is
this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of
the living God?
 
1 Samuel 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner,
saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
 
1 Samuel 17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake
unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he
said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left
those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the
naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou
mightest see the battle.
 
1 Samuel 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there
not a cause?
 
1 Samuel 17:30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake
after the same manner: and the people answered him again after
the former manner.
 
1 Samuel 17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake,
they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
 
1 Samuel 17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail
because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this
Philistine.
 
1 Samuel 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go
against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a
youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
 
1 Samuel 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his
father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a
lamb out of the flock:
 
1 Samuel 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and
delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I
caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
 
1 Samuel 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and
this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he
hath defied the armies of the living God.
 
1 Samuel 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me
out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he
will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said
unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
 
1 Samuel 17:38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put
an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat
of mail.
 
1 Samuel 17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and
he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto
Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And
David put them off him.
 
1 Samuel 17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him
five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's
bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand:
and he drew near to the Philistine.
 
1 Samuel 17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto
David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
 
1 Samuel 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw
David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and
of a fair countenance.
 
1 Samuel 17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog,
that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed
David by his gods.
 
1 Samuel 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me,
and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the
beasts of the field.
 
1 Samuel 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest
to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I
come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
 
1 Samuel 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine
hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I
will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day
unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth;
that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
 
1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD
saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's,
and he will give you into our hands.
 
1 Samuel 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose,
and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and
ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
 
1 Samuel 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took
thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his
forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon
his face to the earth.
 
1 Samuel 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a
sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him;
but there was no sword in the hand of David.
 
1 Samuel 17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the
Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath
thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when
the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
 
1 Samuel 17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and
shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the
valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the
Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and
unto Ekron.
 
1 Samuel 17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing
after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
 
1 Samuel 17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and
brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
 
1 Samuel 17:55 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.
 
1 Samuel 17:56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the
stripling is.
 
1 Samuel 17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the
head of the Philistine in his hand.
 
1 Samuel 17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou
young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse
the Bethlehemite.
 
1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the
soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
 
1 Samuel 18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go
no more home to his father's house.
 
1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because
he loved him as his own soul.
 
1 Samuel 18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that
was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his
sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
 
1 Samuel 18:5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war,
and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in
the sight of Saul's servants.
 
1 Samuel 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was
returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women
came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet
king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of
musick.
 
1 Samuel 18:7 And the women answered one another as they
played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his
ten thousands.
 
1 Samuel 18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying
displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten
thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what
can he have more but the kingdom?
 
1 Samuel 18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
 
1 Samuel 18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil
spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of
the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and
there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
 
1 Samuel 18:11 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.
 
1 Samuel 18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD
was with him, and was departed from Saul.
 
1 Samuel 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made
him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in
before the people.
 
1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways; and the LORD was with him.
 
1 Samuel 18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself
very wisely, he was afraid of him.
 
1 Samuel 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he
went out and came in before them.
 
1 Samuel 18:17 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.
 
1 Samuel 18:18 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?
 
1 Samuel 18:19 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.
 
1 Samuel 18:20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they
told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
 
1 Samuel 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may
be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be
against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be
my son in law in the one of the twain.
 
1 Samuel 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune
with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in
thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's
son in law.
 
1 Samuel 18:23 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?
 
1 Samuel 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On
this manner spake David.
 
1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The
king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the
Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul
thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 18:26 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.
 
1 Samuel 18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men,
and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought
their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king,
that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal
his daughter to wife.
 
1 Samuel 18:28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with
David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
 
1 Samuel 18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and
Saul became David's enemy continually.
 
1 Samuel 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth:
and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved
himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his
name was much set by.
 
1 Samuel 19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all
his servants, that they should kill David.
 
1 Samuel 19:2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David:
and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill
thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the
morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
 
1 Samuel 19:3 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his
father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his
servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee,
and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
 
1 Samuel 19:5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the
Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all
Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt
thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
 
1 Samuel 19:6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan:
and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
 
1 Samuel 19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed
him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he
was in his presence, as in times past.
 
1 Samuel 19:8 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:9 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:10 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to
watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's
wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to
morrow thou shalt be slain.
 
1 Samuel 19:12 So Michal let David down through a window: and
he went, and fled, and escaped.
 
1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the
bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered
it with a cloth.
 
1 Samuel 19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she
said, He is sick.
 
1 Samuel 19:15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David,
saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
 
1 Samuel 19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold,
there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for
his bolster.
 
1 Samuel 19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou
deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And
Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I
kill thee?
 
1 Samuel 19:18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel
to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and
Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
 
1 Samuel 19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is
at Naioth in Ramah.
 
1 Samuel 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when
they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel
standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the
messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
 
1 Samuel 19:21 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:22 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:23 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.
 
1 Samuel 19:24 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?
 
1 Samuel 20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and
said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity?
and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
 
1 Samuel 20:2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not
die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but
that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing
from me? it is not so.
 
1 Samuel 20:3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father
certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he
saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly
as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step
between me and death.
 
1 Samuel 20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy
soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.
 
1 Samuel 20:5 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David
earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his
city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
 
1 Samuel 20:7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall
have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is
determined by him.
 
1 Samuel 20:8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy
servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the
LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay
me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
 
1 Samuel 20:9 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?
 
1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me?
or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
 
1 Samuel 20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us
go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the
field.
 
1 Samuel 20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of
Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time,
or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and
I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
 
1 Samuel 20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if
it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee,
and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be
with thee, as he hath been with my father.
 
1 Samuel 20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me
the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:
 
1 Samuel 20:15 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of
David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of
David's enemies.
 
1 Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again,
because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
 
1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the
new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be
empty.
 
1 Samuel 20:19 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side
thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
 
1 Samuel 20:21 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:22 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have
spoken of, behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.
 
1 Samuel 20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the
new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
 
1 Samuel 20:25 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day:
for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean;
surely he is not clean.
 
1 Samuel 20:27 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?
 
1 Samuel 20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly
asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:
 
1 Samuel 20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our
family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath
commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in
thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren.
Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.
 
1 Samuel 20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan,
and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman,
do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own
confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
 
1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the
ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore
now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
 
1 Samuel 20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said
unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
 
1 Samuel 20:33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him:
whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to
slay David.
 
1 Samuel 20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce
anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he
was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
 
1 Samuel 20:35 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:36 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.
 
1 Samuel 20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the
arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and
said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
 
1 Samuel 20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed,
haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and
came to his master.
 
1 Samuel 20:39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan
and David knew the matter.
 
1 Samuel 20:40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad,
and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
 
1 Samuel 20:41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out
of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground,
and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and
wept one with another, until David exceeded.
 
1 Samuel 20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace,
forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD,
saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and
thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went
into the city.
 
1 Samuel 21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest:
and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto
him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
 
1 Samuel 21:2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The
king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no
man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and
what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to
such and such a place.
 
1 Samuel 21:3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me
five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
 
1 Samuel 21:4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is
no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if
the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
 
1 Samuel 21:5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him,
Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days,
since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and
the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified
this day in the vessel.
 
1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there
was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before
the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
 
1 Samuel 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was
there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg,
an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
 
1 Samuel 21:8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not
here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought
my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business
required haste.
 
1 Samuel 21:9 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.
 
1 Samuel 21:10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of
Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
 
1 Samuel 21:11 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?
 
1 Samuel 21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and
was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
 
1 Samuel 21:13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and
feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of
the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
 
1 Samuel 21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see
the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
 
1 Samuel 21:15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought
this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow
come into my house?
 
1 Samuel 22:1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to
the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's
house heard it, they went down thither to him.
 
1 Samuel 22:2 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.
 
1 Samuel 22:3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he
said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray
thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do
for me.
 
1 Samuel 22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and
they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
 
1 Samuel 22:5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in
the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David
departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
 
1 Samuel 22:6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and
the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a
tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants
were standing about him;)
 
1 Samuel 22:7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about
him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every
one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds;
 
1 Samuel 22:8 That all of you have conspired against me, and
there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with
the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me,
or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against
me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
 
1 Samuel 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set
over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse
coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
 
1 Samuel 22:10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave
him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
 
1 Samuel 22:11 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.
 
1 Samuel 22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And
he answered, Here I am, my lord.
 
1 Samuel 22:13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired
against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given
him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he
should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
 
1 Samuel 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And
who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the
king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in
thine house?
 
1 Samuel 22:15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be
it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his
servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew
nothing of all this, less or more.
 
1 Samuel 22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die,
Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
 
1 Samuel 22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood
about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their
hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and
did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put
forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 22:18 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.
 
1 Samuel 22:19 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.
 
1 Samuel 22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of
Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
 
1 Samuel 22:21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain
the LORD's priests.
 
1 Samuel 22:22 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.
 
1 Samuel 22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that
seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in
safeguard.
 
1 Samuel 23:1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the
Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the
threshingfloors.
 
1 Samuel 23:2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying,
Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto
David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
 
1 Samuel 23:3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be
afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah
against the armies of the Philistines?
 
1 Samuel 23:4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And
the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I
will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
 
1 Samuel 23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought
with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote
them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of
Keilah.
 
1 Samuel 23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of
Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an
ephod in his hand.
 
1 Samuel 23:7 And it was told Saul that David was come to
Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for
he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
 
1 Samuel 23:8 And Saul called all the people together to war,
to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
 
1 Samuel 23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised
mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring
hither the ephod.
 
1 Samuel 23:10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy
servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah,
to destroy the city for my sake.
 
1 Samuel 23:11 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.
 
1 Samuel 23:12 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.
 
1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, which were about six
hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever
they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from
Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
 
1 Samuel 23:14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong
holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And
Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his
hand.
 
1 Samuel 23:15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his
life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
 
1 Samuel 23:16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David
into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
 
1 Samuel 23:17 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.
 
1 Samuel 23:18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD:
and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
 
1 Samuel 23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah,
saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in
the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of
Jeshimon?
 
1 Samuel 23:20 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.
 
1 Samuel 23:21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye
have compassion on me.
 
1 Samuel 23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see
his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it
is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
 
1 Samuel 23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the
lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me
with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to
pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout
all the thousands of Judah.
 
1 Samuel 23:24 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.
 
1 Samuel 23:25 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.
 
1 Samuel 23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and
David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made
haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men
compassed David and his men round about to take them.
 
1 Samuel 23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying,
Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
 
1 Samuel 23:28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after
David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called
that place Selahammahlekoth.
 
1 Samuel 23:29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in
strong holds at Engedi.
 
1 Samuel 24:1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from
following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold,
David is in the wilderness of Engedi.
 
1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of
all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of
the wild goats.
 
1 Samuel 24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where
was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his
men remained in the sides of the cave.
 
1 Samuel 24:4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the
day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver
thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it
shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the
skirt of Saul's robe privily.
 
1 Samuel 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart
smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
 
1 Samuel 24:6 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I
should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to
stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of
the LORD.
 
1 Samuel 24:7 So David stayed his servants with these words,
and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out
of the cave, and went on his way.
 
1 Samuel 24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the
cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when
Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth,
and bowed himself.
 
1 Samuel 24:9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou
men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
 
1 Samuel 24:10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that
the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave:
and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said,
I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the
LORD's anointed.
 
1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of
thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe,
and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil
nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against
thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
 
1 Samuel 24:12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD
avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
 
1 Samuel 24:13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness
proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
 
1 Samuel 24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after
whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
 
1 Samuel 24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between
me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of
thine hand.
 
1 Samuel 24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end
of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy
voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
 
1 Samuel 24:17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous
than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded
thee evil.
 
1 Samuel 24:18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast
dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me
into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
 
1 Samuel 24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go
well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast
done unto me this day.
 
1 Samuel 24:20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt
surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be
established in thine hand.
 
1 Samuel 24:21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that
thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not
destroy my name out of my father's house.
 
1 Samuel 24:22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home;
but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
 
1 Samuel 25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were
gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house
at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of
Paran.
 
1 Samuel 25:2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions
were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his
sheep in Carmel.
 
1 Samuel 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name
of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding,
and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil
in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
 
1 Samuel 25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did
shear his sheep.
 
1 Samuel 25:5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said
unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and
greet him in my name:
 
1 Samuel 25:6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in
prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house,
and peace be unto all that thou hast.
 
1 Samuel 25:7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now
thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was
there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
 
1 Samuel 25:8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee.
Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we
come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine
hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
 
1 Samuel 25:9 And when David's young men came, they spake to
Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and
ceased.
 
1 Samuel 25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said,
Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants
now a days that break away every man from his master.
 
1 Samuel 25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my
flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men,
whom I know not whence they be?
 
1 Samuel 25:12 So David's young men turned their way, and went
again, and came and told him all those sayings.
 
1 Samuel 25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every
man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David
also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about
four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
 
1 Samuel 25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's
wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness
to salute our master; and he railed on them.
 
1 Samuel 25:15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were
not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were
conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
 
1 Samuel 25:16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day,
all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
 
1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt
do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all
his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot
speak to him.
 
1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred
loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed,
and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of
raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
 
1 Samuel 25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me;
behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
 
1 Samuel 25:20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she
came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his
men came down against her; and she met them.
 
1 Samuel 25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept
all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was
missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me
evil for good.
 
1 Samuel 25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of
David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light
any that pisseth against the wall.
 
1 Samuel 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and
lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground,
 
1 Samuel 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my
lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I
pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine
handmaid.
 
1 Samuel 25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of
Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his
name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the
young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
 
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from
coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own
hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord,
be as Nabal.
 
1 Samuel 25:27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath
brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men
that follow my lord.
 
1 Samuel 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine
handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house;
because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath
not been found in thee all thy days.
 
1 Samuel 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek
thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of
life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them
shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
 
1 Samuel 25:30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall
have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath
spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over
Israel;
 
1 Samuel 25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor
offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood
causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the
LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine
handmaid.
 
1 Samuel 25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD
God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
 
1 Samuel 25:33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou,
which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from
avenging myself with mine own hand.
 
1 Samuel 25:34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel
liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou
hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left
unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the
wall.
 
1 Samuel 25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had
brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house;
see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
 
1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held
a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart
was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told
him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
 
1 Samuel 25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the
wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these
things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
 
1 Samuel 25:38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that
the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
 
1 Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he
said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my
reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from
evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his
own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her
to him to wife.
 
1 Samuel 25:40 And when the servants of David were come to
Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us
unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
 
1 Samuel 25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to
the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to
wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
 
1 Samuel 25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an
ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went
after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
 
1 Samuel 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they
were also both of them his wives.
 
1 Samuel 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's
wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
 
1 Samuel 26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah,
saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah,
which is before Jeshimon?
 
1 Samuel 26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness
of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to
seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
 
1 Samuel 26:3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which
is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the
wilderness.
 
1 Samuel 26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood
that Saul was come in very deed.
 
1 Samuel 26:5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul
had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner
the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the
trench, and the people pitched round about him.
 
1 Samuel 26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the
Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab,
saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai
said, I will go down with thee.
 
1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night:
and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear
stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay
round about him.
 
1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered
thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite
him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I
will not smite him the second time.
 
1 Samuel 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for
who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and
be guiltless?
 
1 Samuel 26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the
LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall
descend into battle, and perish.
 
1 Samuel 26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine
hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now
the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let
us go.
 
1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water
from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it,
nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a
deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
 
1 Samuel 26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and
stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between
them:
 
1 Samuel 26:14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the
son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner
answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
 
1 Samuel 26:15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant
man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou
not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in
to destroy the king thy lord.
 
1 Samuel 26:16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As
the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept
your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's
spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
 
1 Samuel 26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this
thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord,
O king.
 
1 Samuel 26:18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue
after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine
hand?
 
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king
hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up
against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the
children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have
driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the
LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
 
1 Samuel 26:20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the
earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come
out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the
mountains.
 
1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son
David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was
precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool,
and have erred exceedingly.
 
1 Samuel 26:22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's
spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
 
1 Samuel 26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness
and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to
day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's
anointed.
 
1 Samuel 26:24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this
day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of
the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
 
1 Samuel 26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son
David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still
prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his
place.
 
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish
one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than
that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines;
and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of
Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
 
1 Samuel 27:2 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.
 
1 Samuel 27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his
men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's
wife.
 
1 Samuel 27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath:
and he sought no more again for him.
 
1 Samuel 27:5 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?
 
1 Samuel 27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore
Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
 
1 Samuel 27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of
the Philistines was a full year and four months.
 
1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the
Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those
nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to
Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
 
1 Samuel 27:9 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.
 
1 Samuel 27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to
day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the
south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
 
1 Samuel 27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to
bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us,
saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he
dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made
his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my
servant for ever.
 
1 Samuel 28:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the
Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight
with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly,
that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
 
1 Samuel 28:2 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:3 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together,
and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel
together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
 
1 Samuel 28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he
was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
 
1 Samuel 28:6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD
answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by
prophets.
 
1 Samuel 28:7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman
that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of
her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that
hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
 
1 Samuel 28:8 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:9 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?
 
1 Samuel 28:10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As
the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for
this thing.
 
1 Samuel 28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto
thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
 
1 Samuel 28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a
loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou
deceived me? for thou art Saul.
 
1 Samuel 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for
what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods
ascending out of the earth.
 
1 Samuel 28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And
she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle.
And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his
face to the ground, and bowed himself.
 
1 Samuel 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou
disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore
distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is
departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets,
nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest
make known unto me what I shall do.
 
1 Samuel 28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask
of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine
enemy?
 
1 Samuel 28:17 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:
 
1 Samuel 28:18 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with
thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou
and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of
Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 28:20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the
earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and
there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the
day, nor all the night.
 
1 Samuel 28:21 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:22 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:23 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.
 
1 Samuel 28:24 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:
 
1 Samuel 28:25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his
servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that
night.
 
1 Samuel 29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their
armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which
is in Jezreel.
 
1 Samuel 29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by
hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in
the rereward with Achish.
 
1 Samuel 29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do
these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the
Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of
Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I
have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
 
1 Samuel 29:4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth
with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make
this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou
hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle,
lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should
he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the
heads of these men?
 
1 Samuel 29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to
another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his
ten thousands?
 
1 Samuel 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him,
Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going
out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight:
for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming
unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
 
1 Samuel 29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou
displease not the lords of the Philistines.
 
1 Samuel 29:8 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?
 
1 Samuel 29:9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know
that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God:
notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He
shall not go up with us to the battle.
 
1 Samuel 29:10 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.
 
1 Samuel 29:11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in
the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the
Philistines went up to Jezreel.
 
1 Samuel 30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were
come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded
the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with
fire;
 
1 Samuel 30:2 And had taken the women captives, that were
therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried
them away, and went on their way.
 
1 Samuel 30:3 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.
 
1 Samuel 30:4 Then David and the people that were with him
lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to
weep.
 
1 Samuel 30:5 And David's two wives were taken captives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.
 
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people
spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was
grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David
encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
 
1 Samuel 30:7 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.
 
1 Samuel 30:8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I
pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered
him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without
fail recover all.
 
1 Samuel 30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that
were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were
left behind stayed.
 
1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for
two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not
go over the brook Besor.
 
1 Samuel 30:11 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;
 
1 Samuel 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and
two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came
again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water,
three days and three nights.
 
1 Samuel 30:13 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.
 
1 Samuel 30:14 We made an invasion upon the south of the
Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and
upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
 
1 Samuel 30:15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down
to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou
wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master,
and I will bring thee down to this company.
 
1 Samuel 30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they
were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and
dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out
of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
 
1 Samuel 30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto
the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them,
save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
 
1 Samuel 30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had
carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
 
1 Samuel 30:19 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.
 
1 Samuel 30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds,
which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is
David's spoil.
 
1 Samuel 30:21 And David came to the two hundred men, which
were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had
made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to
meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when
David came near to the people, he saluted them.
 
1 Samuel 30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of
Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they
went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that
we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children,
that they may lead them away, and depart.
 
1 Samuel 30:23 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.
 
1 Samuel 30:24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter?
but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
 
1 Samuel 30:25 And it was so from that day forward, that he
made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
 
1 Samuel 30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the
spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying,
Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
 
1 Samuel 30:27 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which
were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
 
1 Samuel 30:28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them
which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
 
1 Samuel 30:29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them
which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which
were in the cities of the Kenites,
 
1 Samuel 30:30 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them
which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
 
1 Samuel 30:31 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the
places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
 
1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and
the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down
slain in mount Gilboa.
 
1 Samuel 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and
upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab,
and Melchishua, Saul's sons.
 
1 Samuel 31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the
archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
 
1 Samuel 31:4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy
sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised
come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer
would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword,
and fell upon it.
 
1 Samuel 31:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead,
he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
 
1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his
armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
 
1 Samuel 31:7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other
side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan,
saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were
dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came
and dwelt in them.
 
1 Samuel 31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the
Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his
three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
 
1 Samuel 31:9 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.
 
1 Samuel 31:10 And they put his armour in the house of
Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
 
1 Samuel 31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard
of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
 
1 Samuel 31:12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night,
and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the
wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
 
1 Samuel 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under
a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
 
2 Samuel 1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when
David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and
David had abode two days in Ziklag;
 
2 Samuel 1:2 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou?
And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
 
2 Samuel 1:4 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:5 And David said unto the young man that told him,
How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
 
2 Samuel 1:6 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and
called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
 
2 Samuel 1:8 And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered
him, I am an Amalekite.
 
2 Samuel 1:9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon
me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is
yet whole in me.
 
2 Samuel 1:10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was
sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took
the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on
his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
 
2 Samuel 1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent
them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
 
2 Samuel 1:12 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:13 And David said unto the young man that told him,
Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an
Amalekite.
 
2 Samuel 1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid
to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?
 
2 Samuel 1:15 And David called one of the young men, and said,
Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
 
2 Samuel 1:16 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:17 And David lamented with this lamentation over
Saul and over Jonathan his son:
 
2 Samuel 1:18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah
the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
 
2 Samuel 1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high
places: how are the mighty fallen!
 
2 Samuel 1:20 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:21 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the
mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of
Saul returned not empty.
 
2 Samuel 1:23 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who
clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments
of gold upon your apparel.
 
2 Samuel 1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the
battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
 
2 Samuel 1:26 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.
 
2 Samuel 1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war
perished!
 
2 Samuel 2:1 And it came to pass after this, that David
enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the
cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David
said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 2:2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
 
2 Samuel 2:3 And his men that were with him did David bring up,
every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of
Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 2:4 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 Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.
 
2 Samuel 2:5 And David sent messengers unto the men of
Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that
ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and
have buried him.
 
2 Samuel 2:6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you:
and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done
this thing.
 
2 Samuel 2:7 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host,
took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to
Mahanaim;
 
2 Samuel 2:9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the
Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin,
and over all Israel.
 
2 Samuel 2:10 Ishbosheth 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over
the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
 
2 Samuel 2:12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of
Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
 
2 Samuel 2:13 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now
arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
 
2 Samuel 2:15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve
of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and
twelve of the servants of David.
 
2 Samuel 2:16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head,
and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down
together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which
is in Gibeon.
 
2 Samuel 2:17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and
Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of
David.
 
2 Samuel 2:18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab,
and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a
wild roe.
 
2 Samuel 2:19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he
turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following
Abner.
 
2 Samuel 2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou
Asahel? And he answered, I am.
 
2 Samuel 2:21 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:22 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 Samuel 2:23 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and
the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that
lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
 
2 Samuel 2:25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top
of an hill.
 
2 Samuel 2:26 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?
 
2 Samuel 2:27 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood
still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any
more.
 
2 Samuel 2:29 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.
 
2 Samuel 2:30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when
he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's
servants nineteen men and Asahel.
 
2 Samuel 2:31 But the servants of David had smitten of
Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and
threescore men died.
 
2 Samuel 2:32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the
sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his
men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
 
2 Samuel 3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul
and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger,
and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
 
2 Samuel 3:2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his
firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
 
2 Samuel 3:3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of
Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the
daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
 
2 Samuel 3:4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and
the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
 
2 Samuel 3:5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife.
These were born to David in Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 3:6 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah,
the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore
hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
 
2 Samuel 3:8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of
Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do
shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his
brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into
the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault
concerning this woman?
 
2 Samuel 3:9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the
LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
 
2 Samuel 3:10 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 Beersheba.
 
2 Samuel 3:11 And he could not answer Abner a word again,
because he feared him.
 
2 Samuel 3:12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,
saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me,
and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all
Israel unto thee.
 
2 Samuel 3:13 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's
son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me
for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
 
2 Samuel 3:15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her
husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
 
2 Samuel 3:16 And her husband went with her along weeping
behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And
he returned.
 
2 Samuel 3:17 And Abner had communication with the elders of
Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over
you:
 
2 Samuel 3:18 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:19 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:20 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:21 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came
from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them:
but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away,
and he was gone in peace.
 
2 Samuel 3:23 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:24 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?
 
2 Samuel 3:25 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent
messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of
Sirah: but David knew it not.
 
2 Samuel 3:27 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and
my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood
of Abner the son of Ner:
 
2 Samuel 3:29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his
father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one
that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a
staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
 
2 Samuel 3:30 So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner,
because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the
battle.
 
2 Samuel 3:31 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:32 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died
Abner as a fool dieth?
 
2 Samuel 3:34 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.
 
2 Samuel 3:35 And when all the people came to cause David to
eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to
me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun
be down.
 
2 Samuel 3:36 And all the people took notice of it, and it
pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
 
2 Samuel 3:37 For all the people and all Israel understood that
day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
 
2 Samuel 3:38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not
that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
 
2 Samuel 3:39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and
these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall
reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
 
2 Samuel 4:1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in
Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were
troubled.
 
2 Samuel 4:2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of
bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other
Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of
Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.
 
2 Samuel 4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were
sojourners there until this day.)
 
2 Samuel 4:4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame
of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul
and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled:
and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and
became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
 
2 Samuel 4:5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and
Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of
Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
 
2 Samuel 4:6 And they came thither into the midst of the house,
as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under
the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
 
2 Samuel 4:7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his
bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and
beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the
plain all night.
 
2 Samuel 4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David
to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth
the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD
hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
 
2 Samuel 4:9 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,
 
2 Samuel 4:10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead,
thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and
slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a
reward for his tidings:
 
2 Samuel 4:11 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?
 
2 Samuel 4:12 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 Ishbosheth,
and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto
Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
 
2 Samuel 5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us,
thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the
LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou
shalt be a captain over Israel.
 
2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to
Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before
the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
 
2 Samuel 5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned forty years.
 
2 Samuel 5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and
six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years
over all Israel and Judah.
 
2 Samuel 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto
the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto
David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou
shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
 
2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion:
the same is the city of David.
 
2 Samuel 5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up
to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the
blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and
captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not
come into the house.
 
2 Samuel 5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city
of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
 
2 Samuel 5:10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD
God of hosts was with him.
 
2 Samuel 5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David,
and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David
an house.
 
2 Samuel 5:12 And David perceived that the LORD had established
him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his
people Israel's sake.
 
2 Samuel 5:13 And David took him more concubines and wives out
of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet
sons and daughters born to David.
 
2 Samuel 5:14 And these be the names of those that were born
unto him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and
Solomon,
 
2 Samuel 5:15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
 
2 Samuel 5:16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
 
2 Samuel 5:17 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.
 
2 Samuel 5:18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves
in the valley of Rephaim.
 
2 Samuel 5:19 And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I
go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand?
And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver
the Philistines into thine hand.
 
2 Samuel 5:20 And David came to Baalperazim, 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 Baalperazim.
 
2 Samuel 5:21 And there they left their images, and David and
his men burned them.
 
2 Samuel 5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
 
2 Samuel 5:23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said,
Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come
upon them over against the mulberry trees.
 
2 Samuel 5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a
going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt
bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to
smite the host of the Philistines.
 
2 Samuel 5:25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him;
and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
 
2 Samuel 6:1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men
of Israel, thirty thousand.
 
2 Samuel 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that
were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the
ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts
that dwelleth between the cherubims.
 
2 Samuel 6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and
brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and
Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
 
2 Samuel 6:4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab
which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went
before the ark.
 
2 Samuel 6:5 And David and all the house of Israel played
before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood,
even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on
cornets, and on cymbals.
 
2 Samuel 6:6 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor,
Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it;
for the oxen shook it.
 
2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died
by the ark of God.
 
2 Samuel 6:8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had
made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place
Perezuzzah to this day.
 
2 Samuel 6:9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and
said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
 
2 Samuel 6:10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD
unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into
the house of Obededom the Gittite.
 
2 Samuel 6:11 And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of
Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom,
and all his household.
 
2 Samuel 6:12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath
blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him,
because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark
of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with
gladness.
 
2 Samuel 6:13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark
of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
 
2 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his
might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
 
2 Samuel 6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up
the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the
trumpet.
 
2 Samuel 6:16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of
David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw
king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised
him in her heart.
 
2 Samuel 6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set
it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had
pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before the LORD.
 
2 Samuel 6:18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering
burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the
name of the LORD of hosts.
 
2 Samuel 6:19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the
whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every
one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of
wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
 
2 Samuel 6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And
Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How
glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to
day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the
vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
 
2 Samuel 6:21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the
LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house,
to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel:
therefore will I play before the LORD.
 
2 Samuel 6:22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will
be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou
hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
 
2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no
child unto the day of her death.
 
2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his
house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his
enemies;
 
2 Samuel 7:2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See
now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth
within curtains.
 
2 Samuel 7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in
thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.
 
2 Samuel 7:4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of
the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
 
2 Samuel 7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD,
Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
 
2 Samuel 7:6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the
time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even
to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
 
2 Samuel 7:7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all
the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of
Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why
build ye not me an house of cedar?
 
2 Samuel 7:8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant
David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the
sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people,
over Israel:
 
2 Samuel 7:9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest,
and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have
made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that
are in the earth.
 
2 Samuel 7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people
Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of
their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of
wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
 
2 Samuel 7:11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to
be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all
thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee
an house.
 
2 Samuel 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt
sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which
shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his
kingdom.
 
2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will
stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
 
2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If
he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and
with the stripes of the children of men:
 
2 Samuel 7:15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I
took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
 
2 Samuel 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be
established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established
for ever.
 
2 Samuel 7:17 According to all these words, and according to
all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
 
2 Samuel 7:18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD,
and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that
thou hast brought me hitherto?
 
2 Samuel 7:19 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?
 
2 Samuel 7:20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou,
Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
 
2 Samuel 7:21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own
heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant
know them.
 
2 Samuel 7:22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there
is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee,
according to all that we have heard with our ears.
 
2 Samuel 7:23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy
people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to
himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things
and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou
redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
 
2 Samuel 7:24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people
Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art
become their God.
 
2 Samuel 7:25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast
spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house,
establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
 
2 Samuel 7:26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying,
The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of
thy servant David be established before thee.
 
2 Samuel 7:27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast
revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house:
therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer
unto thee.
 
2 Samuel 7:28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy
words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy
servant:
 
2 Samuel 7:29 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.
 
2 Samuel 8:1 And after this it came to pass that David smote
the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out
of the hand of the Philistines.
 
2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line,
casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he
to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the
Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
 
2 Samuel 8:3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king
of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river
Euphrates.
 
2 Samuel 8:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and
seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David
houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an
hundred chariots.
 
2 Samuel 8:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour
Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men.
 
2 Samuel 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and
the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the
LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
 
2 Samuel 8:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on
the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 8:8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of
Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
 
2 Samuel 8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had
smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
 
2 Samuel 8:10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to
salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And
Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold,
and vessels of brass:
 
2 Samuel 8:11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD,
with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations
which he subdued;
 
2 Samuel 8:12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of
Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of
Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
 
2 Samuel 8:13 And David gat him a name when he returned from
smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen
thousand men.
 
2 Samuel 8:14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom
put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants.
And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
 
2 Samuel 8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David
executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
 
2 Samuel 8:16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
 
2 Samuel 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the
son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
 
2 Samuel 8:18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief
rulers.
 
2 Samuel 9:1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of
the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's
sake?
 
2 Samuel 9:2 And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose
name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king
said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
 
2 Samuel 9:3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the
house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And
Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame
on his feet.
 
2 Samuel 9:4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba
said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son
of Ammiel, in Lodebar.
 
2 Samuel 9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the
house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
 
2 Samuel 9:6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the
son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did
reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold
thy servant!
 
2 Samuel 9:7 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will
surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and
will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt
eat bread at my table continually.
 
2 Samuel 9:8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy
servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
 
2 Samuel 9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and
said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that
pertained to Saul and to all his house.
 
2 Samuel 9:10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants,
shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits,
that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy
master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had
fifteen sons and twenty servants.
 
2 Samuel 9:11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all
that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy
servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at
my table, as one of the king's sons.
 
2 Samuel 9:12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was
Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto
Mephibosheth.
 
2 Samuel 9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did
eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his
feet.
 
2 Samuel 10:1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of
the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his
stead.
 
2 Samuel 10:2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun
the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And
David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his
father. And David's servants came into the land of the children
of Ammon.
 
2 Samuel 10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said
unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy
father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David
rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to
spy it out, and to overthrow it?
 
2 Samuel 10:4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved
off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in
the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
 
2 Samuel 10:5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet
them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said,
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
 
2 Samuel 10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they
stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the
Syrians of Bethrehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand
footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve
thousand men.
 
2 Samuel 10:7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all
the host of the mighty men.
 
2 Samuel 10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the
battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians
of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves
in the field.
 
2 Samuel 10:9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was
against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of
Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
 
2 Samuel 10:10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the
hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array
against the children of Ammon.
 
2 Samuel 10:11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for
me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too
strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.
 
2 Samuel 10:12 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.
 
2 Samuel 10:13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were
with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled
before him.
 
2 Samuel 10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the
Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and
entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of
Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 10:15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten
before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
 
2 Samuel 10:16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians
that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach
the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
 
2 Samuel 10:17 And when it was told David, he gathered all
Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And
the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought
with him.
 
2 Samuel 10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David
slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty
thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host,
who died there.
 
2 Samuel 10:19 And when all the kings that were servants to
Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made
peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help
the children of Ammon any more.
 
2 Samuel 11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired,
at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab,
and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the
children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still
at Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 11:2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David
arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's
house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the
woman was very beautiful to look upon.
 
2 Samuel 11:3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And
one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife
of Uriah the Hittite?
 
2 Samuel 11:4 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.
 
2 Samuel 11:5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David,
and said, I am with child.
 
2 Samuel 11:6 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the
Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
 
2 Samuel 11:7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded
of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war
prospered.
 
2 Samuel 11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house,
and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house,
and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
 
2 Samuel 11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house
with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his
house.
 
2 Samuel 11:10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went
not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not
from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine
house?
 
2 Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel,
and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of
my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into
mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou
livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
 
2 Samuel 11:12 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.
 
2 Samuel 11:13 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.
 
2 Samuel 11:14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David
wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
 
2 Samuel 11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah
in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him,
that he may be smitten, and die.
 
2 Samuel 11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the
city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that
valiant men were.
 
2 Samuel 11:17 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.
 
2 Samuel 11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things
concerning the war;
 
2 Samuel 11:19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou
hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
 
2 Samuel 11:20 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?
 
2 Samuel 11:21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did
not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall,
that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou,
Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
 
2 Samuel 11:22 So the messenger went, and came and shewed David
all that Joab had sent him for.
 
2 Samuel 11:23 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.
 
2 Samuel 11:24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy
servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy
servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
 
2 Samuel 11:25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt
thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the
sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more
strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou
him.
 
2 Samuel 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her
husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
 
2 Samuel 11:27 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.
 
2 Samuel 12:1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came
unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the
one rich, and the other poor.
 
2 Samuel 12:2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
 
2 Samuel 12:3 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.
 
2 Samuel 12:4 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.
 
2 Samuel 12:5 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:
 
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because
he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
 
2 Samuel 12:7 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;
 
2 Samuel 12:8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy
master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel
and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover
have given unto thee such and such things.
 
2 Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of
the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the
Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
 
2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from
thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the
wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
 
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up
evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy
wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he
shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
 
2 Samuel 12:12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this
thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
 
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned
against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath
put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
 
2 Samuel 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given
great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child
also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
 
2 Samuel 12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD
struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was
very sick.
 
2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and
David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
 
2 Samuel 12:17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to
him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither
did he eat bread with them.
 
2 Samuel 12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the
child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the
child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet
alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our
voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the
child is dead?
 
2 Samuel 12:19 But when David saw that his servants whispered,
David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said
unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
 
2 Samuel 12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and
anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the
house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house;
and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
 
2 Samuel 12:21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is
this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child,
while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise
and eat bread.
 
2 Samuel 12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I
fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be
gracious to me, that the child may live?
 
2 Samuel 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can
I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not
return to me.
 
2 Samuel 12:24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went
in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called
his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
 
2 Samuel 12:25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet;
and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
 
2 Samuel 12:26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children
of Ammon, and took the royal city.
 
2 Samuel 12:27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I
have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
 
2 Samuel 12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people
together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take
the city, and it be called after my name.
 
2 Samuel 12:29 And David gathered all the people together, and
went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
 
2 Samuel 12:30 And he took their king's crown from off his
head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious
stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the
spoil of the city in great abundance.
 
2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought forth the people that were
therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and
under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln:
and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So
David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 13:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the
son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon
the son of David loved her.
 
2 Samuel 13:2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his
sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for
him to do anything to her.
 
2 Samuel 13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab,
the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil
man.
 
2 Samuel 13:4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the
king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And
Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
 
2 Samuel 13:5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy
bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see
thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and
give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it,
and eat it at her hand.
 
2 Samuel 13:6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and
when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I
pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of
cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
 
2 Samuel 13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to
thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
 
2 Samuel 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and
he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made
cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
 
2 Samuel 13:9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before
him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from
me. And they went out every man from him.
 
2 Samuel 13:10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into
the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the
cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to
Amnon her brother.
 
2 Samuel 13:11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat,
he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my
sister.
 
2 Samuel 13:12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not
force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not
thou this folly.
 
2 Samuel 13:13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and
as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now
therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not
withhold me from thee.
 
2 Samuel 13:14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice:
but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
 
2 Samuel 13:15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the
hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith
he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
 
2 Samuel 13:16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this
evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst
unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
 
2 Samuel 13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto
him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door
after her.
 
2 Samuel 13:18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon
her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were
virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted
the door after her.
 
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her
garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on
her head, and went on crying.
 
2 Samuel 13:20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath
Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my
sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar
remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
 
2 Samuel 13:21 But when king David heard of all these things,
he was very wroth.
 
2 Samuel 13:22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither
good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his
sister Tamar.
 
2 Samuel 13:23 And it came to pass after two full years, that
Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim:
and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
 
2 Samuel 13:24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold
now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech
thee, and his servants go with thy servant.
 
2 Samuel 13:25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let
us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he
pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
 
2 Samuel 13:26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my
brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should
he go with thee?
 
2 Samuel 13:27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and
all the king's sons go with him.
 
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying,
Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say
unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I
commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
 
2 Samuel 13:29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as
Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every
man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
 
2 Samuel 13:30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way,
that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the
king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
 
2 Samuel 13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and
lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their
clothes rent.
 
2 Samuel 13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother,
answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain
all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by
the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day
that he forced his sister Tamar.
 
2 Samuel 13:33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the
thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead:
for Amnon only is dead.
 
2 Samuel 13:34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept
the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came
much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
 
2 Samuel 13:35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the
king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.
 
2 Samuel 13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an
end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted
up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants
wept very sore.
 
2 Samuel 13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of
Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
 
2 Samuel 13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was
there three years.
 
2 Samuel 13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth
unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he
was dead.
 
2 Samuel 14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the
king's heart was toward Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a
wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a
mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself
with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the
dead:
 
2 Samuel 14:3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner
unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
 
2 Samuel 14:4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king,
she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said,
Help, O king.
 
2 Samuel 14:5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And
she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is
dead.
 
2 Samuel 14:6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two
strove together in the field, and there was none to part them,
but the one smote the other, and slew him.
 
2 Samuel 14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against
thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his
brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom
he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall
quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband
neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
 
2 Samuel 14:8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine
house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
 
2 Samuel 14:9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My
lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house:
and the king and his throne be guiltless.
 
2 Samuel 14:10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto
thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
 
2 Samuel 14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king
remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the
revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.
And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy
son fall to the earth.
 
2 Samuel 14:12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray
thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
 
2 Samuel 14:13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou
thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth
speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth
not fetch home again his banished.
 
2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on
the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God
respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished
be not expelled from him.
 
2 Samuel 14:15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this
thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made
me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king;
it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
 
2 Samuel 14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid
out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son
together out of the inheritance of God.
 
2 Samuel 14:17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord
the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is
my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy
God will be with thee.
 
2 Samuel 14:18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman,
Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee.
And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
 
2 Samuel 14:19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with
thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul
liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to
the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy
servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth
of thine handmaid:
 
2 Samuel 14:20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy
servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to
the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the
earth.
 
2 Samuel 14:21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have
done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
 
2 Samuel 14:22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and
bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy
servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O
king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
 
2 Samuel 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought
Absalom to Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 14:24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own
house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his
own house, and saw not the king's face.
 
2 Samuel 14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much
praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even
to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
 
2 Samuel 14:26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at
every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on
him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at
two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
 
2 Samuel 14:27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and
one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair
countenance.
 
2 Samuel 14:28 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem,
and saw not the king's face.
 
2 Samuel 14:29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent
him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent
again the second time, he would not come.
 
2 Samuel 14:30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's
field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on
fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
 
2 Samuel 14:31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his
house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my
field on fire?
 
2 Samuel 14:32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto
thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to
say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to
have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face;
and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
 
2 Samuel 14:33 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when
he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself
on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed
Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom
prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before
him.
 
2 Samuel 15:2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the
way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a
controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called
unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy
servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
 
2 Samuel 15:3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are
good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear
thee.
 
2 Samuel 15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge
in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might
come unto me, and I would do him justice!
 
2 Samuel 15:5 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.
 
2 Samuel 15:6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that
came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the
men of Israel.
 
2 Samuel 15:7 And it came to pass after forty years, that
Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my
vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 15:8 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.
 
2 Samuel 15:9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he
arose, and went to Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes
of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet,
then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
 
2 Samuel 15:11 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.
 
2 Samuel 15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite,
David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he
offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people
increased continually with Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The
hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 15:14 And David said unto all his servants that were
with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not
else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake
us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the
edge of the sword.
 
2 Samuel 15:15 And the king's servants said unto the king,
Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king
shall appoint.
 
2 Samuel 15:16 And the king went forth, and all his household
after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to
keep the house.
 
2 Samuel 15:17 And the king went forth, and all the people
after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
 
2 Samuel 15:18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and
all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the
Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed
on before the king.
 
2 Samuel 15:19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite,
Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide
with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
 
2 Samuel 15:20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this
day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may,
return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with
thee.
 
2 Samuel 15:21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the
LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place
my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there
also will thy servant be.
 
2 Samuel 15:22 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.
 
2 Samuel 15:23 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.
 
2 Samuel 15:24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with
him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down
the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had
done passing out of the city.
 
2 Samuel 15:25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark
of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the
LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his
habitation:
 
2 Samuel 15:26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee;
behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
 
2 Samuel 15:27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art
not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons
with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
 
2 Samuel 15:28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the
wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
 
2 Samuel 15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of
God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
 
2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet,
and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went
barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man
his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
 
2 Samuel 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among
the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray
thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
 
2 Samuel 15:32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to
the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the
Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his
head:
 
2 Samuel 15:33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with
me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
 
2 Samuel 15:34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto
Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy
father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant:
then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
 
2 Samuel 15:35 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.
 
2 Samuel 15:36 Behold, they have there with them their two
sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by
them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
 
2 Samuel 15:37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and
Absalom came into Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 16:1 And when David was a little past the top of the
hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a
couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of
bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of
summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
 
2 Samuel 16:2 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.
 
2 Samuel 16:3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son?
And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for
he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom
of my father.
 
2 Samuel 16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all
that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech
thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
 
2 Samuel 16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold,
thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose
name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still
as he came.
 
2 Samuel 16:6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the
servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men
were on his right hand and on his left.
 
2 Samuel 16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out,
come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
 
2 Samuel 16:8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of
the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD
hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and,
behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody
man.
 
2 Samuel 16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the
king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go
over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
 
2 Samuel 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you,
ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said
unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou
done so?
 
2 Samuel 16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his
servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh
my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him
alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
 
2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine
affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his
cursing this day.
 
2 Samuel 16:13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei
went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he
went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
 
2 Samuel 16:14 And the king, and all the people that were with
him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
 
2 Samuel 16:15 And Absalom, and all the people the men of
Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
 
2 Samuel 16:16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite,
David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto
Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.
 
2 Samuel 16:17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness
to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
 
2 Samuel 16:18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the
LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his
will I be, and with him will I abide.
 
2 Samuel 16:19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not
serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy
father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.
 
2 Samuel 16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel
among you what we shall do.
 
2 Samuel 16:21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy
father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and
all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then
shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
 
2 Samuel 16:22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of
the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in
the sight of all Israel.
 
2 Samuel 16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he
counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the
oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with
David and with Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now
choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after
David this night:
 
2 Samuel 17:2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and
weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that
are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
 
2 Samuel 17:3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee:
the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the
people shall be in peace.
 
2 Samuel 17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the
elders of Israel.
 
2 Samuel 17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite
also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
 
2 Samuel 17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom
spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner:
shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
 
2 Samuel 17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that
Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
 
2 Samuel 17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his
men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds,
as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a
man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
 
2 Samuel 17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some
other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be
overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say,
There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 17:10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as
the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth
that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are
valiant men.
 
2 Samuel 17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally
gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that
is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine
own person.
 
2 Samuel 17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he
shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on
the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there
shall not be left so much as one.
 
2 Samuel 17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then
shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it
into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
 
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The
counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of
Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel
of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon
Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the
priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the
elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
 
2 Samuel 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David,
saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but
speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the
people that are with him.
 
2 Samuel 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for
they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went
and told them; and they went and told king David.
 
2 Samuel 17:18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom:
but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's
house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they
went down.
 
2 Samuel 17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over
the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing
was not known.
 
2 Samuel 17:20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to
the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the
woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And
when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to
Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 17:21 And it came to pass, after they were departed,
that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David,
and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for
thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
 
2 Samuel 17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that were
with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there
lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
 
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not
followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his
house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged
himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
 
2 Samuel 17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed
over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
 
2 Samuel 17:25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host
instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was
Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of
Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
 
2 Samuel 17:26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of
Gilead.
 
2 Samuel 17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to
Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children
of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai
the Gileadite of Rogelim,
 
2 Samuel 17:28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels,
and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans,
and lentiles, and parched pulse,
 
2 Samuel 17:29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of
kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat:
for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in
the wilderness.
 
2 Samuel 18:1 And David numbered the people that were with him,
and set captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over
them.
 
2 Samuel 18:2 And David sent forth a third part of the people
under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part
under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the
people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
 
2 Samuel 18:3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth:
for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half
of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten
thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us
out of the city.
 
2 Samuel 18:4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you
best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the
people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
 
2 Samuel 18:5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and
Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even
with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the
captains charge concerning Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 18:6 So the people went out into the field against
Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
 
2 Samuel 18:7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the
servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day
of twenty thousand men.
 
2 Samuel 18:8 For the battle was there scattered over the face
of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day
than the sword devoured.
 
2 Samuel 18:9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And
Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick
boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and
he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule
that was under him went away.
 
2 Samuel 18:10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and
said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
 
2 Samuel 18:11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And,
behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there
to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver,
and a girdle.
 
2 Samuel 18:12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should
receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I
not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our
hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 18:13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood
against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king,
and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
 
2 Samuel 18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee.
And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the
heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
 
2 Samuel 18:15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour
compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
 
2 Samuel 18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people
returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the
people.
 
2 Samuel 18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great
pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him:
and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
 
2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared
up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he
said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called
the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day,
Absalom's place.
 
2 Samuel 18:19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now
run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged
him of his enemies.
 
2 Samuel 18:20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear
tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but
this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is
dead.
 
2 Samuel 18:21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what
thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
 
2 Samuel 18:22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to
Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi.
And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou
hast no tidings ready?
 
2 Samuel 18:23 But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said
unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and
overran Cushi.
 
2 Samuel 18:24 And David sat between the two gates: and the
watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
 
2 Samuel 18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And
the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And
he came apace, and drew near.
 
2 Samuel 18:26 And the watchman saw another man running: and
the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man
running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
 
2 Samuel 18:27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running
of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.
And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good
tidings.
 
2 Samuel 18:28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All
is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the
king, and said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered
up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
 
2 Samuel 18:29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom
safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant,
and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it
was.
 
2 Samuel 18:30 And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and
stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
 
2 Samuel 18:31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said,
Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this
day of all them that rose up against thee.
 
2 Samuel 18:32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man
Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the
king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that
young man is.
 
2 Samuel 18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the
chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O
my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for
thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
 
2 Samuel 19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth
and mourneth for Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 19:2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning
unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the
king was grieved for his son.
 
2 Samuel 19:3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into
the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in
battle.
 
2 Samuel 19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried
with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
 
2 Samuel 19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and
said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants,
which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and
of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of
thy concubines;
 
2 Samuel 19:6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy
friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest
neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if
Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had
pleased thee well.
 
2 Samuel 19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak
comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou
go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and
that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee
from thy youth until now.
 
2 Samuel 19:8 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.
 
2 Samuel 19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all
the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand
of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the
Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
 
2 Samuel 19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead
in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the
king back?
 
2 Samuel 19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the
priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are
ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the
speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
 
2 Samuel 19:12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my
flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
 
2 Samuel 19:13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone,
and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not
captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
 
2 Samuel 19:14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah,
even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto
the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
 
2 Samuel 19:15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And
Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king
over Jordan.
 
2 Samuel 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which
was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to
meet king David.
 
2 Samuel 19:17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with
him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen
sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan
before the king.
 
2 Samuel 19:18 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;
 
2 Samuel 19:19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute
iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant
did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of
Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
 
2 Samuel 19:20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned:
therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house
of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
 
2 Samuel 19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and
said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he
cursed the LORD's anointed?
 
2 Samuel 19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye
sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me?
shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do
not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
 
2 Samuel 19:23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt
not die. And the king sware unto him.
 
2 Samuel 19:24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to
meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his
beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed
until the day he came again in peace.
 
2 Samuel 19:25 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?
 
2 Samuel 19:26 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.
 
2 Samuel 19:27 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.
 
2 Samuel 19:28 For all of my father's house were but dead men
before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among
them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I
yet to cry any more unto the king?
 
2 Samuel 19:29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou
any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the
land.
 
2 Samuel 19:30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let
him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in
peace unto his own house.
 
2 Samuel 19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from
Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over
Jordan.
 
2 Samuel 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even
fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance
while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
 
2 Samuel 19:33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over
with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 19:34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have
I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
 
2 Samuel 19:35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I
discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat
or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and
singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden
unto my lord the king?
 
2 Samuel 19:36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan
with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such
a reward?
 
2 Samuel 19:37 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.
 
2 Samuel 19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over
with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto
thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for
thee.
 
2 Samuel 19:39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when
the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed
him; and he returned unto his own place.
 
2 Samuel 19:40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham
went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king,
and also half the people of Israel.
 
2 Samuel 19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the
king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of
Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his
household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?
 
2 Samuel 19:42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of
Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be
ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's
cost? or hath he given us any gift?
 
2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah,
and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more
right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our
advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the
words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men
of Israel.
 
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial,
whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew
a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we
inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O
Israel.
 
2 Samuel 20:2 So every man of Israel went up from after David,
and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave
unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
 
2 Samuel 20:3 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men
of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
 
2 Samuel 20:5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but
he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
 
2 Samuel 20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the
son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy
lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced
cities, and escape us.
 
2 Samuel 20:7 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in
Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had
put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword
fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went
forth it fell out.
 
2 Samuel 20:9 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:10 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:11 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the
highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he
removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth
upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood
still.
 
2 Samuel 20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the
people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
 
2 Samuel 20:14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel
unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were
gathered together, and went also after him.
 
2 Samuel 20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of
Bethmaachah, 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:16 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman
said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto
him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do
hear.
 
2 Samuel 20:18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak
in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and
so they ended the matter.
 
2 Samuel 20:19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful
in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel:
why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
 
2 Samuel 20:20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it
from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
 
2 Samuel 20:21 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:22 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.
 
2 Samuel 20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the
Pelethites:
 
2 Samuel 20:24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud was recorder:
 
2 Samuel 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar
were the priests:
 
2 Samuel 20:26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about
David.
 
2 Samuel 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David
three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And
the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house,
because he slew the Gibeonites.
 
2 Samuel 21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto
them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but
of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had
sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the
children of Israel and Judah.)
 
2 Samuel 21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What
shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement,
that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
 
2 Samuel 21:4 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.
 
2 Samuel 21:5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed
us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from
remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
 
2 Samuel 21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us,
and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom
the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
 
2 Samuel 21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of
Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was
between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
 
2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and
Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul,
whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the
Meholathite:
 
2 Samuel 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the
Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and
they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days
of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley
harvest.
 
2 Samuel 21:10 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.
 
2 Samuel 21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter
of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
 
2 Samuel 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and
the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which
had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the
Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul
in Gilboa:
 
2 Samuel 21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul
and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of
them that were hanged.
 
2 Samuel 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son
buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre
of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king
commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
 
2 Samuel 21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with
Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and
fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
 
2 Samuel 21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the
giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of
brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to
have slain David.
 
2 Samuel 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him,
and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David
sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to
battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
 
2 Samuel 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was
again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the
Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
 
2 Samuel 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the
Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a
Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff
of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
 
2 Samuel 21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a
man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on
every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was
born to the giant.
 
2 Samuel 21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of
Shimeah the brother of David slew him.
 
2 Samuel 21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and
fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
 
2 Samuel 22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this
song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand
of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
 
2 Samuel 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer;
 
2 Samuel 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my
shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my
refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
 
2 Samuel 22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be
praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
 
2 Samuel 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods
of ungodly men made me afraid;
 
2 Samuel 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the
snares of death prevented me;
 
2 Samuel 22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried
to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry
did enter into his ears.
 
2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
 
2 Samuel 22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and
fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
 
2 Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and
darkness was under his feet.
 
2 Samuel 22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he
was seen upon the wings of the wind.
 
2 Samuel 22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him,
dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
 
2 Samuel 22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of
fire kindled.
 
2 Samuel 22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most
High uttered his voice.
 
2 Samuel 22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
lightning, and discomfited them.
 
2 Samuel 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the
foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the
LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
 
2 Samuel 22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out
of many waters;
 
2 Samuel 22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from
them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
 
2 Samuel 22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but
the LORD was my stay.
 
2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he
delivered me, because he delighted in me.
 
2 Samuel 22:21 The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
 
2 Samuel 22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have
not wickedly departed from my God.
 
2 Samuel 22:23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for
his statutes, I did not depart from them.
 
2 Samuel 22:24 I was also upright before him, and have kept
myself from mine iniquity.
 
2 Samuel 22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according
to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
 
2 Samuel 22:26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself
merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself
upright.
 
2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and
with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
 
2 Samuel 22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but
thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them
down.
 
2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will
lighten my darkness.
 
2 Samuel 22:30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my
God have I leaped over a wall.
 
2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the
LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
 
2 Samuel 22:32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a
rock, save our God?
 
2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my
way perfect.
 
2 Samuel 22:34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth
me upon my high places.
 
2 Samuel 22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of
steel is broken by mine arms.
 
2 Samuel 22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy
salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
 
2 Samuel 22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my
feet did not slip.
 
2 Samuel 22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them;
and turned not again until I had consumed them.
 
2 Samuel 22:39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that
they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
 
2 Samuel 22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle:
them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
 
2 Samuel 22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine
enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
 
2 Samuel 22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even
unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
 
2 Samuel 22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the
earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread
them abroad.
 
2 Samuel 22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings
of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a
people which I knew not shall serve me.
 
2 Samuel 22:45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as
soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
 
2 Samuel 22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be
afraid out of their close places.
 
2 Samuel 22:47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and
exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
 
2 Samuel 22:48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth
down the people under me.
 
2 Samuel 22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:
thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up
against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
 
2 Samuel 22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD,
among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
 
2 Samuel 22:51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and
sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for
evermore.
 
2 Samuel 23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the
son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the
anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel,
said,
 
2 Samuel 23:2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word
was in my tongue.
 
2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake
to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear
of God.
 
2 Samuel 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when
the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender
grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
 
2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath
made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and
sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although
he make it not to grow.
 
2 Samuel 23:6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as
thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
 
2 Samuel 23:7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced
with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly
burned with fire in the same place.
 
2 Samuel 23:8 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.
 
2 Samuel 23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the
Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied
the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and
the men of Israel were gone away:
 
2 Samuel 23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his
hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD
wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after
him only to spoil.
 
2 Samuel 23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the
Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a
troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the
people fled from the Philistines.
 
2 Samuel 23:12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and
defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a
great victory.
 
2 Samuel 23:13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and
came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and
the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
 
2 Samuel 23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison
of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
 
2 Samuel 23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would
give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by
the gate!
 
2 Samuel 23:16 And the three mighty men brake through the host
of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem,
that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David:
nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto
the LORD.
 
2 Samuel 23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I
should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in
jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These
things did these three mighty men.
 
2 Samuel 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of
Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear
against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among
three.
 
2 Samuel 23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore
he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first
three.
 
2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a
valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two
lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the
midst of a pit in time of snow:
 
2 Samuel 23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the
Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a
staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew
him with his own spear.
 
2 Samuel 23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and had the name among three mighty men.
 
2 Samuel 23:23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he
attained not to the first three. And David set him over his
guard.
 
2 Samuel 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the
thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
 
2 Samuel 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
 
2 Samuel 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the
Tekoite,
 
2 Samuel 23:27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the
Hushathite,
 
2 Samuel 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
 
2 Samuel 23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai
the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
 
2 Samuel 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of
Gaash,
 
2 Samuel 23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
 
2 Samuel 23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen,
Jonathan,
 
2 Samuel 23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar
the Hararite,
 
2 Samuel 23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the
Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
 
2 Samuel 23:35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
 
2 Samuel 23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the
Gadite,
 
2 Samuel 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite,
armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
 
2 Samuel 23:38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
 
2 Samuel 23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
 
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go,
number Israel and Judah.
 
2 Samuel 24:2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the
host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of
Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people,
that I may know the number of the people.
 
2 Samuel 24:3 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?
 
2 Samuel 24:4 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.
 
2 Samuel 24:5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in
Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of
the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
 
2 Samuel 24:6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of
Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
 
2 Samuel 24:7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all
the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went
out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
 
2 Samuel 24:8 So when they had gone through all the land, they
came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
 
2 Samuel 24:9 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.
 
2 Samuel 24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had
numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned
greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD,
take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very
foolishly.
 
2 Samuel 24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word
of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
 
2 Samuel 24:12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I
offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do
it unto thee.
 
2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said
unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land?
or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they
pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land?
now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent
me.
 
2 Samuel 24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait:
let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are
great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
 
2 Samuel 24:15 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 Beersheba seventy thousand men.
 
2 Samuel 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon
Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and
said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay
now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the
threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
 
2 Samuel 24:17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the
angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I
have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let
thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's
house.
 
2 Samuel 24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto
him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of
Araunah the Jebusite.
 
2 Samuel 24:19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went
up as the LORD commanded.
 
2 Samuel 24:20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his
servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed
himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
 
2 Samuel 24:21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king
come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of
thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be
stayed from the people.
 
2 Samuel 24:22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the
king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here
be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments of the oxen for wood.
 
2 Samuel 24:23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give
unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God
accept thee.
 
2 Samuel 24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will
surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me
nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for
fifty shekels of silver.
 
2 Samuel 24:25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was
intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
 
1 Kings 1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and
they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
 
1 Kings 1:2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be
sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand
before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy
bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
 
1 Kings 1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the
coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her
to the king.
 
1 Kings 1:4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the
king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
 
1 Kings 1:5 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.
 
1 Kings 1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time
in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly
man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
 
1 Kings 1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and
with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
 
1 Kings 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the
mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
 
1 Kings 1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by
the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his
brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's
servants:
 
1 Kings 1:10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the
mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
 
1 Kings 1:11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother
of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of
Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
 
1 Kings 1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee
counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of
thy son Solomon.
 
1 Kings 1:13 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?
 
1 Kings 1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the
king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
 
1 Kings 1:15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the
chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite
ministered unto the king.
 
1 Kings 1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the
king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
 
1 Kings 1:17 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.
 
1 Kings 1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my
lord the king, thou knowest it not:
 
1 Kings 1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar
the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy
servant hath he not called.
 
1 Kings 1:20 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.
 
1 Kings 1:21 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.
 
1 Kings 1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king,
Nathan the prophet also came in.
 
1 Kings 1:23 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.
 
1 Kings 1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said,
Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
 
1 Kings 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen
and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the
king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the
priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God
save king Adonijah.
 
1 Kings 1:26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he
not called.
 
1 Kings 1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou
hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne
of my lord the king after him?
 
1 Kings 1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me
Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood
before the king.
 
1 Kings 1:29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth,
that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
 
1 Kings 1:30 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.
 
1 Kings 1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth,
and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David
live for ever.
 
1 Kings 1:32 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.
 
1 Kings 1:33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the
servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine
own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
 
1 Kings 1:34 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.
 
1 Kings 1:35 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.
 
1 Kings 1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king,
and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
 
1 Kings 1:37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even
so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the
throne of my lord king David.
 
1 Kings 1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king
David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
 
1 Kings 1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of
the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet;
and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
 
1 Kings 1:40 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.
 
1 Kings 1:41 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?
 
1 Kings 1:42 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.
 
1 Kings 1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily
our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
 
1 Kings 1:44 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:
 
1 Kings 1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have
anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence
rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye
have heard.
 
1 Kings 1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the
kingdom.
 
1 Kings 1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our
lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than
thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the
king bowed himself upon the bed.
 
1 Kings 1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD
God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day,
mine eyes even seeing it.
 
1 Kings 1:49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were
afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
 
1 Kings 1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose,
and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
 
1 Kings 1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah
feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns
of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that
he will not slay his servant with the sword.
 
1 Kings 1:52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy
man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if
wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
 
1 Kings 1:53 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.
 
1 Kings 2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die;
and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
 
1 Kings 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong
therefore, and shew thyself a man;
 
1 Kings 2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in
his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of
Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and
whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
 
1 Kings 2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake
concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to
walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their
soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of
Israel.
 
1 Kings 2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of
Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the
hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the
son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace,
and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his
loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
 
1 Kings 2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not
his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
 
1 Kings 2:7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the
Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so
they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
 
1 Kings 2:8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of
Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous
curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to
meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will
not put thee to death with the sword.
 
1 Kings 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art
a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but
his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
 
1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the city of David.
 
1 Kings 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were
forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and
three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
 
1 Kings 2:12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his
father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
 
1 Kings 2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba
the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And
he said, Peaceably.
 
1 Kings 2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto
thee. And she said, Say on.
 
1 Kings 2:15 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.
 
1 Kings 2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.
And she said unto him, Say on.
 
1 Kings 2:17 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.
 
1 Kings 2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee
unto the king.
 
1 Kings 2:19 Bathsheba 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.
 
1 Kings 2:20 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.
 
1 Kings 2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given
to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
 
1 Kings 2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his
mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for
Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder
brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab
the son of Zeruiah.
 
1 Kings 2:23 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.
 
1 Kings 2:24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath
established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and
who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put
to death this day.
 
1 Kings 2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
 
1 Kings 2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get
thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of
death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because
thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and
because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was
afflicted.
 
1 Kings 2:27 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.
 
1 Kings 2:28 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.
 
1 Kings 2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled
unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar.
Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall
upon him.
 
1 Kings 2:30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD,
and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said,
Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word
again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
 
1 Kings 2:31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said,
and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the
innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of
my father.
 
1 Kings 2:32 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.
 
1 Kings 2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head
of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David,
and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall
there be peace for ever from the LORD.
 
1 Kings 2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell
upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the
wilderness.
 
1 Kings 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in
his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in
the room of Abiathar.
 
1 Kings 2:36 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.
 
1 Kings 2:37 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.
 
1 Kings 2:38 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.
 
1 Kings 2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years,
that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of
Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy
servants be in Gath.
 
1 Kings 2:40 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.
 
1 Kings 2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from
Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
 
1 Kings 2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said
unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested
unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out,
and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and
thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
 
1 Kings 2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD,
and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
 
1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all
the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to
David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness
upon thine own head;
 
1 Kings 2:45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne
of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
 
1 Kings 2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom
was established in the hand of Solomon.
 
1 Kings 3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city
of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and
the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
 
1 Kings 3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because
there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those
days.
 
1 Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes
of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high
places.
 
1 Kings 3:4 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.
 
1 Kings 3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream
by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
 
1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant
David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee
in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with
thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou
hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
 
1 Kings 3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant
king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I
know not how to go out or come in.
 
1 Kings 3:8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which
thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor
counted for multitude.
 
1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart
to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for
who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
 
1 Kings 3:10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had
asked this thing.
 
1 Kings 3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked
this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither
hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine
enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern
judgment;
 
1 Kings 3:12 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.
 
1 Kings 3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast
not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be
any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
 
1 Kings 3:14 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.
 
1 Kings 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream.
And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered
peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
 
1 Kings 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto
the king, and stood before him.
 
1 Kings 3:17 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.
 
1 Kings 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was
delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were
together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two
in the house.
 
1 Kings 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because
she overlaid it.
 
1 Kings 3:20 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.
 
1 Kings 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child
suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the
morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
 
1 Kings 3:22 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.
 
1 Kings 3:23 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.
 
1 Kings 3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they
brought a sword before the king.
 
1 Kings 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two,
and give half to the one, and half to the other.
 
1 Kings 3:26 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.
 
1 Kings 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the
living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
 
1 Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the
king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the
wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
 
1 Kings 4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
 
1 Kings 4:2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah
the son of Zadok the priest,
 
1 Kings 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
 
1 Kings 4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host:
and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
 
1 Kings 4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the
officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and
the king's friend:
 
1 Kings 4:6 And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram
the son of Abda was over the tribute.
 
1 Kings 4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel,
which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man
his month in a year made provision.
 
1 Kings 4:8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount
Ephraim:
 
1 Kings 4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and
Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
 
1 Kings 4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained
Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
 
1 Kings 4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor;
which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
 
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach
and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath
Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that
is beyond Jokneam:
 
1 Kings 4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him
pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in
Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in
Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
 
1 Kings 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
 
1 Kings 4:15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the
daughter of Solomon to wife:
 
1 Kings 4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in
Aloth:
 
1 Kings 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
 
1 Kings 4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
 
1 Kings 4:19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead,
in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of
Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.
 
1 Kings 4:20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is
by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
 
1 Kings 4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the
river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of
Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of
his life.
 
1 Kings 4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty
measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
 
1 Kings 4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures,
and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer,
and fatted fowl.
 
1 Kings 4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this
side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on
this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about
him.
 
1 Kings 4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under
his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all
the days of Solomon.
 
1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses
for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
 
1 Kings 4:27 And those officers provided victual for king
Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every
man in his month: they lacked nothing.
 
1 Kings 4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and
dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were,
every man according to his charge.
 
1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding
exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is
on the sea shore.
 
1 Kings 4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all
the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
 
1 Kings 4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the
Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol:
and his fame was in all nations round about.
 
1 Kings 4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his
songs were a thousand and five.
 
1 Kings 4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is
in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall:
he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and
of fishes.
 
1 Kings 4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his
wisdom.
 
1 Kings 5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto
Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the
room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
 
1 Kings 5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
 
1 Kings 5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not
build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars
which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under
the soles of his feet.
 
1 Kings 5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every
side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
 
1 Kings 5:5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the
name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father,
saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he
shall build an house unto my name.
 
1 Kings 5:6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar
trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants:
and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all
that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among
us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
 
1 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of
Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD
this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great
people.
 
1 Kings 5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have
considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do
all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber
of fir.
 
1 Kings 5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto
the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place
that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged
there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my
desire, in giving food for my household.
 
1 Kings 5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees
according to all his desire.
 
1 Kings 5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of
wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil:
thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
 
1 Kings 5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised
him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two
made a league together.
 
1 Kings 5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel;
and the levy was thirty thousand men.
 
1 Kings 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month
by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home:
and Adoniram was over the levy.
 
1 Kings 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that
bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
 
1 Kings 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were
over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over
the people that wrought in the work.
 
1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great
stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of
the house.
 
1 Kings 5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did
hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and
stones to build the house.
 
1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and
eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the
land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel,
in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to
build the house of the LORD.
 
1 Kings 6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the
LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth
thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
 
1 Kings 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house,
twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of
the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the
house.
 
1 Kings 6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
 
1 Kings 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers
round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of
the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
 
1 Kings 6:6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and
the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits
broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed
rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the
walls of the house.
 
1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built
of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there
was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the
house, while it was in building.
 
1 Kings 6:8 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.
 
1 Kings 6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered
the house with beams and boards of cedar.
 
1 Kings 6:10 And then he built chambers against all the house,
five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of
cedar.
 
1 Kings 6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
 
1 Kings 6:12 Concerning this house which thou art in building,
if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and
keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my
word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
 
1 Kings 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and
will not forsake my people Israel.
 
1 Kings 6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
 
1 Kings 6:15 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.
 
1 Kings 6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the
house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even
built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most
holy place.
 
1 Kings 6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was
forty cubits long.
 
1 Kings 6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with
knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
 
1 Kings 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to
set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
 
1 Kings 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits
in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the
height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered
the altar which was of cedar.
 
1 Kings 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure
gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the
oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
 
1 Kings 6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until
he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by
the oracle he overlaid with gold.
 
1 Kings 6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of
olive tree, each ten cubits high.
 
1 Kings 6:24 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.
 
1 Kings 6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the
cherubims were of one measure and one size.
 
1 Kings 6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and
so was it of the other cherub.
 
1 Kings 6:27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house:
and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the
wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other
cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one
another in the midst of the house.
 
1 Kings 6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
 
1 Kings 6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round
about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers, within and without.
 
1 Kings 6:30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold,
within and without.
 
1 Kings 6:31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors
of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the
wall.
 
1 Kings 6:32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he
carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the
cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
 
1 Kings 6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts
of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
 
1 Kings 6:34 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.
 
1 Kings 6:35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and
open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved
work.
 
1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of
hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
 
1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house
of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
 
1 Kings 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which
is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the
parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he
seven years in building it.
 
1 Kings 7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen
years, and he finished all his house.
 
1 Kings 7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon;
the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof
fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four
rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
 
1 Kings 7:3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams,
that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
 
1 Kings 7:4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was
against light in three ranks.
 
1 Kings 7:5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the
windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
 
1 Kings 7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof
was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the
porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam
were before them.
 
1 Kings 7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might
judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar
from one side of the floor to the other.
 
1 Kings 7:8 And his house where he dwelt had another court
within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also
an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like
unto this porch.
 
1 Kings 7:9 All these were of costly stones, according to the
measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without,
even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside
toward the great court.
 
1 Kings 7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even
great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
 
1 Kings 7:11 And above were costly stones, after the measures
of hewed stones, and cedars.
 
1 Kings 7:12 And the great court round about was with three
rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the
inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the
house.
 
1 Kings 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of
Tyre.
 
1 Kings 7:14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and
his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was
filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all
works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his
work.
 
1 Kings 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen
cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass
either of them about.
 
1 Kings 7:16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set
upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was
five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five
cubits:
 
1 Kings 7:17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain
work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
 
1 Kings 7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about
upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the
top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
 
1 Kings 7:19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the
pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
 
1 Kings 7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had
pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the
network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round
about upon the other chapiter.
 
1 Kings 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the
temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name
thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the
name thereof Boaz.
 
1 Kings 7:22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so
was the work of the pillars finished.
 
1 Kings 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one
brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was
five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round
about.
 
1 Kings 7:24 And under the brim of it round about there were
knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round
about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
 
1 Kings 7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward
the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking
toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea
was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
 
1 Kings 7:26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim
thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of
lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
 
1 Kings 7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was
the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and
three cubits the height of it.
 
1 Kings 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they
had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
 
1 Kings 7:29 And on the borders that were between the ledges
were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a
base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions
made of thin work.
 
1 Kings 7:30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates
of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under
the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every
addition.
 
1 Kings 7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above
was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of
the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were
gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
 
1 Kings 7:32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the
axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height
of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
 
1 Kings 7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a
chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their
felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
 
1 Kings 7:34 And there were four undersetters to the four
corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base
itself.
 
1 Kings 7:35 And in the top of the base was there a round
compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the
ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
 
1 Kings 7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on
the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees,
according to the proportion of every one, and additions round
about.
 
1 Kings 7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of
them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
 
1 Kings 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver
contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon
every one of the ten bases one laver.
 
1 Kings 7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the
house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea
on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
 
1 Kings 7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and
the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he
made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
 
1 Kings 7:41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the
chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two
networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon
the top of the pillars;
 
1 Kings 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover
the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
 
1 Kings 7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
 
1 Kings 7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
 
1 Kings 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and
all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house
of the LORD, were of bright brass.
 
1 Kings 7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
 
1 Kings 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed,
because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the
brass found out.
 
1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained
unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of
gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
 
1 Kings 7:49 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,
 
1 Kings 7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons,
and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of
gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place,
and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
 
1 Kings 7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made
for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things
which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the
gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the
house of the LORD.
 
1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and
all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they
might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the
city of David, which is Zion.
 
1 Kings 8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the
seventh month.
 
1 Kings 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests
took up the ark.
 
1 Kings 8:4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that
were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the
Levites bring up.
 
1 Kings 8:5 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.
 
1 Kings 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant
of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the
most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
 
1 Kings 8:7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over
the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the
staves thereof above.
 
1 Kings 8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the
staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and
they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
 
1 Kings 8:9 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.
 
1 Kings 8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come
out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the
LORD,
 
1 Kings 8:11 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.
 
1 Kings 8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness.
 
1 Kings 8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a
settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
 
1 Kings 8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed
all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of
Israel stood;)
 
1 Kings 8:15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with
his hand fulfilled it, saying,
 
1 Kings 8:16 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.
 
1 Kings 8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to
build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
 
1 Kings 8:18 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.
 
1 Kings 8:19 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.
 
1 Kings 8:20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he
spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit
on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
 
1 Kings 8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein
is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when
he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
 
1 Kings 8:22 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:
 
1 Kings 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God
like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest
covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with
all their heart:
 
1 Kings 8:24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father
that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and
hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
 
1 Kings 8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy
servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There
shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of
Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they
walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
 
1 Kings 8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray
thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my
father.
 
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold,
the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
less this house that I have builded?
 
1 Kings 8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy
servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto
the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee
to day:
 
1 Kings 8:29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house
night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My
name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant shall make toward this place.
 
1 Kings 8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy
servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward
this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when
thou hearest, forgive.
 
1 Kings 8:31 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:
 
1 Kings 8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head;
and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness.
 
1 Kings 8:33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn
again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make
supplication unto thee in this house:
 
1 Kings 8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of
thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
gavest unto their fathers.
 
1 Kings 8:35 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:
 
1 Kings 8:36 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.
 
1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller;
if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;
whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
 
1 Kings 8:38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any
man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the
plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this
house:
 
1 Kings 8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways,
whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the
hearts of all the children of men;)
 
1 Kings 8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they
live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
 
1 Kings 8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy
people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's
sake;
 
1 Kings 8:42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy
strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come
and pray toward this house;
 
1 Kings 8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all
people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy
people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I
have builded, is called by thy name.
 
1 Kings 8:44 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:
 
1 Kings 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
 
1 Kings 8:46 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;
 
1 Kings 8:47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land
whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make
supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them
captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we
have committed wickedness;
 
1 Kings 8:48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and
with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them
away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou
gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and
the house which I have built for thy name:
 
1 Kings 8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication
in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
 
1 Kings 8:50 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:
 
1 Kings 8:51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance,
which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the
furnace of iron:
 
1 Kings 8:52 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.
 
1 Kings 8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the
people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by
the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers
out of Egypt, O LORD God.
 
1 Kings 8:54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end
of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he
arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his
knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
 
1 Kings 8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of
Israel with a loud voice, saying,
 
1 Kings 8:56 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.
 
1 Kings 8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our
fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
 
1 Kings 8:58 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.
 
1 Kings 8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made
supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day
and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the
cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall
require:
 
1 Kings 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the
LORD is God, and that there is none else.
 
1 Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD
our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments,
as at this day.
 
1 Kings 8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered
sacrifice before the LORD.
 
1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace
offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty
thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the
king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the
LORD.
 
1 Kings 8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the
court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered
burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was
too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings,
and the fat of the peace offerings.
 
1 Kings 8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all
Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven
days and seven days, even fourteen days.
 
1 Kings 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and
they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad
of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David
his servant, and for Israel his people.
 
1 Kings 9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the
building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all
Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
 
1 Kings 9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time,
as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
 
1 Kings 9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer
and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have
hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there
for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually.
 
1 Kings 9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my
statutes and my judgments:
 
1 Kings 9:5 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.
 
1 Kings 9:6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye
or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my
statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other
gods, and worship them:
 
1 Kings 9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I
have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my
name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb
and a byword among all people:
 
1 Kings 9:8 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?
 
1 Kings 9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the
LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land
of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have
worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought
upon them all this evil.
 
1 Kings 9:10 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,
 
1 Kings 9:11 (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.
 
1 Kings 9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities
which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
 
1 Kings 9:13 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.
 
1 Kings 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
 
1 Kings 9:15 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.
 
1 Kings 9:16 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.
 
1 Kings 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
 
1 Kings 9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
land,
 
1 Kings 9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and
cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that
which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
in all the land of his dominion.
 
1 Kings 9:20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of
the children of Israel,
 
1 Kings 9:21 Their children that were left after them in the
land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to
destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice
unto this day.
 
1 Kings 9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no
bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his
princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his
horsemen.
 
1 Kings 9:23 These were the chief of the officers that were
over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over
the people that wrought in the work.
 
1 Kings 9:24 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.
 
1 Kings 9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt
offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto
the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the
LORD. So he finished the house.
 
1 Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in
Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea,
in the land of Edom.
 
1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen
that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
 
1 Kings 9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence
gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king
Solomon.
 
1 Kings 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him
with hard questions.
 
1 Kings 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train,
with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious
stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him
of all that was in her heart.
 
1 Kings 10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was
not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
 
1 Kings 10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's
wisdom, and the house that he had built,
 
1 Kings 10:5 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.
 
1 Kings 10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report
that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
 
1 Kings 10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came,
and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me:
thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
 
1 Kings 10:8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants,
which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
 
1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in
thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved
Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and
justice.
 
1 Kings 10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty
talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious
stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these
which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
 
1 Kings 10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold
from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees,
and precious stones.
 
1 Kings 10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for
the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and
psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were
seen unto this day.
 
1 Kings 10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all
her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave
her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own
country, she and her servants.
 
1 Kings 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
 
1 Kings 10:15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the
traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia,
and of the governors of the country.
 
1 Kings 10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of
beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
 
1 Kings 10:17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold;
three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in
the house of the forest of Lebanon.
 
1 Kings 10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory,
and overlaid it with the best gold.
 
1 Kings 10:19 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.
 
1 Kings 10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and
on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in
any kingdom.
 
1 Kings 10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of
gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon
were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted
of in the days of Solomon.
 
1 Kings 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with
the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of
Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and
peacocks.
 
1 Kings 10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the
earth for riches and for wisdom.
 
1 Kings 10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his
wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
 
1 Kings 10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels
of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
 
1 Kings 10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and
horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for
chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
 
1 Kings 10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as
stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are
in the vale, for abundance.
 
1 Kings 10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and
linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a
price.
 
1 Kings 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for
six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and
fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the
kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
 
1 Kings 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women,
together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
 
1 Kings 11:2 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.
 
1 Kings 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and
three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
 
1 Kings 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that
his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart
was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David
his father.
 
1 Kings 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
 
1 Kings 11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
 
1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh,
the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem,
and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
 
1 Kings 11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives,
which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
 
1 Kings 11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his
heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared
unto him twice,
 
1 Kings 11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that
he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the
LORD commanded.
 
1 Kings 11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch
as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and
my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the
kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
 
1 Kings 11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for
David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of
thy son.
 
1 Kings 11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but
will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and
for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
 
1 Kings 11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto
Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
 
1 Kings 11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and
Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after
he had smitten every male in Edom;
 
1 Kings 11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all
Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
 
1 Kings 11:17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his
father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a
little child.
 
1 Kings 11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran:
and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt,
unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and
appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
 
1 Kings 11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of
Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife,
the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
 
1 Kings 11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his
son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in
Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
 
1 Kings 11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept
with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead,
Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own
country.
 
1 Kings 11:22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou
lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own
country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
 
1 Kings 11:23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon
the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of
Zobah:
 
1 Kings 11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain
over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to
Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
 
1 Kings 11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of
Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred
Israel, and reigned over Syria.
 
1 Kings 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of
Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a
widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
 
1 Kings 11:27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand
against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches
of the city of David his father.
 
1 Kings 11:28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour:
and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made
him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
 
1 Kings 11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam
went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment;
and they two were alone in the field:
 
1 Kings 11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on
him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
 
1 Kings 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces:
for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend
the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes
to thee:
 
1 Kings 11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant
David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
 
1 Kings 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have
worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the
god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon,
and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine
eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his
father.
 
1 Kings 11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of
his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for
David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my
commandments and my statutes:
 
1 Kings 11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's
hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
 
1 Kings 11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that
David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem,
the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
 
1 Kings 11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign
according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over
Israel.
 
1 Kings 11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all
that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is
right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as
David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a
sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
 
1 Kings 11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David,
but not for ever.
 
1 Kings 11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And
Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt,
and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
 
1 Kings 11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that
he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the
acts of Solomon?
 
1 Kings 11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem
over all Israel was forty years.
 
1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were
come to Shechem to make him king.
 
1 Kings 12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from
the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
 
1 Kings 12:3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and
all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam,
saying,
 
1 Kings 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore
make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke
which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
 
1 Kings 12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days,
then come again to me. And the people departed.
 
1 Kings 12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that
stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How
do ye advise that I may answer this people?
 
1 Kings 12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a
servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and
answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy
servants for ever.
 
1 Kings 12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which
they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were
grown up with him, and which stood before him:
 
1 Kings 12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that
we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make
the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
 
1 Kings 12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him
spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people
that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but
make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My
little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
 
1 Kings 12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a
heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you
with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
 
1 Kings 12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam
the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me
again the third day.
 
1 Kings 12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and
forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
 
1 Kings 12:14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young
men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to
your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
 
1 Kings 12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people;
for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his
saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto
Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened
not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion
have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of
Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house,
David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
 
1 Kings 12:17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in
the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
 
1 Kings 12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the
tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot,
to flee to Jerusalem.
 
1 Kings 12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David
unto this day.
 
1 Kings 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that
Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the
congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none
that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
 
1 Kings 12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he
assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an
hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors,
to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again
to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
 
1 Kings 12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of
God, saying,
 
1 Kings 12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of
Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the
remnant of the people, saying,
 
1 Kings 12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor
fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every
man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened
therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart,
according to the word of the LORD.
 
1 Kings 12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and
dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
 
1 Kings 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the
kingdom return to the house of David:
 
1 Kings 12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house
of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people
turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and
they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
 
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two
calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go
up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
 
1 Kings 12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put
he in Dan.
 
1 Kings 12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went
to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
 
1 Kings 12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made
priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons
of Levi.
 
1 Kings 12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth
month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast
that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in
Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he
placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had
made.
 
1 Kings 12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in
Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month
which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto
the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt
incense.
 
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah
by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the
altar to burn incense.
 
1 Kings 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the
LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a
child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and
upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn
incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
 
1 Kings 13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is
the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be
rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
 
1 Kings 13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the
saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in
Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay
hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried
up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
 
1 Kings 13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out
from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had
given by the word of the LORD.
 
1 Kings 13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of
God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me,
that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God
besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again,
and became as it was before.
 
1 Kings 13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home
with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
 
1 Kings 13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou
wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee,
neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
 
1 Kings 13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD,
saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same
way that thou camest.
 
1 Kings 13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the
way that he came to Bethel.
 
1 Kings 13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his
sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done
that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king,
them they told also to their father.
 
1 Kings 13:12 And their father said unto them, What way went
he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which
came from Judah.
 
1 Kings 13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So
they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
 
1 Kings 13:14 And went after the man of God, and found him
sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of
God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
 
1 Kings 13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat
bread.
 
1 Kings 13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go
in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee
in this place:
 
1 Kings 13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD,
Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to
go by the way that thou camest.
 
1 Kings 13:18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou
art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying,
Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread
and drink water. But he lied unto him.
 
1 Kings 13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in
his house, and drank water.
 
1 Kings 13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table,
that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him
back:
 
1 Kings 13:21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from
Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast
disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the
commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
 
1 Kings 13:22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk
water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no
bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the
sepulchre of thy fathers.
 
1 Kings 13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread,
and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit,
for the prophet whom he had brought back.
 
1 Kings 13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way,
and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass
stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
 
1 Kings 13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase
cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they
came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
 
1 Kings 13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from
the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was
disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath
delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
 
1 Kings 13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the
ass. And they saddled him.
 
1 Kings 13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the
way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion
had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
 
1 Kings 13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of
God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old
prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
 
1 Kings 13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and
they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
 
1 Kings 13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him,
that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me
in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones
beside his bones:
 
1 Kings 13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the
LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of
the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely
come to pass.
 
1 Kings 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his
evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of
the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he
became one of the priests of the high places.
 
1 Kings 13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face
of the earth.
 
1 Kings 14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
 
1 Kings 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee,
and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of
Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the
prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
 
1 Kings 14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and
a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall
become of the child.
 
1 Kings 14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to
Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not
see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
 
1 Kings 14:5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of
Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is
sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be,
when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another
woman.
 
1 Kings 14:6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her
feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou
wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I
am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
 
1 Kings 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and
made thee prince over my people Israel,
 
1 Kings 14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David,
and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David,
who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart,
to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
 
1 Kings 14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before
thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten
images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
 
1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the
house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that
pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in
Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam,
as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
 
1 Kings 14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the
dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the
air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
 
1 Kings 14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own
house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall
die.
 
1 Kings 14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him:
for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him
there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in
the house of Jeroboam.
 
1 Kings 14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over
Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? even now.
 
1 Kings 14:15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is
shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good
land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them
beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking
the LORD to anger.
 
1 Kings 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins
of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
 
1 Kings 14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came
to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the
child died;
 
1 Kings 14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for
him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the
hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
 
1 Kings 14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he
warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 
1 Kings 14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and
twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son
reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.
Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD
did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name
there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
 
1 Kings 14:22 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.
 
1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images,
and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
 
1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which
the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
 
1 Kings 14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
 
1 Kings 14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took
away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon
had made.
 
1 Kings 14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen
shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the
guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
 
1 Kings 14:28 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.
 
1 Kings 14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all
that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
 
1 Kings 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
all their days.
 
1 Kings 14:31 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.
 
1 Kings 15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the
son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
 
1 Kings 15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his
mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
 
1 Kings 15:3 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.
 
1 Kings 15:4 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:
 
1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes
of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he
commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter
of Uriah the Hittite.
 
1 Kings 15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
all the days of his life.
 
1 Kings 15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that
he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
 
1 Kings 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried
him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of
Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
 
1 Kings 15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
 
1 Kings 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of
the LORD, as did David his father.
 
1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land,
and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
 
1 Kings 15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed
from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and
Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
 
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed:
nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
 
1 Kings 15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had
dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the
house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
 
1 Kings 15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of
Israel all their days.
 
1 Kings 15:17 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.
 
1 Kings 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that
were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand
of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of
Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at
Damascus, saying,
 
1 Kings 15:19 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.
 
1 Kings 15:20 So Benhadad 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 Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth,
with all the land of Naphtali.
 
1 Kings 15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof,
that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
 
1 Kings 15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all
Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah,
and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king
Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
 
1 Kings 15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his
might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in
his feet.
 
1 Kings 15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat
his son reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over
Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over
Israel two years.
 
1 Kings 15:26 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.
 
1 Kings 15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of
Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at
Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all
Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
 
1 Kings 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did
Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he
smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that
breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying
of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
 
1 Kings 15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned,
and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he
provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
 
1 Kings 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that
he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
 
1 Kings 15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of
Israel all their days.
 
1 Kings 15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began
Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah,
twenty and four years.
 
1 Kings 15:34 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.
 
1 Kings 16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of
Hanani against Baasha, saying,
 
1 Kings 16:2 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;
 
1 Kings 16:3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha,
and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the
house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 
1 Kings 16:4 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.
 
1 Kings 16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he
did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 
1 Kings 16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried
in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son
of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against
his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the
LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in
being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
 
1 Kings 16:8 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.
 
1 Kings 16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his
chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking
himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in
Tirzah.
 
1 Kings 16:10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him,
in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned
in his stead.
 
1 Kings 16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as
soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of
Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither
of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
 
1 Kings 16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha
by Jehu the prophet.
 
1 Kings 16:13 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.
 
1 Kings 16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
 
1 Kings 16:15 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.
 
1 Kings 16:16 And the people that were encamped heard say,
Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all
Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that
day in the camp.
 
1 Kings 16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel
with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
 
1 Kings 16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city
was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and
burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died.
 
1 Kings 16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the
sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his
sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
 
1 Kings 16:20 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?
 
1 Kings 16:21 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.
 
1 Kings 16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed
against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so
Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
 
1 Kings 16:23 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.
 
1 Kings 16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two
talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of
the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the
hill, Samaria.
 
1 Kings 16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD,
and did worse than all that were before him.
 
1 Kings 16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to
provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
 
1 Kings 16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did,
and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 
1 Kings 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of
Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab
the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two
years.
 
1 Kings 16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of
the LORD above all that were before him.
 
1 Kings 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light
thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the
Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
 
1 Kings 16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house
of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
 
1 Kings 16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to
provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of
Israel that were before him.
 
1 Kings 16:34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho:
he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set
up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
 
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the
inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel
liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain
these years, but according to my word.
 
1 Kings 17:2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
 
1 Kings 17:3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide
thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
 
1 Kings 17:4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the
brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
 
1 Kings 17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of the
LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before
Jordan.
 
1 Kings 17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the
morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the
brook.
 
1 Kings 17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook
dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
 
1 Kings 17:8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
 
1 Kings 17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to
Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman
there to sustain thee.
 
1 Kings 17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he
came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there
gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I
pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
 
1 Kings 17:11 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.
 
1 Kings 17:12 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.
 
1 Kings 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as
thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and
bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
 
1 Kings 17:14 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.
 
1 Kings 17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of
Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
 
1 Kings 17:16 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.
 
1 Kings 17:17 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.
 
1 Kings 17:18 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?
 
1 Kings 17:19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he
took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where
he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
 
1 Kings 17:20 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?
 
1 Kings 17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three
times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray
thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
 
1 Kings 17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the
soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
 
1 Kings 17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down
out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his
mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
 
1 Kings 17:24 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.
 
1 Kings 18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word
of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew
thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
 
1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And
there was a sore famine in Samaria.
 
1 Kings 18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of
his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
 
1 Kings 18:4 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.)
 
1 Kings 18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto
all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may
find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not
all the beasts.
 
1 Kings 18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass
throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went
another way by himself.
 
1 Kings 18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met
him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou
that my lord Elijah?
 
1 Kings 18:8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord,
Behold, Elijah is here.
 
1 Kings 18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou
wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
 
1 Kings 18:10 As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or
kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when
they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and
nation, that they found thee not.
 
1 Kings 18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah is here.
 
1 Kings 18:12 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.
 
1 Kings 18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel
slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the
LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and
water?
 
1 Kings 18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
 
1 Kings 18:15 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth,
before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
 
1 Kings 18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and
Ahab went to meet Elijah.
 
1 Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that
Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
 
1 Kings 18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but
thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the
commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
 
1 Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel
unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and
fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at
Jezebel's table.
 
1 Kings 18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and
gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
 
1 Kings 18:21 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.
 
1 Kings 18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only,
remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four
hundred and fifty men.
 
1 Kings 18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let
them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and
lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other
bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
 
1 Kings 18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will
call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire,
let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well
spoken.
 
1 Kings 18:25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose
you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are
many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
 
1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them,
and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning
even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice,
nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was
made.
 
1 Kings 18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked
them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking,
or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he
sleepeth, and must be awaked.
 
1 Kings 18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after
their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out
upon them.
 
1 Kings 18:29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and
they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor
any that regarded.
 
1 Kings 18:30 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.
 
1 Kings 18:31 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:
 
1 Kings 18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name
of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as
would contain two measures of seed.
 
1 Kings 18:33 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.
 
1 Kings 18:34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did
it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they
did it the third time.
 
1 Kings 18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he
filled the trench also with water.
 
1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering
of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and
said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known
this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant,
and that I have done all these things at thy word.
 
1 Kings 18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may
know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their
heart back again.
 
1 Kings 18:38 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.
 
1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on
their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he
is the God.
 
1 Kings 18:40 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.
 
1 Kings 18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and
drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
 
1 Kings 18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah
went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the
earth, and put his face between his knees,
 
1 Kings 18:43 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.
 
1 Kings 18:44 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.
 
1 Kings 18:45 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.
 
1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he
girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of
Jezreel.
 
1 Kings 19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,
and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
 
1 Kings 19:2 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.
 
1 Kings 19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his
life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left
his servant there.
 
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the
wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he
requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough;
now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my
fathers.
 
1 Kings 19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree,
behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and
eat.
 
1 Kings 19:6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken
on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat
and drink, and laid him down again.
 
1 Kings 19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second
time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the
journey is too great for thee.
 
1 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in
the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb
the mount of God.
 
1 Kings 19:9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there;
and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto
him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
 
1 Kings 19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the
LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with
the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to
take it away.
 
1 Kings 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount
before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks
before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the
wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
 
1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was
not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
 
1 Kings 19:13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he
wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the
entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto
him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
 
1 Kings 19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the
LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets
with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my
life, to take it away.
 
1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way
to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint
Hazael to be king over Syria:
 
1 Kings 19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to
be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah
shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
 
1 Kings 19:17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth
the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from
the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
 
1 Kings 19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all
the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which
hath not kissed him.
 
1 Kings 19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son
of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him,
and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his
mantle upon him.
 
1 Kings 19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and
said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then
I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what
have I done to thee?
 
1 Kings 19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of
oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments
of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he
arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
 
1 Kings 20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his
host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and
horses, and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and
warred against it.
 
1 Kings 20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into
the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
 
1 Kings 20:3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also
and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
 
1 Kings 20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord,
O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
 
1 Kings 20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus
speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee,
saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy
wives, and thy children;
 
1 Kings 20:6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow
about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the
houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is
pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take
it away.
 
1 Kings 20:7 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.
 
1 Kings 20:8 And all the elders and all the people said unto
him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
 
1 Kings 20:9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad,
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.
 
1 Kings 20:10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do
so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice
for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
 
1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell
him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he
that putteth it off.
 
1 Kings 20:12 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.
 
1 Kings 20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king
of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this
great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this
day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
 
1 Kings 20:14 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.
 
1 Kings 20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of
the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and
after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of
Israel, being seven thousand.
 
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was
drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the
thirty and two kings that helped him.
 
1 Kings 20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces
went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying,
There are men come out of Samaria.
 
1 Kings 20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace,
take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them
alive.
 
1 Kings 20:19 So these young men of the princes of the
provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
 
1 Kings 20:20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians
fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria
escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
 
1 Kings 20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the
horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
 
1 Kings 20:22 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.
 
1 Kings 20:23 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.
 
1 Kings 20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man
out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
 
1 Kings 20:25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou
hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will
fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger
than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
 
1 Kings 20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year,
that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to
fight against Israel.
 
1 Kings 20:27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and
were all present, and went against them: and the children of
Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but
the Syrians filled the country.
 
1 Kings 20:28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the
king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the
Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not
God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great
multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
1 Kings 20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven
days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was
joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred
thousand footmen in one day.
 
1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and
there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that
were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an
inner chamber.
 
1 Kings 20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we
have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful
kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes
upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he
will save thy life.
 
1 Kings 20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put
ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said,
Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he
said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
 
1 Kings 20:33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any
thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they
said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then
Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the
chariot.
 
1 Kings 20:34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my
father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make
streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then
said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a
covenant with him, and sent him away.
 
1 Kings 20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets
said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray
thee. And the man refused to smite him.
 
1 Kings 20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not
obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art
departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was
departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
 
1 Kings 20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I
pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded
him.
 
1 Kings 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king
by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
 
1 Kings 20:39 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.
 
1 Kings 20:40 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.
 
1 Kings 20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his
face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the
prophets.
 
1 Kings 20:42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed
to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life,
and thy people for his people.
 
1 Kings 20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy
and displeased, and came to Samaria.
 
1 Kings 21:1 And it came to pass after these things, that
Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard
by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
 
1 Kings 21:2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy
vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is
near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard
than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth
of it in money.
 
1 Kings 21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me,
that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
 
1 Kings 21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased
because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to
him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my
fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his
face, and would eat no bread.
 
1 Kings 21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto
him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
 
1 Kings 21:6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth
the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for
money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another
vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my
vineyard.
 
1 Kings 21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now
govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine
heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite.
 
1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed
them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to
the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
 
1 Kings 21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a
fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
 
1 Kings 21:10 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.
 
1 Kings 21:11 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.
 
1 Kings 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high
among the people.
 
1 Kings 21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial,
and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him,
even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying,
Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him
forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
 
1 Kings 21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is
stoned, and is dead.
 
1 Kings 21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that
Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab,
Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite,
which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive,
but dead.
 
1 Kings 21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth
was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
 
1 Kings 21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying,
 
1 Kings 21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which
is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither
he is gone down to possess it.
 
1 Kings 21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith
the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou
shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place
where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood,
even thine.
 
1 Kings 21:20 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.
 
1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will
take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that
pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in
Israel,
 
1 Kings 21:22 And will make thine house like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to
anger, and made Israel to sin.
 
1 Kings 21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The
dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
 
1 Kings 21:24 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.
 
1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell
himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel
his wife stirred up.
 
1 Kings 21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols,
according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast
out before the children of Israel.
 
1 Kings 21:27 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.
 
1 Kings 21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying,
 
1 Kings 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me?
because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil
in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his
house.
 
1 Kings 22:1 And they continued three years without war between
Syria and Israel.
 
1 Kings 22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
 
1 Kings 22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants,
Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take
it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
 
1 Kings 22:4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me
to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of
Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as
thy horses.
 
1 Kings 22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel,
Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
 
1 Kings 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets
together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go
against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they
said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the
king.
 
1 Kings 22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet
of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
 
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat,
There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may
enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy
good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
king say so.
 
1 Kings 22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and
said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
 
1 Kings 22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a
void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the
prophets prophesied before them.
 
1 Kings 22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns
of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou
push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
 
1 Kings 22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up
to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
the king's hand.
 
1 Kings 22:13 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.
 
1 Kings 22:14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the
LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
 
1 Kings 22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto
him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead 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.
 
1 Kings 22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall
I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in
the name of the LORD?
 
1 Kings 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the
hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said,
These have no master: let them return every man to his house in
peace.
 
1 Kings 22:18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did
I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but
evil?
 
1 Kings 22:19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the
LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of
heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
 
1 Kings 22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that
he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this
manner, and another said on that manner.
 
1 Kings 22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before
the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
 
1 Kings 22:22 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 persude him, and
prevail also: go forth, and do so.
 
1 Kings 22:23 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.
 
1 Kings 22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and
smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit
of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
 
1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that
day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
 
1 Kings 22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and
carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash
the king's son;
 
1 Kings 22:27 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.
 
1 Kings 22:28 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.
 
1 Kings 22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
 
1 Kings 22:30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I
will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on
thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went
into the battle.
 
1 Kings 22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and
two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight
neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
 
1 Kings 22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king
of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and
Jehoshaphat cried out.
 
1 Kings 22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they
turned back from pursuing him.
 
1 Kings 22:34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and
smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness:
wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine
hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
 
1 Kings 22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king
was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at
even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the
chariot.
 
1 Kings 22:36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host
about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city,
and every man to his own country.
 
1 Kings 22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and
they buried the king in Samaria.
 
1 Kings 22:38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of
Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his
armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
 
1 Kings 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he
did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that
he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
 
1 Kings 22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his
son reigned in his stead.
 
1 Kings 22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign
over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
 
1 Kings 22:42 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.
 
1 Kings 22:43 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.
 
1 Kings 22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of
Israel.
 
1 Kings 22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his
might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 
1 Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained
in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
 
1 Kings 22:47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was
king.
 
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to
Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at
Eziongeber.
 
1 Kings 22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto
Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships.
But Jehoshaphat would not.
 
1 Kings 22:50 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.
 
1 Kings 22:51 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.
 
1 Kings 22:52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother,
and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin:
 
1 Kings 22:53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and
provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that
his father had done. 
 
2 Kings 1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death
of Ahab.
 
2 Kings 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his
upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent
messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god
of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
 
2 Kings 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the
Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God
in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
 
2 Kings 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. And Elijah departed.
 
2 Kings 1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he
said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
 
2 Kings 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet
us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you,
and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is
not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that
bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
 
2 Kings 1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he
which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
 
2 Kings 1:8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and
girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is
Elijah the Tishbite.
 
2 Kings 1:9 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.
 
2 Kings 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of
fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven,
and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
 
2 Kings 1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of
fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of
God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
 
2 Kings 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a
man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and
thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and
consumed him and his fifty.
 
2 Kings 1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty
with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came
and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said
unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of
these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
 
2 Kings 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and
burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their
fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
 
2 Kings 1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go
down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down
with him unto the king.
 
2 Kings 1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to
enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that
bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
 
2 Kings 1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which
Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second
year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he
had no son.
 
2 Kings 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
 
2 Kings 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up
Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha
from Gilgal.
 
2 Kings 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray
thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto
him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave
thee. So they went down to Bethel.
 
2 Kings 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel
came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the
LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said,
Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
 
2 Kings 2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I
pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As
the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.
So they came to Jericho.
 
2 Kings 2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho
came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD
will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered,
Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
 
2 Kings 2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here;
for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they
two went on.
 
2 Kings 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
 
2 Kings 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it
together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and
thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
 
2 Kings 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I
be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a
double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
 
2 Kings 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall
be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
 
2 Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up
by a whirlwind into heaven.
 
2 Kings 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my
father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he
saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent
them in two pieces.
 
2 Kings 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell
from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
 
2 Kings 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of
Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted
hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
 
2 Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to
view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth
rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves
to the ground before him.
 
2 Kings 2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with
thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and
seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath
taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some
valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
 
2 Kings 2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he
said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three
days, but found him not.
 
2 Kings 2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried
at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
 
2 Kings 2:19 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.
 
2 Kings 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And they brought it to him.
 
2 Kings 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters,
and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have
healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more
death or barren land.
 
2 Kings 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according
to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
 
2 Kings 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he
was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of
the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald
head; go up, thou bald head.
 
2 Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed
them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears
out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
 
2 Kings 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he returned to Samaria.
 
2 Kings 3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over
Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned twelve years.
 
2 Kings 3:2 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.
 
2 Kings 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom.
 
2 Kings 3:4 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.
 
2 Kings 3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the
king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
 
2 Kings 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time,
and numbered all Israel.
 
2 Kings 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt
thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go
up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as
thy horses.
 
2 Kings 3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he
answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
 
2 Kings 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah,
and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'
journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle
that followed them.
 
2 Kings 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD
hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the
hand of Moab!
 
2 Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet
of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of
the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha
the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
 
2 Kings 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with
him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom
went down to him.
 
2 Kings 3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have
I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to
the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him,
Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to
deliver them into the hand of Moab.
 
2 Kings 3:14 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth,
before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the
presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look
toward thee, nor see thee.
 
2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass,
when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon
him.
 
2 Kings 3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley
full of ditches.
 
2 Kings 3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind,
neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with
water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your
beasts.
 
2 Kings 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the
LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
 
2 Kings 3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every
choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells
of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
 
2 Kings 3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat
offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way
of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
 
2 Kings 3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings
were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were
able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
 
2 Kings 3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun
shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other
side as red as blood:
 
2 Kings 3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely
slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to
the spoil.
 
2 Kings 3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled
before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in
their country.
 
2 Kings 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good
piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they
stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees:
only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the
slingers went about it, and smote it.
 
2 Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was
too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew
swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they
could not.
 
2 Kings 3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have
reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon
the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and
they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
 
2 Kings 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the
sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and
the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
 
2 Kings 4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?
tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine
handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
 
2 Kings 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all
thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
 
2 Kings 4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door
upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those
vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
 
2 Kings 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her
and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured
out.
 
2 Kings 4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full,
that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said
unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
 
2 Kings 4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said,
Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy
children of the rest.
 
2 Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem,
where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.
And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither
to eat bread.
 
2 Kings 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I
perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us
continually.
 
2 Kings 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the
wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a
stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us,
that he shall turn in thither.
 
2 Kings 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he
turned into the chamber, and lay there.
 
2 Kings 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
 
2 Kings 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold,
thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be
done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the
captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own
people.
 
2 Kings 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And
Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is
old.
 
2 Kings 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her,
she stood in the door.
 
2 Kings 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the
time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my
lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
 
2 Kings 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that
season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of
life.
 
2 Kings 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day,
that he went out to his father to the reapers.
 
2 Kings 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And
he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
 
2 Kings 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his
mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
 
2 Kings 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the
man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
 
2 Kings 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send
me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that
I may run to the man of God, and come again.
 
2 Kings 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day?
it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be
well.
 
2 Kings 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant,
Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid
thee.
 
2 Kings 4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount
Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar
off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that
Shunammite:
 
2 Kings 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto
her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it
well with the child? And she answered, It is well:
 
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill,
she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her
away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is
vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not
told me.
 
2 Kings 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did
I not say, Do not deceive me?
 
2 Kings 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and
take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any
man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not
again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
 
2 Kings 4:30 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.
 
2 Kings 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the
staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice,
nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him,
saying, The child is not awaked.
 
2 Kings 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold,
the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
 
2 Kings 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them
twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
 
2 Kings 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put
his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his
hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and
the flesh of the child waxed warm.
 
2 Kings 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and
fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child
sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
 
2 Kings 4:36 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.
 
2 Kings 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
 
2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a
dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting
before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot,
and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
 
2 Kings 4:39 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.
 
2 Kings 4:40 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.
 
2 Kings 4:41 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.
 
2 Kings 4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and
brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of
barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said,
Give unto the people, that they may eat.
 
2 Kings 4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this
before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they
may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave
thereof.
 
2 Kings 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and
left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of
Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because
by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a
mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
 
2 Kings 5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had
brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and
she waited on Naaman's wife.
 
2 Kings 5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord
were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover
him of his leprosy.
 
2 Kings 5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus
and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
 
2 Kings 5:5 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.
 
2 Kings 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel,
saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have
therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest
recover him of his leprosy.
 
2 Kings 5:7 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.
 
2 Kings 5:8 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.
 
2 Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
 
2 Kings 5:10 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.
 
2 Kings 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and
call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over
the place, and recover the leper.
 
2 Kings 5:12 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.
 
2 Kings 5:13 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?
 
2 Kings 5:14 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.
 
2 Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now
I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now
therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
 
2 Kings 5:16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I
stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he
refused.
 
2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray
thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy
servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor
sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
 
2 Kings 5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that
when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there,
and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of
Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD
pardon thy servant in this thing.
 
2 Kings 5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed
from him a little way.
 
2 Kings 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God,
said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD
liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
 
2 Kings 5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman
saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to
meet him, and said, Is all well?
 
2 Kings 5:22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me,
saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim
two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray
thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
 
2 Kings 5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And
he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with
two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants;
and they bare them before him.
 
2 Kings 5:24 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.
 
2 Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And
Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said,
Thy servant went no whither.
 
2 Kings 5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with
thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is
it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and
oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants,
and maidservants?
 
2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto
thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his
presence a leper as white as snow.
 
2 Kings 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha,
Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for
us.
 
2 Kings 6:2 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.
 
2 Kings 6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with
thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
 
2 Kings 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan,
they cut down wood.
 
2 Kings 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell
into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
borrowed.
 
2 Kings 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he
shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in
thither; and the iron did swim.
 
2 Kings 6:7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put
out his hand, and took it.
 
2 Kings 6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and
took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place
shall be my camp.
 
2 Kings 6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel,
saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the
Syrians are come down.
 
2 Kings 6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the
man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there,
not once nor twice.
 
2 Kings 6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore
troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said
unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of
Israel?
 
2 Kings 6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O
king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king
of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
 
2 Kings 6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may
send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in
Dothan.
 
2 Kings 6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots,
and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city
about.
 
2 Kings 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen
early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both
with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my
master! how shall we do?
 
2 Kings 6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with
us are more than they that be with them.
 
2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee,
open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of
horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
 
2 Kings 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto
the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with
blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word
of Elisha.
 
2 Kings 6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way,
neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the
man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
 
2 Kings 6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into
Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that
they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and,
behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
 
2 Kings 6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he
saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
 
2 Kings 6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them:
wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy
sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that
they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
 
2 Kings 6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when
they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to
their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of
Israel.
 
2 Kings 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king
of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged
Samaria.
 
2 Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and,
behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for
fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of
dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
 
2 Kings 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the
wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O
king.
 
2 Kings 6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence
shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
 
2 Kings 6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And
she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may
eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
 
2 Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said
unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and
she hath hid her son.
 
2 Kings 6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words
of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within
upon his flesh.
 
2 Kings 6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if
the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this
day.
 
2 Kings 6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat
with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the
messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son
of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the
messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door:
is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
 
2 Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the
messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is
of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
 
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of
fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a
shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
 
2 Kings 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered
the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows
in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt
see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
 
2 Kings 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in
of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until
we die?
 
2 Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the
famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit
still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto
the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live;
and if they kill us, we shall but die.
 
2 Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the
camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost
part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
 
2 Kings 7:6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to
hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise
of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of
Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the
kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
 
2 Kings 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and
left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the
camp as it was, and fled for their life.
 
2 Kings 7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of
the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and
carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid
it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried
thence also, and went and hid it.
 
2 Kings 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this
day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry
till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now
therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
 
2 Kings 7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the
city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the
Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of
man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
 
2 Kings 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the
king's house within.
 
2 Kings 7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us.
They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the
camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out
of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
 
2 Kings 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let
some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are
left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of
Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all
the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us
send and see.
 
2 Kings 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the
king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
 
2 Kings 7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all
the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had
cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told
the king.
 
2 Kings 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of
the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of
the LORD.
 
2 Kings 7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he
leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who
spake when the king came down to him.
 
2 Kings 7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken
to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a
measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this
time in the gate of Samaria:
 
2 Kings 7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said,
Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might
such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with
thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
 
2 Kings 7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode
upon him in the gate, and he died.
 
2 Kings 8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household,
and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath
called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven
years.
 
2 Kings 8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of
the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in
the land of the Philistines seven years.
 
2 Kings 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that
the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she
went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
 
2 Kings 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the
man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things
that Elisha hath done.
 
2 Kings 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how
he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman,
whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her
house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is
the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
 
2 Kings 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So
the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore
all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day
that she left the land, even until now.
 
2 Kings 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king
of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is
come hither.
 
2 Kings 8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in
thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD
by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
 
2 Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with
him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden,
and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
 
2 Kings 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou
mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he
shall surely die.
 
2 Kings 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until
he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
 
2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he
answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the
children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and
their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash
their children, and rip up their women with child.
 
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog,
that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD
hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
 
2 Kings 8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his
master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he
answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
 
2 Kings 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a
thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face,
so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab
king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the
son of Je hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
 
2 Kings 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
 
2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife:
and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and
to his children.
 
2 Kings 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah, and made a king over themselves.
 
2 Kings 8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots
with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the
people fled into their tents.
 
2 Kings 8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah
unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
 
2 Kings 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king
of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to
reign.
 
2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began
to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
 
2 Kings 8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and
did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for
he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
 
2 Kings 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram.
 
2 Kings 8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel
of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he
fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
Jezreel, because he was sick.
 
2 Kings 9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children
of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take
this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
 
2 Kings 9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu
the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him
arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner
chamber;
 
2 Kings 9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head,
and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over
Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
 
2 Kings 9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet,
went to Ramothgilead.
 
2 Kings 9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host
were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.
And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O
captain.
 
2 Kings 9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he
poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of
the LORD, even over Israel.
 
2 Kings 9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master,
that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the
blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
 
2 Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I
will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him
that is shut up and left in Israel:
 
2 Kings 9:9 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:
 
2 Kings 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the
door, and fled.
 
2 Kings 9:11 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.
 
2 Kings 9:12 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.
 
2 Kings 9:13 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.
 
2 Kings 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and
all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
 
2 Kings 9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in
Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he
fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your
minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to
tell it in Jezreel.
 
2 Kings 9:16 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.
 
2 Kings 9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in
Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I
see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, Is it peace?
 
2 Kings 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and
said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman
told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not
again.
 
2 Kings 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came
to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu
answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
 
2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto
them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving
of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
 
2 Kings 9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was
made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah
went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu,
and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
 
2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he
said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as
the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so
many?
 
2 Kings 9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
 
2 Kings 9:24 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.
 
2 Kings 9:25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and
cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite:
for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab
his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
 
2 Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth,
and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite
thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast
him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he
fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him,
and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the
going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and
died there.
 
2 Kings 9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in
the city of David.
 
2 Kings 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab
began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
 
2 Kings 9:30 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.
 
2 Kings 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had
Zimri peace, who slew his master?
 
2 Kings 9:32 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.
 
2 Kings 9:33 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.
 
2 Kings 9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and
said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a
king's daughter.
 
2 Kings 9:35 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.
 
2 Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he
said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs
eat the flesh of Jezebel:
 
2 Kings 9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon
the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they
shall not say, This is Jezebel.
 
2 Kings 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu
wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel,
to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children,
saying,
 
2 Kings 10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing
your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots
and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
 
2 Kings 10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your
master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for
your master's house.
 
2 Kings 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said,
Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
 
2 Kings 10:5 And he that was over the house, and he that was
over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the
children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do
all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou
that which is good in thine eyes.
 
2 Kings 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them,
saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take
ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to
Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being
seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which
brought them up.
 
2 Kings 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them,
that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put
their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
 
2 Kings 10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying,
They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay
ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the
morning.
 
2 Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went
out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous:
behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew
all these?
 
2 Kings 10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth
nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning
the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by
his servant Elijah.
 
2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of
Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and
his priests, until he left him none remaining.
 
2 Kings 10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria.
And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
 
2 Kings 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of
Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the
king and the children of the queen.
 
2 Kings 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them
alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two
and forty men; neither left he any of them.
 
2 Kings 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted
him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with
thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine
hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into
the chariot.
 
2 Kings 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for
the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
 
2 Kings 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that
remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
 
2 Kings 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and
said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve
him much.
 
2 Kings 10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of
Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting:
for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be
wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the
intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
 
2 Kings 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for
Baal. And they proclaimed it.
 
2 Kings 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that
came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of
Baal was full from one end to another.
 
2 Kings 10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry,
Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he
brought them forth vestments.
 
2 Kings 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab,
into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal,
Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants
of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
 
2 Kings 10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and
burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said,
If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he
that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
 
2 Kings 10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an
end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard
and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth.
And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and
the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of
Baal.
 
2 Kings 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the
house of Baal, and burned them.
 
2 Kings 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake
down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this
day.
 
2 Kings 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
 
2 Kings 10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them,
to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in
Dan.
 
2 Kings 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast
done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast
done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine
heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the
throne of Israel.
 
2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the
LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from
the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
 
2 Kings 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short:
and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
 
2 Kings 10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer,
which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
 
2 Kings 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he
did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 
2 Kings 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried
him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in
Samaria was twenty and eight years.
 
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that
her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
 
2 Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister
of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from
among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even
him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he
was not slain.
 
2 Kings 11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD
six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
 
2 Kings 11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a
covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the
LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
 
2 Kings 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing
that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the
sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
 
2 Kings 11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and
a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the
watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
 
2 Kings 11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the
sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD
about the king.
 
2 Kings 11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every
man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the
ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out
and as he cometh in.
 
2 Kings 11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according
to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took
every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them
that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the
priest.
 
2 Kings 11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest
give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of
the LORD.
 
2 Kings 11:11 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.
 
2 Kings 11:12 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.
 
2 Kings 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard
and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the
LORD.
 
2 Kings 11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a
pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by
the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with
trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,
Treason.
 
2 Kings 11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of
the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill
with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in
the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 11:16 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.
 
2 Kings 11:17 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.
 
2 Kings 11:18 And all the people of the land went into the
house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake
they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal
before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the
house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the
captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they
brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the
way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on
the throne of the kings.
 
2 Kings 11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the
city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside
the king's house.
 
2 Kings 11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to
reign.
 
2 Kings 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to
reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
 
2 Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed
him.
 
2 Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
 
2 Kings 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of
the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD,
even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money
that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any
man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
 
2 Kings 12:5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
 
2 Kings 12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth
year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of
the house.
 
2 Kings 12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest,
and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of
your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
 
2 Kings 12:8 And the priests consented to receive no more money
of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
 
2 Kings 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a
hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right
side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests
that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought
into the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 12:10 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.
 
2 Kings 12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the
hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and
builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
 
2 Kings 12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy
timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the
LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
 
2 Kings 12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the
LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into
the house of the LORD:
 
2 Kings 12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into
whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen:
for they dealt faithfully.
 
2 Kings 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought
into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
 
2 Kings 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought
against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem.
 
2 Kings 12:18 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.
 
2 Kings 12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that
he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy,
and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
 
2 Kings 12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad
the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they
buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his
son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son
of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign
over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
 
2 Kings 13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which
made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
 
2 Kings 13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of
Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their
days.
 
2 Kings 13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD
hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because
the king of Syria oppressed them.
 
2 Kings 13:5 (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.
 
2 Kings 13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of
the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein:
and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
 
2 Kings 13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but
fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for
the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the
dust by threshing.
 
2 Kings 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that
he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 
2 Kings 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they
buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of
Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
 
2 Kings 13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
 
2 Kings 13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that
he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of
Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
 
2 Kings 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam
sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel.
 
2 Kings 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness
whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him,
and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the
chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
 
2 Kings 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows.
And he took unto him bow and arrows.
 
2 Kings 13:16 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.
 
2 Kings 13:17 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.
 
2 Kings 13:18 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.
 
2 Kings 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said,
Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt
smite Syria but thrice.
 
2 Kings 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the
bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the
year.
 
2 Kings 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man,
that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man
into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
feet.
 
2 Kings 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of Jehoahaz.
 
2 Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had
compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy
them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
 
2 Kings 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his
son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of
the hand of Benhadad 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.
 
2 Kings 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king
of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
 
2 Kings 14:2 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.
 
2 Kings 14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all
things as Joash his father did.
 
2 Kings 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as
yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high
places.
 
2 Kings 14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain
the king his father.
 
2 Kings 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:
according unto that which is written in the book of the law of
Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not
be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to
death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for
his own sin.
 
2 Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten
thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it
Joktheel unto this day.
 
2 Kings 14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son
of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us
look one another in the face.
 
2 Kings 14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah
king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to
the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my
son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in
Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
 
2 Kings 14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart
hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even
thou, and Judah with thee?
 
2 Kings 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash
king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked
one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
 
2 Kings 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and
they fled every man to their tents.
 
2 Kings 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of
Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and
came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
 
2 Kings 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the
treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to
Samaria.
 
2 Kings 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did,
and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
 
2 Kings 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son
reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
 
2 Kings 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to
Lachish, and slew him there.
 
2 Kings 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried
at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
 
2 Kings 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which
was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah.
 
2 Kings 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after
that the king slept with his fathers.
 
2 Kings 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to
reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
 
2 Kings 14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 
2 Kings 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering
of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the
LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
 
2 Kings 14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that
it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left,
nor any helper for Israel.
 
2 Kings 14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the
name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand
of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
 
2 Kings 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all
that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
 
2 Kings 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with
the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
 
2 Kings 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
 
2 Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
 
2 Kings 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the
people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
 
2 Kings 15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a
leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house.
And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people
of the land.
 
2 Kings 15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that
he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried
him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son
reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of
Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in
Samaria six months.
 
2 Kings 15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 
2 Kings 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against
him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned
in his stead.
 
2 Kings 15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
 
2 Kings 15:12 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.
 
2 Kings 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the
nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a
full month in Samaria.
 
2 Kings 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah,
and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in
Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 15:15 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.
 
2 Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were
therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened
not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that
were with child he ripped up.
 
2 Kings 15:17 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.
 
2 Kings 15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 
2 Kings 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the
land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his
hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
 
2 Kings 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of
all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria
turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
 
2 Kings 15:21 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?
 
2 Kings 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah
his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 15:23 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.
 
2 Kings 15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 
2 Kings 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,
conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of
the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
 
2 Kings 15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all
that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 
2 Kings 15:27 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.
 
2 Kings 15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 
2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead,
and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive
to Assyria.
 
2 Kings 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy
against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son
of Uzziah.
 
2 Kings 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that
he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
 
2 Kings 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to
reign.
 
2 Kings 15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
 
2 Kings 15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had
done.
 
2 Kings 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the
people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He
built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that
he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against
Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
 
2 Kings 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his
son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
 
2 Kings 16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which
was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his
father.
 
2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before
the children of Israel.
 
2 Kings 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
 
2 Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah
king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged
Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
 
2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath
to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to
Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
 
2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save
me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of
the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
 
2 Kings 16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found
in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
 
2 Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for
the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and
carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
 
2 Kings 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at
Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of
the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the
workmanship thereof.
 
2 Kings 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to
all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest
made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
 
2 Kings 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the
king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and
offered thereon.
 
2 Kings 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat
offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood
of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
 
2 Kings 16:14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was
before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between
the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side
of the altar.
 
2 Kings 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and
the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and
his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of
the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and
sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the
blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to
enquire by.
 
2 Kings 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz commanded.
 
2 Kings 16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases,
and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from
off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the
pavement of stones.
 
2 Kings 16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had
built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from
the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
 
2 Kings 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
 
2 Kings 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began
Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine
years.
 
2 Kings 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
 
2 Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria;
and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
 
2 Kings 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in
Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and
brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by
year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
prison.
 
2 Kings 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all
the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
 
2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria
took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed
them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes.
 
2 Kings 17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had
sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out
of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and had feared other gods,
 
2 Kings 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom
the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the
kings of Israel, which they had made.
 
2 Kings 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly those
things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they
built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city.
 
2 Kings 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every
high hill, and under every green tree:
 
2 Kings 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high
places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before
them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
 
2 Kings 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said
unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
 
2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and
against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying,
Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my
statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
 
2 Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened
their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not
believe in the LORD their God.
 
2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant
that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became
vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them,
concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not
do like them.
 
2 Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD
their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made
a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
 
2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to
pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and
sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke
him to anger.
 
2 Kings 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel,
and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the
tribe of Judah only.
 
2 Kings 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD
their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
 
2 Kings 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,
until he had cast them out of his sight.
 
2 Kings 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and
they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave
Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
 
2 Kings 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins
of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
 
2 Kings 17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight,
as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel
carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
 
2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon,
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of
the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in
the cities thereof.
 
2 Kings 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling
there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent
lions among them, which slew some of them.
 
2 Kings 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria,
saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the
cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land:
therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay
them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
 
2 Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let
them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the
God of the land.
 
2 Kings 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried
away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how
they should fear the LORD.
 
2 Kings 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and
put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans
had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
 
2 Kings 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and
the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
 
2 Kings 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
 
2 Kings 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves
of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
 
2 Kings 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods,
after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from
thence.
 
2 Kings 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners:
they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or
after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which
the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
 
2 Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and
charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow
yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
 
2 Kings 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land
of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye
fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
 
2 Kings 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the
law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall
observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
 
2 Kings 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye
shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
 
2 Kings 17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
 
2 Kings 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former manner.
 
2 Kings 17:41 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.
 
2 Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea
son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of
Judah began to reign.
 
2 Kings 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
 
2 Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
 
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent
that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel
did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
 
2 Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that
after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any
that were before him.
 
2 Kings 18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses.
 
2 Kings 18:7 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.
 
2 Kings 18:8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city.
 
2 Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king
of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
Samaria, and besieged it.
 
2 Kings 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: even
in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of
Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
 
2 Kings 18:11 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:
 
2 Kings 18:12 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.
 
2 Kings 18:13 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.
 
2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that
which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria
appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of
silver and thirty talents of gold.
 
2 Kings 18:15 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.
 
2 Kings 18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from
the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which
Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
 
2 Kings 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris
and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host
against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And
when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the
upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
 
2 Kings 18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came
out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder.
 
2 Kings 18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
 
2 Kings 18:20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I
have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me?
 
2 Kings 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this
bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go
into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto
all that trust on him.
 
2 Kings 18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our
God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah
hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
 
2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my
lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
 
2 Kings 18:24 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?
 
2 Kings 18:25 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.
 
2 Kings 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna,
and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in
the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us
in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the
wall.
 
2 Kings 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent
me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not
sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their
own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
 
2 Kings 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice
in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the
great king, the king of Assyria:
 
2 Kings 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
 
2 Kings 18:30 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.
 
2 Kings 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king
of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out
to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one
of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
cistern:
 
2 Kings 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and
vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live,
and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth
you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
 
2 Kings 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at
all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 
2 Kings 18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where
are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered
Samaria out of mine hand?
 
2 Kings 18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries,
that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
 
2 Kings 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him
not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him
not.
 
2 Kings 18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
him the words of Rabshakeh.
 
2 Kings 19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it,
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered
with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
 
2 Kings 19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the
children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
 
2 Kings 19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words
of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the
remnant that are left.
 
2 Kings 19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
 
2 Kings 19:6 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.
 
2 Kings 19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall
hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause
him to fall by the sword in his own land.
 
2 Kings 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
 
2 Kings 19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent
messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
 
2 Kings 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the
king of Assyria.
 
2 Kings 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt
thou be delivered?
 
2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which
my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and
the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
 
2 Kings 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
 
2 Kings 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of
the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house
of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
 
2 Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O
LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou
art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth;
thou hast made heaven and earth.
 
2 Kings 19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD,
thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which
hath sent him to reproach the living God.
 
2 Kings 19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands,
 
2 Kings 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
 
2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee,
save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
 
2 Kings 19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
 
2 Kings 19:21 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.
 
2 Kings 19:22 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.
 
2 Kings 19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD,
and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to
the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will
cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and
into the forest of his Carmel.
 
2 Kings 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with
the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged
places.
 
2 Kings 19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it,
and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it
to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps.
 
2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the
field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and
as corn blasted before it be grown up.
 
2 Kings 19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me.
 
2 Kings 19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is
come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose,
and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way
by which thou camest.
 
2 Kings 19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second
year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow
ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
 
2 Kings 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
 
2 Kings 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of
hosts shall do this.
 
2 Kings 19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king
of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against
it.
 
2 Kings 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
 
2 Kings 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine
own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
 
2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an
hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in
the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
 
2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
 
2 Kings 19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of
Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou
shalt die, and not live.
 
2 Kings 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed
unto the LORD, saying,
 
2 Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
 
2 Kings 20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out
into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him,
saying,
 
2 Kings 20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my
people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have
heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal
thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the
LORD.
 
2 Kings 20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I
will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for
my servant David's sake.
 
2 Kings 20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they
took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
 
2 Kings 20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the
sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the
house of the LORD the third day?
 
2 Kings 20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the
LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall
the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
 
2 Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for
the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return
backward ten degrees.
 
2 Kings 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and
he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone
down in the dial of Ahaz.
 
2 Kings 20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he
had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
 
2 Kings 20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them
all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold,
and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of
his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was
nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
shewed them not.
 
2 Kings 20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they
unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,
even from Babylon.
 
2 Kings 20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have
they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
shewed them.
 
2 Kings 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of
the LORD.
 
2 Kings 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine
house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this
day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith
the LORD.
 
2 Kings 20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon.
 
2 Kings 20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word
of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good,
if peace and truth be in my days?
 
2 Kings 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water
into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hephzibah.
 
2 Kings 21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
out before the children of Israel.
 
2 Kings 21:3 For he built up again the high places which
Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for
Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
 
2 Kings 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of
which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
 
2 Kings 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in
the two courts of the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and
observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of
the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
 
2 Kings 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had
made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
 
2 Kings 21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any
more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they
will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded
them.
 
2 Kings 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them
to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed
before the children of Israel.
 
2 Kings 21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
 
2 Kings 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites
did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with
his idols:
 
2 Kings 21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
 
2 Kings 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe
Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it
upside down.
 
2 Kings 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and
they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
 
2 Kings 21:15 Because they have done that which was evil in my
sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers
came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
 
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his
sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 21:17 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?
 
2 Kings 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 21:19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
 
2 Kings 21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
 
2 Kings 21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father
walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and
worshipped them:
 
2 Kings 21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and
walked not in the way of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him,
and slew the king in his own house.
 
2 Kings 21:24 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.
 
2 Kings 21:25 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?
 
2 Kings 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden
of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
 
2 Kings 22:2 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.
 
2 Kings 22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of
Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
 
2 Kings 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum
the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the
keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
 
2 Kings 22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers
of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD:
and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the
house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
 
2 Kings 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to
buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
 
2 Kings 22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of
the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
faithfully.
 
2 Kings 22:8 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.
 
2 Kings 22:9 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.
 
2 Kings 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying,
Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it
before the king.
 
2 Kings 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
 
2 Kings 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and
Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
 
2 Kings 22:13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the
people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that
is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled
against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words
of this book, to do according unto all that which is written
concerning us.
 
2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor,
and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the
wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of
the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
they communed with her.
 
2 Kings 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
 
2 Kings 22:16 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:
 
2 Kings 22:17 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.
 
2 Kings 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to
enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
 
2 Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast
humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake
against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that
they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy
clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the
LORD.
 
2 Kings 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy
fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and
thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon
this place. And they brought the king word again.
 
2 Kings 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all
the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
 
2 Kings 23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD,
and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people,
both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of
the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the
LORD.
 
2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a
covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their
heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant
that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the
covenant.
 
2 Kings 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,
and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door,
to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that
were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
 
2 Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the
kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in
the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem;
them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
 
2 Kings 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the
LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at
the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the
powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
 
2 Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites,
that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings
for the grove.
 
2 Kings 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities
of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had
burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high
places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of
Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand
at the gate of the city.
 
2 Kings 23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came
not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of
the unleavened bread among their brethren.
 
2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of
the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
 
2 Kings 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of
Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of
the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which
was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
 
2 Kings 23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper
chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the
altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of
the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from
thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
 
2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem,
which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which
Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the
abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of
the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of
Ammon, did the king defile.
 
2 Kings 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down
the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
 
2 Kings 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the
high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down,
and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and
burned the grove.
 
2 Kings 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the
sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the
bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and
polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of
God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
 
2 Kings 23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And
the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of
God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
hast done against the altar of Bethel.
 
2 Kings 23:18 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.
 
2 Kings 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that
were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made
to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
 
2 Kings 23:20 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.
 
2 Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying,
Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the
book of this covenant.
 
2 Kings 23:22 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;
 
2 Kings 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
 
2 Kings 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and
the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the
abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in
Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words
of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest
found in the house of the LORD.
 
2 Kings 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him,
that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his
soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses;
neither after him arose there any like him.
 
2 Kings 23:26 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.
 
2 Kings 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out
of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this
city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I
said, My name shall be there.
 
2 Kings 23:28 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?
 
2 Kings 23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up
against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king
Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had
seen him.
 
2 Kings 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead
from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his
own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son
of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's
stead.
 
2 Kings 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 
2 Kings 23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
 
2 Kings 23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in
the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put
the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a
talent of gold.
 
2 Kings 23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah
king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died
there.
 
2 Kings 23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to
Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the
commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the
people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to
give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
 
2 Kings 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
 
2 Kings 23:37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
 
2 Kings 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned
and rebelled against him.
 
2 Kings 24:2 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.
 
2 Kings 24:3 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;
 
2 Kings 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for
he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon.
 
2 Kings 24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all
that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
 
2 Kings 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Kings 24:7 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.
 
2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's
name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
 
2 Kings 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father had done.
 
2 Kings 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
 
2 Kings 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against
the city, and his servants did besiege it.
 
2 Kings 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in
the eighth year of his reign.
 
2 Kings 24:13 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.
 
2 Kings 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the
princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save
the poorest sort of the people of the land.
 
2 Kings 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and
the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and
the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from
Jerusalem to Babylon.
 
2 Kings 24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand,
and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt
for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to
Babylon.
 
2 Kings 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his
father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to
Zedekiah.
 
2 Kings 24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 
2 Kings 24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
 
2 Kings 24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass
in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
 
2 Kings 25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his
reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts
against it round about.
 
2 Kings 25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year
of king Zedekiah.
 
2 Kings 25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the
famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the
people of the land.
 
2 Kings 25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war
fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is
by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city
round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
 
2 Kings 25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the
king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army
were scattered from him.
 
2 Kings 25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the
king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
 
2 Kings 25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
 
2 Kings 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the
month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of
the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
 
2 Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's
house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's
house burnt he with fire.
 
2 Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with
the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
 
2 Kings 25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the
city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon,
with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard carry away.
 
2 Kings 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the door of
the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
 
2 Kings 25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house
of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the
house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried
the brass of them to Babylon.
 
2 Kings 25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers,
and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
 
2 Kings 25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things
as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain
of the guard took away.
 
2 Kings 25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which
Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all
these vessels was without weight.
 
2 Kings 25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,
and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the
chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates
upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these
had the second pillar with wreathen work.
 
2 Kings 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door:
 
2 Kings 25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was
set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the
king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal
scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the
city:
 
2 Kings 25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
 
2 Kings 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them
at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of
their land.
 
2 Kings 25:22 And as for the people that remained in the land
of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over
them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
ruler.
 
2 Kings 25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and
their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men.
 
2 Kings 25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and
said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be
well with you.
 
2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed
royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he
died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
 
2 Kings 25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the
captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were
afraid of the Chaldees.
 
2 Kings 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign
did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
 
2 Kings 25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
 
2 Kings 25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat
bread continually before him all the days of his life.
 
2 Kings 25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given
him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his
life.
 
1 Chronicles 1:1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
 
1 Chronicles 1:2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
 
1 Chronicles 1:3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
 
1 Chronicles 1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and
Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
 
1 Chronicles 1:6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath,
and Togarmah.
 
1 Chronicles 1:7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish,
Kittim, and Dodanim.
 
1 Chronicles 1:8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and
Canaan.
 
1 Chronicles 1:9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and
Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba,
and Dedan.
 
1 Chronicles 1:10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty
upon the earth.
 
1 Chronicles 1:11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
 
1 Chronicles 1:12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came
the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
 
1 Chronicles 1:13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and
Heth,
 
1 Chronicles 1:14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the
Girgashite,
 
1 Chronicles 1:15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the
Sinite,
 
1 Chronicles 1:16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite.
 
1 Chronicles 1:17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Meshech.
 
1 Chronicles 1:18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat
Eber.
 
1 Chronicles 1:19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of
the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and
his brother's name was Joktan.
 
1 Chronicles 1:20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
 
1 Chronicles 1:21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
 
1 Chronicles 1:22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
 
1 Chronicles 1:23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these
were the sons of Joktan.
 
1 Chronicles 1:24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
 
1 Chronicles 1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
 
1 Chronicles 1:26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
 
1 Chronicles 1:27 Abram; the same is Abraham.
 
1 Chronicles 1:28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
 
1 Chronicles 1:29 These are their generations: The firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
 
1 Chronicles 1:30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
 
1 Chronicles 1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the
sons of Ishmael.
 
1 Chronicles 1:32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine:
she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak,
and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
 
1 Chronicles 1:33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and
Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
 
1 Chronicles 1:34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac;
Esau and Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 1:35 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush,
and Jaalam, and Korah.
 
1 Chronicles 1:36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi,
and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
 
1 Chronicles 1:37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah.
 
1 Chronicles 1:38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and
Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
 
1 Chronicles 1:39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and
Timna was Lotan's sister.
 
1 Chronicles 1:40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and
Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. and the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
 
1 Chronicles 1:41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of
Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
 
1 Chronicles 1:42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and
Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.
 
1 Chronicles 1:43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the
land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel;
Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
 
1 Chronicles 1:44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of
Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 1:45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land
of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 1:46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of
Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his
stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
 
1 Chronicles 1:47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah
reigned in his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 1:48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth
by the river reigned in his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 1:49 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of
Achbor reigned in his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 1:50 And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in
his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name
was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
 
1 Chronicles 1:51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were;
duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,
 
1 Chronicles 1:52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
 
1 Chronicles 1:53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
 
1 Chronicles 1:54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes
of Edom.
 
1 Chronicles 2:1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
 
1 Chronicles 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and
Asher.
 
1 Chronicles 2:3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah:
which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the
Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the
sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
 
1 Chronicles 2:4 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez
and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
 
1 Chronicles 2:5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
 
1 Chronicles 2:6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and
Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
 
1 Chronicles 2:7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of
Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
 
1 Chronicles 2:8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
 
1 Chronicles 2:9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto
him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
 
1 Chronicles 2:10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat
Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
 
1 Chronicles 2:11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat
Boaz,
 
1 Chronicles 2:12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
 
1 Chronicles 2:13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and
Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
 
1 Chronicles 2:14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
 
1 Chronicles 2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
 
1 Chronicles 2:16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And
the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
 
1 Chronicles 2:17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of
Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
 
1 Chronicles 2:18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of
Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and
Shobab, and Ardon.
 
1 Chronicles 2:19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him
Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
 
1 Chronicles 2:20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
 
1 Chronicles 2:21 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.
 
1 Chronicles 2:22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and
twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
 
1 Chronicles 2:23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns
of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even
threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the
father of Gilead.
 
1 Chronicles 2:24 And after that Hezron was dead in
Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father
of Tekoa.
 
1 Chronicles 2:25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of
Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem,
and Ahijah.
 
1 Chronicles 2:26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name
was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
 
1 Chronicles 2:27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of
Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
 
1 Chronicles 2:28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada.
And the sons of Shammai; Nadab and Abishur.
 
1 Chronicles 2:29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was
Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
 
1 Chronicles 2:30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but
Seled died without children.
 
1 Chronicles 2:31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of
Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.
 
1 Chronicles 2:32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai;
Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
 
1 Chronicles 2:33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza.
These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
 
1 Chronicles 2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And
Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
 
1 Chronicles 2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his
servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
 
1 Chronicles 2:36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat
Zabad,
 
1 Chronicles 2:37 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat
Obed,
 
1 Chronicles 2:38 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
 
1 Chronicles 2:39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat
Eleasah,
 
1 Chronicles 2:40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat
Shallum,
 
1 Chronicles 2:41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah
begat Elishama.
 
1 Chronicles 2:42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of
Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of
Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
 
1 Chronicles 2:43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah,
and Rekem, and Shema.
 
1 Chronicles 2:44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam:
and Rekem begat Shammai.
 
1 Chronicles 2:45 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was
the father of Bethzur.
 
1 Chronicles 2:46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and
Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
 
1 Chronicles 2:47 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham,
and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
 
1 Chronicles 2:48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and
Tirhanah.
 
1 Chronicles 2:49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah,
Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the
daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
 
1 Chronicles 2:50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur,
the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim.
 
1 Chronicles 2:51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the
father of Bethgader.
 
1 Chronicles 2:52 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had
sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
 
1 Chronicles 2:53 And the families of Kirjathjearim; the
Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the
Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites,
 
1 Chronicles 2:54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the
Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the
Manahethites, the Zorites.
 
1 Chronicles 2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt
at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites.
These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the
house of Rechab.
 
1 Chronicles 3:1 Now these were the sons of David, which were
born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
 
1 Chronicles 3:2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the
daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son
of Haggith:
 
1 Chronicles 3:3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth,
Ithream by Eglah his wife.
 
1 Chronicles 3:4 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.
 
1 Chronicles 3:5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem;
Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua
the daughter of Ammiel:
 
1 Chronicles 3:6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
 
1 Chronicles 3:7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
 
1 Chronicles 3:8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
 
1 Chronicles 3:9 These were all the sons of David, beside the
sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.
 
1 Chronicles 3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son,
Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
 
1 Chronicles 3:11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his
son,
 
1 Chronicles 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his
son,
 
1 Chronicles 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his
son,
 
1 Chronicles 3:14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
 
1 Chronicles 3:15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn
Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth
Shallum.
 
1 Chronicles 3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son,
Zedekiah his son.
 
1 Chronicles 3:17 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel
his son,
 
1 Chronicles 3:18 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar,
Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
 
1 Chronicles 3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and
Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and
Shelomith their sister:
 
1 Chronicles 3:20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and
Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.
 
1 Chronicles 3:21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and
Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of
Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
 
1 Chronicles 3:22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the
sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah,
and Shaphat, six.
 
1 Chronicles 3:23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and
Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
 
1 Chronicles 3:24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and
Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and
Anani, seven.
 
1 Chronicles 4:1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi,
and Hur, and Shobal.
 
1 Chronicles 4:2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and
Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the
Zorathites.
 
1 Chronicles 4:3 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel,
and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was
Hazelelponi:
 
1 Chronicles 4:4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the
father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
 
1 Chronicles 4:5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives,
Helah and Naarah.
 
1 Chronicles 4:6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and
Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
 
1 Chronicles 4:7 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and
Jezoar, and Ethnan.
 
1 Chronicles 4:8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the
families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
 
1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his
brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I
bare him with sorrow.
 
1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel,
saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my
coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou
wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God
granted him that which he requested.
 
1 Chronicles 4:11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir,
which was the father of Eshton.
 
1 Chronicles 4:12 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and
Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.
 
1 Chronicles 4:13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah:
and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.
 
1 Chronicles 4:14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat
Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were
craftsmen.
 
1 Chronicles 4:15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
 
1 Chronicles 4:16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah,
Tiria, and Asareel.
 
1 Chronicles 4:17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered,
and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and
Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
 
1 Chronicles 4:18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father
of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father
of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of
Pharaoh, which Mered took.
 
1 Chronicles 4:19 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of
Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the
Maachathite.
 
1 Chronicles 4:20 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and
Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth,
and Benzoheth.
 
1 Chronicles 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er
the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the
families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the
house of Ashbea,
 
1 Chronicles 4:22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash,
and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And
these are ancient things.
 
1 Chronicles 4:23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt
among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his
work.
 
1 Chronicles 4:24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin,
Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
 
1 Chronicles 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his
son.
 
1 Chronicles 4:26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son,
Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
 
1 Chronicles 4:27 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.
 
1 Chronicles 4:28 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and
Hazarshual,
 
1 Chronicles 4:29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
 
1 Chronicles 4:30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
 
1 Chronicles 4:31 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at
Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the
reign of David.
 
1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain,
Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
 
1 Chronicles 4:33 And all their villages that were round about
the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and
their genealogy.
 
1 Chronicles 4:34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the
son of Amaziah,
 
1 Chronicles 4:35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the
son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
 
1 Chronicles 4:36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah,
and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
 
1 Chronicles 4:37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon,
the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
 
1 Chronicles 4:38 These mentioned by their names were princes
in their families: and the house of their fathers increased
greatly.
 
1 Chronicles 4:39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even
unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their
flocks.
 
1 Chronicles 4:40 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.
 
1 Chronicles 4:41 And these written by name came in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the
habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly
unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was
pasture there for their flocks.
 
1 Chronicles 4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon,
five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains
Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of
Ishi.
 
1 Chronicles 4:43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites
that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
 
1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of
Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled
his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of
Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned
after the birthright.
 
1 Chronicles 5:2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of
him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
 
1 Chronicles 5:3 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of
Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
 
1 Chronicles 5:4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his
son, Shimei his son,
 
1 Chronicles 5:5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,
 
1 Chronicles 5:6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of
Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
 
1 Chronicles 5:7 And his brethren by their families, when the
genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief,
Jeiel, and Zechariah,
 
1 Chronicles 5:8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema,
the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:
 
1 Chronicles 5:9 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in
of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle
were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
 
1 Chronicles 5:10 And in the days of Saul they made war with
the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their
tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
 
1 Chronicles 5:11 And the children of Gad dwelt over against
them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:
 
1 Chronicles 5:12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and
Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
 
1 Chronicles 5:13 And their brethren of the house of their
fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and
Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.
 
1 Chronicles 5:14 These are the children of Abihail the son of
Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael,
the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
 
1 Chronicles 5:15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief
of the house of their fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 5:16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in
her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
 
1 Chronicles 5:17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the
days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of
Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half
the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler
and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four
and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to
the war.
 
1 Chronicles 5:19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with
Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
 
1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the
Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with
them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated
of them; because they put their trust in him.
 
1 Chronicles 5:21 And they took away their cattle; of their
camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty
thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred
thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 5:22 For there fell down many slain, because the
war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the
captivity.
 
1 Chronicles 5:23 And the children of the half tribe of
Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto
Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
 
1 Chronicles 5:24 And these were the heads of the house of
their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and
Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous
men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 5:25 And they transgressed against the God of
their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of
the land, whom God destroyed before them.
 
1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit
of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser 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.
 
1 Chronicles 6:1 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 
1 Chronicles 6:2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and
Hebron, and Uzziel.
 
1 Chronicles 6:3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses,
and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar,
and Ithamar.
 
1 Chronicles 6:4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat
Abishua,
 
1 Chronicles 6:5 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
 
1 Chronicles 6:6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat
Meraioth,
 
1 Chronicles 6:7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat
Ahitub,
 
1 Chronicles 6:8 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat
Ahimaaz,
 
1 Chronicles 6:9 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat
Johanan,
 
1 Chronicles 6:10 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that
executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in
Jerusalem:)
 
1 Chronicles 6:11 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat
Ahitub,
 
1 Chronicles 6:12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat
Shallum,
 
1 Chronicles 6:13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat
Azariah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:14 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat
Jehozadak,
 
1 Chronicles 6:15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the
LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar.
 
1 Chronicles 6:16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and
Merari.
 
1 Chronicles 6:17 And these be the names of the sons of
Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
 
1 Chronicles 6:18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and
Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
 
1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And
these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 6:20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son,
Zimmah his son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son,
Jeaterai his son.
 
1 Chronicles 6:22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah
his son, Assir his son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and
Assir his son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his
son, and Shaul his son.
 
1 Chronicles 6:25 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
 
1 Chronicles 6:26 As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai
his son, and Nahath his son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his
son.
 
1 Chronicles 6:28 And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni,
and Abiah.
 
1 Chronicles 6:29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son,
Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his
son.
 
1 Chronicles 6:31 And these are they whom David set over the
service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had
rest.
 
1 Chronicles 6:32 And they ministered before the dwelling place
of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon
had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they
waited on their office according to their order.
 
1 Chronicles 6:33 And these are they that waited with their
children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son
of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
 
1 Chronicles 6:34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the
son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son
of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
 
1 Chronicles 6:36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son
of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son
of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son
of Levi, the son of Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 6:39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right
hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
 
1 Chronicles 6:40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the
son of Malchiah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son
of Adaiah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son
of Shimei,
 
1 Chronicles 6:43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the
son of Levi.
 
1 Chronicles 6:44 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood
on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the
son of Malluch,
 
1 Chronicles 6:45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the
son of Hilkiah,
 
1 Chronicles 6:46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of
Shamer,
 
1 Chronicles 6:47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son
of Merari, the son of Levi.
 
1 Chronicles 6:48 Their brethren also the Levites were
appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the
house of God.
 
1 Chronicles 6:49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar
of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were
appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an
atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of
God had commanded.
 
1 Chronicles 6:50 And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his
son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his
son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his
son,
 
1 Chronicles 6:53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
 
1 Chronicles 6:54 Now these are their dwelling places
throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron,
of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
 
1 Chronicles 6:55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of
Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
 
1 Chronicles 6:56 But the fields of the city, and the villages
thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 
1 Chronicles 6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities
of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her
suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her
suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh
with her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with
her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her
suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen
cities.
 
1 Chronicles 6:61 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left
of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half
tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten
cities.
 
1 Chronicles 6:62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their
families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of
Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 
1 Chronicles 6:63 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot,
throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of
the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 
1 Chronicles 6:64 And the children of Israel gave to the
Levites these cities with their suburbs.
 
1 Chronicles 6:65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the
children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of
Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these
cities, which are called by their names.
 
1 Chronicles 6:66 And the residue of the families of the sons
of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
 
1 Chronicles 6:67 And they gave unto them, of the cities of
refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also
Gezer with her suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron
with her suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon
with her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner
with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of
the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
 
1 Chronicles 6:71 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of
the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with
her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:72 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with
her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with
her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:74 And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with
her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with
her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in
Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and
Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
 
1 Chronicles 6:77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were
given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor
with her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on
the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of
Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with
her suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath
with her suburbs:
 
1 Chronicles 6:80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead
with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
 
1 Chronicles 6:81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with
her suburbs.
 
1 Chronicles 7:1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah,
Jashub, and Shimrom, four.
 
1 Chronicles 7:2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and
Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their
father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might
in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two
and twenty thousand and six hundred.
 
1 Chronicles 7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons
of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of
them chief men.
 
1 Chronicles 7:4 And with them, by their generations, after the
house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and
thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
 
1 Chronicles 7:5 And their brethren among all the families of
Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their
genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 7:6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and
Jediael, three.
 
1 Chronicles 7:7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and
Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their
fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their
genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
 
1 Chronicles 7:8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and
Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and
Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
 
1 Chronicles 7:9 And the number of them, after their genealogy
by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty
men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
 
1 Chronicles 7:10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the
sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and
Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
 
1 Chronicles 7:11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads
of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand
and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
 
1 Chronicles 7:12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir,
and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
 
1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
 
1 Chronicles 7:14 The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare:
(but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of
Gilead:
 
1 Chronicles 7:15 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim
and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of
the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
 
1 Chronicles 7:16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son,
and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was
Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
 
1 Chronicles 7:17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the
sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
 
1 Chronicles 7:18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and
Abiezer, and Mahalah.
 
1 Chronicles 7:19 And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and
Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
 
1 Chronicles 7:20 And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered
his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his
son,
 
1 Chronicles 7:21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and
Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land
slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
 
1 Chronicles 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days,
and his brethren came to comfort him.
 
1 Chronicles 7:23 And when he went in to his wife, she
conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because
it went evil with his house.
 
1 Chronicles 7:24 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built
Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
 
1 Chronicles 7:25 And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and
Telah his son, and Tahan his son.
 
1 Chronicles 7:26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his
son.
 
1 Chronicles 7:27 Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.
 
1 Chronicles 7:28 And their possessions and habitations were,
Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward
Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns
thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
 
1 Chronicles 7:29 And by the borders of the children of
Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo
and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of
Joseph the son of Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 7:30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and
Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
 
1 Chronicles 7:31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel,
who is the father of Birzavith.
 
1 Chronicles 7:32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and
Hotham, and Shua their sister.
 
1 Chronicles 7:33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal,
and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
 
1 Chronicles 7:34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah,
Jehubbah, and Aram.
 
1 Chronicles 7:35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah,
and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
 
1 Chronicles 7:36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and
Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
 
1 Chronicles 7:37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and
Ithran, and Beera.
 
1 Chronicles 7:38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and
Pispah, and Ara.
 
1 Chronicles 7:39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and
Rezia.
 
1 Chronicles 7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads
of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief
of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them
that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six
thousand men.
 
1 Chronicles 8:1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel
the second, and Aharah the third,
 
1 Chronicles 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
 
1 Chronicles 8:3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera,
and Abihud,
 
1 Chronicles 8:4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
 
1 Chronicles 8:5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
 
1 Chronicles 8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the
heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed
them to Manahath:
 
1 Chronicles 8:7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed
them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.
 
1 Chronicles 8:8 And Shaharaim begat children in the country of
Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his
wives.
 
1 Chronicles 8:9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and
Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
 
1 Chronicles 8:10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were
his sons, heads of the fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 8:11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
 
1 Chronicles 8:12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and
Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
 
1 Chronicles 8:13 Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the
fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the
inhabitants of Gath:
 
1 Chronicles 8:14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
 
1 Chronicles 8:15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,
 
1 Chronicles 8:16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of
Beriah;
 
1 Chronicles 8:17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and
Heber,
 
1 Chronicles 8:18 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the
sons of Elpaal;
 
1 Chronicles 8:19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
 
1 Chronicles 8:20 And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
 
1 Chronicles 8:21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the
sons of Shimhi;
 
1 Chronicles 8:22 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
 
1 Chronicles 8:23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
 
1 Chronicles 8:24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
 
1 Chronicles 8:25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of
Shashak;
 
1 Chronicles 8:26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
 
1 Chronicles 8:27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons
of Jeroham.
 
1 Chronicles 8:28 These were heads of the fathers, by their
generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 8:29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon;
whose wife's name was Maachah:
 
1 Chronicles 8:30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and
Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
 
1 Chronicles 8:31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
 
1 Chronicles 8:32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also
dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
 
1 Chronicles 8:33 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and
Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
 
1 Chronicles 8:34 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and
Meribbaal begat Micah.
 
1 Chronicles 8:35 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and
Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
 
1 Chronicles 8:36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat
Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,
 
1 Chronicles 8:37 And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son:
 
1 Chronicles 8:38 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these,
Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and
Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
 
1 Chronicles 8:39 And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam
his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
 
1 Chronicles 8:40 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.
 
1 Chronicles 9:1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies;
and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their
transgression.
 
1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their
possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests,
Levites, and the Nethinims.
 
1 Chronicles 9:3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of
Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of
Ephraim, and Manasseh;
 
1 Chronicles 9:4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the
son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son
of Judah.
 
1 Chronicles 9:5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn,
and his sons.
 
1 Chronicles 9:6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their
brethren, six hundred and ninety.
 
1 Chronicles 9:7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of
Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
 
1 Chronicles 9:8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the
son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of
Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
 
1 Chronicles 9:9 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.
 
1 Chronicles 9:10 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib,
and Jachin,
 
1 Chronicles 9:11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of
Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of
Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
 
1 Chronicles 9:12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of
Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the
son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith,
the son of Immer;
 
1 Chronicles 9:13 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.
 
1 Chronicles 9:14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of
Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of
Merari;
 
1 Chronicles 9:15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and
Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
 
1 Chronicles 9:16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of
Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son
of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
 
1 Chronicles 9:17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and
Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
 
1 Chronicles 9:18 Who hitherto waited in the king's gate
eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of
Levi.
 
1 Chronicles 9:19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his
father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers
of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the
host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
 
1 Chronicles 9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler
over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.
 
1 Chronicles 9:21 And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was
porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
1 Chronicles 9:22 All these which were chosen to be porters in
the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by
their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer
did ordain in their set office.
 
1 Chronicles 9:23 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.
 
1 Chronicles 9:24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the
east, west, north, and south.
 
1 Chronicles 9:25 And their brethren, which were in their
villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with
them.
 
1 Chronicles 9:26 For these Levites, the four chief porters,
were in their set office, and were over the chambers and
treasuries of the house of God.
 
1 Chronicles 9:27 And they lodged round about the house of God,
because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every
morning pertained to them.
 
1 Chronicles 9:28 And certain of them had the charge of the
ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by
tale.
 
1 Chronicles 9:29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee
the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the
fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and
the spices.
 
1 Chronicles 9:30 And some of the sons of the priests made the
ointment of the spices.
 
1 Chronicles 9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was
the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over
the things that were made in the pans.
 
1 Chronicles 9:32 And other of their brethren, of the sons of
the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every
sabbath.
 
1 Chronicles 9:33 And these are the singers, chief of the
fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free:
for they were employed in that work day and night.
 
1 Chronicles 9:34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief
throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 9:35 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon,
Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:
 
1 Chronicles 9:36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and
Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab.
 
1 Chronicles 9:37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and
Mikloth.
 
1 Chronicles 9:38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also
dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their
brethren.
 
1 Chronicles 9:39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and
Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
 
1 Chronicles 9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and
Meribbaal begat Micah.
 
1 Chronicles 9:41 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and
Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
 
1 Chronicles 9:42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat
Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;
 
1 Chronicles 9:43 And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
 
1 Chronicles 9:44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these,
Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and
Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
 
1 Chronicles 10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel;
and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell
down slain in mount Gilboa.
 
1 Chronicles 10:2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul,
and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and
Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
 
1 Chronicles 10:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and
the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.
 
1 Chronicles 10:4 Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy
sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised
come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was
sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
 
1 Chronicles 10:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was
dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
 
1 Chronicles 10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his
house died together.
 
1 Chronicles 10:7 And when all the men of Israel that were in
the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were
dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the
Philistines came and dwelt in them.
 
1 Chronicles 10:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the
Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his
sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
 
1 Chronicles 10:9 And when they had stripped him, they took his
head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines
round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the
people.
 
1 Chronicles 10:10 And they put his armour in the house of
their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
 
1 Chronicles 10:11 And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the
Philistines had done to Saul,
 
1 Chronicles 10:12 They arose, all the valiant men, and took
away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought
them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh,
and fasted seven days.
 
1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he
committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD,
which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a
familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
 
1 Chronicles 10:14 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he
slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
 
1 Chronicles 11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David
unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
 
1 Chronicles 11:2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was
king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and
the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people
Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 11:3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to
the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron
before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel,
according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
 
1 Chronicles 11:4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem,
which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the
land.
 
1 Chronicles 11:5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David,
Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of
Zion, which is the city of David.
 
1 Chronicles 11:6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the
Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of
Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
 
1 Chronicles 11:7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they
called it the city of David.
 
1 Chronicles 11:8 And he built the city round about, even from
Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
 
1 Chronicles 11:9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the
LORD of hosts was with him.
 
1 Chronicles 11:10 These also are the chief of the mighty men
whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his
kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the
word of the LORD concerning Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 11:11 And this is the number of the mighty men
whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the
captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by
him at one time.
 
1 Chronicles 11:12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo,
the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
 
1 Chronicles 11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there
the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a
parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before
the Philistines.
 
1 Chronicles 11:14 And they set themselves in the midst of that
parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD
saved them by a great deliverance.
 
1 Chronicles 11:15 Now three of the thirty captains went down
to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of
the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
 
1 Chronicles 11:16 And David was then in the hold, and the
Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.
 
1 Chronicles 11:17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one
would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that
is at the gate!
 
1 Chronicles 11:18 And the three brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that
was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David
would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 11:19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should
do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put
their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives
they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things
did these three mightiest.
 
1 Chronicles 11:20 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.
 
1 Chronicles 11:21 Of the three, he was more honourable than
the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the
first three.
 
1 Chronicles 11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a
valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two
lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit
in a snowy day.
 
1 Chronicles 11:23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great
stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear
like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and
plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with
his own spear.
 
1 Chronicles 11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
 
1 Chronicles 11:25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty,
but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his
guard.
 
1 Chronicles 11:26 Also the valiant men of the armies were,
Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
 
1 Chronicles 11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer
the Antothite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of
Baanah the Netophathite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that
pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the
Arbathite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the
Shaalbonite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan
the son of Shage the Hararite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal
the son of Ur,
 
1 Chronicles 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the
Pelonite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of
Ezbai,
 
1 Chronicles 11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son
of Haggeri,
 
1 Chronicles 11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite,
the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
 
1 Chronicles 11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
 
1 Chronicles 11:42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a
captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
 
1 Chronicles 11:43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the
Mithnite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the
sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his
brother, the Tizite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and
Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
 
1 Chronicles 11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
 
1 Chronicles 12:1 Now these are they that came to David to
Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son
of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
 
1 Chronicles 12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both
the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows
out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
 
1 Chronicles 12:3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons
of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of
Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite.
 
1 Chronicles 12:4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among
the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and
Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
 
1 Chronicles 12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and
Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
 
1 Chronicles 12:6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer,
and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
 
1 Chronicles 12:7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham
of Gedor.
 
1 Chronicles 12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves
unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men
of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler,
whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as
the roes upon the mountains;
 
1 Chronicles 12:9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the
third,
 
1 Chronicles 12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
 
1 Chronicles 12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
 
1 Chronicles 12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
 
1 Chronicles 12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
 
1 Chronicles 12:14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of
the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest
over a thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 12:15 These are they that went over Jordan in the
first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to
flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward
the west.
 
1 Chronicles 12:16 And there came of the children of Benjamin
and Judah to the hold unto David.
 
1 Chronicles 12:17 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.
 
1 Chronicles 12:18 Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was
chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on
thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace
be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David
received them, and made them captains of the band.
 
1 Chronicles 12:19 And there fell some of Manasseh to David,
when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but
they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon
advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul
to the jeopardy of our heads.
 
1 Chronicles 12:20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of
Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and
Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that
were of Manasseh.
 
1 Chronicles 12:21 And they helped David against the band of
the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were
captains in the host.
 
1 Chronicles 12:22 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.
 
1 Chronicles 12:23 And these are the numbers of the bands that
were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn
the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 12:24 The children of Judah that bare shield and
spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the
war.
 
1 Chronicles 12:25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of
valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
 
1 Chronicles 12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and
six hundred.
 
1 Chronicles 12:27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the
Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
 
1 Chronicles 12:28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and
of his father's house twenty and two captains.
 
1 Chronicles 12:29 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred
of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them
had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
 
1 Chronicles 12:30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty
thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous
throughout the house of their fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 12:31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen
thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David
king.
 
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were
men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel
ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their
brethren were at their commandment.
 
1 Chronicles 12:33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle,
expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which
could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
 
1 Chronicles 12:34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and
with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 12:35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and
eight thousand and six hundred.
 
1 Chronicles 12:36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle,
expert in war, forty thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 12:37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh,
with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred
and twenty thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 12:38 All these men of war, that could keep rank,
came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all
Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make
David king.
 
1 Chronicles 12:39 And there they were with David three days,
eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
 
1 Chronicles 12:40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto
Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on
camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs,
and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep
abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 13:1 And David consulted with the captains of
thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
 
1 Chronicles 13:2 And David said unto all the congregation of
Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our
God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are
left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests
and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may
gather themselves unto us:
 
1 Chronicles 13:3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to
us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
 
1 Chronicles 13:4 And all the congregation said that they would
do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
 
1 Chronicles 13:5 So David gathered all Israel together, from
Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the
ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
 
1 Chronicles 13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah,
that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up
thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the
cherubims, whose name is called on it.
 
1 Chronicles 13:7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart
out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
 
1 Chronicles 13:8 And David and all Israel played before God
with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with
psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with
trumpets.
 
1 Chronicles 13:9 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of
Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen
stumbled.
 
1 Chronicles 13:10 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.
 
1 Chronicles 13:11 And David was displeased, because the LORD
had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called
Perezuzza to this day.
 
1 Chronicles 13:12 And David was afraid of God that day,
saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
 
1 Chronicles 13:13 So David brought not the ark home to himself
to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of
Obededom the Gittite.
 
1 Chronicles 13:14 And the ark of God remained with the family
of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the
house of Obededom, and all that he had.
 
1 Chronicles 14:1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to
David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build
him an house.
 
1 Chronicles 14:2 And David perceived that the LORD had
confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on
high, because of his people Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 14:3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and
David begat more sons and daughters.
 
1 Chronicles 14:4 Now these are the names of his children which
he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
 
1 Chronicles 14:5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
 
1 Chronicles 14:6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
 
1 Chronicles 14:7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
 
1 Chronicles 14:8 And when the Philistines heard that David was
anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to
seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them.
 
1 Chronicles 14:9 And the Philistines came and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
 
1 Chronicles 14:10 And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I
go up against the Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into
mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver
them into thine hand.
 
1 Chronicles 14:11 So they came up to Baalperazim; and David
smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine
enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore
they called the name of that place Baalperazim.
 
1 Chronicles 14:12 And when they had left their gods there,
David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
 
1 Chronicles 14:13 And the Philistines yet again spread
themselves abroad in the valley.
 
1 Chronicles 14:14 Therefore David enquired again of God; and
God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and
come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
 
1 Chronicles 14:15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a
sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou
shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to
smite the host of the Philistines.
 
1 Chronicles 14:16 David therefore did as God commanded him:
and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to
Gazer.
 
1 Chronicles 14:17 And the fame of David went out into all
lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
 
1 Chronicles 15:1 And David made him houses in the city of
David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for
it a tent.
 
1 Chronicles 15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark
of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry
the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 15:3 And David gathered all Israel together to
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which
he had prepared for it.
 
1 Chronicles 15:4 And David assembled the children of Aaron,
and the Levites:
 
1 Chronicles 15:5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and
his brethren an hundred and twenty:
 
1 Chronicles 15:6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and
his brethren two hundred and twenty:
 
1 Chronicles 15:7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief and
his brethren an hundred and thirty:
 
1 Chronicles 15:8 Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief,
and his brethren two hundred:
 
1 Chronicles 15:9 Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and
his brethren fourscore:
 
1 Chronicles 15:10 Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief,
and his brethren an hundred and twelve.
 
1 Chronicles 15:11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the
priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel,
Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
 
1 Chronicles 15:12 And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the
fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your
brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel
unto the place that I have prepared for it.
 
1 Chronicles 15:13 For because ye did it not at the first, the
LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not
after the due order.
 
1 Chronicles 15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified
themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 15:15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark
of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses
commanded according to the word of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 15:16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites
to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of
musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up
the voice with joy.
 
1 Chronicles 15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of
Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the
sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
 
1 Chronicles 15:18 And with them their brethren of the second
degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and
Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
 
1 Chronicles 15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan,
were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
 
1 Chronicles 15:20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth,
and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with
psalteries on Alamoth;
 
1 Chronicles 15:21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah,
and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith
to excel.
 
1 Chronicles 15:22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for
song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
 
1 Chronicles 15:23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers
for the ark.
 
1 Chronicles 15:24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and
Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer,
the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God:
and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
 
1 Chronicles 15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the
captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant
of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
 
1 Chronicles 15:26 And it came to pass, when God helped the
Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they
offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
 
1 Chronicles 15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine
linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers,
and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also
had upon him an ephod of linen.
 
1 Chronicles 15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the
covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet,
and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with
psalteries and harps.
 
1 Chronicles 15:29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the
covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the
daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing
and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
 
1 Chronicles 16:1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in
the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they
offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
 
1 Chronicles 16:2 And when David had made an end of offering
the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the
people in the name of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 16:3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man
and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of
flesh, and a flagon of wine.
 
1 Chronicles 16:4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to
minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank
and praise the LORD God of Israel:
 
1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah,
Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab,
and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with
harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
 
1 Chronicles 16:6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with
trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
 
1 Chronicles 16:7 Then on that day David delivered first this
psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
 
1 Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his
name, make known his deeds among the people.
 
1 Chronicles 16:9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye
of all his wondrous works.
 
1 Chronicles 16:10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of
them rejoice that seek the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his
face continually.
 
1 Chronicles 16:12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath
done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
 
1 Chronicles 16:13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children
of Jacob, his chosen ones.
 
1 Chronicles 16:14 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in
all the earth.
 
1 Chronicles 16:15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the
word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
 
1 Chronicles 16:16 Even of the covenant which he made with
Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
 
1 Chronicles 16:17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a
law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
 
1 Chronicles 16:18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of
Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
 
1 Chronicles 16:19 When ye were but few, even a few, and
strangers in it.
 
1 Chronicles 16:20 And when they went from nation to nation,
and from one kingdom to another people;
 
1 Chronicles 16:21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he
reproved kings for their sakes,
 
1 Chronicles 16:22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my
prophets no harm.
 
1 Chronicles 16:23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew
forth from day to day his salvation.
 
1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his
marvellous works among all nations.
 
1 Chronicles 16:25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be
praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
 
1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the people are idols:
but the LORD made the heavens.
 
1 Chronicles 16:27 Glory and honour are in his presence;
strength and gladness are in his place.
 
1 Chronicles 16:28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the
people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
 
1 Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his
name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in
the beauty of holiness.
 
1 Chronicles 16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world
also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
 
1 Chronicles 16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth
rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
 
1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof:
let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
 
1 Chronicles 16:33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at
the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
 
1 Chronicles 16:34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good;
for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 16:35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation,
and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we
may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
 
1 Chronicles 16:36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever
and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 16:37 So he left there before the ark of the
covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before
the ark continually, as every day's work required:
 
1 Chronicles 16:38 And Obededom with their brethren, threescore
and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be
porters:
 
1 Chronicles 16:39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the
priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that
was at Gibeon,
 
1 Chronicles 16:40 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon
the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening,
and to do according to all that is written in the law of the
LORD, which he commanded Israel;
 
1 Chronicles 16:41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the
rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks
to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;
 
1 Chronicles 16:42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with
trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with
musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were
porters.
 
1 Chronicles 16:43 And all the people departed every man to his
house: and David returned to bless his house.
 
1 Chronicles 17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his
house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an
house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD
remaineth under curtains.
 
1 Chronicles 17:2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is
in thine heart; for God is with thee.
 
1 Chronicles 17:3 And it came to pass the same night, that the
word of God came to Nathan, saying,
 
1 Chronicles 17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the
LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
 
1 Chronicles 17:5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the
day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from
tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
 
1 Chronicles 17:6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel,
spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded
to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of
cedars?
 
1 Chronicles 17:7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my
servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the
sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be
ruler over my people Israel:
 
1 Chronicles 17:8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou
hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee,
and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are
in the earth.
 
1 Chronicles 17:9 Also I will ordain a place for my people
Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place,
and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of
wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
 
1 Chronicles 17:10 And since the time that I commanded judges
to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine
enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an
house.
 
1 Chronicles 17:11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be
expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will
raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I
will establish his kingdom.
 
1 Chronicles 17:12 He shall build me an house, and I will
stablish his throne for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my
son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it
from him that was before thee:
 
1 Chronicles 17:14 But I will settle him in mine house and in
my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for
evermore.
 
1 Chronicles 17:15 According to all these words, and according
to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
 
1 Chronicles 17:16 And David the king came and sat before the
LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house,
that thou hast brought me hitherto?
 
1 Chronicles 17:17 And yet this was a small thing in thine
eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for
a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the
estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
 
1 Chronicles 17:18 What can David speak more to thee for the
honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
 
1 Chronicles 17:19 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and
according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness,
in making known all these great things.
 
1 Chronicles 17:20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is
there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard
with our ears.
 
1 Chronicles 17:21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy
people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to
make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out
nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of
Egypt?
 
1 Chronicles 17:22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine
own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
 
1 Chronicles 17:23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou
hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be
established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
 
1 Chronicles 17:24 Let it even be established, that thy name
may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God
of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy
servant be established before thee.
 
1 Chronicles 17:25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant
that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath
found in his heart to pray before thee.
 
1 Chronicles 17:26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast
promised this goodness unto thy servant:
 
1 Chronicles 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless
the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever:
for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 18:1 Now after this it came to pass, that David
smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her
towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
 
1 Chronicles 18:2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became
David's servants, and brought gifts.
 
1 Chronicles 18:3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto
Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river
Euphrates.
 
1 Chronicles 18:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots,
and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David
also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an
hundred chariots.
 
1 Chronicles 18:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help
Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men.
 
1 Chronicles 18:6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus;
and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus
the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
 
1 Chronicles 18:7 And David took the shields of gold that were
on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 18:8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities
of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon
made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
 
1 Chronicles 18:9 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David
had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
 
1 Chronicles 18:10 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to
enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had
fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war
with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver
and brass.
 
1 Chronicles 18:11 Them also king David dedicated unto the
LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these
nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of
Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
 
1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of
the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 18:13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the
Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
 
1 Chronicles 18:14 So David reigned over all Israel, and
executed judgment and justice among all his people.
 
1 Chronicles 18:15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the
host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
 
1 Chronicles 18:16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech
the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
 
1 Chronicles 18:17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief
about the king.
 
1 Chronicles 19:1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash
the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in
his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 19:2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto
Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to
me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his
father. So the servants of David came into the land of the
children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
 
1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said
to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that
he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto
thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
 
1 Chronicles 19:4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and
shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by
their buttocks, and sent them away.
 
1 Chronicles 19:5 Then there went certain, and told David how
the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were
greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your
beards be grown, and then return.
 
1 Chronicles 19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they
had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of
Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and
horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of
Zobah.
 
1 Chronicles 19:7 So they hired thirty and two thousand
chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and
pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered
themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
 
1 Chronicles 19:8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and
all the host of the mighty men.
 
1 Chronicles 19:9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put
the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings
that were come were by themselves in the field.
 
1 Chronicles 19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set
against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of
Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
 
1 Chronicles 19:11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto
the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array
against the children of Ammon.
 
1 Chronicles 19:12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong
for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be
too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
 
1 Chronicles 19:13 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.
 
1 Chronicles 19:14 So Joab and the people that were with him
drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled
before him.
 
1 Chronicles 19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the
Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother,
and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 19:16 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.
 
1 Chronicles 19:17 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.
 
1 Chronicles 19:18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and
David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in
chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the
captain of the host.
 
1 Chronicles 19:19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that
they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with
David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help
the children of Ammon any more.
 
1 Chronicles 20:1 And it came to pass, that after the year was
expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth
the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of
Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at
Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
 
1 Chronicles 20:2 And David took the crown of their king from
off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there
were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and
he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.
 
1 Chronicles 20:3 And he brought out the people that were in
it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with
axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of
Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 20:4 And it came to pass after this, that there
arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai
the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the
giant: and they were subdued.
 
1 Chronicles 20:5 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.
 
1 Chronicles 20:6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where
was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and
twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot and he also was
the son of the giant.
 
1 Chronicles 20:7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son
of Shimea David's brother slew him.
 
1 Chronicles 20:8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and
they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
 
1 Chronicles 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and
provoked David to number Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 21:2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of
the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and
bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
 
1 Chronicles 21:3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people
an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king,
are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord
require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
 
1 Chronicles 21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed
against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all
Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the
people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand
thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah
was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
 
1 Chronicles 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among
them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
 
1 Chronicles 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing;
therefore he smote Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 21:8 And David said unto God, I have sinned
greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee,
do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very
foolishly.
 
1 Chronicles 21:9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer,
saying,
 
1 Chronicles 21:10 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.
 
1 Chronicles 21:11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
 
1 Chronicles 21:12 Either three years' famine; or three months
to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine
enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the
LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD
destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore
advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
 
1 Chronicles 21:13 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.
 
1 Chronicles 21:14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and
there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
 
1 Chronicles 21:15 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.
 
1 Chronicles 21:16 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.
 
1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that
commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have
sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have
they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me,
and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should
be plagued.
 
1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to
say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto
the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 
1 Chronicles 21:19 And David went up at the saying of Gad,
which he spake in the name of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 21:20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel;
and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was
threshing wheat.
 
1 Chronicles 21:21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and
saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself
to David with his face to the ground.
 
1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place
of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto
the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the
plague may be stayed from the people.
 
1 Chronicles 21:23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee,
and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I
give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing
instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give
it all.
 
1 Chronicles 21:24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I
will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that
which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without
cost.
 
1 Chronicles 21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six
hundred shekels of gold by weight.
 
1 Chronicles 21:26 And David built there an altar unto the
LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called
upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the
altar of burnt offering.
 
1 Chronicles 21:27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put
up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
 
1 Chronicles 21:28 At that time when David saw that the LORD
had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite,
then he sacrificed there.
 
1 Chronicles 21:29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses
made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were
at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
 
1 Chronicles 21:30 But David could not go before it to enquire
of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of
the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said, This is the house of the
LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 22:2 And David commanded to gather together the
strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to
hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
 
1 Chronicles 22:3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the
nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass
in abundance without weight;
 
1 Chronicles 22:4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the
Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
 
1 Chronicles 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and
tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be
exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all
countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David
prepared abundantly before his death.
 
1 Chronicles 22:6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and
charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 22:7 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:
 
1 Chronicles 22:8 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.
 
1 Chronicles 22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who
shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his
enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will
give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.
 
1 Chronicles 22:10 He shall build an house for my name; and he
shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish
the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 22:11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and
prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath
said of thee.
 
1 Chronicles 22:12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and
understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou
mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
 
1 Chronicles 22:13 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.
 
1 Chronicles 22:14 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.
 
1 Chronicles 22:15 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.
 
1 Chronicles 22:16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and
the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and
the LORD be with thee.
 
1 Chronicles 22:17 David also commanded all the princes of
Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
 
1 Chronicles 22:18 Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath
he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the
inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued
before the LORD, and before his people.
 
1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the
LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the
LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the
holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the
name of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 23:1 So when David was old and full of days, he
made Solomon his son king over Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 23:2 And he gathered together all the princes of
Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
 
1 Chronicles 23:3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of
thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by
man, was thirty and eight thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 23:4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to
set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand
were officers and judges:
 
1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four
thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said
David, to praise therewith.
 
1 Chronicles 23:6 And David divided them into courses among the
sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 
1 Chronicles 23:7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
 
1 Chronicles 23:8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and
Zetham, and Joel, three.
 
1 Chronicles 23:9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel,
and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
 
1 Chronicles 23:10 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina,
and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
 
1 Chronicles 23:11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the
second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they
were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
 
1 Chronicles 23:12 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron,
and Uzziel, four.
 
1 Chronicles 23:13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and
Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy
things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the
LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 23:14 Now concerning Moses the man of God, his
sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
 
1 Chronicles 23:15 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and
Eliezer.
 
1 Chronicles 23:16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the
chief.
 
1 Chronicles 23:17 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the
chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah
were very many.
 
1 Chronicles 23:18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
 
1 Chronicles 23:19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first,
Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
 
1 Chronicles 23:20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first and
Jesiah the second.
 
1 Chronicles 23:21 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The
sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
 
1 Chronicles 23:22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but
daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
 
1 Chronicles 23:23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and
Jeremoth, three.
 
1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the sons of Levi after the house
of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were
counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for
the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty
years and upward.
 
1 Chronicles 23:25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath
given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for
ever:
 
1 Chronicles 23:26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no
more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service
thereof.
 
1 Chronicles 23:27 For by the last words of David the Levites
were numbered from twenty years old and above:
 
1 Chronicles 23:28 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;
 
1 Chronicles 23:29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine
flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for
that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and
for all manner of measure and size;
 
1 Chronicles 23:30 And to stand every morning to thank and
praise the LORD, and likewise at even:
 
1 Chronicles 23:31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the
LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by
number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually
before the LORD:
 
1 Chronicles 23:32 And that they should keep the charge of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place,
and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the
service of the house of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 24:1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of
Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 
1 Chronicles 24:2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father,
and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the
priest's office.
 
1 Chronicles 24:3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the
sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according
to their offices in their service.
 
1 Chronicles 24:4 And there were more chief men found of the
sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they
divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men
of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of
Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 24:5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with
another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the
house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of
Ithamar.
 
1 Chronicles 24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe,
one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes,
and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and
before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one
principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for
Ithamar.
 
1 Chronicles 24:7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib,
the second to Jedaiah,
 
1 Chronicles 24:8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
 
1 Chronicles 24:9 The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
 
1 Chronicles 24:10 The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
 
1 Chronicles 24:11 The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to
Shecaniah,
 
1 Chronicles 24:12 The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to
Jakim,
 
1 Chronicles 24:13 The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to
Jeshebeab,
 
1 Chronicles 24:14 The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to
Immer,
 
1 Chronicles 24:15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to
Aphses,
 
1 Chronicles 24:16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth
to Jehezekel,
 
1 Chronicles 24:17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and
twentieth to Gamul,
 
1 Chronicles 24:18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four
and twentieth to Maaziah.
 
1 Chronicles 24:19 These were the orderings of them in their
service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their
manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had
commanded him.
 
1 Chronicles 24:20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these:
Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.
 
1 Chronicles 24:21 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of
Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.
 
1 Chronicles 24:22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of
Shelomoth; Jahath.
 
1 Chronicles 24:23 And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first,
Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
 
1 Chronicles 24:24 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons
of Michah; Shamir.
 
1 Chronicles 24:25 The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the
sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.
 
1 Chronicles 24:26 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the
sons of Jaaziah; Beno.
 
1 Chronicles 24:27 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and
Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
 
1 Chronicles 24:28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
 
1 Chronicles 24:29 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was
Jerahmeel.
 
1 Chronicles 24:30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and
Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of
their fathers.
 
1 Chronicles 24:31 These likewise cast lots over against their
brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and
Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests
and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their
younger brethren.
 
1 Chronicles 25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host
separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and
of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and
with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their
service was:
 
1 Chronicles 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and
Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of
Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
 
1 Chronicles 25:3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah,
and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the
hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to
give thanks and to praise the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 25:4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah,
Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani,
Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi,
Hothir, and Mahazioth:
 
1 Chronicles 25:5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's
seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to
Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
 
1 Chronicles 25:6 All these were under the hands of their
father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals,
psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God,
according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
 
1 Chronicles 25:7 So the number of them, with their brethren
that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were
cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
 
1 Chronicles 25:8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as
well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
 
1 Chronicles 25:9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to
Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons
were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:10 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his
brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his
brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:12 The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:13 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his
brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his
brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons,
and his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his
sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:25 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons,
and his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:27 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and
his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:28 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his
sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his
sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:30 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he,
his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
 
1 Chronicles 25:31 The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he,
his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.
 
1 Chronicles 26:1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of
the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of
Asaph.
 
1 Chronicles 26:2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah
the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel
the fourth,
 
1 Chronicles 26:3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai
the seventh.
 
1 Chronicles 26:4 Moreover the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah
the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar
the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth.
 
1 Chronicles 26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh,
Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
 
1 Chronicles 26:6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born,
that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were
mighty men of valour.
 
1 Chronicles 26:7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and
Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and
Semachiah.
 
1 Chronicles 26:8 All these of the sons of Obededom: they and
their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the
service, were threescore and two of Obededom.
 
1 Chronicles 26:9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong
men, eighteen.
 
1 Chronicles 26:10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had
sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet
his father made him the chief;)
 
1 Chronicles 26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third,
Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were
thirteen.
 
1 Chronicles 26:12 Among these were the divisions of the
porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against
another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 26:13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the
great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
 
1 Chronicles 26:14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then
for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his
lot came out northward.
 
1 Chronicles 26:15 To Obededom southward; and to his sons the
house of Asuppim.
 
1 Chronicles 26:16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth
westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going
up, ward against ward.
 
1 Chronicles 26:17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a
day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
 
1 Chronicles 26:18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway,
and two at Parbar.
 
1 Chronicles 26:19 These are the divisions of the porters among
the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
 
1 Chronicles 26:20 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the
treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the
dedicated things.
 
1 Chronicles 26:21 As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons
of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the
Gershonite, were Jehieli.
 
1 Chronicles 26:22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his
brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 26:23 Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the
Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:
 
1 Chronicles 26:24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of
Moses, was ruler of the treasures.
 
1 Chronicles 26:25 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his
son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son,
and Shelomith his son.
 
1 Chronicles 26:26 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over
all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king,
and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds,
and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
 
1 Chronicles 26:27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they
dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 26:28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the
son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of
Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it
was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
 
1 Chronicles 26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons
were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and
judges.
 
1 Chronicles 26:30 And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his
brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were
officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all
the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.
 
1 Chronicles 26:31 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief,
even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his
fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were
sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour
at Jazer of Gilead.
 
1 Chronicles 26:32 And his brethren, men of valour, were two
thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made
rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of
Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the
king.
 
1 Chronicles 27:1 Now the children of Israel after their
number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and
hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter
of the courses, which came in and went out month by month
throughout all the months of the year, of every course were
twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:2 Over the first course for the first month was
Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and
four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all
the captains of the host for the first month.
 
1 Chronicles 27:4 And over the course of the second month was
Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler:
in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:5 The third captain of the host for the third
month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his
course were twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:6 This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among
the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad
his son.
 
1 Chronicles 27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was
Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and
in his course were twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was
Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira
the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and
four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:10 The seventh captain for the seventh month
was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his
course were twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was
Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was
Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was
Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month
was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in
his course were twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month
was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
 
1 Chronicles 27:16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the
ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the
Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:
 
1 Chronicles 27:17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel:
of the Aaronites, Zadok:
 
1 Chronicles 27:18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of
David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
 
1 Chronicles 27:19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of
Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:
 
1 Chronicles 27:20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son
of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of
Pedaiah:
 
1 Chronicles 27:21 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead,
Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
 
1 Chronicles 27:22 Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These
were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 27:23 But David took not the number of them from
twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would
increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
 
1 Chronicles 27:24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but
he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel;
neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of
king David.
 
1 Chronicles 27:25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth
the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the
cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan
the son of Uzziah:
 
1 Chronicles 27:26 And over them that did the work of the field
for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
 
1 Chronicles 27:27 And over the vineyards was Shimei the
Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine
cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
 
1 Chronicles 27:28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore
trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and
over the cellars of oil was Joash:
 
1 Chronicles 27:29 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was
Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the
valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:
 
1 Chronicles 27:30 Over the camels also was Obil the
Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
 
1 Chronicles 27:31 And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite.
All these were the rulers of the substance which was king
David's.
 
1 Chronicles 27:32 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a
counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of
Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
 
1 Chronicles 27:33 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor:
and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:
 
1 Chronicles 27:34 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of
Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was
Joab.
 
1 Chronicles 28:1 And David assembled all the princes of
Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the
companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains
over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the
stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and
of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with
all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
 
1 Chronicles 28:2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet,
and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had
in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had
made ready for the building:
 
1 Chronicles 28:3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an
house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast
shed blood.
 
1 Chronicles 28:4 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me
before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for
ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house
of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father
he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
 
1 Chronicles 28:5 And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given
me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the
throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 28:6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he
shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be
my son, and I will be his father.
 
1 Chronicles 28:7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for
ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments,
as at this day.
 
1 Chronicles 28:8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the
congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep
and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye
may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for
your children after you for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God
of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a
willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and
understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek
him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will
cast thee off for ever.
 
1 Chronicles 28:10 Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee
to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
 
1 Chronicles 28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the
pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the
treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the
inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
 
1 Chronicles 28:12 And the pattern of all that he had by the
spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the
chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and
of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
 
1 Chronicles 28:13 Also for the courses of the priests and the
Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the
LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the
LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 28:14 He gave of gold by weight for things of
gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also
for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of
every kind of service:
 
1 Chronicles 28:15 Even the weight for the candlesticks of
gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every
candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks
of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the
lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
 
1 Chronicles 28:16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of
shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of
silver:
 
1 Chronicles 28:17 Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the
bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by
weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every
bason of silver:
 
1 Chronicles 28:18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by
weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims,
that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant
of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 28:19 All this, said David, the LORD made me
understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of
this pattern.
 
1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong
and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for
the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for
the service of the house of the LORD.
 
1 Chronicles 28:21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and
the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of
the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of
workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service:
also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy
commandment.
 
1 Chronicles 29:1 Furthermore David the king said unto all the
congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet
young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not
for man, but for the LORD God.
 
1 Chronicles 29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the
house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the
silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass,
the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx
stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers
colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in
abundance.
 
1 Chronicles 29:3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to
the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and
silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above
all that I have prepared for the holy house.
 
1 Chronicles 29:4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the
gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to
overlay the walls of the houses withal:
 
1 Chronicles 29:5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver
for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by
the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate
his service this day unto the LORD?
 
1 Chronicles 29:6 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,
 
1 Chronicles 29:7 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.
 
1 Chronicles 29:8 And they with whom precious stones were found
gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand
of Jehiel the Gershonite.
 
1 Chronicles 29:9 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.
 
1 Chronicles 29:10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all
the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of
Israel our father, for ever and ever.
 
1 Chronicles 29:11 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.
 
1 Chronicles 29:12 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.
 
1 Chronicles 29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and
praise thy glorious name.
 
1 Chronicles 29:14 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.
 
1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before thee, and
sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as
a shadow, and there is none abiding.
 
1 Chronicles 29:16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have
prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of
thine hand, and is all thine own.
 
1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the
heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the
uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these
things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are
present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
 
1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel,
our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the
thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto
thee:
 
1 Chronicles 29:19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect
heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy
statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace,
for the which I have made provision.
 
1 Chronicles 29:20 And David said to all the congregation, Now
bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the
LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and
worshipped the LORD, and the king.
 
1 Chronicles 29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the
LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow
after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a
thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in
abundance for all Israel:
 
1 Chronicles 29:22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on
that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of
David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be
the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
 
1 Chronicles 29:23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD
as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all
Israel obeyed him.
 
1 Chronicles 29:24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and
all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto
Solomon the king.
 
1 Chronicles 29:25 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly
in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal
majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 29:26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all
Israel.
 
1 Chronicles 29:27 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.
 
1 Chronicles 29:28 And he died in a good old age, full of days,
riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
 
1 Chronicles 29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and
last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer,
and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the
seer,
 
1 Chronicles 29:30 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. 
 
2 Chronicles 1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened
in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified
him exceedingly.
 
2 Chronicles 1:2 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.
 
2 Chronicles 1:3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him,
went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the
tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of
the LORD had made in the wilderness.
 
2 Chronicles 1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from
Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for
he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 1:5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the
son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the
tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought
unto it.
 
2 Chronicles 1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen
altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the
congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
 
2 Chronicles 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and
said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
 
2 Chronicles 1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed
great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in
his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 1:9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my
father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people
like the dust of the earth in multitude.
 
2 Chronicles 1:10 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?
 
2 Chronicles 1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in
thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour,
nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life;
but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest
judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
 
2 Chronicles 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee;
and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none
of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall
there any after thee have the like.
 
2 Chronicles 1:13 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.
 
2 Chronicles 1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen:
and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and
with the king at Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 1:15 And the king made silver and gold at
Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the
sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
 
2 Chronicles 1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt,
and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a
price.
 
2 Chronicles 1:17 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.
 
2 Chronicles 2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for
the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
 
2 Chronicles 2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten
thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in
the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
 
2 Chronicles 2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre,
saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send
him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal
with me.
 
2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the
LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet
incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt
offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an
ordinance for ever to Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 2:5 And the house which I build is great: for
great is our God above all gods.
 
2 Chronicles 2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing
the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I
then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn
sacrifice before him?
 
2 Chronicles 2:7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in
gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple,
and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the
cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom
David my father did provide.
 
2 Chronicles 2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum
trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to
cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy
servants,
 
2 Chronicles 2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for
the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
 
2 Chronicles 2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the
hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,
and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths
of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
 
2 Chronicles 2:11 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.
 
2 Chronicles 2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God
of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David
the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that
might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
 
2 Chronicles 2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued
with understanding, of Huram my father's,
 
2 Chronicles 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan,
and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in
silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in
blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner
of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to
him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord
David thy father.
 
2 Chronicles 2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the
oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send
unto his servants:
 
2 Chronicles 2:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much
as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea
to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that
were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David
his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and
fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
 
2 Chronicles 2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of
them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be
hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred
overseers to set the people a work.
 
2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the
LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto
David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 
2 Chronicles 3:2 And he began to build in the second day of the
second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
 
2 Chronicles 3:3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was
instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by
cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits.
 
2 Chronicles 3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the
house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the
house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty:
and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
 
2 Chronicles 3:5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree,
which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and
chains.
 
2 Chronicles 3:6 And he garnished the house with precious
stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
 
2 Chronicles 3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the
posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold;
and graved cherubims on the walls.
 
2 Chronicles 3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length
whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with
fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
 
2 Chronicles 3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels
of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
 
2 Chronicles 3:10 And in the most holy house he made two
cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
 
2 Chronicles 3:11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty
cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching
to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five
cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
 
2 Chronicles 3:12 And one wing of the other cherub was five
cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was
five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
 
2 Chronicles 3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread
themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and
their faces were inward.
 
2 Chronicles 3:14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and
crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
 
2 Chronicles 3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of
thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top
of each of them was five cubits.
 
2 Chronicles 3:16 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.
 
2 Chronicles 3:17 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.
 
2 Chronicles 4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty
cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof,
and ten cubits the height thereof.
 
2 Chronicles 4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from
brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height
thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
 
2 Chronicles 4:3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which
did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea
round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
 
2 Chronicles 4:4 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.
 
2 Chronicles 4:5 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.
 
2 Chronicles 4:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according
to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right
hand, and five on the left.
 
2 Chronicles 4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in
the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he
made an hundred basons of gold.
 
2 Chronicles 4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests,
and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the
doors of them with brass.
 
2 Chronicles 4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the
east end, over against the south.
 
2 Chronicles 4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and
the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for
king Solomon for the house of God;
 
2 Chronicles 4:12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and
the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the
two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were
on the top of the pillars;
 
2 Chronicles 4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two
wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the
two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
 
2 Chronicles 4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon
the bases;
 
2 Chronicles 4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
 
2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the
fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make
to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
 
2 Chronicles 4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast
them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
 
2 Chronicles 4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great
abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
 
2 Chronicles 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were
for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables
whereon the shewbread was set;
 
2 Chronicles 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps,
that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure
gold;
 
2 Chronicles 4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the
tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
 
2 Chronicles 4:22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the
spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the
house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the
doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
 
2 Chronicles 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the
house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the
things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and
the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of
the house of God.
 
2 Chronicles 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel,
and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the
covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
 
2 Chronicles 5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh
month.
 
2 Chronicles 5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the
Levites took up the ark.
 
2 Chronicles 5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that
were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites
bring up.
 
2 Chronicles 5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of
Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed
sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for
multitude.
 
2 Chronicles 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house,
into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
 
2 Chronicles 5:8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings
over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and
the staves thereof above.
 
2 Chronicles 5:9 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.
 
2 Chronicles 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two
tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of
Egypt.
 
2 Chronicles 5:11 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:
 
2 Chronicles 5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all
of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and
their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and
psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and
with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
 
2 Chronicles 5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and
singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising
and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with
the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised
the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for
ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house
of the LORD;
 
2 Chronicles 5:14 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.
 
2 Chronicles 6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness.
 
2 Chronicles 6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for
thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
 
2 Chronicles 6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the
whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
stood.
 
2 Chronicles 6:4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of
Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake
with his mouth to my father David, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 6:5 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:
 
2 Chronicles 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name
might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people
Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to
build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 6:8 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:
 
2 Chronicles 6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the
house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he
shall build the house for my name.
 
2 Chronicles 6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word
that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my
father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised,
and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the
covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in
the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth
his hands:
 
2 Chronicles 6:13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of
five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high,
and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood,
and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of
Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven.
 
2 Chronicles 6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no
God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before
thee with all their hearts:
 
2 Chronicles 6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David
my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy
mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
 
2 Chronicles 6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep
with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised
him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit
upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
 
2 Chronicles 6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word
be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
 
2 Chronicles 6:18 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!
 
2 Chronicles 6:19 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:
 
2 Chronicles 6:20 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.
 
2 Chronicles 6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of
thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make
toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from
heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
 
2 Chronicles 6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an
oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before
thine altar in this house;
 
2 Chronicles 6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge
thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way
upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him
according to his righteousness.
 
2 Chronicles 6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse
before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and
shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication
before thee in this house;
 
2 Chronicles 6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive
the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land
which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 6:26 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;
 
2 Chronicles 6:27 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.
 
2 Chronicles 6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of
their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
 
2 Chronicles 6:29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever
shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every
one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread
forth his hands in this house:
 
2 Chronicles 6:30 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:)
 
2 Chronicles 6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways,
so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is
not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy
great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out
arm; if they come and pray in this house;
 
2 Chronicles 6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from
thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger
calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy
name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that
this house which I have built is called by thy name.
 
2 Chronicles 6:34 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;
 
2 Chronicles 6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer
and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
 
2 Chronicles 6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no
man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver
them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives
unto a land far off or near;
 
2 Chronicles 6:37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land
whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in
the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done
amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
 
2 Chronicles 6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart
and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither
they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land,
which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which
thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy
name:
 
2 Chronicles 6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from
thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and
maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned
against thee.
 
2 Chronicles 6:40 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.
 
2 Chronicles 6:41 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.
 
2 Chronicles 6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine
anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
 
2 Chronicles 7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying,
the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering
and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
 
2 Chronicles 7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house
of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's
house.
 
2 Chronicles 7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how
the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house,
they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the
pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
2 Chronicles 7:4 Then the king and all the people offered
sacrifices before the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty
and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep:
so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
 
2 Chronicles 7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the
Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David
the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth
for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests
sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
 
2 Chronicles 7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the
court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered
burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the
brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the
burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
 
2 Chronicles 7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast
seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation,
from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
 
2 Chronicles 7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn
assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days,
and the feast seven days.
 
2 Chronicles 7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the
seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and
merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto
David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
 
2 Chronicles 7:11 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.
 
2 Chronicles 7:12 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.
 
2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or
if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people;
 
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
 
2 Chronicles 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears
attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
 
2 Chronicles 7:16 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.
 
2 Chronicles 7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me,
as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
 
2 Chronicles 7:18 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.
 
2 Chronicles 7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes
and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go
and serve other gods, and worship them;
 
2 Chronicles 7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of
my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have
sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will
make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
 
2 Chronicles 7:21 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?
 
2 Chronicles 7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they
forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and
worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all
this evil upon them.
 
2 Chronicles 8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty
years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his
own house,
 
2 Chronicles 8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to
Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to
dwell there.
 
2 Chronicles 8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed
against it.
 
2 Chronicles 8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all
the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
 
2 Chronicles 8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and
Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
 
2 Chronicles 8:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 8:7 As for all the people that were left of the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,
and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
 
2 Chronicles 8:8 But of their children, who were left after
them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them
did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
 
2 Chronicles 8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make
no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of
his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
 
2 Chronicles 8:10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's
officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the
people.
 
2 Chronicles 8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of
Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built
for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of
David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the
ark of the LORD hath come.
 
2 Chronicles 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the
porch,
 
2 Chronicles 8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering
according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on
the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year,
even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tabernacles.
 
2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of
David his father, the courses of the priests to their service,
and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before
the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also
by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God
commanded.
 
2 Chronicles 8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or
concerning the treasures.
 
2 Chronicles 8:16 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.
 
2 Chronicles 8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to
Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
 
2 Chronicles 8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his
servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and
they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence
four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king
Solomon.
 
2 Chronicles 9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame
of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at
Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare
spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she
was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her
heart.
 
2 Chronicles 9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and
there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
 
2 Chronicles 9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the
wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
 
2 Chronicles 9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of
his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their
apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent
by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
 
2 Chronicles 9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report
which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
 
2 Chronicles 9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I
came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the
greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the
fame that I heard.
 
2 Chronicles 9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy
wisdom.
 
2 Chronicles 9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted
in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy
God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever,
therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and
justice.
 
2 Chronicles 9:9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty
talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious
stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba
gave king Solomon.
 
2 Chronicles 9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the
servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum
trees and precious stones.
 
2 Chronicles 9:11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces
to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and
psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in
the land of Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba
all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had
brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own
land, she and her servants.
 
2 Chronicles 9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon
in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of
gold;
 
2 Chronicles 9:14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants
brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country
brought gold and silver to Solomon.
 
2 Chronicles 9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of
beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one
target.
 
2 Chronicles 9:16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten
gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the
king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
 
2 Chronicles 9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of
ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
 
2 Chronicles 9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with
a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays
on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the
stays:
 
2 Chronicles 9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side
and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made
in any kingdom.
 
2 Chronicles 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon
were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of
Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any
thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
 
2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with
the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of
Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and
peacocks.
 
2 Chronicles 9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the
earth in riches and wisdom.
 
2 Chronicles 9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the
presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his
heart.
 
2 Chronicles 9:24 And they brought every man his present,
vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
 
2 Chronicles 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he
bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the
river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of
Egypt.
 
2 Chronicles 9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as
stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in
the low plains in abundance.
 
2 Chronicles 9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of
Egypt, and out of all lands.
 
2 Chronicles 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first
and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet,
and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions
of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
 
2 Chronicles 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
Israel forty years.
 
2 Chronicles 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he
was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem
were all Israel come to make him king.
 
2 Chronicles 10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of
Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
 
2 Chronicles 10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and
all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now
therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy
father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve
thee.
 
2 Chronicles 10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me
after three days. And the people departed.
 
2 Chronicles 10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old
men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived,
saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
 
2 Chronicles 10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be
kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to
them, they will be thy servants for ever.
 
2 Chronicles 10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men
gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought
up with him, that stood before him.
 
2 Chronicles 10:9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye
that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to
me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon
us?
 
2 Chronicles 10:10 And the young men that were brought up with
him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people
that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but
make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto
them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
 
2 Chronicles 10:11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon
you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
 
2 Chronicles 10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to
Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again
to me on the third day.
 
2 Chronicles 10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king
Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
 
2 Chronicles 10:14 And answered them after the advice of the
young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add
thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.
 
2 Chronicles 10:15 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.
 
2 Chronicles 10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would
not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What
portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son
of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see
to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
 
2 Chronicles 10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt
in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
 
2 Chronicles 10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was
over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with
stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up
to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of
David unto this day.
 
2 Chronicles 11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he
gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and
fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight
against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to
Rehoboam.
 
2 Chronicles 11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the
man of God, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king
of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 11:4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor
fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for
this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD,
and returned from going against Jeroboam.
 
2 Chronicles 11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built
cities for defence in Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
 
2 Chronicles 11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
 
2 Chronicles 11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
 
2 Chronicles 11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
 
2 Chronicles 11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which
are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
 
2 Chronicles 11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put
captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
 
2 Chronicles 11:12 And in every several city he put shields and
spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin
on his side.
 
2 Chronicles 11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in
all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
 
2 Chronicles 11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their
possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his
sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto
the LORD:
 
2 Chronicles 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high
places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
 
2 Chronicles 11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of
Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel
came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their
fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah,
and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for
three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
 
2 Chronicles 11:18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter
of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of
Eliab the son of Jesse;
 
2 Chronicles 11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and
Shamariah, and Zaham.
 
2 Chronicles 11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter
of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and
Shelomith.
 
2 Chronicles 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of
Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took
eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and
eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
 
2 Chronicles 11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah
the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make
him king.
 
2 Chronicles 11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all
his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin,
unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance.
And he desired many wives.
 
2 Chronicles 12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had
established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook
the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
 
2 Chronicles 12:2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year
of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
because they had transgressed against the LORD,
 
2 Chronicles 12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore
thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came
with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
Ethiopians.
 
2 Chronicles 12:4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained
to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam,
and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to
Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the
LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in
the hand of Shishak.
 
2 Chronicles 12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king
humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
 
2 Chronicles 12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled
themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They
have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I
will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be
poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
 
2 Chronicles 12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that
they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the
countries.
 
2 Chronicles 12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD,
and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried
away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
 
2 Chronicles 12:10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields
of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the
guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.
 
2 Chronicles 12:11 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.
 
2 Chronicles 12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of
the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him
altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
 
2 Chronicles 12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in
Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name
was Naamah an Ammonitess.
 
2 Chronicles 12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his
heart to seek the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last,
are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of
Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
 
2 Chronicles 12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his
stead.
 
2 Chronicles 13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam
began Abijah to reign over Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.
And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
 
2 Chronicles 13:3 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.
 
2 Chronicles 13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim,
which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and
all Israel;
 
2 Chronicles 13:5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of
Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to
him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
 
2 Chronicles 13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of
Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against
his lord.
 
2 Chronicles 13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the
children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against
Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
 
2 Chronicles 13:8 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 your golden calves, which Jeroboam
made you for gods.
 
2 Chronicles 13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD,
the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests
after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever
cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams,
the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
 
2 Chronicles 13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we
have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the
LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their
business:
 
2 Chronicles 13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning
and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the
shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the
candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every
evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have
forsaken him.
 
2 Chronicles 13:12 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.
 
2 Chronicles 13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come
about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment
was behind them.
 
2 Chronicles 13:14 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.
 
2 Chronicles 13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as
the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote
Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 13:16 And the children of Israel fled before
Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
 
2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a
great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men.
 
2 Chronicles 13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought
under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because
they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took
cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with
the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
 
2 Chronicles 13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again
in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
 
2 Chronicles 13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married
fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen
daughters.
 
2 Chronicles 13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his
ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet
Iddo.
 
2 Chronicles 14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his
stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
 
2 Chronicles 14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in
the eyes of the LORD his God:
 
2 Chronicles 14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange
gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut
down the groves:
 
2 Chronicles 14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of
their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
 
2 Chronicles 14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of
Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet
before him.
 
2 Chronicles 14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the
land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD
had given him rest.
 
2 Chronicles 14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build
these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and
bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the
LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on
every side. So they built and prospered.
 
2 Chronicles 14:8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets
and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of
Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and
fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
 
2 Chronicles 14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the
Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred
chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
 
2 Chronicles 14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set
the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
 
2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and
said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many,
or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we
rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O
LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.
 
2 Chronicles 14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa,
and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
 
2 Chronicles 14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him
pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that
they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before
the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much
spoil.
 
2 Chronicles 14:14 And they smote all the cities round about
Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled
all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
 
2 Chronicles 14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and
carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to
Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the
son of Oded:
 
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto
him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is
with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be
found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
 
2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel hath been
without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without
law.
 
2 Chronicles 15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto
the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
 
2 Chronicles 15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him
that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were
upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
 
2 Chronicles 15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city
of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
 
2 Chronicles 15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your
hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
 
2 Chronicles 15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the
prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the
abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and
out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and
renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the
LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and
the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of
Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when
they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
 
2 Chronicles 15:10 So they gathered themselves together at
Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign
of Asa.
 
2 Chronicles 15:11 And they offered unto the LORD the same
time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and
seven thousand sheep.
 
2 Chronicles 15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the
LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their
soul;
 
2 Chronicles 15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God
of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether
man or woman.
 
2 Chronicles 15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud
voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
 
2 Chronicles 15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they
had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole
desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest
round about.
 
2 Chronicles 15:16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of
Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had
made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped
it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
 
2 Chronicles 15:17 But the high places were not taken away out
of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his
days.
 
2 Chronicles 15:18 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.
 
2 Chronicles 15:19 And there was no more war unto the five and
thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
 
2 Chronicles 16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of
Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah,
to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa
king of Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of
the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house,
and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus,
saying,
 
2 Chronicles 16:3 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.
 
2 Chronicles 16:4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and
sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and
they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities
of Naphtali.
 
2 Chronicles 16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it,
that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
 
2 Chronicles 16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they
carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof,
wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and
Mizpah.
 
2 Chronicles 16:7 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.
 
2 Chronicles 16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge
host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou
didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
 
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf
of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done
foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
 
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put
him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of
this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
 
2 Chronicles 16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and
last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his
reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding
great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the
physicians.
 
2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in
the one and fortieth year of his reign.
 
2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres,
which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him
in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of
spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very
great burning for him.
 
2 Chronicles 17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead,
and strengthened himself against Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 17:2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities
of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the
cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
 
2 Chronicles 17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he
walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto
Baalim;
 
2 Chronicles 17:4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and
walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 17:5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in
his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he
had riches and honour in abundance.
 
2 Chronicles 17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of
the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of
Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent
to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to
Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the
cities of Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 17:8 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah,
and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites;
and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
 
2 Chronicles 17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of
the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the
cities of Judah, and taught the people.
 
2 Chronicles 17:10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the
kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they
made no war against Jehoshaphat.
 
2 Chronicles 17:11 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.
 
2 Chronicles 17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and
he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
 
2 Chronicles 17:13 And he had much business in the cities of
Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in
Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 17:14 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.
 
2 Chronicles 17:15 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain,
and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
 
2 Chronicles 17:16 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.
 
2 Chronicles 17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of
valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred
thousand.
 
2 Chronicles 17:18 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an
hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
 
2 Chronicles 17:19 These waited on the king, beside those whom
the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in
abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
 
2 Chronicles 18:2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab
to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance,
and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go
up with him to Ramothgilead.
 
2 Chronicles 18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat
king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he
answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and
we will be with thee in the war.
 
2 Chronicles 18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel,
Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
 
2 Chronicles 18:5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered
together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall
we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they
said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.
 
2 Chronicles 18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a
prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
 
2 Chronicles 18:7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat,
There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I
hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil:
the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let
not the king say so.
 
2 Chronicles 18:8 And the king of Israel called for one of his
officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
 
2 Chronicles 18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king
of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their
robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the
gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
 
2 Chronicles 18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made
him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou
shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
 
2 Chronicles 18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying,
Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it
into the hand of the king.
 
2 Chronicles 18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah
spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare
good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray
thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.
 
2 Chronicles 18:13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even
what my God saith, that will I speak.
 
2 Chronicles 18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king
said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or
shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they
shall be delivered into your hand.
 
2 Chronicles 18:15 And the king said to him, How many times
shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in
the name of the LORD?
 
2 Chronicles 18:16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered
upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD
said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man
to his house in peace.
 
2 Chronicles 18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,
Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but
evil?
 
2 Chronicles 18:18 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.
 
2 Chronicles 18:19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab
king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And
one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that
manner.
 
2 Chronicles 18:20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood
before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said
unto him, Wherewith?
 
2 Chronicles 18:21 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.
 
2 Chronicles 18:22 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.
 
2 Chronicles 18:23 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?
 
2 Chronicles 18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on
that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide
thyself.
 
2 Chronicles 18:25 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;
 
2 Chronicles 18:26 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.
 
2 Chronicles 18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return
in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said,
Hearken, all ye people.
 
2 Chronicles 18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
 
2 Chronicles 18:29 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and I will go to the battle;
but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised
himself; and they went to the battle.
 
2 Chronicles 18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the
captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not
with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of
the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of
Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but
Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved
them to depart from him.
 
2 Chronicles 18:32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains
of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel,
they turned back again from pursuing him.
 
2 Chronicles 18:33 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.
 
2 Chronicles 18:34 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.
 
2 Chronicles 19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to
his house in peace to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out
to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help
the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath
upon thee from before the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in
thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land,
and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
 
2 Chronicles 19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he
went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount
Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their
fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all
the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
 
2 Chronicles 19:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 19:7 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.
 
2 Chronicles 19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of
the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers
of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies,
when they returned to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do
in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
 
2 Chronicles 19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of
your brethren that dwell in your cities, between blood and blood,
between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall
even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so
wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye
shall not trespass.
 
2 Chronicles 19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is
over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of
Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's
matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal
courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
 
2 Chronicles 20:1 It came to pass after this also, that the
children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other
beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
 
2 Chronicles 20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat,
saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond
the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar,
which is Engedi.
 
2 Chronicles 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to
seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 20:4 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.
 
2 Chronicles 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of
Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new
court,
 
2 Chronicles 20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not
thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of
the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so
that none is able to withstand thee?
 
2 Chronicles 20:7 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?
 
2 Chronicles 20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a
sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 20:9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword,
judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house,
and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry
unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
 
2 Chronicles 20:10 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;
 
2 Chronicles 20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come
to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to
inherit.
 
2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we
have no might against this great company that cometh against us;
neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
 
2 Chronicles 20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with
their little ones, their wives, and their children.
 
2 Chronicles 20:14 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;
 
2 Chronicles 20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith
the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this
great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
 
2 Chronicles 20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold,
they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the
end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
 
2 Chronicles 20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle:
set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD
with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to
morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
 
2 Chronicles 20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face
to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the
Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to
praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
 
2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went
forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,
Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants
of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be
established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
 
2 Chronicles 20:21 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.
 
2 Chronicles 20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise,
the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and
mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
 
2 Chronicles 20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up
against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and
destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of
Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
 
2 Chronicles 20:24 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.
 
2 Chronicles 20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to
take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance
both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they
stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and
they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
 
2 Chronicles 20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled
themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the
LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley
of Berachah, unto this day.
 
2 Chronicles 20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and
Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again
to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over
their enemies.
 
2 Chronicles 20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries
and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 20:29 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.
 
2 Chronicles 20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for
his God gave him rest round about.
 
2 Chronicles 20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was
thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
 
2 Chronicles 20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father,
and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight
of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away:
for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God
of their fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat,
first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the
son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of
Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah
join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
 
2 Chronicles 20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships
to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
 
2 Chronicles 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah
prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined
thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the
ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
 
2 Chronicles 21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his
son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat,
Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and
Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of
silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities
in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the
firstborn.
 
2 Chronicles 21:4 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.
 
2 Chronicles 21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 21:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house
of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David,
and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for
ever.
 
2 Chronicles 21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under
the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
 
2 Chronicles 21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and
all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the
Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the
chariots.
 
2 Chronicles 21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand
of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from
under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his
fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 21:11 Moreover he made high places in the
mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
 
2 Chronicles 21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah
the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father,
Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy
father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
 
2 Chronicles 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of
Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and
also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were
better than thyself:
 
2 Chronicles 21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD
smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy
goods:
 
2 Chronicles 21:15 And thou shalt have great sickness by
disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the
sickness day by day.
 
2 Chronicles 21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram
the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were
near the Ethiopians:
 
2 Chronicles 21:17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into
it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the
king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was
never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
 
2 Chronicles 21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his
bowels with an incurable disease.
 
2 Chronicles 21:19 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.
 
2 Chronicles 21:20 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.
 
2 Chronicles 22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah
his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came
with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
 
2 Chronicles 22:2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he
began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
 
2 Chronicles 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of
Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
 
2 Chronicles 22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the
LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after
the death of his father to his destruction.
 
2 Chronicles 22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went
with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael
king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
 
2 Chronicles 22:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by
coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram
against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut
off the house of Ahab.
 
2 Chronicles 22:8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was
executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes
of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that
ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
 
2 Chronicles 22:9 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.
 
2 Chronicles 22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw
that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal
of the house of Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the
king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a
bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the
wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,)
hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
 
2 Chronicles 22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God
six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
 
2 Chronicles 23:1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened
himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of
Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of
Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of
Zichri, into covenant with him.
 
2 Chronicles 23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered
the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the
fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 23:3 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.
 
2 Chronicles 23:4 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;
 
2 Chronicles 23:5 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.
 
2 Chronicles 23:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 23:7 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.
 
2 Chronicles 23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to
all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every
man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that
were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed
not the courses.
 
2 Chronicles 23:9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the
captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had
been king David's, which were in the house of God.
 
2 Chronicles 23:10 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.
 
2 Chronicles 23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and
put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him
king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save
the king.
 
2 Chronicles 23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the
people running and praising the king, she came to the people into
the house of the LORD:
 
2 Chronicles 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood
at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the
trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced,
and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of
musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her
clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
 
2 Chronicles 23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the
captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto
them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let
him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in
the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was
come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they
slew her there.
 
2 Chronicles 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him,
and between all the people, and between the king, that they
should be the LORD's people.
 
2 Chronicles 23:17 Then all the people went to the house of
Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in
pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
 
2 Chronicles 23:18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the
house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom
David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the
burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of
Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by
David.
 
2 Chronicles 23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the
house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing
should enter in.
 
2 Chronicles 23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and
the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people
of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the
LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house,
and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
 
2 Chronicles 23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and
the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the
sword.
 
2 Chronicles 24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also was Zibiah of Beersheba.
 
2 Chronicles 24:2 And Joash did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
 
2 Chronicles 24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he
begat sons and daughters.
 
2 Chronicles 24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash
was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the
Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and
gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from
year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the
Levites hastened it not.
 
2 Chronicles 24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief,
and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to
bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection,
according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD,
and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
 
2 Chronicles 24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman,
had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things
of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
 
2 Chronicles 24:8 And at the king's commandment they made a
chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah
and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses
the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
 
2 Chronicles 24:10 And all the princes and all the people
rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had
made an end.
 
2 Chronicles 24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the
chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the
Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's
scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest,
and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day
by day, and gathered money in abundance.
 
2 Chronicles 24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as
did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired
masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also
such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was
perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state,
and strengthened it.
 
2 Chronicles 24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought
the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were
made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister,
and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver.
And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD
continually all the days of Jehoiada.
 
2 Chronicles 24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days
when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he
died.
 
2 Chronicles 24:16 And they buried him in the city of David
among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward
God, and toward his house.
 
2 Chronicles 24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the
princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king
hearkened unto them.
 
2 Chronicles 24:18 And they left the house of the LORD God of
their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon
Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
 
2 Chronicles 24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them
again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they
would not give ear.
 
2 Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah
the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and
said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the
commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have
forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
 
2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned
him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of
the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the
kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his
son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and
require it.
 
2 Chronicles 24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year,
that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to
Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people
from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the
king of Damascus.
 
2 Chronicles 24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a
small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host
into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their
fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
 
2 Chronicles 24:25 And when they were departed from him, (for
they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired
against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and
slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city
of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
 
2 Chronicles 24:26 And these are they that conspired against
him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the
son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
 
2 Chronicles 24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness
of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of
God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the
kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 25:1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
 
2 Chronicles 25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was
established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the
king his father.
 
2 Chronicles 25:4 But he slew not their children, but did as it
is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children,
neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man
shall die for his own sin.
 
2 Chronicles 25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and
made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds,
according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah
and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and
above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to
go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
 
2 Chronicles 25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men
of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
 
2 Chronicles 25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O
king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is
not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
 
2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the
battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath
power to help, and to cast down.
 
2 Chronicles 25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what
shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the
army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to
give thee much more than this.
 
2 Chronicles 25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the
army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again:
wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they
returned home in great anger.
 
2 Chronicles 25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led
forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of
the children of Seir ten thousand.
 
2 Chronicles 25:12 And other ten thousand left alive did the
children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the
top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock,
that they all were broken in pieces.
 
2 Chronicles 25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah
sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon
the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote
three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
 
2 Chronicles 25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was
come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods
of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and
bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
 
2 Chronicles 25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto
him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which
could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
 
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him,
that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel?
forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare,
and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee,
because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my
counsel.
 
2 Chronicles 25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and
sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of
Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
 
2 Chronicles 25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah
king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to
the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my
son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in
Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
 
2 Chronicles 25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the
Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at
home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou
shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
 
2 Chronicles 25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of
God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies,
because they sought after the gods of Edom.
 
2 Chronicles 25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and
they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of
Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before
Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
 
2 Chronicles 25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah
king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at
Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the
wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate,
four hundred cubits.
 
2 Chronicles 25:24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and
all the vessels that were found in the house of God with
Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages
also, and returned to Samaria.
 
2 Chronicles 25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years.
 
2 Chronicles 25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first
and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings
of Judah and Israel?
 
2 Chronicles 25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn
away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him
in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish
after him, and slew him there.
 
2 Chronicles 25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried
him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who
was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his
father Amaziah.
 
2 Chronicles 26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah,
after that the king slept with his fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to
reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 26:4 And he did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
 
2 Chronicles 26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah,
who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he
sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
 
2 Chronicles 26:6 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.
 
2 Chronicles 26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines,
and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
 
2 Chronicles 26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and
his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he
strengthened himself exceedingly.
 
2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at
the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of
the wall, and fortified them.
 
2 Chronicles 26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and
digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low
country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in
the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
 
2 Chronicles 26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men,
that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their
account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler,
under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
 
2 Chronicles 26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers
of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
 
2 Chronicles 26:13 And under their hand was an army, three
hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made
war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
 
2 Chronicles 26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all
the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and
bows, and slings to cast stones.
 
2 Chronicles 26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented
by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to
shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far
abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
 
2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted
up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his
God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon
the altar of incense.
 
2 Chronicles 26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him,
and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant
men:
 
2 Chronicles 26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said
unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense
unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are
consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the
LORD God.
 
2 Chronicles 26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in
his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the
priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the
priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
 
2 Chronicles 26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the
priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his
forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself
hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
 
2 Chronicles 26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day
of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he
was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was
over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
 
2 Chronicles 26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first
and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
 
2 Chronicles 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which
belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham
his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 27:1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
 
2 Chronicles 27:2 And he did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit
he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did
yet corruptly.
 
2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the
LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
 
2 Chronicles 27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of
Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
 
2 Chronicles 27:5 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.
 
2 Chronicles 27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared
his ways before the LORD his God.
 
2 Chronicles 27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all
his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
 
2 Chronicles 28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not
that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his
father:
 
2 Chronicles 28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of
Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
 
2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the
abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the
children of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the
high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
 
2 Chronicles 28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into
the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried
away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to
Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of
Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
 
2 Chronicles 28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah
an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant
men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 28:7 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.
 
2 Chronicles 28:8 And the children of Israel carried away
captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and
daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought
the spoil to Samaria.
 
2 Chronicles 28:9 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.
 
2 Chronicles 28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the
children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto
you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the
LORD your God?
 
2 Chronicles 28:11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the
captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for
the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
 
2 Chronicles 28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of
Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son
of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
 
2 Chronicles 28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in
the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the
LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our
trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath
against Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the
spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
 
2 Chronicles 28:15 And the men which were expressed by name
rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all
that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and
gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all
the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the
city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to
Samaria.
 
2 Chronicles 28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the
kings of Assyria to help him.
 
2 Chronicles 28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten
Judah, and carried away captives.
 
2 Chronicles 28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities
of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken
Bethshemesh, 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.
 
2 Chronicles 28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of
Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed
sore against the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came
unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
 
2 Chronicles 28:21 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.
 
2 Chronicles 28:22 And in the time of his distress did he
trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
 
2 Chronicles 28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus,
which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of
Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they
may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of
the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of
God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made
him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made
high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to
anger the LORD God of his fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his
ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the
kings of Judah and Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him
not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his
son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and
twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of
Zechariah.
 
2 Chronicles 29:2 And he did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
 
2 Chronicles 29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the
first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and
repaired them.
 
2 Chronicles 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the
Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
 
2 Chronicles 29:5 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.
 
2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done
that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have
forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the
habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
 
2 Chronicles 29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the
porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor
offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon
Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to
astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
 
2 Chronicles 29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the
sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in
captivity for this.
 
2 Chronicles 29:10 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.
 
2 Chronicles 29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD
hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye
should minister unto him, and burn incense.
 
2 Chronicles 29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of
Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the
Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and
Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the
son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
 
2 Chronicles 29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and
Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
 
2 Chronicles 29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and
Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
 
2 Chronicles 29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and
sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of
the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the
LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of
the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the
uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the
court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry
it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
 
2 Chronicles 29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first
month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they
to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the
LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
 
2 Chronicles 29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and
said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar
of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the
shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
 
2 Chronicles 29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in
his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared
and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the
LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and
gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the
LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven
rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for
the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he
commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the
altar of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests
received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when
they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the
altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood
upon the altar.
 
2 Chronicles 29:23 And they brought forth the he goats for the
sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid
their hands upon them:
 
2 Chronicles 29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made
reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt
offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the
LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to
the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan
the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his
prophets.
 
2 Chronicles 29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments
of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
 
2 Chronicles 29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt
offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the
song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the
instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the
singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued
until the burnt offering was finished.
 
2 Chronicles 29:29 And when they had made an end of offering,
the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and
worshipped.
 
2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes
commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words
of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with
gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
 
2 Chronicles 29:31 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.
 
2 Chronicles 29:32 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.
 
2 Chronicles 29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred
oxen and three thousand sheep.
 
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they
could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren
the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the
other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were
more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
 
2 Chronicles 29:35 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.
 
2 Chronicles 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people,
that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done
suddenly.
 
2 Chronicles 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah,
and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should
come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover
unto the LORD God of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his
princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the
passover in the second month.
 
2 Chronicles 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time,
because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently,
neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the
congregation.
 
2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan,
that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of
Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in
such sort as it was written.
 
2 Chronicles 30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the
king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and
according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of
Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are
escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
 
2 Chronicles 30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like
your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their
fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
 
2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers
were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his
sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD
your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from
you.
 
2 Chronicles 30:9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your
brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that
lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land:
for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn
away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
 
2 Chronicles 30:10 So the posts passed from city to city
through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun:
but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
 
2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh
and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give
them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the
princes, by the word of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people
to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very
great congregation.
 
2 Chronicles 30:14 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.
 
2 Chronicles 30:15 Then they killed the passover on the
fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the
Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in
the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 30:16 And they stood in their place after their
manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests
sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the
Levites.
 
2 Chronicles 30:17 For there were many in the congregation that
were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the
killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to
sanctify them unto the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of
Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed
themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was
written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD
pardon every one
 
2 Chronicles 30:19 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.
 
2 Chronicles 30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and
healed the people.
 
2 Chronicles 30:21 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.
 
2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the
Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did
eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings,
and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep
other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
 
2 Chronicles 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the
congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and
the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten
thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified
themselves.
 
2 Chronicles 30:25 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.
 
2 Chronicles 30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for
since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there
was not the like in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and
blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer
came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
 
2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel
that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the
images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the
high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in
Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them
all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his
possession, into their own cities.
 
2 Chronicles 31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the
priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according
to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and
for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to
praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 31:3 He appointed also the king's portion of his
substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and
evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the
sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is
written in the law of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt
in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites,
that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad,
the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of
corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the
field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
 
2 Chronicles 31:6 And concerning the children of Israel and
Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in
the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which
were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
 
2 Chronicles 31:7 In the third month they began to lay the
foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
 
2 Chronicles 31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and
saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and
the Levites concerning the heaps.
 
2 Chronicles 31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of
Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the
offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat,
and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and
that which is left is this great store.
 
2 Chronicles 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers
in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
 
2 Chronicles 31:12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes
and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the
Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
 
2 Chronicles 31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and
Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and
Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah
and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king,
and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
 
2 Chronicles 31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the
porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God,
to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy
things.
 
2 Chronicles 31:15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and
Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of
the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by
courses, as well to the great as to the small:
 
2 Chronicles 31:16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three
years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the
house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their
charges according to their courses;
 
2 Chronicles 31:17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the
house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and
upward, in their charges by their courses;
 
2 Chronicles 31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little
ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through
all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified
themselves in holiness:
 
2 Chronicles 31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which
were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every
several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give
portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were
reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
 
2 Chronicles 31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah,
and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the
LORD his God.
 
2 Chronicles 31:21 And in every work that he began in the
service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the
commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and
prospered.
 
2 Chronicles 32:1 After these things, and the establishment
thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into
Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win
them for himself.
 
2 Chronicles 32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was
come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
 
2 Chronicles 32:3 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.
 
2 Chronicles 32:4 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?
 
2 Chronicles 32:5 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.
 
2 Chronicles 32:6 And he set captains of war over the people,
and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of
the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 32:7 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:
 
2 Chronicles 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is
the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the
people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of
Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria
send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege
against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king
of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
 
2 Chronicles 32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over
yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our
God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 
2 Chronicles 32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his
high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem,
saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon
it?
 
2 Chronicles 32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done
unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations
of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine
hand?
 
2 Chronicles 32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those
nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his
people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver
you out of mine hand?
 
2 Chronicles 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you,
nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no
god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out
of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less
shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
 
2 Chronicles 32:16 And his servants spake yet more against the
LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
 
2 Chronicles 32:17 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.
 
2 Chronicles 32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall,
to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the
city.
 
2 Chronicles 32:19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,
as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the
work of the hands of man.
 
2 Chronicles 32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
 
2 Chronicles 32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off
all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the
camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to
his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god,
they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the
sword.
 
2 Chronicles 32:22 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.
 
2 Chronicles 32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to
Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was
magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
 
2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the
death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he
gave him a sign.
 
2 Chronicles 32:25 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.
 
2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for
the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah.
 
2 Chronicles 32:27 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;
 
2 Chronicles 32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn,
and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes
for flocks.
 
2 Chronicles 32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and
possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given
him substance very much.
 
2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper
watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west
side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his
works.
 
2 Chronicles 32:31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors
of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the
wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that
he might know all that was in his heart.
 
2 Chronicles 32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and
his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of
Judah and Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of
David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him
honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
 
2 Chronicles 33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the
LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 33:3 For he built again the high places which
Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for
Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven,
and served them.
 
2 Chronicles 33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the
LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be
for ever.
 
2 Chronicles 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of
heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through
the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed
times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with
a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
 
2 Chronicles 33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he
had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and
to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for
ever:
 
2 Chronicles 33:8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of
Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your
fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have
commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and
the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
 
2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD
had destroyed before the children of Israel.
 
2 Chronicles 33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his
people: but they would not hearken.
 
2 Chronicles 33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the
captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh
among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to
Babylon.
 
2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought
the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of
his fathers,
 
2 Chronicles 33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of
him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to
Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he
was God.
 
2 Chronicles 33:14 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.
 
2 Chronicles 33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the
idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had
built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem,
and cast them out of the city.
 
2 Chronicles 33:16 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.
 
2 Chronicles 33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still
in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
 
2 Chronicles 33:18 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.
 
2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated
of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places
wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven
images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the
sayings of the seers.
 
2 Chronicles 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead.
 
2 Chronicles 33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 33:22 But he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto
all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and
served them;
 
2 Chronicles 33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as
Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more
and more.
 
2 Chronicles 33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and
slew him in his own house.
 
2 Chronicles 33:25 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.
 
2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
 
2 Chronicles 34:2 And he did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and
declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
 
2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he
was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his
father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and
Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved
images, and the molten images.
 
2 Chronicles 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in
his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he
cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten
images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it
upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
 
2 Chronicles 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon
their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 34:6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and
Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks
round about.
 
2 Chronicles 34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and
the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut
down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned
to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when
he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son
of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
 
2 Chronicles 34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high
priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house
of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the
hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel,
and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 34:10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen
that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it
to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair
and amend the house:
 
2 Chronicles 34:11 Even to the artificers and builders gave
they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to
floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
 
2 Chronicles 34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the
overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the
sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the
Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that
could skill of instruments of musick.
 
2 Chronicles 34:13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens,
and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of
service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and
porters.
 
2 Chronicles 34:14 And when they brought out the money that was
brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a
book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
 
2 Chronicles 34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the
LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
 
2 Chronicles 34:16 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.
 
2 Chronicles 34:17 And they have gathered together the money
that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it
into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
 
2 Chronicles 34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king,
saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read
it before the king.
 
2 Chronicles 34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard
the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
 
2 Chronicles 34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam
the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 34:21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them
that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the
book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is
poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of
the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
 
2 Chronicles 34:22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had
appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now
she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to
that effect.
 
2 Chronicles 34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
 
2 Chronicles 34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring
evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all
the curses that are written in the book which they have read
before the king of Judah:
 
2 Chronicles 34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have
burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to
anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall
be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
 
2 Chronicles 34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you
to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
 
2 Chronicles 34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou
didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words
against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and
humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep
before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 34:28 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.
 
2 Chronicles 34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all
the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 34:30 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.
 
2 Chronicles 34:31 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.
 
2 Chronicles 34:32 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.
 
2 Chronicles 34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations
out of all the countries that pertained to the children of
Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even
to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not
from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
 
2 Chronicles 35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD
in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day
of the first month.
 
2 Chronicles 35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
 
2 Chronicles 35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all
Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the
house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it
shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD
your God, and his people Israel,
 
2 Chronicles 35:4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your
fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David
king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
 
2 Chronicles 35:5 And stand in the holy place according to the
divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the
people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.
 
2 Chronicles 35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify
yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according
to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 
2 Chronicles 35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock,
lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were
present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand
bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
 
2 Chronicles 35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the
people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah
and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for
the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle
and three hundred oxen.
 
2 Chronicles 35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel,
his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the
Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five
thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
 
2 Chronicles 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests
stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according
to the king's commandment.
 
2 Chronicles 35:11 And they killed the passover, and the
priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites
flayed them.
 
2 Chronicles 35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that
they might give according to the divisions of the families of the
people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of
Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
 
2 Chronicles 35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire
according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they
in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily
among all the people.
 
2 Chronicles 35:14 And afterward they made ready for
themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of
Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat
until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and
for the priests the sons of Aaron.
 
2 Chronicles 35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in
their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph,
and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited
at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for
their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
 
2 Chronicles 35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared
the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings
upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king
Josiah.
 
2 Chronicles 35:17 And the children of Israel that were present
kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread
seven days.
 
2 Chronicles 35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept
in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all
the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were
present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of
Josiah was this passover kept.
 
2 Chronicles 35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish
by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
 
2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What
have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against
thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for
God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with
God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
 
2 Chronicles 35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face
from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him,
and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God,
and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
 
2 Chronicles 35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the
king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
 
2 Chronicles 35:24 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.
 
2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all
the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their
lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel:
and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
 
2 Chronicles 35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his
goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the
LORD,
 
2 Chronicles 35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
 
2 Chronicles 36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the
son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in
Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at
Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver
and a talent of gold.
 
2 Chronicles 36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his
brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him
to Egypt.
 
2 Chronicles 36:5 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.
 
2 Chronicles 36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
 
2 Chronicles 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of
the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at
Babylon.
 
2 Chronicles 36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and
his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
 
2 Chronicles 36:9 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.
 
2 Chronicles 36:10 And when the year was expired, king
Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly
vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when
he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the
prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
 
2 Chronicles 36:13 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.
 
2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and
the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of
the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem.
 
2 Chronicles 36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to
them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because
he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
 
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and
despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of
the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
 
2 Chronicles 36:17 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.
 
2 Chronicles 36:18 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.
 
2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof
with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
 
2 Chronicles 36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword
carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and
his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
 
2 Chronicles 36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth
of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long
as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and
ten years.
 
2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah
might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus
king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
 
2 Chronicles 36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the
kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and
he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is
in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his
God be with him, and let him go up.
 
Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that
the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he
made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also
in writing, saying,
 
Ezra 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of
heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath
charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
 
Ezra 1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be
with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and
build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which
is in Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 1:4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he
sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and
with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill
offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and
Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose
spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD
which is in Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 1:6 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.
 
Ezra 1:7 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;
 
Ezra 1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the
hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto
Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
 
Ezra 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of
gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
 
Ezra 1:10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort
four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
 
Ezra 1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five
thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up
with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto
Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 2:1 Now these are the children of the province that went
up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away,
whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto
Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto
his city;
 
Ezra 2:2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah,
Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The
number of the men of the people of Israel:
 
Ezra 2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred
seventy and two.
 
Ezra 2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and
two.
 
Ezra 2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
 
Ezra 2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua
and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
 
Ezra 2:7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
four.
 
Ezra 2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
 
Ezra 2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
 
Ezra 2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
 
Ezra 2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
 
Ezra 2:12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty
and two.
 
Ezra 2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
 
Ezra 2:14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
 
Ezra 2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
 
Ezra 2:16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
 
Ezra 2:17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and
three.
 
Ezra 2:18 The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
 
Ezra 2:19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
 
Ezra 2:20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
 
Ezra 2:21 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and
three.
 
Ezra 2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
 
Ezra 2:23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
 
Ezra 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
 
Ezra 2:25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
seven hundred and forty and three.
 
Ezra 2:26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty
and one.
 
Ezra 2:27 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
 
Ezra 2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and
three.
 
Ezra 2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
 
Ezra 2:30 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
 
Ezra 2:31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.
 
Ezra 2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
 
Ezra 2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred
twenty and five.
 
Ezra 2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and
five.
 
Ezra 2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six
hundred and thirty.
 
Ezra 2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of
Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
 
Ezra 2:37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
 
Ezra 2:38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty
and seven.
 
Ezra 2:39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
 
Ezra 2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of
the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
 
Ezra 2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty
and eight.
 
Ezra 2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum,
the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of
Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an
hundred thirty and nine.
 
Ezra 2:43 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of
Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
 
Ezra 2:44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the
children of Padon,
 
Ezra 2:45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the
children of Akkub,
 
Ezra 2:46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the
children of Hanan,
 
Ezra 2:47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the
children of Reaiah,
 
Ezra 2:48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the
children of Gazzam,
 
Ezra 2:49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the
children of Besai,
 
Ezra 2:50 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the
children of Nephusim,
 
Ezra 2:51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the
children of Harhur,
 
Ezra 2:52 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the
children of Harsha,
 
Ezra 2:53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the
children of Thamah,
 
Ezra 2:54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
 
Ezra 2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of
Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
 
Ezra 2:56 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the
children of Giddel,
 
Ezra 2:57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil,
the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
 
Ezra 2:58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's
servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
 
Ezra 2:59 And these were they which went up from Telmelah,
Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their
father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
 
Ezra 2:60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the
children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
 
Ezra 2:61 And of the children of the priests: the children of
Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which
took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was
called after their name:
 
Ezra 2:62 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.
 
Ezra 2:63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should
not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest
with Urim and with Thummim.
 
Ezra 2:64 The whole congregation together was forty and two
thousand three hundred and threescore,
 
Ezra 2:65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there
were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there
were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
 
Ezra 2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their
mules, two hundred forty and five;
 
Ezra 2:67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their
asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
 
Ezra 2:68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came
to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely
for the house of God to set it up in his place:
 
Ezra 2:69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of
the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five
thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
 
Ezra 2:70 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.
 
Ezra 3:1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children
of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves
together as one man to Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his
brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and
his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to
offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of
Moses the man of God.
 
Ezra 3:3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was
upon them because of the people of those countries: and they
offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt
offerings morning and evening.
 
Ezra 3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is
written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number,
according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
 
Ezra 3:5 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering,
both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that
were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a
freewill offering unto the LORD.
 
Ezra 3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to
offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the
temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
 
Ezra 3:7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the
carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and
to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of
Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of
Persia.
 
Ezra 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house
of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the
son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant
of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that
were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the
Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the
work of the house of the LORD.
 
Ezra 3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren,
Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward
the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their
sons and their brethren the Levites.
 
Ezra 3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the
temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with
trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to
praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
 
Ezra 3:11 And they sang together by course in praising and
giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy
endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with
a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation
of the house of the LORD was laid.
 
Ezra 3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the
fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house,
when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes,
wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
 
Ezra 3:13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the
shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the
people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar
off.
 
Ezra 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard
that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the
LORD God of Israel;
 
Ezra 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the
fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek
your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days
of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
 
Ezra 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief
of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do
with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together
will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of
Persia hath commanded us.
 
Ezra 4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the
people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
 
Ezra 4:5 And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their
purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the
reign of Darius king of Persia.
 
Ezra 4:6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his
reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants
of Judah and Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam,
Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto
Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was
written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian
tongue.
 
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a
letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
 
Ezra 4:9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the
scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the
Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites,
the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the
Elamites,
 
Ezra 4:10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble
Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the
rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
 
Ezra 4:11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto
him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this
side the river, and at such a time.
 
Ezra 4:12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came
up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the
rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof,
and joined the foundations.
 
Ezra 4:13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be
builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll,
tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of
the kings.
 
Ezra 4:14 Now because we have maintenance from the king's
palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour,
therefore have we sent and certified the king;
 
Ezra 4:15 That search may be made in the book of the records of
thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and
know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings
and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same
of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
 
Ezra 4:16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded
again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt
have no portion on this side the river.
 
Ezra 4:17 Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the
chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their
companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the
river, Peace, and at such a time.
 
Ezra 4:18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly
read before me.
 
Ezra 4:19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is
found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against
kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
 
Ezra 4:20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem,
which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll,
tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
 
Ezra 4:21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease,
and that this city be not builded, until another commandment
shall be given from me.
 
Ezra 4:22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should
damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
 
Ezra 4:23 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read
before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they
went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to
cease by force and power.
 
Ezra 4:24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at
Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of
Darius king of Persia.
 
Ezra 5:1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah
the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and
Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
 
Ezra 5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and
Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God
which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God
helping them.
 
Ezra 5:3 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this
side the river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said
thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and
to make up this wall?
 
Ezra 5:4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the
names of the men that make this building?
 
Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the
Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter
came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter
concerning this matter.
 
Ezra 5:6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this
side the river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the
Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto
Darius the king:
 
Ezra 5:7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus;
Unto Darius the king, all peace.
 
Ezra 5:8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the
province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is
builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and
this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
 
Ezra 5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus,
Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these
walls?
 
Ezra 5:10 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we
might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
 
Ezra 5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the
servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that
was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel
builded and set up.
 
Ezra 5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of
heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and
carried the people away into Babylon.
 
Ezra 5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon
the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
 
Ezra 5:14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house
of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in
Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did
Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were
delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made
governor;
 
Ezra 5:15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them
into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be
builded in his place.
 
Ezra 5:16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the
foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since
that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is
not finished.
 
Ezra 5:17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there
be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at
Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the
king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king
send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
 
Ezra 6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was
made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up
in Babylon.
 
Ezra 6:2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is
in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record
thus written:
 
Ezra 6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the
king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let
the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices,
and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height
thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore
cubits;
 
Ezra 6:4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new
timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
 
Ezra 6:5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the
house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple
which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and
brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to
his place, and place them in the house of God.
 
Ezra 6:6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river,
Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are
beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
 
Ezra 6:7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the
governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house
of God in his place.
 
Ezra 6:8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the
elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that
of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river,
forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not
hindered.
 
Ezra 6:9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks,
and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of
heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment
of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day
by day without fail:
 
Ezra 6:10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto
the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his
sons.
 
Ezra 6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter
this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being
set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a
dunghill for this.
 
Ezra 6:12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there
destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to
alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I
Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.
 
Ezra 6:13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river,
Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which
Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.
 
Ezra 6:14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they
prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and
Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it,
according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according
to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of
Persia.
 
Ezra 6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the
month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius
the king.
 
Ezra 6:16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the
Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the
dedication of this house of God with joy.
 
Ezra 6:17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an
hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a
sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the
number of the tribes of Israel.
 
Ezra 6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the
Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at
Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
 
Ezra 6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover
upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
 
Ezra 6:20 For the priests and the Levites were purified
together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all
the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the
priests, and for themselves.
 
Ezra 6:21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out
of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them
from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD
God of Israel, did eat,
 
Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days
with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart
of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in
the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
 
Ezra 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes
king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the
son of Hilkiah,
 
Ezra 7:2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of
Ahitub,
 
Ezra 7:3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of
Meraioth,
 
Ezra 7:4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of
Bukki,
 
Ezra 7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
 
Ezra 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready
scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had
given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the
hand of the LORD his God upon him.
 
Ezra 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and
of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the
porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year
of Artaxerxes the king.
 
Ezra 7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was
in the seventh year of the king.
 
Ezra 7:9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to
go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came
he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
 
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of
the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and
judgments.
 
Ezra 7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king
Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe
of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes
to Israel.
 
Ezra 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a
scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at
such a time.
 
Ezra 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of
Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are
minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
 
Ezra 7:14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his
seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
 
Ezra 7:15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and
his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose
habitation is in Jerusalem,
 
Ezra 7:16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in
all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the
people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of
their God which is in Jerusalem:
 
Ezra 7:17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money
bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink
offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God
which is in Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 7:18 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.
 
Ezra 7:19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service
of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of
Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 7:20 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.
 
Ezra 7:21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree
to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever
Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven,
shall require of you, it be done speedily,
 
Ezra 7:22 Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred
measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an
hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
 
Ezra 7:23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it
be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why
should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
 
Ezra 7:24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests
and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this
house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or
custom, upon them.
 
Ezra 7:25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is
in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all
the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws
of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
 
Ezra 7:26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the
law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him,
whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of
goods, or to imprisonment.
 
Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath
put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the
house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
 
Ezra 7:28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and
his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I
was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and
I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
 
Ezra 8:1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is
the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the
reign of Artaxerxes the king.
 
Ezra 8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of
Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
 
Ezra 8:3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh;
Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males
an hundred and fifty.
 
Ezra 8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of
Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
 
Ezra 8:5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and
with him three hundred males.
 
Ezra 8:6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan,
and with him fifty males.
 
Ezra 8:7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah,
and with him seventy males.
 
Ezra 8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of
Michael, and with him fourscore males.
 
Ezra 8:9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and
with him two hundred and eighteen males.
 
Ezra 8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah,
and with him an hundred and threescore males.
 
Ezra 8:11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai,
and with him twenty and eight males.
 
Ezra 8:12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of
Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
 
Ezra 8:13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are
these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore
males.
 
Ezra 8:14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and
with them seventy males.
 
Ezra 8:15 And I gathered them together to the river that
runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I
viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the
sons of Levi.
 
Ezra 8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and
for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan,
and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for
Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
 
Ezra 8:17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief
at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto
Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia,
that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our
God.
 
Ezra 8:18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought
us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi,
the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren,
eighteen;
 
Ezra 8:19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of
Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
 
Ezra 8:20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had
appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty
Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
 
Ezra 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of
Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of
him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our
substance.
 
Ezra 8:22 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.
 
Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he
was intreated of us.
 
Ezra 8:24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
 
Ezra 8:25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and
the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the
king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there
present, had offered:
 
Ezra 8:26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty
talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of
gold an hundred talents;
 
Ezra 8:27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and
two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
 
Ezra 8:28 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.
 
Ezra 8:29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before
the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the
fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of
the LORD.
 
Ezra 8:30 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.
 
Ezra 8:31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the
twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the
hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of
the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
 
Ezra 8:32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
 
Ezra 8:33 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;
 
Ezra 8:34 By number and by weight of every one: and all the
weight was written at that time.
 
Ezra 8:35 Also the children of those that had been carried
away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt
offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel,
ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for
a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
 
Ezra 8:36 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the
king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river:
and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
 
Ezra 9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to
me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the
Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the
lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
 
Ezra 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves,
and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves
with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and
rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
 
Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my
mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and
sat down astonied.
 
Ezra 9:4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at
the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of
those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the
evening sacrifice.
 
Ezra 9:5 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,
 
Ezra 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up
my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over
our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
 
Ezra 9:7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great
trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our
kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings
of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to
confusion of face, as it is this day.
 
Ezra 9:8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from
the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us
a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and
give us a little reviving in our bondage.
 
Ezra 9:9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us
in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of
the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house
of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us
a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
 
Ezra 9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for
we have forsaken thy commandments,
 
Ezra 9:11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the
prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an
unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with
their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another
with their uncleanness.
 
Ezra 9:12 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.
 
Ezra 9:13 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;
 
Ezra 9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in
affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou
be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there
should be no remnant nor escaping?
 
Ezra 9:15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we
remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee
in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of
this.
 
Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed,
weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there
assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men
and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
 
Ezra 10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of
Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our
God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet
now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
 
Ezra 10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to
put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according
to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the
commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
 
Ezra 10:4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also
will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
 
Ezra 10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the
Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according
to this word. And they sware.
 
Ezra 10:6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and
went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he
came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he
mourned because of the transgression of them that had been
carried away.
 
Ezra 10:7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and
Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they
should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
 
Ezra 10:8 And that whosoever would not come within three days,
according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his
substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the
congregation of those that had been carried away.
 
Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered
themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the
ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the
people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because
of this matter, and for the great rain.
 
Ezra 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye
have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the
trespass of Israel.
 
Ezra 10:11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of
your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from
the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
 
Ezra 10:12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a
loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
 
Ezra 10:13 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.
 
Ezra 10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand,
and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities
come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city,
and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for
this matter be turned from us.
 
Ezra 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son
of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and
Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
 
Ezra 10:16 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.
 
Ezra 10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken
strange wives by the first day of the first month.
 
Ezra 10:18 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.
 
Ezra 10:19 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.
 
Ezra 10:20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
 
Ezra 10:21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and
Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
 
Ezra 10:22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah,
Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
 
Ezra 10:23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and
Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
 
Ezra 10:24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters;
Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
 
Ezra 10:25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah,
and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah,
and Benaiah.
 
Ezra 10:26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and
Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
 
Ezra 10:27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib,
Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
 
Ezra 10:28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah,
Zabbai, and Athlai.
 
Ezra 10:29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and
Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
 
Ezra 10:30 And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal,
Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
 
Ezra 10:31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah,
Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
 
Ezra 10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
 
Ezra 10:33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad,
Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
 
Ezra 10:34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
 
Ezra 10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
 
Ezra 10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
 
Ezra 10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
 
Ezra 10:38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
 
Ezra 10:39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
 
Ezra 10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
 
Ezra 10:41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
 
Ezra 10:42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
 
Ezra 10:43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad,
Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
 
Ezra 10:44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them
had wives by whom they had children.
 
Nehemiah 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it
came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I
was in Shushan the palace,
 
Nehemiah 1:2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and
certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that
had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning
Jerusalem.
 
Nehemiah 1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left
of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction
and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the
gates thereof are burned with fire.
 
Nehemiah 1:4 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,
 
Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven,
the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for
them that love him and observe his commandments:
 
Nehemiah 1:6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes
open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I
pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel
thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel,
which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house
have sinned.
 
Nehemiah 1:7 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.
 
Nehemiah 1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou
commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will
scatter you abroad among the nations:
 
Nehemiah 1:9 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.
 
Nehemiah 1:10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom
thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
 
Nehemiah 1:11 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be
attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy
servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee,
thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this
man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
 
Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the
twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him:
and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not
been beforetime sad in his presence.
 
Nehemiah 2:2 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,
 
Nehemiah 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for
ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the
place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates
thereof are consumed with fire?
 
Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou
make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
 
Nehemiah 2:5 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:6 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:7 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;
 
Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's
forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of
the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of
the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king
granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
 
Nehemiah 2:9 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly
that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of
Israel.
 
Nehemiah 2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
 
Nehemiah 2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with
me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do
at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast
that I rode upon.
 
Nehemiah 2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the
valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and
viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the
gates thereof were consumed with fire.
 
Nehemiah 2:14 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:15 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:16 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that
we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are
burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of
Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
 
Nehemiah 2:18 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.
 
Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they
laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this
thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
 
Nehemiah 2:20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God
of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will
arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial,
in Jerusalem.
 
Nehemiah 3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his
brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they
sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of
Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
 
Nehemiah 3:2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And
next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
 
Nehemiah 3:3 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of
Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the
son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them
repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
 
Nehemiah 3:5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but
their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.
 
Nehemiah 3:6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of
Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams
thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and
the bars thereof.
 
Nehemiah 3:7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the
Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of
Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
 
Nehemiah 3:8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah,
of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son
of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the
broad wall.
 
Nehemiah 3:9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of
Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
 
Nehemiah 3:10 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of
Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the
furnaces.
 
Nehemiah 3:12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of
Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his
daughters.
 
Nehemiah 3:13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the
inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors
thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand
cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
 
Nehemiah 3:14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of
Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set
up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
 
Nehemiah 3:15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the
son of Colhozeh, 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the
ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against
the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto
the house of the mighty.
 
Nehemiah 3:17 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son
of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
 
Nehemiah 3:19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua,
the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to
the armoury at the turning of the wall.
 
Nehemiah 3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly
repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the
door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
 
Nehemiah 3:21 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of
the plain.
 
Nehemiah 3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over
against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of
Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
 
Nehemiah 3:24 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning
of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high
house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the
son of Parosh.
 
Nehemiah 3:26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the
place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower
that lieth out.
 
Nehemiah 3:27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece,
over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall
of Ophel.
 
Nehemiah 3:28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests,
every one over against his house.
 
Nehemiah 3:29 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.
 
Nehemiah 3:30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah,
and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him
repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
 
Nehemiah 3:31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son
unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over
against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
 
Nehemiah 3:32 And between the going up of the corner unto the
sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
 
Nehemiah 4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard
that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews.
 
Nehemiah 4:2 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?
 
Nehemiah 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said,
Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break
down their stone wall.
 
Nehemiah 4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn
their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in
the land of captivity:
 
Nehemiah 4:5 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.
 
Nehemiah 4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined
together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to
work.
 
Nehemiah 4:7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and
Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites,
heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the
breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
 
Nehemiah 4:8 And conspired all of them together to come and to
fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
 
Nehemiah 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and
set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
 
Nehemiah 4:10 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.
 
Nehemiah 4:11 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.
 
Nehemiah 4:12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which
dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places
whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
 
Nehemiah 4:13 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.
 
Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the
nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not
ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and
terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your
daughters, your wives, and your houses.
 
Nehemiah 4:15 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.
 
Nehemiah 4:16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that
the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half
of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the
habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
 
Nehemiah 4:17 They which builded on the wall, and they that
bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his
hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
 
Nehemiah 4:18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded
by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was
by me.
 
Nehemiah 4:19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers,
and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and
we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
 
Nehemiah 4:20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the
trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
 
Nehemiah 4:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held
the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars
appeared.
 
Nehemiah 4:22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people,
Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in
the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
 
Nehemiah 4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants,
nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off
our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
 
Nehemiah 5:1 And there was a great cry of the people and of
their wives against their brethren the Jews.
 
Nehemiah 5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our
daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we
may eat, and live.
 
Nehemiah 5:3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged
our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because
of the dearth.
 
Nehemiah 5:4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money
for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
 
Nehemiah 5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren,
our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage
our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our
daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our
power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
 
Nehemiah 5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and
these words.
 
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the
nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every
one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
 
Nehemiah 5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have
redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen;
and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto
us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
 
Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye
not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the
heathen our enemies?
 
Nehemiah 5:10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants,
might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off
this usury.
 
Nehemiah 5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day,
their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,
also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine,
and the oil, that ye exact of them.
 
Nehemiah 5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will
require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I
called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do
according to this promise.
 
Nehemiah 5:13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out
every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth
not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And
all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the
people did according to this promise.
 
Nehemiah 5:14 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.
 
Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me
were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and
wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants
bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear
of God.
 
Nehemiah 5:16 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.
 
Nehemiah 5:17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and
fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from
among the heathen that are about us.
 
Nehemiah 5:18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one
ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and
once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this
required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was
heavy upon this people.
 
Nehemiah 5:19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all
that I have done for this people.
 
Nehemiah 6:1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah,
and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I
had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein;
(though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
 
Nehemiah 6:2 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.
 
Nehemiah 6:3 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?
 
Nehemiah 6:4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort;
and I answered them after the same manner.
 
Nehemiah 6:5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like
manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
 
Nehemiah 6:6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the
heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to
rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest
be their king, according to these words.
 
Nehemiah 6:7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of
thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now
shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come
now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
 
Nehemiah 6:8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such
things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine
own heart.
 
Nehemiah 6:9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands
shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now
therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
 
Nehemiah 6:10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the
son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he
said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the
temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will
come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
 
Nehemiah 6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who
is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save
his life? I will not go in.
 
Nehemiah 6:12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him;
but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and
Sanballat had hired him.
 
Nehemiah 6:13 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.
 
Nehemiah 6:14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat
according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah,
and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
 
Nehemiah 6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth
day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
 
Nehemiah 6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies
heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these
things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they
perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
 
Nehemiah 6:17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent
many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto
them.
 
Nehemiah 6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him,
because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and
his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of
Berechiah.
 
Nehemiah 6:19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and
uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in
fear.
 
Nehemiah 7:1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and
I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the
Levites were appointed,
 
Nehemiah 7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the
ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful
man, and feared God above many.
 
Nehemiah 7:3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of
Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand
by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every
one to be over against his house.
 
Nehemiah 7:4 Now the city was large and great: but the people
were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
 
Nehemiah 7:5 And my God put into mine heart to gather together
the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be
reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of
them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
 
Nehemiah 7:6 These are the children of the province, that went
up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away,
whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and
came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
 
Nehemiah 7:7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah,
Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai,
Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of
Israel was this;
 
Nehemiah 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred
seventy and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy
and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of
Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
 
Nehemiah 7:12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred
fifty and four.
 
Nehemiah 7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and
five.
 
Nehemiah 7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and
threescore.
 
Nehemiah 7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and
eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and
eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred
twenty and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore
and seven.
 
Nehemiah 7:19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore
and seven.
 
Nehemiah 7:20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
 
Nehemiah 7:21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and
eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and
eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and
four.
 
Nehemiah 7:24 The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
 
Nehemiah 7:25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.
 
Nehemiah 7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred
fourscore and eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:28 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:29 The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
seven hundred forty and three.
 
Nehemiah 7:30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and
one.
 
Nehemiah 7:31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and
two.
 
Nehemiah 7:32 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and
three.
 
Nehemiah 7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.
 
Nehemiah 7:35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
 
Nehemiah 7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and
five.
 
Nehemiah 7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven
hundred twenty and one.
 
Nehemiah 7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine
hundred and thirty.
 
Nehemiah 7:39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the
house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
 
Nehemiah 7:40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred
forty and seven.
 
Nehemiah 7:42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
 
Nehemiah 7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel,
and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
 
Nehemiah 7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred
forty and eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub,
the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty
and eight.
 
Nehemiah 7:46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children
of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
 
Nehemiah 7:47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the
children of Padon,
 
Nehemiah 7:48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba,
the children of Shalmai,
 
Nehemiah 7:49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel,
the children of Gahar,
 
Nehemiah 7:50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin,
the children of Nekoda,
 
Nehemiah 7:51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the
children of Phaseah,
 
Nehemiah 7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim,
the children of Nephishesim,
 
Nehemiah 7:53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha,
the children of Harhur,
 
Nehemiah 7:54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida,
the children of Harsha,
 
Nehemiah 7:55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera,
the children of Tamah,
 
Nehemiah 7:56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
 
Nehemiah 7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children
of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
 
Nehemiah 7:58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon,
the children of Giddel,
 
Nehemiah 7:59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of
Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of
Amon.
 
Nehemiah 7:60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's
servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:61 And these were they which went up also from
Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could
not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were
of Israel.
 
Nehemiah 7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah,
the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
 
Nehemiah 7:63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the
children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the
daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called
after their name.
 
Nehemiah 7:64 These sought their register among those that were
reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they,
as polluted, put from the priesthood.
 
Nehemiah 7:65 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they
should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a
priest with Urim and Thummim.
 
Nehemiah 7:66 The whole congregation together was forty and two
thousand three hundred and threescore,
 
Nehemiah 7:67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants,
of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven:
and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing
women.
 
Nehemiah 7:68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their
mules, two hundred forty and five:
 
Nehemiah 7:69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six
thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
 
Nehemiah 7:70 And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto
the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of
gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
 
Nehemiah 7:71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the
treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two
thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
 
Nehemiah 7:72 And that which the rest of the people gave was
twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver,
and threescore and seven priests' garments.
 
Nehemiah 7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters,
and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and
all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month
came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
 
Nehemiah 8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as
one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they
spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses,
which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
 
Nehemiah 8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the
congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
 
Nehemiah 8:3 And he read therein before the street that was
before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the
men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears
of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
 
Nehemiah 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood,
which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and
Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and
Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and
Meshullam.
 
Nehemiah 8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the
people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it,
all the people stood up:
 
Nehemiah 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all
the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and
they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces
to the ground.
 
Nehemiah 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin,
Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand
the law: and the people stood in their place.
 
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the
reading.
 
Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the
priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said
unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God;
mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the
words of the law.
 
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat,
and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing
is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye
sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
 
Nehemiah 8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying,
Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
 
Nehemiah 8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to
drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because
they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
 
Nehemiah 8:13 And on the second day were gathered together the
chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the
Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of
the law.
 
Nehemiah 8:14 And they found written in the law which the LORD
had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell
in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
 
Nehemiah 8:15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all
their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount,
and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches,
and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths,
as it is written.
 
Nehemiah 8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and
made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and
in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in
the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of
Ephraim.
 
Nehemiah 8:17 And all the congregation of them that were come
again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths:
for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not
the children of Israel done so. And there was very great
gladness.
 
Nehemiah 8:18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last
day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the
feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly,
according unto the manner.
 
Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the
children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with
sackclothes, and earth upon them.
 
Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from
all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the
iniquities of their fathers.
 
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the
book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day;
and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD
their God.
 
Nehemiah 9:4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites,
Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and
Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
 
Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani,
Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said,
Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and
blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing
and praise.
 
Nehemiah 9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made
heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth,
and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is
therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven
worshippeth thee.
 
Nehemiah 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram,
and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest
him the name of Abraham;
 
Nehemiah 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and
madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites,
the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed,
and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
 
Nehemiah 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in
Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
 
Nehemiah 9:10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and
on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou
knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get
thee a name, as it is this day.
 
Nehemiah 9:11 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.
 
Nehemiah 9:12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy
pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light
in the way wherein they should go.
 
Nehemiah 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and
spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments,
and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
 
Nehemiah 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and
commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of
Moses thy servant:
 
Nehemiah 9:15 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.
 
Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and
hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
 
Nehemiah 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy
wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and
in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their
bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest
them not.
 
Nehemiah 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and
said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had
wrought great provocations;
 
Nehemiah 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them
not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from
them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire
by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
 
Nehemiah 9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct
them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest
them water for their thirst.
 
Nehemiah 9:21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the
wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not
old, and their feet swelled not.
 
Nehemiah 9:22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations,
and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of
Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og
king of Bashan.
 
Nehemiah 9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the
stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning
which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go
in to possess it.
 
Nehemiah 9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land,
and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings,
and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they
would.
 
Nehemiah 9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and
possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and
oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and
were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy
great goodness.
 
Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled
against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy
prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and
they wrought great provocations.
 
Nehemiah 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of
their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble,
when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and
according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who
saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
 
Nehemiah 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again
before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land 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;
 
Nehemiah 9:29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest
bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and
hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy
judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and
withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not
hear.
 
Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and
testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would
they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of
the people of the lands.
 
Nehemiah 9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou
didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a
gracious and merciful God.
 
Nehemiah 9:32 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.
 
Nehemiah 9:33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon
us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
 
Nehemiah 9:34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests,
nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy
commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify
against them.
 
Nehemiah 9:35 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.
 
Nehemiah 9:36 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:
 
Nehemiah 9:37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom
thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have
dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure,
and we are in great distress.
 
Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant,
and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto
it.
 
Nehemiah 10:1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the
Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
 
Nehemiah 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
 
Nehemiah 10:3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,
 
Nehemiah 10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
 
Nehemiah 10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
 
Nehemiah 10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
 
Nehemiah 10:7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
 
Nehemiah 10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the
priests.
 
Nehemiah 10:9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah,
Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
 
Nehemiah 10:10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita,
Pelaiah, Hanan,
 
Nehemiah 10:11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
 
Nehemiah 10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
 
Nehemiah 10:13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
 
Nehemiah 10:14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab,
Elam, Zatthu, Bani,
 
Nehemiah 10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
 
Nehemiah 10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
 
Nehemiah 10:17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
 
Nehemiah 10:18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
 
Nehemiah 10:19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
 
Nehemiah 10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
 
Nehemiah 10:21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
 
Nehemiah 10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
 
Nehemiah 10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
 
Nehemiah 10:24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
 
Nehemiah 10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
 
Nehemiah 10:26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
 
Nehemiah 10:27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
 
Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the
Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they
that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto
the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters,
every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
 
Nehemiah 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and
entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law,
which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and
do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments
and his statutes;
 
Nehemiah 10:30 And that we would not give our daughters unto
the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:
 
Nehemiah 10:31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any
victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of
them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave
the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
 
Nehemiah 10:32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge
ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service
of the house of our God;
 
Nehemiah 10:33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat
offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths,
of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things,
and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and
for all the work of the house of our God.
 
Nehemiah 10:34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the
Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into
the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times
appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our
God, as it is written in the law:
 
Nehemiah 10:35 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:
 
Nehemiah 10:36 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:
 
Nehemiah 10:37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our
dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees,
of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the
house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites,
that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of
our tillage.
 
Nehemiah 10:38 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.
 
Nehemiah 10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of
Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and
the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the
sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and
the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
 
Nehemiah 11:1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem:
the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to
dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in
other cities.
 
Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men, that
willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.
 
Nehemiah 11:3 Now these are the chief of the province that
dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in
his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and
the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's
servants.
 
Nehemiah 11:4 And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of
Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah;
Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of
Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the
children of Perez;
 
Nehemiah 11:5 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of
Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of
Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
 
Nehemiah 11:6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem
were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
 
Nehemiah 11:7 And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son
of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of
Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of
Jesaiah.
 
Nehemiah 11:8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty
and eight.
 
Nehemiah 11:9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer:
and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.
 
Nehemiah 11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib,
Jachin.
 
Nehemiah 11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of
Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of
Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
 
Nehemiah 11:12 And their brethren that did the work of the
house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of
Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of
Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah.
 
Nehemiah 11:13 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,
 
Nehemiah 11:14 And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an
hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son
of one of the great men.
 
Nehemiah 11:15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub,
the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
 
Nehemiah 11:16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the
Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house
of God.
 
Nehemiah 11:17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the
thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his
brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son
of Jeduthun.
 
Nehemiah 11:18 All the Levites in the holy city were two
hundred fourscore and four.
 
Nehemiah 11:19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their
brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
 
Nehemiah 11:20 And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and
the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his
inheritance.
 
Nehemiah 11:21 But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and
Gispa were over the Nethinims.
 
Nehemiah 11:22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem
was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of
Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers
were over the business of the house of God.
 
Nehemiah 11:23 For it was the king's commandment concerning
them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for
every day.
 
Nehemiah 11:24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the
children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all
matters concerning the people.
 
Nehemiah 11:25 And for the villages, with their fields, some of
the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages
thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at
Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,
 
Nehemiah 11:26 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at
Bethphelet,
 
Nehemiah 11:27 And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the
villages thereof,
 
Nehemiah 11:28 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the
villages thereof,
 
Nehemiah 11:29 And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
 
Nehemiah 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at
Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages
thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
 
Nehemiah 11:31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at
Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
 
Nehemiah 11:32 And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
 
Nehemiah 11:33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
 
Nehemiah 11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
 
Nehemiah 11:35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
 
Nehemiah 11:36 And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and
in Benjamin.
 
Nehemiah 12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that
went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua:
Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
 
Nehemiah 12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
 
Nehemiah 12:3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
 
Nehemiah 12:4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
 
Nehemiah 12:5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
 
Nehemiah 12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
 
Nehemiah 12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the
chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
 
Nehemiah 12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving,
he and his brethren.
 
Nehemiah 12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were
over against them in the watches.
 
Nehemiah 12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat
Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
 
Nehemiah 12:11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat
Jaddua.
 
Nehemiah 12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the
chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
 
Nehemiah 12:13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
 
Nehemiah 12:14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
 
Nehemiah 12:15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
 
Nehemiah 12:16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
 
Nehemiah 12:17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah,
Piltai:
 
Nehemiah 12:18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
 
Nehemiah 12:19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
 
Nehemiah 12:20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
 
Nehemiah 12:21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
 
Nehemiah 12:22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and
Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the
priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
 
Nehemiah 12:23 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah,
Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren
over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the
commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
 
Nehemiah 12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam,
Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of
the gates.
 
Nehemiah 12:26 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:27 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves
together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem,
and from the villages of Netophathi;
 
Nehemiah 12:29 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified
themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
 
Nehemiah 12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the
wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks,
whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung
gate:
 
Nehemiah 12:32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the
princes of Judah,
 
Nehemiah 12:33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
 
Nehemiah 12:34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
 
Nehemiah 12:35 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:
 
Nehemiah 12:36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael,
Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the
musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe
before them.
 
Nehemiah 12:37 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:38 And the other company of them that gave thanks
went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the
people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even
unto the broad wall;
 
Nehemiah 12:39 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:40 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:
 
Nehemiah 12:41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin,
Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
 
Nehemiah 12:42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and
Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the
singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
 
Nehemiah 12:43 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:44 And at that time were some appointed over the
chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the
firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the
fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and
Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites
that waited.
 
Nehemiah 12:45 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.
 
Nehemiah 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there
were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving
unto God.
 
Nehemiah 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in
the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the
porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things
unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the
children of Aaron.
 
Nehemiah 13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the
audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the
Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of
God for ever;
 
Nehemiah 13:2 Because they met not the children of Israel with
bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he
should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a
blessing.
 
Nehemiah 13:3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law,
that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
 
Nehemiah 13:4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the
oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto
Tobiah:
 
Nehemiah 13:5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber,
where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense,
and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and
the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the
singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
 
Nehemiah 13:6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for
in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came
I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the
king:
 
Nehemiah 13:7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the
evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in
the courts of the house of God.
 
Nehemiah 13:8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth
all the household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.
 
Nehemiah 13:9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers:
and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with
the meat offering and the frankincense.
 
Nehemiah 13:10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites
had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that
did the work, were fled every one to his field.
 
Nehemiah 13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why
is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and
set them in their place.
 
Nehemiah 13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and
the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
 
Nehemiah 13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries,
Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites,
Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of
Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was
to distribute unto their brethren.
 
Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe
not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God,
and for the offices thereof.
 
Nehemiah 13:15 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.
 
Nehemiah 13:16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which
brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath
unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
 
Nehemiah 13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and
said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane
the sabbath day?
 
Nehemiah 13:18 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.
 
Nehemiah 13:19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of
Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that
the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be
opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at
the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the
sabbath day.
 
Nehemiah 13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware
lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
 
Nehemiah 13:21 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.
 
Nehemiah 13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should
cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates,
to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning
this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
 
Nehemiah 13:23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married
wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
 
Nehemiah 13:24 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.
 
Nehemiah 13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and
smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them
swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their
sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
 
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these
things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who
was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel:
nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
 
Nehemiah 13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this
great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange
wives?
 
Nehemiah 13:28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of
Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the
Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
 
Nehemiah 13:29 Remember them, O my God, because they have
defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and
of the Levites.
 
Nehemiah 13:30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and
appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in
his business;
 
Nehemiah 13:31 And for the wood offering, at times appointed,
and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
 
Esther 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this
is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over
an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
 
Esther 1:2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on
the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
 
Esther 1:3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto
all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media,
the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
 
Esther 1:4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom
and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an
hundred and fourscore days.
 
Esther 1:5 And when these days were expired, the king made a
feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the
palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of
the garden of the king's palace;
 
Esther 1:6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings,
fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and
pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a
pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
 
Esther 1:7 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.
 
Esther 1:8 And the drinking was according to the law; none did
compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his
house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
 
Esther 1:9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in
the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
 
Esther 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was
merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha,
and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that
served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
 
Esther 1:11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the
crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for
she was fair to look on.
 
Esther 1:12 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.
 
Esther 1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the
times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and
judgment:
 
Esther 1:14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar,
Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes
of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the
first in the kingdom;)
 
Esther 1:15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to
law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king
Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
 
Esther 1:16 And Memucan answered before the king and the
princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only,
but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in
all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
 
Esther 1:17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto
all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their
eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded
Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
 
Esther 1:18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say
this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the
deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and
wrath.
 
Esther 1:19 If it please the king, let there go a royal
commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the
Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come
no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal
estate unto another that is better than she.
 
Esther 1:20 And when the king's decree which he shall make
shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,)
all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great
and small.
 
Esther 1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes;
and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
 
Esther 1:22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces,
into every province according to the writing thereof, and to
every people after their language, that every man should bear
rule in his own house, and that it should be published according
to the language of every people.
 
Esther 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus
was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and
what was decreed against her.
 
Esther 2:2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto
him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
 
Esther 2:3 And let the king appoint officers in all the
provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the
fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the
women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of
the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
 
Esther 2:4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen
instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
 
Esther 2:5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew,
whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the
son of Kish, a Benjamite;
 
Esther 2:6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the
captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of
Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
 
Esther 2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his
uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the
maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and
mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
 
Esther 2:8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and
his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered
together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that
Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of
Hegai, keeper of the women.
 
Esther 2:9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained
kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for
purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven
maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's
house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of
the house of the women.
 
Esther 2:10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred:
for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
 
Esther 2:11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of
the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become
of her.
 
Esther 2:12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to
king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according
to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their
purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh,
and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the
purifying of the women;)
 
Esther 2:13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king;
whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the
house of the women unto the king's house.
 
Esther 2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she
returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of
Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she
came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her,
and that she were called by name.
 
Esther 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of
Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his
daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing
but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women,
appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them
that looked upon her.
 
Esther 2:16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his
house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the
seventh year of his reign.
 
Esther 2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and
she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the
virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made
her queen instead of Vashti.
 
Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his
princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a
release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state
of the king.
 
Esther 2:19 And when the virgins were gathered together the
second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
 
Esther 2:20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her
people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the
commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with
him.
 
Esther 2:21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's
gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of
those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on
the king Ahasuerus.
 
Esther 2:22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it
unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in
Mordecai's name.
 
Esther 2:23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was
found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was
written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
 
Esther 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman
the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his
seat above all the princes that were with him.
 
Esther 3:2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's
gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded
concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
 
Esther 3:3 Then the king's servants, which were in the king's
gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's
commandment?
 
Esther 3:4 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him,
and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see
whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that
he was a Jew.
 
Esther 3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did
him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
 
Esther 3:6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone;
for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman
sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole
kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
 
Esther 3:7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the
twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot,
before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the
twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
 
Esther 3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a
certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in
all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from
all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is
not for the king's profit to suffer them.
 
Esther 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they
may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver
to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to
bring it into the king's treasuries.
 
Esther 3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave
it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
 
Esther 3:11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given
to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to
thee.
 
Esther 3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the
thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written
according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's
lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province,
and to the rulers of every people of every province according to
the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in
the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the
king's ring.
 
Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the
king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish,
all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one
day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is
the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
 
Esther 3:14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be
given in every province was published unto all people, that they
should be ready against that day.
 
Esther 3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's
commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And
the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was
perplexed.
 
Esther 4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai
rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out
into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter
cry;
 
Esther 4:2 And came even before the king's gate: for none might
enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
 
Esther 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's
commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among
the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in
sackcloth and ashes.
 
Esther 4:4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told
it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent
raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from
him: but he received it not.
 
Esther 4:5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's
chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave
him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it
was.
 
Esther 4:6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of
the city, which was before the king's gate.
 
Esther 4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto
him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay
to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
 
Esther 4:8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the
decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto
Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she
should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to
make request before him for her people.
 
Esther 4:9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of
Mordecai.
 
Esther 4:10 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him
commandment unto Mordecai;
 
Esther 4:11 All the king's servants, and the people of the
king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women,
shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called,
there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom
the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but
I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty
days.
 
Esther 4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
 
Esther 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not
with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more
than all the Jews.
 
Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this
time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the
Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be
destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom
for such a time as this?
 
Esther 4:15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
 
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present
in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three
days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and
so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law:
and if I perish, I perish.
 
Esther 4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all
that Esther had commanded him.
 
Esther 5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther
put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the
king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat
upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate
of the house.
 
Esther 5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen
standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and
the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his
hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
 
Esther 5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen
Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to
the half of the kingdom.
 
Esther 5:4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king,
let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have
prepared for him.
 
Esther 5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that
he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the
banquet that Esther had prepared.
 
Esther 5:6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of
wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and
what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be
performed.
 
Esther 5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my
request is;
 
Esther 5:8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and
if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my
request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall
prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
 
Esther 5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a
glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that
he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation
against Mordecai.
 
Esther 5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he
came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his
wife.
 
Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and
the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the
king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the
princes and servants of the king.
 
Esther 5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let
no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had
prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also
with the king.
 
Esther 5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see
Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
 
Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto
him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow
speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon:
then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the
thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
 
Esther 6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he
commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and
they were read before the king.
 
Esther 6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of
Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers
of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
 
Esther 6:3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been
done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that
ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
 
Esther 6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman
was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak
unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had
prepared for him.
 
Esther 6:5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman
standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
 
Esther 6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What
shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?
Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to
do honour more than to myself?
 
Esther 6:7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the
king delighteth to honour,
 
Esther 6:8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king
useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the
crown royal which is set upon his head:
 
Esther 6:9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the
hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array
the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him
on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before
him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to
honour.
 
Esther 6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take
the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to
Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing
fail of all that thou hast spoken.
 
Esther 6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and
arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street
of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done
unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
 
Esther 6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But
Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
 
Esther 6:13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends
every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and
Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews,
before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail
against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
 
Esther 6:14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the
king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet
that Esther had prepared.
 
Esther 7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther
the queen.
 
Esther 7:2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second
day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther?
and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it
shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
 
Esther 7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have
found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let
my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
 
Esther 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed,
to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen
and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not
countervail the king's damage.
 
Esther 7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto
Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume
in his heart to do so?
 
Esther 7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this
wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the
queen.
 
Esther 7:7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his
wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make
request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there
was evil determined against him by the king.
 
Esther 7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into
the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the
bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the
queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king's
mouth, they covered Haman's face.
 
Esther 7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before
the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman
had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in
the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
 
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had
prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
 
Esther 8:1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of
Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came
before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
 
Esther 8:2 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.
 
Esther 8:3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell
down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the
mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised
against the Jews.
 
Esther 8:4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward
Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
 
Esther 8:5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have
favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king,
and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the
letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which
he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's
provinces:
 
Esther 8:6 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?
 
Esther 8:7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen
and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of
Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid
his hand upon the Jews.
 
Esther 8:8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the
king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing
which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's
ring, may no man reverse.
 
Esther 8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in
the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and
twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that
Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the
deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto
Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every
province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people
after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing,
and according to their language.
 
Esther 8:10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and
sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on
horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
 
Esther 8:11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in
every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their
life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power
of the people and province that would assault them, both little
ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
 
Esther 8:12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king
Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,
which is the month Adar.
 
Esther 8:13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be
given in every province was published unto all people, and that
the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on
their enemies.
 
Esther 8:14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went
out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And
the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
 
Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king
in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of
gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city
of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
 
Esther 8:16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and
honour.
 
Esther 8:17 And in every province, and in every city,
whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the
Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of
the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell
upon them.
 
Esther 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar,
on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment
and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that
the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it
was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that
hated them;)
 
Esther 9:2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their
cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay
hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand
them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
 
Esther 9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the
lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped
the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
 
Esther 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his
fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai
waxed greater and greater.
 
Esther 9:5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the
stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what
they would unto those that hated them.
 
Esther 9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and
destroyed five hundred men.
 
Esther 9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
 
Esther 9:8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
 
Esther 9:9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and
Vajezatha,
 
Esther 9:10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the
enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not
their hand.
 
Esther 9:11 On that day the number of those that were slain in
Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
 
Esther 9:12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews
have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace,
and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the
king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be
granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be
done.
 
Esther 9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be
granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also
according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be
hanged upon the gallows.
 
Esther 9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the
decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
 
Esther 9:15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered
themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar,
and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid
not their hand.
 
Esther 9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king's
provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their
lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes
seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the
prey,
 
Esther 9:17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the
fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of
feasting and gladness.
 
Esther 9:18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled
together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth
thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and
made it a day of feasting and gladness.
 
Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in
the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a
day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending
portions one to another.
 
Esther 9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters
unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king
Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
 
Esther 9:21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep
the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of
the same, yearly,
 
Esther 9:22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their
enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to
joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make
them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to
another, and gifts to the poor.
 
Esther 9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and
as Mordecai had written unto them;
 
Esther 9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,
the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to
destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume
them, and to destroy them;
 
Esther 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded
by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the
Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons
should be hanged on the gallows.
 
Esther 9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the
name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of
that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had
come unto them,
 
Esther 9:27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon
their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so
as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days
according to their writing, and according to their appointed time
every year;
 
Esther 9:28 And that these days should be remembered and kept
throughout every generation, every family, every province, and
every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from
among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
 
Esther 9:29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and
Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this
second letter of Purim.
 
Esther 9:30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the
hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
with words of peace and truth,
 
Esther 9:31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times
appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had
enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for
their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
 
Esther 9:32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of
Purim; and it was written in the book.
 
Esther 10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the
land, and upon the isles of the sea.
 
Esther 10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and
the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king
advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Media and Persia?
 
Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus,
and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his
brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to
all his seed.
 
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job;
and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God,
and eschewed evil.
 
Job 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three
daughters.
 
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three
thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred
she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the
greatest of all the men of the east.
 
Job 1:4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every
one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat
and to drink with them.
 
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were
gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early
in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have
sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
 
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to
present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among
them.
 
Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then
Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and down in it.
 
Job 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect
and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
 
Job 1:9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear
God for nought?
 
Job 1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his
house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast
blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in
the land.
 
Job 1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he
hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
 
Job 1:12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath
is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So
Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
 
Job 1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
 
Job 1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The
oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
 
Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away;
yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and
I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
 
Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another,
and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned
up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee.
 
Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another,
and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the
camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants
with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell
thee.
 
Job 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another,
and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking
wine in their eldest brother's house:
 
Job 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the
wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell
upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped
alone to tell thee.
 
Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his
head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
 
Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and
naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath
taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
 
Job 1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
 
Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to
present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among
them to present himself before the LORD.
 
Job 2:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in
the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
 
Job 2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect
and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and
still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without cause.
 
Job 2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin,
yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
 
Job 2:5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and
his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
 
Job 2:6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine
hand; but save his life.
 
Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and
smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown.
 
Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal;
and he sat down among the ashes.
 
Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain
thine integrity? curse God, and die.
 
Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the
foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand
of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job
sin with his lips.
 
Job 2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil
that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place;
Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to
mourn with him and to comfort him.
 
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew
him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent
every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward
heaven.
 
Job 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days
and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw
that his grief was very great.
 
Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
 
Job 3:2 And Job spake, and said,
 
Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in
which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
 
Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from
above, neither let the light shine upon it.
 
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a
cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
 
Job 3:6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it
not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the
number of the months.
 
Job 3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice
come therein.
 
Job 3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to
raise up their mourning.
 
Job 3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it
look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of
the day:
 
Job 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
 
Job 3:11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up
the ghost when I came out of the belly?
 
Job 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that
I should suck?
 
Job 3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I
should have slept: then had I been at rest,
 
Job 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build
desolate places for themselves;
 
Job 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses
with silver:
 
Job 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as
infants which never saw light.
 
Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the
weary be at rest.
 
Job 3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the
voice of the oppressor.
 
Job 3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free
from his master.
 
Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and
life unto the bitter in soul;
 
Job 3:21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for
it more than for hid treasures;
 
Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can
find the grave?
 
Job 3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom
God hath hedged in?
 
Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings
are poured out like the waters.
 
Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
 
Job 3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I
quiet; yet trouble came.
 
Job 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
 
Job 4:2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
but who can withhold himself from speaking?
 
Job 4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast
strengthened the weak hands.
 
Job 4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou
hast strengthened the feeble knees.
 
Job 4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it
toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
 
Job 4:6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the
uprightness of thy ways?
 
Job 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being
innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
 
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
wickedness, reap the same.
 
Job 4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of
his nostrils are they consumed.
 
Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce
lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
 
Job 4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout
lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
 
Job 4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear
received a little thereof.
 
Job 4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falleth on men,
 
Job 4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my
bones to shake.
 
Job 4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my
flesh stood up:
 
Job 4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form
thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I
heard a voice, saying,
 
Job 4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be
more pure than his maker?
 
Job 4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his
angels he charged with folly:
 
Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the
moth?
 
Job 4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they
perish for ever without any regarding it.
 
Job 4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?
they die, even without wisdom.
 
Job 5:1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to
which of the saints wilt thou turn?
 
Job 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the
silly one.
 
Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I
cursed his habitation.
 
Job 5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed
in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
 
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even
out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
 
Job 5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,
neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
 
Job 5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
 
Job 5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my
cause:
 
Job 5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous
things without number:
 
Job 5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters
upon the fields:
 
Job 5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which
mourn may be exalted to safety.
 
Job 5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that
their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
 
Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the
counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
 
Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in
the noonday as in the night.
 
Job 5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their
mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
 
Job 5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her
mouth.
 
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:
therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
 
Job 5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and
his hands make whole.
 
Job 5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven
there shall no evil touch thee.
 
Job 5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war
from the power of the sword.
 
Job 5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:
neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
 
Job 5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither
shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
 
Job 5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the
field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
 
Job 5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in
peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
 
Job 5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and
thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
 
Job 5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a
shock of corn cometh in in his season.
 
Job 5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and
know thou it for thy good.
 
Job 6:1 But Job answered and said,
 
Job 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my
calamity laid in the balances together!
 
Job 6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:
therefore my words are swallowed up.
 
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the
poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set
themselves in array against me.
 
Job 6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth
the ox over his fodder?
 
Job 6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or
is there any taste in the white of an egg?
 
Job 6:7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my
sorrowful meat.
 
Job 6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would
grant me the thing that I long for!
 
Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he
would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
 
Job 6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden
myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the
words of the Holy One.
 
Job 6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is
mine end, that I should prolong my life?
 
Job 6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh
of brass?
 
Job 6:13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from
me?
 
Job 6:14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from
his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
 
Job 6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as
the stream of brooks they pass away;
 
Job 6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein
the snow is hid:
 
Job 6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot,
they are consumed out of their place.
 
Job 6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to
nothing, and perish.
 
Job 6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba
waited for them.
 
Job 6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came
thither, and were ashamed.
 
Job 6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and
are afraid.
 
Job 6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of
your substance?
 
Job 6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me
from the hand of the mighty?
 
Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to
understand wherein I have erred.
 
Job 6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your
arguing reprove?
 
Job 6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of
one that is desperate, which are as wind?
 
Job 6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for
your friend.
 
Job 6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is
evident unto you if I lie.
 
Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea,
return again, my righteousness is in it.
 
Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste
discern perverse things?
 
Job 7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are
not his days also like the days of an hireling?
 
Job 7:2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an
hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
 
Job 7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome
nights are appointed to me.
 
Job 7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the
night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the
dawning of the day.
 
Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my
skin is broken, and become loathsome.
 
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are
spent without hope.
 
Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more
see good.
 
Job 7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more:
thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
 
Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that
goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
 
Job 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall
his place know him any more.
 
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in
the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my
soul.
 
Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over
me?
 
Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall
ease my complaints;
 
Job 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me
through visions:
 
Job 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather
than my life.
 
Job 7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for
my days are vanity.
 
Job 7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that
thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
 
Job 7:18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and
try him every moment?
 
Job 7:19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me
alone till I swallow down my spittle?
 
Job 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou
preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so
that I am a burden to myself?
 
Job 7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and
take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and
thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
 
Job 8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
 
Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long
shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
 
Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert
justice?
 
Job 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have
cast them away for their transgression;
 
Job 8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy
supplication to the Almighty;
 
Job 8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would
awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness
prosperous.
 
Job 8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end
should greatly increase.
 
Job 8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and
prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
 
Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because
our days upon earth are a shadow:)
 
Job 8:10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter
words out of their heart?
 
Job 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow
without water?
 
Job 8:12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down,
it withereth before any other herb.
 
Job 8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the
hypocrite's hope shall perish:
 
Job 8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be
a spider's web.
 
Job 8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:
he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
 
Job 8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth
forth in his garden.
 
Job 8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the
place of stones.
 
Job 8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny
him, saying, I have not seen thee.
 
Job 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the
earth shall others grow.
 
Job 8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither
will he help the evil doers:
 
Job 8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips
with rejoicing.
 
Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and
the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
 
Job 9:1 Then Job answered and said,
 
Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just
with God?
 
Job 9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one
of a thousand.
 
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath
hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
 
Job 9:5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which
overturneth them in his anger.
 
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the
pillars thereof tremble.
 
Job 9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and
sealeth up the stars.
 
Job 9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth
upon the waves of the sea.
 
Job 9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the
chambers of the south.
 
Job 9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and
wonders without number.
 
Job 9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on
also, but I perceive him not.
 
Job 9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will
say unto him, What doest thou?
 
Job 9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers
do stoop under him.
 
Job 9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my
words to reason with him?
 
Job 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer,
but I would make supplication to my judge.
 
Job 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I
not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
 
Job 9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my
wounds without cause.
 
Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth
me with bitterness.
 
Job 9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of
judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
 
Job 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:
if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
 
Job 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I
would despise my life.
 
Job 9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth
the perfect and the wicked.
 
Job 9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the
trial of the innocent.
 
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he
covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who
is he?
 
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away,
they see no good.
 
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle
that hasteth to the prey.
 
Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off
my heaviness, and comfort myself:
 
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt
not hold me innocent.
 
Job 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
 
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands
never so clean;
 
Job 9:31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own
clothes shall abhor me.
 
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer
him, and we should come together in judgment.
 
Job 9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might
lay his hand upon us both.
 
Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his
fear terrify me:
 
Job 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so
with me.
 
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint
upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
 
Job 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me
wherefore thou contendest with me.
 
Job 10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that
thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon
the counsel of the wicked?
 
Job 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
 
Job 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as
man's days,
 
Job 10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest
after my sin?
 
Job 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none
that can deliver out of thine hand.
 
Job 10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together
round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
 
Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as
the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
 
Job 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me
like cheese?
 
Job 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast
fenced me with bones and sinews.
 
Job 10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy
visitation hath preserved my spirit.
 
Job 10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know
that this is with thee.
 
Job 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not
acquit me from mine iniquity.
 
Job 10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous,
yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore
see thou mine affliction;
 
Job 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:
and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
 
Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and
increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against
me.
 
Job 10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the
womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
 
Job 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should
have been carried from the womb to the grave.
 
Job 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone,
that I may take comfort a little,
 
Job 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the
land of darkness and the shadow of death;
 
Job 10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the
shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as
darkness.
 
Job 11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
 
Job 11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and
should a man full of talk be justified?
 
Job 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when
thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
 
Job 11:4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am
clean in thine eyes.
 
Job 11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against
thee;
 
Job 11:6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom,
that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God
exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
 
Job 11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find
out the Almighty unto perfection?
 
Job 11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper
than hell; what canst thou know?
 
Job 11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and
broader than the sea.
 
Job 11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then
who can hinder him?
 
Job 11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also;
will he not then consider it?
 
Job 11:12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a
wild ass's colt.
 
Job 11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine
hands toward him;
 
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and
let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
 
Job 11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot;
yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
 
Job 11:16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it
as waters that pass away:
 
Job 11:17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou
shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
 
Job 11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,
thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in
safety.
 
Job 11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee
afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
 
Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall
not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the
ghost.
 
Job 12:1 And Job answered and said,
 
Job 12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die
with you.
 
Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not
inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
 
Job 12:4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon
God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to
scorn.
 
Job 12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp
despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
 
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that
provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
 
Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and
the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
 
Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and
the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
 
Job 12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD
hath wrought this?
 
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and
the breath of all mankind.
 
Job 12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his
meat?
 
Job 12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days
understanding.
 
Job 12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
understanding.
 
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built
again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
 
Job 12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:
also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
 
Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the
deceiver are his.
 
Job 12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the
judges fools.
 
Job 12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins
with a girdle.
 
Job 12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the
mighty.
 
Job 12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh
away the understanding of the aged.
 
Job 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the
strength of the mighty.
 
Job 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and
bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
 
Job 12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he
enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
 
Job 12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people
of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where
there is no way.
 
Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh
them to stagger like a drunken man.
 
Job 13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard
and understood it.
 
Job 13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not
inferior unto you.
 
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to
reason with God.
 
Job 13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of
no value.
 
Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it
should be your wisdom.
 
Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of
my lips.
 
Job 13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully
for him?
 
Job 13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
 
Job 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one
man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
 
Job 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept
persons.
 
Job 13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his
dread fall upon you?
 
Job 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to
bodies of clay.
 
Job 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and
let come on me what will.
 
Job 13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my
life in mine hand?
 
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I
will maintain mine own ways before him.
 
Job 13:16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall
not come before him.
 
Job 13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with
your ears.
 
Job 13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I
shall be justified.
 
Job 13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold
my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
 
Job 13:20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide
myself from thee.
 
Job 13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy
dread make me afraid.
 
Job 13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak,
and answer thou me.
 
Job 13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to
know my transgression and my sin.
 
Job 13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for
thine enemy?
 
Job 13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt
thou pursue the dry stubble?
 
Job 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest
me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
 
Job 13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest
narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels
of my feet.
 
Job 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment
that is moth eaten.
 
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of
trouble.
 
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he
fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
 
Job 14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and
bringest me into judgment with thee?
 
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not
one.
 
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his
months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass;
 
Job 14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall
accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
 
Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that
it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not
cease.
 
Job 14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the
stock thereof die in the ground;
 
Job 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring
forth boughs like a plant.
 
Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up
the ghost, and where is he?
 
Job 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood
decayeth and drieth up:
 
Job 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens
be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their
sleep.
 
Job 14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou
wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou
wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
 
Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my
appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
 
Job 14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt
have a desire to the work of thine hands.
 
Job 14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch
over my sin?
 
Job 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou
sewest up mine iniquity.
 
Job 14:18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought,
and the rock is removed out of his place.
 
Job 14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the
things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou
destroyest the hope of man.
 
Job 14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:
thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
 
Job 14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and
they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
 
Job 14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul
within him shall mourn.
 
Job 15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
 
Job 15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his
belly with the east wind?
 
Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with
speeches wherewith he can do no good?
 
Job 15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer
before God.
 
Job 15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou
choosest the tongue of the crafty.
 
Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine
own lips testify against thee.
 
Job 15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou
made before the hills?
 
Job 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou
restrain wisdom to thyself?
 
Job 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what
understandest thou, which is not in us?
 
Job 15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men,
much elder than thy father.
 
Job 15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there
any secret thing with thee?
 
Job 15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy
eyes wink at,
 
Job 15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest
such words go out of thy mouth?
 
Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
 
Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight.
 
Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which
drinketh iniquity like water?
 
Job 15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen
I will declare;
 
Job 15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have
not hid it:
 
Job 15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger
passed among them.
 
Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and
the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
 
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him.
 
Job 15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of
darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
 
Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 
Job 15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall
prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
 
Job 15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
 
Job 15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick
bosses of his bucklers:
 
Job 15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and
maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
 
Job 15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses
which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
 
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance
continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon
the earth.
 
Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall
dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go
away.
 
Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for
vanity shall be his recompence.
 
Job 15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his
branch shall not be green.
 
Job 15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and
shall cast off his flower as the olive.
 
Job 15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
 
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and
their belly prepareth deceit.
 
Job 16:1 Then Job answered and said,
 
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters
are ye all.
 
Job 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee
that thou answerest?
 
Job 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my
soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine
head at you.
 
Job 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the
moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
 
Job 16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I
forbear, what am I eased?
 
Job 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate
all my company.
 
Job 16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a
witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth
witness to my face.
 
Job 16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth
upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
 
Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have
smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered
themselves together against me.
 
Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me
over into the hands of the wicked.
 
Job 16:12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath
also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up
for his mark.
 
Job 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my
reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon
the ground.
 
Job 16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth
upon me like a giant.
 
Job 16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my
horn in the dust.
 
Job 16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is
the shadow of death;
 
Job 16:17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer
is pure.
 
Job 16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have
no place.
 
Job 16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my
record is on high.
 
Job 16:20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears
unto God.
 
Job 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man
pleadeth for his neighbour!
 
Job 16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
whence I shall not return.
 
Job 17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves
are ready for me.
 
Job 17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye
continue in their provocation?
 
Job 17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he
that will strike hands with me?
 
Job 17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
 
Job 17:5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the
eyes of his children shall fail.
 
Job 17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and
aforetime I was as a tabret.
 
Job 17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my
members are as a shadow.
 
Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the
innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
 
Job 17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that
hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
 
Job 17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I
cannot find one wise man among you.
 
Job 17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even
the thoughts of my heart.
 
Job 17:12 They change the night into day: the light is short
because of darkness.
 
Job 17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my
bed in the darkness.
 
Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the
worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
 
Job 17:15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall
see it?
 
Job 17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our
rest together is in the dust.
 
Job 18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
 
Job 18:2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark,
and afterwards we will speak.
 
Job 18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile
in your sight?
 
Job 18:4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be
forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
place?
 
Job 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the
spark of his fire shall not shine.
 
Job 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his
candle shall be put out with him.
 
Job 18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his
own counsel shall cast him down.
 
Job 18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he
walketh upon a snare.
 
Job 18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber
shall prevail against him.
 
Job 18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap
for him in the way.
 
Job 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and
shall drive him to his feet.
 
Job 18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction
shall be ready at his side.
 
Job 18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the
firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
 
Job 18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,
and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
 
Job 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none
of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
 
Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall
his branch be cut off.
 
Job 18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he
shall have no name in the street.
 
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and
chased out of the world.
 
Job 18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his
people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
 
Job 18:20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his
day, as they that went before were affrighted.
 
Job 18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this
is the place of him that knoweth not God.
 
Job 19:1 Then Job answered and said,
 
Job 19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces
with words?
 
Job 19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not
ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
 
Job 19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself.
 
Job 19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and
plead against me my reproach:
 
Job 19:6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath
compassed me with his net.
 
Job 19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry
aloud, but there is no judgment.
 
Job 19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he
hath set darkness in my paths.
 
Job 19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
from my head.
 
Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:
and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
 
Job 19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he
counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
 
Job 19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way
against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
 
Job 19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine
acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
 
Job 19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have
forgotten me.
 
Job 19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me
for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
 
Job 19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I
intreated him with my mouth.
 
Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated
for the children's sake of mine own body.
 
Job 19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they
spake against me.
 
Job 19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I
loved are turned against me.
 
Job 19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth.
 
Job 19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my
friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
 
Job 19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied
with my flesh?
 
Job 19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were
printed in a book!
 
Job 19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in
the rock for ever!
 
Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth:
 
Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet
in my flesh shall I see God:
 
Job 19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
 
Job 19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the
root of the matter is found in me?
 
Job 19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the
punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
 
Job 20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
 
Job 20:2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for
this I make haste.
 
Job 20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit
of my understanding causeth me to answer.
 
Job 20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed
upon earth,
 
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the
joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
 
Job 20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his
head reach unto the clouds;
 
Job 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they
which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
 
Job 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
 
Job 20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more;
neither shall his place any more behold him.
 
Job 20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his
hands shall restore their goods.
 
Job 20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which
shall lie down with him in the dust.
 
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he
hide it under his tongue;
 
Job 20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it
still within his mouth:
 
Job 20:14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall
of asps within him.
 
Job 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit
them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
 
Job 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue
shall slay him.
 
Job 20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks
of honey and butter.
 
Job 20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and
shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the
restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
 
Job 20:19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor;
because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded
not;
 
Job 20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he
shall not save of that which he desired.
 
Job 20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall
no man look for his goods.
 
Job 20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in
straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
 
Job 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast
the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while
he is eating.
 
Job 20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of
steel shall strike him through.
 
Job 20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the
glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
 
Job 20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a
fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that
is left in his tabernacle.
 
Job 20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth
shall rise up against him.
 
Job 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods
shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
 
Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the
heritage appointed unto him by God.
 
Job 21:1 But Job answered and said,
 
Job 21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your
consolations.
 
Job 21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have
spoken, mock on.
 
Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so,
why should not my spirit be troubled?
 
Job 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon
your mouth.
 
Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh
hold on my flesh.
 
Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are
mighty in power?
 
Job 21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them,
and their offspring before their eyes.
 
Job 21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of
God upon them.
 
Job 21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow
calveth, and casteth not her calf.
 
Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and
their children dance.
 
Job 21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the
sound of the organ.
 
Job 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go
down to the grave.
 
Job 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we
desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
 
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and
what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
 
Job 21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of
the wicked is far from me.
 
Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how
oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows
in his anger.
 
Job 21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff
that the storm carrieth away.
 
Job 21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he
rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
 
Job 21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall
drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
 
Job 21:21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,
when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
 
Job 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth
those that are high.
 
Job 21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease
and quiet.
 
Job 21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are
moistened with marrow.
 
Job 21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and
never eateth with pleasure.
 
Job 21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms
shall cover them.
 
Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which
ye wrongfully imagine against me.
 
Job 21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and
where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
 
Job 21:29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye
not know their tokens,
 
Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of
destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
 
Job 21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall
repay him what he hath done?
 
Job 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall
remain in the tomb.
 
Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and
every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before
him.
 
Job 21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your
answers there remaineth falsehood?
 
Job 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
 
Job 22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise
may be profitable unto himself?
 
Job 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art
righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways
perfect?
 
Job 22:4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter
with thee into judgment?
 
Job 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities
infinite?
 
Job 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for
nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
 
Job 22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and
thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
 
Job 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
honourable man dwelt in it.
 
Job 22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
fatherless have been broken.
 
Job 22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden
fear troubleth thee;
 
Job 22:11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance
of waters cover thee.
 
Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the
height of the stars, how high they are!
 
Job 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge
through the dark cloud?
 
Job 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth
not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
 
Job 22:15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have
trodden?
 
Job 22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was
overflown with a flood:
 
Job 22:17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the
Almighty do for them?
 
Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the
counsel of the wicked is far from me.
 
Job 22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent
laugh them to scorn.
 
Job 22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the
remnant of them the fire consumeth.
 
Job 22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:
thereby good shall come unto thee.
 
Job 22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay
up his words in thine heart.
 
Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built
up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
 
Job 22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of
Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
 
Job 22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou
shalt have plenty of silver.
 
Job 22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty,
and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
 
Job 22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall
hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
 
Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
 
Job 22:29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is
lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
 
Job 22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it
is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
 
Job 23:1 Then Job answered and said,
 
Job 23:2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is
heavier than my groaning.
 
Job 23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might
come even to his seat!
 
Job 23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth
with arguments.
 
Job 23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and
understand what he would say unto me.
 
Job 23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but
he would put strength in me.
 
Job 23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should
I be delivered for ever from my judge.
 
Job 23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and
backward, but I cannot perceive him:
 
Job 23:9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot
behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot
see him:
 
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath
tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
 
Job 23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and
not declined.
 
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his
lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my
necessary food.
 
Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what
his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
 
Job 23:14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me:
and many such things are with him.
 
Job 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I
consider, I am afraid of him.
 
Job 23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty
troubleth me:
 
Job 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
 
Job 24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do
they that know him not see his days?
 
Job 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away
flocks, and feed thereof.
 
Job 24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take
the widow's ox for a pledge.
 
Job 24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the
earth hide themselves together.
 
Job 24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to
their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth
food for them and for their children.
 
Job 24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they
gather the vintage of the wicked.
 
Job 24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have no covering in the cold.
 
Job 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and
embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
 
Job 24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a
pledge of the poor.
 
Job 24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they
take away the sheaf from the hungry;
 
Job 24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their
winepresses, and suffer thirst.
 
Job 24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the
wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
 
Job 24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they
know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
 
Job 24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor
and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
 
Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the
twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
 
Job 24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had
marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
 
Job 24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of
death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of
death.
 
Job 24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in
the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
 
Job 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the
grave those which have sinned.
 
Job 24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed
sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness
shall be broken as a tree.
 
Job 24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and
doeth not good to the widow.
 
Job 24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth
up, and no man is sure of life.
 
Job 24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he
resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
 
Job 24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and
brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut
off as the tops of the ears of corn.
 
Job 24:25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and
make my speech nothing worth?
 
Job 25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
 
Job 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his
high places.
 
Job 25:3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth
not his light arise?
 
Job 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he
be clean that is born of a woman?
 
Job 25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the
stars are not pure in his sight.
 
Job 25:6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man,
which is a worm?
 
Job 26:1 But Job answered and said,
 
Job 26:2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how
savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
 
Job 26:3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and
how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
 
Job 26:4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came
from thee?
 
Job 26:5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the
inhabitants thereof.
 
Job 26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no
covering.
 
Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and
hangeth the earth upon nothing.
 
Job 26:8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the
cloud is not rent under them.
 
Job 26:9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth
his cloud upon it.
 
Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the
day and night come to an end.
 
Job 26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at
his reproof.
 
Job 26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his
understanding he smiteth through the proud.
 
Job 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand
hath formed the crooked serpent.
 
Job 26:14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a
portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can
understand?
 
Job 27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
 
Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and
the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
 
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of
God is in my nostrils;
 
Job 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue
utter deceit.
 
Job 27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I
will not remove mine integrity from me.
 
Job 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go:
my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
 
Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up
against me as the unrighteous.
 
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath
gained, when God taketh away his soul?
 
Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
 
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he
always call upon God?
 
Job 27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is
with the Almighty will I not conceal.
 
Job 27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are
ye thus altogether vain?
 
Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the
heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
 
Job 27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword:
and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
 
Job 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death:
and his widows shall not weep.
 
Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare
raiment as the clay;
 
Job 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and
the innocent shall divide the silver.
 
Job 27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that
the keeper maketh.
 
Job 27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be
gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
 
Job 27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest
stealeth him away in the night.
 
Job 27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth:
and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
 
Job 27:22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would
fain flee out of his hand.
 
Job 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him
out of his place.
 
Job 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for
gold where they fine it.
 
Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten
out of the stone.
 
Job 28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all
perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
 
Job 28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the
waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone
away from men.
 
Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it
is turned up as it were fire.
 
Job 28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it
hath dust of gold.
 
Job 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the
vulture's eye hath not seen:
 
Job 28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce
lion passed by it.
 
Job 28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he
overturneth the mountains by the roots.
 
Job 28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye
seeth every precious thing.
 
Job 28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing
that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
 
Job 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the
place of understanding?
 
Job 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it
found in the land of the living.
 
Job 28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith,
It is not with me.
 
Job 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be
weighed for the price thereof.
 
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the
precious onyx, or the sapphire.
 
Job 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the
exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
 
Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for
the price of wisdom is above rubies.
 
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither
shall it be valued with pure gold.
 
Job 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
understanding?
 
Job 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and
kept close from the fowls of the air.
 
Job 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame
thereof with our ears.
 
Job 28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the
place thereof.
 
Job 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth
under the whole heaven;
 
Job 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the
waters by measure.
 
Job 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the
lightning of the thunder:
 
Job 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it,
yea, and searched it out.
 
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD,
that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
 
Job 29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
 
Job 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when
God preserved me;
 
Job 29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his
light I walked through darkness;
 
Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of
God was upon my tabernacle;
 
Job 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children
were about me;
 
Job 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock
poured me out rivers of oil;
 
Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I
prepared my seat in the street!
 
Job 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged
arose, and stood up.
 
Job 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on
their mouth.
 
Job 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved
to the roof of their mouth.
 
Job 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when
the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
 
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the
fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
 
Job 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came
upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 
Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my
judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
 
Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
 
Job 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I
knew not I searched out.
 
Job 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the
spoil out of his teeth.
 
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall
multiply my days as the sand.
 
Job 29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay
all night upon my branch.
 
Job 29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in
my hand.
 
Job 29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at
my counsel.
 
Job 29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech
dropped upon them.
 
Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they
opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
 
Job 29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the
light of my countenance they cast not down.
 
Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a
king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
 
Job 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in
derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with
the dogs of my flock.
 
Job 30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit
me, in whom old age was perished?
 
Job 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into
the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
 
Job 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots
for their meat.
 
Job 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried
after them as after a thief;)
 
Job 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the
earth, and in the rocks.
 
Job 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they
were gathered together.
 
Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base
men: they were viler than the earth.
 
Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
 
Job 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not
to spit in my face.
 
Job 30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me,
they have also let loose the bridle before me.
 
Job 30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my
feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
 
Job 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they
have no helper.
 
Job 30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in
the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
 
Job 30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as
the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
 
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of
affliction have taken hold upon me.
 
Job 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and
my sinews take no rest.
 
Job 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment
changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
 
Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like
dust and ashes.
 
Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand
up, and thou regardest me not.
 
Job 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand
thou opposest thyself against me.
 
Job 30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to
ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
 
Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to
the house appointed for all living.
 
Job 30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the
grave, though they cry in his destruction.
 
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not
my soul grieved for the poor?
 
Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and
when I waited for light, there came darkness.
 
Job 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of
affliction prevented me.
 
Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I
cried in the congregation.
 
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
 
Job 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned
with heat.
 
Job 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into
the voice of them that weep.
 
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I
think upon a maid?
 
Job 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
 
Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange
punishment to the workers of iniquity?
 
Job 31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
 
Job 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath
hasted to deceit;
 
Job 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know
mine integrity.
 
Job 31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart
walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine
hands;
 
Job 31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my
offspring be rooted out.
 
Job 31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I
have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
 
Job 31:10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others
bow down upon her.
 
Job 31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity
to be punished by the judges.
 
Job 31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and
would root out all mine increase.
 
Job 31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
maidservant, when they contended with me;
 
Job 31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he
visiteth, what shall I answer him?
 
Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did
not one fashion us in the womb?
 
Job 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or
have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
 
Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the
fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
 
Job 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with
a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
 
Job 31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or
any poor without covering;
 
Job 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not
warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
 
Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
when I saw my help in the gate:
 
Job 31:22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and
mine arm be broken from the bone.
 
Job 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by
reason of his highness I could not endure.
 
Job 31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine
gold, Thou art my confidence;
 
Job 31:25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because
mine hand had gotten much;
 
Job 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon
walking in brightness;
 
Job 31:27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth
hath kissed my hand:
 
Job 31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the
judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
 
Job 31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me,
or lifted up myself when evil found him:
 
Job 31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a
curse to his soul.
 
Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had
of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
 
Job 31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I
opened my doors to the traveller.
 
Job 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding
mine iniquity in my bosom:
 
Job 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of
families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the
door?
 
Job 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that
the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written
a book.
 
Job 31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it
as a crown to me.
 
Job 31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a
prince would I go near unto him.
 
Job 31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows
likewise thereof complain;
 
Job 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or
have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
 
Job 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle
instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
 
Job 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he
was righteous in his own eyes.
 
Job 32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of
Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his
wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
 
Job 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled,
because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
 
Job 32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they
were elder than he.
 
Job 32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth
of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
 
Job 32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and
said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid,
and durst not shew you mine opinion.
 
Job 32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years
should teach wisdom.
 
Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of
the Almighty giveth them understanding.
 
Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged
understand judgment.
 
Job 32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew
mine opinion.
 
Job 32:11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your
reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
 
Job 32:12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none
of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
 
Job 32:13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God
thrusteth him down, not man.
 
Job 32:14 Now he hath not directed his words against me:
neither will I answer him with your speeches.
 
Job 32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left
off speaking.
 
Job 32:16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood
still, and answered no more;)
 
Job 32:17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew
mine opinion.
 
Job 32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me
constraineth me.
 
Job 32:19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is
ready to burst like new bottles.
 
Job 32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my
lips and answer.
 
Job 32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person,
neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
 
Job 32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing
my maker would soon take me away.
 
Job 33:1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and
hearken to all my words.
 
Job 33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath
spoken in my mouth.
 
Job 33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and
my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
 
Job 33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the
Almighty hath given me life.
 
Job 33:5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before
me, stand up.
 
Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I
also am formed out of the clay.
 
Job 33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither
shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
 
Job 33:8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have
heard the voice of thy words, saying,
 
Job 33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent;
neither is there iniquity in me.
 
Job 33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth
me for his enemy,
 
Job 33:11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my
paths.
 
Job 33:12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer
thee, that God is greater than man.
 
Job 33:13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not
account of any of his matters.
 
Job 33:14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth
it not.
 
Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep
falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
 
Job 33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their
instruction,
 
Job 33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide
pride from man.
 
Job 33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life
from perishing by the sword.
 
Job 33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the
multitude of his bones with strong pain:
 
Job 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty
meat.
 
Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;
and his bones that were not seen stick out.
 
Job 33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his
life to the destroyers.
 
Job 33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one
among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
 
Job 33:24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him
from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
 
Job 33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall
return to the days of his youth:
 
Job 33:26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable
unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render
unto man his righteousness.
 
Job 33:27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned,
and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
 
Job 33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and
his life shall see the light.
 
Job 33:29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
 
Job 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be
enlightened with the light of the living.
 
Job 33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace,
and I will speak.
 
Job 33:32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I
desire to justify thee.
 
Job 33:33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall
teach thee wisdom.
 
Job 34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
 
Job 34:2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye
that have knowledge.
 
Job 34:3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
 
Job 34:4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among
ourselves what is good.
 
Job 34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken
away my judgment.
 
Job 34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable
without transgression.
 
Job 34:7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like
water?
 
Job 34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,
and walketh with wicked men.
 
Job 34:9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he
should delight himself with God.
 
Job 34:10 Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding:
far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the
Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
 
Job 34:11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and
cause every man to find according to his ways.
 
Job 34:12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will
the Almighty pervert judgment.
 
Job 34:13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who
hath disposed the whole world?
 
Job 34:14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto
himself his spirit and his breath;
 
Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn
again unto dust.
 
Job 34:16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to
the voice of my words.
 
Job 34:17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou
condemn him that is most just?
 
Job 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to
princes, Ye are ungodly?
 
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons
of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they
all are the work of his hands.
 
Job 34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be
troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be
taken away without hand.
 
Job 34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth
all his goings.
 
Job 34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the
workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
 
Job 34:23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he
should enter into judgment with God.
 
Job 34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number,
and set others in their stead.
 
Job 34:25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth
them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
 
Job 34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of
others;
 
Job 34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not
consider any of his ways:
 
Job 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto
him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
 
Job 34:29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?
and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it
be done against a nation, or against a man only:
 
Job 34:30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be
ensnared.
 
Job 34:31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne
chastisement, I will not offend any more:
 
Job 34:32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done
iniquity, I will do no more.
 
Job 34:33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will
recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and
not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
 
Job 34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man
hearken unto me.
 
Job 34:35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were
without wisdom.
 
Job 34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end
because of his answers for wicked men.
 
Job 34:37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his
hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
 
Job 35:1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
 
Job 35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My
righteousness is more than God's?
 
Job 35:3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee?
and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
 
Job 35:4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
 
Job 35:5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds
which are higher than thou.
 
Job 35:6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if
thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
 
Job 35:7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what
receiveth he of thine hand?
 
Job 35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
righteousness may profit the son of man.
 
Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make
the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the
mighty.
 
Job 35:10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth
songs in the night;
 
Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,
and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
 
Job 35:12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of
the pride of evil men.
 
Job 35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the
Almighty regard it.
 
Job 35:14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet
judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
 
Job 35:15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his
anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
 
Job 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he
multiplieth words without knowledge.
 
Job 36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
 
Job 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have
yet to speak on God's behalf.
 
Job 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker.
 
Job 36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is
perfect in knowledge is with thee.
 
Job 36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is
mighty in strength and wisdom.
 
Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth
right to the poor.
 
Job 36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but
with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them
for ever, and they are exalted.
 
Job 36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in
cords of affliction;
 
Job 36:9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their
transgressions that they have exceeded.
 
Job 36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and
commandeth that they return from iniquity.
 
Job 36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their
days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
 
Job 36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword,
and they shall die without knowledge.
 
Job 36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry
not when he bindeth them.
 
Job 36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the
unclean.
 
Job 36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth
their ears in oppression.
 
Job 36:16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait
into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which
should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
 
Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked:
judgment and justice take hold on thee.
 
Job 36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away
with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
 
Job 36:19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the
forces of strength.
 
Job 36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in
their place.
 
Job 36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou
chosen rather than affliction.
 
Job 36:22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like
him?
 
Job 36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou
hast wrought iniquity?
 
Job 36:24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men
behold.
 
Job 36:25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
 
Job 36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither
can the number of his years be searched out.
 
Job 36:27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour
down rain according to the vapour thereof:
 
Job 36:28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man
abundantly.
 
Job 36:29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,
or the noise of his tabernacle?
 
Job 36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth
the bottom of the sea.
 
Job 36:31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in
abundance.
 
Job 36:32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it
not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
 
Job 36:33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle
also concerning the vapour.
 
Job 37:1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of
his place.
 
Job 37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound
that goeth out of his mouth.
 
Job 37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his
lightning unto the ends of the earth.
 
Job 37:4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice
of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is
heard.
 
Job 37:5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great
things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
 
Job 37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth;
likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his
strength.
 
Job 37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may
know his work.
 
Job 37:8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their
places.
 
Job 37:9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of
the north.
 
Job 37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth
of the waters is straitened.
 
Job 37:11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he
scattereth his bright cloud:
 
Job 37:12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that
they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the
world in the earth.
 
Job 37:13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for
his land, or for mercy.
 
Job 37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider
the wondrous works of God.
 
Job 37:15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the
light of his cloud to shine?
 
Job 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the
wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
 
Job 37:17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth
by the south wind?
 
Job 37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is
strong, and as a molten looking glass?
 
Job 37:19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot
order our speech by reason of darkness.
 
Job 37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak,
surely he shall be swallowed up.
 
Job 37:21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the
clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
 
Job 37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is
terrible majesty.
 
Job 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is
excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he
will not afflict.
 
Job 37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that
are wise of heart.
 
Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and
said,
 
Job 38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without
knowledge?
 
Job 38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of
thee, and answer thou me.
 
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the
earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
 
Job 38:5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
or who hath stretched the line upon it?
 
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who
laid the corner stone thereof;
 
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons
of God shouted for joy?
 
Job 38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake
forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
 
Job 38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick
darkness a swaddlingband for it,
 
Job 38:10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars
and doors,
 
Job 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further:
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
 
Job 38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and
caused the dayspring to know his place;
 
Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
 
Job 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a
garment.
 
Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and
the high arm shall be broken.
 
Job 38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or
hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
 
Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or
hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
 
Job 38:18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare
if thou knowest it all.
 
Job 38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for
darkness, where is the place thereof,
 
Job 38:20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and
that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
 
Job 38:21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or
because the number of thy days is great?
 
Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or
hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
 
Job 38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
against the day of battle and war?
 
Job 38:24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the
east wind upon the earth?
 
Job 38:25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of
waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
 
Job 38:26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on
the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
 
Job 38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to
cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
 
Job 38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the
drops of dew?
 
Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost
of heaven, who hath gendered it?
 
Job 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of
the deep is frozen.
 
Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or
loose the bands of Orion?
 
Job 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or
canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
 
Job 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set
the dominion thereof in the earth?
 
Job 38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that
abundance of waters may cover thee?
 
Job 38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say
unto thee, Here we are?
 
Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath
given understanding to the heart?
 
Job 38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay
the bottles of heaven,
 
Job 38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods
cleave fast together?
 
Job 38:39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the
appetite of the young lions,
 
Job 38:40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the
covert to lie in wait?
 
Job 38:41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young
ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
 
Job 39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock
bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
 
Job 39:2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or
knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
 
Job 39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young
ones, they cast out their sorrows.
 
Job 39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with
corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
 
Job 39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath
loosed the bands of the wild ass?
 
Job 39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren
land his dwellings.
 
Job 39:7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither
regardeth he the crying of the driver.
 
Job 39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he
searcheth after every green thing.
 
Job 39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by
thy crib?
 
Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the
furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
 
Job 39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?
or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
 
Job 39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy
seed, and gather it into thy barn?
 
Job 39:13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or
wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
 
Job 39:14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them
in dust,
 
Job 39:15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that
the wild beast may break them.
 
Job 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though
they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
 
Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath
he imparted to her understanding.
 
Job 39:18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she
scorneth the horse and his rider.
 
Job 39:19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed
his neck with thunder?
 
Job 39:20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the
glory of his nostrils is terrible.
 
Job 39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his
strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
 
Job 39:22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither
turneth he back from the sword.
 
Job 39:23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear
and the shield.
 
Job 39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage:
neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
 
Job 39:25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth
the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the
shouting.
 
Job 39:26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her
wings toward the south?
 
Job 39:27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her
nest on high?
 
Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag
of the rock, and the strong place.
 
Job 39:29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold
afar off.
 
Job 39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the
slain are, there is she.
 
Job 40:1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
 
Job 40:2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct
him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
 
Job 40:3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
 
Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will
lay mine hand upon my mouth.
 
Job 40:5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice;
but I will proceed no further.
 
Job 40:6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind,
and said,
 
Job 40:7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of
thee, and declare thou unto me.
 
Job 40:8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn
me, that thou mayest be righteous?
 
Job 40:9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with
a voice like him?
 
Job 40:10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and
array thyself with glory and beauty.
 
Job 40:11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every
one that is proud, and abase him.
 
Job 40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low;
and tread down the wicked in their place.
 
Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces
in secret.
 
Job 40:14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own
right hand can save thee.
 
Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he
eateth grass as an ox.
 
Job 40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force
is in the navel of his belly.
 
Job 40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his
stones are wrapped together.
 
Job 40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones
are like bars of iron.
 
Job 40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him
can make his sword to approach unto him.
 
Job 40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all
the beasts of the field play.
 
Job 40:21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the
reed, and fens.
 
Job 40:22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the
willows of the brook compass him about.
 
Job 40:23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he
trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
 
Job 40:24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through
snares.
 
Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his
tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
 
Job 41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw
through with a thorn?
 
Job 41:3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he
speak soft words unto thee?
 
Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him
for a servant for ever?
 
Job 41:5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou
bind him for thy maidens?
 
Job 41:6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they
part him among the merchants?
 
Job 41:7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his
head with fish spears?
 
Job 41:8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no
more.
 
Job 41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be
cast down even at the sight of him?
 
Job 41:10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is
able to stand before me?
 
Job 41:11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?
whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
 
Job 41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his
comely proportion.
 
Job 41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can
come to him with his double bridle?
 
Job 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are
terrible round about.
 
Job 41:15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a
close seal.
 
Job 41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come
between them.
 
Job 41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together,
that they cannot be sundered.
 
Job 41:18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are
like the eyelids of the morning.
 
Job 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire
leap out.
 
Job 41:20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething
pot or caldron.
 
Job 41:21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of
his mouth.
 
Job 41:22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned
into joy before him.
 
Job 41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are
firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
 
Job 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a
piece of the nether millstone.
 
Job 41:25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by
reason of breakings they purify themselves.
 
Job 41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the
spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
 
Job 41:27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
 
Job 41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are
turned with him into stubble.
 
Job 41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the
shaking of a spear.
 
Job 41:30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp
pointed things upon the mire.
 
Job 41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the
sea like a pot of ointment.
 
Job 41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think
the deep to be hoary.
 
Job 41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without
fear.
 
Job 41:34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all
the children of pride.
 
Job 42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
 
Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no
thought can be withholden from thee.
 
Job 42:3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?
therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too
wonderful for me, which I knew not.
 
Job 42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand
of thee, and declare thou unto me.
 
Job 42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but
now mine eye seeth thee.
 
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and
ashes.
 
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these
words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath
is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have
not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
 
Job 42:8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven
rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a
burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him
will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye
have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant
Job.
 
Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and
Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD
commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
 
Job 42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he
prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as
he had before.
 
Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all
his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance
before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they
bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD
had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money,
and every one an earring of gold.
 
Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than
his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six
thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she
asses.
 
Job 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
 
Job 42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the
name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third,
Kerenhappuch.
 
Job 42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as
the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance
among their brethren.
 
Job 42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and
saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
 
Job 42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
 
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of
the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful.
 
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his
law doth he meditate day and night.
 
Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
 
Psalm 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which
the wind driveth away.
 
Psalm 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
 
Psalm 1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but
the way of the ungodly shall perish.
 
Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a
vain thing?
 
Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers
take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his
anointed, saying,
 
Psalm 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their
cords from us.
 
Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD
shall have them in derision.
 
Psalm 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex
them in his sore displeasure.
 
Psalm 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
 
Psalm 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto
me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
 
Psalm 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for
thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
possession.
 
Psalm 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt
dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
 
Psalm 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye
judges of the earth.
 
Psalm 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with
trembling.
 
Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from
the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all
they that put their trust in him.
 
Psalm 3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many
are they that rise up against me.
 
Psalm 3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help
for him in God. Selah.
 
Psalm 3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and
the lifter up of mine head.
 
Psalm 3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me
out of his holy hill. Selah.
 
Psalm 3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD
sustained me.
 
Psalm 3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that
have set themselves against me round about.
 
Psalm 3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast
smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken
the teeth of the ungodly.
 
Psalm 3:8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is
upon thy people. Selah.
 
Psalm 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou
hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and
hear my prayer.
 
Psalm 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into
shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?
Selah.
 
Psalm 4:3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is
godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
 
Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own
heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
 
Psalm 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your
trust in the LORD.
 
Psalm 4:6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good?
LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
 
Psalm 4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the
time that their corn and their wine increased.
 
Psalm 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for
thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
 
Psalm 5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
 
Psalm 5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my
God: for unto thee will I pray.
 
Psalm 5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in
the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
 
Psalm 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in
wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
 
Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest
all workers of iniquity.
 
Psalm 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD
will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
 
Psalm 5:7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the
multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy
holy temple.
 
Psalm 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine
enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
 
Psalm 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their
inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open
sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
 
Psalm 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own
counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions;
for they have rebelled against thee.
 
Psalm 5:11 But let all those that put their trust in thee
rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest
them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
 
Psalm 5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with
favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
 
Psalm 6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten
me in thy hot displeasure.
 
Psalm 6:2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD,
heal me; for my bones are vexed.
 
Psalm 6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how
long?
 
Psalm 6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy
mercies' sake.
 
Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the
grave who shall give thee thanks?
 
Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my
bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
 
Psalm 6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old
because of all mine enemies.
 
Psalm 6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the
LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
 
Psalm 6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will
receive my prayer.
 
Psalm 6:10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let
them return and be ashamed suddenly.
 
Psalm 7:1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me
from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
 
Psalm 7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in
pieces, while there is none to deliver.
 
Psalm 7:3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be
iniquity in my hands;
 
Psalm 7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace
with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine
enemy:)
 
Psalm 7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea,
let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in
the dust. Selah.
 
Psalm 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself
because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the
judgment that thou hast commanded.
 
Psalm 7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee
about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
 
Psalm 7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD,
according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity
that is in me.
 
Psalm 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end;
but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts
and reins.
 
Psalm 7:10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in
heart.
 
Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the
wicked every day.
 
Psalm 7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent
his bow, and made it ready.
 
Psalm 7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of
death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
 
Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath
conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
 
Psalm 7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the
ditch which he made.
 
Psalm 7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his
violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
 
Psalm 7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his
righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most
high.
 
Psalm 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all
the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
 
Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou
ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest
still the enemy and the avenger.
 
Psalm 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
 
Psalm 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the
son of man, that thou visitest him?
 
Psalm 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the
angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
 
Psalm 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of
thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
 
Psalm 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
 
Psalm 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and
whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
 
Psalm 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the
earth!
 
Psalm 9:1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I
will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
 
Psalm 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing
praise to thy name, O thou most High.
 
Psalm 9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall
and perish at thy presence.
 
Psalm 9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou
satest in the throne judging right.
 
Psalm 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed
the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
 
Psalm 9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual
end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished
with them.
 
Psalm 9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared
his throne for judgment.
 
Psalm 9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he
shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
 
Psalm 9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a
refuge in times of trouble.
 
Psalm 9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in
thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
 
Psalm 9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion:
declare among the people his doings.
 
Psalm 9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth
them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
 
Psalm 9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble
which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from
the gates of death:
 
Psalm 9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of
the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
 
Psalm 9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:
in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
 
Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he
executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Higgaion. Selah.
 
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the
nations that forget God.
 
Psalm 9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the
expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
 
Psalm 9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen
be judged in thy sight.
 
Psalm 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know
themselves to be but men. Selah.
 
Psalm 10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou
thyself in times of trouble?
 
Psalm 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let
them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
 
Psalm 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and
blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
 
Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
 
Psalm 10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far
above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at
them.
 
Psalm 10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for
I shall never be in adversity.
 
Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
 
Psalm 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in
the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are
privily set against the poor.
 
Psalm 10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he
lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he
draweth him into his net.
 
Psalm 10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor
may fall by his strong ones.
 
Psalm 10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he
hideth his face; he will never see it.
 
Psalm 10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget
not the humble.
 
Psalm 10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said
in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
 
Psalm 10:14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and
spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself
unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
 
Psalm 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man:
seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
 
Psalm 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are
perished out of his land.
 
Psalm 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble:
thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
 
Psalm 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the
man of the earth may no more oppress.
 
Psalm 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul,
Flee as a bird to your mountain?
 
Psalm 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready
their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the
upright in heart.
 
Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the
righteous do?
 
Psalm 11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is
in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
 
Psalm 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and
him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
 
Psalm 11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and
brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of
their cup.
 
Psalm 11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his
countenance doth behold the upright.
 
Psalm 12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the
faithful fail from among the children of men.
 
Psalm 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with
flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
 
Psalm 12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the
tongue that speaketh proud things:
 
Psalm 12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our
lips are our own: who is lord over us?
 
Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of
the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in
safety from him that puffeth at him.
 
Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver
tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
 
Psalm 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve
them from this generation for ever.
 
Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men
are exalted.
 
Psalm 13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how
long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
 
Psalm 13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having
sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted
over me?
 
Psalm 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine
eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
 
Psalm 13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
 
Psalm 13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall
rejoice in thy salvation.
 
Psalm 13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt
bountifully with me.
 
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none
that doeth good.
 
Psalm 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children
of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek
God.
 
Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together
become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
 
Psalm 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who
eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
 
Psalm 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the
generation of the righteous.
 
Psalm 14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the
LORD is his refuge.
 
Psalm 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of
Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
 
Psalm 15:1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall
dwell in thy holy hill?
 
Psalm 15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
 
Psalm 15:3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth
evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his
neighbour.
 
Psalm 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he
honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own
hurt, and changeth not.
 
Psalm 15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor
taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things
shall never be moved.
 
Psalm 16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
 
Psalm 16:2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my
Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
 
Psalm 16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the
excellent, in whom is all my delight.
 
Psalm 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after
another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor
take up their names into my lips.
 
Psalm 16:5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of
my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
 
Psalm 16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;
yea, I have a goodly heritage.
 
Psalm 16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my
reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
 
Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is
at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
 
Psalm 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth:
my flesh also shall rest in hope.
 
Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither
wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
 
Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence
is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for
evermore.
 
Psalm 17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear
unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
 
Psalm 17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let
thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
 
Psalm 17:3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in
the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am
purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
 
Psalm 17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips
I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
 
Psalm 17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps
slip not.
 
Psalm 17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O
God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
 
Psalm 17:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that
savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from
those that rise up against them.
 
Psalm 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the
shadow of thy wings,
 
Psalm 17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly
enemies, who compass me about.
 
Psalm 17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their
mouth they speak proudly.
 
Psalm 17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have
set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
 
Psalm 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as
it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
 
Psalm 17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down:
deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
 
Psalm 17:14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of
the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly
thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children,
and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
 
Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
 
Psalm 18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
 
Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler,
and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
 
Psalm 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be
praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
 
Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of
ungodly men made me afraid.
 
Psalm 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares
of death prevented me.
 
Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried
unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came
before him, even into his ears.
 
Psalm 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations
also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
 
Psalm 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire
out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
 
Psalm 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and
darkness was under his feet.
 
Psalm 18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did
fly upon the wings of the wind.
 
Psalm 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion
round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
 
Psalm 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick
clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
 
Psalm 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the
Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
 
Psalm 18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
 
Psalm 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the
foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD,
at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
 
Psalm 18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of
many waters.
 
Psalm 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them
which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
 
Psalm 18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but
the LORD was my stay.
 
Psalm 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he
delivered me, because he delighted in me.
 
Psalm 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
 
Psalm 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not
wickedly departed from my God.
 
Psalm 18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not
put away his statutes from me.
 
Psalm 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself
from mine iniquity.
 
Psalm 18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to
my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
 
Psalm 18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;
with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
 
Psalm 18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with
the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
 
Psalm 18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt
bring down high looks.
 
Psalm 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will
enlighten my darkness.
 
Psalm 18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my
God have I leaped over a wall.
 
Psalm 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the
LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
 
Psalm 18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save
our God?
 
Psalm 18:32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh
my way perfect.
 
Psalm 18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me
upon my high places.
 
Psalm 18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel
is broken by mine arms.
 
Psalm 18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy
salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy
gentleness hath made me great.
 
Psalm 18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet
did not slip.
 
Psalm 18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them:
neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
 
Psalm 18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to
rise: they are fallen under my feet.
 
Psalm 18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the
battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
 
Psalm 18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies;
that I might destroy them that hate me.
 
Psalm 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even
unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
 
Psalm 18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the
wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
 
Psalm 18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the
people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people
whom I have not known shall serve me.
 
Psalm 18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the
strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
 
Psalm 18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of
their close places.
 
Psalm 18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let
the God of my salvation be exalted.
 
Psalm 18:47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people
under me.
 
Psalm 18:48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou
liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man.
 
Psalm 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD,
among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
 
Psalm 18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and
sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore.
 
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament sheweth his handywork.
 
Psalm 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night
sheweth knowledge.
 
Psalm 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice
is not heard.
 
Psalm 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and
their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a
tabernacle for the sun,
 
Psalm 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
 
Psalm 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and
his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from
the heat thereof.
 
Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul:
the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
 
Psalm 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the
heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the
eyes.
 
Psalm 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever:
the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
 
Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than
much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
 
Psalm 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in
keeping of them there is great reward.
 
Psalm 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from
secret faults.
 
Psalm 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and
I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
 
Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my
heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my
redeemer.
 
Psalm 20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name
of the God of Jacob defend thee;
 
Psalm 20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen
thee out of Zion;
 
Psalm 20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt
sacrifice; Selah.
 
Psalm 20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil
all thy counsel.
 
Psalm 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of
our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy
petitions.
 
Psalm 20:6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he
will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of
his right hand.
 
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we
will remember the name of the LORD our God.
 
Psalm 20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen,
and stand upright.
 
Psalm 20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
 
Psalm 21:1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in
thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
 
Psalm 21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not
withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
 
Psalm 21:3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of
goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
 
Psalm 21:4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even
length of days for ever and ever.
 
Psalm 21:5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and
majesty hast thou laid upon him.
 
Psalm 21:6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou
hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
 
Psalm 21:7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the
mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
 
Psalm 21:8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy
right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
 
Psalm 21:9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of
thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the
fire shall devour them.
 
Psalm 21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and
their seed from among the children of men.
 
Psalm 21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined
a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
 
Psalm 21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back,
when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against
the face of them.
 
Psalm 21:13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so
will we sing and praise thy power.
 
Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art
thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
 
Psalm 22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest
not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
 
Psalm 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the
praises of Israel.
 
Psalm 22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou
didst deliver them.
 
Psalm 22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they
trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
 
Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and
despised of the people.
 
Psalm 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot
out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
 
Psalm 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:
let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
 
Psalm 22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou
didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
 
Psalm 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God
from my mother's belly.
 
Psalm 22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there
is none to help.
 
Psalm 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of
Bashan have beset me round.
 
Psalm 22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening
and a roaring lion.
 
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are
out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of
my bowels.
 
Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my
tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the
dust of death.
 
Psalm 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the
wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
 
Psalm 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon
me.
 
Psalm 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots
upon my vesture.
 
Psalm 22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength,
haste thee to help me.
 
Psalm 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the
power of the dog.
 
Psalm 22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard
me from the horns of the unicorns.
 
Psalm 22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the
midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
 
Psalm 22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed
of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
 
Psalm 22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the
affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from
him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
 
Psalm 22:25 My praise shall be of thee in the great
congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
 
Psalm 22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall
praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
 
Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn
unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship
before thee.
 
Psalm 22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the
governor among the nations.
 
Psalm 22:29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and
worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him:
and none can keep alive his own soul.
 
Psalm 22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to
the Lord for a generation.
 
Psalm 22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his
righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done
this.
 
Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
 
Psalm 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he
leadeth me beside the still waters.
 
Psalm 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.
 
Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and
thy staff they comfort me.
 
Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of
mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth
over.
 
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the
days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for
ever.
 
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof;
the world, and they that dwell therein.
 
Psalm 24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and
established it upon the floods.
 
Psalm 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who
shall stand in his holy place?
 
Psalm 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath
not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
 
Psalm 24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
 
Psalm 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that
seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
 
Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up,
ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
 
Psalm 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and
mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
 
Psalm 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up,
ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
 
Psalm 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is
the King of glory. Selah.
 
Psalm 25:1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
 
Psalm 25:2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed,
let not mine enemies triumph over me.
 
Psalm 25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them
be ashamed which transgress without cause.
 
Psalm 25:4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
 
Psalm 25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the
God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
 
Psalm 25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy
lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
 
Psalm 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my
transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy
goodness' sake, O LORD.
 
Psalm 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he
teach sinners in the way.
 
Psalm 25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek
will he teach his way.
 
Psalm 25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto
such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
 
Psalm 25:11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity;
for it is great.
 
Psalm 25:12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he
teach in the way that he shall choose.
 
Psalm 25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall
inherit the earth.
 
Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him;
and he will shew them his covenant.
 
Psalm 25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall
pluck my feet out of the net.
 
Psalm 25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am
desolate and afflicted.
 
Psalm 25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou
me out of my distresses.
 
Psalm 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive
all my sins.
 
Psalm 25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they
hate me with cruel hatred.
 
Psalm 25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be
ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
 
Psalm 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I
wait on thee.
 
Psalm 25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
 
Psalm 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine
integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not
slide.
 
Psalm 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and
my heart.
 
Psalm 26:3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I
have walked in thy truth.
 
Psalm 26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go
in with dissemblers.
 
Psalm 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and
will not sit with the wicked.
 
Psalm 26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I
compass thine altar, O LORD:
 
Psalm 26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving,
and tell of all thy wondrous works.
 
Psalm 26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and
the place where thine honour dwelleth.
 
Psalm 26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with
bloody men:
 
Psalm 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is
full of bribes.
 
Psalm 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity:
redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
 
Psalm 26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the
congregations will I bless the LORD.
 
Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I
fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid?
 
Psalm 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came
upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
 
Psalm 27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart
shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I
be confident.
 
Psalm 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I
seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the
days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire
in his temple.
 
Psalm 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his
pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he
shall set me up upon a rock.
 
Psalm 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine
enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle
sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the
LORD.
 
Psalm 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy
also upon me, and answer me.
 
Psalm 27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said
unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
 
Psalm 27:9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant
away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither
forsake me, O God of my salvation.
 
Psalm 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the
LORD will take me up.
 
Psalm 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain
path, because of mine enemies.
 
Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies:
for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe
out cruelty.
 
Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the
goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
 
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
 
Psalm 28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent
to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go
down into the pit.
 
Psalm 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto
thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
 
Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the
workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but
mischief is in their hearts.
 
Psalm 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to
the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of
their hands; render to them their desert.
 
Psalm 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor
the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build
them up.
 
Psalm 28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice
of my supplications.
 
Psalm 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart
trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly
rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
 
Psalm 28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving
strength of his anointed.
 
Psalm 28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed
them also, and lift them up for ever.
 
Psalm 29:1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD
glory and strength.
 
Psalm 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;
worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
 
Psalm 29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of
glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
 
Psalm 29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the
LORD is full of majesty.
 
Psalm 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the
LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
 
Psalm 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and
Sirion like a young unicorn.
 
Psalm 29:7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
 
Psalm 29:8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the
LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
 
Psalm 29:9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and
discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak
of his glory.
 
Psalm 29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD
sitteth King for ever.
 
Psalm 29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the
LORD will bless his people with peace.
 
Psalm 30:1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me
up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
 
Psalm 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast
healed me.
 
Psalm 30:3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave:
thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
 
Psalm 30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give
thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
 
Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour
is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning.
 
Psalm 30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
 
Psalm 30:7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to
stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
 
Psalm 30:8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made
supplication.
 
Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to
the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
 
Psalm 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou
my helper.
 
Psalm 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing:
thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
 
Psalm 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee,
and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee
for ever.
 
Psalm 31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be
ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
 
Psalm 31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be
thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
 
Psalm 31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for
thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
 
Psalm 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily
for me: for thou art my strength.
 
Psalm 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast
redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
 
Psalm 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I
trust in the LORD.
 
Psalm 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou
hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in
adversities;
 
Psalm 31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:
thou hast set my feet in a large room.
 
Psalm 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble:
mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
 
Psalm 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with
sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my
bones are consumed.
 
Psalm 31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but
especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:
they that did see me without fled from me.
 
Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like
a broken vessel.
 
Psalm 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on
every side: while they took counsel together against me, they
devised to take away my life.
 
Psalm 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my
God.
 
Psalm 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand
of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
 
Psalm 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me
for thy mercies' sake.
 
Psalm 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called
upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in
the grave.
 
Psalm 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak
grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
 
Psalm 31:19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid
up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that
trust in thee before the sons of men!
 
Psalm 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence
from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a
pavilion from the strife of tongues.
 
Psalm 31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his
marvellous kindness in a strong city.
 
Psalm 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before
thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my
supplications when I cried unto thee.
 
Psalm 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD
preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud
doer.
 
Psalm 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your
heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
 
Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose
sin is covered.
 
Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not
iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
 
Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my
roaring all the day long.
 
Psalm 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my
moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
 
Psalm 32:5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity
have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the
LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
 
Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto
thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of
great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
 
Psalm 32:7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me
from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance. Selah.
 
Psalm 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which
thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
 
Psalm 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have
no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and
bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
 
Psalm 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that
trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
 
Psalm 32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and
shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
 
Psalm 33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is
comely for the upright.
 
Psalm 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the
psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
 
Psalm 33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud
noise.
 
Psalm 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works
are done in truth.
 
Psalm 33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is
full of the goodness of the LORD.
 
Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and
all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
 
Psalm 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an
heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
 
Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
 
Psalm 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it
stood fast.
 
Psalm 33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to
nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
 
Psalm 33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the
thoughts of his heart to all generations.
 
Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and
the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
 
Psalm 33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the
sons of men.
 
Psalm 33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon
all the inhabitants of the earth.
 
Psalm 33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth
all their works.
 
Psalm 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host:
a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
 
Psalm 33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall
he deliver any by his great strength.
 
Psalm 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear
him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
 
Psalm 33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them
alive in famine.
 
Psalm 33:20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and
our shield.
 
Psalm 33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have
trusted in his holy name.
 
Psalm 33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we
hope in thee.
 
Psalm 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall
continually be in my mouth.
 
Psalm 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble
shall hear thereof, and be glad.
 
Psalm 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his
name together.
 
Psalm 34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me
from all my fears.
 
Psalm 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their
faces were not ashamed.
 
Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and
saved him out of all his troubles.
 
Psalm 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them
that fear him, and delivereth them.
 
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is
the man that trusteth in him.
 
Psalm 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want
to them that fear him.
 
Psalm 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but
they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
 
Psalm 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach
you the fear of the LORD.
 
Psalm 34:12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many
days, that he may see good?
 
Psalm 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from
speaking guile.
 
Psalm 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and
pursue it.
 
Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and
his ears are open unto their cry.
 
Psalm 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
 
Psalm 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and
delivereth them out of all their troubles.
 
Psalm 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken
heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
 
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the
LORD delivereth him out of them all.
 
Psalm 34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is
broken.
 
Psalm 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the
righteous shall be desolate.
 
Psalm 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and
none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
 
Psalm 35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with
me: fight against them that fight against me.
 
Psalm 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for
mine help.
 
Psalm 35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against
them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
 
Psalm 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek
after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion
that devise my hurt.
 
Psalm 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the
angel of the LORD chase them.
 
Psalm 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the
angel of the LORD persecute them.
 
Psalm 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in
a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
 
Psalm 35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let
his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very
destruction let him fall.
 
Psalm 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall
rejoice in his salvation.
 
Psalm 35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto
thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for
him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
 
Psalm 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge
things that I knew not.
 
Psalm 35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of
my soul.
 
Psalm 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned
into mine own bosom.
 
Psalm 35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or
brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his
mother.
 
Psalm 35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves
together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and
ceased not:
 
Psalm 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed
upon me with their teeth.
 
Psalm 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul
from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
 
Psalm 35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation:
I will praise thee among much people.
 
Psalm 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully
rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me
without a cause.
 
Psalm 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful
matters against them that are quiet in the land.
 
Psalm 35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
 
Psalm 35:22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O
Lord, be not far from me.
 
Psalm 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even
unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
 
Psalm 35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy
righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
 
Psalm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we
have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
 
Psalm 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion
together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with
shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
 
Psalm 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my
righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be
magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
 
Psalm 35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and
of thy praise all the day long.
 
Psalm 36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my
heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
 
Psalm 36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his
iniquity be found to be hateful.
 
Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he
hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
 
Psalm 36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth
himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
 
Psalm 36:5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy
faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
 
Psalm 36:6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy
judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and
beast.
 
Psalm 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God!
therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of
thy wings.
 
Psalm 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness
of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures.
 
Psalm 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light
shall we see light.
 
Psalm 36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know
thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
 
Psalm 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let
not the hand of the wicked remove me.
 
Psalm 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are
cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
 
Psalm 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be
thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
 
Psalm 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and
wither as the green herb.
 
Psalm 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell
in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
 
Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give
thee the desires of thine heart.
 
Psalm 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and
he shall bring it to pass.
 
Psalm 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the
light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
 
Psalm 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret
not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of
the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
 
Psalm 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not
thyself in any wise to do evil.
 
Psalm 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait
upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
 
Psalm 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not
be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall
not be.
 
Psalm 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall
delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
 
Psalm 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth
upon him with his teeth.
 
Psalm 37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his
day is coming.
 
Psalm 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent
their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as
be of upright conversation.
 
Psalm 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and
their bows shall be broken.
 
Psalm 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than
the riches of many wicked.
 
Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the
LORD upholdeth the righteous.
 
Psalm 37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their
inheritance shall be for ever.
 
Psalm 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in
the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
 
Psalm 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the
LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke
shall they consume away.
 
Psalm 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the
righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
 
Psalm 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the
earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
 
Psalm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD:
and he delighteth in his way.
 
Psalm 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:
for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
 
Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not
seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
 
Psalm 37:26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is
blessed.
 
Psalm 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for
evermore.
 
Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his
saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked
shall be cut off.
 
Psalm 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell
therein for ever.
 
Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his
tongue talketh of judgment.
 
Psalm 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his
steps shall slide.
 
Psalm 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to
slay him.
 
Psalm 37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor
condemn him when he is judged.
 
Psalm 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall
exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou
shalt see it.
 
Psalm 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and
spreading himself like a green bay tree.
 
Psalm 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I
sought him, but he could not be found.
 
Psalm 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for
the end of that man is peace.
 
Psalm 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together:
the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
 
Psalm 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD:
he is their strength in the time of trouble.
 
Psalm 37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he
shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they
trust in him.
 
Psalm 38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten
me in thy hot displeasure.
 
Psalm 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand
presseth me sore.
 
Psalm 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine
anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
 
Psalm 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an
heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 
Psalm 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my
foolishness.
 
Psalm 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go
mourning all the day long.
 
Psalm 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease:
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 
Psalm 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason
of the disquietness of my heart.
 
Psalm 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning
is not hid from thee.
 
Psalm 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for
the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
 
Psalm 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;
and my kinsmen stand afar off.
 
Psalm 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for
me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and
imagine deceits all the day long.
 
Psalm 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a
dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
 
Psalm 38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose
mouth are no reproofs.
 
Psalm 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O
Lord my God.
 
Psalm 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should
rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves
against me.
 
Psalm 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is
continually before me.
 
Psalm 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry
for my sin.
 
Psalm 38:19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong:
and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
 
Psalm 38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine
adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
 
Psalm 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from
me.
 
Psalm 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
 
Psalm 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not
with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the
wicked is before me.
 
Psalm 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from
good; and my sorrow was stirred.
 
Psalm 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the
fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
 
Psalm 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of
my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
 
Psalm 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his
best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
 
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they
are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
shall gather them.
 
Psalm 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
 
Psalm 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not
the reproach of the foolish.
 
Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou
didst it.
 
Psalm 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by
the blow of thine hand.
 
Psalm 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for
iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
surely every man is vanity. Selah.
 
Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;
hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee,
and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
 
Psalm 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I
go hence, and be no more.
 
Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined
unto me, and heard my cry.
 
Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of
the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my
goings.
 
Psalm 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise
unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the
LORD.
 
Psalm 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust,
and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
 
Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which
thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they
cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and
speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
 
Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine
ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou
not required.
 
Psalm 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book
it is written of me,
 
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is
within my heart.
 
Psalm 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou
knowest.
 
Psalm 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I
have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not
concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great
congregation.
 
Psalm 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O
LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve
me.
 
Psalm 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look
up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart
faileth me.
 
Psalm 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make
haste to help me.
 
Psalm 40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that
seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and
put to shame that wish me evil.
 
Psalm 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame
that say unto me, Aha, aha.
 
Psalm 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in
thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be
magnified.
 
Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon
me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my
God.
 
Psalm 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD
will deliver him in time of trouble.
 
Psalm 41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and
he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him
unto the will of his enemies.
 
Psalm 41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of
languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
 
Psalm 41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for
I have sinned against thee.
 
Psalm 41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die,
and his name perish?
 
Psalm 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his
heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he
telleth it.
 
Psalm 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me:
against me do they devise my hurt.
 
Psalm 41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him:
and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
 
Psalm 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
 
Psalm 41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me
up, that I may requite them.
 
Psalm 41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine
enemy doth not triumph over me.
 
Psalm 41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,
and settest me before thy face for ever.
 
Psalm 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting,
and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
 
Psalm 42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after thee, O God.
 
Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when
shall I come and appear before God?
 
Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they
continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
 
Psalm 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in
me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the
house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude
that kept holyday.
 
Psalm 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him
for the help of his countenance.
 
Psalm 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore
will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the
Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
 
Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
 
Psalm 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the
day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my
prayer unto the God of my life.
 
Psalm 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten
me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
 
Psalm 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach
me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
 
Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise
him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
 
Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an
ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
 
Psalm 43:2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou
cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the
enemy?
 
Psalm 43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead
me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
 
Psalm 43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my
exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my
God.
 
Psalm 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him,
who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
 
Psalm 44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have
told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
 
Psalm 44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,
and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast
them out.
 
Psalm 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own
sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand,
and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them.
 
Psalm 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for
Jacob.
 
Psalm 44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through
thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
 
Psalm 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my
sword save me.
 
Psalm 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast
put them to shame that hated us.
 
Psalm 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy
name for ever. Selah.
 
Psalm 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and
goest not forth with our armies.
 
Psalm 44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and
they which hate us spoil for themselves.
 
Psalm 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;
and hast scattered us among the heathen.
 
Psalm 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not
increase thy wealth by their price.
 
Psalm 44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a
scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
 
Psalm 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a
shaking of the head among the people.
 
Psalm 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the
shame of my face hath covered me,
 
Psalm 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and
blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
 
Psalm 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten
thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
 
Psalm 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our
steps declined from thy way;
 
Psalm 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of
dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
 
Psalm 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or
stretched out our hands to a strange god;
 
Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the
secrets of the heart.
 
Psalm 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
 
Psalm 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us
not off for ever.
 
Psalm 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our
affliction and our oppression?
 
Psalm 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly
cleaveth unto the earth.
 
Psalm 44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies'
sake.
 
Psalm 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the
things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen
of a ready writer.
 
Psalm 45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is
poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
 
Psalm 45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with
thy glory and thy majesty.
 
Psalm 45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of
truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall
teach thee terrible things.
 
Psalm 45:5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's
enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
 
Psalm 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre
of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
 
Psalm 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows.
 
Psalm 45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee
glad.
 
Psalm 45:9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women:
upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
 
Psalm 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline
thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
 
Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he
is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
 
Psalm 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a
gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
 
Psalm 45:13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her
clothing is of wrought gold.
 
Psalm 45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of
needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be
brought unto thee.
 
Psalm 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:
they shall enter into the king's palace.
 
Psalm 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom
thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
 
Psalm 45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all
generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and
ever.
 
Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
in trouble.
 
Psalm 46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea;
 
Psalm 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
 
Psalm 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the
most High.
 
Psalm 46:5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.
 
Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he
uttered his voice, the earth melted.
 
Psalm 46:7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah.
 
Psalm 46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations
he hath made in the earth.
 
Psalm 46:9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth
the chariot in the fire.
 
Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted
among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
 
Psalm 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah.
 
Psalm 47:1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God
with the voice of triumph.
 
Psalm 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great
King over all the earth.
 
Psalm 47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations
under our feet.
 
Psalm 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the
excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
 
Psalm 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound
of a trumpet.
 
Psalm 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto
our King, sing praises.
 
Psalm 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye
praises with understanding.
 
Psalm 47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the
throne of his holiness.
 
Psalm 47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together,
even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the
earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
 
Psalm 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the
city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
 
Psalm 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth,
is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great
King.
 
Psalm 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
 
Psalm 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by
together.
 
Psalm 48:5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were
troubled, and hasted away.
 
Psalm 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a
woman in travail.
 
Psalm 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east
wind.
 
Psalm 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the
LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for
ever. Selah.
 
Psalm 48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the
midst of thy temple.
 
Psalm 48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto
the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
 
Psalm 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah
be glad, because of thy judgments.
 
Psalm 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the
towers thereof.
 
Psalm 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces;
that ye may tell it to the generation following.
 
Psalm 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will
be our guide even unto death.
 
Psalm 49:1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye
inhabitants of the world:
 
Psalm 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
 
Psalm 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation
of my heart shall be of understanding.
 
Psalm 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my
dark saying upon the harp.
 
Psalm 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when
the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
 
Psalm 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches;
 
Psalm 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
nor give to God a ransom for him:
 
Psalm 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and
it ceaseth for ever:)
 
Psalm 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see
corruption.
 
Psalm 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool
and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
 
Psalm 49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall
continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations;
they call their lands after their own names.
 
Psalm 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is
like the beasts that perish.
 
Psalm 49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity
approve their sayings. Selah.
 
Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall
feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in
the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from
their dwelling.
 
Psalm 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the
grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
 
Psalm 49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the
glory of his house is increased;
 
Psalm 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his
glory shall not descend after him.
 
Psalm 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men
will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
 
Psalm 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they
shall never see light.
 
Psalm 49:20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is
like the beasts that perish.
 
Psalm 50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and
called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.
 
Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath
shined.
 
Psalm 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a
fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous
round about him.
 
Psalm 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the
earth, that he may judge his people.
 
Psalm 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have
made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
 
Psalm 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for
God is judge himself. Selah.
 
Psalm 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I
will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
 
Psalm 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy
burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
 
Psalm 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he
goats out of thy folds.
 
Psalm 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the
cattle upon a thousand hills.
 
Psalm 50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild
beasts of the field are mine.
 
Psalm 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the
world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
 
Psalm 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood
of goats?
 
Psalm 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto
the most High:
 
Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will
deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
 
Psalm 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do
to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant
in thy mouth?
 
Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my
words behind thee.
 
Psalm 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst
with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
 
Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue
frameth deceit.
 
Psalm 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou
slanderest thine own mother's son.
 
Psalm 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but
I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
 
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear
you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
 
Psalm 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him
that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation
of God.
 
Psalm 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender
mercies blot out my transgressions.
 
Psalm 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me
from my sin.
 
Psalm 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is
ever before me.
 
Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done
this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou
speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
 
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my
mother conceive me.
 
Psalm 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and
in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
 
Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me,
and I shall be whiter than snow.
 
Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones
which thou hast broken may rejoice.
 
Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine
iniquities.
 
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a
right spirit within me.
 
Psalm 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not
thy holy spirit from me.
 
Psalm 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and
uphold me with thy free spirit.
 
Psalm 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and
sinners shall be converted unto thee.
 
Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of
my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
 
Psalm 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew
forth thy praise.
 
Psalm 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give
it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
 
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken
and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
 
Psalm 51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou
the walls of Jerusalem.
 
Psalm 51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of
righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then
shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
 
Psalm 52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?
the goodness of God endureth continually.
 
Psalm 52:2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor,
working deceitfully.
 
Psalm 52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather
than to speak righteousness. Selah.
 
Psalm 52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful
tongue.
 
Psalm 52:5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall
take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and
root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
 
Psalm 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall
laugh at him:
 
Psalm 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength;
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
himself in his wickedness.
 
Psalm 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of
God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
 
Psalm 52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done
it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy
saints.
 
Psalm 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is
none that doeth good.
 
Psalm 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of
men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek
God.
 
Psalm 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether
become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
 
Psalm 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat
up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
 
Psalm 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was:
for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against
thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised
them.
 
Psalm 53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of
Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
 
Psalm 54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy
strength.
 
Psalm 54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my
mouth.
 
Psalm 54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and
oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them.
Selah.
 
Psalm 54:4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them
that uphold my soul.
 
Psalm 54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off
in thy truth.
 
Psalm 54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy
name, O LORD; for it is good.
 
Psalm 54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and
mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
 
Psalm 55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself
from my supplication.
 
Psalm 55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my
complaint, and make a noise;
 
Psalm 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the
oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in
wrath they hate me.
 
Psalm 55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors
of death are fallen upon me.
 
Psalm 55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and
horror hath overwhelmed me.
 
Psalm 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for
then would I fly away, and be at rest.
 
Psalm 55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the
wilderness. Selah.
 
Psalm 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and
tempest.
 
Psalm 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I
have seen violence and strife in the city.
 
Psalm 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls
thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
 
Psalm 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and
guile depart not from her streets.
 
Psalm 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I
could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did
magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from
him:
 
Psalm 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and
mine acquaintance.
 
Psalm 55:14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the
house of God in company.
 
Psalm 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down
quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among
them.
 
Psalm 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall
save me.
 
Psalm 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and
cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
 
Psalm 55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle
that was against me: for there were many with me.
 
Psalm 55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that
abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore
they fear not God.
 
Psalm 55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at
peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
 
Psalm 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet
were they drawn swords.
 
Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain
thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
 
Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit
of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
their days; but I will trust in thee.
 
Psalm 56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me
up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
 
Psalm 56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be
many that fight against me, O thou most High.
 
Psalm 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
 
Psalm 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my
trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
 
Psalm 56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts
are against me for evil.
 
Psalm 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide
themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
 
Psalm 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast
down the people, O God.
 
Psalm 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into
thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
 
Psalm 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn
back: this I know; for God is for me.
 
Psalm 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I
praise his word.
 
Psalm 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid
what man can do unto me.
 
Psalm 56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises
unto thee.
 
Psalm 56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt
not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God
in the light of the living?
 
Psalm 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for
my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I
make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
 
Psalm 57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that
performeth all things for me.
 
Psalm 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the
reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send
forth his mercy and his truth.
 
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them
that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are
spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
 
Psalm 57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy
glory be above all the earth.
 
Psalm 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is
bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst
whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
 
Psalm 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will
sing and give praise.
 
Psalm 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I
myself will awake early.
 
Psalm 57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will
sing unto thee among the nations.
 
Psalm 57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy
truth unto the clouds.
 
Psalm 57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy
glory be above all the earth.
 
Psalm 58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do
ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
 
Psalm 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the
violence of your hands in the earth.
 
Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go
astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
 
Psalm 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they
are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
 
Psalm 58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
charming never so wisely.
 
Psalm 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out
the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
 
Psalm 58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually:
when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut
in pieces.
 
Psalm 58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass
away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see
the sun.
 
Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take
them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
 
Psalm 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the
vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
 
Psalm 58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward
for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
 
Psalm 59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me
from them that rise up against me.
 
Psalm 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me
from bloody men.
 
Psalm 59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty
are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my
sin, O LORD.
 
Psalm 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault:
awake to help me, and behold.
 
Psalm 59:5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of
Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any
wicked transgressors. Selah.
 
Psalm 59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a
dog, and go round about the city.
 
Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are
in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
 
Psalm 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt
have all the heathen in derision.
 
Psalm 59:9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for
God is my defence.
 
Psalm 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let
me see my desire upon mine enemies.
 
Psalm 59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them
by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
 
Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their
lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and
lying which they speak.
 
Psalm 59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may
not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends
of the earth. Selah.
 
Psalm 59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a
noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
 
Psalm 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if
they be not satisfied.
 
Psalm 59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing
aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence
and refuge in the day of my trouble.
 
Psalm 59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is
my defence, and the God of my mercy.
 
Psalm 60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered
us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
 
Psalm 60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast
broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
 
Psalm 60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast
made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
 
Psalm 60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,
that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
 
Psalm 60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy
right hand, and hear me.
 
Psalm 60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I
will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
 
Psalm 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also
is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
 
Psalm 60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my
shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
 
Psalm 60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will
lead me into Edom?
 
Psalm 60:10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and
thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
 
Psalm 60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of
man.
 
Psalm 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is
that shall tread down our enemies.
 
Psalm 61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
 
Psalm 61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when
my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than
I.
 
Psalm 61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong
tower from the enemy.
 
Psalm 61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will
trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
 
Psalm 61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given
me the heritage of those that fear thy name.
 
Psalm 61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as
many generations.
 
Psalm 61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy
and truth, which may preserve him.
 
Psalm 61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I
may daily perform my vows.
 
Psalm 62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my
salvation.
 
Psalm 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my
defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
 
Psalm 62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye
shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a
tottering fence.
 
Psalm 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his
excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth,
but they curse inwardly. Selah.
 
Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation
is from him.
 
Psalm 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my
defence; I shall not be moved.
 
Psalm 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my
strength, and my refuge, is in God.
 
Psalm 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your
heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
 
Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high
degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether
lighter than vanity.
 
Psalm 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in
robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
 
Psalm 62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that
power belongeth unto God.
 
Psalm 62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou
renderest to every man according to his work.
 
Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my
soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is;
 
Psalm 63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen
thee in the sanctuary.
 
Psalm 63:3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my
lips shall praise thee.
 
Psalm 63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up
my hands in thy name.
 
Psalm 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and
fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
 
Psalm 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on
thee in the night watches.
 
Psalm 63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the
shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
 
Psalm 63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand
upholdeth me.
 
Psalm 63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go
into the lower parts of the earth.
 
Psalm 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a
portion for foxes.
 
Psalm 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that
sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak
lies shall be stopped.
 
Psalm 64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life
from fear of the enemy.
 
Psalm 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from
the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
 
Psalm 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their
bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
 
Psalm 64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect:
suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
 
Psalm 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they
commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
 
Psalm 64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a
diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them,
and the heart, is deep.
 
Psalm 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly
shall they be wounded.
 
Psalm 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon
themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
 
Psalm 64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work
of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
 
Psalm 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall
trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
 
Psalm 65:1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto
thee shall the vow be performed.
 
Psalm 65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all
flesh come.
 
Psalm 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
 
Psalm 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest
to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall
be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy
temple.
 
Psalm 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer
us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the
ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
 
Psalm 65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains;
being girded with power:
 
Psalm 65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of
their waves, and the tumult of the people.
 
Psalm 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are
afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning
and evening to rejoice.
 
Psalm 65:9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou
greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of
water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for
it.
 
Psalm 65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou
settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers:
thou blessest the springing thereof.
 
Psalm 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy
paths drop fatness.
 
Psalm 65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and
the little hills rejoice on every side.
 
Psalm 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys
also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also
sing.
 
Psalm 66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
 
Psalm 66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise
glorious.
 
Psalm 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works!
through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit
themselves unto thee.
 
Psalm 66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing
unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
 
Psalm 66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his
doing toward the children of men.
 
Psalm 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through
the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
 
Psalm 66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the
nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
 
Psalm 66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of
his praise to be heard:
 
Psalm 66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not
our feet to be moved.
 
Psalm 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried
us, as silver is tried.
 
Psalm 66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst
affliction upon our loins.
 
Psalm 66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we
went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out
into a wealthy place.
 
Psalm 66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I
will pay thee my vows,
 
Psalm 66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath
spoken, when I was in trouble.
 
Psalm 66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of
fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with
goats. Selah.
 
Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will
declare what he hath done for my soul.
 
Psalm 66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled
with my tongue.
 
Psalm 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not
hear me:
 
Psalm 66:19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to
the voice of my prayer.
 
Psalm 66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my
prayer, nor his mercy from me.
 
Psalm 67:1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his
face to shine upon us; Selah.
 
Psalm 67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving
health among all nations.
 
Psalm 67:3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the
people praise thee.
 
Psalm 67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou
shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon
earth. Selah.
 
Psalm 67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the
people praise thee.
 
Psalm 67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God,
even our own God, shall bless us.
 
Psalm 67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth
shall fear him.
 
Psalm 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let
them also that hate him flee before him.
 
Psalm 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax
melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence
of God.
 
Psalm 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice
before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
 
Psalm 68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him
that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before
him.
 
Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the
widows, is God in his holy habitation.
 
Psalm 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth
out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell
in a dry land.
 
Psalm 68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,
when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
 
Psalm 68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the
presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of
God, the God of Israel.
 
Psalm 68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby
thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
 
Psalm 68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God,
hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
 
Psalm 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of
those that published it.
 
Psalm 68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that
tarried at home divided the spoil.
 
Psalm 68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be
as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with
yellow gold.
 
Psalm 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was
white as snow in Salmon.
 
Psalm 68:15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high
hill as the hill of Bashan.
 
Psalm 68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which
God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for
ever.
 
Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even
thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the
holy place.
 
Psalm 68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity
captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the
rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
 
Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with
benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
 
Psalm 68:20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and
unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
 
Psalm 68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and
the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his
trespasses.
 
Psalm 68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I
will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
 
Psalm 68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine
enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
 
Psalm 68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings
of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
 
Psalm 68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments
followed after; among them were the damsels playing with
timbrels.
 
Psalm 68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord,
from the fountain of Israel.
 
Psalm 68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the
princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and
the princes of Naphtali.
 
Psalm 68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O
God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
 
Psalm 68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings
bring presents unto thee.
 
Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of
the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit
himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that
delight in war.
 
Psalm 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall
soon stretch out her hands unto God.
 
Psalm 68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing
praises unto the Lord; Selah:
 
Psalm 68:33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens,
which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a
mighty voice.
 
Psalm 68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is
over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
 
Psalm 68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places:
the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his
people. Blessed be God.
 
Psalm 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my
soul.
 
Psalm 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I
am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
 
Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine
eyes fail while I wait for my God.
 
Psalm 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the
hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine
enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took
not away.
 
Psalm 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are
not hid from thee.
 
Psalm 69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts,
be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be
confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
 
Psalm 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame
hath covered my face.
 
Psalm 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an
alien unto my mother's children.
 
Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and
the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
 
Psalm 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,
that was to my reproach.
 
Psalm 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a
proverb to them.
 
Psalm 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I
was the song of the drunkards.
 
Psalm 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in
an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
in the truth of thy salvation.
 
Psalm 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:
let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep
waters.
 
Psalm 69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the
deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
 
Psalm 69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good:
turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
 
Psalm 69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in
trouble: hear me speedily.
 
Psalm 69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me
because of mine enemies.
 
Psalm 69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my
dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
 
Psalm 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of
heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was
none; and for comforters, but I found none.
 
Psalm 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my
thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
 
Psalm 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and
that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a
trap.
 
Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and
make their loins continually to shake.
 
Psalm 69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy
wrathful anger take hold of them.
 
Psalm 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none
dwell in their tents.
 
Psalm 69:26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and
they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
 
Psalm 69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not
come into thy righteousness.
 
Psalm 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and not be written with the righteous.
 
Psalm 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O
God, set me up on high.
 
Psalm 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will
magnify him with thanksgiving.
 
Psalm 69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox
or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
 
Psalm 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your
heart shall live that seek God.
 
Psalm 69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not
his prisoners.
 
Psalm 69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and
every thing that moveth therein.
 
Psalm 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities
of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
 
Psalm 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and
they that love his name shall dwell therein.
 
Psalm 70:1 MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP
ME, O LORD.
 
Psalm 70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after
my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that
desire my hurt.
 
Psalm 70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame
that say, Aha, aha.
 
Psalm 70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in
thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God
be magnified.
 
Psalm 70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God:
thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
 
Psalm 71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be
put to confusion.
 
Psalm 71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to
escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
 
Psalm 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may
continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for
thou art my rock and my fortress.
 
Psalm 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
 
Psalm 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust
from my youth.
 
Psalm 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou
art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be
continually of thee.
 
Psalm 71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong
refuge.
 
Psalm 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy
honour all the day.
 
Psalm 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me
not when my strength faileth.
 
Psalm 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that
lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
 
Psalm 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take
him; for there is none to deliver him.
 
Psalm 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for
my help.
 
Psalm 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are
adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and
dishonour that seek my hurt.
 
Psalm 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise
thee more and more.
 
Psalm 71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy
salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
 
Psalm 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will
make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
 
Psalm 71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and
hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
 
Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God,
forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this
generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
 
Psalm 71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who
hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
 
Psalm 71:20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles,
shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the
depths of the earth.
 
Psalm 71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on
every side.
 
Psalm 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy
truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy
One of Israel.
 
Psalm 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto
thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
 
Psalm 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all
the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto
shame, that seek my hurt.
 
Psalm 72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy
righteousness unto the king's son.
 
Psalm 72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and
thy poor with judgment.
 
Psalm 72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and
the little hills, by righteousness.
 
Psalm 72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save
the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the
oppressor.
 
Psalm 72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon
endure, throughout all generations.
 
Psalm 72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as
showers that water the earth.
 
Psalm 72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and
abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
 
Psalm 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and
from the river unto the ends of the earth.
 
Psalm 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before
him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
 
Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring
presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
 
Psalm 72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all
nations shall serve him.
 
Psalm 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the
poor also, and him that hath no helper.
 
Psalm 72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save
the souls of the needy.
 
Psalm 72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and
violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
 
Psalm 72:15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the
gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and
daily shall he be praised.
 
Psalm 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon
the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like
Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the
earth.
 
Psalm 72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be
continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him:
all nations shall call him blessed.
 
Psalm 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who
only doeth wondrous things.
 
Psalm 72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let
the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
 
Psalm 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
 
Psalm 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of
a clean heart.
 
Psalm 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps
had well nigh slipped.
 
Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the
prosperity of the wicked.
 
Psalm 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their
strength is firm.
 
Psalm 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are
they plagued like other men.
 
Psalm 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;
violence covereth them as a garment.
 
Psalm 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more
than heart could wish.
 
Psalm 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning
oppression: they speak loftily.
 
Psalm 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their
tongue walketh through the earth.
 
Psalm 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a
full cup are wrung out to them.
 
Psalm 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there
knowledge in the most High?
 
Psalm 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the
world; they increase in riches.
 
Psalm 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed
my hands in innocency.
 
Psalm 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and
chastened every morning.
 
Psalm 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should
offend against the generation of thy children.
 
Psalm 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for
me;
 
Psalm 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then
understood I their end.
 
Psalm 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou
castedst them down into destruction.
 
Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a
moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
 
Psalm 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou
awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
 
Psalm 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my
reins.
 
Psalm 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast
before thee.
 
Psalm 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast
holden me by my right hand.
 
Psalm 73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive me to glory.
 
Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none
upon earth that I desire beside thee.
 
Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the
strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
 
Psalm 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:
thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
 
Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have
put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
 
Psalm 74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth
thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
 
Psalm 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased
of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed;
this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
 
Psalm 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;
even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
 
Psalm 74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
 
Psalm 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes
upon the thick trees.
 
Psalm 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at
once with axes and hammers.
 
Psalm 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have
defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the
ground.
 
Psalm 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them
together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the
land.
 
Psalm 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet:
neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
 
Psalm 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall
the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
 
Psalm 74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?
pluck it out of thy bosom.
 
Psalm 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the
midst of the earth.
 
Psalm 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou
brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
 
Psalm 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and
gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
 
Psalm 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou
driedst up mighty rivers.
 
Psalm 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou
hast prepared the light and the sun.
 
Psalm 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou
hast made summer and winter.
 
Psalm 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O
LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
 
Psalm 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the
multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor
for ever.
 
Psalm 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places
of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
 
Psalm 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the
poor and needy praise thy name.
 
Psalm 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how
the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
 
Psalm 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult
of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
 
Psalm 75:1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we
give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works
declare.
 
Psalm 75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge
uprightly.
 
Psalm 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are
dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
 
Psalm 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to
the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
 
Psalm 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a
stiff neck.
 
Psalm 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from
the west, nor from the south.
 
Psalm 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and
setteth up another.
 
Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the
wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the
same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall
wring them out, and drink them.
 
Psalm 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to
the God of Jacob.
 
Psalm 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off;
but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
 
Psalm 76:1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
 
Psalm 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling
place in Zion.
 
Psalm 76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield,
and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
 
Psalm 76:4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the
mountains of prey.
 
Psalm 76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their
sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
 
Psalm 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and
horse are cast into a dead sleep.
 
Psalm 76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand
in thy sight when once thou art angry?
 
Psalm 76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven;
the earth feared, and was still,
 
Psalm 76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of
the earth. Selah.
 
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the
remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
 
Psalm 76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that
be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be
feared.
 
Psalm 76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is
terrible to the kings of the earth.
 
Psalm 77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with
my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
 
Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore
ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be
comforted.
 
Psalm 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained,
and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 
Psalm 77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that
I cannot speak.
 
Psalm 77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of
ancient times.
 
Psalm 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I
commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
 
Psalm 77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be
favourable no more?
 
Psalm 77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise
fail for evermore?
 
Psalm 77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger
shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
 
Psalm 77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will
remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
 
Psalm 77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I
will remember thy wonders of old.
 
Psalm 77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of
thy doings.
 
Psalm 77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so
great a God as our God?
 
Psalm 77:14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast
declared thy strength among the people.
 
Psalm 77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the
sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
 
Psalm 77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee;
they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
 
Psalm 77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a
sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
 
Psalm 77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the
lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
 
Psalm 77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great
waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
 
Psalm 77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of
Moses and Aaron.
 
Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears
to the words of my mouth.
 
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark
sayings of old:
 
Psalm 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have
told us.
 
Psalm 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing
to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his
strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
 
Psalm 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and
appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that
they should make them known to their children:
 
Psalm 78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even
the children which should be born; who should arise and declare
them to their children:
 
Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not
forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
 
Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and
rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart
aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
 
Psalm 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying
bows, turned back in the day of battle.
 
Psalm 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to
walk in his law;
 
Psalm 78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had
shewed them.
 
Psalm 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their
fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
 
Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass
through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
 
Psalm 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and
all the night with a light of fire.
 
Psalm 78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them
drink as out of the great depths.
 
Psalm 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused
waters to run down like rivers.
 
Psalm 78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking
the most High in the wilderness.
 
Psalm 78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat
for their lust.
 
Psalm 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God
furnish a table in the wilderness?
 
Psalm 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed
out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he
provide flesh for his people?
 
Psalm 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a
fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against
Israel;
 
Psalm 78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not
in his salvation:
 
Psalm 78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and
opened the doors of heaven,
 
Psalm 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had
given them of the corn of heaven.
 
Psalm 78:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the
full.
 
Psalm 78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and
by his power he brought in the south wind.
 
Psalm 78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and
feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
 
Psalm 78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,
round about their habitations.
 
Psalm 78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave
them their own desire;
 
Psalm 78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while
their meat was yet in their mouths,
 
Psalm 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the
fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
 
Psalm 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not
for his wondrous works.
 
Psalm 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and
their years in trouble.
 
Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they
returned and enquired early after God.
 
Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and
the high God their redeemer.
 
Psalm 78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth,
and they lied unto him with their tongues.
 
Psalm 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither
were they stedfast in his covenant.
 
Psalm 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his
anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
 
Psalm 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind
that passeth away, and cometh not again.
 
Psalm 78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and
grieve him in the desert!
 
Psalm 78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited
the Holy One of Israel.
 
Psalm 78:42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he
delivered them from the enemy.
 
Psalm 78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his
wonders in the field of Zoan.
 
Psalm 78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their
floods, that they could not drink.
 
Psalm 78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which
devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
 
Psalm 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller,
and their labour unto the locust.
 
Psalm 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their
sycomore trees with frost.
 
Psalm 78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their
flocks to hot thunderbolts.
 
Psalm 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among
them.
 
Psalm 78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their
soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
 
Psalm 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of
their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
 
Psalm 78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and
guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
 
Psalm 78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not:
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
 
Psalm 78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
 
Psalm 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and
divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of
Israel to dwell in their tents.
 
Psalm 78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,
and kept not his testimonies:
 
Psalm 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their
fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
 
Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high
places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
 
Psalm 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly
abhorred Israel:
 
Psalm 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the
tent which he placed among men;
 
Psalm 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his
glory into the enemy's hand.
 
Psalm 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and
was wroth with his inheritance.
 
Psalm 78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their
maidens were not given to marriage.
 
Psalm 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows
made no lamentation.
 
Psalm 78:65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like
a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
 
Psalm 78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he
put them to a perpetual reproach.
 
Psalm 78:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and
chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
 
Psalm 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which
he loved.
 
Psalm 78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like
the earth which he hath established for ever.
 
Psalm 78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from
the sheepfolds:
 
Psalm 78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought
him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
 
Psalm 78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his
heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
 
Psalm 79:1 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance;
thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on
heaps.
 
Psalm 79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to
be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints
unto the beasts of the earth.
 
Psalm 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about
Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
 
Psalm 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn
and derision to them that are round about us.
 
Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall
thy jealousy burn like fire?
 
Psalm 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not
known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy
name.
 
Psalm 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his
dwelling place.
 
Psalm 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy
tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
 
Psalm 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of
thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's
sake.
 
Psalm 79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their
God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the
revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
 
Psalm 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee;
according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that
are appointed to die;
 
Psalm 79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their
bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O
Lord.
 
Psalm 79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give
thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all
generations.
 
Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest
Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims,
shine forth.
 
Psalm 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy
strength, and come and save us.
 
Psalm 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved.
 
Psalm 80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry
against the prayer of thy people?
 
Psalm 80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and
givest them tears to drink in great measure.
 
Psalm 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our
enemies laugh among themselves.
 
Psalm 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to
shine; and we shall be saved.
 
Psalm 80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast
cast out the heathen, and planted it.
 
Psalm 80:9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it
to take deep root, and it filled the land.
 
Psalm 80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and
the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
 
Psalm 80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her
branches unto the river.
 
Psalm 80:12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that
all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
 
Psalm 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the
wild beast of the field doth devour it.
 
Psalm 80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down
from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
 
Psalm 80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted,
and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
 
Psalm 80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish
at the rebuke of thy countenance.
 
Psalm 80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
 
Psalm 80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and
we will call upon thy name.
 
Psalm 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face
to shine; and we shall be saved.
 
Psalm 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful
noise unto the God of Jacob.
 
Psalm 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the
pleasant harp with the psaltery.
 
Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time
appointed, on our solemn feast day.
 
Psalm 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the
God of Jacob.
 
Psalm 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he
went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that
I understood not.
 
Psalm 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands
were delivered from the pots.
 
Psalm 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I
answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at
the waters of Meribah. Selah.
 
Psalm 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O
Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
 
Psalm 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt
thou worship any strange god.
 
Psalm 81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of
the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
 
Psalm 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and
Israel would none of me.
 
Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and
they walked in their own counsels.
 
Psalm 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel
had walked in my ways!
 
Psalm 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and
turned my hand against their adversaries.
 
Psalm 81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted
themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
 
Psalm 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the
wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied
thee.
 
Psalm 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he
judgeth among the gods.
 
Psalm 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the
persons of the wicked? Selah.
 
Psalm 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the
afflicted and needy.
 
Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand
of the wicked.
 
Psalm 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they
walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of
course.
 
Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are
children of the most High.
 
Psalm 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the
princes.
 
Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt
inherit all nations.
 
Psalm 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace,
and be not still, O God.
 
Psalm 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that
hate thee have lifted up the head.
 
Psalm 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,
and consulted against thy hidden ones.
 
Psalm 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from
being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in
remembrance.
 
Psalm 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent:
they are confederate against thee:
 
Psalm 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of
Moab, and the Hagarenes;
 
Psalm 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with
the inhabitants of Tyre;
 
Psalm 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the
children of Lot. Selah.
 
Psalm 83:9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera,
as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
 
Psalm 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for
the earth.
 
Psalm 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea,
all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
 
Psalm 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of
God in possession.
 
Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble
before the wind.
 
Psalm 83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame
setteth the mountains on fire;
 
Psalm 83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them
afraid with thy storm.
 
Psalm 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy
name, O LORD.
 
Psalm 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea,
let them be put to shame, and perish:
 
Psalm 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is
JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
 
Psalm 84:1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
 
Psalm 84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts
of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
 
Psalm 84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even
thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
 
Psalm 84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will
be still praising thee. Selah.
 
Psalm 84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in
whose heart are the ways of them.
 
Psalm 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a
well; the rain also filleth the pools.
 
Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them
in Zion appeareth before God.
 
Psalm 84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God
of Jacob. Selah.
 
Psalm 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of
thine anointed.
 
Psalm 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to
dwell in the tents of wickedness.
 
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will
give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them
that walk uprightly.
 
Psalm 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth
in thee.
 
Psalm 85:1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou
hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
 
Psalm 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou
hast covered all their sin. Selah.
 
Psalm 85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned
thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
 
Psalm 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine
anger toward us to cease.
 
Psalm 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw
out thine anger to all generations?
 
Psalm 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may
rejoice in thee?
 
Psalm 85:7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy
salvation.
 
Psalm 85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he
will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them
not turn again to folly.
 
Psalm 85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him;
that glory may dwell in our land.
 
Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and
peace have kissed each other.
 
Psalm 85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and
righteousness shall look down from heaven.
 
Psalm 85:12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and
our land shall yield her increase.
 
Psalm 85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us
in the way of his steps.
 
Psalm 86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor
and needy.
 
Psalm 86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save
thy servant that trusteth in thee.
 
Psalm 86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee
daily.
 
Psalm 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O
Lord, do I lift up my soul.
 
Psalm 86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and
plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
 
Psalm 86:6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the
voice of my supplications.
 
Psalm 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for
thou wilt answer me.
 
Psalm 86:8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord;
neither are there any works like unto thy works.
 
Psalm 86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and
worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
 
Psalm 86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou
art God alone.
 
Psalm 86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth:
unite my heart to fear thy name.
 
Psalm 86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my
heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
 
Psalm 86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast
delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
 
Psalm 86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the
assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not
set thee before them.
 
Psalm 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and
gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
 
Psalm 86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy
strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
 
Psalm 86:17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me
may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me,
and comforted me.
 
Psalm 87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
 
Psalm 87:2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the
dwellings of Jacob.
 
Psalm 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.
Selah.
 
Psalm 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them
that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man
was born there.
 
Psalm 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was
born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
 
Psalm 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people,
that this man was born there. Selah.
 
Psalm 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments
shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
 
Psalm 88:1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and
night before thee:
 
Psalm 88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear
unto my cry;
 
Psalm 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth
nigh unto the grave.
 
Psalm 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I
am as a man that hath no strength:
 
Psalm 88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the
grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from
thy hand.
 
Psalm 88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in
the deeps.
 
Psalm 88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast
afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
 
Psalm 88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me;
thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I
cannot come forth.
 
Psalm 88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I
have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto
thee.
 
Psalm 88:10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead
arise and praise thee? Selah.
 
Psalm 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
or thy faithfulness in destruction?
 
Psalm 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy
righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
 
Psalm 88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the
morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
 
Psalm 88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou
thy face from me?
 
Psalm 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:
while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
 
Psalm 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have
cut me off.
 
Psalm 88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they
compassed me about together.
 
Psalm 88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and
mine acquaintance into darkness.
 
Psalm 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever:
with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all
generations.
 
Psalm 89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever:
thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
 
Psalm 89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn
unto David my servant,
 
Psalm 89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy
throne to all generations. Selah.
 
Psalm 89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD:
thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
 
Psalm 89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?
who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
 
Psalm 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the
saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about
him.
 
Psalm 89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto
thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
 
Psalm 89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves
thereof arise, thou stillest them.
 
Psalm 89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is
slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
 
Psalm 89:11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as
for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
 
Psalm 89:12 The north and the south thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
 
Psalm 89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and
high is thy right hand.
 
Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy
throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
 
Psalm 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:
they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
 
Psalm 89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in
thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
 
Psalm 89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in
thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
 
Psalm 89:18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of
Israel is our king.
 
Psalm 89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and
saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted
one chosen out of the people.
 
Psalm 89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil
have I anointed him:
 
Psalm 89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm
also shall strengthen him.
 
Psalm 89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of
wickedness afflict him.
 
Psalm 89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and
plague them that hate him.
 
Psalm 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him:
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
 
Psalm 89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right
hand in the rivers.
 
Psalm 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God,
and the rock of my salvation.
 
Psalm 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the
kings of the earth.
 
Psalm 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my
covenant shall stand fast with him.
 
Psalm 89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and
his throne as the days of heaven.
 
Psalm 89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my
judgments;
 
Psalm 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my
commandments;
 
Psalm 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
 
Psalm 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly
take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
 
Psalm 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing
that is gone out of my lips.
 
Psalm 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not
lie unto David.
 
Psalm 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as
the sun before me.
 
Psalm 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and
as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
 
Psalm 89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been
wroth with thine anointed.
 
Psalm 89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant:
thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
 
Psalm 89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast
brought his strong holds to ruin.
 
Psalm 89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a
reproach to his neighbours.
 
Psalm 89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries;
thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
 
Psalm 89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and
hast not made him to stand in the battle.
 
Psalm 89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his
throne down to the ground.
 
Psalm 89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou
hast covered him with shame. Selah.
 
Psalm 89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
shall thy wrath burn like fire?
 
Psalm 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou
made all men in vain?
 
Psalm 89:48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see
death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
Selah.
 
Psalm 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which
thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
 
Psalm 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I
do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
 
Psalm 89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD;
wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
 
Psalm 89:52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
 
Psalm 90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all
generations.
 
Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever
thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting
to everlasting, thou art God.
 
Psalm 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return,
ye children of men.
 
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
 
Psalm 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as
a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
 
Psalm 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in
the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
 
Psalm 90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath
are we troubled.
 
Psalm 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret
sins in the light of thy countenance.
 
Psalm 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we
spend our years as a tale that is told.
 
Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is
their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we
fly away.
 
Psalm 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even
according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
 
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply
our hearts unto wisdom.
 
Psalm 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee
concerning thy servants.
 
Psalm 90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may
rejoice and be glad all our days.
 
Psalm 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou
hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
 
Psalm 90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy
glory unto their children.
 
Psalm 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:
and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work
of our hands establish thou it.
 
Psalm 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
 
Psalm 91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my
fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
 
Psalm 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the
fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
 
Psalm 91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his
wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and
buckler.
 
Psalm 91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;
nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
 
Psalm 91:6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor
for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
 
Psalm 91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand
at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
 
Psalm 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the
reward of the wicked.
 
Psalm 91:9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge,
even the most High, thy habitation;
 
Psalm 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any
plague come nigh thy dwelling.
 
Psalm 91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to
keep thee in all thy ways.
 
Psalm 91:12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone.
 
Psalm 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young
lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
 
Psalm 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore
will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known
my name.
 
Psalm 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I
will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
 
Psalm 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my
salvation.
 
Psalm 92:1 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND
TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
 
Psalm 92:2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and
thy faithfulness every night,
 
Psalm 92:3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the
psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
 
Psalm 92:4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work:
I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
 
Psalm 92:5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts
are very deep.
 
Psalm 92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool
understand this.
 
Psalm 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all
the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be
destroyed for ever:
 
Psalm 92:8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
 
Psalm 92:9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine
enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be
scattered.
 
Psalm 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an
unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
 
Psalm 92:11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies,
and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up
against me.
 
Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
 
Psalm 92:13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD
shall flourish in the courts of our God.
 
Psalm 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and flourishing;
 
Psalm 92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.
 
Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the
LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself:
the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
 
Psalm 93:2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from
everlasting.
 
Psalm 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have
lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
 
Psalm 93:4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many
waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
 
Psalm 93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh
thine house, O LORD, for ever.
 
Psalm 94:1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to
whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
 
Psalm 94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a
reward to the proud.
 
Psalm 94:3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the
wicked triumph?
 
Psalm 94:4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and
all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
 
Psalm 94:5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict
thine heritage.
 
Psalm 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the
fatherless.
 
Psalm 94:7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall
the God of Jacob regard it.
 
Psalm 94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye
fools, when will ye be wise?
 
Psalm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that
formed the eye, shall he not see?
 
Psalm 94:10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he
correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
 
Psalm 94:11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are
vanity.
 
Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD,
and teachest him out of thy law;
 
Psalm 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of
adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
 
Psalm 94:14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither
will he forsake his inheritance.
 
Psalm 94:15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and
all the upright in heart shall follow it.
 
Psalm 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or
who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
 
Psalm 94:17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had
almost dwelt in silence.
 
Psalm 94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD,
held me up.
 
Psalm 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy
comforts delight my soul.
 
Psalm 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with
thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
 
Psalm 94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of
the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
 
Psalm 94:22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock
of my refuge.
 
Psalm 94:23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity,
and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our
God shall cut them off.
 
Psalm 95:1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a
joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
 
Psalm 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,
and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
 
Psalm 95:3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above
all gods.
 
Psalm 95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the
strength of the hills is his also.
 
Psalm 95:5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed
the dry land.
 
Psalm 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the LORD our maker.
 
Psalm 95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his
pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his
voice,
 
Psalm 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as
in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
 
Psalm 95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
work.
 
Psalm 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this
generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart,
and they have not known my ways:
 
Psalm 95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not
enter into my rest.
 
Psalm 96:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD,
all the earth.
 
Psalm 96:2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his
salvation from day to day.
 
Psalm 96:3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders
among all people.
 
Psalm 96:4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he
is to be feared above all gods.
 
Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the
LORD made the heavens.
 
Psalm 96:6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and
beauty are in his sanctuary.
 
Psalm 96:7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people,
give unto the LORD glory and strength.
 
Psalm 96:8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name:
bring an offering, and come into his courts.
 
Psalm 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear
before him, all the earth.
 
Psalm 96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the
world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he
shall judge the people righteously.
 
Psalm 96:11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
 
Psalm 96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein:
then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
 
Psalm 96:13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to
judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and
the people with his truth.
 
Psalm 97:1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the
multitude of isles be glad thereof.
 
Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him:
righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
 
Psalm 97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies
round about.
 
Psalm 97:4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw,
and trembled.
 
Psalm 97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the
LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
 
Psalm 97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the
people see his glory.
 
Psalm 97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images,
that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
 
Psalm 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah
rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
 
Psalm 97:9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou
art exalted far above all gods.
 
Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the
souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the
wicked.
 
Psalm 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for
the upright in heart.
 
Psalm 97:12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks
at the remembrance of his holiness.
 
Psalm 98:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done
marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten
him the victory.
 
Psalm 98:2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his
righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
 
Psalm 98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward
the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God.
 
Psalm 98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth:
make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
 
Psalm 98:5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and
the voice of a psalm.
 
Psalm 98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful
noise before the LORD, the King.
 
Psalm 98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the
world, and they that dwell therein.
 
Psalm 98:8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be
joyful together
 
Psalm 98:9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth:
with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with
equity.
 
Psalm 99:1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he
sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
 
Psalm 99:2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all
the people.
 
Psalm 99:3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it
is holy.
 
Psalm 99:4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost
establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in
Jacob.
 
Psalm 99:5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his
footstool; for he is holy.
 
Psalm 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among
them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he
answered them.
 
Psalm 99:7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept
his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
 
Psalm 99:8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a
God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their
inventions.
 
Psalm 99:9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy
hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
 
Psalm 100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
 
Psalm 100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his
presence with singing.
 
Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath
made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep
of his pasture.
 
Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into
his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
 
Psalm 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and
his truth endureth to all generations.
 
Psalm 101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O
LORD, will I sing.
 
Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O
when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a
perfect heart.
 
Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate
the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
 
Psalm 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not
know a wicked person.
 
Psalm 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I
cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I
suffer.
 
Psalm 101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land,
that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he
shall serve me.
 
Psalm 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my
house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
 
Psalm 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land;
that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
 
Psalm 102:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto
thee.
 
Psalm 102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in
trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer
me speedily.
 
Psalm 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones
are burned as an hearth.
 
Psalm 102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so
that I forget to eat my bread.
 
Psalm 102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones
cleave to my skin.
 
Psalm 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an
owl of the desert.
 
Psalm 102:7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house
top.
 
Psalm 102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that
are mad against me are sworn against me.
 
Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my
drink with weeping.
 
Psalm 102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for
thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
 
Psalm 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am
withered like grass.
 
Psalm 102:12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy
remembrance unto all generations.
 
Psalm 102:13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for
the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
 
Psalm 102:14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and
favour the dust thereof.
 
Psalm 102:15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD,
and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
 
Psalm 102:16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear
in his glory.
 
Psalm 102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and
not despise their prayer.
 
Psalm 102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come:
and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
 
Psalm 102:19 For he hath looked down from the height of his
sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
 
Psalm 102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose
those that are appointed to death;
 
Psalm 102:21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his
praise in Jerusalem;
 
Psalm 102:22 When the people are gathered together, and the
kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
 
Psalm 102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened
my days.
 
Psalm 102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of
my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
 
Psalm 102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth:
and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
 
Psalm 102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all
of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou
change them, and they shall be changed:
 
Psalm 102:27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no
end.
 
Psalm 102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and
their seed shall be established before thee.
 
Psalm 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within
me, bless his holy name.
 
Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits:
 
Psalm 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all
thy diseases;
 
Psalm 103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who
crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
 
Psalm 103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that
thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
 
Psalm 103:6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for
all that are oppressed.
 
Psalm 103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto
the children of Israel.
 
Psalm 103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger,
and plenteous in mercy.
 
Psalm 103:9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his
anger for ever.
 
Psalm 103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor
rewarded us according to our iniquities.
 
Psalm 103:11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so
great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
 
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath
he removed our transgressions from us.
 
Psalm 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD
pitieth them that fear him.
 
Psalm 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we
are dust.
 
Psalm 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of
the field, so he flourisheth.
 
Psalm 103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and
the place thereof shall know it no more.
 
Psalm 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to
everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto
children's children;
 
Psalm 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that
remember his commandments to do them.
 
Psalm 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens;
and his kingdom ruleth over all.
 
Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in
strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of
his word.
 
Psalm 103:21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers
of his, that do his pleasure.
 
Psalm 103:22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his
dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
 
Psalm 104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art
very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
 
Psalm 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment:
who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
 
Psalm 104:3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters:
who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of
the wind:
 
Psalm 104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a
flaming fire:
 
Psalm 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it
should not be removed for ever.
 
Psalm 104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment:
the waters stood above the mountains.
 
Psalm 104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy
thunder they hasted away.
 
Psalm 104:8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the
valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
 
Psalm 104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over;
that they turn not again to cover the earth.
 
Psalm 104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run
among the hills.
 
Psalm 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the
wild asses quench their thirst.
 
Psalm 104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their
habitation, which sing among the branches.
 
Psalm 104:13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth
is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
 
Psalm 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and
herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of
the earth;
 
Psalm 104:15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and
oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth
man's heart.
 
Psalm 104:16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars
of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
 
Psalm 104:17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the
stork, the fir trees are her house.
 
Psalm 104:18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats;
and the rocks for the conies.
 
Psalm 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth
his going down.
 
Psalm 104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all
the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
 
Psalm 104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek
their meat from God.
 
Psalm 104:22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together,
and lay them down in their dens.
 
Psalm 104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour
until the evening.
 
Psalm 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast
thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
 
Psalm 104:25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things
creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
 
Psalm 104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom
thou hast made to play therein.
 
Psalm 104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give
them their meat in due season.
 
Psalm 104:28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest
thine hand, they are filled with good.
 
Psalm 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou
takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
 
Psalm 104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created:
and thou renewest the face of the earth.
 
Psalm 104:31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the
LORD shall rejoice in his works.
 
Psalm 104:32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he
toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
 
Psalm 104:33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I
will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
 
Psalm 104:34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be
glad in the LORD.
 
Psalm 104:35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and
let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise
ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 105:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name:
make known his deeds among the people.
 
Psalm 105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all
his wondrous works.
 
Psalm 105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them
rejoice that seek the LORD.
 
Psalm 105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face
evermore.
 
Psalm 105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
 
Psalm 105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of
Jacob his chosen.
 
Psalm 105:7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all
the earth.
 
Psalm 105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word
which he commanded to a thousand generations.
 
Psalm 105:9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath
unto Isaac;
 
Psalm 105:10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and
to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
 
Psalm 105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan,
the lot of your inheritance:
 
Psalm 105:12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very
few, and strangers in it.
 
Psalm 105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from
one kingdom to another people;
 
Psalm 105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he
reproved kings for their sakes;
 
Psalm 105:15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my
prophets no harm.
 
Psalm 105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he
brake the whole staff of bread.
 
Psalm 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was
sold for a servant:
 
Psalm 105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in
iron:
 
Psalm 105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the
LORD tried him.
 
Psalm 105:20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of
the people, and let him go free.
 
Psalm 105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all
his substance:
 
Psalm 105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his
senators wisdom.
 
Psalm 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned
in the land of Ham.
 
Psalm 105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them
stronger than their enemies.
 
Psalm 105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal
subtilly with his servants.
 
Psalm 105:26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had
chosen.
 
Psalm 105:27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in
the land of Ham.
 
Psalm 105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they
rebelled not against his word.
 
Psalm 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their
fish.
 
Psalm 105:30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in
the chambers of their kings.
 
Psalm 105:31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies,
and lice in all their coasts.
 
Psalm 105:32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in
their land.
 
Psalm 105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and
brake the trees of their coasts.
 
Psalm 105:34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers,
and that without number,
 
Psalm 105:35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and
devoured the fruit of their ground.
 
Psalm 105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the
chief of all their strength.
 
Psalm 105:37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold:
and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
 
Psalm 105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of
them fell upon them.
 
Psalm 105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give
light in the night.
 
Psalm 105:40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and
satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
 
Psalm 105:41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out;
they ran in the dry places like a river.
 
Psalm 105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham
his servant.
 
Psalm 105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his
chosen with gladness:
 
Psalm 105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they
inherited the labour of the people;
 
Psalm 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his
laws. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 106:1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD;
for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can
shew forth all his praise?
 
Psalm 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that
doeth righteousness at all times.
 
Psalm 106:4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou
bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
 
Psalm 106:5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may
rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with
thine inheritance.
 
Psalm 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed
iniquity, we have done wickedly.
 
Psalm 106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;
they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked
him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
 
Psalm 106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,
that he might make his mighty power to be known.
 
Psalm 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up:
so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
 
Psalm 106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated
them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
 
Psalm 106:11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was
not one of them left.
 
Psalm 106:12 Then believed they his words; they sang his
praise.
 
Psalm 106:13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for
his counsel:
 
Psalm 106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and
tempted God in the desert.
 
Psalm 106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness
into their soul.
 
Psalm 106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the
saint of the LORD.
 
Psalm 106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and
covered the company of Abiram.
 
Psalm 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame
burned up the wicked.
 
Psalm 106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the
molten image.
 
Psalm 106:20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude
of an ox that eateth grass.
 
Psalm 106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done
great things in Egypt;
 
Psalm 106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible
things by the Red sea.
 
Psalm 106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had
not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away
his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
 
Psalm 106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they
believed not his word:
 
Psalm 106:25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not
unto the voice of the LORD.
 
Psalm 106:26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to
overthrow them in the wilderness:
 
Psalm 106:27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations,
and to scatter them in the lands.
 
Psalm 106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate
the sacrifices of the dead.
 
Psalm 106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their
inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
 
Psalm 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and
so the plague was stayed.
 
Psalm 106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness
unto all generations for evermore.
 
Psalm 106:32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so
that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
 
Psalm 106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake
unadvisedly with his lips.
 
Psalm 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom
the LORD commanded them:
 
Psalm 106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned
their works.
 
Psalm 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare
unto them.
 
Psalm 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their
daughters unto devils,
 
Psalm 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their
sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols
of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
 
Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and
went a whoring with their own inventions.
 
Psalm 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled
against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own
inheritance.
 
Psalm 106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and
they that hated them ruled over them.
 
Psalm 106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were
brought into subjection under their hand.
 
Psalm 106:43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked
him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
 
Psalm 106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he
heard their cry:
 
Psalm 106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and
repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
 
Psalm 106:46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that
carried them captives.
 
Psalm 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among
the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in
thy praise.
 
Psalm 106:48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting
to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the
LORD.
 
Psalm 107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath
redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
 
Psalm 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east,
and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
 
Psalm 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way;
they found no city to dwell in.
 
Psalm 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
 
Psalm 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and
he delivered them out of their distresses.
 
Psalm 107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they
might go to a city of habitation.
 
Psalm 107:8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness,
and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
 
Psalm 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the
hungry soul with goodness.
 
Psalm 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of
death, being bound in affliction and iron;
 
Psalm 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God,
and contemned the counsel of the most High:
 
Psalm 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour;
they fell down, and there was none to help.
 
Psalm 107:13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble,
and he saved them out of their distresses.
 
Psalm 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of
death, and brake their bands in sunder.
 
Psalm 107:15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his
goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
 
Psalm 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the
bars of iron in sunder.
 
Psalm 107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because
of their iniquities, are afflicted.
 
Psalm 107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they
draw near unto the gates of death.
 
Psalm 107:19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and
he saveth them out of their distresses.
 
Psalm 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered
them from their destructions.
 
Psalm 107:21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his
goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
 
Psalm 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of
thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
 
Psalm 107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do
business in great waters;
 
Psalm 107:24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders
in the deep.
 
Psalm 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind,
which lifteth up the waves thereof.
 
Psalm 107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to
the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
 
Psalm 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man, and are at their wit's end.
 
Psalm 107:28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and
he bringeth them out of their distresses.
 
Psalm 107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves
thereof are still.
 
Psalm 107:30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he
bringeth them unto their desired haven.
 
Psalm 107:31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his
goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
 
Psalm 107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the
people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
 
Psalm 107:33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the
watersprings into dry ground;
 
Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the
wickedness of them that dwell therein.
 
Psalm 107:35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water,
and dry ground into watersprings.
 
Psalm 107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they
may prepare a city for habitation;
 
Psalm 107:37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may
yield fruits of increase.
 
Psalm 107:38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied
greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
 
Psalm 107:39 Again, they are minished and brought low through
oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
 
Psalm 107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them
to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
 
Psalm 107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction,
and maketh him families like a flock.
 
Psalm 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all
iniquity shall stop her mouth.
 
Psalm 107:43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even
they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
 
Psalm 108:1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give
praise, even with my glory.
 
Psalm 108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake
early.
 
Psalm 108:3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I
will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
 
Psalm 108:4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy
truth reacheth unto the clouds.
 
Psalm 108:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy
glory above all the earth;
 
Psalm 108:6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy
right hand, and answer me.
 
Psalm 108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I
will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
 
Psalm 108:8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is
the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
 
Psalm 108:9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my
shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
 
Psalm 108:10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will
lead me into Edom?
 
Psalm 108:11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and
wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
 
Psalm 108:12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of
man.
 
Psalm 108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is
that shall tread down our enemies.
 
Psalm 109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
 
Psalm 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the
deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with
a lying tongue.
 
Psalm 109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred;
and fought against me without a cause.
 
Psalm 109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give
myself unto prayer.
 
Psalm 109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred
for my love.
 
Psalm 109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand
at his right hand.
 
Psalm 109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and
let his prayer become sin.
 
Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
 
Psalm 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a
widow.
 
Psalm 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and
beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
 
Psalm 109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and
let the strangers spoil his labour.
 
Psalm 109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:
neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
 
Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the
generation following let their name be blotted out.
 
Psalm 109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
 
Psalm 109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he
may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
 
Psalm 109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but
persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the
broken in heart.
 
Psalm 109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as
he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
 
Psalm 109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with
his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like
oil into his bones.
 
Psalm 109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth
him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
 
Psalm 109:20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from
the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
 
Psalm 109:21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's
sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
 
Psalm 109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded
within me.
 
Psalm 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am
tossed up and down as the locust.
 
Psalm 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh
faileth of fatness.
 
Psalm 109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they
looked upon me they shaked their heads.
 
Psalm 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy
mercy:
 
Psalm 109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that
thou, LORD, hast done it.
 
Psalm 109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise,
let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
 
Psalm 109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and
let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a
mantle.
 
Psalm 109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea,
I will praise him among the multitude.
 
Psalm 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
to save him from those that condemn his soul.
 
Psalm 110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right
hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
 
Psalm 110:2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of
Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
 
Psalm 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy
power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning:
thou hast the dew of thy youth.
 
Psalm 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art
a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
 
Psalm 110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through
kings in the day of his wrath.
 
Psalm 110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the
places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many
countries.
 
Psalm 110:7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore
shall he lift up the head.
 
Psalm 111:1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my
whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the
congregation.
 
Psalm 111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all
them that have pleasure therein.
 
Psalm 111:3 His work is honourable and glorious: and his
righteousness endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered:
the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
 
Psalm 111:5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will
ever be mindful of his covenant.
 
Psalm 111:6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works,
that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
 
Psalm 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all
his commandments are sure.
 
Psalm 111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in
truth and uprightness.
 
Psalm 111:9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath
commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
 
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a
good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his
praise endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 112:1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth
the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
 
Psalm 112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation
of the upright shall be blessed.
 
Psalm 112:3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his
righteousness endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the
darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
 
Psalm 112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will
guide his affairs with discretion.
 
Psalm 112:6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the
righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
 
Psalm 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart
is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
 
Psalm 112:8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid,
until he see his desire upon his enemies.
 
Psalm 112:9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his
righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with
honour.
 
Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall
gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked
shall perish.
 
Psalm 113:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the
LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
 
Psalm 113:2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time
forth and for evermore.
 
Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of
the same the LORD's name is to be praised.
 
Psalm 113:4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory
above the heavens.
 
Psalm 113:5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on
high,
 
Psalm 113:6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are
in heaven, and in the earth!
 
Psalm 113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth
the needy out of the dunghill;
 
Psalm 113:8 That he may set him with princes, even with the
princes of his people.
 
Psalm 113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be
a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob
from a people of strange language;
 
Psalm 114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
 
Psalm 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
 
Psalm 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little
hills like lambs.
 
Psalm 114:5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest?
thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
 
Psalm 114:6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye
little hills, like lambs?
 
Psalm 114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob;
 
Psalm 114:8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the
flint into a fountain of waters.
 
Psalm 115:1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name
give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
 
Psalm 115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now
their God?
 
Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done
whatsoever he hath pleased.
 
Psalm 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's
hands.
 
Psalm 115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have
they, but they see not:
 
Psalm 115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they,
but they smell not:
 
Psalm 115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have
they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
 
Psalm 115:8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every
one that trusteth in them.
 
Psalm 115:9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help
and their shield.
 
Psalm 115:10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their
help and their shield.
 
Psalm 115:11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is
their help and their shield.
 
Psalm 115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless
us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of
Aaron.
 
Psalm 115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small
and great.
 
Psalm 115:14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and
your children.
 
Psalm 115:15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and
earth.
 
Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but
the earth hath he given to the children of men.
 
Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go
down into silence.
 
Psalm 115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth
and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
 
Psalm 116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and
my supplications.
 
Psalm 116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore
will I call upon him as long as I live.
 
Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of
hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
 
Psalm 116:4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I
beseech thee, deliver my soul.
 
Psalm 116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God
is merciful.
 
Psalm 116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low,
and he helped me.
 
Psalm 116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath
dealt bountifully with thee.
 
Psalm 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine
eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
 
Psalm 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the
living.
 
Psalm 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly
afflicted:
 
Psalm 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
 
Psalm 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his
benefits toward me?
 
Psalm 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon
the name of the LORD.
 
Psalm 116:14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the
presence of all his people.
 
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of
his saints.
 
Psalm 116:16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant,
and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
 
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of
thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
 
Psalm 116:18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the
presence of all his people.
 
Psalm 116:19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of
thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 117:1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all
ye people.
 
Psalm 117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and
the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 118:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good:
because his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 118:4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 118:5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD
answered me, and set me in a large place.
 
Psalm 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can
man do unto me?
 
Psalm 118:7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me:
therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
 
Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in man.
 
Psalm 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in princes.
 
Psalm 118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of
the LORD will I destroy them.
 
Psalm 118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me
about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
 
Psalm 118:12 They compassed me about like bees: they are
quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I
will destroy them.
 
Psalm 118:13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but
the LORD helped me.
 
Psalm 118:14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my
salvation.
 
Psalm 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the
tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth
valiantly.
 
Psalm 118:16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right
hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
 
Psalm 118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works
of the LORD.
 
Psalm 118:18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not
given me over unto death.
 
Psalm 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go
into them, and I will praise the LORD:
 
Psalm 118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous
shall enter.
 
Psalm 118:21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and
art become my salvation.
 
Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the
head stone of the corner.
 
Psalm 118:23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our
eyes.
 
Psalm 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will
rejoice and be glad in it.
 
Psalm 118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I
beseech thee, send now prosperity.
 
Psalm 118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD:
we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
 
Psalm 118:27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind
the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
 
Psalm 118:28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art
my God, I will exalt thee.
 
Psalm 118:29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in
the law of the LORD.
 
Psalm 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and
that seek him with the whole heart.
 
Psalm 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
 
Psalm 119:4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts
diligently.
 
Psalm 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
 
Psalm 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect
unto all thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when
I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
 
Psalm 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
 
Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by
taking heed thereto according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me
not wander from thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might
not sin against thee.
 
Psalm 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of
thy mouth.
 
Psalm 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as
much as in all riches.
 
Psalm 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect
unto thy ways.
 
Psalm 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not
forget thy word.
 
Psalm 119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may
live, and keep thy word.
 
Psalm 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous
things out of thy law.
 
Psalm 119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy
commandments from me.
 
Psalm 119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto
thy judgments at all times.
 
Psalm 119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which
do err from thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have
kept thy testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy
servant did meditate in thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my
counsellors.leth.
 
Psalm 119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me
according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me:
teach me thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so
shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
 
Psalm 119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me
according unto thy word.
 
Psalm 119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy
law graciously.
 
Psalm 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have
I laid before me.
 
Psalm 119:31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me
not to shame.
 
Psalm 119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou
shalt enlarge my heart.
 
Psalm 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I
shall keep it unto the end.
 
Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law;
yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
 
Psalm 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for
therein do I delight.
 
Psalm 119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to
covetousness.
 
Psalm 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and
quicken thou me in thy way.
 
Psalm 119:38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted
to thy fear.
 
Psalm 119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy
judgments are good.
 
Psalm 119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken
me in thy righteousness.
 
Psalm 119:41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even
thy salvation, according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that
reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
 
Psalm 119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my
mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
 
Psalm 119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and
ever.
 
Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy
precepts.
 
Psalm 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings,
and will not be ashamed.
 
Psalm 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments,
which I have loved.
 
Psalm 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy
commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy
statutes.
 
Psalm 119:49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which
thou hast caused me to hope.
 
Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word
hath quickened me.
 
Psalm 119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet
have I not declined from thy law.
 
Psalm 119:52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and
have comforted myself.
 
Psalm 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the
wicked that forsake thy law.
 
Psalm 119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my
pilgrimage.
 
Psalm 119:55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night,
and have kept thy law.
 
Psalm 119:56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
 
Psalm 119:57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I
would keep thy words.
 
Psalm 119:58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be
merciful unto me according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy
testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy
commandments.
 
Psalm 119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have
not forgotten thy law.
 
Psalm 119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee
because of thy righteous judgments.
 
Psalm 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and
of them that keep thy precepts.
 
Psalm 119:64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me
thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD,
according unto thy word.
 
Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have
believed thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have
I kept thy word.
 
Psalm 119:68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy
statutes.
 
Psalm 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will
keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
 
Psalm 119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in
thy law.
 
Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that
I might learn thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than
thousands of gold and silver.
 
Psalm 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me;
because I have hoped in thy word.
 
Psalm 119:75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and
that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
 
Psalm 119:76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my
comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
 
Psalm 119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may
live: for thy law is my delight.
 
Psalm 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt
perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy
precepts.
 
Psalm 119:79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those
that have known thy testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be
not ashamed.
 
Psalm 119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in
thy word.
 
Psalm 119:82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt
thou comfort me?
 
Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do
I not forget thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt
thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
 
Psalm 119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not
after thy law.
 
Psalm 119:86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute
me wrongfully; help thou me.
 
Psalm 119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I
forsook not thy precepts.
 
Psalm 119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I
keep the testimony of thy mouth.
 
Psalm 119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
 
Psalm 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou
hast established the earth, and it abideth.
 
Psalm 119:91 They continue this day according to thine
ordinances: for all are thy servants.
 
Psalm 119:92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then
have perished in mine affliction.
 
Psalm 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them
thou hast quickened me.
 
Psalm 119:94 I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy
precepts.
 
Psalm 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I
will consider thy testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy
commandment is exceeding broad.
 
Psalm 119:97 O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the
day.
 
Psalm 119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser
than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
 
Psalm 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers:
for thy testimonies are my meditation.
 
Psalm 119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I
keep thy precepts.
 
Psalm 119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way,
that I might keep thy word.
 
Psalm 119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou
hast taught me.
 
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
 
Psalm 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding:
therefore I hate every false way.
 
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto
my path.
 
Psalm 119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will
keep thy righteous judgments.
 
Psalm 119:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD,
according unto thy word.
 
Psalm 119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of
my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
 
Psalm 119:109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not
forget thy law.
 
Psalm 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred
not from thy precepts.
 
Psalm 119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for
ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
 
Psalm 119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy
statutes alway, even unto the end.
 
Psalm 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
 
Psalm 119:114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in
thy word.
 
Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the
commandments of my God.
 
Psalm 119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may
live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
 
Psalm 119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will
have respect unto thy statutes continually.
 
Psalm 119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy
statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
 
Psalm 119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth
like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am
afraid of thy judgments.
 
Psalm 119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to
mine oppressors.
 
Psalm 119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the
proud oppress me.
 
Psalm 119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the
word of thy righteousness.
 
Psalm 119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy,
and teach me thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I
may know thy testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have
made void thy law.
 
Psalm 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold;
yea, above fine gold.
 
Psalm 119:128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning
all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
 
Psalm 119:129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my
soul keep them.
 
Psalm 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
understanding unto the simple.
 
Psalm 119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for
thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as
thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
 
Psalm 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any
iniquity have dominion over me.
 
Psalm 119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I
keep thy precepts.
 
Psalm 119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and
teach me thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they
keep not thy law.
 
Psalm 119:137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy
judgments.
 
Psalm 119:138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are
righteous and very faithful.
 
Psalm 119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies
have forgotten thy words.
 
Psalm 119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant
loveth it.
 
Psalm 119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy
precepts.
 
Psalm 119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting
righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
 
Psalm 119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet
thy commandments are my delights.
 
Psalm 119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is
everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
 
Psalm 119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I
will keep thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy
testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and
cried: I hoped in thy word.
 
Psalm 119:148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might
meditate in thy word.
 
Psalm 119:149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness:
O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
 
Psalm 119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they
are far from thy law.
 
Psalm 119:151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments
are truth.
 
Psalm 119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old
that thou hast founded them for ever.
 
Psalm 119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I
do not forget thy law.
 
Psalm 119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me
according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek
not thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me
according to thy judgments.
 
Psalm 119:157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do
I not decline from thy testimonies.
 
Psalm 119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved;
because they kept not thy word.
 
Psalm 119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O
LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
 
Psalm 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every
one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but
my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
 
Psalm 119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great
spoil.
 
Psalm 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
 
Psalm 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy
righteous judgments.
 
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and
nothing shall offend them.
 
Psalm 119:166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done
thy commandments.
 
Psalm 119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love
them exceedingly.
 
Psalm 119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for
all my ways are before thee.
 
Psalm 119:169 Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me
understanding according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me
according to thy word.
 
Psalm 119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught
me thy statutes.
 
Psalm 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy
commandments are righteousness.
 
Psalm 119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy
precepts.
 
Psalm 119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy
law is my delight.
 
Psalm 119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and
let thy judgments help me.
 
Psalm 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy
servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
 
Psalm 120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard
me.
 
Psalm 120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from
a deceitful tongue.
 
Psalm 120:3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be
done unto thee, thou false tongue?
 
Psalm 120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
 
Psalm 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell
in the tents of Kedar!
 
Psalm 120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
 
Psalm 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
 
Psalm 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from
whence cometh my help.
 
Psalm 121:2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and
earth.
 
Psalm 121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that
keepeth thee will not slumber.
 
Psalm 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither
slumber nor sleep.
 
Psalm 121:5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon
thy right hand.
 
Psalm 121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon
by night.
 
Psalm 121:7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he
shall preserve thy soul.
 
Psalm 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy
coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
 
Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into
the house of the LORD.
 
Psalm 122:2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
 
Psalm 122:3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact
together:
 
Psalm 122:4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD,
unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the
LORD.
 
Psalm 122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones
of the house of David.
 
Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper
that love thee.
 
Psalm 122:7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within
thy palaces.
 
Psalm 122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now
say, Peace be within thee.
 
Psalm 122:9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will
seek thy good.
 
Psalm 123:1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest
in the heavens.
 
Psalm 123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand
of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that
he have mercy upon us.
 
Psalm 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for
we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
 
Psalm 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of
those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
 
Psalm 124:1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
now may Israel say;
 
Psalm 124:2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
when men rose up against us:
 
Psalm 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their
wrath was kindled against us:
 
Psalm 124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had
gone over our soul:
 
Psalm 124:5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
 
Psalm 124:6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a
prey to their teeth.
 
Psalm 124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of
the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
 
Psalm 124:8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made
heaven and earth.
 
Psalm 125:1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion,
which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
 
Psalm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the
LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
 
Psalm 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the
lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands
unto iniquity.
 
Psalm 125:4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to
them that are upright in their hearts.
 
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways,
the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but
peace shall be upon Israel.
 
Psalm 126:1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion,
we were like them that dream.
 
Psalm 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our
tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD
hath done great things for them.
 
Psalm 126:3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we
are glad.
 
Psalm 126:4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in
the south.
 
Psalm 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
 
Psalm 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious
seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him.
 
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in
vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman
waketh but in vain.
 
Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up
late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved
sleep.
 
Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the
fruit of the womb is his reward.
 
Psalm 127:4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are
children of the youth.
 
Psalm 127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies
in the gate.
 
Psalm 128:1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that
walketh in his ways.
 
Psalm 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy
shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
 
Psalm 128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides
of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy
table.
 
Psalm 128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that
feareth the LORD.
 
Psalm 128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou
shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
 
Psalm 128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and
peace upon Israel.
 
Psalm 129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth,
may Israel now say:
 
Psalm 129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth:
yet they have not prevailed against me.
 
Psalm 129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long
their furrows.
 
Psalm 129:4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the
cords of the wicked.
 
Psalm 129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that
hate Zion.
 
Psalm 129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which
withereth afore it groweth up:
 
Psalm 129:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he
that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
 
Psalm 129:8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of
the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
 
Psalm 130:1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
 
Psalm 130:2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to
the voice of my supplications.
 
Psalm 130:3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord,
who shall stand?
 
Psalm 130:4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou
mayest be feared.
 
Psalm 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his
word do I hope.
 
Psalm 130:6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that
watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the
morning.
 
Psalm 130:7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD
there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
 
Psalm 130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
 
Psalm 131:1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:
neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too
high for me.
 
Psalm 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a
child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned
child.
 
Psalm 131:3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for
ever.
 
Psalm 132:1 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
 
Psalm 132:2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the
mighty God of Jacob;
 
Psalm 132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my
house, nor go up into my bed;
 
Psalm 132:4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to
mine eyelids,
 
Psalm 132:5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an
habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
 
Psalm 132:6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the
fields of the wood.
 
Psalm 132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at
his footstool.
 
Psalm 132:8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of
thy strength.
 
Psalm 132:9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and
let thy saints shout for joy.
 
Psalm 132:10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the
face of thine anointed.
 
Psalm 132:11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will
not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy
throne.
 
Psalm 132:12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my
testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit
upon thy throne for evermore.
 
Psalm 132:13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it
for his habitation.
 
Psalm 132:14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I
have desired it.
 
Psalm 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will
satisfy her poor with bread.
 
Psalm 132:16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and
her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
 
Psalm 132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have
ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
 
Psalm 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon
himself shall his crown flourish.
 
Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity!
 
Psalm 133:2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head,
that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down
to the skirts of his garments;
 
Psalm 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended
upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the
blessing, even life for evermore.
 
Psalm 134:1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the
LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
 
Psalm 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the
LORD.
 
Psalm 134:3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out
of Zion.
 
Psalm 135:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD;
praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.
 
Psalm 135:2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the
courts of the house of our God.
 
Psalm 135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises
unto his name; for it is pleasant.
 
Psalm 135:4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and
Israel for his peculiar treasure.
 
Psalm 135:5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our
Lord is above all gods.
 
Psalm 135:6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven,
and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
 
Psalm 135:7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of
the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the
wind out of his treasuries.
 
Psalm 135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and
beast.
 
Psalm 135:9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee,
O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
 
Psalm 135:10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
 
Psalm 135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
 
Psalm 135:12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage
unto Israel his people.
 
Psalm 135:13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy
memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
 
Psalm 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will
repent himself concerning his servants.
 
Psalm 135:15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the
work of men's hands.
 
Psalm 135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have
they, but they see not;
 
Psalm 135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is
there any breath in their mouths.
 
Psalm 135:18 They that make them are like unto them: so is
every one that trusteth in them.
 
Psalm 135:19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD,
O house of Aaron:
 
Psalm 135:20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the
LORD, bless the LORD.
 
Psalm 135:21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at
Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 136:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the
waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
 
Psalm 136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for
his mercy endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for
his mercy endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:16 To him which led his people through the
wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
 
Psalm 136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
 
Psalm 136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
 
Psalm 136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
 
Psalm 136:24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 136:26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
 
Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea,
we wept, when we remembered Zion.
 
Psalm 137:2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst
thereof.
 
Psalm 137:3 For there they that carried us away captive
required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us
mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
 
Psalm 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange
land?
 
Psalm 137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand
forget her cunning.
 
Psalm 137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to
the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy.
 
Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day
of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation
thereof.
 
Psalm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;
happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
 
Psalm 137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy
little ones against the stones.
 
Psalm 138:1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the
gods will I sing praise unto thee.
 
Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise
thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast
magnified thy word above all thy name.
 
Psalm 138:3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and
strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
 
Psalm 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O
LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
 
Psalm 138:5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for
great is the glory of the LORD.
 
Psalm 138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto
the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
 
Psalm 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt
revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath
of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
 
Psalm 138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy
mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine
own hands.
 
Psalm 139:1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
 
Psalm 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
understandest my thought afar off.
 
Psalm 139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art
acquainted with all my ways.
 
Psalm 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O
LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
 
Psalm 139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid
thine hand upon me.
 
Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high,
I cannot attain unto it.
 
Psalm 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither
shall I flee from thy presence?
 
Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I
make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
 
Psalm 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in
the uttermost parts of the sea;
 
Psalm 139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right
hand shall hold me.
 
Psalm 139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even
the night shall be light about me.
 
Psalm 139:12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the
night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both
alike to thee.
 
Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast
covered me in my mother's womb.
 
Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul
knoweth right well.
 
Psalm 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was
made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the
earth.
 
Psalm 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being
unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
 
Psalm 139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
how great is the sum of them!
 
Psalm 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number
than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
 
Psalm 139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart
from me therefore, ye bloody men.
 
Psalm 139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine
enemies take thy name in vain.
 
Psalm 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am
not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
 
Psalm 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine
enemies.
 
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and
know my thoughts:
 
Psalm 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead
me in the way everlasting.
 
Psalm 140:1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me
from the violent man;
 
Psalm 140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually
are they gathered together for war.
 
Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent;
adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
 
Psalm 140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow
my goings.
 
Psalm 140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they
have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me.
Selah.
 
Psalm 140:6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the
voice of my supplications, O LORD.
 
Psalm 140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou
hast covered my head in the day of battle.
 
Psalm 140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked:
further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
 
Psalm 140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let
the mischief of their own lips cover them.
 
Psalm 140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast
into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
 
Psalm 140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the
earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
 
Psalm 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of
the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
 
Psalm 140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy
name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
 
Psalm 141:1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear
unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
 
Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense;
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
 
Psalm 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door
of my lips.
 
Psalm 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise
wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of
their dainties.
 
Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness:
and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall
not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their
calamities.
 
Psalm 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places,
they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
 
Psalm 141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as
when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
 
Psalm 141:8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in
thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
 
Psalm 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for
me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
 
Psalm 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst
that I withal escape.
 
Psalm 142:1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice
unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
 
Psalm 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed
before him my trouble.
 
Psalm 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou
knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily
laid a snare for me.
 
Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there
was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for
my soul.
 
Psalm 142:5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my
refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
 
Psalm 142:6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low:
deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
 
Psalm 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy
name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal
bountifully with me.
 
Psalm 143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my
supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy
righteousness.
 
Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for
in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
 
Psalm 143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath
smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in
darkness, as those that have been long dead.
 
Psalm 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my
heart within me is desolate.
 
Psalm 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy
works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
 
Psalm 143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul
thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
 
Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide
not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into
the pit.
 
Psalm 143:8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;
for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should
walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
 
Psalm 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto
thee to hide me.
 
Psalm 143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy
spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
 
Psalm 143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy
righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
 
Psalm 143:12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy
all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
 
Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my
hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
 
Psalm 144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my
deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my
people under me.
 
Psalm 144:3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of
him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
 
Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow
that passeth away.
 
Psalm 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the
mountains, and they shall smoke.
 
Psalm 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out
thine arrows, and destroy them.
 
Psalm 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me
out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
 
Psalm 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand
is a right hand of falsehood.
 
Psalm 144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a
psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises
unto thee.
 
Psalm 144:10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who
delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
 
Psalm 144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange
children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a
right hand of falsehood:
 
Psalm 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their
youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after
the similitude of a palace:
 
Psalm 144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner
of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten
thousands in our streets:
 
Psalm 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there
be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in
our streets.
 
Psalm 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea,
happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
 
Psalm 145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless
thy name for ever and ever.
 
Psalm 145:2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy
name for ever and ever.
 
Psalm 145:3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and
his greatness is unsearchable.
 
Psalm 145:4 One generation shall praise thy works to another,
and shall declare thy mighty acts.
 
Psalm 145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty,
and of thy wondrous works.
 
Psalm 145:6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible
acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
 
Psalm 145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great
goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
 
Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow
to anger, and of great mercy.
 
Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are
over all his works.
 
Psalm 145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy
saints shall bless thee.
 
Psalm 145:11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and
talk of thy power;
 
Psalm 145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
 
Psalm 145:13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy
dominion endureth throughout all generations.
 
Psalm 145:14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up
all those that be bowed down.
 
Psalm 145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest
them their meat in due season.
 
Psalm 145:16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire
of every living thing.
 
Psalm 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in
all his works.
 
Psalm 145:18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him,
to all that call upon him in truth.
 
Psalm 145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him:
he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
 
Psalm 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but
all the wicked will he destroy.
 
Psalm 145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and
let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
 
Psalm 146:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
 
Psalm 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing
praises unto my God while I have any being.
 
Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of
man, in whom there is no help.
 
Psalm 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth;
in that very day his thoughts perish.
 
Psalm 146:5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his
help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
 
Psalm 146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that
therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
 
Psalm 146:7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which
giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
 
Psalm 146:8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD
raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
 
Psalm 146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the
fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside
down.
 
Psalm 146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O
Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 147:1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises
unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
 
Psalm 147:2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth
together the outcasts of Israel.
 
Psalm 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up
their wounds.
 
Psalm 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them
all by their names.
 
Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his
understanding is infinite.
 
Psalm 147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked
down to the ground.
 
Psalm 147:7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise
upon the harp unto our God:
 
Psalm 147:8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth
rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
 
Psalm 147:9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young
ravens which cry.
 
Psalm 147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he
taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
 
Psalm 147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in
those that hope in his mercy.
 
Psalm 147:12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O
Zion.
 
Psalm 147:13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he
hath blessed thy children within thee.
 
Psalm 147:14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee
with the finest of the wheat.
 
Psalm 147:15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his
word runneth very swiftly.
 
Psalm 147:16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the
hoarfrost like ashes.
 
Psalm 147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can
stand before his cold?
 
Psalm 147:18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he
causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
 
Psalm 147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and
his judgments unto Israel.
 
Psalm 147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for
his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 148:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the
heavens: praise him in the heights.
 
Psalm 148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all
his hosts.
 
Psalm 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye
stars of light.
 
Psalm 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters
that be above the heavens.
 
Psalm 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he
commanded, and they were created.
 
Psalm 148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he
hath made a decree which shall not pass.
 
Psalm 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all
deeps:
 
Psalm 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind
fulfilling his word:
 
Psalm 148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all
cedars:
 
Psalm 148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and
flying fowl:
 
Psalm 148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and
all judges of the earth:
 
Psalm 148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and
children:
 
Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name
alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
 
Psalm 148:14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the
praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a
people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 149:1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song,
and his praise in the congregation of saints.
 
Psalm 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King.
 
Psalm 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them
sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
 
Psalm 149:4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will
beautify the meek with salvation.
 
Psalm 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing
aloud upon their beds.
 
Psalm 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and
a two-edged sword in their hand;
 
Psalm 149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and
punishments upon the people;
 
Psalm 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles
with fetters of iron;
 
Psalm 149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this
honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
 
Psalm 150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:
praise him in the firmament of his power.
 
Psalm 150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him
according to his excellent greatness.
 
Psalm 150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise
him with the psaltery and harp.
 
Psalm 150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him
with stringed instruments and organs.
 
Psalm 150:5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon
the high sounding cymbals.
 
Psalm 150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.
Praise ye the LORD.
 
Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of
Israel;
 
Proverbs 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the
words of understanding;
 
Proverbs 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and
judgment, and equity;
 
Proverbs 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man
knowledge and discretion.
 
Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning;
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
 
Proverbs 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;
the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
 
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 
Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and
forsake not the law of thy mother:
 
Proverbs 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy
head, and chains about thy neck.
 
Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
 
Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for
blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
 
Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and
whole, as those that go down into the pit:
 
Proverbs 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall
fill our houses with spoil:
 
Proverbs 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one
purse:
 
Proverbs 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them;
refrain thy foot from their path:
 
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to
shed blood.
 
Proverbs 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of
any bird.
 
Proverbs 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk
privily for their own lives.
 
Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of
gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
 
Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in
the streets:
 
Proverbs 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in
the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,
saying,
 
Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love
simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools
hate knowledge?
 
Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out
my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
 
Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have
stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
 
Proverbs 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and
would none of my reproof:
 
Proverbs 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock
when your fear cometh;
 
Proverbs 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your
destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish
cometh upon you.
 
Proverbs 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not
answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
 
Proverbs 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose
the fear of the LORD:
 
Proverbs 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all
my reproof.
 
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their
own way, and be filled with their own devices.
 
Proverbs 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay
them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
 
Proverbs 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,
and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
 
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee;
 
Proverbs 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and
apply thine heart to understanding;
 
Proverbs 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest
up thy voice for understanding;
 
Proverbs 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for
her as for hid treasures;
 
Proverbs 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD,
and find the knowledge of God.
 
Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth
cometh knowledge and understanding.
 
Proverbs 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is
a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
 
Proverbs 2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth
the way of his saints.
 
Proverbs 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and
judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
 
Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and
knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
 
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding
shall keep thee:
 
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,
from the man that speaketh froward things;
 
Proverbs 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in
the ways of darkness;
 
Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the
frowardness of the wicked;
 
Proverbs 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their
paths:
 
Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from
the stranger which flattereth with her words;
 
Proverbs 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and
forgetteth the covenant of her God.
 
Proverbs 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths
unto the dead.
 
Proverbs 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take
they hold of the paths of life.
 
Proverbs 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and
keep the paths of the righteous.
 
Proverbs 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the
perfect shall remain in it.
 
Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
 
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart
keep my commandments:
 
Proverbs 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace,
shall they add to thee.
 
Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them
about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
 
Proverbs 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding
in the sight of God and man.
 
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean
not unto thine own understanding.
 
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.
 
Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and
depart from evil.
 
Proverbs 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy
bones.
 
Proverbs 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the
firstfruits of all thine increase:
 
Proverbs 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy
presses shall burst out with new wine.
 
Proverbs 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD;
neither be weary of his correction:
 
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a
father the son in whom he delighteth.
 
Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man
that getteth understanding.
 
Proverbs 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the
merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
 
Proverbs 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the
things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
 
Proverbs 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her
left hand riches and honour.
 
Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are peace.
 
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon
her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
 
Proverbs 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by
understanding hath he established the heavens.
 
Proverbs 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and
the clouds drop down the dew.
 
Proverbs 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep
sound wisdom and discretion:
 
Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to
thy neck.
 
Proverbs 3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy
foot shall not stumble.
 
Proverbs 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:
yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
 
Proverbs 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the
desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
 
Proverbs 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall
keep thy foot from being taken.
 
Proverbs 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
 
Proverbs 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again,
and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
 
Proverbs 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he
dwelleth securely by thee.
 
Proverbs 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have
done thee no harm.
 
Proverbs 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of
his ways.
 
Proverbs 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but
his secret is with the righteous.
 
Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the
wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
 
Proverbs 3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth
grace unto the lowly.
 
Proverbs 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be
the promotion of fools.
 
Proverbs 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
 
Proverbs 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my
law.
 
Proverbs 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved
in the sight of my mother.
 
Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine
heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
 
Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not;
neither decline from the words of my mouth.
 
Proverbs 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love
her, and she shall keep thee.
 
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
 
Proverbs 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall
bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
 
Proverbs 4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace:
a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
 
Proverbs 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the
years of thy life shall be many.
 
Proverbs 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have
led thee in right paths.
 
Proverbs 4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be
straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
 
Proverbs 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go:
keep her; for she is thy life.
 
Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not
in the way of evil men.
 
Proverbs 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass
away.
 
Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done
mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some
to fall.
 
Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink
the wine of violence.
 
Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
 
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know
not at what they stumble.
 
Proverbs 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear
unto my sayings.
 
Proverbs 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in
the midst of thine heart.
 
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.
 
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it
are the issues of life.
 
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse
lips put far from thee.
 
Proverbs 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine
eyelids look straight before thee.
 
Proverbs 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways
be established.
 
Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:
remove thy foot from evil.
 
Proverbs 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear
to my understanding:
 
Proverbs 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy
lips may keep knowledge.
 
Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an
honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
 
Proverbs 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-
edged sword.
 
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on
hell.
 
Proverbs 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her
ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
 
Proverbs 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart
not from the words of my mouth.
 
Proverbs 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the
door of her house:
 
Proverbs 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy
years unto the cruel:
 
Proverbs 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy
labours be in the house of a stranger;
 
Proverbs 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and
thy body are consumed,
 
Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my
heart despised reproof;
 
Proverbs 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor
inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 
Proverbs 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the
congregation and assembly.
 
Proverbs 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and
running waters out of thine own well.
 
Proverbs 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers
of waters in the streets.
 
Proverbs 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers'
with thee.
 
Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the
wife of thy youth.
 
Proverbs 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;
let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished
always with her love.
 
Proverbs 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a
strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
 
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the
LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
 
Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,
and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
 
Proverbs 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the
greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
 
Proverbs 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou
hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
 
Proverbs 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou
art taken with the words of thy mouth.
 
Proverbs 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when
thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself,
and make sure thy friend.
 
Proverbs 6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine
eyelids.
 
Proverbs 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the
hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
 
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways,
and be wise:
 
Proverbs 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
 
Proverbs 6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth
her food in the harvest.
 
Proverbs 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt
thou arise out of thy sleep?
 
Proverbs 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little
folding of the hands to sleep:
 
Proverbs 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
and thy want as an armed man.
 
Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a
froward mouth.
 
Proverbs 6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his
feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
 
Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief
continually; he soweth discord.
 
Proverbs 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
 
Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven
are an abomination unto him:
 
Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood,
 
Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet
that be swift in running to mischief,
 
Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that
soweth discord among brethren.
 
Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and
forsake not the law of thy mother:
 
Proverbs 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie
them about thy neck.
 
Proverbs 6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou
sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall
talk with thee.
 
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is
light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
 
Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the
flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
 
Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither
let her take thee with her eyelids.
 
Proverbs 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought
to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious
life.
 
Proverbs 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes
not be burned?
 
Proverbs 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be
burned?
 
Proverbs 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife;
whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
 
Proverbs 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to
satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
 
Proverbs 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;
he shall give all the substance of his house.
 
Proverbs 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman
lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
 
Proverbs 6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his
reproach shall not be wiped away.
 
Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he
will not spare in the day of vengeance.
 
Proverbs 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he
rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
 
Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments
with thee.
 
Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the
apple of thine eye.
 
Proverbs 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the
table of thine heart.
 
Proverbs 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call
understanding thy kinswoman:
 
Proverbs 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
 
Proverbs 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my
casement,
 
Proverbs 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned
among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
 
Proverbs 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he
went the way to her house,
 
Proverbs 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and
dark night:
 
Proverbs 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the
attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
 
Proverbs 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in
her house:
 
Proverbs 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth
in wait at every corner.)
 
Proverbs 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an
impudent face said unto him,
 
Proverbs 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I
payed my vows.
 
Proverbs 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently
to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
 
Proverbs 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,
with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
 
Proverbs 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and
cinnamon.
 
Proverbs 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the
morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
 
Proverbs 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long
journey:
 
Proverbs 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will
come home at the day appointed.
 
Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to
yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
 
Proverbs 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to
the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
 
Proverbs 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird
hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
 
Proverbs 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and
attend to the words of my mouth.
 
Proverbs 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not
astray in her paths.
 
Proverbs 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many
strong men have been slain by her.
 
Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the
chambers of death.
 
Proverbs 8:1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth
her voice?
 
Proverbs 8:2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way
in the places of the paths.
 
Proverbs 8:3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city,
at the coming in at the doors.
 
Proverbs 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the
sons of man.
 
Proverbs 8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be
ye of an understanding heart.
 
Proverbs 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and
the opening of my lips shall be right things.
 
Proverbs 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is
an abomination to my lips.
 
Proverbs 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness;
there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
 
Proverbs 8:9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and
right to them that find knowledge.
 
Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and
knowledge rather than choice gold.
 
Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the
things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
 
Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out
knowledge of witty inventions.
 
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
 
Proverbs 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am
understanding; I have strength.
 
Proverbs 8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
 
Proverbs 8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the
judges of the earth.
 
Proverbs 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me
early shall find me.
 
Proverbs 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable
riches and righteousness.
 
Proverbs 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine
gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
 
Proverbs 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst
of the paths of judgment:
 
Proverbs 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.
 
Proverbs 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his
way, before his works of old.
 
Proverbs 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the
beginning, or ever the earth was.
 
Proverbs 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth;
when there were no fountains abounding with water.
 
Proverbs 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the
hills was I brought forth:
 
Proverbs 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the
fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
 
Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when
he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
 
Proverbs 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he
strengthened the fountains of the deep:
 
Proverbs 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the
waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the
foundations of the earth:
 
Proverbs 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him:
and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
 
Proverbs 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and
my delights were with the sons of men.
 
Proverbs 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for
blessed are they that keep my ways.
 
Proverbs 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
 
Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching
daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
 
Proverbs 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall
obtain favour of the LORD.
 
Proverbs 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own
soul: all they that hate me love death.
 
Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out
her seven pillars:
 
Proverbs 9:2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her
wine; she hath also furnished her table.
 
Proverbs 9:3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon
the highest places of the city,
 
Proverbs 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for
him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
 
Proverbs 9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which
I have mingled.
 
Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way
of understanding.
 
Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself
shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
 
Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a
wise man, and he will love thee.
 
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet
wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
 
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
 
Proverbs 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the
years of thy life shall be increased.
 
Proverbs 9:12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself:
but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
 
Proverbs 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and
knoweth nothing.
 
Proverbs 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a
seat in the high places of the city,
 
Proverbs 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
 
Proverbs 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as
for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
 
Proverbs 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in
secret is pleasant.
 
Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and
that her guests are in the depths of hell.
 
Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad
father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
 
Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but
righteousness delivereth from death.
 
Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the
righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the
wicked.
 
Proverbs 10:4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand:
but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
 
Proverbs 10:5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he
that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
 
Proverbs 10:6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but
violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
 
Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name
of the wicked shall rot.
 
Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but
a prating fool shall fall.
 
Proverbs 10:9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he
that perverteth his ways shall be known.
 
Proverbs 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but
a prating fool shall fall.
 
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life:
but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
 
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth
all sins.
 
Proverbs 10:13 In the lips of him that hath understanding
wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of
understanding.
 
Proverbs 10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the
foolish is near destruction.
 
Proverbs 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the
destruction of the poor is their poverty.
 
Proverbs 10:16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the
fruit of the wicked to sin.
 
Proverbs 10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth
instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
 
Proverbs 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he
that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
 
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin:
but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
 
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the
heart of the wicked is little worth.
 
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools
die for want of wisdom.
 
Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he
addeth no sorrow with it.
 
Proverbs 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a
man of understanding hath wisdom.
 
Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him:
but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
 
Proverbs 10:25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no
more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
 
Proverbs 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the
eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
 
Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.
 
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but
the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
 
Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright:
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
 
Proverbs 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the
wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
 
Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but
the froward tongue shall be cut out.
 
Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is
acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
 
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a
just weight is his delight.
 
Proverbs 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with
the lowly is wisdom.
 
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them:
but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
 
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but
righteousness delivereth from death.
 
Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his
way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
 
Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver
them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
 
Proverbs 11:7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall
perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
 
Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and
the wicked cometh in his stead.
 
Proverbs 11:9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his
neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
 
Proverbs 11:10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city
rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
 
Proverbs 11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is
exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
 
Proverbs 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his
neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
 
Proverbs 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is
of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
 
Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the
multitude of counsellors there is safety.
 
Proverbs 11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for
it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
 
Proverbs 11:16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong
men retain riches.
 
Proverbs 11:17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but
he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
 
Proverbs 11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him
that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
 
Proverbs 11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that
pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
 
Proverbs 11:20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination
to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his
delight.
 
Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not
be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
 
Proverbs 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a
fair woman which is without discretion.
 
Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but
the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
 
Proverbs 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth;
and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth
to poverty.
 
Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that
watereth shall be watered also himself.
 
Proverbs 11:26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse
him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
 
Proverbs 11:27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth
favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
 
Proverbs 11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but
the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
 
Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit
the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
 
Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;
and he that winneth souls is wise.
 
Proverbs 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in
the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
 
Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he
that hateth reproof is brutish.
 
Proverbs 12:2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a
man of wicked devices will he condemn.
 
Proverbs 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but
the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
 
Proverbs 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but
she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
 
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the
counsels of the wicked are deceit.
 
Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for
blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
 
Proverbs 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the
house of the righteous shall stand.
 
Proverbs 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom:
but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
 
Proverbs 12:9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is
better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
 
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast:
but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
 
Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with
bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of
understanding.
 
Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the
root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
 
Proverbs 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his
lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
 
Proverbs 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit
of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be
rendered unto him.
 
Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but
he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
 
Proverbs 12:16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent
man covereth shame.
 
Proverbs 12:17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth
righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
 
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a
sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
 
Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever:
but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
 
Proverbs 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine
evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
 
Proverbs 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the
wicked shall be filled with mischief.
 
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they
that deal truly are his delight.
 
Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the
heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
 
Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but
the slothful shall be under tribute.
 
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop:
but a good word maketh it glad.
 
Proverbs 12:26 The righteous is more excellent than his
neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
 
Proverbs 12:27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took
in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
 
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the
pathway thereof there is no death.
 
Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but
a scorner heareth not rebuke.
 
Proverbs 13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth:
but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
 
Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but
he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
 
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath
nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
 
Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is
loathsome, and cometh to shame.
 
Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the
way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
 
Proverbs 13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath
nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great
riches.
 
Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but
the poor heareth not rebuke.
 
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the
lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
 
Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the
well advised is wisdom.
 
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but
he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
 
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when
the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
 
Proverbs 13:13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but
he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
 
Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to
depart from the snares of death.
 
Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of
transgressors is hard.
 
Proverbs 13:16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a
fool layeth open his folly.
 
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a
faithful ambassador is health.
 
Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth
instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
 
Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul:
but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
 
Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but
a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
 
Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good
shall be repayed.
 
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his
children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for
the just.
 
Proverbs 13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but
there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
 
Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he
that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
 
Proverbs 13:25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his
soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
 
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the
foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
 
Proverbs 14:2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the
LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
 
Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride:
but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
 
Proverbs 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much
increase is by the strength of the ox.
 
Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false
witness will utter lies.
 
Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but
knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
 
Proverbs 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou
perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
 
Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his
way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
 
Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous
there is favour.
 
Proverbs 14:10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a
stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
 
Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but
the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
 
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.
 
Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the
end of that mirth is heaviness.
 
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his
own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
 
Proverbs 14:15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent
man looketh well to his going.
 
Proverbs 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but
the fool rageth, and is confident.
 
Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a
man of wicked devices is hated.
 
Proverbs 14:18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are
crowned with knowledge.
 
Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at
the gates of the righteous.
 
Proverbs 14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but
the rich hath many friends.
 
Proverbs 14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he
that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
 
Proverbs 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and
truth shall be to them that devise good.
 
Proverbs 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of
the lips tendeth only to penury.
 
Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the
foolishness of fools is folly.
 
Proverbs 14:25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful
witness speaketh lies.
 
Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence:
and his children shall have a place of refuge.
 
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to
depart from the snares of death.
 
Proverbs 14:28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour:
but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
 
Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great
understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
 
Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy
the rottenness of the bones.
 
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his
Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
 
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but
the righteous hath hope in his death.
 
Proverbs 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath
understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made
known.
 
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a
reproach to any people.
 
Proverbs 14:35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but
his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
 
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous
words stir up anger.
 
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright:
but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
 
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place,
beholding the evil and the good.
 
Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but
perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
 
Proverbs 15:5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he
that regardeth reproof is prudent.
 
Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure:
but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
 
Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the
heart of the foolish doeth not so.
 
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to
the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
 
Proverbs 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the
LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
 
Proverbs 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh
the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
 
Proverbs 15:11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how
much more then the hearts of the children of men?
 
Proverbs 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him:
neither will he go unto the wise.
 
Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but
by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
 
Proverbs 15:14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh
knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
 
Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he
that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
 
Proverbs 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than
great treasure and trouble therewith.
 
Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than
a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
 
Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that
is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
 
Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
 
Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish
man despiseth his mother.
 
Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom:
but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
 
Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but
in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
 
Proverbs 15:23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a
word spoken in due season, how good is it!
 
Proverbs 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he
may depart from hell beneath.
 
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud:
but he will establish the border of the widow.
 
Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to
the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
 
Proverbs 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own
house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
 
Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer:
but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
 
Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth
the prayer of the righteous.
 
Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a
good report maketh the bones fat.
 
Proverbs 15:31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth
among the wise.
 
Proverbs 15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own
soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
 
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of
wisdom; and before honour is humility.
 
Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the
answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
 
Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;
but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
 
Proverbs 16:3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts
shall be established.
 
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea,
even the wicked for the day of evil.
 
Proverbs 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an
abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not
be unpunished.
 
Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the
fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
 
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even
his enemies to be at peace with him.
 
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great
revenues without right.
 
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD
directeth his steps.
 
Proverbs 16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king:
his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
 
Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all
the weights of the bag are his work.
 
Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit
wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
 
Proverbs 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and
they love him that speaketh right.
 
Proverbs 16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death:
but a wise man will pacify it.
 
Proverbs 16:15 In the light of the king's countenance is life;
and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
 
Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!
and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
 
Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from
evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
 
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty
spirit before a fall.
 
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the
lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
 
Proverbs 16:20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find
good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
 
Proverbs 16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and
the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
 
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him
that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
 
Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and
addeth learning to his lips.
 
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the
soul, and health to the bones.
 
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.
 
Proverbs 16:26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his
mouth craveth it of him.
 
Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips
there is as a burning fire.
 
Proverbs 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer
separateth chief friends.
 
Proverbs 16:29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and
leadeth him into the way that is not good.
 
Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things:
moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
 
Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be
found in the way of righteousness.
 
Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the
mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
 
Proverbs 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole
disposing thereof is of the LORD.
 
Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith,
than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
 
Proverbs 17:2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that
causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the
brethren.
 
Proverbs 17:3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for
gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
 
Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a
liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
 
Proverbs 17:5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and
he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
 
Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and
the glory of children are their fathers.
 
Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less
do lying lips a prince.
 
Proverbs 17:8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him
that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
 
Proverbs 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love;
but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
 
Proverbs 17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an
hundred stripes into a fool.
 
Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a
cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
 
Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man,
rather than a fool in his folly.
 
Proverbs 17:13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not
depart from his house.
 
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth
out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled
with.
 
Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that
condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
 
Proverbs 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool
to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
 
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is
born for adversity.
 
Proverbs 17:18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and
becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
 
Proverbs 17:19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and
he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
 
Proverbs 17:20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good:
and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
 
Proverbs 17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow:
and the father of a fool hath no joy.
 
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a
broken spirit drieth the bones.
 
Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to
pervert the ways of judgment.
 
Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding;
but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
 
Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and
bitterness to her that bare him.
 
Proverbs 17:26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to
strike princes for equity.
 
Proverbs 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a
man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
 
Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is
counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of
understanding.
 
Proverbs 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself,
seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
 
Proverbs 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that
his heart may discover itself.
 
Proverbs 18:3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also
contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
 
Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters,
and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
 
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the
wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
 
Proverbs 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his
mouth calleth for strokes.
 
Proverbs 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips
are the snare of his soul.
 
Proverbs 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they
go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
 
Proverbs 18:9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother
to him that is a great waster.
 
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the
righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
 
Proverbs 18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as
an high wall in his own conceit.
 
Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,
and before honour is humility.
 
Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it,
it is folly and shame unto him.
 
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;
but a wounded spirit who can bear?
 
Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and
the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
 
Proverbs 18:16 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth
him before great men.
 
Proverbs 18:17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just;
but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
 
Proverbs 18:18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and
parteth between the mighty.
 
Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a
strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
 
Proverbs 18:20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit
of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be
filled.
 
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue:
and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
 
Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and
obtaineth favour of the LORD.
 
Proverbs 18:23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich
answereth roughly.
 
Proverbs 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself
friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a
brother.
 
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,
than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
 
Proverbs 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is
not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
 
Proverbs 19:3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and
his heart fretteth against the LORD.
 
Proverbs 19:4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is
separated from his neighbour.
 
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he
that speaketh lies shall not escape.
 
Proverbs 19:6 Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and
every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
 
Proverbs 19:7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how
much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with
words, yet they are wanting to him.
 
Proverbs 19:8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he
that keepeth understanding shall find good.
 
Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he
that speaketh lies shall perish.
 
Proverbs 19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for
a servant to have rule over princes.
 
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and
it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
 
Proverbs 19:12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion;
but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
 
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and
the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
 
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers:
and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
 
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an
idle soul shall suffer hunger.
 
Proverbs 19:16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own
soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
 
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the
LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
 
Proverbs 19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not
thy soul spare for his crying.
 
Proverbs 19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment:
for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
 
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou
mayest be wise in thy latter end.
 
Proverbs 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart;
nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
 
Proverbs 19:22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor
man is better than a liar.
 
Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he
that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with
evil.
 
Proverbs 19:24 A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and
will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
 
Proverbs 19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and
reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand
knowledge.
 
Proverbs 19:26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his
mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
 
Proverbs 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that
causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
 
Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the
mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
 
Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes
for the back of fools.
 
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
 
Proverbs 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
 
Proverbs 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife:
but every fool will be meddling.
 
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
 
Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
 
Proverbs 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own
goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
 
Proverbs 20:7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his
children are blessed after him.
 
Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment
scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
 
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am
pure from my sin?
 
Proverbs 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of
them are alike abomination to the LORD.
 
Proverbs 20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his
work be pure, and whether it be right.
 
Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD
hath made even both of them.
 
Proverbs 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open
thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
 
Proverbs 20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but
when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
 
Proverbs 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but
the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
 
Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger:
and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
 
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but
afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
 
Proverbs 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and
with good advice make war.
 
Proverbs 20:19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth
secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his
lips.
 
Proverbs 20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp
shall be put out in obscure darkness.
 
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the
beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
 
Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait
on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
 
Proverbs 20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD;
and a false balance is not good.
 
Proverbs 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then
understand his own way?
 
Proverbs 20:25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that
which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
 
Proverbs 20:26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth
the wheel over them.
 
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,
searching all the inward parts of the belly.
 
Proverbs 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his
throne is upholden by mercy.
 
Proverbs 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and
the beauty of old men is the grey head.
 
Proverbs 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so
do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
 
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as
the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
 
Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but
the LORD pondereth the hearts.
 
Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to
the LORD than sacrifice.
 
Proverbs 21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing
of the wicked, is sin.
 
Proverbs 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to
plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
 
Proverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a
vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
 
Proverbs 21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them;
because they refuse to do judgment.
 
Proverbs 21:8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for
the pure, his work is right.
 
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the
housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
 
Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his
neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
 
Proverbs 21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made
wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
 
Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house
of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their
wickedness.
 
Proverbs 21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor,
he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
 
Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward
in the bosom strong wrath.
 
Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but
destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
 
Proverbs 21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of
understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
 
Proverbs 21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he
that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
 
Proverbs 21:18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous,
and the transgressor for the upright.
 
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than
with a contentious and an angry woman.
 
Proverbs 21:20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the
dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
 
Proverbs 21:21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy
findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
 
Proverbs 21:22 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and
casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
 
Proverbs 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth
his soul from troubles.
 
Proverbs 21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who
dealeth in proud wrath.
 
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his
hands refuse to labour.
 
Proverbs 21:26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the
righteous giveth and spareth not.
 
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how
much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
 
Proverbs 21:28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that
heareth speaketh constantly.
 
Proverbs 21:29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the
upright, he directeth his way.
 
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel
against the LORD.
 
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle:
but safety is of the LORD.
 
Proverbs 22:1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great
riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
 
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the
maker of them all.
 
Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth
himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
 
Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches,
and honour, and life.
 
Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward:
he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
 
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and
when he is old, he will not depart from it.
 
Proverbs 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower
is servant to the lender.
 
Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and
the rod of his anger shall fail.
 
Proverbs 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed;
for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
 
Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go
out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
 
Proverbs 22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace
of his lips the king shall be his friend.
 
Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he
overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
 
Proverbs 22:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without,
I shall be slain in the streets.
 
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he
that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
 
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child;
but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
 
Proverbs 22:16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his
riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to
want.
 
Proverbs 22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the
wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
 
Proverbs 22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them
within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
 
Proverbs 22:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made
known to thee this day, even to thee.
 
Proverbs 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in
counsels and knowledge,
 
Proverbs 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the
words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to
them that send unto thee?
 
Proverbs 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither
oppress the afflicted in the gate:
 
Proverbs 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil
the soul of those that spoiled them.
 
Proverbs 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a
furious man thou shalt not go:
 
Proverbs 22:25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy
soul.
 
Proverbs 22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of
them that are sureties for debts.
 
Proverbs 22:27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take
away thy bed from under thee?
 
Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy
fathers have set.
 
Proverbs 22:29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he
shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
 
Proverbs 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider
diligently what is before thee:
 
Proverbs 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man
given to appetite.
 
Proverbs 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are
deceitful meat.
 
Proverbs 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own
wisdom.
 
Proverbs 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an
eagle toward heaven.
 
Proverbs 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil
eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
 
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat
and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
 
Proverbs 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit
up, and lose thy sweet words.
 
Proverbs 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will
despise the wisdom of thy words.
 
Proverbs 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into
the fields of the fatherless:
 
Proverbs 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead
their cause with thee.
 
Proverbs 23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine
ears to the words of knowledge.
 
Proverbs 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if
thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
 
Proverbs 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt
deliver his soul from hell.
 
Proverbs 23:15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall
rejoice, even mine.
 
Proverbs 23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak
right things.
 
Proverbs 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in
the fear of the LORD all the day long.
 
Proverbs 23:18 For surely there is an end; and thine
expectation shall not be cut off.
 
Proverbs 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine
heart in the way.
 
Proverbs 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters
of flesh:
 
Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to
poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
 
Proverbs 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and
despise not thy mother when she is old.
 
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and
instruction, and understanding.
 
Proverbs 23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly
rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of
him.
 
Proverbs 23:25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she
that bare thee shall rejoice.
 
Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes
observe my ways.
 
Proverbs 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman
is a narrow pit.
 
Proverbs 23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and
increaseth the transgressors among men.
 
Proverbs 23:29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause?
who hath redness of eyes?
 
Proverbs 23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go
to seek mixed wine.
 
Proverbs 23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when
it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
 
Proverbs 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and
stingeth like an adder.
 
Proverbs 23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine
heart shall utter perverse things.
 
Proverbs 23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
 
Proverbs 23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was
not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I
awake? I will seek it yet again.
 
Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither
desire to be with them.
 
Proverbs 24:2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their
lips talk of mischief.
 
Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by
understanding it is established:
 
Proverbs 24:4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled
with all precious and pleasant riches.
 
Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge
increaseth strength.
 
Proverbs 24:6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and
in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
 
Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his
mouth in the gate.
 
Proverbs 24:8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a
mischievous person.
 
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the
scorner is an abomination to men.
 
Proverbs 24:10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy
strength is small.
 
Proverbs 24:11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn
unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
 
Proverbs 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not
he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy
soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man
according to his works?
 
Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and
the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
 
Proverbs 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy
soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and
thy expectation shall not be cut off.
 
Proverbs 24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling
of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
 
Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth
up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
 
Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let
not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
 
Proverbs 24:18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and
he turn away his wrath from him.
 
Proverbs 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be
thou envious at the wicked:
 
Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man;
the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
 
Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and
meddle not with them that are given to change:
 
Proverbs 24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who
knoweth the ruin of them both?
 
Proverbs 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not
good to have respect of persons in judgment.
 
Proverbs 24:24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are
righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
 
Proverbs 24:25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight,
and a good blessing shall come upon them.
 
Proverbs 24:26 Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a
right answer.
 
Proverbs 24:27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for
thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
 
Proverbs 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without
cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
 
Proverbs 24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to
me: I will render to the man according to his work.
 
Proverbs 24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of understanding;
 
Proverbs 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and
nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof
was broken down.
 
Proverbs 24:32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked
upon it, and received instruction.
 
Proverbs 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little
folding of the hands to sleep:
 
Proverbs 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that
travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
 
Proverbs 25:1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men
of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
 
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but
the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
 
Proverbs 25:3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth,
and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
 
Proverbs 25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there
shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
 
Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and
his throne shall be established in righteousness.
 
Proverbs 25:6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the
king, and stand not in the place of great men:
 
Proverbs 25:7 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come
up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence
of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
 
Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know
not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put
thee to shame.
 
Proverbs 25:9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and
discover not a secret to another:
 
Proverbs 25:10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and
thine infamy turn not away.
 
Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in
pictures of silver.
 
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine
gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
 
Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so
is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth
the soul of his masters.
 
Proverbs 25:14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like
clouds and wind without rain.
 
Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a
soft tongue breaketh the bone.
 
Proverbs 25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is
sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
 
Proverbs 25:17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house;
lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
 
Proverbs 25:18 A man that beareth false witness against his
neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
 
Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of
trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
 
Proverbs 25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold
weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs
to an heavy heart.
 
Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;
and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
 
Proverbs 25:22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head,
and the LORD shall reward thee.
 
Proverbs 25:23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an
angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
 
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the
housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
 
Proverbs 25:25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good
news from a far country.
 
Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked
is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
 
Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to
search their own glory is not glory.
 
Proverbs 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like
a city that is broken down, and without walls.
 
Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so
honour is not seemly for a fool.
 
Proverbs 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by
flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
 
Proverbs 26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a
rod for the fool's back.
 
Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest
thou also be like unto him.
 
Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be
wise in his own conceit.
 
Proverbs 26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool
cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
 
Proverbs 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a
parable in the mouth of fools.
 
Proverbs 26:8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he
that giveth honour to a fool.
 
Proverbs 26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard,
so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
 
Proverbs 26:10 The great God that formed all things both
rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
 
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly.
 
Proverbs 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there
is more hope of a fool than of him.
 
Proverbs 26:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the
way; a lion is in the streets.
 
Proverbs 26:14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the
slothful upon his bed.
 
Proverbs 26:15 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it
grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
 
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than
seven men that can render a reason.
 
Proverbs 26:17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife
belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
 
Proverbs 26:18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and
death,
 
Proverbs 26:19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and
saith, Am not I in sport?
 
Proverbs 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so
where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
 
Proverbs 26:21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire;
so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
 
Proverbs 26:22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and
they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
 
Proverbs 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a
potsherd covered with silver dross.
 
Proverbs 26:24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and
layeth up deceit within him;
 
Proverbs 26:25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for
there are seven abominations in his heart.
 
Proverbs 26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his
wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
 
Proverbs 26:27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he
that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
 
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted
by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
 
Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest
not what a day may bring forth.
 
Proverbs 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own
mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
 
Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a
fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
 
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who
is able to stand before envy?
 
Proverbs 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
 
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the
kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
 
Proverbs 27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the
hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
 
Proverbs 27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a
man that wandereth from his place.
 
Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth
the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
 
Proverbs 27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend,
forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of
thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a
brother far off.
 
Proverbs 27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I
may answer him that reproacheth me.
 
Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth
himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
 
Proverbs 27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,
and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
 
Proverbs 27:14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
 
Proverbs 27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a
contentious woman are alike.
 
Proverbs 27:16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the
ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
 
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the
countenance of his friend.
 
Proverbs 27:18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit
thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
 
Proverbs 27:19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart
of man to man.
 
Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes
of man are never satisfied.
 
Proverbs 27:21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace
for gold; so is a man to his praise.
 
Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar
among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart
from him.
 
Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy
flocks, and look well to thy herds.
 
Proverbs 27:24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown
endure to every generation?
 
Proverbs 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth
itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
 
Proverbs 27:26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats
are the price of the field.
 
Proverbs 27:27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy
food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for
thy maidens.
 
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the
righteous are bold as a lion.
 
Proverbs 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the
princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the
state thereof shall be prolonged.
 
Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a
sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
 
Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but
such as keep the law contend with them.
 
Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that
seek the LORD understand all things.
 
Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor that walketh in his
uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be
rich.
 
Proverbs 28:7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that
is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
 
Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his
substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
 
Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the
law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
 
Proverbs 28:10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an
evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright
shall have good things in possession.
 
Proverbs 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the
poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
 
Proverbs 28:12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great
glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
 
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but
whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
 
Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that
hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
 
Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a
wicked ruler over the poor people.
 
Proverbs 28:16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a
great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong
his days.
 
Proverbs 28:17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any
person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
 
Proverbs 28:18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he
that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
 
Proverbs 28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of
bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have
poverty enough.
 
Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but
he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
 
Proverbs 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for
a piece of bread that man will transgress.
 
Proverbs 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and
considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
 
Proverbs 28:23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find
more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
 
Proverbs 28:24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and
saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a
destroyer.
 
Proverbs 28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife:
but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
 
Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but
whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
 
Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but
he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
 
Proverbs 28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but
when they perish, the righteous increase.
 
Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck,
shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
 
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people
rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
 
Proverbs 29:3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he
that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
 
Proverbs 29:4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but
he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
 
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a
net for his feet.
 
Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a
snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
 
Proverbs 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor:
but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
 
Proverbs 29:8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise
men turn away wrath.
 
Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man,
whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
 
Proverbs 29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just
seek his soul.
 
Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man
keepeth it in till afterwards.
 
Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are
wicked.
 
Proverbs 29:13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together:
the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
 
Proverbs 29:14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his
throne shall be established for ever.
 
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child
left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
 
Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression
increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
 
Proverbs 29:17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest;
yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
 
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but
he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
 
Proverbs 29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for
though he understand he will not answer.
 
Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?
there is more hope of a fool than of him.
 
Proverbs 29:21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from
a child shall have him become his son at the length.
 
Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious
man aboundeth in transgression.
 
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour
shall uphold the humble in spirit.
 
Proverbs 29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own
soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
 
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso
putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
 
Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's
judgment cometh from the LORD.
 
Proverbs 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and
he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
 
Proverbs 30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the
prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
 
Proverbs 30:2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have
not the understanding of a man.
 
Proverbs 30:3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge
of the holy.
 
Proverbs 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?
who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the
waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the
earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou
canst tell?
 
Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto
them that put their trust in him.
 
Proverbs 30:6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove
thee, and thou be found a liar.
 
Proverbs 30:7 Two things have I required of thee; deny me them
not before I die:
 
Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me
neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
 
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is
the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my
God in vain.
 
Proverbs 30:10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he
curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
 
Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation that curseth their father,
and doth not bless their mother.
 
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own
eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
 
Proverbs 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their
eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
 
Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as
swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from
off the earth, and the needy from among men.
 
Proverbs 30:15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give,
give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four
things say not, It is enough:
 
Proverbs 30:16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that
is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is
enough.
 
Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and
despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick
it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
 
Proverbs 30:18 There be three things which are too wonderful
for me, yea, four which I know not:
 
Proverbs 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a
serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea;
and the way of a man with a maid.
 
Proverbs 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she
eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no
wickedness.
 
Proverbs 30:21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and
for four which it cannot bear:
 
Proverbs 30:22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when
he is filled with meat;
 
Proverbs 30:23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an
handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
 
Proverbs 30:24 There be four things which are little upon the
earth, but they are exceeding wise:
 
Proverbs 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they
prepare their meat in the summer;
 
Proverbs 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they
their houses in the rocks;
 
Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all
of them by bands;
 
Proverbs 30:28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in
kings' palaces.
 
Proverbs 30:29 There be three things which go well, yea, four
are comely in going:
 
Proverbs 30:30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and
turneth not away for any;
 
Proverbs 30:31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king,
against whom there is no rising up.
 
Proverbs 30:32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up
thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy
mouth.
 
Proverbs 30:33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth
butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the
forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
 
Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his
mother taught him.
 
Proverbs 31:2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and
what, the son of my vows?
 
Proverbs 31:3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to
that which destroyeth kings.
 
Proverbs 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for
kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
 
Proverbs 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert
the judgment of any of the afflicted.
 
Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to
perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
 
Proverbs 31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and
remember his misery no more.
 
Proverbs 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all
such as are appointed to destruction.
 
Proverbs 31:9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the
cause of the poor and needy.
 
Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is
far above rubies.
 
Proverbs 31:11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in
her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
 
Proverbs 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days
of her life.
 
Proverbs 31:13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh
willingly with her hands.
 
Proverbs 31:14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth
her food from afar.
 
Proverbs 31:15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and
giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
 
Proverbs 31:16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the
fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
 
Proverbs 31:17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and
strengtheneth her arms.
 
Proverbs 31:18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her
candle goeth not out by night.
 
Proverbs 31:19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her
hands hold the distaff.
 
Proverbs 31:20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea,
she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
 
Proverbs 31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household:
for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
 
Proverbs 31:22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her
clothing is silk and purple.
 
Proverbs 31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he
sitteth among the elders of the land.
 
Proverbs 31:24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and
delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
 
Proverbs 31:25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she
shall rejoice in time to come.
 
Proverbs 31:26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her
tongue is the law of kindness.
 
Proverbs 31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household,
and eateth not the bread of idleness.
 
Proverbs 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her
husband also, and he praiseth her.
 
Proverbs 31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou
excellest them all.
 
Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a
woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
 
Proverbs 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her
own works praise her in the gates.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David,
king in Jerusalem.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity
of vanities; all is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which
he taketh under the sun?
 
Ecclesiastes 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another
generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down,
and hasteth to his place where he arose.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth
about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind
returneth again according to his circuits.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea
is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither
they return again.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are full of labour; man cannot
utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear
filled with hearing.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which
shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and
there is no new thing under the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said,
See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was
before us.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:11 There is no remembrance of former things;
neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come
with those that shall come after.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in
Jerusalem.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by
wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this
sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised
therewith.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under
the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made
straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I
am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all
they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had
great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to
know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of
spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove
thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also
is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth,
What doeth it?
 
Ecclesiastes 2:3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto
wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on
folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men,
which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I
planted me vineyards:
 
Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted
trees in them of all kind of fruits:
 
Ecclesiastes 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith
the wood that bringeth forth trees:
 
Ecclesiastes 2:7 I got me servants and maidens, and had
servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great
and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
 
Ecclesiastes 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the
peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men
singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men,
as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all
that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with
me.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not
from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart
rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my
labour.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands
had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and,
behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no
profit under the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and
madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the
king? even that which hath been already done.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as
far as light excelleth darkness.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the
fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one
event happeneth to them all.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to
the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more
wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more
than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days
to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as
the fool.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that
is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity
and vexation of spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken
under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall
be after me.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise
man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein
I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the
sun. This is also vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to
despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom,
and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not
laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is
vanity and a great evil.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of
the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the
sun?
 
Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail
grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also
vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that
he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy
good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of
God.
 
Ecclesiastes 2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten
hereunto, more than I?
 
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his
sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth
travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that
is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time
to every purpose under the heaven:
 
Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time
to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
 
Ecclesiastes 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to
break down, and a time to build up;
 
Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to
mourn, and a time to dance;
 
Ecclesiastes 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to
gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain
from embracing;
 
Ecclesiastes 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to
keep, and a time to cast away;
 
Ecclesiastes 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to
keep silence, and a time to speak;
 
Ecclesiastes 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of
war, and a time of peace.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that
wherein he laboureth?
 
Ecclesiastes 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given
to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his
time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man
can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the
end.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for
a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink,
and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall
be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from
it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which
is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of
judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of
righteousness, that iniquity was there.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the
righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every
purpose and for every work.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of
the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they
might see that they themselves are beasts.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men
befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one
dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that
a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust,
and all turn to dust again.
 
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth
upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the
earth?
 
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing
better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that
is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be
after him?
 
Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the
oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of
such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the
side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no
comforter.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already
dead more than the living which are yet alive.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath
not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under
the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every
right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This
is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and
eateth his own flesh.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both
the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the
sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second;
yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of
all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither
saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This
is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a
good reward for their labour.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his
fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath
not another to help him up.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have
heat: but how can one be warm alone?
 
Ecclesiastes 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall
withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old
and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas
also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:15 I considered all the living which walk under
the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
 
Ecclesiastes 4:16 There is no end of all the people, even of
all that have been before them: they also that come after shall
not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of
spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of
God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of
fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine
heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in
heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of
business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to
pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou
hast vowed.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than
that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to
sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error:
wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work
of thine hands?
 
Ecclesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words
there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and
violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel
not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest
regardeth; and there be higher than they.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all:
the king himself is served by the field.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied
with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is
also vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that
eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving
the beholding of them with their eyes?
 
Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet,
whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will
not suffer him to sleep.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under
the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their
hurt.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and
he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked
shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his
labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all
points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that
hath laboured for the wind?
 
Ecclesiastes 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and
he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and
comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all
his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life,
which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches
and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take
his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of
God.
 
Ecclesiastes 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of
his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the
sun, and it is common among men:
 
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth,
and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that
he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a
stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live
many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul
be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say,
that an untimely birth is better than he.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in
darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known
any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice
told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
 
Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and
yet the appetite is not filled.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool?
what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
 
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the
wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of
spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:10 That which hath been is named already, and it
is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is
mightier than he.
 
Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase
vanity, what is man the better?
 
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this
life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a
shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the
sun?
 
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment;
and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning,
than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all
men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the
sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of
mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
than for a man to hear the song of fools.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so
is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a
gift destroyeth the heart.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the
beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the
proud in spirit.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for
anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the
former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire
wisely concerning this.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it
there is profit to them that see the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a
defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth
life to them that have it.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make
that straight, which he hath made crooked?
 
Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in
the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over
against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after
him.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my
vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness,
and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his
wickedness.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make
thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
 
Ecclesiastes 7:17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou
foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
 
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of
this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that
feareth God shall come forth of them all.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten
mighty men which are in the city.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that
doeth good, and sinneth not.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:21 Also take no heed unto all words that are
spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
 
Ecclesiastes 7:22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth
that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I
will be wise; but it was far from me.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep,
who can find it out?
 
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search,
and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the
wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
 
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman,
whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso
pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken
by her.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the
preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
 
Ecclesiastes 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not:
one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all
those have I not found.
 
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath
made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the
interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to
shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment,
and that in regard of the oath of God.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not
in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power:
and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
 
Ecclesiastes 8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no
evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and
judgment.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and
judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for
who can tell him when it shall be?
 
Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the
spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of
death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall
wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart
unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time
wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come
and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in
the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not
executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is
fully set in them to do evil.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and
his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well
with them that fear God, which fear before him:
 
Ecclesiastes 8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked,
neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because
he feareth not before God.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the
earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according
to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it
happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that
this also is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no
better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be
merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of
his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and
to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there
is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
 
Ecclesiastes 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man
cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because
though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea
farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be
able to find it.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to
declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their
works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or
hatred by all that is before them.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one
event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the
clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him
that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he
that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done
under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the
heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their
heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living
there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but
the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward;
for the memory of them is forgotten.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their
envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for
ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink
thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy
head lack no ointment.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest
all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee
under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy
portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under
the sun.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the
race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding,
nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to
them all.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the
fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are
caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil
time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun,
and it seemed great unto me:
 
Ecclesiastes 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within
it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and
built great bulwarks against it:
 
Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man,
and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered
that same poor man.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength:
nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are
not heard.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more
than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one
sinner destroyeth much good.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the
apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little
folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but
a fool's heart at his left.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by
the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that
he is a fool.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against
thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the
sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
 
Ecclesiastes 10:6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich
sit in low place.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes
walking as servants upon the earth.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and
whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt
therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the
edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable
to direct.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without
enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are
gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is
foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot
tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell
him?
 
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one
of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a
child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
 
Ecclesiastes 10:17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is
the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for
strength, and not for drunkenness!
 
Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth;
and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine
maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
 
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought;
and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air
shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the
matter.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou
shalt find it after many days.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight;
for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty
themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south,
or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there
it shall be.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and
he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the
spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with
child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the
evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether
shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be
alike good.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant
thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
 
Ecclesiastes 11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in
them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they
shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let
thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the
ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know
thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into
judgment.
 
Ecclesiastes 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and
put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh,
when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
 
Ecclesiastes 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or
the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
 
Ecclesiastes 12:3 In the day when the keepers of the house
shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the
grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of
the windows be darkened,
 
Ecclesiastes 12:4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets,
when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at
the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be
brought low;
 
Ecclesiastes 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which
is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall
flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall
fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go
about the streets:
 
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the
golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,
or the wheel broken at the cistern.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it
was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all
is vanity.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise,
he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and
sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable
words: and that which was written was upright, even words of
truth.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as
nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from
one shepherd.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be
admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study
is a weariness of the flesh.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the
whole duty of man.
 
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether
it be evil.
 
Song of Solomon 1:1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
 
Song of Solomon 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his
mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
 
Song of Solomon 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments
thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins
love thee.
 
Song of Solomon 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king
hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in
thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love
thee.
 
Song of Solomon 1:5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of
Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
 
Song of Solomon 1:6 Look not upon me, because I am black,
because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were
angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine
own vineyard have I not kept.
 
Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where
thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for
why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy
companions?
 
Song of Solomon 1:8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among
women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed
thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
 
Song of Solomon 1:9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a
company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
 
Song of Solomon 1:10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels,
thy neck with chains of gold.
 
Song of Solomon 1:11 We will make thee borders of gold with
studs of silver.
 
Song of Solomon 1:12 While the king sitteth at his table, my
spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
 
Song of Solomon 1:13 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto
me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
 
Song of Solomon 1:14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of
camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
 
Song of Solomon 1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold,
thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
 
Song of Solomon 1:16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea,
pleasant: also our bed is green.
 
Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our
rafters of fir.
 
Song of Solomon 2:1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of
the valleys.
 
Song of Solomon 2:2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love
among the daughters.
 
Song of Solomon 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the
wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his
shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
 
Song of Solomon 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and
his banner over me was love.
 
Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with
apples: for I am sick of love.
 
Song of Solomon 2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his
right hand doth embrace me.
 
Song of Solomon 2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love, till he please.
 
Song of Solomon 2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh
leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
 
Song of Solomon 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the
windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
 
Song of Solomon 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise
up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
 
Song of Solomon 2:11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is
over and gone;
 
Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time
of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is
heard in our land;
 
Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my
love, my fair one, and come away.
 
Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the
rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy
countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and
thy countenance is comely.
 
Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that
spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
 
Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he
feedeth among the lilies.
 
Song of Solomon 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee
away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart
upon the mountains of Bether.
 
Song of Solomon 3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my
soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
 
Song of Solomon 3:2 I will rise now, and go about the city in
the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul
loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
 
Song of Solomon 3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found
me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
 
Song of Solomon 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from
them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would
not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
 
Song of Solomon 3:5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love, till he please.
 
Song of Solomon 3:6 Who is this that cometh out of the
wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and
frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
 
Song of Solomon 3:7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;
threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
 
Song of Solomon 3:8 They all hold swords, being expert in war:
every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the
night.
 
Song of Solomon 3:9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the
wood of Lebanon.
 
Song of Solomon 3:10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the
bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst
thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
 
Song of Solomon 3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and
behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned
him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness
of his heart.
 
Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold,
thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair
is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
 
Song of Solomon 4:2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that
are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one
bear twins, and none is barren among them.
 
Song of Solomon 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and
thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a
pomegranate within thy locks.
 
Song of Solomon 4:4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded
for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all
shields of mighty men.
 
Song of Solomon 4:5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes
that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
 
Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee
away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of
frankincense.
 
Song of Solomon 4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no
spot in thee.
 
Song of Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with
me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of
Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of
the leopards.
 
Song of Solomon 4:9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my
spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with
one chain of thy neck.
 
Song of Solomon 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my
spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of
thine ointments than all spices!
 
Song of Solomon 4:11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the
honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of
thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
 
Song of Solomon 4:12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse;
a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
 
Song of Solomon 4:13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates,
with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
 
Song of Solomon 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and
cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with
all the chief spices:
 
Song of Solomon 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living
waters, and streams from Lebanon.
 
Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south;
blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my
beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
 
Song of Solomon 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my
spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my
honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat,
O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
 
Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the
voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew,
and my locks with the drops of the night.
 
Song of Solomon 5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it
on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
 
Song of Solomon 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of
the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
 
Song of Solomon 5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my
hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling
myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
 
Song of Solomon 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had
withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I
sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave
me no answer.
 
Song of Solomon 5:7 The watchmen that went about the city found
me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took
away my veil from me.
 
Song of Solomon 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if
ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
 
Song of Solomon 5:9 What is thy beloved more than another
beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more
than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
 
Song of Solomon 5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the
chiefest among ten thousand.
 
Song of Solomon 5:11 His head is as the most fine gold, his
locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
 
Song of Solomon 5:12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the
rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
 
Song of Solomon 5:13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as
sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling
myrrh.
 
Song of Solomon 5:14 His hands are as gold rings set with the
beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
 
Song of Solomon 5:15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set
upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars.
 
Song of Solomon 5:16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is
altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O
daughters of Jerusalem.
 
Song of Solomon 6:1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest
among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may
seek him with thee.
 
Song of Solomon 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to
the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
 
Song of Solomon 6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine:
he feedeth among the lilies.
 
Song of Solomon 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah,
comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
 
Song of Solomon 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have
overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from
Gilead.
 
Song of Solomon 6:6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go
up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there
is not one barren among them.
 
Song of Solomon 6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples
within thy locks.
 
Song of Solomon 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore
concubines, and virgins without number.
 
Song of Solomon 6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is
the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that
bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens
and the concubines, and they praised her.
 
Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the
morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an
army with banners?
 
Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see
the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished
and the pomegranates budded.
 
Song of Solomon 6:12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like
the chariots of Amminadib.
 
Song of Solomon 6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return,
return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the
Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
 
Song of Solomon 7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O
prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the
work of the hands of a cunning workman.
 
Song of Solomon 7:2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which
wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about
with lilies.
 
Song of Solomon 7:3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes
that are twins.
 
Song of Solomon 7:4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes
like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy
nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
 
Song of Solomon 7:5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and
the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the
galleries.
 
Song of Solomon 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love,
for delights!
 
Song of Solomon 7:7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree,
and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
 
Song of Solomon 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I
will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall
be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like
apples;
 
Song of Solomon 7:9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best
wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of
those that are asleep to speak.
 
Song of Solomon 7:10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is
toward me.
 
Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the
field; let us lodge in the villages.
 
Song of Solomon 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let
us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and
the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
 
Song of Solomon 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our
gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I
have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
 
Song of Solomon 8:1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked
the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I
would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
 
Song of Solomon 8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my
mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to
drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
 
Song of Solomon 8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and
his right hand should embrace me.
 
Song of Solomon 8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
 
Song of Solomon 8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the
wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the
apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she
brought thee forth that bare thee.
 
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a
seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is
cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which
hath a most vehement flame.
 
Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can
the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his
house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
 
Song of Solomon 8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no
breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she
shall be spoken for?
 
Song of Solomon 8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a
palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with
boards of cedar.
 
Song of Solomon 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers:
then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
 
Song of Solomon 8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he
let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit
thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
 
Song of Solomon 8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:
thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the
fruit thereof two hundred.
 
Song of Solomon 8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the
companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
 
Song of Solomon 8:14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like
to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
 
Isaiah 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
 
Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD
hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against me.
 
Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's
crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
 
Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have
forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto
anger, they are gone away backward.
 
Isaiah 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
 
Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there
is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
 
Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned
with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and
it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
 
Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a
vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city.
 
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very
small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have
been like unto Gomorrah.
 
Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give
ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
 
Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices
unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of
rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood
of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
 
Isaiah 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required
this at your hand, to tread my courts?
 
Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn
meeting.
 
Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
 
Isaiah 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide
mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not
hear: your hands are full of blood.
 
Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your
doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
 
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the
oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
 
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the
LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
 
Isaiah 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land:
 
Isaiah 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured
with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
 
Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was
full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
 
Isaiah 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with
water:
 
Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of
thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the
widow come unto them.
 
Isaiah 1:24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the
mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies:
 
Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge
away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
 
Isaiah 1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and
thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
 
Isaiah 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her
converts with righteousness.
 
Isaiah 1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the
sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall
be consumed.
 
Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have
chosen.
 
Isaiah 1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as
a garden that hath no water.
 
Isaiah 1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it
as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench them.
 
Isaiah 2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.
 
Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let
us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.
 
Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the LORD.
 
Isaiah 2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of
Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in
the children of strangers.
 
Isaiah 2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither
is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of
horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
 
Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the
work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
 
Isaiah 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man
humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
 
Isaiah 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for
fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
 
Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall
be exalted in that day.
 
Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon
every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is
lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
 
Isaiah 2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high
and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
 
Isaiah 2:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the
hills that are lifted up,
 
Isaiah 2:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced
wall,
 
Isaiah 2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all
pleasant pictures.
 
Isaiah 2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day.
 
Isaiah 2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
 
Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and
into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the
earth.
 
Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to
worship, to the moles and to the bats;
 
Isaiah 2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory
of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
 
Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils:
for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
 
Isaiah 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take
away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the
whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
 
Isaiah 3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and
the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
 
Isaiah 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and
the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent
orator.
 
Isaiah 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and
babes shall rule over them.
 
Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by
another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave
himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
honourable.
 
Isaiah 3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the
house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our
ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
 
Isaiah 3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an
healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me
not a ruler of the people.
 
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen:
because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to
provoke the eyes of his glory.
 
Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe
unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
 
Isaiah 3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with
him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
 
Isaiah 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for
the reward of his hands shall be given him.
 
Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause
thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
 
Isaiah 3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the people.
 
Isaiah 3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients
of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
 
Isaiah 3:15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and
grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of
Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with
their feet:
 
Isaiah 3:17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown
of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover
their secret parts.
 
Isaiah 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon,
 
Isaiah 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
 
Isaiah 3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
 
Isaiah 3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
 
Isaiah 3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
 
Isaiah 3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and
the vails.
 
Isaiah 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet
smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a
girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
 
Isaiah 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in
the war.
 
Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being
desolate shall sit upon the ground.
 
Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one
man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
 
Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be
excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
 
Isaiah 4:3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in
Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
 
Isaiah 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of
the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of
Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and
by the spirit of burning.
 
Isaiah 4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place
of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the
glory shall be a defence.
 
Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the
day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a
covert from storm and from rain.
 
Isaiah 5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my
beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in
a very fruitful hill:
 
Isaiah 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower
in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth
wild grapes.
 
Isaiah 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
 
Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that
I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
 
Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down:
 
Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor
digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also
command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
 
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house
of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but
behold a cry.
 
Isaiah 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay
field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth!
 
Isaiah 5:9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without
inhabitant.
 
Isaiah 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
 
Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night,
till wine inflame them!
 
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of
the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
 
Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are
famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
 
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened
her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
 
Isaiah 5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled:
 
Isaiah 5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
 
Isaiah 5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and
the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
 
Isaiah 5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
 
Isaiah 5:19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work,
that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
 
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 
Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight!
 
Isaiah 5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and
men of strength to mingle strong drink:
 
Isaiah 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away
the righteousness of the righteous from him!
 
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and
the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they
have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel.
 
Isaiah 5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against
his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their
carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
Isaiah 5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from
far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and,
behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
 
Isaiah 5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none
shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins
be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
 
Isaiah 5:28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind:
 
Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar
like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
 
Isaiah 5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like
the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold
darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.
 
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the
LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple.
 
Isaiah 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six
wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered
his feet, and with twain he did fly.
 
Isaiah 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
 
Isaiah 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
 
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I
am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts.
 
Isaiah 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a
live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar:
 
Isaiah 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this
hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged.
 
Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I;
send me.
 
Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
 
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
convert, and be healed.
 
Isaiah 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until
the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without
man, and the land be utterly desolate,
 
Isaiah 6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there
be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
 
Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall
return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy
seed shall be the substance thereof.
 
Isaiah 7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against
it.
 
Isaiah 7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart
of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
 
Isaiah 7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet
Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
 
Isaiah 7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the
son of Remaliah.
 
Isaiah 7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
 
Isaiah 7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us
make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it,
even the son of Tabeal:
 
Isaiah 7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither
shall it come to pass.
 
Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
 
Isaiah 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of
Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye
shall not be established.
 
Isaiah 7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
 
Isaiah 7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either
in the depth, or in the height above.
 
Isaiah 7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt
the LORD.
 
Isaiah 7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a
small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
 
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call
his name Immanuel.
 
Isaiah 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to
refuse the evil, and choose the good.
 
Isaiah 7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil,
and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of both her kings.
 
Isaiah 7:17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come,
from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of
Assyria.
 
Isaiah 7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
 
Isaiah 7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in
the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes.
 
Isaiah 7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor
that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
consume the beard.
 
Isaiah 7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man
shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
 
Isaiah 7:22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of
milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and
honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
 
Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every
place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
 
Isaiah 7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither;
because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
 
Isaiah 7:25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the
mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and
thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for
the treading of lesser cattle.
 
Isaiah 8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great
roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning
Mahershalalhashbaz.
 
Isaiah 8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record,
Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
 
Isaiah 8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived,
and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
Mahershalalhashbaz.
 
Isaiah 8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My
father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of
Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
 
Isaiah 8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
 
Isaiah 8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
 
Isaiah 8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon
them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks:
 
Isaiah 8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow
and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching
out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
 
Isaiah 8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces.
 
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
 
Isaiah 8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand,
and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying,
 
Isaiah 8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor
be afraid.
 
Isaiah 8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be
your fear, and let him be your dread.
 
Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,
for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
 
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
 
Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
 
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given
me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of
hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
 
Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them
that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that
mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living
to the dead?
 
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
 
Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and
hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be
hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and
their God, and look upward.
 
Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold
trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be
driven to darkness.
 
Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in
her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in
Galilee of the nations.
 
Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great
light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined.
 
Isaiah 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased
the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,
and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
 
Isaiah 9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of
Midian.
 
Isaiah 9:5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused
noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with
burning and fuel of fire.
 
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall
be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
 
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,
to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will
perform this.
 
Isaiah 9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted
upon Israel.
 
Isaiah 9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart,
 
Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with
hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars.
 
Isaiah 9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of
Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
 
Isaiah 9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and
they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
Isaiah 9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth
them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head
and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
 
Isaiah 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the
prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
 
Isaiah 9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they that are led of them are destroyed.
 
Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young
men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
 
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour
the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
 
Isaiah 9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man
shall spare his brother.
 
Isaiah 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be
hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
 
Isaiah 9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they
together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and
that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
 
Isaiah 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take
away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be
their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
 
Isaiah 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and
in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee
for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
 
Isaiah 10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,
and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
Isaiah 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is mine indignation.
 
Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and
against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take
the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
mire of the streets.
 
Isaiah 10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations
not a few.
 
Isaiah 10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
 
Isaiah 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad?
is not Samaria as Damascus?
 
Isaiah 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria;
 
Isaiah 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her
idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
 
Isaiah 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the
Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king
of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
 
Isaiah 10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have
done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed
the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I
have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
 
Isaiah 10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered
all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened
the mouth, or peeped.
 
Isaiah 10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that
shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that
lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it
were no wood.
 
Isaiah 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send
among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle
a burning like the burning of a fire.
 
Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and
his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns
and his briers in one day;
 
Isaiah 10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of
his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when
a standard-bearer fainteth.
 
Isaiah 10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be
few, that a child may write them.
 
Isaiah 10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,
shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay
upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
 
Isaiah 10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of
Jacob, unto the mighty God.
 
Isaiah 10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the
sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed
shall overflow with righteousness.
 
Isaiah 10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a
consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
 
Isaiah 10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my
people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he
shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
thee, after the manner of Egypt.
 
Isaiah 10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation
shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
 
Isaiah 10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for
him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the
manner of Egypt.
 
Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his
burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke
from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
 
Isaiah 10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at
Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
 
Isaiah 10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up
their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
 
Isaiah 10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it
to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
 
Isaiah 10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim
gather themselves to flee.
 
Isaiah 10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall
shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the
hill of Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the
bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn
down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
 
Isaiah 10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest
with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
 
Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
 
Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the
spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
 
Isaiah 11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the
fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his
eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
 
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite
the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he slay the wicked.
 
Isaiah 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
 
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young
lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them.
 
Isaiah 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young
ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like
the ox.
 
Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'
den.
 
Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
 
Isaiah 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
 
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and
from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and
from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
 
Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
 
Isaiah 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
 
Isaiah 11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east
together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the
children of Ammon shall obey them.
 
Isaiah 11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of
the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his
hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and
make men go over dryshod.
 
Isaiah 11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of
his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
 
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will
praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is
turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
 
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not
be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he
also is become my salvation.
 
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the
wells of salvation.
 
Isaiah 12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call
upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention
that his name is exalted.
 
Isaiah 12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent
things: this is known in all the earth.
 
Isaiah 12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for
great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
 
Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see.
 
Isaiah 13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt
the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the
gates of the nobles.
 
Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also
called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in
my highness.
 
Isaiah 13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as
of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
battle.
 
Isaiah 13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of
heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to
destroy the whole land.
 
Isaiah 13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it
shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
 
Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's
heart shall melt:
 
Isaiah 13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall
take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that
travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces
shall be as flames.
 
Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
 
Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations
thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
 
Isaiah 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and
the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of
the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
 
Isaiah 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
 
Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth
shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts,
and in the day of his fierce anger.
 
Isaiah 13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep
that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own
people, and flee every one into his own land.
 
Isaiah 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through;
and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
 
Isaiah 13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces
before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives
ravished.
 
Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it.
 
Isaiah 13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to
pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes shall not spare children.
 
Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of
the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah.
 
Isaiah 13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold
there.
 
Isaiah 13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and
their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
 
Isaiah 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in
their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and
her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
 
Isaiah 14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers
shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of
Jacob.
 
Isaiah 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to
their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the
land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take
them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over
their oppressors.
 
Isaiah 14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from
the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
 
Isaiah 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the
king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the
golden city ceased!
 
Isaiah 14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and
the sceptre of the rulers.
 
Isaiah 14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual
stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and
none hindereth.
 
Isaiah 14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they
break forth into singing.
 
Isaiah 14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars
of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come
up against us.
 
Isaiah 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at
thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations.
 
Isaiah 14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou
also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
 
Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the
noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms
cover thee.
 
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!
 
Isaiah 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north:
 
Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the most High.
 
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
sides of the pit.
 
Isaiah 14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
 
Isaiah 14:17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
 
Isaiah 14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them,
lie in glory, every one in his own house.
 
Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an
abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain,
thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the
pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
 
Isaiah 14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the
seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
 
Isaiah 14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the
iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the
land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
 
Isaiah 14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of
hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son,
and nephew, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern,
and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I
have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand:
 
Isaiah 14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and
upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke
depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their
shoulders.
 
Isaiah 14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the
whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
the nations.
 
Isaiah 14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it
back?
 
Isaiah 14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
 
Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod
of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root
shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent.
 
Isaiah 14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the
needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
 
Isaiah 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,
art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be alone in his appointed times.
 
Isaiah 14:32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the
nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his
people shall trust in it.
 
Isaiah 15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab
is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir
of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
 
Isaiah 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high
places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on
all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
 
Isaiah 15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with
sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets,
every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
 
Isaiah 15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice
shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of
Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
 
Isaiah 15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives
shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the
mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in
the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
 
Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the
hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
 
Isaiah 15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that
which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of
the willows.
 
Isaiah 15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of
Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof
unto Beerelim.
 
Isaiah 15:9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for
I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of
Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
 
Isaiah 16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela
to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
 
Isaiah 16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out
of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of
Arnon.
 
Isaiah 16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as
the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray
not him that wandereth.
 
Isaiah 16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a
covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner
is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed
out of the land.
 
Isaiah 16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and
he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David,
judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
 
Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very
proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but
his lies shall not be so.
 
Isaiah 16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall
howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely
they are stricken.
 
Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of
Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal
plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered
through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are
gone over the sea.
 
Isaiah 16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer
the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon,
and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen.
 
Isaiah 16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the
plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no
wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to
cease.
 
Isaiah 16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for
Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
 
Isaiah 16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that
Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his
sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
 
Isaiah 16:13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken
concerning Moab since that time.
 
Isaiah 16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three
years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall
be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
shall be very small and feeble.
 
Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken
away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
 
Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for
flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
 
Isaiah 17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the
kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as
the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the
glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh
shall wax lean.
 
Isaiah 17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth
the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as
he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
 
Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the
shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches
thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
 
Isaiah 17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his
eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
 
Isaiah 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of
his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have
made, either the groves, or the images.
 
Isaiah 17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a
forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because
of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
 
Isaiah 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy
salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with
strange slips:
 
Isaiah 17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and
in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the
harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate
sorrow.
 
Isaiah 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a
noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
 
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many
waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,
and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the
wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
 
Isaiah 17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the
morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and
the lot of them that rob us.
 
Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
 
Isaiah 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift
messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
 
Isaiah 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on
the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
 
Isaiah 18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest,
and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
 
Isaiah 18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and
the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off
the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the
branches.
 
Isaiah 18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter
upon them.
 
Isaiah 18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the
LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
 
Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a
swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt
shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt
in the midst of it.
 
Isaiah 19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:
and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against
kingdom.
 
Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst
thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall
seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have
familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
 
Isaiah 19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of
a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the
Lord, the LORD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the
river shall be wasted and dried up.
 
Isaiah 19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the
brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and
flags shall wither.
 
Isaiah 19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the
brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be
driven away, and be no more.
 
Isaiah 19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that
cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread
nets upon the waters shall languish.
 
Isaiah 19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that
weave networks, shall be confounded.
 
Isaiah 19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof,
all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
 
Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel
of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye
unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
 
Isaiah 19:12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let
them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath
purposed upon Egypt.
 
Isaiah 19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes
of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they
that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
 
Isaiah 19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the
midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
 
Isaiah 19:15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which
the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
 
Isaiah 19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it
shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of
the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
 
Isaiah 19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto
Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in
himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he
hath determined against it.
 
Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt
speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one
shall be called, The city of destruction.
 
Isaiah 19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in
the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to the LORD.
 
Isaiah 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto
the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto
the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a
saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
 
Isaiah 19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the
Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice
and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and
perform it.
 
Isaiah 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and
heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of them, and shall heal them.
 
Isaiah 19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt
to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the
Assyrians.
 
Isaiah 19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt
and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
 
Isaiah 19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying,
Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance.
 
Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod,
and took it;
 
Isaiah 20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son
of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked
and barefoot.
 
Isaiah 20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath
walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon
Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
 
Isaiah 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the
Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old,
naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the
shame of Egypt.
 
Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia
their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
 
Isaiah 20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that
day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to
be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
 
Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds
in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a
terrible land.
 
Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the
treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler
spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing
thereof have I made to cease.
 
Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have
taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I
was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing
of it.
 
Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the
night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
 
Isaiah 21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
 
Isaiah 21:6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a
watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
 
Isaiah 21:7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a
chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened
diligently with much heed:
 
Isaiah 21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually
upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
 
Isaiah 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a
couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen,
is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto the ground.
 
Isaiah 21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that
which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have
I declared unto you.
 
Isaiah 21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
 
Isaiah 21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also
the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
 
Isaiah 21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia
shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
 
Isaiah 21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water
to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that
fled.
 
Isaiah 21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn
sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
 
Isaiah 21:16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a
year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail:
 
Isaiah 21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the
mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the
LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
 
Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth
thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
 
Isaiah 22:2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city,
joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead
in battle.
 
Isaiah 22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by
the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which
have fled from far.
 
Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep
bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of
the daughter of my people.
 
Isaiah 22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down,
and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of
vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
 
Isaiah 22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and
horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
 
Isaiah 22:7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest
valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set
themselves in array at the gate.
 
Isaiah 22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou
didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
 
Isaiah 22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of
David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of
the lower pool.
 
Isaiah 22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and
the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
 
Isaiah 22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the
water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker
thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
 
Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to
weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
 
Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and
killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die.
 
Isaiah 22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of
hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye
die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee
unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house,
and say,
 
Isaiah 22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that
thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him
out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for
himself in a rock?
 
Isaiah 22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a
mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
 
Isaiah 22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a
ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the
chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
 
Isaiah 22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from
thy state shall he pull thee down.
 
Isaiah 22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
 
Isaiah 22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and
strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government
into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
 
Isaiah 22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon
his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none shall open.
 
Isaiah 22:23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place;
and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
 
Isaiah 22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his
father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small
quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
flagons.
 
Isaiah 22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the
nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off:
for the LORD hath spoken it.
 
Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for
it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from
the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
 
Isaiah 23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the
merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
 
Isaiah 23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest
of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
 
Isaiah 23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken,
even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring
forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up
virgins.
 
Isaiah 23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be
sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
 
Isaiah 23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of
the isle.
 
Isaiah 23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of
ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
 
Isaiah 23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the
crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are
the honourable of the earth?
 
Isaiah 23:9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the
pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable
of the earth.
 
Isaiah 23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of
Tarshish: there is no more strength.
 
Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook
the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the
merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
 
Isaiah 23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim;
there also shalt thou have no rest.
 
Isaiah 23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was
not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the
wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the
palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
 
Isaiah 23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is
laid waste.
 
Isaiah 23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre
shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one
king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an
harlot.
 
Isaiah 23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that
hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that
thou mayest be remembered.
 
Isaiah 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy
years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her
hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the
world upon the face of the earth.
 
Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness
to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat
sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
 
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh
it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
 
Isaiah 24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the
priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the
maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the
seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the
taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
 
Isaiah 24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly
spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
 
Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world
languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do
languish.
 
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants
thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
 
Isaiah 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and
they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men left.
 
Isaiah 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all
the merryhearted do sigh.
 
Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them
that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 
Isaiah 24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink
shall be bitter to them that drink it.
 
Isaiah 24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house
is shut up, that no man may come in.
 
Isaiah 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy
is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
 
Isaiah 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is
smitten with destruction.
 
Isaiah 24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land
among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree,
and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
 
Isaiah 24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing
for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
 
Isaiah 24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even
the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
 
Isaiah 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard
songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my
leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt
treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously.
 
Isaiah 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O
inhabitant of the earth.
 
Isaiah 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from
the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for
the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
earth do shake.
 
Isaiah 24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is
clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
 
Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise
again.
 
Isaiah 24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and
the kings of the earth upon the earth.
 
Isaiah 24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners
are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited.
 
Isaiah 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun
ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
 
Isaiah 25:1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will
praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy
counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
 
Isaiah 25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced
city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never
be built.
 
Isaiah 25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the
city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
 
Isaiah 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a
shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a
storm against the wall.
 
Isaiah 25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as
the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a
cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
 
Isaiah 25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make
unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the
lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well
refined.
 
Isaiah 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of
the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread
over all nations.
 
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord
GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of
his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the
LORD hath spoken it.
 
Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our
God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the
LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.
 
Isaiah 25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD
rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is
trodden down for the dunghill.
 
Isaiah 25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst
of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:
and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of
their hands.
 
Isaiah 25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls
shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to
the dust.
 
Isaiah 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for
walls and bulwarks.
 
Isaiah 26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which
keepeth the truth may enter in.
 
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
 
Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD
JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
 
Isaiah 26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the
lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the
ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
 
Isaiah 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the
poor, and the steps of the needy.
 
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most
upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
 
Isaiah 26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we
waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to
the remembrance of thee.
 
Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea,
with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
learn righteousness.
 
Isaiah 26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he
not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
 
Isaiah 26:11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not
see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the
people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
 
Isaiah 26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also
hast wrought all our works in us.
 
Isaiah 26:13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had
dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy
name.
 
Isaiah 26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are
deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and
destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
 
Isaiah 26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast
increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it
far unto all the ends of the earth.
 
Isaiah 26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they
poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
 
Isaiah 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the
time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so
have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
 
Isaiah 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we
have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the
world fallen.
 
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for
thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the
dead.
 
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and
shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment, until the indignation be overpast.
 
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth
also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
 
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and
strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that
is in the sea.
 
Isaiah 27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red
wine.
 
Isaiah 27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every
moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
 
Isaiah 27:4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and
thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would
burn them together.
 
Isaiah 27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may
make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
 
Isaiah 27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take
root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the
world with fruit.
 
Isaiah 27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote
him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are
slain by him?
 
Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt
debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east
wind.
 
Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be
purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he
maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten
in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
 
Isaiah 27:10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the
habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the
calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches
thereof.
 
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall
be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a
people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not
have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no
favour.
 
Isaiah 27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream
of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel.
 
Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were
ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the
land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of
Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on
the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
 
Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one,
which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of
mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the
hand.
 
Isaiah 28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall
be trodden under feet:
 
Isaiah 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of
the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth,
while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
 
Isaiah 28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown
of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people,
 
Isaiah 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the
gate.
 
Isaiah 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through
strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have
erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they
are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they
stumble in judgment.
 
Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so
that there is no place clean.
 
Isaiah 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he
make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk,
and drawn from the breasts.
 
Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there
a little:
 
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will
he speak to this people.
 
Isaiah 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may
cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they
would not hear.
 
Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept
upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and
fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
 
Isaiah 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful
men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with
death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we
have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
 
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay
in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious
corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make
haste.
 
Isaiah 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the
refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
 
Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled,
and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden
down by it.
 
Isaiah 28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take
you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by
night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
 
Isaiah 28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap
himself in it.
 
Isaiah 28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he
shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his
work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange
act.
 
Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands
be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
 
Isaiah 28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear
my speech.
 
Isaiah 28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open
and break the clods of his ground?
 
Isaiah 28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he
not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in
the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
place?
 
Isaiah 28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and
doth teach him.
 
Isaiah 28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with
a rod.
 
Isaiah 28:28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be
threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise
it with his horsemen.
 
Isaiah 28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts,
which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
 
Isaiah 29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!
add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
 
Isaiah 29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be
heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
 
Isaiah 29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will
lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee.
 
Isaiah 29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out
of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and
thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of
the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
 
Isaiah 29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be
like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be
as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant
suddenly.
 
Isaiah 29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with
thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and
tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
 
Isaiah 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition,
and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
 
Isaiah 29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth,
and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or
as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so
shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against
mount Zion.
 
Isaiah 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry:
they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with
strong drink.
 
Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit
of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your
rulers, the seers hath he covered.
 
Isaiah 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the
words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot;
for it is sealed:
 
Isaiah 29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not
learned.
 
Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people
draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught by the precept of men:
 
Isaiah 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a
wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
 
Isaiah 29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel
from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth us?
 
Isaiah 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that
made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him
that framed it, He had no understanding?
 
Isaiah 29:17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
shall be esteemed as a forest?
 
Isaiah 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of
the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity,
and out of darkness.
 
Isaiah 29:19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the
LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
Israel.
 
Isaiah 29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the
scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
 
Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a
snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just
for a thing of nought.
 
Isaiah 29:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be
ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
 
Isaiah 29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine
hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
 
Isaiah 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
 
Isaiah 30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD,
that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
 
Isaiah 30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked
at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
 
Isaiah 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your
shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
 
Isaiah 30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors
came to Hanes.
 
Isaiah 30:5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not
profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach.
 
Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the
land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old
lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
them.
 
Isaiah 30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no
purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength
is to sit still.
 
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note
it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever:
 
Isaiah 30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children,
children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
 
Isaiah 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits:
 
Isaiah 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
 
Isaiah 30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,
Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and stay thereon:
 
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a
breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking
cometh suddenly at an instant.
 
Isaiah 30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the
potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so
that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to
take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the
pit.
 
Isaiah 30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of
Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and
in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
 
Isaiah 30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses;
therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift;
therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
 
Isaiah 30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at
the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon
upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
 
Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be
gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may
have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed
are all they that wait for him.
 
Isaiah 30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:
thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at
the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
 
Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy
teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall
see thy teachers:
 
Isaiah 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right
hand, and when ye turn to the left.
 
Isaiah 30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven
images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold:
thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say
unto it, Get thee hence.
 
Isaiah 30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou
shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the
earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy
cattle feed in large pastures.
 
Isaiah 30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the
ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with
the shovel and with the fan.
 
Isaiah 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of
the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
 
Isaiah 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as
the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the
breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
 
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,
burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips
are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
 
Isaiah 30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall
reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the
sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the
people, causing them to err.
 
Isaiah 30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy
solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with
a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One
of Israel.
 
Isaiah 30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire,
with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
 
Isaiah 30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the
Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
 
Isaiah 30:32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall
pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets
and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
 
Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king
it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof
is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of
brimstone, doth kindle it.
 
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and
stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and
in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto
the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
 
Isaiah 31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will
not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
 
Isaiah 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
 
Isaiah 31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the
lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of
their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall
the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the
hill thereof.
 
Isaiah 31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he
will preserve it.
 
Isaiah 31:6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel
have deeply revolted.
 
Isaiah 31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols
of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made
unto you for a sin.
 
Isaiah 31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of
a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:
but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.
 
Isaiah 31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,
and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD,
whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment.
 
Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the
wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry
place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
 
Isaiah 32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and
the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
 
Isaiah 32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to
speak plainly.
 
Isaiah 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal,
nor the churl said to be bountiful.
 
Isaiah 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his
heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter
error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and
he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
 
Isaiah 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he
deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaketh right.
 
Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by
liberal things shall he stand.
 
Isaiah 32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice,
ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
 
Isaiah 32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye
careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall
not come.
 
Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled,
ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird
sackcloth upon your loins.
 
Isaiah 32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant
fields, for the fruitful vine.
 
Isaiah 32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns
and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
 
Isaiah 32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the
multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall
be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
 
Isaiah 32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a forest.
 
Isaiah 32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
 
Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and
the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
 
Isaiah 32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable
habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
 
Isaiah 32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and
the city shall be low in a low place.
 
Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that
send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
 
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not
spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not
treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou
shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
 
Isaiah 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for
thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the
time of trouble.
 
Isaiah 33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the
lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
 
Isaiah 33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering
of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he
run upon them.
 
Isaiah 33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he
hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
 
Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of
thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his
treasure.
 
Isaiah 33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
 
Isaiah 33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth:
he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth no man.
 
Isaiah 33:9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is
ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan
and Carmel shake off their fruits.
 
Isaiah 33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be
exalted; now will I lift up myself.
 
Isaiah 33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth
stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
 
Isaiah 33:12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime:
as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
 
Isaiah 33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and,
ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
 
Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath
surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the
devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting
burnings?
 
Isaiah 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh
uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that
shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears
from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
 
Isaiah 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall
be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
shall be sure.
 
Isaiah 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they
shall behold the land that is very far off.
 
Isaiah 33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the
scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the
towers?
 
Isaiah 33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a
deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue,
that thou canst not understand.
 
Isaiah 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine
eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that
shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever
be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
 
Isaiah 33:21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a
place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley
with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
 
Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our
lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
 
Isaiah 33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well
strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is
the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
 
Isaiah 33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the
people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
 
Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world,
and all things that come forth of it.
 
Isaiah 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all
nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly
destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
 
Isaiah 34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink
shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood.
 
Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and
the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and
as a falling fig from the fig tree.
 
Isaiah 34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it
shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.
 
Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is
made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a
sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
 
Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with
blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
 
Isaiah 34:8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the
year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
 
Isaiah 34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,
and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall
become burning pitch.
 
Isaiah 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke
thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
 
Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess
it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall
stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of
emptiness.
 
Isaiah 34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,
but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
 
Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles
and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an
habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
 
Isaiah 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with
the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his
fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for
herself a place of rest.
 
Isaiah 34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay,
and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures
also be gathered, every one with her mate.
 
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no
one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth
it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
 
Isaiah 34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand
hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
 
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad
for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
 
Isaiah 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with
joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the
LORD, and the excellency of our God.
 
Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the
feeble knees.
 
Isaiah 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong,
fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God
with a recompence; he will come and save you.
 
Isaiah 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the
ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
 
Isaiah 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break
out, and streams in the desert.
 
Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons,
where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
 
Isaiah 35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it
shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass
over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though
fools, shall not err therein.
 
Isaiah 35:9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast
shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the
redeemed shall walk there:
 
Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and
come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away.
 
Isaiah 36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all
the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
 
Isaiah 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish
to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood
by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's
field.
 
Isaiah 36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son,
which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah,
Asaph's son, the recorder.
 
Isaiah 36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
 
Isaiah 36:5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I
have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust,
that thou rebellest against me?
 
Isaiah 36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed,
on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
 
Isaiah 36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our
God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah
hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar?
 
Isaiah 36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my
master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
 
Isaiah 36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one
captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust
on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
 
Isaiah 36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this
land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this
land, and destroy it.
 
Isaiah 36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian
language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews'
language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
 
Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy
master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to
the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung,
and drink their own piss with you?
 
Isaiah 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice
in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great
king, the king of Assyria.
 
Isaiah 36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:
for he shall not be able to deliver you.
 
Isaiah 36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,
saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 
Isaiah 36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king
of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out
to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
 
Isaiah 36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
 
Isaiah 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the
LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 
Isaiah 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are
the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my
hand?
 
Isaiah 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands,
that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
 
Isaiah 36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a
word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
 
Isaiah 36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of
Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and
told him the words of Rabshakeh.
 
Isaiah 37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it,
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of the LORD.
 
Isaiah 37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
 
Isaiah 37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
 
Isaiah 37:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the
remnant that is left.
 
Isaiah 37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
 
Isaiah 37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto
your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that
thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me.
 
Isaiah 37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall
hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him
to fall by the sword in his own land.
 
Isaiah 37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
 
Isaiah 37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he
heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
 
Isaiah 37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
 
Isaiah 37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou
be delivered?
 
Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which
my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and
the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
 
Isaiah 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
 
Isaiah 37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of
the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house
of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
 
Isaiah 37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
 
Isaiah 37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
 
Isaiah 37:17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine
eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib,
which hath sent to reproach the living God.
 
Isaiah 37:18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the nations, and their countries,
 
Isaiah 37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
 
Isaiah 37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art
the LORD, even thou only.
 
Isaiah 37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
 
Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken
concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised
thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath
shaken her head at thee.
 
Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and
against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine
eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
 
Isaiah 37:24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and
hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the
height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut
down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof:
and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of
his Carmel.
 
Isaiah 37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole
of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
 
Isaiah 37:26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it;
and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought
it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities
into ruinous heaps.
 
Isaiah 37:27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the
field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and
as corn blasted before it be grown up.
 
Isaiah 37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me.
 
Isaiah 37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is
come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose,
and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way
by which thou camest.
 
Isaiah 37:30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that
which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
 
Isaiah 37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
 
Isaiah 37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and
they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts
shall do this.
 
Isaiah 37:33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king
of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against
it.
 
Isaiah 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine
own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
 
Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote
in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they
were all dead corpses.
 
Isaiah 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
 
Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of
Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
 
Isaiah 38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou
shalt die, and not live.
 
Isaiah 38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and
prayed unto the LORD,
 
Isaiah 38:3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how
I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and
have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept
sore.
 
Isaiah 38:4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
 
Isaiah 38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the
God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
 
Isaiah 38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the
hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
 
Isaiah 38:7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD,
that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
 
Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the
degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees
backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it
was gone down.
 
Isaiah 38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had
been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
 
Isaiah 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go
to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my
years.
 
Isaiah 38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD,
in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
inhabitants of the world.
 
Isaiah 38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a
shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will
cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou
make an end of me.
 
Isaiah 38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will
he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an
end of me.
 
Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did
mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am
oppressed; undertake for me.
 
Isaiah 38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and
himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the
bitterness of my soul.
 
Isaiah 38:16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these
things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and
make me to live.
 
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou
hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:
for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
 
Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not
celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for
thy truth.
 
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I
do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy
truth.
 
Isaiah 38:20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will
sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our
life in the house of the LORD.
 
Isaiah 38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs,
and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
 
Isaiah 38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I
shall go up to the house of the LORD?
 
Isaiah 39:1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he
had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
 
Isaiah 39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the
house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the
spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his
armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was
nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
shewed them not.
 
Isaiah 39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they
unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country
unto me, even from Babylon.
 
Isaiah 39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
 
Isaiah 39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
LORD of hosts:
 
Isaiah 39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine
house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until
this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left,
saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon.
 
Isaiah 39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of
the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there
shall be peace and truth in my days.
 
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
 
Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto
her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is
pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all
her sins.
 
Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God.
 
Isaiah 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain
and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough places plain:
 
Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and
all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it.
 
Isaiah 40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the
flower of the field:
 
Isaiah 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the
spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
 
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the
word of our God shall stand for ever.
 
Isaiah 40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up
into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings,
lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say
unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
 
Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand,
and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him,
and his work before him.
 
Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall
gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and
shall gently lead those that are with young.
 
Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in
scales, and the hills in a balance?
 
Isaiah 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being
his counsellor hath taught him?
 
Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,
and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge,
and shewed to him the way of understanding?
 
Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and
are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh
up the isles as a very little thing.
 
Isaiah 40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the
beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
 
Isaiah 40:17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they
are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
 
Isaiah 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness
will ye compare unto him?
 
Isaiah 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the
goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
 
Isaiah 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no
oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a
cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be
moved.
 
Isaiah 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not
been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
foundations of the earth?
 
Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out
as a tent to dwell in:
 
Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh
the judges of the earth as vanity.
 
Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall
not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
 
Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the Holy One.
 
Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath
created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he
calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that
he is strong in power; not one faileth.
 
Isaiah 40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel,
My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from
my God?
 
Isaiah 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the
everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding.
 
Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that
have no might he increaseth strength.
 
Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the
young men shall utterly fall:
 
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
 
Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the
people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them
speak: let us come near together to judgment.
 
Isaiah 41:2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him
rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as
driven stubble to his bow.
 
Isaiah 41:3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way
that he had not gone with his feet.
 
Isaiah 41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the
generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with
the last; I am he.
 
Isaiah 41:5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth
were afraid, drew near, and came.
 
Isaiah 41:6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one
said to his brother, Be of good courage.
 
Isaiah 41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he
that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying,
It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that
it should not be moved.
 
Isaiah 41:8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have
chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
 
Isaiah 41:9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee,
Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
 
Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not
dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will
help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness.
 
Isaiah 41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee
shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and
they that strive with thee shall perish.
 
Isaiah 41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them,
even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee
shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
 
Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
 
Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I
will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel.
 
Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing
instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and
beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
 
Isaiah 41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them
away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt
rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
 
Isaiah 41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear
them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
 
Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains
in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of
water, and the dry land springs of water.
 
Isaiah 41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the
shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the
desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
 
Isaiah 41:20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this,
and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
 
Isaiah 41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth
your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
 
Isaiah 41:22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall
happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we
may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us
things for to come.
 
Isaiah 41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that
we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we
may be dismayed, and behold it together.
 
Isaiah 41:24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of
nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
 
Isaiah 41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall
come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and
he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter
treadeth clay.
 
Isaiah 41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may
know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea,
there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth,
yea, there is none that heareth your words.
 
Isaiah 41:27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them:
and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
 
Isaiah 41:28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among
them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them,
could answer a word.
 
Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are
nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
 
Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in
whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall
bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
 
Isaiah 42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice
to be heard in the street.
 
Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking
flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto
truth.
 
Isaiah 42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have
set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
 
Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the
heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth,
and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the
people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
 
Isaiah 42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and
will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
 
Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners
from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison
house.
 
Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I
not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
 
Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new
things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
 
Isaiah 42:10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from
the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is
therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
 
Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up
their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the
inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the
mountains.
 
Isaiah 42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his
praise in the islands.
 
Isaiah 42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall
stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he
shall prevail against his enemies.
 
Isaiah 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been
still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing
woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
 
Isaiah 42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up
all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will
dry up the pools.
 
Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew
not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will
make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.
These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
 
Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly
ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten
images, Ye are our gods.
 
Isaiah 42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may
see.
 
Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my
messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and
blind as the LORD's servant?
 
Isaiah 42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not;
opening the ears, but he heareth not.
 
Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness'
sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
 
Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are
all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses:
they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none
saith, Restore.
 
Isaiah 42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will
hearken and hear for the time to come?
 
Isaiah 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the
robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for
they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto
his law.
 
Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his
anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire
round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it
not to heart.
 
Isaiah 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O
Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have
redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
 
Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be
with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee:
when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned;
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
 
Isaiah 43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
thee.
 
Isaiah 43:4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast
been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men
for thee, and people for thy life.
 
Isaiah 43:5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed
from the east, and gather thee from the west;
 
Isaiah 43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south,
Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the
ends of the earth;
 
Isaiah 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I
have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have
made him.
 
Isaiah 43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and
the deaf that have ears.
 
Isaiah 43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let
the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and
shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that
they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
 
Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my
servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and
understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me.
 
Isaiah 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no
saviour.
 
Isaiah 43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have
shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are
my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
 
Isaiah 43:13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none
that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let
it?
 
Isaiah 43:14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One
of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought
down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
ships.
 
Isaiah 43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your King.
 
Isaiah 43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the
sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
 
Isaiah 43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the
army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not
rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
 
Isaiah 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither
consider the things of old.
 
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring
forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
 
Isaiah 43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the
dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
 
Isaiah 43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall
shew forth my praise.
 
Isaiah 43:22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but
thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
 
Isaiah 43:23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy
burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy
sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor
wearied thee with incense.
 
Isaiah 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money,
neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but
thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me
with thine iniquities.
 
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
 
Isaiah 43:26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together:
declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
 
Isaiah 43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers
have transgressed against me.
 
Isaiah 43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the
sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to
reproaches.
 
Isaiah 44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom
I have chosen:
 
Isaiah 44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee
from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my
servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
 
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and
floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed,
and my blessing upon thine offspring:
 
Isaiah 44:4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as
willows by the water courses.
 
Isaiah 44:5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall
call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe
with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of
Israel.
 
Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his
redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no God.
 
Isaiah 44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it,
and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people?
and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew
unto them.
 
Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told
thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my
witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know
not any.
 
Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them
vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they
are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
ashamed.
 
Isaiah 44:10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image
that is profitable for nothing?
 
Isaiah 44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the
workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let
them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
together.
 
Isaiah 44:12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the
coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the
strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength
faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
 
Isaiah 44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh
it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it
out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
house.
 
Isaiah 44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress
and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees
of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
 
Isaiah 44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will
take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh
bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a
graven image, and falleth down thereto.
 
Isaiah 44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part
thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied:
yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen
the fire:
 
Isaiah 44:17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his
graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
 
Isaiah 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath
shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that
they cannot understand.
 
Isaiah 44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is
there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of
it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals
thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the
residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of
a tree?
 
Isaiah 44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned
him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not
a lie in my right hand?
 
Isaiah 44:21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art
my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel,
thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
 
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I
have redeemed thee.
 
Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it:
shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye
mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath
redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
 
Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that
formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad
the earth by myself;
 
Isaiah 44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and
maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh
their knowledge foolish;
 
Isaiah 44:26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and
performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah,
Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places
thereof:
 
Isaiah 44:27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up
thy rivers:
 
Isaiah 44:28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall
perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be
built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
 
Isaiah 45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and
I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two
leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
 
Isaiah 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places
straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in
sunder the bars of iron:
 
Isaiah 45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and
hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
 
Isaiah 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect,
I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though
thou hast not known me.
 
Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no
God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
 
Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and
from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and
there is none else.
 
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make
peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
 
Isaiah 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the
skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them
bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together;
I the LORD have created it.
 
Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the
potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay
say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He
hath no hands?
 
Isaiah 45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What
begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
 
Isaiah 45:11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and
his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and
concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
 
Isaiah 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I,
even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host
have I commanded.
 
Isaiah 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will
direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go
my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Isaiah 45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and
merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall
come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come
after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall
down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,
Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
 
Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God
of Israel, the Saviour.
 
Isaiah 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of
them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of
idols.
 
Isaiah 45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded
world without end.
 
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens;
God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be
inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
 
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of
the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain:
I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
 
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together,
ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that
set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that
cannot save.
 
Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take
counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who
hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no
God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me.
 
Isaiah 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the
earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
 
Isaiah 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my
mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
 
Isaiah 45:24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I
righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all
that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
 
Isaiah 45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be
justified, and shall glory.
 
Isaiah 46:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were
upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy
loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
 
Isaiah 46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not
deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
 
Isaiah 46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the
remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the
belly, which are carried from the womb:
 
Isaiah 46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar
hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will
carry, and will deliver you.
 
Isaiah 46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and
compare me, that we may be like?
 
Isaiah 46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver
in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god:
they fall down, yea, they worship.
 
Isaiah 46:7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him,
and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall
he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not
answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
 
Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it
again to mind, O ye transgressors.
 
Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God,
and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
 
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from
ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
 
Isaiah 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man
that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken
it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also
do it.
 
Isaiah 46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far
from righteousness:
 
Isaiah 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far
off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation
in Zion for Israel my glory.
 
Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter
of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and
delicate.
 
Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy
locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the
rivers.
 
Isaiah 47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame
shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as
a man.
 
Isaiah 47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name,
the Holy One of Israel.
 
Isaiah 47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The
lady of kingdoms.
 
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them
no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
 
Isaiah 47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so
that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
remember the latter end of it.
 
Isaiah 47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to
pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart,
I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of children:
 
Isaiah 47:9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment
in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come
upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
 
Isaiah 47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast
said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath
perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none
else beside me.
 
Isaiah 47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt
not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon
thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall
come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
 
Isaiah 47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the
multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy
youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou
mayest prevail.
 
Isaiah 47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels.
Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that
shall come upon thee.
 
Isaiah 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall
burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of
the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit
before it.
 
Isaiah 47:15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast
laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander
every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
 
Isaiah 48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by
the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of
Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of
the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
 
Isaiah 48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
 
Isaiah 48:3 I have declared the former things from the
beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed
them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
 
Isaiah 48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy
neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
 
Isaiah 48:5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee;
before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say,
Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten
image, hath commanded them.
 
Isaiah 48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye
declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even
hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
 
Isaiah 48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning;
even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou
shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
 
Isaiah 48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea,
from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that
thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor from the womb.
 
Isaiah 48:9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for
my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
 
Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver;
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
 
Isaiah 48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I
do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my
glory unto another.
 
Isaiah 48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I
am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
 
Isaiah 48:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the
earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call
unto them, they stand up together.
 
Isaiah 48:14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among
them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will
do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
Chaldeans.
 
Isaiah 48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I
have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
 
Isaiah 48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not
spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was,
there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
 
Isaiah 48:17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit,
which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
 
Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the
waves of the sea:
 
Isaiah 48:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the
offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should
not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
 
Isaiah 48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the
Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter
it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed
his servant Jacob.
 
Isaiah 48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the
deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them:
he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
 
Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the
wicked.
 
Isaiah 49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people,
from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels
of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
 
Isaiah 49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in
the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished
shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
 
Isaiah 49:3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in
whom I will be glorified.
 
Isaiah 49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent
my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is
with the LORD, and my work with my God.
 
Isaiah 49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the
womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though
Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of
the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
 
Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to
restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a
light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the
end of the earth.
 
Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and
his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation
abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise,
princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful,
and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
 
Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I
heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I
will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people,
to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages;
 
Isaiah 49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to
them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in
the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
 
Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall
the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall
lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
 
Isaiah 49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
highways shall be exalted.
 
Isaiah 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these
from the north and from the west; and these from the land of
Sinim.
 
Isaiah 49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break
forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his
people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
 
Isaiah 49:14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my
Lord hath forgotten me.
 
Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may
forget, yet will I not forget thee.
 
Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands; thy walls are continually before me.
 
Isaiah 49:17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and
they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
 
Isaiah 49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all
these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live,
saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as
with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
 
Isaiah 49:19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the
land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason
of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far
away.
 
Isaiah 49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou
hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is
too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
 
Isaiah 49:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath
begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am
desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath
brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they
been?
 
Isaiah 49:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up
mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people:
and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders.
 
Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their
queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with
their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet;
and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.
 
Isaiah 49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captive delivered?
 
Isaiah 49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,
and I will save thy children.
 
Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their
own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as
with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
 
Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your
mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my
creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your
iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions
is your mother put away.
 
Isaiah 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I
called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all,
that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at
my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their
fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
 
Isaiah 50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering.
 
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the
learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him
that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine
ear to hear as the learned.
 
Isaiah 50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away back.
 
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to
them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
 
Isaiah 50:7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I
not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and
I know that I shall not be ashamed.
 
Isaiah 50:8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend
with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him
come near to me.
 
Isaiah 50:9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that
shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the
moth shall eat them up.
 
Isaiah 50:10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that
obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and
hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay
upon his God.
 
Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and
in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine
hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
 
Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness,
ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and
to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
 
Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased
him.
 
Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort
all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
 
Isaiah 51:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O
my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
judgment to rest for a light of the people.
 
Isaiah 51:5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone
forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait
upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
 
Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the
earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
 
Isaiah 51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
 
Isaiah 51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and
the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be
for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
 
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art
thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
 
Isaiah 51:10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the
waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a
way for the ransomed to pass over?
 
Isaiah 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return,
and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be
upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow
and mourning shall flee away.
 
Isaiah 51:12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art
thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and
of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
 
Isaiah 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath
stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the
earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury
of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is
the fury of the oppressor?
 
Isaiah 51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail.
 
Isaiah 51:15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
 
Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have
covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the
heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion,
Thou art my people.
 
Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast
drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast
drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
 
Isaiah 51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom
she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by
the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
 
Isaiah 51:19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be
sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and
the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
 
Isaiah 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all
the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury
of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
 
Isaiah 51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but not with wine:
 
Isaiah 51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that
pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of
thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my
fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
 
Isaiah 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that
afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may
go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the
street, to them that went over.
 
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on
thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised
and the unclean.
 
Isaiah 52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.
 
Isaiah 52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves
for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
 
Isaiah 52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down
aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed
them without cause.
 
Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD,
that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them
make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every
day is blasphemed.
 
Isaiah 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore
they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold,
it is I.
 
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of
him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that
bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that
saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
 
Isaiah 52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye,
when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
 
Isaiah 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste
places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he
hath redeemed Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes
of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.
 
Isaiah 52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch
no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
that bear the vessels of the LORD.
 
Isaiah 52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by
flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel
will be your rereward.
 
Isaiah 52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall
be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
 
Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so
marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
 
Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall
shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them
shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
consider.
 
Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the
arm of the LORD revealed?
 
Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor
comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we
should desire him.
 
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our
faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
 
Isaiah 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted.
 
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
 
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
 
Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth.
 
Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who
shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land
of the living: for the transgression of my people was he
stricken.
 
Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the
rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in his mouth.
 
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put
him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,
he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
 
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
 
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he
hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession
for the transgressors.
 
Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break
forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail
with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the
children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch
forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
 
Isaiah 54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on
the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the
desolate cities to be inhabited.
 
Isaiah 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be
thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou
shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy widowhood any more.
 
Isaiah 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts
is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of
the whole earth shall he be called.
 
Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken
and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast
refused, saith thy God.
 
Isaiah 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with
great mercies will I gather thee.
 
Isaiah 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a
moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
 
Isaiah 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I
have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the
earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor
rebuke thee.
 
Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be
removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that
hath mercy on thee.
 
Isaiah 54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and
lay thy foundations with sapphires.
 
Isaiah 54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy
gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
 
Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD;
and great shall be the peace of thy children.
 
Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou
shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from
terror; for it shall not come near thee.
 
Isaiah 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not
by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall
for thy sake.
 
Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the
coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his
work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
 
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants
of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea,
come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
 
Isaiah 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken
diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your
soul delight itself in fatness.
 
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your
soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with
you, even the sure mercies of David.
 
Isaiah 55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the
people, a leader and commander to the people.
 
Isaiah 55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest
not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because
of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
glorified thee.
 
Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye
upon him while he is near:
 
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will
have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon.
 
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts.
 
Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from
heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the
sower, and bread to the eater:
 
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it.
 
Isaiah 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth
with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before
you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their
hands.
 
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it
shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that
shall not be cut off.
 
Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do
justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness
to be revealed.
 
Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of
man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
 
Isaiah 56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath
joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly
separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold,
I am a dry tree.
 
Isaiah 56:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep
my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold
of my covenant;
 
Isaiah 56:5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within
my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters:
I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
 
Isaiah 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves
to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to
be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
 
Isaiah 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and
make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and
their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine
house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
 
Isaiah 56:8 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of
Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that
are gathered unto him.
 
Isaiah 56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea,
all ye beasts in the forest.
 
Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant,
they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down,
loving to slumber.
 
Isaiah 56:11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have
enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all
look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
 
Isaiah 56:12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will
fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this
day, and much more abundant.
 
Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to
heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the
righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
 
Isaiah 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their
beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
 
Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the
seed of the adulterer and the whore.
 
Isaiah 57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom
make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not
children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
 
Isaiah 57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green
tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
rocks?
 
Isaiah 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy
portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a
drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I
receive comfort in these?
 
Isaiah 57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy
bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
 
Isaiah 57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set
up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another
than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made
thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou
sawest it.
 
Isaiah 57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and
didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far
off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
 
Isaiah 57:10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet
saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of
thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
 
Isaiah 57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that
thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy
heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me
not?
 
Isaiah 57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works;
for they shall not profit thee.
 
Isaiah 57:13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee;
but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them:
but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and
shall inherit my holy mountain;
 
Isaiah 57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the
way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
 
Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that
inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and
holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble
spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the
heart of the contrite ones.
 
Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be
always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
which I have made.
 
Isaiah 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,
and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly
in the way of his heart.
 
Isaiah 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will
lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
 
Isaiah 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to
him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and
I will heal him.
 
Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
 
Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
 
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of
Jacob their sins.
 
Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my
ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the
ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice;
they take delight in approaching to God.
 
Isaiah 58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest
not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and
exact all your labours.
 
Isaiah 58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite
with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day,
to make your voice to be heard on high.
 
Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a
man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this
a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
 
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose
the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let
the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
 
Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that
thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou
seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not
thyself from thine own flesh?
 
Isaiah 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall
be thy rereward.
 
Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer;
thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away
from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,
and speaking vanity;
 
Isaiah 58:10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in
obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
 
Isaiah 58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and
satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou
shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not.
 
Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old
waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
 
Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a
delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him,
not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words:
 
Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I
will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
the LORD hath spoken it.
 
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it
cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
 
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will
not hear.
 
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue
hath muttered perverseness.
 
Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for
truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive
mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 
Isaiah 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's
web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is
crushed breaketh out into a viper.
 
Isaiah 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall
they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of
iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
 
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting
and destruction are in their paths.
 
Isaiah 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no
judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths:
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
 
Isaiah 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth
justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness, but we walk in darkness.
 
Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope
as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we
are in desolate places as dead men.
 
Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves:
we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is
far off from us.
 
Isaiah 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,
and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with
us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
 
Isaiah 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and
departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
 
Isaiah 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice
standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity
cannot enter.
 
Isaiah 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from
evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it
displeased him that there was no judgment.
 
Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought
salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
 
Isaiah 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and
an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments
of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
 
Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will
repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the
islands he will repay recompence.
 
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the
west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy
shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up
a standard against him.
 
Isaiah 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them
that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith
the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have
put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
 
Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory
of the LORD is risen upon thee.
 
Isaiah 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon
thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
 
Isaiah 60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings
to the brightness of thy rising.
 
Isaiah 60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they
gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall
come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
 
Isaiah 60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine
heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the
sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles
shall come unto thee.
 
Isaiah 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come:
they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the
praises of the LORD.
 
Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together
unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they
shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify
the house of my glory.
 
Isaiah 60:8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves
to their windows?
 
Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships
of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and
their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to
the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
 
Isaiah 60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy
walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath
I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
 
Isaiah 60:11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually;
they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto
thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be
brought.
 
Isaiah 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve
thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
 
Isaiah 60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir
tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place
of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
 
Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall
come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
thee; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
 
Isaiah 60:15 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that
no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations.
 
Isaiah 60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and
shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the
LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
 
Isaiah 60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will
bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will
also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
 
Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,
wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call
thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
 
Isaiah 60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither
for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD
shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
 
Isaiah 60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy
moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
 
Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall
inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of
my hands, that I may be glorified.
 
Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small
one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
 
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the
LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he
hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to
the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
bound;
 
Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and
the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
 
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give
unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he
might be glorified.
 
Isaiah 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall
raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste
cities, the desolations of many generations.
 
Isaiah 61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and
the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your
vinedressers.
 
Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men
shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches
of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
 
Isaiah 61:7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for
confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their
land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto
them.
 
Isaiah 61:8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for
burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will
make an everlasting covenant with them.
 
Isaiah 61:9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles,
and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath
blessed.
 
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall
be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as
a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride
adorneth herself with her jewels.
 
Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as
the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring
forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to
spring forth before all the nations.
 
Isaiah 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof
go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that
burneth.
 
Isaiah 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and
all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
 
Isaiah 62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of
the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
 
Isaiah 62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither
shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be
called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
thee, and thy land shall be married.
 
Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy
sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
 
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
 
Isaiah 62:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till
he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
 
Isaiah 62:8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the
arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be
meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not
drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
 
Isaiah 62:9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and
praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall
drink it in the courts of my holiness.
 
Isaiah 62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the
way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the
stones; lift up a standard for the people.
 
Isaiah 62:11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of
the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation
cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
 
Isaiah 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The
redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A
city not forsaken.
 
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel,
travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save.
 
Isaiah 63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy
garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
 
Isaiah 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the
people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
 
Isaiah 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the
year of my redeemed is come.
 
Isaiah 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I
wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm
brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
 
Isaiah 63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and
make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength
to the earth.
 
Isaiah 63:7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
 
Isaiah 63:8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children
that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
 
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the
angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of
old.
 
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against
them.
 
Isaiah 63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his
people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy
Spirit within him?
 
Isaiah 63:12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his
glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an
everlasting name?
 
Isaiah 63:13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the
wilderness, that they should not stumble?
 
Isaiah 63:14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit
of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to
make thyself a glorious name.
 
Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the
habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal
and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies
toward me? are they restrained?
 
Isaiah 63:16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be
ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art
our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
 
Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy
ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy
servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
 
Isaiah 63:18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a
little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
 
Isaiah 63:19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;
they were not called by thy name.
 
Isaiah 64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou
wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy
presence,
 
Isaiah 64:2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth
the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
 
Isaiah 64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not
for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
 
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not
heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O
God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for
him.
 
Isaiah 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh
righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou
art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we
shall be saved.
 
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
 
Isaiah 64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that
stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy
face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
 
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the
clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
 
Isaiah 64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember
iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy
people.
 
Isaiah 64:10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
 
Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our
fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our
pleasant things are laid waste.
 
Isaiah 64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O
LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
 
Isaiah 65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am
found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me,
unto a nation that was not called by my name.
 
Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a
rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good,
after their own thoughts;
 
Isaiah 65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to
my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon
altars of brick;
 
Isaiah 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the
monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable
things is in their vessels;
 
Isaiah 65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me;
for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire
that burneth all the day.
 
Isaiah 65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep
silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
 
Isaiah 65:7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the
mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I
measure their former work into their bosom.
 
Isaiah 65:8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in
the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in
it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy
them all.
 
Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out
of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall
inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
 
Isaiah 65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the
valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my
people that have sought me.
 
Isaiah 65:11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget
my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that
furnish the drink offering unto that number.
 
Isaiah 65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye
shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye
did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil
before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
 
Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my
servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants
shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall
rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
 
Isaiah 65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart,
but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation
of spirit.
 
Isaiah 65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my
chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants
by another name:
 
Isaiah 65:16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall
bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the
earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former
troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
 
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
 
Isaiah 65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which
I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her
people a joy.
 
Isaiah 65:19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my
people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her,
nor the voice of crying.
 
Isaiah 65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall
die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years
old shall be accursed.
 
Isaiah 65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and
they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
 
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they
shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are
the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands.
 
Isaiah 65:23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for
trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and
their offspring with them.
 
Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call,
I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
 
Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the
lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the
serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and
the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto
me? and where is the place of my rest?
 
Isaiah 66:2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all
those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I
look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and
trembleth at my word.
 
Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he
that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that
offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that
burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen
their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
 
Isaiah 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring
their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine
eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
 
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his
word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my
name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear
to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
 
Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the
temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his
enemies.
 
Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her
pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
 
Isaiah 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such
things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or
shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed,
she brought forth her children.
 
Isaiah 66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring
forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the
womb? saith thy God.
 
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her,
all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn
for her:
 
Isaiah 66:11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the
breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be
delighted with the abundance of her glory.
 
Isaiah 66:12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend
peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a
flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her
sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
 
Isaiah 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I
comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
 
Isaiah 66:14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the
LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation
toward his enemies.
 
Isaiah 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and
with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with
fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
 
Isaiah 66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead
with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
 
Isaiah 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify
themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating
swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be
consumed together, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it
shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they
shall come, and see my glory.
 
Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send
those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and
Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar
off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and
they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
 
Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an
offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in
chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts,
to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of
Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
LORD.
 
Isaiah 66:21 And I will also take of them for priests and for
Levites, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I
will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your
seed and your name remain.
 
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon
to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come
to worship before me, saith the LORD.
 
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the
carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their
worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and
they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. 
 
Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the
priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
 
Jeremiah 1:2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of
Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of
his reign.
 
Jeremiah 1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of
Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away
of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
 
Jeremiah 1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and
before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I
ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
 
Jeremiah 1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak:
for I am a child.
 
Jeremiah 1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child:
for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak.
 
Jeremiah 1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee
to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my
mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in
thy mouth.
 
Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations
and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to
destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
 
Jeremiah 1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an
almond tree.
 
Jeremiah 1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen:
for I will hasten my word to perform it.
 
Jeremiah 1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second
time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot;
and the face thereof is toward the north.
 
Jeremiah 1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an
evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
 
Jeremiah 1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the
kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and
they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates
of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
against all the cities of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them
touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have
burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their
own hands.
 
Jeremiah 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and
speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their
faces, lest I confound thee before them.
 
Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced
city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole
land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
 
Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall
not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to
deliver thee.
 
Jeremiah 2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus
saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the
love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the
wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
 
Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the
firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob,
and all the families of the house of Israel:
 
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your
fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have
walked after vanity, and are become vain?
 
Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the
wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land
of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no
man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
 
Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat
the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered,
ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
 
Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they
that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed
against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after
things that do not profit.
 
Jeremiah 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the
LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
 
Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and
send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be
such a thing.
 
Jeremiah 2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet
no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which
doth not profit.
 
Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be
horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
 
Jeremiah 2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why
is he spoiled?
 
Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and
they made his land waste: his cities are burned without
inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have
broken the crown of thy head.
 
Jeremiah 2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that
thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
 
Jeremiah 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt,
to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way
of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
 
Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it
is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy
God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts.
 
Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst
thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon
every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest,
playing the harlot.
 
Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a
right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of
a strange vine unto me?
 
Jeremiah 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take
thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord GOD.
 
Jeremiah 2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not
gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
 
Jeremiah 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth
up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her
away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her
month they shall find her.
 
Jeremiah 2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy
throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I
have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
 
Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is
the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes,
and their priests, and their prophets.
 
Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a
stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their
back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their
trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
 
Jeremiah 2:28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?
let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:
for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
 
Jeremiah 2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they
received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your
prophets, like a destroying lion.
 
Jeremiah 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I
been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say
my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
 
Jeremiah 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
 
Jeremiah 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore
hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
 
Jeremiah 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the
souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret
search, but upon all these.
 
Jeremiah 2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely
his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee,
because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
 
Jeremiah 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of
Assyria.
 
Jeremiah 2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine
hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy
confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
 
Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go
from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her
again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast
played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith
the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see
where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for
them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted
the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
 
Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and
there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's
forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
 
Jeremiah 3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My
father, thou art the guide of my youth?
 
Jeremiah 3:5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep
it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as
thou couldest.
 
Jeremiah 3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah
the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done?
she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green
tree, and there hath played the harlot.
 
Jeremiah 3:7 And I said after she had done all these things,
Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous
sister Judah saw it.
 
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby
backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and
given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah
feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
 
Jeremiah 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her
whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with
stones and with stocks.
 
Jeremiah 3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah
hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly,
saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel
hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
 
Jeremiah 3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and
say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will
not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith
the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
 
Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy
ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not
obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for
I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two
of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
 
Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine
heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
 
Jeremiah 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied
and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they
shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither
shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither
shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
 
Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to
the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the imagination of their evil heart.
 
Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with
the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land
of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance
unto your fathers.
 
Jeremiah 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the
children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the
hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and
shalt not turn away from me.
 
Jeremiah 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping
and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
 
Jeremiah 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal
your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the
LORD our God.
 
Jeremiah 3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the
hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our
God is the salvation of Israel.
 
Jeremiah 3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers
from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and
their daughters.
 
Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion
covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and
our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
 
Jeremiah 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD,
return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out
of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
 
Jeremiah 4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth,
in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
 
Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and
Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
 
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away
the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none
can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
 
Jeremiah 4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and
say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and
say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
 
Jeremiah 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not:
for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
 
Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the
destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from
his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid
waste, without an inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl:
for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
 
Jeremiah 4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the
LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of
the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the
prophets shall wonder.
 
Jeremiah 4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast
greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
 
Jeremiah 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and
to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness
toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
 
Jeremiah 4:12 Even a full wind from those places shall come
unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
 
Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his
chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than
eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
 
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness,
that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge
within thee?
 
Jeremiah 4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth
affliction from mount Ephraim.
 
Jeremiah 4:16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish
against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and
give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round
about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things
unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because
it reacheth unto thine heart.
 
Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very
heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace,
because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the
alarm of war.
 
Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the
whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my
curtains in a moment.
 
Jeremiah 4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the
sound of the trumpet?
 
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me;
they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they
are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
 
Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form,
and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
 
Jeremiah 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,
and all the hills moved lightly.
 
Jeremiah 4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the
birds of the heavens were fled.
 
Jeremiah 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a
wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
 
Jeremiah 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall
be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
 
Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens
above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and
will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
 
Jeremiah 4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the
horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up
upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell
therein.
 
Jeremiah 4:30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do?
Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest
thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with
painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will
despise thee, they will seek thy life.
 
Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in
travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first
child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself,
that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is
wearied because of murderers.
 
Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth
judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
 
Jeremiah 5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they
swear falsely.
 
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou
hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made
their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
 
Jeremiah 5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are
foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment
of their God.
 
Jeremiah 5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak
unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the
judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke,
and burst the bonds.
 
Jeremiah 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard
shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence
shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many,
and their backslidings are increased.
 
Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children
have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled
themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
 
Jeremiah 5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one
neighed after his neighbour's wife.
 
Jeremiah 5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the
LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 
Jeremiah 5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make
not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the
LORD's.
 
Jeremiah 5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not
he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine:
 
Jeremiah 5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word
is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
 
Jeremiah 5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts,
Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy
mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
 
Jeremiah 5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O
house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an
ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say.
 
Jeremiah 5:16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are
all mighty men.
 
Jeremiah 5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy
bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall
eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines
and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities,
wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
 
Jeremiah 5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I
will not make a full end with you.
 
Jeremiah 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,
Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then
shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
that is not your's.
 
Jeremiah 5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish
it in Judah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and
hear not:
 
Jeremiah 5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not
tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound
of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and
though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not
prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
 
Jeremiah 5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart; they are revolted and gone.
 
Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear
the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the
latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks
of the harvest.
 
Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins have withholden good things from you.
 
Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they
lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch
men.
 
Jeremiah 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses
full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
 
Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they
overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the
cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the
needy do they not judge.
 
Jeremiah 5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the
LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 
Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in
the land;
 
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests
bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and
what will ye do in the end thereof?
 
Jeremiah 6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to
flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in
Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil
appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
 
Jeremiah 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely
and delicate woman.
 
Jeremiah 6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto
her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they
shall feed every one in his place.
 
Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go
up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows
of the evening are stretched out.
 
Jeremiah 6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy
her palaces.
 
Jeremiah 6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down
trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be
visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
 
Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she
casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her;
before me continually is grief and wounds.
 
Jeremiah 6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul
depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not
inhabited.
 
Jeremiah 6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly
glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer into the baskets.
 
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that
they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they
cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a
reproach; they have no delight in it.
 
Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am
weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children
abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the
husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is
full of days.
 
Jeremiah 6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others,
with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my
hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest
of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet
even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
 
Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
 
Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at
the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and
see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We
will not walk therein.
 
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to
the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
 
Jeremiah 6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what is among them.
 
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon
this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have
not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
 
Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from
Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt
offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
 
Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons
together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall
perish.
 
Jeremiah 6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from
the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the
sides of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are
cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and
they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee,
O daughter of Zion.
 
Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax
feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in
travail.
 
Jeremiah 6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way;
for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
 
Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with
sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as
for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall
suddenly come upon us.
 
Jeremiah 6:27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among
my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
 
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with
slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
 
Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of
the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not
plucked away.
 
Jeremiah 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the
LORD hath rejected them.
 
Jeremiah 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and
proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all
ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in
this place.
 
Jeremiah 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of
the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are
these.
 
Jeremiah 7:5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his
neighbour;
 
Jeremiah 7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither
walk after other gods to your hurt:
 
Jeremiah 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in
the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
 
Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot
profit.
 
Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and
swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other
gods whom ye know not;
 
Jeremiah 7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which
is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
abominations?
 
Jeremiah 7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become
a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith
the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for
the wickedness of my people Israel.
 
Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works,
saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and
speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered
not;
 
Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is
called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I
gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
 
Jeremiah 7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have
cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
 
Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me:
for I will not hear thee.
 
Jeremiah 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
 
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle
the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods,
that they may provoke me to anger.
 
Jeremiah 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do
they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
 
Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine
anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man,
and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the
fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be
quenched.
 
Jeremiah 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
 
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded
them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
 
Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my
voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and
walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be
well unto you.
 
Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil
heart, and went backward, and not forward.
 
Jeremiah 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of
the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
 
Jeremiah 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their
fathers.
 
Jeremiah 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto
them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call
unto them; but they will not answer thee.
 
Jeremiah 7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation
that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth
correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
 
Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it
away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath
rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
 
Jeremiah 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my
sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the
house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
 
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons
and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not,
neither came it into my heart.
 
Jeremiah 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son
of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in
Tophet, till there be no place.
 
Jeremiah 7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for
the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and
none shall fray them away.
 
Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of
Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
 
Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out
the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes,
and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and
the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
 
Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the
moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom
they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they
have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
 
Jeremiah 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all
the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain
in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
hosts.
 
Jeremiah 8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not
return?
 
Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back
by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
 
Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright:
no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
battle.
 
Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed
times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the
time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the
LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the
scribes is in vain.
 
Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and
taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what
wisdom is in them?
 
Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one
from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,
from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
 
Jeremiah 8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
 
Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in
the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there
shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the
leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass
away from them.
 
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let
us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there:
for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water
of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a
time of health, and behold trouble!
 
Jeremiah 8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan:
the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his
strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and
all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
 
Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,
among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you,
saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my
heart is faint in me.
 
Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the
LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me
to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
 
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we
are not saved.
 
Jeremiah 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I
hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
 
Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician
there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
recovered?
 
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain
of the daughter of my people!
 
Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!
for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
 
Jeremiah 9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for
lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for
they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust
ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
 
Jeremiah 9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and
will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak
lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
 
Jeremiah 9:6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit;
through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I
will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter
of my people?
 
Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh
deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth,
but in heart he layeth his wait.
 
Jeremiah 9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the
LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 
Jeremiah 9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and
wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation,
because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of
the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
 
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of
dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this?
and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he
may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like
a wilderness, that none passeth through?
 
Jeremiah 9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my
law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice,
neither walked therein;
 
Jeremiah 9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their
own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
 
Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with
wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
 
Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a
sword after them, till I have consumed them.
 
Jeremiah 9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and
call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for
cunning women, that they may come:
 
Jeremiah 9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing
for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids
gush out with waters.
 
Jeremiah 9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How
are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have
forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
 
Jeremiah 9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and
let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your
daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
 
Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is
entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without,
and the young men from the streets.
 
Jeremiah 9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of
men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful
after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
 
Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory
in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let
not the rich man glory in his riches:
 
Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise
lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
these things I delight, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will punish all them which are circumcised with the
uncircumcised;
 
Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of
Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that
dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised,
and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
 
Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto
you, O house of Israel:
 
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the
heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the
heathen are dismayed at them.
 
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one
cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman, with the axe.
 
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they
fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
 
Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not:
they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid
of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to
do good.
 
Jeremiah 10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O
LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
 
Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for
to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of
the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto
thee.
 
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the
stock is a doctrine of vanities.
 
Jeremiah 10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from
Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of
the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they
are all the work of cunning men.
 
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living
God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall
tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his
indignation.
 
Jeremiah 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have
not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from
the earth, and from under these heavens.
 
Jeremiah 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
 
Jeremiah 10:13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude
of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
 
Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every
founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image
is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
 
Jeremiah 10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the
time of their visitation they shall perish.
 
Jeremiah 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is
the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his
inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
 
Jeremiah 10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O
inhabitant of the fortress.
 
Jeremiah 10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling
out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress
them, that they may find it so.
 
Jeremiah 10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but
I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
 
Jeremiah 10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are
broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there
is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my
curtains.
 
Jeremiah 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not
sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their
flocks shall be scattered.
 
Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a
great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of
Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
 
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in
himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
 
Jeremiah 10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in
thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
 
Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know
thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for
they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and
have made his habitation desolate.
 
Jeremiah 11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD
saying,
 
Jeremiah 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak
unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
 
Jeremiah 11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this
covenant,
 
Jeremiah 11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron
furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all
which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your
God:
 
Jeremiah 11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn
unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and
honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these
words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
 
Jeremiah 11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in
the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even
unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my
voice.
 
Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but
walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart:
therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
 
Jeremiah 11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found
among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after
other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of
Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
 
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and
though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
 
Jeremiah 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants
of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer
incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their
trouble.
 
Jeremiah 11:13 For according to the number of thy cities were
thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of
Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even
altars to burn incense unto Baal.
 
Jeremiah 11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the
time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
 
Jeremiah 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing
she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed
from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
 
Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree,
fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he
hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
 
Jeremiah 11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath
pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel
and of the house of Judah, which they have done against
themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
 
Jeremiah 11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and
I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
 
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought
to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices
against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that
his name may be no more remembered.
 
Jeremiah 11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously,
that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
 
Jeremiah 11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of
Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of
the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
 
Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,
I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their
sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
 
Jeremiah 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I
will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their
visitation.
 
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with
thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth
the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that
deal very treacherously?
 
Jeremiah 12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken
root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in
their mouth, and far from their reins.
 
Jeremiah 12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me,
and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for
the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
 
Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of
every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell
therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they
said, He shall not see our last end.
 
Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have
wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in
the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee,
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
 
Jeremiah 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy
father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they
have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they
speak fair words unto thee.
 
Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine
heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the
hand of her enemies.
 
Jeremiah 12:8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest;
it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
 
Jeremiah 12:9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the
birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the
beasts of the field, come to devour.
 
Jeremiah 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they
have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant
portion a desolate wilderness.
 
Jeremiah 12:11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate
it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no
man layeth it to heart.
 
Jeremiah 12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places
through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour
from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land:
no flesh shall have peace.
 
Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they
shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of
the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 12:14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil
neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my
people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their
land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
 
Jeremiah 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have
plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and
will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man
to his land.
 
Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will
diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The
LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then
shall they be built in the midst of my people.
 
Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck
up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a
linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
 
Jeremiah 13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the
LORD, and put it on my loins.
 
Jeremiah 13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second
time, saying,
 
Jeremiah 13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon
thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a
hole of the rock.
 
Jeremiah 13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD
commanded me.
 
Jeremiah 13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the
LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle
from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
 
Jeremiah 13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took
the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the
girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
 
Jeremiah 13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar
the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after
other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as
this girdle, which is good for nothing.
 
Jeremiah 13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a
man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel
and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be
unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
glory: but they would not hear.
 
Jeremiah 13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word;
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled
with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know
that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
 
Jeremiah 13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even
the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the
prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
 
Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even
the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not
pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
 
Jeremiah 13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the
LORD hath spoken.
 
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of
death, and make it gross darkness.
 
Jeremiah 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep
in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore,
and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away
captive.
 
Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble
yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down,
even the crown of your glory.
 
Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and
none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of
it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
 
Jeremiah 13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come
from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy
beautiful flock?
 
Jeremiah 13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee?
for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee:
shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
 
Jeremiah 13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come
these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy
skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
 
Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed
to do evil.
 
Jeremiah 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble
that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
 
Jeremiah 13:25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures
from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood.
 
Jeremiah 13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy
face, that thy shame may appear.
 
Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings,
the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills
in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made
clean? when shall it once be?
 
Jeremiah 14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah
concerning the dearth.
 
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone
up.
 
Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to
the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they
returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and
confounded, and covered their heads.
 
Jeremiah 14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no
rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their
heads.
 
Jeremiah 14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and
forsook it, because there was no grass.
 
Jeremiah 14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places,
they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail,
because there was no grass.
 
Jeremiah 14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us,
do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we
have sinned against thee.
 
Jeremiah 14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time
of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and
as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
 
Jeremiah 14:9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a
mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst
of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
 
Jeremiah 14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have
they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet,
therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember
their iniquity, and visit their sins.
 
Jeremiah 14:11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this
people for their good.
 
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and
when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept
them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence.
 
Jeremiah 14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets
say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
 
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets
prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I
commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a
false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the
deceit of their heart.
 
Jeremiah 14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the
prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they
say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and
famine shall those prophets be consumed.
 
Jeremiah 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be
cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and
the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their
wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their
wickedness upon them.
 
Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them;
Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not
cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a
great breach, with a very grievous blow.
 
Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the
slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold
them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the
priest go about into a land that they know not.
 
Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul
lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing
for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the
time of healing, and behold trouble!
 
Jeremiah 14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
 
Jeremiah 14:21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not
disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy
covenant with us.
 
Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles
that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not
thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for
thou hast made all these things.
 
Jeremiah 15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and
Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this
people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
 
Jeremiah 15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee,
Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith
the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for
the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
 
Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith
the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls
of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and
destroy.
 
Jeremiah 15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all
kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah
king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?
or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou
doest?
 
Jeremiah 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art
gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee,
and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
 
Jeremiah 15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of
the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my
people since they return not from their ways.
 
Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand
of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the
young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it
suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
 
Jeremiah 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath
given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day:
she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them
will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a
man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have
neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet
every one of them doth curse me.
 
Jeremiah 15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy
remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in
the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
 
Jeremiah 15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the
steel?
 
Jeremiah 15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to
the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all
thy borders.
 
Jeremiah 15:14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies
into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine
anger, which shall burn upon you.
 
Jeremiah 15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
 
Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and
thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I
am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
 
Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor
rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled
me with indignation.
 
Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound
incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether
unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
 
Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return,
then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and
if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as
my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto
them.
 
Jeremiah 15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced
brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall
not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to
deliver thee, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the
wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
 
Jeremiah 16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt
thou have sons or daughters in this place.
 
Jeremiah 16:3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and
concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their
fathers that begat them in this land;
 
Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not
be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as
dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by
the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for
the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house
of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even
lovingkindness and mercies.
 
Jeremiah 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this
land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for
them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
 
Jeremiah 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in
mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give
them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for
their mother.
 
Jeremiah 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of
feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
 
Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your
eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride.
 
Jeremiah 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew
this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee,
Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against
us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have
committed against the LORD our God?
 
Jeremiah 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your
fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and
have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
 
Jeremiah 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for,
behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil
heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
 
Jeremiah 16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into
a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there
shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew
you favour.
 
Jeremiah 16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
 
Jeremiah 16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the
lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again
into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
 
Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the
LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many
hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from
every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
 
Jeremiah 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are
not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine
eyes.
 
Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and
their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have
filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable things.
 
Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto
thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our
fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is
no profit.
 
Jeremiah 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are
no gods?
 
Jeremiah 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them
to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and
they shall know that my name is The LORD.
 
Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,
and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of
their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
 
Jeremiah 17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and
their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
 
Jeremiah 17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy
substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places
for sin, throughout all thy borders.
 
Jeremiah 17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from
thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve
thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have
kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
 
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and
shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
 
Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and
whose hope the LORD is.
 
Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see
when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding
fruit.
 
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?
 
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,
even to give every man according to his ways, and according to
the fruit of his doings.
 
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth
them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall
leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a
fool.
 
Jeremiah 17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the
place of our sanctuary.
 
Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake
thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be
written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the
fountain of living waters.
 
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me,
and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
 
Jeremiah 17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of
the LORD? let it come now.
 
Jeremiah 17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a
pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day;
thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before
thee.
 
Jeremiah 17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the
day of evil.
 
Jeremiah 17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but
let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be
dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with
double destruction.
 
Jeremiah 17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the
gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah
come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem;
 
Jeremiah 17:20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD,
ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
 
Jeremiah 17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves,
and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the
gates of Jerusalem;
 
Jeremiah 17:22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses
on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the
sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
 
Jeremiah 17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear,
but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
instruction.
 
Jeremiah 17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently
hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through
the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath
day, to do no work therein;
 
Jeremiah 17:25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this
city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding
in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall
remain for ever.
 
Jeremiah 17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah,
and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of
Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from
the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat
offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto
the house of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the
sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire
in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
 
Jeremiah 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and
there I will cause thee to hear my words.
 
Jeremiah 18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
 
Jeremiah 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in
the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as
seemed good to the potter to make it.
 
Jeremiah 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this
potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's
hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
 
Jeremiah 18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down,
and to destroy it;
 
Jeremiah 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced,
turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to
do unto them.
 
Jeremiah 18:9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
 
Jeremiah 18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would
benefit them.
 
Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against
you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your
ways and your doings good.
 
Jeremiah 18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will
walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the
imagination of his evil heart.
 
Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among
the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel
hath done a very horrible thing.
 
Jeremiah 18:14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which
cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing
waters that come from another place be forsaken?
 
Jeremiah 18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have
burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in
their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not
cast up;
 
Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and
wag his head.
 
Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before
the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the
day of their calamity.
 
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices
against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest,
nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come,
and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to
any of his words.
 
Jeremiah 18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the
voice of them that contend with me.
 
Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they
have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee
to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
 
Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and
let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and
let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by
the sword in battle.
 
Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou
shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a
pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
 
Jeremiah 18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot
out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before
thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
 
Jeremiah 19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's
earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of
the ancients of the priests;
 
Jeremiah 19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim
there the words that I shall tell thee,
 
Jeremiah 19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of
Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
 
Jeremiah 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged
this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
 
Jeremiah 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to
burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
 
Jeremiah 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
 
Jeremiah 19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and
Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the
sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek
their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the
fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and
hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
 
Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their
sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every
one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness,
wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall
straiten them.
 
Jeremiah 19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of
the men that go with thee,
 
Jeremiah 19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and
they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
 
Jeremiah 19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD,
and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as
Tophet:
 
Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of
the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet,
because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned
incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
 
Jeremiah 19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD
had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's
house; and said to all the people,
 
Jeremiah 19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all
the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have
hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
 
Jeremiah 20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was
also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah
prophesied these things.
 
Jeremiah 20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put
him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which
was by the house of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur
brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto
him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
 
Jeremiah 20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee
a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall
by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it:
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them
with the sword.
 
Jeremiah 20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this
city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things
thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give
into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take
them, and carry them to Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine
house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon,
and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and
all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
 
Jeremiah 20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was
deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in
derision daily, every one mocketh me.
 
Jeremiah 20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence
and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto
me, and a derision, daily.
 
Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor
speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with
forbearing, and I could not stay.
 
Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every
side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars
watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed,
and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge
on him.
 
Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible
one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not
prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not
prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
 
Jeremiah 20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous,
and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
 
Jeremiah 20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he
hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
 
Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not
the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
 
Jeremiah 20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my
father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very
glad.
 
Jeremiah 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD
overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the
morning, and the shouting at noontide;
 
Jeremiah 20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my
mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great
with me.
 
Jeremiah 20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see
labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
 
Jeremiah 21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
 
Jeremiah 21:2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be
that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us.
 
Jeremiah 21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say
to Zedekiah:
 
Jeremiah 21:4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will
turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye
fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans,
which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them
into the midst of this city.
 
Jeremiah 21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an
outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in
fury, and in great wrath.
 
Jeremiah 21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city,
both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
 
Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver
Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and
such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the
sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand
of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the
edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity,
nor have mercy.
 
Jeremiah 21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith
the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way
of death.
 
Jeremiah 21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that
goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he
shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
 
Jeremiah 21:10 For I have set my face against this city for
evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
 
Jeremiah 21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah,
say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
 
Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute
judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of
the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and
burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
 
Jeremiah 21:13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the
valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who
shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our
habitations?
 
Jeremiah 21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of
your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the
forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
 
Jeremiah 22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the
king of Judah, and speak there this word,
 
Jeremiah 22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of
Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy
servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
 
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and
righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the
fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this
place.
 
Jeremiah 22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there
enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne
of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people.
 
Jeremiah 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by
myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a
desolation.
 
Jeremiah 22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of
Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet
surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not
inhabited.
 
Jeremiah 22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every
one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars,
and cast them into the fire.
 
Jeremiah 22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and
they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the
LORD done thus unto this great city?
 
Jeremiah 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have
forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other
gods, and served them.
 
Jeremiah 22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him:
but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no
more, nor see his native country.
 
Jeremiah 22:11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son
of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his
father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return
thither any more:
 
Jeremiah 22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have
led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
 
Jeremiah 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his
neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his
work;
 
Jeremiah 22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and
large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
 
Jeremiah 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself
in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and
justice, and then it was well with him?
 
Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then
it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for
thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it.
 
Jeremiah 22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament
for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not
lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
 
Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice
in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are
destroyed.
 
Jeremiah 22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou
saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy
youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
 
Jeremiah 22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy
lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed
and confounded for all thy wickedness.
 
Jeremiah 22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in
the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee,
the pain as of a woman in travail!
 
Jeremiah 22:24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son
of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand,
yet would I pluck thee thence;
 
Jeremiah 22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that
seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest,
even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of the Chaldeans.
 
Jeremiah 22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that
bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and
there shall ye die.
 
Jeremiah 22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return,
thither shall they not return.
 
Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he
a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he
and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
 
Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man
childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man
of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and
ruling any more in Judah.
 
Jeremiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter
the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel
against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my
flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I
will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of
all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them
again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
 
Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall
feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign
and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
 
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel
shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be
called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
 
Jeremiah 23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
 
Jeremiah 23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which
led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and
from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall
dwell in their own land.
 
Jeremiah 23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the
prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a
man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of
the words of his holiness.
 
Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because
of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the
wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their
force is not right.
 
Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in
my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as
slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their
visitation, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of
Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to
err.
 
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an
horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they
strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return
from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and
the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
 
Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts
concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
 
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto
the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you
vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the
mouth of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The
LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one
that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil
shall come upon you.
 
Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD,
and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word,
and heard it?
 
Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in
fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon
the head of the wicked.
 
Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he
have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
 
Jeremiah 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I
have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
 
Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had
caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned
them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
 
Jeremiah 23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a
God afar off?
 
Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I
shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and
earth? saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that
prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
 
Jeremiah 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the
prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit
of their own heart;
 
Jeremiah 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name
by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as
their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
 
Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a
dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word
faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD;
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
 
Jeremiah 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets,
saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
 
Jeremiah 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the
LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
 
Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false
dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to
err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not,
nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people
at all, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a
priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD?
thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake
you, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 23:34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the
people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even
punish that man and his house.
 
Jeremiah 23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour,
and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and,
What hath the LORD spoken?
 
Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no
more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have
perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our
God.
 
Jeremiah 23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath
the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
 
Jeremiah 23:38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD;
therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The
burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall
not say, The burden of the LORD;
 
Jeremiah 23:39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly
forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you
and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
 
Jeremiah 23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon
you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
 
Jeremiah 24:1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of
figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah
the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah,
with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought
them to Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs
that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs,
which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
 
Jeremiah 24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou,
Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the
evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
 
Jeremiah 24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like
these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away
captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the
land of the Chaldeans for their good.
 
Jeremiah 24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and
I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and
not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
 
Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I
am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
 
Jeremiah 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they
are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah
the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of
Egypt:
 
Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive
them.
 
Jeremiah 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land
that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
 
Jeremiah 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the
people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon;
 
Jeremiah 25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the
people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
 
Jeremiah 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of
Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and
twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I
have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not
hearkened.
 
Jeremiah 25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants
the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
 
Jeremiah 25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his
evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land
that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever
and ever:
 
Jeremiah 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to
worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your
hands; and I will do you no hurt.
 
Jeremiah 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the
LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your
hands to your own hurt.
 
Jeremiah 25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because
ye have not heard my words,
 
Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of
the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and
against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations
round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 
Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of
mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the
light of the candle.
 
Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and
an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years.
 
Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years
are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and
that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of
the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
 
Jeremiah 25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words
which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in
this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the
nations.
 
Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve
themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to
their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
 
Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me;
Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the
nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
 
Jeremiah 25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad,
because of the sword that I will send among them.
 
Jeremiah 25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made
all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
 
Jeremiah 25:18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and
the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a
desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is
this day;
 
Jeremiah 25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
princes, and all his people;
 
Jeremiah 25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of
the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines,
and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
 
Jeremiah 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
 
Jeremiah 25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of
Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
 
Jeremiah 25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in
the utmost corners,
 
Jeremiah 25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings
of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
 
Jeremiah 25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of
Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
 
Jeremiah 25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near,
one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are
upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them.
 
Jeremiah 25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken,
and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which
I will send among you.
 
Jeremiah 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup
at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
 
Jeremiah 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which
is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye
shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the
inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Jeremiah 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these
words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and
utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar
upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread
the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the
earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will
plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the
sword, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall
go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be
raised up from the coasts of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day
from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they
shall be dung upon the ground.
 
Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow
yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days
of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and
ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
 
Jeremiah 25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor
the principal of the flock to escape.
 
Jeremiah 25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an
howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the
LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
 
Jeremiah 25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down
because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for
their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the
oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
 
Jeremiah 26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
 
Jeremiah 26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the
LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come
to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee
to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
 
Jeremiah 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man
from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I
purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
 
Jeremiah 26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I
have set before you,
 
Jeremiah 26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending
them, but ye have not hearkened;
 
Jeremiah 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will
make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the
people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an
end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto
all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the
people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
 
Jeremiah 26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD,
saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be
desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered
against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things,
then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the
LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's
house.
 
Jeremiah 26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the
princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die;
for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with
your ears.
 
Jeremiah 26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to
all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this
house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
 
Jeremiah 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings,
and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent
him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
 
Jeremiah 26:14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me
as seemeth good and meet unto you.
 
Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to
death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and
upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth
the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your
ears.
 
Jeremiah 26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto
the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die:
for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
 
Jeremiah 26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land,
and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
 
Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a
field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the high places of a forest.
 
Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him
at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD,
and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced
against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
 
Jeremiah 26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the
name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim,
who prophesied against this city and against this land according
to all the words of Jeremiah.
 
Jeremiah 26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty
men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put
him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled,
and went into Egypt;
 
Jeremiah 26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt,
namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into
Egypt.
 
Jeremiah 26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and
brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword,
and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
 
Jeremiah 26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the
hand of the people to put him to death.
 
Jeremiah 27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
 
Jeremiah 27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and
yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
 
Jeremiah 27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the
king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king
of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers
which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
 
Jeremiah 27:4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say
unto your masters;
 
Jeremiah 27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that
are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched
arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
 
Jeremiah 27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the
hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the
beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
 
Jeremiah 27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and
his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then
many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
 
Jeremiah 27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and
kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with
the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I
have consumed them by his hand.
 
Jeremiah 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to
your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor
to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not
serve the king of Babylon:
 
Jeremiah 27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you
far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye
should perish.
 
Jeremiah 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let
remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall
till it, and dwell therein.
 
Jeremiah 27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according
to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
 
Jeremiah 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath
spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of
Babylon?
 
Jeremiah 27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the
prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king
of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
 
Jeremiah 27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet
they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and
that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto
you.
 
Jeremiah 27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this
people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of
your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels
of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from
Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
 
Jeremiah 27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of
Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
 
Jeremiah 27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the
LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of
hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD,
and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not
to Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
 
Jeremiah 27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,
when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king
of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah
and Jerusalem;
 
Jeremiah 27:21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the
LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
 
Jeremiah 27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there
shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD;
then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
 
Jeremiah 28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth
year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the
prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the
LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into
this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and
carried them to Babylon:
 
Jeremiah 28:4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the
son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah,
that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke
of the king of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet
Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of
all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,
 
Jeremiah 28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do
so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to
bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is
carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
 
Jeremiah 28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak
in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
 
Jeremiah 28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before
thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against
great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
 
Jeremiah 28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the
word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be
known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.
 
Jeremiah 28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off
the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
 
Jeremiah 28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the
people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the
yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all
nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet
Jeremiah went his way.
 
Jeremiah 28:12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the
prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from
off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for
them yokes of iron.
 
Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these
nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and
they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the
field also.
 
Jeremiah 28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the
prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but
thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
 
Jeremiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt
die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in
the seventh month.
 
Jeremiah 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that
Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the
elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and
to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had
carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
 
Jeremiah 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and
the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
 
Jeremiah 29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and
Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent
unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
 
Jeremiah 29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be
carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
 
Jeremiah 29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant
gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
 
Jeremiah 29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and
take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands,
that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased
there, and not diminished.
 
Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have
caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD
for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
 
Jeremiah 29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the
midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which
ye cause to be dreamed.
 
Jeremiah 29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I
have not sent them, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy
years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my
good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
 
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you
an expected end.
 
Jeremiah 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and
pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
 
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall
search for me with all your heart.
 
Jeremiah 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and
I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all
the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,
saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence
I caused you to be carried away captive.
 
Jeremiah 29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up
prophets in Babylon;
 
Jeremiah 29:16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that
sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that
dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone
forth with you into captivity;
 
Jeremiah 29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will
send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and
will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so
evil.
 
Jeremiah 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with
the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an
astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations whither I have driven them:
 
Jeremiah 29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words,
saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not
hear, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye
of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
 
Jeremiah 29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah,
which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver
them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall slay them before your eyes;
 
Jeremiah 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the
captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make
thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon
roasted in the fire;
 
Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel,
and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and
have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded
them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 29:24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, saying,
 
Jeremiah 29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto
all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
 
Jeremiah 29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of
Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of
the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a
prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the
stocks.
 
Jeremiah 29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved
Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
 
Jeremiah 29:28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon,
saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in
them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
 
Jeremiah 29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the
ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
 
Jeremiah 29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus
saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that
Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he
caused you to trust in a lie:
 
Jeremiah 29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a
man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good
that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath
taught rebellion against the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying,
Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
 
Jeremiah 30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,
saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that
I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
 
Jeremiah 30:4 And these are the words that the LORD spake
concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
 
Jeremiah 30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
 
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail
with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into
paleness?
 
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like
it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved
out of it.
 
Jeremiah 30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and
will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve
themselves of him:
 
Jeremiah 30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and
David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
 
Jeremiah 30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob,
saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will
save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be
quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
 
Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save
thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have
scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I
will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether
unpunished.
 
Jeremiah 30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is
incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
 
Jeremiah 30:13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou
mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
 
Jeremiah 30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek
thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy,
with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine
iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
 
Jeremiah 30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow
is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy
sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
 
Jeremiah 30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be
devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go
into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and
all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
 
Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will
heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee
an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
 
Jeremiah 30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again
the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his
dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap,
and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
 
Jeremiah 30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and
the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and
they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall
not be small.
 
Jeremiah 30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and
their congregation shall be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them.
 
Jeremiah 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and
their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will
cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is
this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your
God.
 
Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth
with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon
the head of the wicked.
 
Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return,
until he hath done it, and until he have performed the intents of
his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
 
Jeremiah 31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the
God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
 
Jeremiah 31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left
of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I
went to cause him to rest.
 
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying,
Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
 
Jeremiah 31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built,
O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,
and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
 
Jeremiah 31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of
Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common
things.
 
Jeremiah 31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon
the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion
unto the LORD our God.
 
Jeremiah 31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for
Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye,
praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of
Israel.
 
Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the
blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth
with child together: a great company shall return thither.
 
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with
supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the
rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not
stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my
firstborn.
 
Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and
declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered
Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his
flock.
 
Jeremiah 31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed
him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
 
Jeremiah 31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height
of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for
wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock
and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and
they shall not sorrow any more at all.
 
Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both
young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into
joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their
sorrow.
 
Jeremiah 31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith
the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children
refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
 
Jeremiah 31:16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from
weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be
rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land
of the enemy.
 
Jeremiah 31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD,
that thy children shall come again to their own border.
 
Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself
thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock
unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned;
for thou art the LORD my God.
 
Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and
after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was
ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of
my youth.
 
Jeremiah 31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child?
for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have
mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set
thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest:
turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
 
Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding
daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A
woman shall compass a man.
 
Jeremiah 31:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the
cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The
LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of
holiness.
 
Jeremiah 31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in
all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go
forth with flocks.
 
Jeremiah 31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have
replenished every sorrowful soul.
 
Jeremiah 31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was
sweet unto me.
 
Jeremiah 31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed
of man, and with the seed of beast.
 
Jeremiah 31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have
watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw
down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them,
to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The
fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set
on edge.
 
Jeremiah 31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity:
every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on
edge.
 
Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the
house of Judah:
 
Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,
although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
 
Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I
will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their
hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his
neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for
they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest
of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.
 
Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a
light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for
a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof
roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
 
Jeremiah 31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith
the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a
nation before me for ever.
 
Jeremiah 31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they
have done, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the
city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto
the gate of the corner.
 
Jeremiah 31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over
against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
 
Jeremiah 31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of
the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the
corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the
LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for
ever.
 
Jeremiah 32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in
the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
 
Jeremiah 32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged
Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of
the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
 
Jeremiah 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up,
saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall take it;
 
Jeremiah 32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out
of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth
to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
 
Jeremiah 32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there
shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight
with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
 
Jeremiah 32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
 
Jeremiah 32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle
shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in
Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
 
Jeremiah 32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the
court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said
unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is
in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is
thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I
knew that this was the word of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's
son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver.
 
Jeremiah 32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it,
and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
 
Jeremiah 32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both
that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that
which was open:
 
Jeremiah 32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of
Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses
that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews
that sat in the court of the prison.
 
Jeremiah 32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
 
Jeremiah 32:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which
is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an
earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
 
Jeremiah 32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again
in this land.
 
Jeremiah 32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the
purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven
and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there
is nothing too hard for thee:
 
Jeremiah 32:18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their
children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of
hosts, is his name,
 
Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine
eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every
one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings:
 
Jeremiah 32:20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men;
and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
 
Jeremiah 32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of
the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
 
Jeremiah 32:22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst
swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and
honey;
 
Jeremiah 32:23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they
obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done
nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou
hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
 
Jeremiah 32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city
to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans,
that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine,
and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;
and, behold, thou seest it.
 
Jeremiah 32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee
the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans.
 
Jeremiah 32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is
there any thing too hard for me?
 
Jeremiah 32:28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
 
Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city,
shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the
houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and
poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to
anger.
 
Jeremiah 32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of
Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the
children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work
of their hands, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 32:31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation
of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even
unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
 
Jeremiah 32:32 Because of all the evil of the children of
Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to
provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their
priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not
the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching
them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
 
Jeremiah 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house,
which is called by my name, to defile it.
 
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which
are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and
their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I
commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they
should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
 
Jeremiah 32:36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God
of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be
delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and
by the famine, and by the pestilence;
 
Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries,
whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in
great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I
will cause them to dwell safely:
 
Jeremiah 32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their
God:
 
Jeremiah 32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way,
that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of
their children after them:
 
Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with
them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I
will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from
me.
 
Jeremiah 32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good,
and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart
and with my whole soul.
 
Jeremiah 32:42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought
all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them
all the good that I have promised them.
 
Jeremiah 32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof
ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the
hand of the Chaldeans.
 
Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe
evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of
the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause
their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah
the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the
prison, saying,
 
Jeremiah 33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD
that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
 
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew
thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
 
Jeremiah 33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of
the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by
the sword;
 
Jeremiah 33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is
to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in
mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have
hid my face from this city.
 
Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I
will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace
and truth.
 
Jeremiah 33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the
captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the
first.
 
Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity,
whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed against me.
 
Jeremiah 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and
an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear
all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble
for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure
unto it.
 
Jeremiah 33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard
in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and
without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without
inhabitant, and without beast,
 
Jeremiah 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of
them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall
bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I
will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first,
saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this
place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in
all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds
causing their flocks to lie down.
 
Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of
the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that
telleth them, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house
of Israel and to the house of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause
the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall
execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
 
Jeremiah 33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and
Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she
shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
 
Jeremiah 33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want
a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
 
Jeremiah 33:18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man
before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings,
and to do sacrifice continually.
 
Jeremiah 33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant
of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should
not be day and night in their season;
 
Jeremiah 33:21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David
my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his
throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
 
Jeremiah 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered,
neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed
of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
 
Jeremiah 33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have
spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he
hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that
they should be no more a nation before them.
 
Jeremiah 33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with
day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of
heaven and earth;
 
Jeremiah 33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and
David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be
rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will
cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
 
Jeremiah 34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all
the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people,
fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and
speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
 
Jeremiah 34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but
shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine
eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall
speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of
Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the
sword:
 
Jeremiah 34:5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the
burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee,
so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee,
saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words
unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
 
Jeremiah 34:7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left,
against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities
remained of the cities of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 34:8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all
the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto
them;
 
Jeremiah 34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and
every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go
free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew
his brother.
 
Jeremiah 34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people,
which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should
let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that
none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed,
and let them go.
 
Jeremiah 34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the
servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return,
and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
 
Jeremiah 34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah
from the LORD, saying,
 
Jeremiah 34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a
covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
 
Jeremiah 34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man
his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when
he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from
thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined
their ear.
 
Jeremiah 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my
sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye
had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my
name:
 
Jeremiah 34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused
every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had
set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them
into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
 
Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not
hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his
brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a
liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence,
and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the
kingdoms of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed
my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant
which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain,
and passed between the parts thereof,
 
Jeremiah 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of
Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of
the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
 
Jeremiah 34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and
their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven,
and to the beasts of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will
I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's
army, which are gone up from you.
 
Jeremiah 34:22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and
cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against
it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the
cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD
in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 35:2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak
unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of
the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
 
Jeremiah 35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the
son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the
whole house of the Rechabites;
 
Jeremiah 35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man
of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above
the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the
door:
 
Jeremiah 35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the
Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them,
Drink ye wine.
 
Jeremiah 35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab
the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink
no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
 
Jeremiah 35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor
plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in
tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be
strangers.
 
Jeremiah 35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son
of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no
wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
 
Jeremiah 35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither
have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
 
Jeremiah 35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and
done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
 
Jeremiah 35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go
to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear
of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 35:12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 35:13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto
this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment:
notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
 
Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now
every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not
after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land
which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not
inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
 
Jeremiah 35:16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab
have performed the commandment of their father, which he
commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
 
Jeremiah 35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced
against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not
heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
 
Jeremiah 35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the
Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father,
and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he
hath commanded you:
 
Jeremiah 35:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to
stand before me for ever.
 
Jeremiah 36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came
unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 
Jeremiah 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all
the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and
against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake
unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
 
Jeremiah 36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all
the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return
every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin.
 
Jeremiah 36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah:
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
 
Jeremiah 36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut
up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
 
Jeremiah 36:6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which
thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the
ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and
also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out
of their cities.
 
Jeremiah 36:7 It may be they will present their supplication
before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for
great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced
against this people.
 
Jeremiah 36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all
that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
words of the LORD in the LORD's house.
 
Jeremiah 36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month,
that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in
Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of
Judah unto Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of
Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the
son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of
the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
 
Jeremiah 36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
 
Jeremiah 36:12 Then he went down into the king's house, into
the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even
Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and
Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
 
Jeremiah 36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words
that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the
people.
 
Jeremiah 36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch,
saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the
ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took
the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
 
Jeremiah 36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read
it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
 
Jeremiah 36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the
words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all these words.
 
Jeremiah 36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How
didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
 
Jeremiah 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all
these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in
the book.
 
Jeremiah 36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide
thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
 
Jeremiah 36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but
they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and
told all the words in the ears of the king.
 
Jeremiah 36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and
he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read
it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes
which stood beside the king.
 
Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth
month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
 
Jeremiah 36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read
three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it
into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was
consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
 
Jeremiah 36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their
garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard
all these words.
 
Jeremiah 36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah
had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the
roll: but he would not hear them.
 
Jeremiah 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of
Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son
of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet:
but the LORD hid them.
 
Jeremiah 36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it
all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim
the king of Judah hath burned.
 
Jeremiah 36:29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah,
Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast
thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly
come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence
man and beast?
 
Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king
of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and
his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in
the night to the frost.
 
Jeremiah 36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his
servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the
evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
 
Jeremiah 36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to
Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king
of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides
unto them many like words.
 
Jeremiah 37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned
instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people
of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he
spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
 
Jeremiah 37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
 
Jeremiah 37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the
people: for they had not put him into prison.
 
Jeremiah 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt:
and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of
them, they departed from Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet
Jeremiah saying,
 
Jeremiah 37:7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus
shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to
enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to
help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
 
Jeremiah 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight
against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
 
Jeremiah 37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves,
saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall
not depart.
 
Jeremiah 37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded
men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent,
and burn this city with fire.
 
Jeremiah 37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the
Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's
army,
 
Jeremiah 37:12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go
into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the
midst of the people.
 
Jeremiah 37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a
captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet,
saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
 
Jeremiah 37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away
to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
 
Jeremiah 37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah,
and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the
scribe: for they had made that the prison.
 
Jeremiah 37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and
into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
 
Jeremiah 37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out:
and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there
any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said
he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What
have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against
this people, that ye have put me in prison?
 
Jeremiah 37:19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied
unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you,
nor against this land?
 
Jeremiah 37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the
king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee;
that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the
scribe, lest I die there.
 
Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they
should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that
they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers'
street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah
remained in the court of the prison.
 
Jeremiah 38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah
the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the
son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto
all the people, saying,
 
Jeremiah 38:2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this
city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live;
for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
 
Jeremiah 38:3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be
given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall
take it.
 
Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We
beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth
the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the
hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for
this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
 
Jeremiah 38:5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in
your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against
you.
 
Jeremiah 38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the
dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court
of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the
mire.
 
Jeremiah 38:7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the
eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put
Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of
Benjamin;
 
Jeremiah 38:8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house,
and spake to the king saying,
 
Jeremiah 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all
that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast
into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place
where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
 
Jeremiah 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take
up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
 
Jeremiah 38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went
into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence
old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords
into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
 
Jeremiah 38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah,
Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine
armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
 
Jeremiah 38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took
him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of
the prison.
 
Jeremiah 38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah
the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of
the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
thing; hide nothing from me.
 
Jeremiah 38:15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare
it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give
thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
 
Jeremiah 38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto
Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I
will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the
hand of these men that seek thy life.
 
Jeremiah 38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly
go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall
live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt
live, and thine house:
 
Jeremiah 38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of
the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt
not escape out of their hand.
 
Jeremiah 38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they
deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
 
Jeremiah 38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee.
Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto
thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
 
Jeremiah 38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word
that the LORD hath shewed me:
 
Jeremiah 38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the
king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have
set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk
in the mire, and they are turned away back.
 
Jeremiah 38:23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy
children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their
hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and
thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
 
Jeremiah 38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man
know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
 
Jeremiah 38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with
thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us
now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and
we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
 
Jeremiah 38:26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to
return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
 
Jeremiah 38:27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and
asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the
king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the
matter was not perceived.
 
Jeremiah 38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison
until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when
Jerusalem was taken.
 
Jeremiah 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in
the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his
army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
 
Jeremiah 39:2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the
fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
 
Jeremiah 39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came
in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo,
Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue
of the princes of the king of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 39:4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king
of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and
went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's
garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the
way of the plain.
 
Jeremiah 39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had
taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
 
Jeremiah 39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew
all the nobles of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound
him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and
the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of
Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried
away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained
in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the
rest of the people that remained.
 
Jeremiah 39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of
the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
 
Jeremiah 39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge
concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,
saying,
 
Jeremiah 39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no
harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
 
Jeremiah 39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent,
and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all
the king of Babylon's princes;
 
Jeremiah 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the
court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he
dwelt among the people.
 
Jeremiah 39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah,
while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
 
Jeremiah 39:16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good;
and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
 
Jeremiah 39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the
LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of
whom thou art afraid.
 
Jeremiah 39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt
not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto
thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go
from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all
that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were
carried away captive unto Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and
said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon
this place.
 
Jeremiah 40:3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according
as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and
have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
 
Jeremiah 40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the
chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to
come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee:
but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon,
forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth
good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
 
Jeremiah 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go
back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom
the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah,
and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth
convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him
victuals and a reward, and let him go.
 
Jeremiah 40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were
left in the land.
 
Jeremiah 40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which
were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king
of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the
land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children,
and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away
captive to Babylon;
 
Jeremiah 40:8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons
of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of
Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite,
they and their men.
 
Jeremiah 40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and
it shall be well with you.
 
Jeremiah 40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to
serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye
wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels,
and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
 
Jeremiah 40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab,
and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the
countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of
Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
the son of Shaphan;
 
Jeremiah 40:12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places
whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to
Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very
much.
 
Jeremiah 40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah
to Mizpah,
 
Jeremiah 40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that
Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed
them not.
 
Jeremiah 40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah
in Mizpah secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will
slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it:
wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are
gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah
perish?
 
Jeremiah 40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan
the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou
speakest falsely of Ishmael.
 
Jeremiah 41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed
royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came
unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat
bread together in Mizpah.
 
Jeremiah 41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the
ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the land.
 
Jeremiah 41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with
him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were
found there, and the men of war.
 
Jeremiah 41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had
slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
 
Jeremiah 41:5 That there came certain from Shechem, from
Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards
shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with
offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house
of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from
Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to
pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam.
 
Jeremiah 41:7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of
the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast
them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with
him.
 
Jeremiah 41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto
Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare,
and slew them not among their brethren.
 
Jeremiah 41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead
bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it
which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel:
and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were
slain.
 
Jeremiah 41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the
residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's
daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them
away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
 
Jeremiah 41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
 
Jeremiah 41:12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight
with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great
waters that are in Gibeon.
 
Jeremiah 41:13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people
which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were
glad.
 
Jeremiah 41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away
captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto
Johanan the son of Kareah.
 
Jeremiah 41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from
Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
 
Jeremiah 41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the
people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the
eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
 
Jeremiah 41:17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation
of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
 
Jeremiah 41:18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid
of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the
land.
 
Jeremiah 42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan
the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the
people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
 
Jeremiah 42:2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we
beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray
for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we
are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
 
Jeremiah 42:3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein
we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
 
Jeremiah 42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have
heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according
to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing
the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will
keep nothing back from you.
 
Jeremiah 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true
and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to
all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
 
Jeremiah 42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we
will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee;
that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD
our God.
 
Jeremiah 42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word
of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.
 
Jeremiah 42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the
people from the least even to the greatest,
 
Jeremiah 42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God
of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication
before him;
 
Jeremiah 42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I
build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not
pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto
you.
 
Jeremiah 42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye
are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with
you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
 
Jeremiah 42:12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may
have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
 
Jeremiah 42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land,
neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
 
Jeremiah 42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of
Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the
trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
 
Jeremiah 42:15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye
remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go
to sojourn there;
 
Jeremiah 42:16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword,
which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt,
and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after
you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
 
Jeremiah 42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their
faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them
shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
 
Jeremiah 42:18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon
you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and
ye shall see this place no more.
 
Jeremiah 42:19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant
of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have
admonished you this day.
 
Jeremiah 42:20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent
me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our
God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so
declare unto us, and we will do it.
 
Jeremiah 42:21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but
ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing
for the which he hath sent me unto you.
 
Jeremiah 42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place
whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
 
Jeremiah 43:1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made
an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD
their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them,
even all these words,
 
Jeremiah 43:2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto
Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent
thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
 
Jeremiah 43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on
against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans,
that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into
Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice
of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were
returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell
in the land of Judah;
 
Jeremiah 43:6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's
daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
 
Jeremiah 43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they
obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to
Tahpanhes.
 
Jeremiah 43:8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes, saying,
 
Jeremiah 43:9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in
the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
 
Jeremiah 43:10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon
these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal
pavilion over them.
 
Jeremiah 43:11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of
Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as
are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to
the sword.
 
Jeremiah 43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the
gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away
captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a
shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from
thence in peace.
 
Jeremiah 43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh,
that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the
Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
 
Jeremiah 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the
Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and
at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
 
Jeremiah 44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and
upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
 
Jeremiah 44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have
committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn
incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither
they, ye, nor your fathers.
 
Jeremiah 44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this
abominable thing that I hate.
 
Jeremiah 44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to
turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
 
Jeremiah 44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured
forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
 
Jeremiah 44:7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of
hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil
against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and
suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
 
Jeremiah 44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works
of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of
Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves
off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the
nations of the earth?
 
Jeremiah 44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers,
and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of
their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your
wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem?
 
Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither
have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that
I set before you and before your fathers.
 
Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and
to cut off all Judah.
 
Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have
set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,
and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt;
they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they
shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword
and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
 
Jeremiah 44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of
Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence:
 
Jeremiah 44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are
gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or
remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the
which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall
return but such as shall escape.
 
Jeremiah 44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had
burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by,
a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in
the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
 
Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth
forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have
done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we
plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
 
Jeremiah 44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we
have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and
by the famine.
 
Jeremiah 44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of
heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her
cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her,
without our men?
 
Jeremiah 44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the
men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him
that answer, saying,
 
Jeremiah 44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers,
your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not
the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
 
Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because
of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which
ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
 
Jeremiah 44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye
have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of
the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this
day.
 
Jeremiah 44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and
to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are
in the land of Egypt:
 
Jeremiah 44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows
that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and
to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish
your vows, and surely perform your vows.
 
Jeremiah 44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all
Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my
great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named
in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt,
saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
 
Jeremiah 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not
for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt
shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be
an end of them.
 
Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all
the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or
their's.
 
Jeremiah 44:29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the
LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that
my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
 
Jeremiah 44:30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give
Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and
into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king
of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his
enemy, and that sought his life.
 
Jeremiah 45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a
book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 45:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto
thee, O Baruch:
 
Jeremiah 45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath
added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no
rest.
 
Jeremiah 45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith
thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
 
Jeremiah 45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek
them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith
the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all
places whither thou goest.
 
Jeremiah 46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the
prophet against the Gentiles;
 
Jeremiah 46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho
king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
 
Jeremiah 46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to
battle.
 
Jeremiah 46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and
stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the
brigandines.
 
Jeremiah 46:5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned
away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled
apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the
LORD.
 
Jeremiah 46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man
escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the
river Euphrates.
 
Jeremiah 46:7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose
waters are moved as the rivers?
 
Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are
moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover
the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
 
Jeremiah 46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and
let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans,
that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the
bow.
 
Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a
day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and
the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk
with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in
the north country by the river Euphrates.
 
Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the
daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for
thou shalt not be cured.
 
Jeremiah 46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry
hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against
the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
 
Jeremiah 46:13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the
prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite
the land of Egypt.
 
Jeremiah 46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and
publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare
thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
 
Jeremiah 46:15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood
not, because the LORD did drive them.
 
Jeremiah 46:16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon
another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own
people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing
sword.
 
Jeremiah 46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but
a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
 
Jeremiah 46:18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the
LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as
Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
 
Jeremiah 46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish
thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and
desolate without an inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 46:20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but
destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
 
Jeremiah 46:21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like
fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away
together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity
was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
 
Jeremiah 46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for
they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as
hewers of wood.
 
Jeremiah 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD,
though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the
grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
 
Jeremiah 46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she
shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
 
Jeremiah 46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;
Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and
Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all
them that trust in him:
 
Jeremiah 46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those
that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be
not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar
off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid.
 
Jeremiah 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the
LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the
nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full
end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave
thee wholly unpunished.
 
Jeremiah 47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the
prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
 
Jeremiah 47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out
of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall
overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them
that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the
inhabitants of the land shall howl.
 
Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his
strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the
rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their
children for feebleness of hands;
 
Jeremiah 47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the
Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper
that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the
remnant of the country of Caphtor.
 
Jeremiah 47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off
with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
 
Jeremiah 47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere
thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be
still.
 
Jeremiah 47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given
it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there
hath he appointed it.
 
Jeremiah 48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is
confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
 
Jeremiah 48:2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon
they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off
from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the
sword shall pursue thee.
 
Jeremiah 48:3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim,
spoiling and great destruction.
 
Jeremiah 48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a
cry to be heard.
 
Jeremiah 48:5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping
shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have
heard a cry of destruction.
 
Jeremiah 48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in
the wilderness.
 
Jeremiah 48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in
thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go
forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
 
Jeremiah 48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and
no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain
shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
 
Jeremiah 48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get
away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to
dwell therein.
 
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD
deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from
blood.
 
Jeremiah 48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he
hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel
to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his
taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
 
Jeremiah 48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him
to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
 
Jeremiah 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the
house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
 
Jeremiah 48:14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the
war?
 
Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities,
and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith
the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
 
Jeremiah 48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his
affliction hasteth fast.
 
Jeremiah 48:17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all
ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and
the beautiful rod!
 
Jeremiah 48:18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down
from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall
come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
 
Jeremiah 48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and
espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What
is done?
 
Jeremiah 48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl
and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
 
Jeremiah 48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country;
upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
 
Jeremiah 48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon
Bethdiblathaim,
 
Jeremiah 48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and
upon Bethmeon,
 
Jeremiah 48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all
the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
 
Jeremiah 48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is
broken, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 48:26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself
against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he
also shall be in derision.
 
Jeremiah 48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he
found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou
skippedst for joy.
 
Jeremiah 48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and
dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in
the sides of the hole's mouth.
 
Jeremiah 48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is
exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride,
and the haughtiness of his heart.
 
Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall
not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
 
Jeremiah 48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry
out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
 
Jeremiah 48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the
weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach
even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer
fruits and upon thy vintage.
 
Jeremiah 48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful
field, and from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail
from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their
shouting shall be no shouting.
 
Jeremiah 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and
even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even
unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters
also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
 
Jeremiah 48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith
the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that
burneth incense to his gods.
 
Jeremiah 48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like
pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of
Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
 
Jeremiah 48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard
clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins
sackcloth.
 
Jeremiah 48:38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all
the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have
broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 48:39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down!
how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a
derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
 
Jeremiah 48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as
an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
 
Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are
surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall
be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
 
Jeremiah 48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon
thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of
their visitation, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon
because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon,
and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner
of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
 
Jeremiah 48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh
perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters
captives.
 
Jeremiah 48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in
the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of
Moab.
 
Jeremiah 49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD;
Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king
inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
 
Jeremiah 49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the
Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters
shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them
that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye
daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to
and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity,
and his priests and his princes together.
 
Jeremiah 49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy
flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her
treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
 
Jeremiah 49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the
Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye
shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather
up him that wandereth.
 
Jeremiah 49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of
the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is
wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is
their wisdom vanished?
 
Jeremiah 49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of
Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time
that I will visit him.
 
Jeremiah 49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not
leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will
destroy till they have enough.
 
Jeremiah 49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his
secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed
is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
 
Jeremiah 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve
them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
 
Jeremiah 49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose
judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and
art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not
go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
 
Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that
Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a
curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
 
Jeremiah 49:14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an
ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together,
and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
 
Jeremiah 49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the
heathen, and despised among men.
 
Jeremiah 49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the
pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the
rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest
make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from
thence, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that
goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the
plagues thereof.
 
Jeremiah 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and
the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide
there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
 
Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I
will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen
man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who
will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will
stand before me?
 
Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he
hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock
shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations
desolate with them.
 
Jeremiah 49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall,
at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
 
Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle,
and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart
of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her
pangs.
 
Jeremiah 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and
Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted;
there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
 
Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to
flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken
her, as a woman in travail.
 
Jeremiah 49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of
my joy!
 
Jeremiah 49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her
streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,
saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Jeremiah 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of
Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
 
Jeremiah 49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of
Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus
saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of
the east.
 
Jeremiah 49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take
away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their
vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is
on every side.
 
Jeremiah 49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye
inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a
purpose against you.
 
Jeremiah 49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that
dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates
nor bars, which dwell alone.
 
Jeremiah 49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the
multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all
winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their
calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a
desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son
of man dwell in it.
 
Jeremiah 49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the
prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah
king of Judah, saying,
 
Jeremiah 49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will
break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
 
Jeremiah 49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from
the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all
those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
Elam shall not come.
 
Jeremiah 49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before
their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will
bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I
will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
 
Jeremiah 49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will
destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days,
that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and
against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
 
Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and
set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is
taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols
are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
 
Jeremiah 50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation
against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall
dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
beast.
 
Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD,
the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah
together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD
their God.
 
Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces
thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD
in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
 
Jeremiah 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds
have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the
mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their restingplace.
 
Jeremiah 50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their
adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against
the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of
their fathers.
 
Jeremiah 50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth
out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before
the flocks.
 
Jeremiah 50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up
against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north
country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from
thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty
expert man; none shall return in vain.
 
Jeremiah 50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her
shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye
destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the
heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
 
Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that
bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations
shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
 
Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth
by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
 
Jeremiah 50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round
about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows:
for she hath sinned against the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given
her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down:
for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as
she hath done, do unto her.
 
Jeremiah 50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that
handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the
oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and
they shall flee every one to his own land.
 
Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have
driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and
last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
 
Jeremiah 50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his
land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
 
Jeremiah 50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation,
and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be
satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
 
Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD,
the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be
none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I
will pardon them whom I reserve.
 
Jeremiah 50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even
against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and
utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to
all that I have commanded thee.
 
Jeremiah 50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great
destruction.
 
Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder
and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
 
Jeremiah 50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also
taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and
also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath
brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the
work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
 
Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open
her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly:
let nothing of her be left.
 
Jeremiah 50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of
their visitation.
 
Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of
the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD
our God, the vengeance of his temple.
 
Jeremiah 50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all
ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none
thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according
to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud
against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
 
Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the
streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day,
saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I
will visit thee.
 
Jeremiah 50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and
none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it shall devour all round about him.
 
Jeremiah 50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of
Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all
that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them
go.
 
Jeremiah 50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is
his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give
rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD,
and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and
upon her wise men.
 
Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote:
a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
 
Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst
of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her
treasures; and they shall be robbed.
 
Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be
dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad
upon their idols.
 
Jeremiah 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the
wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall
dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
 
Jeremiah 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide
there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
 
Jeremiah 50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and
a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth.
 
Jeremiah 50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are
cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the
sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array,
like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of
them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and
pangs as of a woman in travail.
 
Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will
make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man,
that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will
appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand
before me?
 
Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that
he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of
the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their
habitation desolate with them.
 
Jeremiah 50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth
is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
 
Jeremiah 51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up
against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them
that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
 
Jeremiah 51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall
fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they
shall be against her round about.
 
Jeremiah 51:3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his
bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine:
and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
 
Jeremiah 51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
 
Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of
his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with
sin against the Holy One of Israel.
 
Jeremiah 51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver
every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is
the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a
recompence.
 
Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's
hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken
of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
 
Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl
for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
 
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not
healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own
country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up
even to the skies.
 
Jeremiah 51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness:
come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
 
Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the
LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his
device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
 
Jeremiah 51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon,
make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes:
for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake
against the inhabitants of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant
in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy
covetousness.
 
Jeremiah 51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.
 
Jeremiah 51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heaven by his understanding.
 
Jeremiah 51:16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude
of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
 
Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every
founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image
is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
 
Jeremiah 51:18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time
of their visitation they shall perish.
 
Jeremiah 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is
the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his
inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
 
Jeremiah 51:20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for
with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will
I destroy kingdoms;
 
Jeremiah 51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse
and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot
and his rider;
 
Jeremiah 51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and
woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and
with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
 
Jeremiah 51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the
shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the
husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in
pieces captains and rulers.
 
Jeremiah 51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion
in your sight, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 51:25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying
mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I
will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
 
Jeremiah 51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a
corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate
for ever, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the
trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and
Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to
come up as the rough caterpillers.
 
Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings
of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof,
and all the land of his dominion.
 
Jeremiah 51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every
purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make
the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight,
they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they
became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars
are broken.
 
Jeremiah 51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one
messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his
city is taken at one end,
 
Jeremiah 51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds
they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
 
Jeremiah 51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is
time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her
harvest shall come.
 
Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured
me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath
swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out.
 
Jeremiah 51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon
Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the
inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
 
Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up
her sea, and make her springs dry.
 
Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace
for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an
inhabitant.
 
Jeremiah 51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall
yell as lions' whelps.
 
Jeremiah 51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I
will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the
slaughter, like rams with he goats.
 
Jeremiah 51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of
the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment
among the nations!
 
Jeremiah 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered
with the multitude of the waves thereof.
 
Jeremiah 51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a
wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son
of man pass thereby.
 
Jeremiah 51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will
bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and
the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the
wall of Babylon shall fall.
 
Jeremiah 51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and
deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the
rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come
one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and
violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
 
Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do
judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land
shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of
her.
 
Jeremiah 51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is
therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto
her from the north, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to
fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
 
Jeremiah 51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand
not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come
into your mind.
 
Jeremiah 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard
reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come
into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
 
Jeremiah 51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through
all her land the wounded shall groan.
 
Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me
shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
 
Jeremiah 51:54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
 
Jeremiah 51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and
destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like
great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
 
Jeremiah 51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon
Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is
broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
 
Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise
men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they
shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King,
whose name is the LORD of hosts.
 
Jeremiah 51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of
Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be
burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the
folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
 
Jeremiah 51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded
Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with
Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his
reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
 
Jeremiah 51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that
should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written
against Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest
to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
 
Jeremiah 51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken
against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it,
neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
 
Jeremiah 51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of
reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast
it into the midst of Euphrates:
 
Jeremiah 51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and
shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they
shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
 
Jeremiah 52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 
Jeremiah 52:2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the
LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
 
Jeremiah 52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass
in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his
reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it
round about.
 
Jeremiah 52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year
of king Zedekiah.
 
Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the
month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no
bread for the people of the land.
 
Jeremiah 52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of
war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of
the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden;
(now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went
by the way of the plain.
 
Jeremiah 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the
king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his
army was scattered from him.
 
Jeremiah 52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto
the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he
gave judgment upon him.
 
Jeremiah 52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah
in Riblah.
 
Jeremiah 52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the
king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon,
and put him in prison till the day of his death.
 
Jeremiah 52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the
month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the
king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
 
Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's
house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the
great men, burned he with fire:
 
Jeremiah 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were
with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of
Jerusalem round about.
 
Jeremiah 52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the
residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that
fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
multitude.
 
Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left
certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for
husbandmen.
 
Jeremiah 52:17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house
of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the
house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass
of them to Babylon.
 
Jeremiah 52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the
snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
 
Jeremiah 52:19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls,
and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the
cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of
silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.
 
Jeremiah 52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen
bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in
the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without
weight.
 
Jeremiah 52:21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one
pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did
compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was
hollow.
 
Jeremiah 52:22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the
height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and
pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The
second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
 
Jeremiah 52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a
side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred
round about.
 
Jeremiah 52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door:
 
Jeremiah 52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which
had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were
near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the
principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the
land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were
found in the midst of the city.
 
Jeremiah 52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took
them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
 
Jeremiah 52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them
to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried
away captive out of his own land.
 
Jeremiah 52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried
away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three
and twenty:
 
Jeremiah 52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he
carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two
persons:
 
Jeremiah 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of
Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the
persons were four thousand and six hundred.
 
Jeremiah 52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign
lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him
forth out of prison.
 
Jeremiah 52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
 
Jeremiah 52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he did
continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
 
Jeremiah 52:34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet
given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the
day of his death, all the days of his life.
 
Lamentations 1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full
of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among
the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become
tributary!
 
Lamentations 1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears
are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort
her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are
become her enemies.
 
Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of
affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among
the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook
her between the straits.
 
Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come
to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests
sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
 
Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies
prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her
transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the
enemy.
 
Lamentations 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty
is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no
pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
 
Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her
affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she
had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the
enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did
mock at her sabbaths.
 
Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore
she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they
have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
 
Lamentations 1:9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she
remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down
wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction:
for the enemy hath magnified himself.
 
Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon
all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen
entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they
should not enter into thy congregation.
 
Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they
have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:
see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
 
Lamentations 1:12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which
is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day
of his fierce anger.
 
Lamentations 1:13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones,
and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet,
he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all
the day.
 
Lamentations 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his
hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made
my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands,
from whom I am not able to rise up.
 
Lamentations 1:15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my
mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against
me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the
daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
 
Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye
runneth down with water, because the comforter that should
relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because
the enemy prevailed.
 
Lamentations 1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is
none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob,
that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a
menstruous woman among them.
 
Lamentations 1:18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled
against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold
my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
 
Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:
my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while
they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
 
Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my
bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have
grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is
as death.
 
Lamentations 1:21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to
comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are
glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou
hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
 
Lamentations 1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee;
and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my
transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
 
Lamentations 2:1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the
earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in
the day of his anger!
 
Lamentations 2:2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations
of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath
the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them
down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes
thereof.
 
Lamentations 2:3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the
horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the
enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which
devoureth round about.
 
Lamentations 2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood
with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were
pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he
poured out his fury like fire.
 
Lamentations 2:5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up
Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed
his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah
mourning and lamentation.
 
Lamentations 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his
tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his
places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts
and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the
indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
 
Lamentations 2:7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath
abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the
enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the
house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
 
Lamentations 2:8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of
the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not
withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart
and the wall to lament; they languished together.
 
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath
destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among
the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no
vision from the LORD.
 
Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon
the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their
heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of
Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
 
Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are
troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction
of the daughter of my people; because the children and the
sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
 
Lamentations 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and
wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the
city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
 
Lamentations 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee?
what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what
shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter
of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
 
Lamentations 2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish
things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to
turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and
causes of banishment.
 
Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee;
they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth?
 
Lamentations 2:16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth
against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have
swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for;
we have found, we have seen it.
 
Lamentations 2:17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised;
he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of
old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of
thine adversaries.
 
Lamentations 2:18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of
the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and
night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye
cease.
 
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning
of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of
the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young
children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
 
Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou
hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of
a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the
sanctuary of the Lord?
 
Lamentations 2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in
the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;
thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,
and not pitied.
 
Lamentations 2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my
terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none
escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up
hath mine enemy consumed.
 
Lamentations 3:1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the
rod of his wrath.
 
Lamentations 3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness,
but not into light.
 
Lamentations 3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his
hand against me all the day.
 
Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath
broken my bones.
 
Lamentations 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me
with gall and travail.
 
Lamentations 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be
dead of old.
 
Lamentations 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get
out: he hath made my chain heavy.
 
Lamentations 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my
prayer.
 
Lamentations 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he
hath made my paths crooked.
 
Lamentations 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and
as a lion in secret places.
 
Lamentations 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me
in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
 
Lamentations 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark
for the arrow.
 
Lamentations 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to
enter into my reins.
 
Lamentations 3:14 I was a derision to all my people; and their
song all the day.
 
Lamentations 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath
made me drunken with wormwood.
 
Lamentations 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel
stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
 
Lamentations 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from
peace: I forgat prosperity.
 
Lamentations 3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is
perished from the LORD:
 
Lamentations 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall.
 
Lamentations 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and
is humbled in me.
 
Lamentations 3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I
hope.
 
Lamentations 3:22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not
consumed, because his compassions fail not.
 
Lamentations 3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy
faithfulness.
 
Lamentations 3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul;
therefore will I hope in him.
 
Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him,
to the soul that seeketh him.
 
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and
quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
 
Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of
his youth.
 
Lamentations 3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because
he hath borne it upon him.
 
Lamentations 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be
there may be hope.
 
Lamentations 3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him:
he is filled full with reproach.
 
Lamentations 3:31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
 
Lamentations 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
 
Lamentations 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve
the children of men.
 
Lamentations 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of
the earth.
 
Lamentations 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the
face of the most High,
 
Lamentations 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD
approveth not.
 
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,
when the Lord commandeth it not?
 
Lamentations 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth
not evil and good?
 
Lamentations 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man
for the punishment of his sins?
 
Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn
again to the LORD.
 
Lamentations 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto
God in the heavens.
 
Lamentations 3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou
hast not pardoned.
 
Lamentations 3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted
us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
 
Lamentations 3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that
our prayer should not pass through.
 
Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and
refuse in the midst of the people.
 
Lamentations 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths
against us.
 
Lamentations 3:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation
and destruction.
 
Lamentations 3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
 
Lamentations 3:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not,
without any intermission.
 
Lamentations 3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from
heaven.
 
Lamentations 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all
the daughters of my city.
 
Lamentations 3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird,
without cause.
 
Lamentations 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and
cast a stone upon me.
 
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I
am cut off.
 
Lamentations 3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the
low dungeon.
 
Lamentations 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear
at my breathing, at my cry.
 
Lamentations 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called
upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
 
Lamentations 3:58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my
soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
 
Lamentations 3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou
my cause.
 
Lamentations 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all
their imaginations against me.
 
Lamentations 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and
all their imaginations against me;
 
Lamentations 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me,
and their device against me all the day.
 
Lamentations 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising
up; I am their musick.
 
Lamentations 3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD,
according to the work of their hands.
 
Lamentations 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto
them.
 
Lamentations 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from
under the heavens of the LORD.
 
Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most
fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in
the top of every street.
 
Lamentations 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine
gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the
hands of the potter!
 
Lamentations 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast,
they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is
become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
 
Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to
the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread,
and no man breaketh it unto them.
 
Lamentations 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in
the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace
dunghills.
 
Lamentations 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the
daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin
of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed
on her.
 
Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were
whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their
polishing was of sapphire:
 
Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are
not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it
is withered, it is become like a stick.
 
Lamentations 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better
than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away,
stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
 
Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden
their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of
the daughter of my people.
 
Lamentations 4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath
poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and
it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
 
Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the
inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the
adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of
Jerusalem.
 
Lamentations 4:13 For the sins of her prophets, and the
iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just
in the midst of her,
 
Lamentations 4:14 They have wandered as blind men in the
streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men
could not touch their garments.
 
Lamentations 4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is
unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and
wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn
there.
 
Lamentations 4:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he
will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the
priests, they favoured not the elders.
 
Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our
vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that
could not save us.
 
Lamentations 4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our
streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is
come.
 
Lamentations 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles
of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait
for us in the wilderness.
 
Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of
the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his
shadow we shall live among the heathen.
 
Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that
dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto
thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
 
Lamentations 4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is
accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away
into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
he will discover thy sins.
 
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach.
 
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our
houses to aliens.
 
Lamentations 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are
as widows.
 
Lamentations 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood
is sold unto us.
 
Lamentations 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour,
and have no rest.
 
Lamentations 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and
to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
 
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities.
 
Lamentations 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none
that doth deliver us out of their hand.
 
Lamentations 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives
because of the sword of the wilderness.
 
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of
the terrible famine.
 
Lamentations 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the
maids in the cities of Judah.
 
Lamentations 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the
faces of elders were not honoured.
 
Lamentations 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the
children fell under the wood.
 
Lamentations 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the
young men from their musick.
 
Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is
turned into mourning.
 
Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto
us, that we have sinned!
 
Lamentations 5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things
our eyes are dim.
 
Lamentations 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
 
Lamentations 5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne
from generation to generation.
 
Lamentations 5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and
forsake us so long time?
 
Lamentations 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall
be turned; renew our days as of old.
 
Lamentations 5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art
very wroth against us. 
 
Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the
fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the
captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened,
and I saw visions of God.
 
Ezekiel 1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth
year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
 
Ezekiel 1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the
river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
 
Ezekiel 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of
the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a
brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the
colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
 
Ezekiel 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of
four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had
the likeness of a man.
 
Ezekiel 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had
four wings.
 
Ezekiel 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of
their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled
like the colour of burnished brass.
 
Ezekiel 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings
on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their
wings.
 
Ezekiel 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned
not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
 
Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had
the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and
they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also
had the face of an eagle.
 
Ezekiel 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were
stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to
another, and two covered their bodies.
 
Ezekiel 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither
the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they
went.
 
Ezekiel 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the
appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went
forth lightning.
 
Ezekiel 1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of a flash of lightning.
 
Ezekiel 1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one
wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four
faces.
 
Ezekiel 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was
like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness:
and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the
middle of a wheel.
 
Ezekiel 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides:
and they turned not when they went.
 
Ezekiel 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they
were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them
four.
 
Ezekiel 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels
went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from
the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
 
Ezekiel 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went,
thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up
over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in
the wheels.
 
Ezekiel 1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood,
these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels.
 
Ezekiel 1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads
of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal,
stretched forth over their heads above.
 
Ezekiel 1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight,
the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on
this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side,
their bodies.
 
Ezekiel 1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their
wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the
Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they
stood, they let down their wings.
 
Ezekiel 1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was
over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
 
Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads
was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire
stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as
the appearance of a man above upon it.
 
Ezekiel 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of
his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even
downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
brightness round about.
 
Ezekiel 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud
in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round
about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of
the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a
voice of one that spake.
 
Ezekiel 2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy
feet, and I will speak unto thee.
 
Ezekiel 2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto
me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
 
Ezekiel 2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the
children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled
against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me,
even unto this very day.
 
Ezekiel 2:4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I
do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they
will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know
that there hath been a prophet among them.
 
Ezekiel 2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them,
neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be
with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of
their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a
rebellious house.
 
Ezekiel 2:7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most
rebellious.
 
Ezekiel 2:8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be
not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth,
and eat that I give thee.
 
Ezekiel 2:9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto
me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
 
Ezekiel 2:10 And he spread it before me; and it was written
within and without: and there was written therein lamentations,
and mourning, and woe.
 
Ezekiel 3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou
findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that
roll.
 
Ezekiel 3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to
eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then
did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
 
Ezekiel 3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto
the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
 
Ezekiel 3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange
speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
 
Ezekiel 3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an
hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had
I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
 
Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee;
for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel
are impudent and hardhearted.
 
Ezekiel 3:8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their
faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
 
Ezekiel 3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy
forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house.
 
Ezekiel 3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words
that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear
with thine ears.
 
Ezekiel 3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto
the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they
will forbear.
 
Ezekiel 3:12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me
a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the
LORD from his place.
 
Ezekiel 3:13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living
creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels
over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
 
Ezekiel 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and
I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of
the LORD was strong upon me.
 
Ezekiel 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib,
that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and
remained there astonished among them seven days.
 
Ezekiel 3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give
them warning from me.
 
Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die;
and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked
from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall
die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
 
Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from
his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
 
Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block
before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him
warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he
hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require
at thine hand.
 
Ezekiel 3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that
the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live,
because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
 
Ezekiel 3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he
said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there
talk with thee.
 
Ezekiel 3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and,
behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I
saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
 
Ezekiel 3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon
my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself
within thine house.
 
Ezekiel 3:25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put
bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt
not go out among them:
 
Ezekiel 3:26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of
thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a
reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
 
Ezekiel 3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth,
and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that
heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear:
for they are a rebellious house.
 
Ezekiel 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it
before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
 
Ezekiel 4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against
it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it,
and set battering rams against it round about.
 
Ezekiel 4:3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set
it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege
against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the
iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number
of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their
iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their
iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and
ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of
Israel.
 
Ezekiel 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on
thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
 
Ezekiel 4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege
of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it.
 
Ezekiel 4:8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou
shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast
ended the days of thy siege.
 
Ezekiel 4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and
beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one
vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of
the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
 
Ezekiel 4:10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by
weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat
it.
 
Ezekiel 4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth
part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
 
Ezekiel 4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou
shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
 
Ezekiel 4:13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of
Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will
drive them.
 
Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not
been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not
eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
 
Ezekiel 4:15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's
dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
 
Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I
will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by
measure, and with astonishment:
 
Ezekiel 4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be
astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take
thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and
upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the
hair.
 
Ezekiel 5:2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst
of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou
shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a
third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a
sword after them.
 
Ezekiel 5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and
bind them in thy skirts.
 
Ezekiel 5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the
midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a
fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have
set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round
about her.
 
Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness
more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries
that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and
my statutes, they have not walked in them.
 
Ezekiel 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and
have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments,
neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that
are round about you;
 
Ezekiel 5:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even
I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of
thee in the sight of the nations.
 
Ezekiel 5:9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done,
and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all
thine abominations.
 
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the
midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will
execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I
scatter into all the winds.
 
Ezekiel 5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely,
because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable
things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also
diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have
any pity.
 
Ezekiel 5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the
pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst
of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about
thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I
will draw out a sword after them.
 
Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will
cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and
they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I
have accomplished my fury in them.
 
Ezekiel 5:14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach
among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all
that pass by.
 
Ezekiel 5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an
instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round
about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and
in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
 
Ezekiel 5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of
famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will
send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and
will break your staff of bread:
 
Ezekiel 5:17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,
and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass
through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD
have spoken it.
 
Ezekiel 6:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of
Israel, and prophesy against them,
 
Ezekiel 6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to
the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I,
will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
 
Ezekiel 6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images
shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your
idols.
 
Ezekiel 6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of
Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round
about your altars.
 
Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid
waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars
may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken
and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
abolished.
 
Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some
that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be
scattered through the countries.
 
Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among
the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am
broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and
with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they
shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in
all their abominations.
 
Ezekiel 6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I
have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
 
Ezekiel 6:11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand,
and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil
abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
 
Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence;
and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that
remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I
accomplish my fury upon them.
 
Ezekiel 6:13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their
slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars,
upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they
did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
 
Ezekiel 6:14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make
the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward
Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am
the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 7:2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto
the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners
of the land.
 
Ezekiel 7:3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine
anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and
will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
 
Ezekiel 7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I
have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine
abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 7:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil,
behold, is come.
 
Ezekiel 7:6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for
thee; behold, it is come.
 
Ezekiel 7:7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest
in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and
not the sounding again of the mountains.
 
Ezekiel 7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and
accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according
to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
 
Ezekiel 7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine
abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD that smiteth.
 
Ezekiel 7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is
gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
 
Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness:
none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of
their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
 
Ezekiel 7:12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not
the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all
the multitude thereof.
 
Ezekiel 7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is
sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching
the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither
shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
 
Ezekiel 7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all
ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof.
 
Ezekiel 7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the
famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword;
and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour
him.
 
Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and
shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them
mourning, every one for his iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be
weak as water.
 
Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth,
and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces,
and baldness upon all their heads.
 
Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and
their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall
not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD:
they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels:
because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in
majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of
their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from
them.
 
Ezekiel 7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers
for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
shall pollute it.
 
Ezekiel 7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall
pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and
defile it.
 
Ezekiel 7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody
crimes, and the city is full of violence.
 
Ezekiel 7:24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen,
and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of
the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
 
Ezekiel 7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and
there shall be none.
 
Ezekiel 7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour
shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the
prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel
from the ancients.
 
Ezekiel 7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be
clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land
shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and
according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and
the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD
fell there upon me.
 
Ezekiel 8:2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance
of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire;
and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness,
as the colour of amber.
 
Ezekiel 8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me
by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the
earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the
north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy.
 
Ezekiel 8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
 
Ezekiel 8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine
eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the
way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the
altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
 
Ezekiel 8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou
what they do? even the great abominations that the house of
Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my
sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations.
 
Ezekiel 8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and
when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
 
Ezekiel 8:8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the
wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
 
Ezekiel 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked
abominations that they do here.
 
Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of
creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the
house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
 
Ezekiel 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the
ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his
hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
 
Ezekiel 8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen
what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth
us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
 
Ezekiel 8:13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
 
Ezekiel 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the
LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat
women weeping for Tammuz.
 
Ezekiel 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son
of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations than these.
 
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the
LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD,
between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men,
with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces
toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
 
Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son
of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they
commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have
filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to
anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
 
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall
not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine
ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
 
Ezekiel 9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice,
saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near,
even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
 
Ezekiel 9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the
higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a
slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed
with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went
in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
 
Ezekiel 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from
the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And
he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's
inkhorn by his side;
 
Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of
the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
 
Ezekiel 9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye
after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare,
neither have ye pity:
 
Ezekiel 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little
children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the
mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient
men which were before the house.
 
Ezekiel 9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill
the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and
slew in the city.
 
Ezekiel 9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them,
and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah
Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy
pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
 
Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of
Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of
blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD
hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
 
Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon
their head.
 
Ezekiel 9:11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had
the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done
as thou hast commanded me.
 
Ezekiel 10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that
was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as
it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a
throne.
 
Ezekiel 10:2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and
said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill
thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and
scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
 
Ezekiel 10:3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the
house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner
court.
 
Ezekiel 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the
cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house
was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the
brightness of the LORD's glory.
 
Ezekiel 10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard
even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he
speaketh.
 
Ezekiel 10:6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded
the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the
wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood
beside the wheels.
 
Ezekiel 10:7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from
between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the
cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him
that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
 
Ezekiel 10:8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a
man's hand under their wings.
 
Ezekiel 10:9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the
cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another
cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a
beryl stone.
 
Ezekiel 10:10 And as for their appearances, they four had one
likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
 
Ezekiel 10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides;
they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head
looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
 
Ezekiel 10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their
hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round
about, even the wheels that they four had.
 
Ezekiel 10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my
hearing, O wheel.
 
Ezekiel 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was
the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man,
and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an
eagle.
 
Ezekiel 10:15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the
living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
 
Ezekiel 10:16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by
them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up
from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
 
Ezekiel 10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were
lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the
living creature was in them.
 
Ezekiel 10:18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the
threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
 
Ezekiel 10:19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and
mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the
wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of
the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of
Israel was over them above.
 
Ezekiel 10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the
God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were
the cherubims.
 
Ezekiel 10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one
four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under
their wings.
 
Ezekiel 10:22 And the likeness of their faces was the same
faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and
themselves: they went every one straight forward.
 
Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me
unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:
and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among
whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah, princes of the people.
 
Ezekiel 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the
men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
 
Ezekiel 11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses:
this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
 
Ezekiel 11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son
of man.
 
Ezekiel 11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said
unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house
of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every
one of them.
 
Ezekiel 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye
have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
 
Ezekiel 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom
ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this
city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst
of it.
 
Ezekiel 11:8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword
upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and
deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute
judgments among you.
 
Ezekiel 11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in
the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither
shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you
in the border of Israel:
 
Ezekiel 11:12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have
not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but
have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about
you.
 
Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that
Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face,
and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
 
Ezekiel 11:14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the
men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they
unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far
from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
 
Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although
I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have
scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a
little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
 
Ezekiel 11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the
countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the
land of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take
away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations
thereof from thence.
 
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a
new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of
their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
 
Ezekiel 11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will
be their God.
 
Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the
heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will
recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 11:22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and
the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above.
 
Ezekiel 11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst
of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east
side of the city.
 
Ezekiel 11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me
in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the
captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
 
Ezekiel 11:25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the
things that the LORD had shewed me.
 
Ezekiel 12:1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a
rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have
ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
 
Ezekiel 12:3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for
removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove
from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they
will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
 
Ezekiel 12:4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in
their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at
even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
 
Ezekiel 12:5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and
carry out thereby.
 
Ezekiel 12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy
shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover
thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a
sign unto the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth
my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged
through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the
twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
 
Ezekiel 12:8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto
me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the
rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
 
Ezekiel 12:10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This
burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
Israel that are among them.
 
Ezekiel 12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so
shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into
captivity.
 
Ezekiel 12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon
his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig
through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
that he see not the ground with his eyes.
 
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall
be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land
of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die
there.
 
Ezekiel 12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are
about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the
sword after them.
 
Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the
countries.
 
Ezekiel 12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the
sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may
declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they
come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 12:17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink
thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
 
Ezekiel 12:19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith
the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of
Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink
their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from
all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that
dwell therein.
 
Ezekiel 12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid
waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 12:21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 12:22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in
the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every
vision faileth?
 
Ezekiel 12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as
a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and
the effect of every vision.
 
Ezekiel 12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor
flattering divination within the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 12:25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word
that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more
prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the
word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 12:26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
 
Ezekiel 12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel
say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he
prophesieth of the times that are far off.
 
Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word
which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 13:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of
Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of
their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
 
Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish
prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
 
Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the
deserts.
 
Ezekiel 13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up
the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the
day of the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination,
saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they
have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
 
Ezekiel 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not
spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it;
albeit I have not spoken?
 
Ezekiel 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have
spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against
you, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see
vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly
of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the
house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my
people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a
wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
 
Ezekiel 13:11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered
morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower;
and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall
rend it.
 
Ezekiel 13:12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said
unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
 
Ezekiel 13:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even
rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an
overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury
to consume it.
 
Ezekiel 13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed
with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that
the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall,
and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall,
and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and
will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed
it;
 
Ezekiel 13:16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy
concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and
there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 13:17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against
the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own
heart; and prophesy thou against them,
 
Ezekiel 13:18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon
the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls
of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto
you?
 
Ezekiel 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for
handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls
that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not
live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
 
Ezekiel 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make
them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the
souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
 
Ezekiel 13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my
people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand
to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the
righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the
hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked
way, by promising him life:
 
Ezekiel 13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me,
and sat before me.
 
Ezekiel 14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in
their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before
their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
 
Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth
up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD
will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his
idols;
 
Ezekiel 14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own
heart, because they are all estranged from me through their
idols.
 
Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and
turn away your faces from all your abominations.
 
Ezekiel 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the
stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from
me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a
prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer
him by myself:
 
Ezekiel 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will
make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the
midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken
a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst
of my people Israel.
 
Ezekiel 14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their
iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the
punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
 
Ezekiel 14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray
from me, neither be polluted any more with all their
transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be
their God, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 14:12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by
trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon
it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send
famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
 
Ezekiel 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job,
were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their
righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the
land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may
pass through because of the beasts:
 
Ezekiel 14:16 Though these three men were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be
desolate.
 
Ezekiel 14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say,
Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from
it:
 
Ezekiel 14:18 Though these three men were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
 
Ezekiel 14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and
pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and
beast:
 
Ezekiel 14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I
live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor
daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their
righteousness.
 
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I
send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the
famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off
from it man and beast?
 
Ezekiel 14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that
shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they
shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their
doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought
upon it.
 
Ezekiel 14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their
ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done
without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 15:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 15:2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any
tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
 
Ezekiel 15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or
will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
 
Ezekiel 15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the
fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is
burned. Is it meet for any work?
 
Ezekiel 15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no
work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the
fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
 
Ezekiel 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine
tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the
fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
Ezekiel 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go
out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
 
Ezekiel 15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they
have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
abominations,
 
Ezekiel 16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem;
Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father
was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
 
Ezekiel 16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born
thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to
supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
 
Ezekiel 16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto
thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the
open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou
wast born.
 
Ezekiel 16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted
in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood,
Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
 
Ezekiel 16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the
field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come
to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair
is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
 
Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,
behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over
thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and
entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
becamest mine.
 
Ezekiel 16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
 
Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod
thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen,
and I covered thee with silk.
 
Ezekiel 16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put
bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
 
Ezekiel 16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings
in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
 
Ezekiel 16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and
thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou
didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding
beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
 
Ezekiel 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for
thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had
put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and
playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
 
Ezekiel 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst
thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot
thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be
so.
 
Ezekiel 16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold
and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself
images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
 
Ezekiel 16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst
them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
 
Ezekiel 16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and
oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it
before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord
GOD.
 
Ezekiel 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy
daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou
sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a
small matter,
 
Ezekiel 16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered
them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
 
Ezekiel 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms
thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast
naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
 
Ezekiel 16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness,
(woe, woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;)
 
Ezekiel 16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
 
Ezekiel 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of
the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened
thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy
whoredoms.
 
Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the
Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
 
Ezekiel 16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand
over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered
thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the
Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
 
Ezekiel 16:28 Thou hast played the whore also with the
Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played
the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
 
Ezekiel 16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in
the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied
therewith.
 
Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD,
seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious
whorish woman;
 
Ezekiel 16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the
head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street;
and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
 
Ezekiel 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which
taketh strangers instead of her husband!
 
Ezekiel 16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest
thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come
unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
 
Ezekiel 16:34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in
thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms:
and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto
thee, therefore thou art contrary.
 
Ezekiel 16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
 
Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness
was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy
whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy
abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them;
 
Ezekiel 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers,
with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast
loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather
them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness
unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
 
Ezekiel 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in
fury and jealousy.
 
Ezekiel 16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and
they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down
thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and
shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
 
Ezekiel 16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee,
and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through
with their swords.
 
Ezekiel 16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and
execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I
will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also
shalt give no hire any more.
 
Ezekiel 16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and
my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will
be no more angry.
 
Ezekiel 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore
I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord
GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine
abominations.
 
Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use
this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her
daughter.
 
Ezekiel 16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her
husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters,
which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was
an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
 
Ezekiel 16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her
daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister,
that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
 
Ezekiel 16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor
done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little
thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
 
Ezekiel 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister
hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and
thy daughters.
 
Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister
Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in
her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of
the poor and needy.
 
Ezekiel 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination
before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
 
Ezekiel 16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins;
but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and
hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou
hast done.
 
Ezekiel 16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear
thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more
abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be
thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
justified thy sisters.
 
Ezekiel 16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the
captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of
Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity
of thy captives in the midst of them:
 
Ezekiel 16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest
be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a
comfort unto them.
 
Ezekiel 16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall
return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters
shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters
shall return to your former estate.
 
Ezekiel 16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy
mouth in the day of thy pride,
 
Ezekiel 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the
time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are
round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise
thee round about.
 
Ezekiel 16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine
abominations, saith the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal
with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in
breaking the covenant.
 
Ezekiel 16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with
thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an
everlasting covenant.
 
Ezekiel 16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be
ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy
younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by
thy covenant.
 
Ezekiel 16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
 
Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and
never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am
pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord
GOD.
 
Ezekiel 17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a
parable unto the house of Israel;
 
Ezekiel 17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle
with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers
colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the
cedar:
 
Ezekiel 17:4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and
carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of
merchants.
 
Ezekiel 17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted
it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it
as a willow tree.
 
Ezekiel 17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low
stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof
were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches,
and shot forth sprigs.
 
Ezekiel 17:7 There was also another great eagle with great
wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her
roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he
might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
 
Ezekiel 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters,
that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit,
that it might be a goodly vine.
 
Ezekiel 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it
prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the
fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves
of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck
it up by the roots thereof.
 
Ezekiel 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper?
shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it
shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
 
Ezekiel 17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what
these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come
to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes
thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
 
Ezekiel 17:13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a
covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also
taken the mighty of the land:
 
Ezekiel 17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not
lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might
stand.
 
Ezekiel 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his
ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much
people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things?
or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
 
Ezekiel 17:16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the
place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he
despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst
of Babylon he shall die.
 
Ezekiel 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and
great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and
building forts, to cut off many persons:
 
Ezekiel 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the
covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all
these things, he shall not escape.
 
Ezekiel 17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,
surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he
hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
 
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall
be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will
plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed
against me.
 
Ezekiel 17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall
fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward
all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
 
Ezekiel 17:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the
highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop
off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant
it upon an high mountain and eminent:
 
Ezekiel 17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I
plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be
a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing;
in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
 
Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I
the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low
tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to
flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
 
Ezekiel 18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
 
Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning
the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge?
 
Ezekiel 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have
occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
 
Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the
father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that
sinneth, it shall die.
 
Ezekiel 18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful
and right,
 
Ezekiel 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither
hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near
to a menstruous woman,
 
Ezekiel 18:7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to
the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given
his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a
garment;
 
Ezekiel 18:8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither
hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from
iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
 
Ezekiel 18:9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my
judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith
the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of
blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
 
Ezekiel 18:11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even
hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
 
Ezekiel 18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled
by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
 
Ezekiel 18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken
increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all
these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon
him.
 
Ezekiel 18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his
father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not
such like,
 
Ezekiel 18:15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither
hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath
not defiled his neighbour's wife,
 
Ezekiel 18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden
the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his
bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
 
Ezekiel 18:17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that
hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments,
hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of
his father, he shall surely live.
 
Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed,
spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good
among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 18:19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the
iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is
lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done
them, he shall surely live.
 
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son
shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the
father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked
shall be upon him.
 
Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins
that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that
which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not
die.
 
Ezekiel 18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed,
they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that
he hath done he shall live.
 
Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should
die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his
ways, and live?
 
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to
all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live?
All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned:
in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he
hath sinned, in them shall he die.
 
Ezekiel 18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal.
Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your
ways unequal?
 
Ezekiel 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for
his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
 
Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his
wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful
and right, he shall save his soul alive.
 
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all
his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
 
Ezekiel 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the
LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are
not your ways unequal?
 
Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel,
every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and
turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall
not be your ruin.
 
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions,
whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new
spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
 
Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that
dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live
ye.
 
Ezekiel 19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the
princes of Israel,
 
Ezekiel 19:2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay
down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
 
Ezekiel 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a
young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
 
Ezekiel 19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in
their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of
Egypt.
 
Ezekiel 19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope
was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a
young lion.
 
Ezekiel 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became
a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
 
Ezekiel 19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid
waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness
thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
 
Ezekiel 19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side
from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken
in their pit.
 
Ezekiel 19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought
him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his
voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted
by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of
many waters.
 
Ezekiel 19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them
that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick
branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of
her branches.
 
Ezekiel 19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down
to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong
rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
 
Ezekiel 19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a
dry and thirsty ground.
 
Ezekiel 19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to
be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation.
 
Ezekiel 20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the
fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the
elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
 
Ezekiel 20:2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of
me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by
you.
 
Ezekiel 20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge
them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
 
Ezekiel 20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the
day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of
the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land
of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the
LORD your God;
 
Ezekiel 20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them,
to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory
of all lands:
 
Ezekiel 20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the
idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
 
Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not
hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the
abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of
Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.
 
Ezekiel 20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should
not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in
whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth
out of the land of Egypt.
 
Ezekiel 20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the
land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
 
Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my
judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
 
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a
sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD
that sanctify them.
 
Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in
the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised
my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and
my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out
my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
 
Ezekiel 20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should
not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them
out.
 
Ezekiel 20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the
wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had
given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of
all lands;
 
Ezekiel 20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked
not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart
went after their idols.
 
Ezekiel 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying
them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
 
Ezekiel 20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness,
Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe
their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
 
Ezekiel 20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and
keep my judgments, and do them;
 
Ezekiel 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign
between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
 
Ezekiel 20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me:
they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do
them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they
polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon
them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
 
Ezekiel 20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought
for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight
of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
 
Ezekiel 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and
disperse them through the countries;
 
Ezekiel 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but
had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their
eyes were after their fathers' idols.
 
Ezekiel 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not
good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
 
Ezekiel 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that
they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb,
that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know
that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of
Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this
your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a
trespass against me.
 
Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for
the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw
every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there
their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of
their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and
poured out there their drink offerings.
 
Ezekiel 20:29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place
whereunto ye go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this
day.
 
Ezekiel 20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your
fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
 
Ezekiel 20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your
sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all
your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by
you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not
be enquired of by you.
 
Ezekiel 20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be
at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families
of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
 
Ezekiel 20:33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a
mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured
out, will I rule over you:
 
Ezekiel 20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and
will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered,
with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.
 
Ezekiel 20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
 
Ezekiel 20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith
the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I
will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
 
Ezekiel 20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels,
and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out
of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into
the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the
Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter
also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name
no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
 
Ezekiel 20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the
height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house
of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept
them, and there will I require your offerings, and the
firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
 
Ezekiel 20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I
bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the
countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be
sanctified in you before the heathen.
 
Ezekiel 20:42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the
which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
 
Ezekiel 20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all
your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe
yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have
committed.
 
Ezekiel 20:44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have
wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked
ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and
drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest
of the south field;
 
Ezekiel 20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word
of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a
fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and
every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all
faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
 
Ezekiel 20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have
kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
 
Ezekiel 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he
not speak parables?
 
Ezekiel 21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and
drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the
land of Israel,
 
Ezekiel 21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out
of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked.
 
Ezekiel 21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the
righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out
of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
 
Ezekiel 21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn
forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
 
Ezekiel 21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking
of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
 
Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee,
Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings;
because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands
shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees
shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought
to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
 
Ezekiel 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is
furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it
contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
 
Ezekiel 21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may
be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give
it into the hand of the slayer.
 
Ezekiel 21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my
people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by
reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon
thy thigh.
 
Ezekiel 21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword
contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite
thine hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third
time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men
that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
 
Ezekiel 21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all
their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be
multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the
slaughter.
 
Ezekiel 21:16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right
hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
 
Ezekiel 21:17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will
cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
 
Ezekiel 21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
 
Ezekiel 21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways,
that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall
come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at
the head of the way to the city.
 
Ezekiel 21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath
of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
 
Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of
the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made
his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the
liver.
 
Ezekiel 21:22 At his right hand was the divination for
Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the
slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint
battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a
fort.
 
Ezekiel 21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination
in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call
to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
 
Ezekiel 21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your
transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your
sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance,
ye shall be taken with the hand.
 
Ezekiel 21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose
day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
 
Ezekiel 21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and
take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is
low, and abase him that is high.
 
Ezekiel 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it
shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will
give it him.
 
Ezekiel 21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their
reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the
slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
 
Ezekiel 21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they
divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that
are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity
shall have an end.
 
Ezekiel 21:30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I
will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land
of thy nativity.
 
Ezekiel 21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I
will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee
into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
 
Ezekiel 21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood
shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more
remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
 
Ezekiel 22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou
judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her
abominations.
 
Ezekiel 22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city
sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and
maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
 
Ezekiel 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast
shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast
made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come
even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto
the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
 
Ezekiel 22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from
thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
 
Ezekiel 22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in
thee to their power to shed blood.
 
Ezekiel 22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother:
in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the
stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
 
Ezekiel 22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast
profaned my sabbaths.
 
Ezekiel 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood:
and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness.
 
Ezekiel 22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers'
nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for
pollution.
 
Ezekiel 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his
neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in
law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's
daughter.
 
Ezekiel 22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou
hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of
thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the
Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy
dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath
been in the midst of thee.
 
Ezekiel 22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be
strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have
spoken it, and will do it.
 
Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and
disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness
out of thee.
 
Ezekiel 22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself
in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the
LORD.
 
Ezekiel 22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become
dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the
midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
 
Ezekiel 22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are
all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the
midst of Jerusalem.
 
Ezekiel 22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and
lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire
upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my
fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
 
Ezekiel 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the
fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
 
Ezekiel 22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace,
so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know
that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
 
Ezekiel 22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that
is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
 
Ezekiel 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the
midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have
devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things;
they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
 
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have
profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between
the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between
the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
 
Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves
ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get
dishonest gain.
 
Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered
morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus
saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
 
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and
exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they
have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
 
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should
make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land,
that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
 
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon
them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own
way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of
one mother:
 
Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they
committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts
pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
 
Ezekiel 23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and
Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and
daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and
Jerusalem Aholibah.
 
Ezekiel 23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine;
and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
 
Ezekiel 23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers,
all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
 
Ezekiel 23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with
all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on
whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
 
Ezekiel 23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt:
for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts
of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
 
Ezekiel 23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of
her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
 
Ezekiel 23:10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her
sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she
became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon
her.
 
Ezekiel 23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was
more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her
whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
 
Ezekiel 23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours,
captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon
horses, all of them desirable young men.
 
Ezekiel 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took
both one way,
 
Ezekiel 23:14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when
she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
pourtrayed with vermilion,
 
Ezekiel 23:15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding
in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to,
after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their
nativity:
 
Ezekiel 23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she
doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
 
Ezekiel 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of
love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was
polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
 
Ezekiel 23:18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered
her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my
mind was alienated from her sister.
 
Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to
remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the
harlot in the land of Egypt.
 
Ezekiel 23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh
is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of
horses.
 
Ezekiel 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of
thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of
thy youth.
 
Ezekiel 23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy
mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every
side;
 
Ezekiel 23:23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod,
and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them
desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and
renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
 
Ezekiel 23:24 And they shall come against thee with chariots,
wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall
set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I
will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee
according to their judgments.
 
Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they
shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and
thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall
take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be
devoured by the fire.
 
Ezekiel 23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes,
and take away thy fair jewels.
 
Ezekiel 23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee,
and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou
shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any
more.
 
Ezekiel 23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the
hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
 
Ezekiel 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and
shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and
bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered,
both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
 
Ezekiel 23:30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou
hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art
polluted with their idols.
 
Ezekiel 23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister;
therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
 
Ezekiel 23:32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy
sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and
had in derision; it containeth much.
 
Ezekiel 23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy
sister Samaria.
 
Ezekiel 23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and
thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own
breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou
hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear
thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
 
Ezekiel 23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt
thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their
abominations;
 
Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is
in their hands, and with their idols have they committed
adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto
me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
 
Ezekiel 23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have
defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
sabbaths.
 
Ezekiel 23:39 For when they had slain their children to their
idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane
it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
 
Ezekiel 23:40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to
come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they
came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and
deckedst thyself with ornaments,
 
Ezekiel 23:41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table
prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine
oil.
 
Ezekiel 23:42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with
her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans
from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and
beautiful crowns upon their heads.
 
Ezekiel 23:43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries,
Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
 
Ezekiel 23:44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a
woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and
unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
 
Ezekiel 23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them
after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women
that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in
their hands.
 
Ezekiel 23:46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a
company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
 
Ezekiel 23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and
dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and
their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
 
Ezekiel 23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the
land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
 
Ezekiel 23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,
and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that
I am the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 24:2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even
of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against
Jerusalem this same day.
 
Ezekiel 24:3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on,
and also pour water into it:
 
Ezekiel 24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good
piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice
bones.
 
Ezekiel 24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the
bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the
bones of it therein.
 
Ezekiel 24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is
not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall
upon it.
 
Ezekiel 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it
upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to
cover it with dust;
 
Ezekiel 24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take
vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it
should not be covered.
 
Ezekiel 24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
 
Ezekiel 24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh,
and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
 
Ezekiel 24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that
the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness
of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
 
Ezekiel 24:12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great
scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
 
Ezekiel 24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have
purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged
from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest
upon thee.
 
Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass,
and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare,
neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to
thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 24:15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the
desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn
nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
 
Ezekiel 24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead,
bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon
thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
 
Ezekiel 24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at
even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
 
Ezekiel 24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell
us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
 
Ezekiel 24:20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of
your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul
pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall
fall by the sword.
 
Ezekiel 24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not
cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
 
Ezekiel 24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your
shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall
pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
 
Ezekiel 24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all
that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall
know that I am the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day
when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the
desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds,
their sons and their daughters,
 
Ezekiel 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto
thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
 
Ezekiel 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him
which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and
thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
 
Ezekiel 25:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,
and prophesy against them;
 
Ezekiel 25:3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the
Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha,
against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land
of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah,
when they went into captivity;
 
Ezekiel 25:4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men
of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in
thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit,
and they shall drink thy milk.
 
Ezekiel 25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and
the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that
I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in
heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
 
Ezekiel 25:7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand
upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and
I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to
perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 25:8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and
Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the
heathen;
 
Ezekiel 25:9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab
from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the
glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
 
Ezekiel 25:10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and
will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be
remembered among the nations.
 
Ezekiel 25:11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath
dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
 
Ezekiel 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also
stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast
from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of
Dedan shall fall by the sword.
 
Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand
of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine
anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 25:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines
have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful
heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
 
Ezekiel 25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off
the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
 
Ezekiel 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with
furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall lay my vengeance upon them.
 
Ezekiel 26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people:
she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid
waste:
 
Ezekiel 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up
against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
 
Ezekiel 26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and
break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and
make her like the top of a rock.
 
Ezekiel 26:5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in
the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD:
and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
 
Ezekiel 26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be
slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 26:7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring
upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from
the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and
companies, and much people.
 
Ezekiel 26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the
field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount
against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
 
Ezekiel 26:9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls,
and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
 
Ezekiel 26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their
dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall
enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a
breach.
 
Ezekiel 26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down
all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy
strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
 
Ezekiel 26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and
make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy
walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy
stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
 
Ezekiel 26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease;
and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
 
Ezekiel 26:14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou
shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no
more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 26:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the
isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when
the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
 
Ezekiel 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down
from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their
broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling;
they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every
moment, and be astonished at thee.
 
Ezekiel 26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,
and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of
seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all
that haunt it!
 
Ezekiel 26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy
fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy
departure.
 
Ezekiel 26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make
thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;
when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall
cover thee;
 
Ezekiel 26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that
descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set
thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old,
with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited;
and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
 
Ezekiel 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no
more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found
again, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 27:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for
Tyrus;
 
Ezekiel 27:3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the
entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many
isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of
perfect beauty.
 
Ezekiel 27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy
builders have perfected thy beauty.
 
Ezekiel 27:5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of
Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for
thee.
 
Ezekiel 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars;
the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory,
brought out of the isles of Chittim.
 
Ezekiel 27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that
which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from
the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
 
Ezekiel 27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy
mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy
pilots.
 
Ezekiel 27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof
were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
 
Ezekiel 27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in
thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in
thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
 
Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy
walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they
hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made
thy beauty perfect.
 
Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the
multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and
lead, they traded in thy fairs.
 
Ezekiel 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy
merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in
thy market.
 
Ezekiel 27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs
with horses and horsemen and mules.
 
Ezekiel 27:15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles
were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a
present horns of ivory and ebony.
 
Ezekiel 27:16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude
of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with
emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral,
and agate.
 
Ezekiel 27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy
merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and
Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
 
Ezekiel 27:18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the
wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine
of Helbon, and white wool.
 
Ezekiel 27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in
thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
 
Ezekiel 27:20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for
chariots.
 
Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they
occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were
they thy merchants.
 
Ezekiel 27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy
merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold.
 
Ezekiel 27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of
Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
 
Ezekiel 27:24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things,
in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich
apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy
merchandise.
 
Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy
market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the
midst of the seas.
 
Ezekiel 27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters:
the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
 
Ezekiel 27:27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy
mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy
merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all
thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the
midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
 
Ezekiel 27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry
of thy pilots.
 
Ezekiel 27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and
all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they
shall stand upon the land;
 
Ezekiel 27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their
heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
 
Ezekiel 27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for
thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee
with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
 
Ezekiel 27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a
lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is
like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
 
Ezekiel 27:33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou
filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth
with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
 
Ezekiel 27:34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas
in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company
in the midst of thee shall fall.
 
Ezekiel 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be
astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they
shall be troubled in their countenance.
 
Ezekiel 27:36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at
thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
 
Ezekiel 28:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou
hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine
heart as the heart of God:
 
Ezekiel 28:3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no
secret that they can hide from thee:
 
Ezekiel 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou
hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures:
 
Ezekiel 28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou
increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy
riches:
 
Ezekiel 28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou
hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
 
Ezekiel 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon
thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile
thy brightness.
 
Ezekiel 28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou
shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the
seas.
 
Ezekiel 28:9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I
am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him
that slayeth thee.
 
Ezekiel 28:10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by
the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king
of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest
up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
 
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the
emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that
thou wast created.
 
Ezekiel 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I
have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou
hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
 
Ezekiel 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that
thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
 
Ezekiel 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:
and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the
stones of fire.
 
Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I
will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
 
Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the
multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it
shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth
in the sight of all them that behold thee.
 
Ezekiel 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou
be any more.
 
Ezekiel 28:20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 28:21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and
prophesy against it,
 
Ezekiel 28:22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of
thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have
executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
 
Ezekiel 28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood
into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of
her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that
I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto
the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round
about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the
Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have
gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are
scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the
heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to
my servant Jacob.
 
Ezekiel 28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall
build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD their God.
 
Ezekiel 29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the
twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 29:2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
 
Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that
lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is
mine own, and I have made it for myself.
 
Ezekiel 29:4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause
the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring
thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy
rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
 
Ezekiel 29:5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness,
thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the
open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I
have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the
fowls of the heaven.
 
Ezekiel 29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I
am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house
of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou
didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned
upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a
stand.
 
Ezekiel 29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
 
Ezekiel 29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste;
and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The
river is mine, and I have made it.
 
Ezekiel 29:10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against
thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and
desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of
Ethiopia.
 
Ezekiel 29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of
beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty
years.
 
Ezekiel 29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the
midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among
the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the countries.
 
Ezekiel 29:13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty
years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they
were scattered:
 
Ezekiel 29:14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt,
and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the
land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
 
Ezekiel 29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither
shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will
diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
 
Ezekiel 29:16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the
house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance,
when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am
the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 29:17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth
year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused
his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages,
nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served
against it:
 
Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and
he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her
prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
 
Ezekiel 29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of
Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the
mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
 
Ezekiel 30:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
 
Ezekiel 30:3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is
near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
 
Ezekiel 30:4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great
pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt,
and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down.
 
Ezekiel 30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the
mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in
league, shall fall with them by the sword.
 
Ezekiel 30:6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt
shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the
tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord
GOD.
 
Ezekiel 30:7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst
of the cities that are wasted.
 
Ezekiel 30:8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be
destroyed.
 
Ezekiel 30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in
ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain
shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
 
Ezekiel 30:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the
multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon.
 
Ezekiel 30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the
nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall
draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the
slain.
 
Ezekiel 30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land
into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and
all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have
spoken it.
 
Ezekiel 30:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the
idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and
there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will
put a fear in the land of Egypt.
 
Ezekiel 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set
fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
 
Ezekiel 30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
 
Ezekiel 30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have
great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have
distresses daily.
 
Ezekiel 30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall
by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
 
Ezekiel 30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened,
when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her
strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall go into captivity.
 
Ezekiel 30:19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king
of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put
a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
 
Ezekiel 30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the
strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to
fall out of his hand.
 
Ezekiel 30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
 
Ezekiel 30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's
arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a
deadly wounded man.
 
Ezekiel 30:25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land
of Egypt.
 
Ezekiel 30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 31:2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
 
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with
fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high
stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
 
Ezekiel 31:4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on
high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her
little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
 
Ezekiel 31:5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the
trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his
branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he
shot forth.
 
Ezekiel 31:6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his
boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field
bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great
nations.
 
Ezekiel 31:7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length
of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
 
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide
him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut
trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of
God was like unto him in his beauty.
 
Ezekiel 31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his
branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden
of God, envied him.
 
Ezekiel 31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou
hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top
among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
 
Ezekiel 31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of
the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I
have driven him out for his wickedness.
 
Ezekiel 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have
cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the
valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all
the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone
down from his shadow, and have left him.
 
Ezekiel 31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven
remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his
branches:
 
Ezekiel 31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the
waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their
top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their
height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto
death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the
children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
 
Ezekiel 31:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went
down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for
him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters
were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
trees of the field fainted for him.
 
Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his
fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into
the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of
Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether
parts of the earth.
 
Ezekiel 31:17 They also went down into hell with him unto them
that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that
dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
 
Ezekiel 31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in
greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down
with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou
shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith
the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 32:1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the
twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the
nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest
forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet,
and fouledst their rivers.
 
Ezekiel 32:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread
out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they
shall bring thee up in my net.
 
Ezekiel 32:4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast
thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of
the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the
whole earth with thee.
 
Ezekiel 32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and
fill the valleys with thy height.
 
Ezekiel 32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein
thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be
full of thee.
 
Ezekiel 32:7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the
heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun
with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
 
Ezekiel 32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark
over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 32:9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I
shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries
which thou hast not known.
 
Ezekiel 32:10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and
their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall
brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every
moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
 
Ezekiel 32:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the
king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
 
Ezekiel 32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy
multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and
they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof
shall be destroyed.
 
Ezekiel 32:13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from
beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble
them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
 
Ezekiel 32:14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause
their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and
the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when
I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know
that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 32:16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall
lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they
shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 32:17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the
fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and
cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous
nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go
down into the pit.
 
Ezekiel 32:19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be
thou laid with the uncircumcised.
 
Ezekiel 32:20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are
slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and
all her multitudes.
 
Ezekiel 32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him
out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone
down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
 
Ezekiel 32:22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves
are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
 
Ezekiel 32:23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and
her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen
by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
 
Ezekiel 32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about
her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone
down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which
caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they
borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
 
Ezekiel 32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain
with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of
them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was
caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame
with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them
that be slain.
 
Ezekiel 32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain
by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the
living.
 
Ezekiel 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are
fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with
their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their
heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though
they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
 
Ezekiel 32:28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the
sword.
 
Ezekiel 32:29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes,
which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the
sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that
go down to the pit.
 
Ezekiel 32:30 There be the princes of the north, all of them,
and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with
their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear
their shame with them that go down to the pit.
 
Ezekiel 32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted
over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by
the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 32:32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the
living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 33:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people,
and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the
people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for
their watchman:
 
Ezekiel 33:3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he
blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
 
Ezekiel 33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet,
and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his
blood shall be upon his own head.
 
Ezekiel 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not
warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning
shall deliver his soul.
 
Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow
not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come,
and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
 
Ezekiel 33:7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman
unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at
my mouth, and warn them from me.
 
Ezekiel 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou
shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from
his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood
will I require at thine hand.
 
Ezekiel 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way
to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in
his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
 
Ezekiel 33:10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the
house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and
our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then
live?
 
Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked
turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways;
for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
 
Ezekiel 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children
of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not
deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the
wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day
that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous
be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
 
Ezekiel 33:13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall
surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit
iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but
for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
 
Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt
surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful
and right;
 
Ezekiel 33:15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that
he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
 
Ezekiel 33:16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be
mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right;
he shall surely live.
 
Ezekiel 33:17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of
the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
 
Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die
thereby.
 
Ezekiel 33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and
do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
 
Ezekiel 33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O
ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
 
Ezekiel 33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our
captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month,
that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying,
The city is smitten.
 
Ezekiel 33:22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the
evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth,
until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and
I was no more dumb.
 
Ezekiel 33:23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the
land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited
the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
 
Ezekiel 33:25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols,
and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
 
Ezekiel 33:26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination,
and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye
possess the land?
 
Ezekiel 33:27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the
sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the
beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the
caves shall die of the pestilence.
 
Ezekiel 33:28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the
pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel
shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
 
Ezekiel 33:29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I
have laid the land most desolate because of all their
abominations which they have committed.
 
Ezekiel 33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people
still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of
the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother,
saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh
forth from the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and
they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but
they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love,
but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
 
Ezekiel 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song
of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
 
Ezekiel 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
 
Ezekiel 34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of
Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto
the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
 
Ezekiel 34:3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool,
ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
 
Ezekiel 34:4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither
have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that
which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was
driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with
force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
 
Ezekiel 34:5 And they were scattered, because there is no
shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field,
when they were scattered.
 
Ezekiel 34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and
upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the
face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
 
Ezekiel 34:7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the
LORD;
 
Ezekiel 34:8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my
flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of
the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves,
and fed not my flock;
 
Ezekiel 34:9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the
LORD;
 
Ezekiel 34:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the
shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause
them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds
feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their
mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
 
Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I,
will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
 
Ezekiel 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day
that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out
my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
 
Ezekiel 34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and
gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own
land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers,
and in all the inhabited places of the country.
 
Ezekiel 34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the
high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they
lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 34:15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to
lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again
that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was
broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will
destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
 
Ezekiel 34:17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams
and the he goats.
 
Ezekiel 34:18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten
up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the
residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters,
but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
 
Ezekiel 34:19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have
trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled
with your feet.
 
Ezekiel 34:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them;
Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between
the lean cattle.
 
Ezekiel 34:21 Because ye have thrust with side and with
shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye
have scattered them abroad;
 
Ezekiel 34:22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no
more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
 
Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he
shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and
he shall be their shepherd.
 
Ezekiel 34:24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant
David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
 
Ezekiel 34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace,
and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they
shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
 
Ezekiel 34:26 And I will make them and the places round about
my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in
his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
 
Ezekiel 34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit,
and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in
their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken
the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of
those that served themselves of them.
 
Ezekiel 34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,
neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall
dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
 
Ezekiel 34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
 
Ezekiel 34:30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am
with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my
people, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 34:31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are
men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 35:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 35:2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and
prophesy against it,
 
Ezekiel 35:3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand
against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
 
Ezekiel 35:4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be
desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast
shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the
sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their
iniquity had an end:
 
Ezekiel 35:6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will
prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou
hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
 
Ezekiel 35:7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut
off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
 
Ezekiel 35:8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men:
in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall
they fall that are slain with the sword.
 
Ezekiel 35:9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy
cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 35:10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and
these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it;
whereas the LORD was there:
 
Ezekiel 35:11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will
even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy
which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will
make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
 
Ezekiel 35:12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that
I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against
the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are
given us to consume.
 
Ezekiel 35:13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me,
and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
 
Ezekiel 35:14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth
rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
 
Ezekiel 35:15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the
house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee:
thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of
it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 36:1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains
of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
LORD:
 
Ezekiel 36:2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath
said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in
possession:
 
Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on
every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the
heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an
infamy of the people:
 
Ezekiel 36:4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word
of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to
the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate
wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey
and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
 
Ezekiel 36:5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the
fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the
heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land
into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with
despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
 
Ezekiel 36:6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel,
and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and
to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in
my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of
the heathen:
 
Ezekiel 36:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted
up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall
bear their shame.
 
Ezekiel 36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot
forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel;
for they are at hand to come.
 
Ezekiel 36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto
you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
 
Ezekiel 36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house
of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and
the wastes shall be builded:
 
Ezekiel 36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and
they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after
your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your
beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 36:12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my
people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be
their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them
of men.
 
Ezekiel 36:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto
you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:
 
Ezekiel 36:14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither
bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 36:15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the
shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the
reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy
nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 36:16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Ezekiel 36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in
their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their
doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed
woman.
 
Ezekiel 36:18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the
blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols
wherewith they had polluted it:
 
Ezekiel 36:19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they
were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and
according to their doings I judged them.
 
Ezekiel 36:20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither
they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them,
These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his
land.
 
Ezekiel 36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the
house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they
went.
 
Ezekiel 36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus
saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of
Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned
among the heathen, whither ye went.
 
Ezekiel 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst
of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the
Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
 
Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and
gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own
land.
 
Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye
shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your
idols, will I cleanse you.
 
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
 
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause
you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do them.
 
Ezekiel 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to
your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
 
Ezekiel 36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:
and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no
famine upon you.
 
Ezekiel 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and
the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach
of famine among the heathen.
 
Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and
your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
 
Ezekiel 36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD,
be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own
ways, O house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 36:33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall
have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you
to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
 
Ezekiel 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it
lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
 
Ezekiel 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate
is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and
ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
 
Ezekiel 36:36 Then the heathen that are left round about you
shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant
that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do
it.
 
Ezekiel 36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be
enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will
increase them with men like a flock.
 
Ezekiel 36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in
her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me
out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of
the valley which was full of bones,
 
Ezekiel 37:2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and,
behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they
were very dry.
 
Ezekiel 37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones
live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
 
Ezekiel 37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones,
and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold,
I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
 
Ezekiel 37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up
flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you,
and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the
bones came together, bone to his bone.
 
Ezekiel 37:8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh
came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was
no breath in them.
 
Ezekiel 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind,
prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these
slain, that they may live.
 
Ezekiel 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their
feet, an exceeding great army.
 
Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are
the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried,
and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
 
Ezekiel 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and
cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the
land of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your
graves,
 
Ezekiel 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall
live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know
that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 37:15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 37:16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick,
and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his
companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For
Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his
companions:
 
Ezekiel 37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and
they shall become one in thine hand.
 
Ezekiel 37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak
unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by
these?
 
Ezekiel 37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him,
even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in mine hand.
 
Ezekiel 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in
thine hand before their eyes.
 
Ezekiel 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the
heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every
side, and bring them into their own land:
 
Ezekiel 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon
the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
 
Ezekiel 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more
with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any
of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
 
Ezekiel 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and
they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my
judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
 
Ezekiel 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have
given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and
they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and
their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be
their prince for ever.
 
Ezekiel 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will
place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the
midst of them for evermore.
 
Ezekiel 37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I
will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 
Ezekiel 37:28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do
sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them
for evermore.
 
Ezekiel 38:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Ezekiel 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of
Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy
against him,
 
Ezekiel 38:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
 
Ezekiel 38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy
jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a
great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords:
 
Ezekiel 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them
with shield and helmet:
 
Ezekiel 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of
the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
 
Ezekiel 38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou,
and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a
guard unto them.
 
Ezekiel 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the
latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back
from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the
mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all
of them.
 
Ezekiel 38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou
shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands,
and many people with thee.
 
Ezekiel 38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to
pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and
thou shalt think an evil thought:
 
Ezekiel 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of
unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell
safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates,
 
Ezekiel 38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn
thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and
upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have
gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
 
Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou
come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a
prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and
goods, to take a great spoil?
 
Ezekiel 38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel
dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
 
Ezekiel 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the
north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding
upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
 
Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of
Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may
know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their
eyes.
 
Ezekiel 38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I
have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel,
which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
against them?
 
Ezekiel 38:18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when
Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
that my fury shall come up in my face.
 
Ezekiel 38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking
in the land of Israel;
 
Ezekiel 38:20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of
the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face
of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall
be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall
shall fall to the ground.
 
Ezekiel 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him
throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's
sword shall be against his brother.
 
Ezekiel 38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and
with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and
upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
 
Ezekiel 38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself;
and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,
and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
 
Ezekiel 39:2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth
part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north
parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
 
Ezekiel 39:3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and
will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
 
Ezekiel 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel,
thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will
give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the
beasts of the field to be devoured.
 
Ezekiel 39:5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them
that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am
the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 39:7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of
my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name
any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy
One in Israel.
 
Ezekiel 39:8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord
GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
 
Ezekiel 39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall
go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the
shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the
handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire
seven years:
 
Ezekiel 39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field,
neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the
weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them,
and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley
of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the
noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all
his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
 
Ezekiel 39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be
burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
 
Ezekiel 39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them;
and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be
glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual
employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers
those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search.
 
Ezekiel 39:15 And the passengers that pass through the land,
when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,
till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
 
Ezekiel 39:16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah.
Thus shall they cleanse the land.
 
Ezekiel 39:17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to
my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice
upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink
blood.
 
Ezekiel 39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink
the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of
goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
 
Ezekiel 39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink
blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed
for you.
 
Ezekiel 39:20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses
and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the
Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 39:21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and
all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and
my hand that I have laid upon them.
 
Ezekiel 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the
LORD their God from that day and forward.
 
Ezekiel 39:23 And the heathen shall know that the house of
Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they
trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and
gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the
sword.
 
Ezekiel 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to
their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from
them.
 
Ezekiel 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I
bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole
house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
 
Ezekiel 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all
their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when
they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
 
Ezekiel 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people,
and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified
in them in the sight of many nations;
 
Ezekiel 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their
God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the
heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have
left none of them any more there.
 
Ezekiel 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them:
for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity,
in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in
the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the
selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me
thither.
 
Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land
of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as
the frame of a city on the south.
 
Ezekiel 40:3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was
a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a
line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in
the gate.
 
Ezekiel 40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with
thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon
all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew
them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou
seest to the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 40:5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house
round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits
long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth
of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
 
Ezekiel 40:6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward
the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the
threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other
threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
 
Ezekiel 40:7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and
one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits;
and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was
one reed.
 
Ezekiel 40:8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one
reed.
 
Ezekiel 40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight
cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the
gate was inward.
 
Ezekiel 40:10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were
three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of
one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on
that side.
 
Ezekiel 40:11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the
gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:12 The space also before the little chambers was one
cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and
the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits
on that side.
 
Ezekiel 40:13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one
little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and
twenty cubits, door against door.
 
Ezekiel 40:14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even
unto the post of the court round about the gate.
 
Ezekiel 40:15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance
unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:16 And there were narrow windows to the little
chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and
likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and
upon each post were palm trees.
 
Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and,
lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round
about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
 
Ezekiel 40:18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over
against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
 
Ezekiel 40:19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront
of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without,
an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
 
Ezekiel 40:20 And the gate of the outward court that looked
toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth
thereof.
 
Ezekiel 40:21 And the little chambers thereof were three on
this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the
arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the
length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:22 And their windows, and their arches, and their
palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh
toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the
arches thereof were before them.
 
Ezekiel 40:23 And the gate of the inner court was over against
the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured
from gate to gate an hundred cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:24 After that he brought me toward the south, and
behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof
and the arches thereof according to these measures.
 
Ezekiel 40:25 And there were windows in it and in the arches
thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and
the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one
on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
 
Ezekiel 40:27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward
the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an
hundred cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south
gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
 
Ezekiel 40:29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and
there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about:
it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
 
Ezekiel 40:30 And the arches round about were five and twenty
cubits long, and five cubits broad.
 
Ezekiel 40:31 And the arches thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going
up to it had eight steps.
 
Ezekiel 40:32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the
east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
 
Ezekiel 40:33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these
measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches
thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and
twenty cubits broad.
 
Ezekiel 40:34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side,
and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
 
Ezekiel 40:35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured
it according to these measures;
 
Ezekiel 40:36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof,
and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the
length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
 
Ezekiel 40:37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side,
and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
 
Ezekiel 40:38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by
the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
 
Ezekiel 40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on
this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt
offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
 
Ezekiel 40:40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the
entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side,
which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
 
Ezekiel 40:41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on
that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they
slew their sacrifices.
 
Ezekiel 40:42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the
burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an
half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the
instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the
sacrifice.
 
Ezekiel 40:43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened
round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
 
Ezekiel 40:44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of
the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the
north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the
side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
 
Ezekiel 40:45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect
is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the
charge of the house.
 
Ezekiel 40:46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the
north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar:
these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come
near to the LORD to minister unto him.
 
Ezekiel 40:47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long,
and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was
before the house.
 
Ezekiel 40:48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and
measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and
five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three
cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
 
Ezekiel 40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and
the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby
they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on
this side, and another on that side.
 
Ezekiel 41:1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and
measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six
cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the
tabernacle.
 
Ezekiel 41:2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and
the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five
cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof,
forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
 
Ezekiel 41:3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the
door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of
the door, seven cubits.
 
Ezekiel 41:4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits;
and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said
unto me, This is the most holy place.
 
Ezekiel 41:5 After he measured the wall of the house, six
cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round
about the house on every side.
 
Ezekiel 41:6 And the side chambers were three, one over
another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall
which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that
they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the
house.
 
Ezekiel 41:7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about
still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the
house went still upward round about the house: therefore the
breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the
lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
 
Ezekiel 41:8 I saw also the height of the house round about:
the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six
great cubits.
 
Ezekiel 41:9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side
chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the
place of the side chambers that were within.
 
Ezekiel 41:10 And between the chambers was the wideness of
twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
 
Ezekiel 41:11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward
the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another
door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left
was five cubits round about.
 
Ezekiel 41:12 Now the building that was before the separate
place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and
the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and
the length thereof ninety cubits.
 
Ezekiel 41:13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long;
and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof,
an hundred cubits long;
 
Ezekiel 41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of
the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
 
Ezekiel 41:15 And he measured the length of the building over
against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries
thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits,
with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
 
Ezekiel 41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the
galleries round about on their three stories, over against the
door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the
windows, and the windows were covered;
 
Ezekiel 41:17 To that above the door, even unto the inner
house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and
without, by measure.
 
Ezekiel 41:18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so
that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every
cherub had two faces;
 
Ezekiel 41:19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm
tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the
palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house
round about.
 
Ezekiel 41:20 From the ground unto above the door were
cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
 
Ezekiel 41:21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the
face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the
appearance of the other.
 
Ezekiel 41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the
length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said
unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
 
Ezekiel 41:24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning
leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other
door.
 
Ezekiel 41:25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the
temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the
walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch
without.
 
Ezekiel 41:26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on
the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch,
and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
 
Ezekiel 42:1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the
way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was
over against the separate place, and which was before the
building toward the north.
 
Ezekiel 42:2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the
north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
 
Ezekiel 42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the
inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the
utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
 
Ezekiel 42:4 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits
breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the
north.
 
Ezekiel 42:5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the
galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the
middlemost of the building.
 
Ezekiel 42:6 For they were in three stories, but had not
pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was
straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the
ground.
 
Ezekiel 42:7 And the wall that was without over against the
chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers,
the length thereof was fifty cubits.
 
Ezekiel 42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the
utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an
hundred cubits.
 
Ezekiel 42:9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the
east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
 
Ezekiel 42:10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of
the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and
over against the building.
 
Ezekiel 42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance
of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and
as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to
their fashions, and according to their doors.
 
Ezekiel 42:12 And according to the doors of the chambers that
were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the
way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth
into them.
 
Ezekiel 42:13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the
south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy
chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat
the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things,
and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; for the place is holy.
 
Ezekiel 42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they
not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they
shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are
holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to
those things which are for the people.
 
Ezekiel 42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the
inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect
is toward the east, and measured it round about.
 
Ezekiel 42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring
reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
 
Ezekiel 42:17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed round about.
 
Ezekiel 42:18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed.
 
Ezekiel 42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured
five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
 
Ezekiel 42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall
round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to
make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
 
Ezekiel 43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate
that looketh toward the east:
 
Ezekiel 43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many
waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
 
Ezekiel 43:3 And it was according to the appearance of the
vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when
I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
 
Ezekiel 43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by
the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
 
Ezekiel 43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the
inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
 
Ezekiel 43:6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house;
and the man stood by me.
 
Ezekiel 43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my
throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell
in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy
name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor
their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their
kings in their high places.
 
Ezekiel 43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my
thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me
and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their
abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed
them in mine anger.
 
Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the
carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the
midst of them for ever.
 
Ezekiel 43:10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of
Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let
them measure the pattern.
 
Ezekiel 43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have
done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof,
and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all
the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the
forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their
sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and do them.
 
Ezekiel 43:12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the
mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy.
Behold, this is the law of the house.
 
Ezekiel 43:13 And these are the measures of the altar after the
cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom
shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof
by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall
be the higher place of the altar.
 
Ezekiel 43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the
lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and
from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four
cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
 
Ezekiel 43:15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the
altar and upward shall be four horns.
 
Ezekiel 43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve
broad, square in the four squares thereof.
 
Ezekiel 43:17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and
fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about
it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit
about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
 
Ezekiel 43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the
Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when
they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to
sprinkle blood thereon.
 
Ezekiel 43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites
that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister
unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
 
Ezekiel 43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put
it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the
settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse
and purge it.
 
Ezekiel 43:21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin
offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the
house, without the sanctuary.
 
Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of
the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
 
Ezekiel 43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou
shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the
flock without blemish.
 
Ezekiel 43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and
the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them
up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 43:25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat
for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and
a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
 
Ezekiel 43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify
it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
 
Ezekiel 43:27 And when these days are expired, it shall be,
that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make
your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings;
and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 44:1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
 
Ezekiel 44:2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be
shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it;
because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it,
therefore it shall be shut.
 
Ezekiel 44:3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in
it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the
porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
 
Ezekiel 44:4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate
before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the
LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
 
Ezekiel 44:5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well,
and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I
say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the
LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of
the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
 
Ezekiel 44:6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel,
let it suffice you of all your abominations,
 
Ezekiel 44:7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary
strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to
be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer
my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
because of all your abominations.
 
Ezekiel 44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy
things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.
 
Ezekiel 44:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger,
uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter
into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of
Israel.
 
Ezekiel 44:10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me,
when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after
their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the
house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for
the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto
them.
 
Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered unto them before their
idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity;
therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord
GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
 
Ezekiel 44:13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the
office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy
things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame,
and their abominations which they have committed.
 
Ezekiel 44:14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be
done therein.
 
Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok,
that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel
went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto
me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and
the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
 
Ezekiel 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall
keep my charge.
 
Ezekiel 44:17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter
in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they
minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
 
Ezekiel 44:18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads,
and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not
gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
 
Ezekiel 44:19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even
into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy
chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall
not sanctify the people with their garments.
 
Ezekiel 44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer
their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
 
Ezekiel 44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they
enter into the inner court.
 
Ezekiel 44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow,
nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed
of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
 
Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference
between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between
the unclean and the clean.
 
Ezekiel 44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment;
and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall
keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they
shall hallow my sabbaths.
 
Ezekiel 44:25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband,
they may defile themselves.
 
Ezekiel 44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto
him seven days.
 
Ezekiel 44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary,
unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall
offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 44:28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I
am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in
Israel: I am their possession.
 
Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin
offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in
Israel shall be theirs.
 
Ezekiel 44:30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all
things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your
oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the
priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to
rest in thine house.
 
Ezekiel 44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is
dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
 
Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy
portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and
twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand.
This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
 
Ezekiel 45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five
hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round
about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
 
Ezekiel 45:3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length
of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and
in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
 
Ezekiel 45:4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the
priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to
minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses,
and an holy place for the sanctuary.
 
Ezekiel 45:5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and
the ten thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers
of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty
chambers.
 
Ezekiel 45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city
five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over
against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the
whole house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 45:7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one
side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion,
and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the
holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the
west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the
length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west
border unto the east border.
 
Ezekiel 45:8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and
my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the
land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their
tribes.
 
Ezekiel 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O
princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute
judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah,
and a just bath.
 
Ezekiel 45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,
that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the
ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be
after the homer.
 
Ezekiel 45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty
shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
maneh.
 
Ezekiel 45:13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the
sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give
the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
 
Ezekiel 45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil,
ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is
an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
 
Ezekiel 45:15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two
hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering,
and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make
reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 45:16 All the people of the land shall give this
oblation for the prince in Israel.
 
Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all
solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin
offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 45:18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in
the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock
without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
 
Ezekiel 45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the
four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of
the gate of the inner court.
 
Ezekiel 45:20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month
for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall
ye reconcile the house.
 
Ezekiel 45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the
month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten.
 
Ezekiel 45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin
offering.
 
Ezekiel 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a
sin offering.
 
Ezekiel 45:24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah
for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an
ephah.
 
Ezekiel 45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the
month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days,
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering,
and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
 
Ezekiel 46:1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner
court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of
the new moon it shall be opened.
 
Ezekiel 46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch
of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate,
and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate:
then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the
evening.
 
Ezekiel 46:3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at
the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the
new moons.
 
Ezekiel 46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer
unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without
blemish, and a ram without blemish.
 
Ezekiel 46:5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram,
and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give,
and an hin of oil to an ephah.
 
Ezekiel 46:6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young
bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be
without blemish.
 
Ezekiel 46:7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for
a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as
his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
 
Ezekiel 46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by
the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the
way thereof.
 
Ezekiel 46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before
the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of
the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south
gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go
forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the
way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
against it.
 
Ezekiel 46:10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go
in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
 
Ezekiel 46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat
offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram,
and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah.
 
Ezekiel 46:12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one
shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he
shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he
did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his
going forth one shall shut the gate.
 
Ezekiel 46:13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto
the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt
prepare it every morning.
 
Ezekiel 46:14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it
every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of
an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering
continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
 
Ezekiel 46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat
offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt
offering.
 
Ezekiel 46:16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a
gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his
sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
 
Ezekiel 46:17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one
of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty;
after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be
his sons' for them.
 
Ezekiel 46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the
people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their
possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own
possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his
possession.
 
Ezekiel 46:19 After he brought me through the entry, which was
at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests,
which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on
the two sides westward.
 
Ezekiel 46:20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the
priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering,
where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not
out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
 
Ezekiel 46:21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court,
and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and,
behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
 
Ezekiel 46:22 In the four corners of the court there were
courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four
corners were of one measure.
 
Ezekiel 46:23 And there was a row of building round about in
them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places
under the rows round about.
 
Ezekiel 46:24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of
them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the
sacrifice of the people.
 
Ezekiel 47:1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the
house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of
the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward
the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side
of the house, at the south side of the altar.
 
Ezekiel 47:2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate
northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate
by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out
waters on the right side.
 
Ezekiel 47:3 And when the man that had the line in his hand
went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he
brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
 
Ezekiel 47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me
through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he
measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to
the loins.
 
Ezekiel 47:5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a
river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
 
Ezekiel 47:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen
this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of
the river.
 
Ezekiel 47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of
the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
 
Ezekiel 47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out
toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into
the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall
be healed.
 
Ezekiel 47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that
liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall
live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because
these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and
every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
 
Ezekiel 47:10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall
stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a
place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to
their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
 
Ezekiel 47:11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes
thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
 
Ezekiel 47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this
side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf
shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it
shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because
their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit
thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
 
Ezekiel 47:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the
border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
 
Ezekiel 47:14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:
concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your
fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
 
Ezekiel 47:15 And this shall be the border of the land toward
the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go
to Zedad;
 
Ezekiel 47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the
border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which
is by the coast of Hauran.
 
Ezekiel 47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan,
the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border
of Hamath. And this is the north side.
 
Ezekiel 47:18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran,
and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel
by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the
east side.
 
Ezekiel 47:19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to
the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And
this is the south side southward.
 
Ezekiel 47:20 The west side also shall be the great sea from
the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west
side.
 
Ezekiel 47:21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according
to the tribes of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 47:22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide
it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that
sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they
shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of
Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of
Israel.
 
Ezekiel 47:23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the
stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the
north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to
Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast
of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for
Dan.
 
Ezekiel 48:2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto
the west side, a portion for Asher.
 
Ezekiel 48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side
even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
 
Ezekiel 48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
 
Ezekiel 48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
 
Ezekiel 48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side
even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
 
Ezekiel 48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
 
Ezekiel 48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side
unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of
five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one
of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and
the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
 
Ezekiel 48:9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD
shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten
thousand in breadth.
 
Ezekiel 48:10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this
holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in
length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and
twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be
in the midst thereof.
 
Ezekiel 48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified
of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not
astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites
went astray.
 
Ezekiel 48:12 And this oblation of the land that is offered
shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the
Levites.
 
Ezekiel 48:13 And over against the border of the priests the
Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
 
Ezekiel 48:14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange,
nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the
LORD.
 
Ezekiel 48:15 And the five thousand, that are left in the
breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a
profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and
the city shall be in the midst thereof.
 
Ezekiel 48:16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the
north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side
four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four
thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and
five hundred.
 
Ezekiel 48:17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the
north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and
fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the
west two hundred and fifty.
 
Ezekiel 48:18 And the residue in length over against the
oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and
ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation
of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food
unto them that serve the city.
 
Ezekiel 48:19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out
of all the tribes of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 48:20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty
thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy
oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
 
Ezekiel 48:21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the
one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the
possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand
of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against
the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against
the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation;
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
 
Ezekiel 48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and
from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which
is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of
Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
 
Ezekiel 48:23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side
unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
 
Ezekiel 48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side
unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
 
Ezekiel 48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side
unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
 
Ezekiel 48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side
unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
 
Ezekiel 48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side
unto the west side, Gad a portion.
 
Ezekiel 48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side
southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of
strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
 
Ezekiel 48:29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot
unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their
portions, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Ezekiel 48:30 And these are the goings out of the city on the
north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
 
Ezekiel 48:31 And the gates of the city shall be after the
names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of
Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
 
Ezekiel 48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five
hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of
Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
 
Ezekiel 48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five
hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate
of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
 
Ezekiel 48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred,
with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one
gate of Naphtali.
 
Ezekiel 48:35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures:
and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is
there.
 
Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of
Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and
besieged it.
 
Daniel 1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his
hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he
carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he
brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
 
Daniel 1:3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his
eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel,
and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
 
Daniel 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured,
and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and
understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand
in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and
the tongue of the Chaldeans.
 
Daniel 1:5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the
king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them
three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the
king.
 
Daniel 1:6 Now among these were of the children of Judah,
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
 
Daniel 1:7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for
he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of
Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of
Abednego.
 
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not
defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the
wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the
eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
 
Daniel 1:9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender
love with the prince of the eunuchs.
 
Daniel 1:10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I
fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your
drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the
children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger
my head to the king.
 
Daniel 1:11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the
eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
 
Daniel 1:12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and
let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
 
Daniel 1:13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before
thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion
of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
 
Daniel 1:14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved
them ten days.
 
Daniel 1:15 And at the end of ten days their countenances
appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which
did eat the portion of the king's meat.
 
Daniel 1:16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat,
and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
 
Daniel 1:17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge
and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had
understanding in all visions and dreams.
 
Daniel 1:18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said
he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought
them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
 
Daniel 1:19 And the king communed with them; and among them all
was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
therefore stood they before the king.
 
Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding,
that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better
than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his
realm.
 
Daniel 1:21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of
king Cyrus.
 
Daniel 2:1 And in the second year of the reign of
Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his
spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
 
Daniel 2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and
the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to
shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
 
Daniel 2:3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream,
and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
 
Daniel 2:4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O
king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will
shew the interpretation.
 
Daniel 2:5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The
thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the
dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in
pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
 
Daniel 2:6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation
thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great
honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation
thereof.
 
Daniel 2:7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his
servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
 
Daniel 2:8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that
ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
 
Daniel 2:9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream,
there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and
corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed:
therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me
the interpretation thereof.
 
Daniel 2:10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said,
There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's
matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked
such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
 
Daniel 2:11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and
there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the
gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
 
Daniel 2:12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious,
and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
 
Daniel 2:13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should
be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
 
Daniel 2:14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to
Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to
slay the wise men of Babylon:
 
Daniel 2:15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain,
Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the
thing known to Daniel.
 
Daniel 2:16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that
he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the
interpretation.
 
Daniel 2:17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing
known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
 
Daniel 2:18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven
concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not
perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
 
Daniel 2:19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night
vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
 
Daniel 2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of
God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
 
Daniel 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he
removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the
wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
 
Daniel 2:22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth
what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
 
Daniel 2:23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my
fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known
unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known
unto us the king's matter.
 
Daniel 2:24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king
had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said
thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in
before the king, and I will shew unto the king the
interpretation.
 
Daniel 2:25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in
haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives
of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
 
Daniel 2:26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name
was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream
which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
 
Daniel 2:27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and
said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise
men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto
the king;
 
Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth
secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall
be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head
upon thy bed, are these;
 
Daniel 2:29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy
mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he
that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to
pass.
 
Daniel 2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me
for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their
sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and
that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
 
Daniel 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image.
This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before
thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
 
Daniel 2:32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and
his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
 
Daniel 2:33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of
clay.
 
Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without
hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and
clay, and brake them to pieces.
 
Daniel 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver,
and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the
chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them
away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote
the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
 
Daniel 2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the
interpretation thereof before the king.
 
Daniel 2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of
heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
 
Daniel 2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the
beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given
into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art
this head of gold.
 
Daniel 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior
to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear
rule over all the earth.
 
Daniel 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron:
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and
as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and
bruise.
 
Daniel 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of
potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided;
but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch
as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
 
Daniel 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and
part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly
broken.
 
Daniel 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay,
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall
not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
 
Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in
pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for
ever.
 
Daniel 2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out
of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the
iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great
God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass
hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation
thereof sure.
 
Daniel 2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face,
and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an
oblation and sweet odours unto him.
 
Daniel 2:47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth
it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a
revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
 
Daniel 2:48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him
many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of
Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of
Babylon.
 
Daniel 2:49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province
of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
 
Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose
height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits:
he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
 
Daniel 3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together
the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the
treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of
the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
 
Daniel 3:3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the
judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all
the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the
dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up;
and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
 
Daniel 3:4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded,
O people, nations, and languages,
 
Daniel 3:5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of
musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
 
Daniel 3:6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the
same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
 
Daniel 3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all
kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages,
fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king had set up.
 
Daniel 3:8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near,
and accused the Jews.
 
Daniel 3:9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O
king, live for ever.
 
Daniel 3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man
that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down
and worship the golden image:
 
Daniel 3:11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he
should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
 
Daniel 3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the
affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve
not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set
up.
 
Daniel 3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded
to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these
men before the king.
 
Daniel 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it
true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods,
nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
 
Daniel 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the
image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be
cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and
who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
 
Daniel 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said
to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee
in this matter.
 
Daniel 3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us
out of thine hand, O king.
 
Daniel 3:18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we
will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou
hast set up.
 
Daniel 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form
of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat
the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
 
Daniel 3:20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in
his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast
them into the burning fiery furnace.
 
Daniel 3:21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their
hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast
into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
 
Daniel 3:22 Therefore because the king's commandment was
urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire
slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
 
Daniel 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace.
 
Daniel 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose
up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we
cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered
and said unto the king, True, O king.
 
Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose,
walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the
form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
 
Daniel 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the
burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and
come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of
the midst of the fire.
 
Daniel 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the
king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon
whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head
singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire
had passed on them.
 
Daniel 3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the
God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel,
and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed
the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not
serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
 
Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people,
nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God
of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and
their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other
God that can deliver after this sort.
 
Daniel 3:30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, in the province of Babylon.
 
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations,
and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied
unto you.
 
Daniel 4:2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that
the high God hath wrought toward me.
 
Daniel 4:3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his
wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion
is from generation to generation.
 
Daniel 4:4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and
flourishing in my palace:
 
Daniel 4:5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts
upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
 
Daniel 4:6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise
men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the
interpretation of the dream.
 
Daniel 4:7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them;
but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
 
Daniel 4:8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name
was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is
the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream,
saying,
 
Daniel 4:9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I
know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret
troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen,
and the interpretation thereof.
 
Daniel 4:10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I
saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height
thereof was great.
 
Daniel 4:11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height
thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of
all the earth:
 
Daniel 4:12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof
much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had
shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs
thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
 
Daniel 4:13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and,
behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
 
Daniel 4:14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree,
and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his
fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from
his branches:
 
Daniel 4:15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the
earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of
the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his
portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
 
Daniel 4:16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a
beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over
him.
 
Daniel 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and
the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the
living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men,
and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the
basest of men.
 
Daniel 4:18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now
thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof,
forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make
known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the
spirit of the holy gods is in thee.
 
Daniel 4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was
astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king
spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the
interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and
said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the
interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
 
Daniel 4:20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was
strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight
thereof to all the earth;
 
Daniel 4:21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much,
and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field
dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their
habitation:
 
Daniel 4:22 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become
strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and
thy dominion to the end of the earth.
 
Daniel 4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one
coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and
destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the
earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of
the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his
portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass
over him;
 
Daniel 4:24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the
decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
 
Daniel 4:25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy
dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall
make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the
dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou
know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth
it to whomsoever he will.
 
Daniel 4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of
the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that
thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
 
Daniel 4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable
unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine
iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a
lengthening of thy tranquillity.
 
Daniel 4:28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
 
Daniel 4:29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace
of the kingdom of Babylon.
 
Daniel 4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great
Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the
might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
 
Daniel 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell
a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is
spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
 
Daniel 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy
dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make
thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee,
until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men,
and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
 
Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon
Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as
oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs
were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds'
claws.
 
Daniel 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted
up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto
me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him
that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
 
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of
heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay
his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
 
Daniel 4:36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and
for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned
unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I
was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added
unto me.
 
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour
the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways
judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
 
Daniel 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand
of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
 
Daniel 5:2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to
bring the golden and silver vessels which his father
Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in
Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his
concubines, might drink therein.
 
Daniel 5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken
out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and
the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank
in them.
 
Daniel 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and
of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
 
Daniel 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand,
and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the
wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand
that wrote.
 
Daniel 5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his
thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were
loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
 
Daniel 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers,
the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said
to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing,
and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with
scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be
the third ruler in the kingdom.
 
Daniel 5:8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could
not read the writing, nor make known to the king the
interpretation thereof.
 
Daniel 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his
countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
 
Daniel 5:10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king
and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake
and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble
thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
 
Daniel 5:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the
spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and
understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found
in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say,
thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans,
and soothsayers;
 
Daniel 5:12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge,
and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard
sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same
Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be
called, and he will shew the interpretation.
 
Daniel 5:13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the
king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art
of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my
father brought out of Jewry?
 
Daniel 5:14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the
gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent
wisdom is found in thee.
 
Daniel 5:15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been
brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and
make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not
shew the interpretation of the thing:
 
Daniel 5:16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make
interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the
writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou
shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy
neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
 
Daniel 5:17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let
thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I
will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the
interpretation.
 
Daniel 5:18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar
thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
 
Daniel 5:19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people,
nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he
would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would
he set up; and whom he would he put down.
 
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind
hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and
they took his glory from him:
 
Daniel 5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his
heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the
wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was
wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God
ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it
whomsoever he will.
 
Daniel 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled
thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
 
Daniel 5:23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of
heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before
thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines,
have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of
silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not,
nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and
whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
 
Daniel 5:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and
this writing was written.
 
Daniel 5:25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE,
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
 
Daniel 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God
hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
 
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art
found wanting.
 
Daniel 5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the
Medes and Persians.
 
Daniel 5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel
with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a
proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in
the kingdom.
 
Daniel 5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the
Chaldeans slain.
 
Daniel 5:31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about
threescore and two years old.
 
Daniel 6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred
and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
 
Daniel 6:2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was
first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the
king should have no damage.
 
Daniel 6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents
and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king
thought to set him over the whole realm.
 
Daniel 6:4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find
occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could
find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful,
neither was there any error or fault found in him.
 
Daniel 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion
against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the
law of his God.
 
Daniel 6:6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together
to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
 
Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors,
and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have
consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a
firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or
man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into
the den of lions.
 
Daniel 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the
writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the
Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
 
Daniel 6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the
decree.
 
Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed,
he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber
toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day,
and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
 
Daniel 6:11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying
and making supplication before his God.
 
Daniel 6:12 Then they came near, and spake before the king
concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that
every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within
thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of
lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according
to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
 
Daniel 6:13 Then answered they and said before the king, That
Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah,
regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed,
but maketh his petition three times a day.
 
Daniel 6:14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore
displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver
him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver
him.
 
Daniel 6:15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said
unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and
Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king
establisheth may be changed.
 
Daniel 6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel,
and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said
unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will
deliver thee.
 
Daniel 6:17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of
the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the
signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed
concerning Daniel.
 
Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the
night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before
him: and his sleep went from him.
 
Daniel 6:19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and
went in haste unto the den of lions.
 
Daniel 6:20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a
lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to
Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom
thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
 
Daniel 6:21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for
ever.
 
Daniel 6:22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the
lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before
him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have
I done no hurt.
 
Daniel 6:23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and
commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So
Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was
found upon him, because he believed in his God.
 
Daniel 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men
which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of
lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had
the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever
they came at the bottom of the den.
 
Daniel 6:25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations,
and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied
unto you.
 
Daniel 6:26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my
kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is
the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which
shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the
end.
 
Daniel 6:27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs
and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel
from the power of the lions.
 
Daniel 6:28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius,
and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
 
Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon
Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he
wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
 
Daniel 7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night,
and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great
sea.
 
Daniel 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse
one from another.
 
Daniel 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I
beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up
from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a
man's heart was given to it.
 
Daniel 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear,
and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the
mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it,
Arise, devour much flesh.
 
Daniel 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard,
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had
also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
 
Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and
it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and
stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from
all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
 
Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up
among them another little horn, before whom there were three of
the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this
horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things.
 
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the
Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the
hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the
fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
 
Daniel 7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before
him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and
the books were opened.
 
Daniel 7:11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great
words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was
slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
 
Daniel 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had
their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a
season and time.
 
Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like
the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
 
Daniel 7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a
kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve
him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not
pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
 
Daniel 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of
my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
 
Daniel 7:16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and
asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know
the interpretation of the things.
 
Daniel 7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings,
which shall arise out of the earth.
 
Daniel 7:18 But the saints of the most High shall take the
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and
ever.
 
Daniel 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast,
which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose
teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake
in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
 
Daniel 7:20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of
the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that
horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things,
whose look was more stout than his fellows.
 
Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the
saints, and prevailed against them;
 
Daniel 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was
given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom.
 
Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth
kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break
it in pieces.
 
Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings
that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall
be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
 
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most
High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think
to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and the dividing of time.
 
Daniel 7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take
away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
 
Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of
the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people
of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
 
Daniel 7:28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me
Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance
changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
 
Daniel 8:1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a
vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which
appeared unto me at the first.
 
Daniel 8:2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I
saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the
province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river
of Ulai.
 
Daniel 8:3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold,
there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the
two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the
higher came up last.
 
Daniel 8:4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and
southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was
there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did
according to his will, and became great.
 
Daniel 8:5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came
from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the
ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
 
Daniel 8:6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I
had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury
of his power.
 
Daniel 8:7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was
moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his
two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him,
but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and
there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
 
Daniel 8:8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he
was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four
notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
 
Daniel 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn,
which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the
east, and toward the pleasant land.
 
Daniel 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and
it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and
stamped upon them.
 
Daniel 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the
host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the
place of the sanctuary was cast down.
 
Daniel 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily
sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth
to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
 
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint
said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the
vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of
desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden
under foot?
 
Daniel 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three
hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
 
Daniel 8:15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had
seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there
stood before me as the appearance of a man.
 
Daniel 8:16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of
Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to
understand the vision.
 
Daniel 8:17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I
was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me,
Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the
vision.
 
Daniel 8:18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep
sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me
upright.
 
Daniel 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what
shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time
appointed the end shall be.
 
Daniel 8:20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the
kings of Media and Persia.
 
Daniel 8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the
great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
 
Daniel 8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for
it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in
his power.
 
Daniel 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the
transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance,
and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
 
Daniel 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own
power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and
practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
 
Daniel 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to
prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart,
and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against
the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
 
Daniel 8:26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which
was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall
be for many days.
 
Daniel 8:27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days;
afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was
astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
 
Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of
the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the
Chaldeans;
 
Daniel 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood
by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD
came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy
years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
 
Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by
prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
 
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my
confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping
the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that
keep his commandments;
 
Daniel 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and
have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy
precepts and from thy judgments:
 
Daniel 9:6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the
prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and
our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
 
Daniel 9:7 O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto
us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are
near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither
thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have
trespassed against thee.
 
Daniel 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our
kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned
against thee.
 
Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
 
Daniel 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants
the prophets.
 
Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by
departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the
curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law
of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
 
Daniel 9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake
against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing
upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been
done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
 
Daniel 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil
is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our
God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy
truth.
 
Daniel 9:14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and
brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his
works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
 
Daniel 9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy
people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and
hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have
done wickedly.
 
Daniel 9:16 O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I
beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from
thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and
for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are
become a reproach to all that are about us.
 
Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy
servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon
thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
 
Daniel 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine
eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by
thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for
our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
 
Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and
do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy
people are called by thy name.
 
Daniel 9:20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and
confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting
my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of
my God;
 
Daniel 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being
caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening
oblation.
 
Daniel 9:22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O
Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
 
Daniel 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the
commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art
greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider
the vision.
 
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and
upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an
end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to
bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and
prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
 
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto
the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and
two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in
troublous times.
 
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be
cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that
shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end
thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined.
 
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one
week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice
and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate.
 
Daniel 10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing
was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and
the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he
understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
 
Daniel 10:2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full
weeks.
 
Daniel 10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor
wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three
whole weeks were fulfilled.
 
Daniel 10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first
month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is
Hiddekel;
 
Daniel 10:5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold
a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine
gold of Uphaz:
 
Daniel 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as
the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and
his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the
voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
 
Daniel 10:7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that
were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon
them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
 
Daniel 10:8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great
vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness
was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
 
Daniel 10:9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I
heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my
face, and my face toward the ground.
 
Daniel 10:10 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon
my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
 
Daniel 10:11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly
beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand
upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this
word unto me, I stood trembling.
 
Daniel 10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from
the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and
to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am
come for thy words.
 
Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood
me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of
Persia.
 
Daniel 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall
befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for
many days.
 
Daniel 10:15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set
my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
 
Daniel 10:16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons
of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and
said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my
sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
 
Daniel 10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with
this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no
strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
 
Daniel 10:18 Then there came again and touched me one like the
appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
 
Daniel 10:19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace
be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken
unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for
thou hast strengthened me.
 
Daniel 10:20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto
thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia:
and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
 
Daniel 10:21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the
scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in
these things, but Michael your prince.
 
Daniel 11:1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even
I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
 
Daniel 11:2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there
shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be
far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches
he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
 
Daniel 11:3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule
with great dominion, and do according to his will.
 
Daniel 11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be
broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and
not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he
ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others
beside those.
 
Daniel 11:5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one
of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have
dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
 
Daniel 11:6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves
together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the
king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain
the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but
she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that
begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
 
Daniel 11:7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up
in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter
into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal
against them, and shall prevail:
 
Daniel 11:8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their
gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of
silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the
king of the north.
 
Daniel 11:9 So the king of the south shall come into his
kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
 
Daniel 11:10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall
assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly
come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and
be stirred up, even to his fortress.
 
Daniel 11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with
choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the
king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but
the multitude shall be given into his hand.
 
Daniel 11:12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his
heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten
thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.
 
Daniel 11:13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall
set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall
certainly come after certain years with a great army and with
much riches.
 
Daniel 11:14 And in those times there shall many stand up
against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people
shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall
fall.
 
Daniel 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a
mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south
shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall
there be any strength to withstand.
 
Daniel 11:16 But he that cometh against him shall do according
to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall
stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
 
Daniel 11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the
strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus
shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women,
corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be
for him.
 
Daniel 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles,
and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause
the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he
shall cause it to turn upon him.
 
Daniel 11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his
own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
 
Daniel 11:20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of
taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall
be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
 
Daniel 11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to
whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall
come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
 
Daniel 11:22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be
overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the
prince of the covenant.
 
Daniel 11:23 And after the league made with him he shall work
deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a
small people.
 
Daniel 11:24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest
places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers
have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among
them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast
his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
 
Daniel 11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage
against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of
the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and
mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast
devices against him.
 
Daniel 11:26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat
shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall
fall down slain.
 
Daniel 11:27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do
mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall
not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
 
Daniel 11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great
riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he
shall do exploits, and return to his own land.
 
Daniel 11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come
toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the
latter.
 
Daniel 11:30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him:
therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation
against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return,
and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
 
Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall
pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily
sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh
desolate.
 
Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall
he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God
shall be strong, and do exploits.
 
Daniel 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall
instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by
captivity, and by spoil, many days.
 
Daniel 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen
with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with
flatteries.
 
Daniel 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to
try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time
of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
 
Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and
he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and
shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall
prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is
determined shall be done.
 
Daniel 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,
nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify
himself above all.
 
Daniel 11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of
forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with
gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
 
Daniel 11:39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a
strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory:
and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the
land for gain.
 
Daniel 11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the
south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against
him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with
many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall
overflow and pass over.
 
Daniel 11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and
many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of
his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of
Ammon.
 
Daniel 11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the
countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
 
Daniel 11:43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold
and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the
Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
 
Daniel 11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north
shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to
destroy, and utterly to make away many.
 
Daniel 11:45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace
between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come
to his end, and none shall help him.
 
Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great
prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there
shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall
be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
 
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt.
 
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness
of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the
stars for ever and ever.
 
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the
book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased.
 
Daniel 12:5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood
other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the
other on that side of the bank of the river.
 
Daniel 12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was
upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of
these wonders?
 
Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was
upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and
his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever
that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he
shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people,
all these things shall be finished.
 
Daniel 12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O
my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
 
Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are
closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
 
Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried;
but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
understand; but the wise shall understand.
 
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall
be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
 
Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the
thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
 
Daniel 12:13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
 
Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of
Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings
of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
Israel.
 
Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And
the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great
whoredom, departing from the LORD.
 
Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim;
which conceived, and bare him a son.
 
Hosea 1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel;
for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel
upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of
the house of Israel.
 
Hosea 1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will
break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.
 
Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God
said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have
mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them
away.
 
Hosea 1:7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and
will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by
bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
 
Hosea 1:8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and
bare a son.
 
Hosea 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not
my people, and I will not be your God.
 
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as
the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and
it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto
them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye
are the sons of the living God.
 
Hosea 1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of
Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and
they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of
Jezreel.
 
Hosea 2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
 
Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my
wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her
whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her
breasts;
 
Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day
that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like
a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
 
Hosea 2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they
be the children of whoredoms.
 
Hosea 2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that
conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go
after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and
my flax, mine oil and my drink.
 
Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with
thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
 
Hosea 2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall
not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find
them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first
husband; for then was it better with me than now.
 
Hosea 2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine,
and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared
for Baal.
 
Hosea 2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the
time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover
my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
 
Hosea 2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of
her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
 
Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast
days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
 
Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have
given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the
field shall eat them.
 
Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim,
wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with
her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and
forgat me, saith the LORD.
 
Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her
into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
 
Hosea 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and
the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there,
as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up
out of the land of Egypt.
 
Hosea 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that
thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
 
Hosea 2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her
mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
 
Hosea 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with
the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with
the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and
the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to
lie down safely.
 
Hosea 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I
will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and
in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
 
Hosea 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness:
and thou shalt know the LORD.
 
Hosea 2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear,
saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
earth;
 
Hosea 2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and
the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
 
Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will
have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say
to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they
shall say, Thou art my God.
 
Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman
beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love
of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other
gods, and love flagons of wine.
 
Hosea 3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver,
and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
 
Hosea 3:3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many
days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for
another man: so will I also be for thee.
 
Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days
without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice,
and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
 
Hosea 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and
seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the
LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
 
Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for
the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,
because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the
land.
 
Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing,
and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth
blood.
 
Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that
dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also
shall be taken away.
 
Hosea 4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy
people are as they that strive with the priest.
 
Hosea 4:5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet
also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy
mother.
 
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten
the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
 
Hosea 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
therefore will I change their glory into shame.
 
Hosea 4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their
heart on their iniquity.
 
Hosea 4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I
will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
 
Hosea 4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall
commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left
off to take heed to the LORD.
 
Hosea 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
 
Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their
staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath
caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their
God.
 
Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and
burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms,
because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters
shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
 
Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit
whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for
themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with
harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall
fall.
 
Hosea 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not
Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to
Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
 
Hosea 4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now
the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
 
Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
 
Hosea 4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom
continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
 
Hosea 4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they
shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
 
Hosea 5:1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of
Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is
toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net
spread upon Tabor.
 
Hosea 5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,
though I have been a rebuker of them all.
 
Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for
now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
 
Hosea 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their
God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and
they have not known the LORD.
 
Hosea 5:5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face:
therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah
also shall fall with them.
 
Hosea 5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds
to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn
himself from them.
 
Hosea 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for
they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour
them with their portions.
 
Hosea 5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in
Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
 
Hosea 5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among
the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely
be.
 
Hosea 5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the
bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
 
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because
he willingly walked after the commandment.
 
Hosea 5:12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to
the house of Judah as rottenness.
 
Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his
wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb:
yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
 
Hosea 5:14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young
lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I
will take away, and none shall rescue him.
 
Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they
acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction
they will seek me early.
 
Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath
torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us
up.
 
Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he
will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
 
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD:
his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come
unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the
earth.
 
Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what
shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud,
and as the early dew it goeth away.
 
Hosea 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have
slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the
light that goeth forth.
 
Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the
knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
 
Hosea 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant:
there have they dealt treacherously against me.
 
Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is
polluted with blood.
 
Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the
company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit
lewdness.
 
Hosea 6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of
Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
 
Hosea 6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when
I returned the captivity of my people.
 
Hosea 7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of
Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they
commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of
robbers spoileth without.
 
Hosea 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember
all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about;
they are before my face.
 
Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and
the princes with their lies.
 
Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the
baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough,
until it be leavened.
 
Hosea 7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick
with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
 
Hosea 7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven,
whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in
the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
 
Hosea 7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their
judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that
calleth unto me.
 
Hosea 7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
 
Hosea 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth
it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he
knoweth not.
 
Hosea 7:10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and
they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all
this.
 
Hosea 7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart:
they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
 
Hosea 7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them;
I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will
chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
 
Hosea 7:13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me:
destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me:
though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against
me.
 
Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart,
when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for
corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
 
Hosea 7:15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet
do they imagine mischief against me.
 
Hosea 7:16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like
a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the
rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of
Egypt.
 
Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an
eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have
transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
 
Hosea 8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
 
Hosea 8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the
enemy shall pursue him.
 
Hosea 8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made
princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have
they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
 
Hosea 8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger
is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to
innocency?
 
Hosea 8:6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it;
therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken
in pieces.
 
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so
be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
 
Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the
Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
 
Hosea 8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
 
Hosea 8:10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now
will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden
of the king of princes.
 
Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars
shall be unto him to sin.
 
Hosea 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law,
but they were counted as a strange thing.
 
Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine
offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will
he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall
return to Egypt.
 
Hosea 8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth
temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send
a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
 
Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for
thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward
upon every cornfloor.
 
Hosea 9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and
the new wine shall fail in her.
 
Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim
shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in
Assyria.
 
Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,
neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall
be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall
be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into
the house of the LORD.
 
Hosea 9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of
the feast of the LORD?
 
Hosea 9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt
shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant
places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall
be in their tabernacles.
 
Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of
recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool,
the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity,
and the great hatred.
 
Hosea 9:8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the
prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the
house of his God.
 
Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days
of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will
visit their sins.
 
Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw
your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that
shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
 
Hosea 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a
bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
 
Hosea 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I
bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also
to them when I depart from them!
 
Hosea 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant
place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the
murderer.
 
Hosea 9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
 
Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated
them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of
mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are
revolters.
 
Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they
shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I
slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
 
Hosea 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not
hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
 
Hosea 10:1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit
unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath
increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they
have made goodly images.
 
Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found
faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their
images.
 
Hosea 10:3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we
feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
 
Hosea 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a
covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of
the field.
 
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the
calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it,
and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory
thereof, because it is departed from it.
 
Hosea 10:6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present
to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be
ashamed of his own counsel.
 
Hosea 10:7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon
the water.
 
Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on
their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and
to the hills, Fall on us.
 
Hosea 10:9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah:
there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of
iniquity did not overtake them.
 
Hosea 10:10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and
the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind
themselves in their two furrows.
 
Hosea 10:11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and
loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair
neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob
shall break his clods.
 
Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy;
break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD,
till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
 
Hosea 10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity;
ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy
way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
 
Hosea 10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people,
and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled
Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces
upon her children.
 
Hosea 10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great
wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut
off.
 
Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and
called my son out of Egypt.
 
Hosea 11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they
sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
 
Hosea 11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their
arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
 
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love:
and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws,
and I laid meat unto them.
 
Hosea 11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the
Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
 
Hosea 11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall
consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own
counsels.
 
Hosea 11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me:
though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt
him.
 
Hosea 11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I
deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I
set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings
are kindled together.
 
Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I
will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man;
the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the
city.
 
Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like
a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from
the west.
 
Hosea 11:11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a
dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their
houses, saith the LORD.
 
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the
house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and
is faithful with the saints.
 
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the
east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do
make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into
Egypt.
 
Hosea 12:2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and
will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings
will he recompense him.
 
Hosea 12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by
his strength he had power with God:
 
Hosea 12:4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he
wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and
there he spake with us;
 
Hosea 12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his
memorial.
 
Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and
judgment and wait on thy God continually.
 
Hosea 12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his
hand: he loveth to oppress.
 
Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found
me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity
in me that were sin.
 
Hosea 12:9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of
Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days
of the solemn feast.
 
Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have
multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the
prophets.
 
Hosea 12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are
vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are
as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
 
Hosea 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and
Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
 
Hosea 12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of
Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
 
Hosea 12:14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly:
therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach
shall his LORD return unto him.
 
Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in
Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
 
Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them
molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own
understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of
them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
 
Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as
the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with
the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the
chimney.
 
Hosea 13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt,
and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside
me.
 
Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of
great drought.
 
Hosea 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled;
they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have
they forgotten me.
 
Hosea 13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a
leopard by the way will I observe them:
 
Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her
whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I
devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
 
Hosea 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is
thine help.
 
Hosea 13:10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may
save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst,
Give me a king and princes?
 
Hosea 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away
in my wrath.
 
Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is
hid.
 
Hosea 13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon
him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the
place of the breaking forth of children.
 
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I
will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O
grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from
mine eyes.
 
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east
wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the
wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain
shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant
vessels.
 
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath
rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their
infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child
shall be ripped up.
 
Hosea 14:1 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou
hast fallen by thine iniquity.
 
Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto
him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will
we render the calves of our lips.
 
Hosea 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon
horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye
are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
 
Hosea 14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them
freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
 
Hosea 14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as
the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
 
Hosea 14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be
as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
 
Hosea 14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they
shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof
shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
 
Hosea 14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with
idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir
tree. From me is thy fruit found.
 
Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?
prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are
right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors
shall fall therein.
 
Joel 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
Pethuel.
 
Joel 1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye
inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in
the days of your fathers?
 
Joel 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children
tell their children, and their children another generation.
 
Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust
eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm
eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the
caterpiller eaten.
 
Joel 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye
drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from
your mouth.
 
Joel 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and
without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath
the cheek teeth of a great lion.
 
Joel 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he
hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof
are made white.
 
Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
 
Joel 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers,
mourn.
 
Joel 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn
is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
 
Joel 1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye
vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the
harvest of the field is perished.
 
Joel 1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth;
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is
withered away from the sons of men.
 
Joel 1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye
ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye
ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering
is withholden from the house of your God.
 
Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather
the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of
the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
 
Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand,
and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
 
Joel 1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
 
Joel 1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is
withered.
 
Joel 1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep
are made desolate.
 
Joel 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath
devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath
burned all the trees of the field.
 
Joel 1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the
rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness.
 
Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for
the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
 
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds
and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains:
a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many
generations.
 
Joel 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and
behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape
them.
 
Joel 2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;
and as horsemen, so shall they run.
 
Joel 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains
shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth
the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
 
Joel 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all
faces shall gather blackness.
 
Joel 2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the
wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways,
and they shall not break their ranks:
 
Joel 2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk
every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they
shall not be wounded.
 
Joel 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run
upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall
enter in at the windows like a thief.
 
Joel 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall
tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining:
 
Joel 2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army:
for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his
word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who
can abide it?
 
Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to
me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
with mourning:
 
Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
 
Joel 2:14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a
blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering
unto the LORD your God?
 
Joel 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a
solemn assembly:
 
Joel 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the
breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the
bride out of her closet.
 
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the
heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among
the people, Where is their God?
 
Joel 2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity
his people.
 
Joel 2:19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people,
Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be
satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among
the heathen:
 
Joel 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,
and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face
toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea,
and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up,
because he hath done great things.
 
Joel 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD
will do great things.
 
Joel 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the
pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her
fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
 
Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the
LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately,
and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first month.
 
Joel 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats
shall overflow with wine and oil.
 
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust
hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the
palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
 
Joel 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and
praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously
with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
 
Joel 2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people
shall never be ashamed.
 
Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:
 
Joel 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in
those days will I pour out my spirit.
 
Joel 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
 
Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon
into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
 
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call
on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and
in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in
the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
 
Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I
shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
 
Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them
there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
 
Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given
a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might
drink.
 
Joel 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and
Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a
recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I
return your recompence upon your own head;
 
Joel 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have
carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
 
Joel 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of
Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove
them far from their border.
 
Joel 3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye
have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own
head:
 
Joel 3:8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the
hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the
Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
 
Joel 3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake
up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them
come up:
 
Joel 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your
pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
 
Joel 3:11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and
gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty
ones to come down, O LORD.
 
Joel 3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen
round about.
 
Joel 3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come,
get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their
wickedness is great.
 
Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for
the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
 
Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining.
 
Joel 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his
voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake:
but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of
the children of Israel.
 
Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling
in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and
there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
 
Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with
milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall
water the valley of Shittim.
 
Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of
Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
 
Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from
generation to generation.
 
Joel 3:21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not
cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
 
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa,
which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of
Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of
Israel, two years before the earthquake.
 
Amos 1:2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter
his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds
shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
 
Amos 1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment
thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing
instruments of iron:
 
Amos 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which
shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
 
Amos 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the
sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go
into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 1:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza,
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver
them up to Edom:
 
Amos 1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which
shall devour the palaces thereof:
 
Amos 1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him
that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand
against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Amos 1:9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and
remembered not the brotherly covenant:
 
Amos 1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which
shall devour the palaces thereof.
 
Amos 1:11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast
off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his
wrath for ever:
 
Amos 1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour
the palaces of Bozrah.
 
Amos 1:13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the
children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with
child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
 
Amos 1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and
it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of
battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
 
Amos 1:15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his
princes together, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 2:1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab,
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
 
Amos 2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour
the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with
shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
 
Amos 2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,
and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept
his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the
which their fathers have walked:
 
Amos 2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour
the palaces of Jerusalem.
 
Amos 2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment
thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor
for a pair of shoes;
 
Amos 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of
the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his
father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
 
Amos 2:8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to
pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned
in the house of their god.
 
Amos 2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height
was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
 
Amos 2:10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led
you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of
the Amorite.
 
Amos 2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of
your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children
of Israel? saith the LORD.
 
Amos 2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
 
Amos 2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed
that is full of sheaves.
 
Amos 2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and
the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the
mighty deliver himself:
 
Amos 2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he
that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he
that rideth the horse deliver himself.
 
Amos 2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee
away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 3:1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you,
O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up
from the land of Egypt, saying,
 
Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the
earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
 
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
 
Amos 3:4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey?
will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
 
Amos 3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no
gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and
have taken nothing at all?
 
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath
not done it?
 
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.
 
Amos 3:8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD
hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
 
Amos 3:9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces
in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the
mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst
thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
 
Amos 3:10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who
store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
 
Amos 3:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there
shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy
strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
 
Amos 3:12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of
the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall
the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the
corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
 
Amos 3:13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the
Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
 
Amos 3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions
of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and
the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
 
Amos 3:15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer
house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses
shall have an end, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the
mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the
needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
 
Amos 4:2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the
days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks,
and your posterity with fishhooks.
 
Amos 4:3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that
which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace,
saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your
tithes after three years:
 
Amos 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and
proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O
ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
 
Amos 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all
your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye
not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when
there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to
rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city:
one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not
withered.
 
Amos 4:8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to
drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your
gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive
trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner
of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have
taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps
to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the
burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and
because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O
Israel.
 
Amos 4:13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth
the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh
the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
 
Amos 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a
lamentation, O house of Israel.
 
Amos 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more
rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her
up.
 
Amos 5:3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by
a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by
an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
 
Amos 5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek
ye me, and ye shall live:
 
Amos 5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass
not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and
Bethel shall come to nought.
 
Amos 5:6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out
like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be
none to quench it in Bethel.
 
Amos 5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off
righteousness in the earth,
 
Amos 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and
turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day
dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and
poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his
name:
 
Amos 5:9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so
that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
 
Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they
abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
 
Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the
poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses
of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted
pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
 
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your
mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they
turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
 
Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that
time; for it is an evil time.
 
Amos 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the
LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
 
Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish
judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will
be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
 
Amos 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith
thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all
the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
 
Amos 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will
pass through thee, saith the LORD.
 
Amos 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what
end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not
light.
 
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him;
or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a
serpent bit him.
 
Amos 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
 
Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not
smell in your solemn assemblies.
 
Amos 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat
offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the
peace offerings of your fat beasts.
 
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I
will not hear the melody of thy viols.
 
Amos 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and
righteousness as a mighty stream.
 
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in
the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
 
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves.
 
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
 
Amos 6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the
mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to
whom the house of Israel came!
 
Amos 6:2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to
Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be
they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than
your border?
 
Amos 6:3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat
of violence to come near;
 
Amos 6:4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves
upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the
calves out of the midst of the stall;
 
Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to
themselves instruments of musick, like David;
 
Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with
the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction
of Joseph.
 
Amos 6:7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first
that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched
themselves shall be removed.
 
Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the
God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his
palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is
therein.
 
Amos 6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in
one house, that they shall die.
 
Amos 6:10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that
burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall
say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any
with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy
tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
 
Amos 6:11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite
the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
 
Amos 6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there
with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit
of righteousness into hemlock:
 
Amos 6:13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say,
Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
 
Amos 6:14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O
house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall
afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the
wilderness.
 
Amos 7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he
formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the
latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's
mowings.
 
Amos 7:2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of
eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I
beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
 
Amos 7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the
LORD.
 
Amos 7:4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold,
the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great
deep, and did eat up a part.
 
Amos 7:5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by
whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
 
Amos 7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be,
saith the Lord GOD.
 
Amos 7:7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a
wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
 
Amos 7:8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And
I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a
plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass
by them any more:
 
Amos 7:9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and
the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise
against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
 
Amos 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam
king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the
midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all
his words.
 
Amos 7:11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own
land.
 
Amos 7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee
thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and
prophesy there:
 
Amos 7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is
the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
 
Amos 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no
prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and
a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
 
Amos 7:15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the
LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
 
Amos 7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou
sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word
against the house of Isaac.
 
Amos 7:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an
harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by
the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt
die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity
forth of his land.
 
Amos 8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a
basket of summer fruit.
 
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A
basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is
come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any
more.
 
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that
day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every
place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
 
Amos 8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to
make the poor of the land to fail,
 
Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may
sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making
the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the
balances by deceit?
 
Amos 8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for
a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
 
Amos 8:7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely
I will never forget any of their works.
 
Amos 8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one
mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a
flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of
Egypt.
 
Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord
GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will
darken the earth in the clear day:
 
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all
your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon
all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as
the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
 
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I
will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
 
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the
north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the
word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
 
Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men
faint for thirst.
 
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy
god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even
they shall fall, and never rise up again.
 
Amos 9:1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said,
Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut
them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them
with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and
he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
 
Amos 9:2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take
them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them
down:
 
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel,
I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid
from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the
serpent, and he shall bite them:
 
Amos 9:4 And though they go into captivity before their
enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them:
and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
 
Amos 9:5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the
land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn:
and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned,
as by the flood of Egypt.
 
Amos 9:6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and
hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the
waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the
earth: The LORD is his name.
 
Amos 9:7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O
children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel
out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and
the Syrians from Kir?
 
Amos 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful
kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth;
saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith
the LORD.
 
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of
Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet
shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
 
Amos 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
 
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David
that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will
raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
 
Amos 9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all
the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that
doeth this.
 
Amos 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the
plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him
that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and
all the hills shall melt.
 
Amos 9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of
Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they
shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
 
Amos 9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall
no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,
saith the LORD thy God. 
 
Obadiah 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD
concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an
ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise
up against her in battle.
 
Obadiah 1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen:
thou art greatly despised.
 
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou
that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is
high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the
ground?
 
Obadiah 1:4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though
thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down,
saith the LORD.
 
Obadiah 1:5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how
art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had
enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave
some grapes?
 
Obadiah 1:6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are
his hidden things sought up!
 
Obadiah 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee
even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have
deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; that they eat thy
bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding
in him.
 
Obadiah 1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even
destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the
mount of Esau?
 
Obadiah 1:9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to
the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by
slaughter.
 
Obadiah 1:10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame
shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
 
Obadiah 1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side,
in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces,
and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
 
Obadiah 1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of
thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither
shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the
day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken
proudly in the day of distress.
 
Obadiah 1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of
my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not
have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor
have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
 
Obadiah 1:14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway,
to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou
have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of
distress.
 
Obadiah 1:15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the
heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy
reward shall return upon thine own head.
 
Obadiah 1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so
shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink,
and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had
not been.
 
Obadiah 1:17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and
there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions.
 
Obadiah 1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the
house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and
they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not
be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken
it.
 
Obadiah 1:19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of
Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall
possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 
Obadiah 1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of
Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath;
and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall
possess the cities of the south.
 
Obadiah 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge
the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
 
Jonah 1:1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying,
 
Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry
against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
 
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the
presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship
going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down
into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the
LORD.
 
Jonah 1:4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and
there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like
to be broken.
 
Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man
unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into
the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the
sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
 
Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him,
What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be
that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
 
Jonah 1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let
us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon
us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
 
Jonah 1:8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for
whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and
whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art
thou?
 
Jonah 1:9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the
LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry
land.
 
Jonah 1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto
him. Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from
the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
 
Jonah 1:11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee,
that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was
tempestuous.
 
Jonah 1:12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth
into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that
for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
 
Jonah 1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the
land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was
tempestuous against them.
 
Jonah 1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We
beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this
man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD,
hast done as it pleased thee.
 
Jonah 1:15 So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the
sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
 
Jonah 1:16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and
offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
 
Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up
Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and
three nights.
 
Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the
fish's belly,
 
Jonah 2:2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto
the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and
thou heardest my voice.
 
Jonah 2:3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of
the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and
thy waves passed over me.
 
Jonah 2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will
look again toward thy holy temple.
 
Jonah 2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the
depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my
head.
 
Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the
earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought
up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
 
Jonah 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD:
and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
 
Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own
mercy.
 
Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of
thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of
the LORD.
 
Jonah 2:10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out
Jonah upon the dry land.
 
Jonah 3:1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second
time, saying,
 
Jonah 3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach
unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
 
Jonah 3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to
the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of
three days' journey.
 
Jonah 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's
journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh
shall be overthrown.
 
Jonah 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed
a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to
the least of them.
 
Jonah 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose
from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him
with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
 
Jonah 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published
through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let
them not feed, nor drink water:
 
Jonah 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and
cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil
way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
 
Jonah 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn
away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
 
Jonah 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their
evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he
would do unto them; and he did it not.
 
Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very
angry.
 
Jonah 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O
LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?
Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a
gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repentest thee of the evil.
 
Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
 
Jonah 4:4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
 
Jonah 4:5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east
side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in
the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
 
Jonah 4:6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to
come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to
deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the
gourd.
 
Jonah 4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the
next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
 
Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God
prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of
Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,
It is better for me to die than to live.
 
Jonah 4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry
for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto
death.
 
Jonah 4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd,
for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow;
which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
 
Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also
much cattle?
 
Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the
Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
 
Micah 1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that
therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD
from his holy temple.
 
Micah 1:3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place,
and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
 
Micah 1:4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the
valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters
that are poured down a steep place.
 
Micah 1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for
the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of
Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah?
are they not Jerusalem?
 
Micah 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the
field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the
stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the
foundations thereof.
 
Micah 1:7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to
pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire,
and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered
it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of
an harlot.
 
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped
and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning
as the owls.
 
Micah 1:9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto
Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
 
Micah 1:10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in
the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
 
Micah 1:11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy
shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the
mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
 
Micah 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for
good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of
Jerusalem.
 
Micah 1:13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to
the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter
of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
 
Micah 1:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath:
the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
 
Micah 1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of
Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
 
Micah 1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate
children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone
into captivity from thee.
 
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon
their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because
it is in the power of their hand.
 
Micah 2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and
houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house,
even a man and his heritage.
 
Micah 2:3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this
family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your
necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
 
Micah 2:4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you,
and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly
spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he
removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
 
Micah 2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord
by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
 
Micah 2:6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they
shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
 
Micah 2:7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the
spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my
words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
 
Micah 2:8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye
pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by
securely as men averse from war.
 
Micah 2:9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their
pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory
for ever.
 
Micah 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest:
because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore
destruction.
 
Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,
saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he
shall even be the prophet of this people.
 
Micah 2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will
surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as
the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold:
they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
 
Micah 2:13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken
up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and
their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of
them.
 
Micah 3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and
ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know
judgment?
 
Micah 3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off
their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
 
Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their
skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in
pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
 
Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not
hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as
they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
 
Micah 3:5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make
my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he
that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against
him.
 
Micah 3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not
have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not
divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day
shall be dark over them.
 
Micah 3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners
confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no
answer of God.
 
Micah 3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the
LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.
 
Micah 3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of
Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment,
and pervert all equity.
 
Micah 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
iniquity.
 
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests
thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for
money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD
among us? none evil can come upon us.
 
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a
field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the high places of the forest.
 
Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top
of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and
people shall flow unto it.
 
Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let
us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God
of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in
his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
 
Micah 4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke
strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not
lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.
 
Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under
his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of
the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
 
Micah 4:5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his
god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever
and ever.
 
Micah 4:6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that
halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I
have afflicted;
 
Micah 4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her
that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign
over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
 
Micah 4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of
the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first
dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
 
Micah 4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in
thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a
woman in travail.
 
Micah 4:10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of
Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of
the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go
even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD
shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
 
Micah 4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee,
that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
 
Micah 4:12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither
understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the
sheaves into the floor.
 
Micah 4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will
make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou
shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their
gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the
whole earth.
 
Micah 5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops:
he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of
Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
 
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little
among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth
unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have
been from of old, from everlasting.
 
Micah 5:3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that
she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his
brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
 
Micah 5:4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the
LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they
shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the
earth.
 
Micah 5:5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian
shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces,
then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight
principal men.
 
Micah 5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the
sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus
shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our
land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
 
Micah 5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of
many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the
grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of
men.
 
Micah 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles
in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the
forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go
through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can
deliver.
 
Micah 5:9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,
and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
 
Micah 5:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee,
and I will destroy thy chariots:
 
Micah 5:11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw
down all thy strong holds:
 
Micah 5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand;
and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
 
Micah 5:13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy
standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more
worship the work of thine hands.
 
Micah 5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of
thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
 
Micah 5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon
the heathen, such as they have not heard.
 
Micah 6:1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou
before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
 
Micah 6:2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye
strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy
with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
 
Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein
have I wearied thee? testify against me.
 
Micah 6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before
thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
 
Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab
consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from
Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the
LORD.
 
Micah 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow
myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt
offerings, with calves of a year old?
 
Micah 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or
with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn
for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my
soul?
 
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
 
Micah 6:9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of
wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath
appointed it.
 
Micah 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the
house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
 
Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances,
and with the bag of deceitful weights?
 
Micah 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and
the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is
deceitful in their mouth.
 
Micah 6:13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting
thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
 
Micah 6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy
casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take
hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will
I give up to the sword.
 
Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt
tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and
sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
 
Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works
of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I
should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an
hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
 
Micah 7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the
summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no
cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
 
Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there
is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they
hunt every man his brother with a net.
 
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the
prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great
man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
 
Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is
sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy
visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
 
Micah 7:5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a
guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy
bosom.
 
Micah 7:6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter
riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her
mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
 
Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for
the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
 
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I
shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light
unto me.
 
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I
have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute
judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall
behold his righteousness.
 
Micah 7:10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame
shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God?
mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the
mire of the streets.
 
Micah 7:11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that
day shall the decree be far removed.
 
Micah 7:12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from
Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress
even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to
mountain.
 
Micah 7:13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because
of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
 
Micah 7:14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine
heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of
Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of
old.
 
Micah 7:15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land
of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
 
Micah 7:16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their
might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears
shall be deaf.
 
Micah 7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall
move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be
afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
 
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth
iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his
heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he
delighteth in mercy.
 
Micah 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us;
he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins
into the depths of the sea.
 
Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy
to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days
of old.
 
Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of
Nahum the Elkoshite.
 
Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD
revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
 
Nahum 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and
will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the
whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his
feet.
 
Nahum 1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up
all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of
Lebanon languisheth.
 
Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and
the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that
dwell therein.
 
Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can
abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like
fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
 
Nahum 1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of
trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
 
Nahum 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter
end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
 
Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an
utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
 
Nahum 1:10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and
while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as
stubble fully dry.
 
Nahum 1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil
against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
 
Nahum 1:12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and
likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall
pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee
no more.
 
Nahum 1:13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and
will burst thy bonds in sunder.
 
Nahum 1:14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning
thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy
gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will
make thy grave; for thou art vile.
 
Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy
solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more
pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
 
Nahum 2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face:
keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify
thy power mightily.
 
Nahum 2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of
Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied
them out, and marred their vine branches.
 
Nahum 2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant
men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in
the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly
shaken.
 
Nahum 2:4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall
justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem
like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
 
Nahum 2:5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in
their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the
defence shall be prepared.
 
Nahum 2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the
palace shall be dissolved.
 
Nahum 2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be
brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of
doves, tabering upon their breasts.
 
Nahum 2:8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they
shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall
look back.
 
Nahum 2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold:
for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the
pleasant furniture.
 
Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart
melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all
loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
 
Nahum 2:11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the
feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old
lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
 
Nahum 2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps,
and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
and his dens with ravin.
 
Nahum 2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts,
and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall
devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the
earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
 
Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and
robbery; the prey departeth not;
 
Nahum 3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of
the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
chariots.
 
Nahum 3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the
glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great
number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they
stumble upon their corpses:
 
Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the
wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth
nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts.
 
Nahum 3:5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts;
and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the
nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
 
Nahum 3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make
thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
 
Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look
upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste:
who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
 
Nahum 3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate
among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose
rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
 
Nahum 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was
infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
 
Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity:
her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all
the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all
her great men were bound in chains.
 
Nahum 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou
also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
 
Nahum 3:12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with
the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into
the mouth of the eater.
 
Nahum 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women:
the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies:
the fire shall devour thy bars.
 
Nahum 3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong
holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the
brickkiln.
 
Nahum 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall
cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make
thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
 
Nahum 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars
of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
 
Nahum 3:17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as
the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day,
but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not
known where they are.
 
Nahum 3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles
shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the
mountains, and no man gathereth them.
 
Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is
grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands
over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed
continually?
 
Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
 
Habakkuk 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not
hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
 
Habakkuk 1:3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to
behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and
there are that raise up strife and contention.
 
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth
never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
 
Habakkuk 1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and
wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye
will not believe, though it be told you.
 
Habakkuk 1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and
hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land,
to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
 
Habakkuk 1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and
their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
 
Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards,
and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen
shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far;
they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
 
Habakkuk 1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces
shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the
captivity as the sand.
 
Habakkuk 1:10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the
princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every
strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
 
Habakkuk 1:11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass
over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
 
Habakkuk 1:12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God,
mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them
for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for
correction.
 
Habakkuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and
canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that
deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked
devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
 
Habakkuk 1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the
creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
 
Habakkuk 1:15 They take up all of them with the angle, they
catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore
they rejoice and are glad.
 
Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn
incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat,
and their meat plenteous.
 
Habakkuk 1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not
spare continually to slay the nations?
 
Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the
tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I
shall answer when I am reproved.
 
Habakkuk 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that
readeth it.
 
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but
at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for
it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
 
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright
in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
 
Habakkuk 2:5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is
a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as
hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth
unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
 
Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him,
and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that
increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that
ladeth himself with thick clay!
 
Habakkuk 2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite
thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for
booties unto them?
 
Habakkuk 2:8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the
remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood,
and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that
dwell therein.
 
Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to
his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be
delivered from the power of evil!
 
Habakkuk 2:10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting
off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
 
Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the
beam out of the timber shall answer it.
 
Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
stablisheth a city by iniquity!
 
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the
people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary
themselves for very vanity?
 
Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge
of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
 
Habakkuk 2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,
that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that
thou mayest look on their nakedness!
 
Habakkuk 2:16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou
also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's
right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall
be on thy glory.
 
Habakkuk 2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and
the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's
blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all
that dwell therein.
 
Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker
thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies,
that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
 
Habakkuk 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to
the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over
with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst
of it.
 
Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the
earth keep silence before him.
 
Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
 
Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O
LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of
the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
 
Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount
Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was
full of his praise.
 
Habakkuk 3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns
coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
 
Habakkuk 3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals
went forth at his feet.
 
Habakkuk 3:6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and
drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were
scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
 
Habakkuk 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the
curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
 
Habakkuk 3:8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was
thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea,
that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of
salvation?
 
Habakkuk 3:9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the
oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the
earth with rivers.
 
Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the
overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice,
and lifted up his hands on high.
 
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation:
at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy
glittering spear.
 
Habakkuk 3:12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation,
thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
 
Habakkuk 3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy
people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst
the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the
foundation unto the neck. Selah.
 
Habakkuk 3:14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the
head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me:
their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
 
Habakkuk 3:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine
horses, through the heap of great waters.
 
Habakkuk 3:16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered
at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in
myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh
up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
 
Habakkuk 3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither
shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail,
and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off
from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
 
Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the
God of my salvation.
 
Habakkuk 3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my
feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high
places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
 
Zephaniah 1:1 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah
the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the
son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of
Judah.
 
Zephaniah 1:2 I will utterly consume all things from off the
land, saith the LORD.
 
Zephaniah 1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the
fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling
blocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land,
saith the LORD.
 
Zephaniah 1:4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and
upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the
remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims
with the priests;
 
Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the
housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and
that swear by Malcham;
 
Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and
those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
 
Zephaniah 1:7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD:
for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a
sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
 
Zephaniah 1:8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the
LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's
children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
 
Zephaniah 1:9 In the same day also will I punish all those that
leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with
violence and deceit.
 
Zephaniah 1:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate,
and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the
hills.
 
Zephaniah 1:11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the
merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut
off.
 
Zephaniah 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I
will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are
settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not
do good, neither will he do evil.
 
Zephaniah 1:13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and
their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the
wine thereof.
 
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near,
and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the
mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
 
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness
and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
 
Zephaniah 1:16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the
fenced cities, and against the high towers.
 
Zephaniah 1:17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they
shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the
LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their
flesh as the dung.
 
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be
able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the
whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he
shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the
land.
 
Zephaniah 2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together,
O nation not desired;
 
Zephaniah 2:2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day
pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon
you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
 
Zephaniah 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which
have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it
may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
 
Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a
desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and
Ekron shall be rooted up.
 
Zephaniah 2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the
nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O
Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee,
that there shall be no inhabitant.
 
Zephaniah 2:6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages
for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
 
Zephaniah 2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the
house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of
Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their
God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
 
Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the
revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached
my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
 
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of
Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits,
and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil
them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
 
Zephaniah 2:10 This shall they have for their pride, because
they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people
of the LORD of hosts.
 
Zephaniah 2:11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will
famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him,
every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
 
Zephaniah 2:12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my
sword.
 
Zephaniah 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the
north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation,
and dry like a wilderness.
 
Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her,
all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern
shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in
the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall
uncover the cedar work.
 
Zephaniah 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt
carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none
beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to
lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag
his hand.
 
Zephaniah 3:1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the
oppressing city!
 
Zephaniah 3:2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not
correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her
God.
 
Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her
judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the
morrow.
 
Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons:
her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence
to the law.
 
Zephaniah 3:5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will
not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to
light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
 
Zephaniah 3:6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are
desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their
cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none
inhabitant.
 
Zephaniah 3:7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt
receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off,
howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all
their doings.
 
Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until
the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to
gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour
upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the
earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
 
Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure
language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to
serve him with one consent.
 
Zephaniah 3:10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my
suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine
offering.
 
Zephaniah 3:11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all
thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I
will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy
pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy
mountain.
 
Zephaniah 3:12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an
afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of
the LORD.
 
Zephaniah 3:13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor
speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their
mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them
afraid.
 
Zephaniah 3:14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be
glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
 
Zephaniah 3:15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath
cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in
the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
 
Zephaniah 3:16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear
thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
 
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty;
he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in
his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
 
Zephaniah 3:18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the
solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was
a burden.
 
Zephaniah 3:19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that
afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her
that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every
land where they have been put to shame.
 
Zephaniah 3:20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the
time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise
among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity
before your eyes, saith the LORD. 
 
Haggai 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth
month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD
by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, saying,
 
Haggai 1:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people
say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should
be built.
 
Haggai 1:3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the
prophet, saying,
 
Haggai 1:4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled
houses, and this house lie waste?
 
Haggai 1:5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider
your ways.
 
Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but
ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink;
ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages
earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
 
Haggai 1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
 
Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the
house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,
saith the LORD.
 
Haggai 1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and
when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD
of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every
man unto his own house.
 
Haggai 1:10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew,
and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
 
Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon
the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon
the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon
men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
 
Haggai 1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua
the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the
people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of
Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the
people did fear before the LORD.
 
Haggai 1:13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the
LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the
LORD.
 
Haggai 1:14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua
the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the
remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of
the LORD of hosts, their God,
 
Haggai 1:15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month,
in the second year of Darius the king.
 
Haggai 2:1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day
of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai,
saying,
 
Haggai 2:2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
 
Haggai 2:3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her
first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing?
 
Haggai 2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and
be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be
strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for
I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
 
Haggai 2:5 According to the word that I covenanted with you
when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear
ye not.
 
Haggai 2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a
little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and
the sea, and the dry land;
 
Haggai 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all
nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith
the LORD of hosts.
 
Haggai 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the
LORD of hosts.
 
Haggai 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than
of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I
give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Haggai 2:10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month,
in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai
the prophet, saying,
 
Haggai 2:11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
concerning the law, saying,
 
Haggai 2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment,
and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil,
or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said,
No.
 
Haggai 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead
body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests
answered and said, It shall be unclean.
 
Haggai 2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people,
and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every
work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
 
Haggai 2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and
upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple
of the LORD:
 
Haggai 2:16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of
twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the
pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there
were but twenty.
 
Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with
hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me,
saith the LORD.
 
Haggai 2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the
four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that
the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
 
Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine,
and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath
not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
 
Haggai 2:20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in
the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
 
Haggai 2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I
will shake the heavens and the earth;
 
Haggai 2:22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I
will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I
will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the
horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword
of his brother.
 
Haggai 2:23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take
thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the
LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee,
saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Zechariah 1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of
Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
 
Zechariah 1:2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your
fathers.
 
Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Zechariah 1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former
prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn
ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they
did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
 
Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets,
do they live for ever?
 
Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded
my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers?
and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to
do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings,
so hath he dealt with us.
 
Zechariah 1:7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius,
came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
 
Zechariah 1:8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a
red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the
bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and
white.
 
Zechariah 1:9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the
angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what
these be.
 
Zechariah 1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees
answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk
to and fro through the earth.
 
Zechariah 1:11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that
stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro
through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and
is at rest.
 
Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O
LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and
on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation
these threescore and ten years?
 
Zechariah 1:13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with
me with good words and comfortable words.
 
Zechariah 1:14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me,
Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
 
Zechariah 1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen
that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they
helped forward the affliction.
 
Zechariah 1:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the
LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon
Jerusalem.
 
Zechariah 1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the
LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
 
Zechariah 1:18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold
four horns.
 
Zechariah 1:19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me,
What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have
scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
 
Zechariah 1:20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
 
Zechariah 1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he
spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so
that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray
them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up
their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
 
Zechariah 2:1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and
behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
 
Zechariah 2:2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto
me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and
what is the length thereof.
 
Zechariah 2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went
forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
 
Zechariah 2:4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man,
saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for
the multitude of men and cattle therein:
 
Zechariah 2:5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of
fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
 
Zechariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the
north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four
winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
 
Zechariah 2:7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the
daughter of Babylon.
 
Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory
hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that
toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
 
Zechariah 2:9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them,
and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know
that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
 
Zechariah 2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I
come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
 
Zechariah 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in
that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst
of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me
unto thee.
 
Zechariah 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in
the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
 
Zechariah 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he
is raised up out of his holy habitation.
 
Zechariah 3:1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing
before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right
hand to resist him.
 
Zechariah 3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke
thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke
thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
 
Zechariah 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and
stood before the angel.
 
Zechariah 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood
before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And
unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass
from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
 
Zechariah 3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his
head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him
with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
 
Zechariah 3:6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua,
saying,
 
Zechariah 3:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk
in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also
judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give
thee places to walk among these that stand by.
 
Zechariah 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy
fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for,
behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
 
Zechariah 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before
Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will
engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
 
Zechariah 3:10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye
call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig
tree.
 
Zechariah 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and
waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
 
Zechariah 4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I
have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl
upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes
to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
 
Zechariah 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right
side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
 
Zechariah 4:4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked
with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
 
Zechariah 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and
said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my
lord.
 
Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This
is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might,
nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Zechariah 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel
thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
 
Zechariah 4:8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 
Zechariah 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation
of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt
know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
 
Zechariah 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things?
for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of
Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which
run to and fro through the whole earth.
 
Zechariah 4:11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are
these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and
upon the left side thereof?
 
Zechariah 4:12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be
these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty
the golden oil out of themselves?
 
Zechariah 4:13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not
what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
 
Zechariah 4:14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones,
that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.
 
Zechariah 5:1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and
looked, and behold a flying roll.
 
Zechariah 5:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I
answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty
cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
 
Zechariah 5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that
goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that
stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and
every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side
according to it.
 
Zechariah 5:4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts,
and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the
house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall
remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the
timber thereof and the stones thereof.
 
Zechariah 5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth,
and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this
that goeth forth.
 
Zechariah 5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an
ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their
resemblance through all the earth.
 
Zechariah 5:7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of
lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
 
Zechariah 5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it
into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon
the mouth thereof.
 
Zechariah 5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and,
behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their
wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they
lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
 
Zechariah 5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me,
Whither do these bear the ephah?
 
Zechariah 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the
land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon
her own base.
 
Zechariah 6:1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and
looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between
two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
 
Zechariah 6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the
second chariot black horses;
 
Zechariah 6:3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the
fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
 
Zechariah 6:4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that
talked with me, What are these, my lord?
 
Zechariah 6:5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These
are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing
before the LORD of all the earth.
 
Zechariah 6:6 The black horses which are therein go forth into
the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the
grisled go forth toward the south country.
 
Zechariah 6:7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that
they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get
you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to
and fro through the earth.
 
Zechariah 6:8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying,
Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my
spirit in the north country.
 
Zechariah 6:9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 
Zechariah 6:10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai,
of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come
thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah;
 
Zechariah 6:11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and
set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest;
 
Zechariah 6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the
LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH;
and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the
temple of the LORD:
 
Zechariah 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and
he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne;
and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of
peace shall be between them both.
 
Zechariah 6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to
Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a
memorial in the temple of the LORD.
 
Zechariah 6:15 And they that are far off shall come and build
in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of
hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye
will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
 
Zechariah 7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the
fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
 
Zechariah 7:2 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer
and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
 
Zechariah 7:3 And to speak unto the priests which were in the
house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I
weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these
so many years?
 
Zechariah 7:4 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me,
saying,
 
Zechariah 7:5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the
priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and
seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto
me, even to me?
 
Zechariah 7:6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did
not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
 
Zechariah 7:7 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath
cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men
inhabited the south and the plain?
 
Zechariah 7:8 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah,
saying,
 
Zechariah 7:9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute
true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his
brother:
 
Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless,
the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil
against his brother in your heart.
 
Zechariah 7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the
shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
 
Zechariah 7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone,
lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of
hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore
came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
 
Zechariah 7:13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried,
and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear,
saith the LORD of hosts:
 
Zechariah 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all
the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after
them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.
 
Zechariah 8:1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me,
saying,
 
Zechariah 8:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for
Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great
fury.
 
Zechariah 8:3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and
will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be
called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the
holy mountain.
 
Zechariah 8:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old
men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every
man with his staff in his hand for very age.
 
Zechariah 8:5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys
and girls playing in the streets thereof.
 
Zechariah 8:6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous
in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should
it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Zechariah 8:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save
my people from the east country, and from the west country;
 
Zechariah 8:8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in
the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will
be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
 
Zechariah 8:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be
strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of
the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the
house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be
built.
 
Zechariah 8:10 For before these days there was no hire for man,
nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that
went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men
every one against his neighbour.
 
Zechariah 8:11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this
people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Zechariah 8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall
give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the
heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of
this people to possess all these things.
 
Zechariah 8:13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a
curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel;
so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let
your hands be strong.
 
Zechariah 8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought
to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the
LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
 
Zechariah 8:15 So again have I thought in these days to do well
unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
 
Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye
every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of
truth and peace in your gates:
 
Zechariah 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts
against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are
things that I hate, saith the LORD.
 
Zechariah 8:18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me,
saying,
 
Zechariah 8:19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the
fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the
seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of
Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the
truth and peace.
 
Zechariah 8:20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come
to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of
many cities:
 
Zechariah 8:21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to
another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and
to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
 
Zechariah 8:22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come
to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the
LORD.
 
Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it
shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all
languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of
him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard
that God is with you.
 
Zechariah 9:1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of
Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of
man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
 
Zechariah 9:2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and
Zidon, though it be very wise.
 
Zechariah 9:3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and
heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the
streets.
 
Zechariah 9:4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will
smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
 
Zechariah 9:5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall
see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation
shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
 
Zechariah 9:6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will
cut off the pride of the Philistines.
 
Zechariah 9:7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that
remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a
governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
 
Zechariah 9:8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the
army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that
returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for
now have I seen with mine eyes.
 
Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is
just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and
upon a colt the foal of an ass.
 
Zechariah 9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and
the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off:
and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall
be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of
the earth.
 
Zechariah 9:11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I
have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
 
Zechariah 9:12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of
hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto
thee;
 
Zechariah 9:13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow
with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O
Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
 
Zechariah 9:14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his
arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall
blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
 
Zechariah 9:15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they
shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink,
and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like
bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
 
Zechariah 9:16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that
day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones
of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
 
Zechariah 9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is
his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine
the maids.
 
Zechariah 10:1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the
latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them
showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
 
Zechariah 10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the
diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they
comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they
were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
 
Zechariah 10:3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds,
and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his
flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse
in the battle.
 
Zechariah 10:4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the
nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor
together.
 
Zechariah 10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread
down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and
they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders
on horses shall be confounded.
 
Zechariah 10:6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I
will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to
place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as
though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and
will hear them.
 
Zechariah 10:7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man,
and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their
children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in
the LORD.
 
Zechariah 10:8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I
have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have
increased.
 
Zechariah 10:9 And I will sow them among the people: and they
shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with
their children, and turn again.
 
Zechariah 10:10 I will bring them again also out of the land of
Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into
the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for
them.
 
Zechariah 10:11 And he shall pass through the sea with
affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the
deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall
be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
 
Zechariah 10:12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and
they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
 
Zechariah 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may
devour thy cedars.
 
Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because
the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest
of the vintage is come down.
 
Zechariah 11:3 There is a voice of the howling of the
shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of
young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
 
Zechariah 11:4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of
the slaughter;
 
Zechariah 11:5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves
not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for
I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
 
Zechariah 11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the
land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one
into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and
they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not
deliver them.
 
Zechariah 11:7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even
you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one
I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the
flock.
 
Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and
my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
 
Zechariah 11:9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that
dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut
off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
 
Zechariah 11:10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it
asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all
the people.
 
Zechariah 11:11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor
of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the
LORD.
 
Zechariah 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me
my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price
thirty pieces of silver.
 
Zechariah 11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the
potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took
the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the
house of the LORD.
 
Zechariah 11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even
Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and
Israel.
 
Zechariah 11:15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet
the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
 
Zechariah 11:16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the
land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall
seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that
that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and
tear their claws in pieces.
 
Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the
flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye:
his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be
utterly darkened.
 
Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel,
saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth
the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within
him.
 
Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege
both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
 
Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with
it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be
gathered together against it.
 
Zechariah 12:4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every
horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will
open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every
horse of the people with blindness.
 
Zechariah 12:5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their
heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the
LORD of hosts their God.
 
Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah
like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire
in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on
the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
 
Zechariah 12:7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah
first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
 
Zechariah 12:8 In that day shall the LORD defend the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at
that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as
God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
 
Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
 
Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
 
Zechariah 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddon.
 
Zechariah 12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart;
the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
 
Zechariah 12:13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and
their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives
apart;
 
Zechariah 12:14 All the families that remain, every family
apart, and their wives apart.
 
Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to
the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin
and for uncleanness.
 
Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of
the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will
cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the
land.
 
Zechariah 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall
yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall
say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the
name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him
shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
 
Zechariah 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath
prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
 
Zechariah 13:5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an
husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
 
Zechariah 13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these
wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I
was wounded in the house of my friends.
 
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against
the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the
shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine
hand upon the little ones.
 
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but
the third shall be left therein.
 
Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the
fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try
them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will
hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The
LORD is my God.
 
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy
spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
 
Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem
to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled,
and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into
captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off
from the city.
 
Zechariah 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against
those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
 
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the
mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the
mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east
and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and
half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of
it toward the south.
 
Zechariah 14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:
yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in
the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come,
and all the saints with thee.
 
Zechariah 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
light shall not be clear, nor dark:
 
Zechariah 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to
the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at
evening time it shall be light.
 
Zechariah 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters
shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea,
and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter
shall it be.
 
Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth:
in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
 
Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from
Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and
inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of
the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of
Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
 
Zechariah 14:11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be
no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely
inhabited.
 
Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD
will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem;
Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
 
Zechariah 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a
great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall
lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand
shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
 
Zechariah 14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and
the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered
together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
 
Zechariah 14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the
mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that
shall be in these tents, as this plague.
 
Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that
is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall
even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
 
Zechariah 14:17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of
all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
 
Zechariah 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come
not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the
LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
 
Zechariah 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the
punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
 
Zechariah 14:20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of
the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's
house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
 
Zechariah 14:21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall
be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice
shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day
there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of
hosts.
 
Malachi 1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by
Malachi.
 
Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say,
Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith
the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
 
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his
heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
 
Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we
will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of
hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall
call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom
the LORD hath indignation for ever.
 
Malachi 1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD
will be magnified from the border of Israel.
 
Malachi 1:6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his
master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be
a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O
priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we
despised thy name?
 
Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye
say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of
the LORD is contemptible.
 
Malachi 1:8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not
evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it
now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept
thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be
gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard
your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the
doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for
nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts,
neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
 
Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going
down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and
in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure
offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the
LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table
of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is
contemptible.
 
Malachi 1:13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and
ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought
that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought
an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
 
Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his
flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt
thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my
name is dreadful among the heathen.
 
Malachi 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
 
Malachi 2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to
heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I
will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings:
yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to
heart.
 
Malachi 2:3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung
upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one
shall take you away with it.
 
Malachi 2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment
unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of
hosts.
 
Malachi 2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I
gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was
afraid before my name.
 
Malachi 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was
not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and
did turn many away from iniquity.
 
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and
they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of
the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused
many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of
Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and
base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my
ways, but have been partial in the law.
 
Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God
created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his
brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
 
Malachi 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination
is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned
the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the
daughter of a strange god.
 
Malachi 2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the
master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him
that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 2:13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of
the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch
that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with
good will at your hand.
 
Malachi 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been
witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou
hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife
of thy covenant.
 
Malachi 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of
the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth.
 
Malachi 2:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he
hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment,
saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that
ye deal not treacherously.
 
Malachi 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye
say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that
doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in
them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
 
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall
suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of
hosts.
 
Malachi 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who
shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire,
and like fullers' soap:
 
Malachi 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as
gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in
righteousness.
 
Malachi 3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former
years.
 
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will
be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the
adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me,
saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons
of Jacob are not consumed.
 
Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away
from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and
I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said,
Wherein shall we return?
 
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye
say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
 
Malachi 3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me,
even this whole nation.
 
Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith
the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven,
and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough
to receive it.
 
Malachi 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and
he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall
your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the
LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye
shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the
LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
 
Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what
profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have
walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
 
Malachi 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that
work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.
 
Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to
another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of
remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD,
and that thought upon his name.
 
Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts,
in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a
man spareth his own son that serveth him.
 
Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the
righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him
that serveth him not.
 
Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an
oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the
LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
 
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go
forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
 
Malachi 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall
be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
this, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments.
 
Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
 
Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I
come and smite the earth with a curse.
 
Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son
of David, the son of Abraham.
 
Matthew 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and
Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
 
Matthew 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and
Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
 
Matthew 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat
Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
 
Matthew 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat
Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
 
Matthew 1:6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king
begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
 
Matthew 1:7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia;
and Abia begat Asa;
 
Matthew 1:8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram;
and Joram begat Ozias;
 
Matthew 1:9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz;
and Achaz begat Ezekias;
 
Matthew 1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat
Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
 
Matthew 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about
the time they were carried away to Babylon:
 
Matthew 1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias
begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
 
Matthew 1:13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat
Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
 
Matthew 1:14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and
Achim begat Eliud;
 
Matthew 1:15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat
Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
 
Matthew 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
 
Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are
fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into
Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into
Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
 
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise:
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came
together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
 
Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not
willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away
privily.
 
Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the
angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph,
thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for
that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
 
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt
call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their
sins.
 
Matthew 1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
 
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall
bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which
being interpreted is, God with us.
 
Matthew 1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the
angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
 
Matthew 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her
firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
 
Matthew 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in
the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the
east to Jerusalem,
 
Matthew 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews?
for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship
him.
 
Matthew 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was
troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
 
Matthew 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and
scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ
should be born.
 
Matthew 2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for
thus it is written by the prophet,
 
Matthew 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not
the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a
Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
 
Matthew 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise
men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
 
Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and
search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found
him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
 
Matthew 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and,
lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till
it came and stood over where the young child was.
 
Matthew 2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with
exceeding great joy.
 
Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw
the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and
worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they
presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
 
Matthew 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they
should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country
another way.
 
Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of
the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take
the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou
there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young
child to destroy him.
 
Matthew 2:14 When he arose, he took the young child and his
mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
 
Matthew 2:15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,
saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
 
Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the
wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the
children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof,
from two years old and under, according to the time which he had
diligently enquired of the wise men.
 
Matthew 2:17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy
the prophet, saying,
 
Matthew 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and
weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and
would not be comforted, because they are not.
 
Matthew 2:19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the
Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
 
Matthew 2:20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his
mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which
sought the young child's life.
 
Matthew 2:21 And he arose, and took the young child and his
mother, and came into the land of Israel.
 
Matthew 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in
Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go
thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he
turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
 
Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He
shall be called a Nazarene.
 
Matthew 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in
the wilderness of Judaea,
 
Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand.
 
Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet
Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
 
Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair,
and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts
and wild honey.
 
Matthew 3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and
all the region round about Jordan,
 
Matthew 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing
their sins.
 
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
 
Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
 
Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have
Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of
these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
 
Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the
trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
 
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am
not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and
with fire:
 
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly
purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he
will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
 
Matthew 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto
John, to be baptized of him.
 
Matthew 3:14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be
baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
 
Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be
so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then
he suffered him.
 
Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened
unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and lighting upon him:
 
Matthew 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
 
Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
 
Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,
he was afterward an hungred.
 
Matthew 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou
be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
 
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of God.
 
Matthew 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city,
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
 
Matthew 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast
thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge
concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest
at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
 
Matthew 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou
shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
 
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding
high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and
the glory of them;
 
Matthew 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give
thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
 
Matthew 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan:
for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him
only shalt thou serve.
 
Matthew 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels
came and ministered unto him.
 
Matthew 4:12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into
prison, he departed into Galilee;
 
Matthew 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in
Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon
and Nephthalim:
 
Matthew 4:14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Esaias the prophet, saying,
 
Matthew 4:15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim,
by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
 
Matthew 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light;
and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is
sprung up.
 
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say,
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
 
Matthew 4:18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two
brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a
net into the sea: for they were fishers.
 
Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make
you fishers of men.
 
Matthew 4:20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed
him.
 
Matthew 4:21 And going on from thence, he saw other two
brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a
ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called
them.
 
Matthew 4:22 And they immediately left the ship and their
father, and followed him.
 
Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among
the people.
 
Matthew 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they
brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers
diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with
devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the
palsy; and he healed them.
 
Matthew 4:25 And there followed him great multitudes of people
from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from
Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
 
Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a
mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
 
Matthew 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
 
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be
comforted.
 
Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the
earth.
 
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled.
 
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain
mercy.
 
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see
God.
 
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be
called the children of God.
 
Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for
righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and
persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake.
 
Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your
reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were
before you.
 
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have
lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth
good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under
foot of men.
 
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set
on an hill cannot be hid.
 
Matthew 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a
bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that
are in the house.
 
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may
see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or
the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
 
Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled.
 
Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the
least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach
them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness
shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye
shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old
time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in
danger of the judgment:
 
Matthew 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with
his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger
of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in
danger of hell fire.
 
Matthew 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and
there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
 
Matthew 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy
way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer
thy gift.
 
Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou
art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver
thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and
thou be cast into prison.
 
Matthew 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means
come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
 
Matthew 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old
time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
 
Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a
woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already
in his heart.
 
Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out,
and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of
thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be
cast into hell.
 
Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and
cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast
into hell.
 
Matthew 5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his
wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
 
Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away
his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to
commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
committeth adultery.
 
Matthew 5:33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by
them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt
perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
 
Matthew 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by
heaven; for it is God's throne:
 
Matthew 5:35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither
by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
 
Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou
canst not make one hair white or black.
 
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay:
for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
 
Matthew 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for
an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
 
Matthew 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but
whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
other also.
 
Matthew 5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take
away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
 
Matthew 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go
with him twain.
 
Matthew 5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that
would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
 
Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
 
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
 
Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which
is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on
the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
 
Matthew 5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward
have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
 
Matthew 5:47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye
more than others? do not even the publicans so?
 
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which
is in heaven is perfect.
 
Matthew 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to
be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which
is in heaven.
 
Matthew 6:2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound
a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and
in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say
unto you, They have their reward.
 
Matthew 6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand
know what thy right hand doeth:
 
Matthew 6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father
which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
 
Matthew 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues
and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
 
Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee
openly.
 
Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their
much speaking.
 
Matthew 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
 
Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
 
Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it
is in heaven.
 
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
 
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
debtors.
 
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the
glory, for ever. Amen.
 
Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you:
 
Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
 
Matthew 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites,
of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they
may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward.
 
Matthew 6:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head,
and wash thy face;
 
Matthew 6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto
thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in
secret, shall reward thee openly.
 
Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through
and steal:
 
Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through nor steal:
 
Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.
 
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
 
Matthew 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be
full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be
darkness, how great is that darkness!
 
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will
hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
 
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your
life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and
the body than raiment?
 
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
 
Matthew 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit
unto his stature?
 
Matthew 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do
they spin:
 
Matthew 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
 
Matthew 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the
field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven,
shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
 
Matthew 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we
eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed?
 
Matthew 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these
things.
 
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
 
Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.
 
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
 
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you again.
 
Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own
eye?
 
Matthew 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull
out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine
own eye?
 
Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of
thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the
mote out of thy brother's eye.
 
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither
cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and rend you.
 
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
 
Matthew 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
 
Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask
bread, will he give him a stone?
 
Matthew 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
 
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which
is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
 
Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and
the prophets.
 
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat:
 
Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
 
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
 
Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
 
Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
 
Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither
can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
 
Matthew 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down, and cast into the fire.
 
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
 
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the
will of my Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
 
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew
you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
 
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his
house upon a rock:
 
Matthew 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it
was founded upon a rock.
 
Matthew 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which
built his house upon the sand:
 
Matthew 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great
was the fall of it.
 
Matthew 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these
sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
 
Matthew 7:29 For he taught them as one having authority, and
not as the scribes.
 
Matthew 8:1 When he was come down from the mountain, great
multitudes followed him.
 
Matthew 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
 
Matthew 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him,
saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was
cleansed.
 
Matthew 8:4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but
go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that
Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
 
Matthew 8:5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there
came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
 
Matthew 8:6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of
the palsy, grievously tormented.
 
Matthew 8:7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
 
Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not
worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word
only, and my servant shall be healed.
 
Matthew 8:9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers
under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to
another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he
doeth it.
 
Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to
them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so
great faith, no, not in Israel.
 
Matthew 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the
east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out
into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
 
Matthew 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and
as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant
was healed in the selfsame hour.
 
Matthew 8:14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw
his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
 
Matthew 8:15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her:
and she arose, and ministered unto them.
 
Matthew 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many
that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with
his word, and healed all that were sick:
 
Matthew 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and
bare our sicknesses.
 
Matthew 8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he
gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
 
Matthew 8:19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him,
Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
 
Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes,
and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not
where to lay his head.
 
Matthew 8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord,
suffer me first to go and bury my father.
 
Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the
dead bury their dead.
 
Matthew 8:23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples
followed him.
 
Matthew 8:24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the
sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he
was asleep.
 
Matthew 8:25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
 
Matthew 8:26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye
of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the
sea; and there was a great calm.
 
Matthew 8:27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man
is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
 
Matthew 8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the
country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with
devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man
might pass by that way.
 
Matthew 8:29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we
to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to
torment us before the time?
 
Matthew 8:30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of
many swine feeding.
 
Matthew 8:31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast
us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
 
Matthew 8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come
out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole
herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and
perished in the waters.
 
Matthew 8:33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways
into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the
possessed of the devils.
 
Matthew 8:34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet
Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would
depart out of their coasts.
 
Matthew 9:1 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and
came into his own city.
 
Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the
palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the
sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven
thee.
 
Matthew 9:3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within
themselves, This man blasphemeth.
 
Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore
think ye evil in your hearts?
 
Matthew 9:5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven
thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
 
Matthew 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power
on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the
palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
 
Matthew 9:7 And he arose, and departed to his house.
 
Matthew 9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and
glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
 
Matthew 9:9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a
man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he
saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
 
Matthew 9:10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the
house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with
him and his disciples.
 
Matthew 9:11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his
disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
 
Matthew 9:12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They
that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
 
Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have
mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance.
 
Matthew 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying,
Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
 
Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the
bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but
the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them,
and then shall they fast.
 
Matthew 9:16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old
garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the
garment, and the rent is made worse.
 
Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else
the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles
perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are
preserved.
 
Matthew 9:18 While he spake these things unto them, behold,
there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My
daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her,
and she shall live.
 
Matthew 9:19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his
disciples.
 
Matthew 9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an
issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem
of his garment:
 
Matthew 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch
his garment, I shall be whole.
 
Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her,
he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee
whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
 
Matthew 9:23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and
saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
 
Matthew 9:24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not
dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
 
Matthew 9:25 But when the people were put forth, he went in,
and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
 
Matthew 9:26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that
land.
 
Matthew 9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men
followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy
on us.
 
Matthew 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men
came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able
to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
 
Matthew 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to
your faith be it unto you.
 
Matthew 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly
charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
 
Matthew 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad
his fame in all that country.
 
Matthew 9:32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a
dumb man possessed with a devil.
 
Matthew 9:33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake:
and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in
Israel.
 
Matthew 9:34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils
through the prince of the devils.
 
Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages,
teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the
people.
 
Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered
abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
 
Matthew 9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest
truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
 
Matthew 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he
will send forth labourers into his harvest.
 
Matthew 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve
disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast
them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of
disease.
 
Matthew 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these;
The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother;
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
 
Matthew 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the
publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname
was Thaddaeus;
 
Matthew 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also
betrayed him.
 
Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them,
saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of
the Samaritans enter ye not:
 
Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.
 
Matthew 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
 
Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,
cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
 
Matthew 10:9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in
your purses,
 
Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats,
neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his
meat.
 
Matthew 10:11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter,
enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
 
Matthew 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
 
Matthew 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come
upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
 
Matthew 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear
your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off
the dust of your feet.
 
Matthew 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable
for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than
for that city.
 
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
 
Matthew 10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up
to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
 
Matthew 10:18 And ye shall be brought before governors and
kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
 
Matthew 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how
or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same
hour what ye shall speak.
 
Matthew 10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of
your Father which speaketh in you.
 
Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to
death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up
against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
 
Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
 
Matthew 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye
into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone
over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
 
Matthew 10:24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the
servant above his lord.
 
Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his
master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the
master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them
of his household?
 
Matthew 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing
covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be
known.
 
Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in
light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the
housetops.
 
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are
not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell.
 
Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one
of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
 
Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
 
Matthew 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than
many sparrows.
 
Matthew 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men,
him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will
I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:
I came not to send peace, but a sword.
 
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against
his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter
in law against her mother in law.
 
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own
household.
 
Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is
not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me.
 
Matthew 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth
after me, is not worthy of me.
 
Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he
that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
 
Matthew 10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that
receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
 
Matthew 10:41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a
prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a
righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a
righteous man's reward.
 
Matthew 10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of
these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a
disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his
reward.
 
Matthew 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and
to preach in their cities.
 
Matthew 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of
Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
 
Matthew 11:3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come,
or do we look for another?
 
Matthew 11:4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew
John again those things which ye do hear and see:
 
Matthew 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised
up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
 
Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended
in me.
 
Matthew 11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the
multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness
to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
 
Matthew 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in
soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings'
houses.
 
Matthew 11:9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I
say unto you, and more than a prophet.
 
Matthew 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I
send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way
before thee.
 
Matthew 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born
of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist:
notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is
greater than he.
 
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now
the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it
by force.
 
Matthew 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until
John.
 
Matthew 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which
was for to come.
 
Matthew 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
 
Matthew 11:16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It
is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto
their fellows,
 
Matthew 11:17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have
not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
 
Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and
they say, He hath a devil.
 
Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they
say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of
publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
 
Matthew 11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most
of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
 
Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee,
Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had
been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in
sackcloth and ashes.
 
Matthew 11:22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
 
Matthew 11:23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto
heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works,
which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would
have remained until this day.
 
Matthew 11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for
thee.
 
Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank
thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them
unto babes.
 
Matthew 11:26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy
sight.
 
Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father:
and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any
man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him.
 
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.
 
Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
 
Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
 
Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through
the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck
the ears of corn and to eat.
 
Matthew 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him,
Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the
sabbath day.
 
Matthew 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David
did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
 
Matthew 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat
the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for
them which were with him, but only for the priests?
 
Matthew 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the
sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and
are blameless?
 
Matthew 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one
greater than the temple.
 
Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have
mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the
guiltless.
 
Matthew 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath
day.
 
Matthew 12:9 And when he was departed thence, he went into
their synagogue:
 
Matthew 12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand
withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the
sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
 
Matthew 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be
among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit
on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
 
Matthew 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep?
Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
 
Matthew 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine
hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like
as the other.
 
Matthew 12:14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council
against him, how they might destroy him.
 
Matthew 12:15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from
thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them
all;
 
Matthew 12:16 And charged them that they should not make him
known:
 
Matthew 12:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Esaias the prophet, saying,
 
Matthew 12:18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my
beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit
upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
 
Matthew 12:19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any
man hear his voice in the streets.
 
Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking
flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto
victory.
 
Matthew 12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
 
Matthew 12:22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a
devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the
blind and dumb both spake and saw.
 
Matthew 12:23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not
this the son of David?
 
Matthew 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This
fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of
the devils.
 
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto
them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall
not stand:
 
Matthew 12:26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided
against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
 
Matthew 12:27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do
your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
 
Matthew 12:28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God,
then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
 
Matthew 12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's
house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?
and then he will spoil his house.
 
Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
 
Matthew 12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against
the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
 
Matthew 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of
man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the
Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world,
neither in the world to come.
 
Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or
else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree
is known by his fruit.
 
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil,
speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh.
 
Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart
bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil
treasure bringeth forth evil things.
 
Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment.
 
Matthew 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by
thy words thou shalt be condemned.
 
Matthew 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees
answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
 
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no
sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
 
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in
the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth.
 
Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at
the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is
here.
 
Matthew 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the
judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came
from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of
Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
 
Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he
walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
 
Matthew 12:44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from
whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty,
swept, and garnished.
 
Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven
other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and
dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the
first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
 
Matthew 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his
mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with
him.
 
Matthew 12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and
thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
 
Matthew 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him,
Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
 
Matthew 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his
disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
 
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and
mother.
 
Matthew 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat
by the sea side.
 
Matthew 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto
him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole
multitude stood on the shore.
 
Matthew 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables,
saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
 
Matthew 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way
side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
 
Matthew 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not
much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no
deepness of earth:
 
Matthew 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and
because they had no root, they withered away.
 
Matthew 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung
up, and choked them:
 
Matthew 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth
fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
 
Matthew 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
 
Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why
speakest thou unto them in parables?
 
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is
given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
but to them it is not given.
 
Matthew 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he
shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall
be taken away even that he hath.
 
Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because
they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand.
 
Matthew 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias,
which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand;
and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
 
Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their
ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest
at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their
ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them.
 
Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your
ears, for they hear.
 
Matthew 13:17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and
righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and
have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and
have not heard them.
 
Matthew 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
 
Matthew 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and
understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth
away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received
seed by the way side.
 
Matthew 13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places,
the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth
it;
 
Matthew 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a
while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the
word, by and by he is offended.
 
Matthew 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he
that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh
unfruitful.
 
Matthew 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is
he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also
beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some
sixty, some thirty.
 
Matthew 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed
in his field:
 
Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed
tares among the wheat, and went his way.
 
Matthew 13:26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought
forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
 
Matthew 13:27 So the servants of the householder came and said
unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from
whence then hath it tares?
 
Matthew 13:28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The
servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them
up?
 
Matthew 13:29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the
tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
 
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in
the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together
first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but
gather the wheat into my barn.
 
Matthew 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a
man took, and sowed in his field:
 
Matthew 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when
it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches
thereof.
 
Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom
of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
 
Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude
in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
 
Matthew 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will
utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of
the world.
 
Matthew 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into
the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto
us the parable of the tares of the field.
 
Matthew 13:37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth
the good seed is the Son of man;
 
Matthew 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the
children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the
wicked one;
 
Matthew 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the
harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
 
Matthew 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in
the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
 
Matthew 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and
they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity;
 
Matthew 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
 
Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun
in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
 
Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto
treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he
hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath,
and buyeth that field.
 
Matthew 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a
merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
 
Matthew 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price,
went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
 
Matthew 13:47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net,
that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
 
Matthew 13:48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and
sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad
away.
 
Matthew 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the
angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the
just,
 
Matthew 13:50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
 
Matthew 13:51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all
these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
 
Matthew 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe
which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure
things new and old.
 
Matthew 13:53 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished
these parables, he departed thence.
 
Matthew 13:54 And when he was come into his own country, he
taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were
astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these
mighty works?
 
Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his
mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and
Simon, and Judas?
 
Matthew 13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence
then hath this man all these things?
 
Matthew 13:57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said
unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own
country, and in his own house.
 
Matthew 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.
 
Matthew 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame
of Jesus,
 
Matthew 14:2 And said unto his servants, This is John the
Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do
shew forth themselves in him.
 
Matthew 14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him,
and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's
wife.
 
Matthew 14:4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee
to have her.
 
Matthew 14:5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared
the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
 
Matthew 14:6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter
of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
 
Matthew 14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her
whatsoever she would ask.
 
Matthew 14:8 And she, being before instructed of her mother,
said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
 
Matthew 14:9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the
oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it
to be given her.
 
Matthew 14:10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
 
Matthew 14:11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given
to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
 
Matthew 14:12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and
buried it, and went and told Jesus.
 
Matthew 14:13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by
ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard
thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
 
Matthew 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude,
and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their
sick.
 
Matthew 14:15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to
him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past;
send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and
buy themselves victuals.
 
Matthew 14:16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart;
give ye them to eat.
 
Matthew 14:17 And they say unto him, We have here but five
loaves, and two fishes.
 
Matthew 14:18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
 
Matthew 14:19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the
grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking
up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his
disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
 
Matthew 14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they
took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
 
Matthew 14:21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand
men, beside women and children.
 
Matthew 14:22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples
to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side,
while he sent the multitudes away.
 
Matthew 14:23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went
up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come,
he was there alone.
 
Matthew 14:24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea,
tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
 
Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went
unto them, walking on the sea.
 
Matthew 14:26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the
sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried
out for fear.
 
Matthew 14:27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be
of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
 
Matthew 14:28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be
thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
 
Matthew 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down
out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
 
Matthew 14:30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was
afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
 
Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand,
and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith,
wherefore didst thou doubt?
 
Matthew 14:32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind
ceased.
 
Matthew 14:33 Then they that were in the ship came and
worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
 
Matthew 14:34 And when they were gone over, they came into the
land of Gennesaret.
 
Matthew 14:35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of
him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought
unto him all that were diseased;
 
Matthew 14:36 And besought him that they might only touch the
hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly
whole.
 
Matthew 15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which
were of Jerusalem, saying,
 
Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of
the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
 
Matthew 15:3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also
transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
 
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and
mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the
death.
 
Matthew 15:5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or
his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited
by me;
 
Matthew 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall
be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect
by your tradition.
 
Matthew 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you,
saying,
 
Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
 
Matthew 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men.
 
Matthew 15:10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them,
Hear, and understand:
 
Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a
man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
 
Matthew 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him,
Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard
this saying?
 
Matthew 15:13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my
heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
 
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the
blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the
ditch.
 
Matthew 15:15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare
unto us this parable.
 
Matthew 15:16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without
understanding?
 
Matthew 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever
entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out
into the draught?
 
Matthew 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
 
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies:
 
Matthew 15:20 These are the things which defile a man: but to
eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
 
Matthew 15:21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the
coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
 
Matthew 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the
same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O
Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a
devil.
 
Matthew 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples
came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth
after us.
 
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto
the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
 
Matthew 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord,
help me.
 
Matthew 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take
the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
 
Matthew 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of
the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
 
Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman,
great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her
daughter was made whole from that very hour.
 
Matthew 15:29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh
unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat
down there.
 
Matthew 15:30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with
them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others,
and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
 
Matthew 15:31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they
saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk,
and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
 
Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and
said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not
send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
 
Matthew 15:33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we
have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a
multitude?
 
Matthew 15:34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have
ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
 
Matthew 15:35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the
ground.
 
Matthew 15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and
gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the
disciples to the multitude.
 
Matthew 15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they
took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
 
Matthew 15:38 And they that did eat were four thousand men,
beside women and children.
 
Matthew 15:39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship,
and came into the coasts of Magdala.
 
Matthew 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and
tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
 
Matthew 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is
evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
 
Matthew 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to
day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can
discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of
the times?
 
Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a
sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of
the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
 
Matthew 16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other
side, they had forgotten to take bread.
 
Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of
the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
 
Matthew 16:7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is
because we have taken no bread.
 
Matthew 16:8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O
ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye
have brought no bread?
 
Matthew 16:9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the
five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took
up?
 
Matthew 16:10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand,
and how many baskets ye took up?
 
Matthew 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake
it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
 
Matthew 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not
beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the
Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
 
Matthew 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I
the Son of man am?
 
Matthew 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the
Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the
prophets.
 
Matthew 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
 
Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
 
Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art
thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it
unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.
 
Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom
of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound
in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven.
 
Matthew 16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should
tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
 
Matthew 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his
disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many
things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
killed, and be raised again the third day.
 
Matthew 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him,
saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
 
Matthew 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee
behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest
not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
 
Matthew 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man
will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow me.
 
Matthew 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:
and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
 
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?
 
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his
Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man
according to his works.
 
Matthew 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing
here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of
man coming in his kingdom.
 
Matthew 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and
John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain
apart,
 
Matthew 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did
shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
 
Matthew 17:3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and
Elias talking with him.
 
Matthew 17:4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it
is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three
tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
 
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which
said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye
him.
 
Matthew 17:6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on
their face, and were sore afraid.
 
Matthew 17:7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise,
and be not afraid.
 
Matthew 17:8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw
no man, save Jesus only.
 
Matthew 17:9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus
charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of
man be risen again from the dead.
 
Matthew 17:10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say
the scribes that Elias must first come?
 
Matthew 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias
truly shall first come, and restore all things.
 
Matthew 17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already,
and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they
listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
 
Matthew 17:13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto
them of John the Baptist.
 
Matthew 17:14 And when they were come to the multitude, there
came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
 
Matthew 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick,
and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft
into the water.
 
Matthew 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they
could not cure him.
 
Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and
perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall
I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
 
Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out
of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
 
Matthew 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said,
Why could not we cast him out?
 
Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your
unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain
of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to
yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be
impossible unto you.
 
Matthew 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and
fasting.
 
Matthew 17:22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto
them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:
 
Matthew 17:23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he
shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
 
Matthew 17:24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that
received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your
master pay tribute?
 
Matthew 17:25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the
house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of
whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their
own children, or of strangers?
 
Matthew 17:26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith
unto him, Then are the children free.
 
Matthew 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go
thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that
first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt
find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and
thee.
 
Matthew 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus,
saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
 
Matthew 18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set
him in the midst of them,
 
Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into
the kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this
little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
 
Matthew 18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in
my name receiveth me.
 
Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones
which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of
the sea.
 
Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it
must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the
offence cometh!
 
Matthew 18:8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut
them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter
into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two
feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
 
Matthew 18:9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and
cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with
one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
 
Matthew 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little
ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always
behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was
lost.
 
Matthew 18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and
one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and
nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is
gone astray?
 
Matthew 18:13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto
you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine
which went not astray.
 
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which
is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
 
Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against
thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he
shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
 
Matthew 18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee
one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established.
 
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it
unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be
unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
 
Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose
on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall
agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am I in the midst of them.
 
Matthew 18:21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft
shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven
times?
 
Matthew 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until
seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
 
Matthew 18:23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a
certain king, which would take account of his servants.
 
Matthew 18:24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought
unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
 
Matthew 18:25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord
commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all
that he had, and payment to be made.
 
Matthew 18:26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped
him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee
all.
 
Matthew 18:27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with
compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
 
Matthew 18:28 But the same servant went out, and found one of
his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid
hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that
thou owest.
 
Matthew 18:29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and
besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee
all.
 
Matthew 18:30 And he would not: but went and cast him into
prison, till he should pay the debt.
 
Matthew 18:31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done,
they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that
was done.
 
Matthew 18:32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said
unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt,
because thou desiredst me:
 
Matthew 18:33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on
thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
 
Matthew 18:34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the
tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
 
Matthew 18:35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto
you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother
their trespasses.
 
Matthew 19:1 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished
these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts
of Judaea beyond Jordan;
 
Matthew 19:2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed
them there.
 
Matthew 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him,
and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife
for every cause?
 
Matthew 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not
read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and
female,
 
Matthew 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be
one flesh?
 
Matthew 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
 
Matthew 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to
give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
 
Matthew 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness
of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the
beginning it was not so.
 
Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his
wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another,
committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away
doth commit adultery.
 
Matthew 19:10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the
man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
 
Matthew 19:11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive
this saying, save they to whom it is given.
 
Matthew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born
from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were
made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made
themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is
able to receive it, let him receive it.
 
Matthew 19:13 Then were there brought unto him little children,
that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples
rebuked them.
 
Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of
heaven.
 
Matthew 19:15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed
thence.
 
Matthew 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good
Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
 
Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter
into life, keep the commandments.
 
Matthew 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt
do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not
steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
 
Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself.
 
Matthew 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things
have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
 
Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go
and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
 
Matthew 19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went
away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
 
Matthew 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say
unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
 
Matthew 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to
enter into the kingdom of God.
 
Matthew 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were
exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
 
Matthew 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With
men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
 
Matthew 19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we
have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have
therefore?
 
Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son
of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
 
Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and
shall inherit everlasting life.
 
Matthew 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the
last shall be first.
 
Matthew 20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that
is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire
labourers into his vineyard.
 
Matthew 20:2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a
penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
 
Matthew 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw
others standing idle in the marketplace,
 
Matthew 20:4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard,
and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
 
Matthew 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour,
and did likewise.
 
Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found
others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all
the day idle?
 
Matthew 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us.
He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever
is right, that shall ye receive.
 
Matthew 20:8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard
saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their
hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
 
Matthew 20:9 And when they came that were hired about the
eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
 
Matthew 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they
should have received more; and they likewise received every man a
penny.
 
Matthew 20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured
against the goodman of the house,
 
Matthew 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and
thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden
and heat of the day.
 
Matthew 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I
do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
 
Matthew 20:14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give
unto this last, even as unto thee.
 
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with
mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
 
Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last:
for many be called, but few chosen.
 
Matthew 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve
disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
 
Matthew 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man
shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes,
and they shall condemn him to death,
 
Matthew 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock,
and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall
rise again.
 
Matthew 20:20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children
with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of
him.
 
Matthew 20:21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith
unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy
right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
 
Matthew 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye
ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and
to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say
unto him, We are able.
 
Matthew 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of
my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with:
but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give,
but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my
Father.
 
Matthew 20:24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with
indignation against the two brethren.
 
Matthew 20:25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know
that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and
they that are great exercise authority upon them.
 
Matthew 20:26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever
will be great among you, let him be your minister;
 
Matthew 20:27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be
your servant:
 
Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
 
Matthew 20:29 And as they departed from Jericho, a great
multitude followed him.
 
Matthew 20:30 And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way
side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying,
Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.
 
Matthew 20:31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they
should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have
mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.
 
Matthew 20:32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said,
What will ye that I shall do unto you?
 
Matthew 20:33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be
opened.
 
Matthew 20:34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched
their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they
followed him.
 
Matthew 21:1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were
come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two
disciples,
 
Matthew 21:2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against
you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with
her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
 
Matthew 21:3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say,
The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
 
Matthew 21:4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
 
Matthew 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the
foal of an ass.
 
Matthew 21:6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded
them,
 
Matthew 21:7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them
their clothes, and they set him thereon.
 
Matthew 21:8 And a very great multitude spread their garments
in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed
them in the way.
 
Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that
followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is
he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
 
Matthew 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city
was moved, saying, Who is this?
 
Matthew 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet
of Nazareth of Galilee.
 
Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast
out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew
the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold
doves,
 
Matthew 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall
be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of
thieves.
 
Matthew 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the
temple; and he healed them.
 
Matthew 21:15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the
wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the
temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore
displeased,
 
Matthew 21:16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say?
And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the
mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
 
Matthew 21:17 And he left them, and went out of the city into
Bethany; and he lodged there.
 
Matthew 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city,
he hungered.
 
Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to
it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it,
Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently
the fig tree withered away.
 
Matthew 21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled,
saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
 
Matthew 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say
unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do
this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto
this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it
shall be done.
 
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in
prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
 
Matthew 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief
priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was
teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things?
and who gave thee this authority?
 
Matthew 21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also
will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will
tell you by what authority I do these things.
 
Matthew 21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven,
or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall
say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then
believe him?
 
Matthew 21:26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people;
for all hold John as a prophet.
 
Matthew 21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot
tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority
I do these things.
 
Matthew 21:28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons;
and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my
vineyard.
 
Matthew 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward
he repented, and went.
 
Matthew 21:30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And
he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
 
Matthew 21:31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father?
They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say
unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom
of God before you.
 
Matthew 21:32 For John came unto you in the way of
righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the
harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not
afterward, that ye might believe him.
 
Matthew 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain
householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about,
and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out
to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
 
Matthew 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent
his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the
fruits of it.
 
Matthew 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat
one, and killed another, and stoned another.
 
Matthew 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the
first: and they did unto them likewise.
 
Matthew 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son,
saying, They will reverence my son.
 
Matthew 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said
among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and
let us seize on his inheritance.
 
Matthew 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the
vineyard, and slew him.
 
Matthew 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh,
what will he do unto those husbandmen?
 
Matthew 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy
those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other
husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
 
Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the
scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is
become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it
is marvellous in our eyes?
 
Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God
shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the
fruits thereof.
 
Matthew 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be
broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder.
 
Matthew 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had
heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
 
Matthew 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they
feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
 
Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by
parables, and said,
 
Matthew 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king,
which made a marriage for his son,
 
Matthew 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were
bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
 
Matthew 22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell
them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen
and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto
the marriage.
 
Matthew 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways,
one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
 
Matthew 22:6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated
them spitefully, and slew them.
 
Matthew 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and
he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and
burned up their city.
 
Matthew 22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is
ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
 
Matthew 22:9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as
ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
 
Matthew 22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and
gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good:
and the wedding was furnished with guests.
 
Matthew 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he
saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
 
Matthew 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in
hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
 
Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand
and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness,
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
 
Matthew 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how
they might entangle him in his talk.
 
Matthew 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with
the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and
teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any
man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
 
Matthew 22:17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it
lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
 
Matthew 22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said,
Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
 
Matthew 22:19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto
him a penny.
 
Matthew 22:20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and
superscription?
 
Matthew 22:21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto
them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's;
and unto God the things that are God's.
 
Matthew 22:22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled,
and left him, and went their way.
 
Matthew 22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say
that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
 
Matthew 22:24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having
no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed
unto his brother.
 
Matthew 22:25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the
first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no
issue, left his wife unto his brother:
 
Matthew 22:26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the
seventh.
 
Matthew 22:27 And last of all the woman died also.
 
Matthew 22:28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall
she be of the seven? for they all had her.
 
Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not
knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
 
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor
are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
 
Matthew 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead,
have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
 
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the
living.
 
Matthew 22:33 And when the multitude heard this, they were
astonished at his doctrine.
 
Matthew 22:34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put
the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
 
Matthew 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a
question, tempting him, and saying,
 
Matthew 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the
law?
 
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind.
 
Matthew 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
 
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself.
 
Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and
the prophets.
 
Matthew 22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus
asked them,
 
Matthew 22:42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?
They say unto him, The son of David.
 
Matthew 22:43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit
call him Lord, saying,
 
Matthew 22:44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
 
Matthew 22:45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
 
Matthew 22:46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither
durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
 
Matthew 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his
disciples,
 
Matthew 23:2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses'
seat:
 
Matthew 23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe,
that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they
say, and do not.
 
Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be
borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will
not move them with one of their fingers.
 
Matthew 23:5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:
they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of
their garments,
 
Matthew 23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the
chief seats in the synagogues,
 
Matthew 23:7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of
men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
 
Matthew 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your
Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
 
Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for
one is your Father, which is in heaven.
 
Matthew 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your
Master, even Christ.
 
Matthew 23:11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your
servant.
 
Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be
abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
 
Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for
ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are
entering to go in.
 
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long
prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
 
Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is
made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
 
Matthew 23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say,
Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever
shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
 
Matthew 23:17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the
gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
 
Matthew 23:18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is
nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he
is guilty.
 
Matthew 23:19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the
gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
 
Matthew 23:20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar,
sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
 
Matthew 23:21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by
it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
 
Matthew 23:22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by
the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
 
Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted
the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith:
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
 
Matthew 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and
swallow a camel.
 
Matthew 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but
within they are full of extortion and excess.
 
Matthew 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is
within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean
also.
 
Matthew 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear
beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and
of all uncleanness.
 
Matthew 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto
men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
 
Matthew 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the
sepulchres of the righteous,
 
Matthew 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood
of the prophets.
 
Matthew 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that
ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
 
Matthew 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
 
Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell?
 
Matthew 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and
wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and
crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues,
and persecute them from city to city:
 
Matthew 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood
shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the
temple and the altar.
 
Matthew 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall
come upon this generation.
 
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the
prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often
would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
 
Matthew 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
 
Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me
henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord.
 
Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple:
and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of
the temple.
 
Matthew 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these
things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one
stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
 
Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the
disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall
these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of
the end of the world?
 
Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed
that no man deceive you.
 
Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am
Christ; and shall deceive many.
 
Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see
that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
 
Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
earthquakes, in divers places.
 
Matthew 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
 
Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted,
and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my
name's sake.
 
Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray
one another, and shall hate one another.
 
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many.
 
Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall wax cold.
 
Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same
shall be saved.
 
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall
the end come.
 
Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy
place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
 
Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the
mountains:
 
Matthew 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to
take any thing out of his house:
 
Matthew 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back
to take his clothes.
 
Matthew 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to
them that give suck in those days!
 
Matthew 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the
winter, neither on the sabbath day:
 
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was
not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be.
 
Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there
should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days
shall be shortened.
 
Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is
Christ, or there; believe it not.
 
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
 
Matthew 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
 
Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he
is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret
chambers; believe it not.
 
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and
shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be.
 
Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the
eagles be gathered together.
 
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken:
 
Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man
in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and
they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with
power and great glory.
 
Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound
of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 
Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that
summer is nigh:
 
Matthew 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these
things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
 
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not
pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
 
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words
shall not pass away.
 
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not
the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
 
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be.
 
Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
 
Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them
all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
 
Matthew 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left.
 
Matthew 24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one
shall be taken, and the other left.
 
Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your
Lord doth come.
 
Matthew 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house
had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have
watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
 
Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour
as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
 
Matthew 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his
lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due
season?
 
Matthew 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he
cometh shall find so doing.
 
Matthew 24:47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him
ruler over all his goods.
 
Matthew 24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his
heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
 
Matthew 24:49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and
to eat and drink with the drunken;
 
Matthew 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when
he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
 
Matthew 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his
portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
 
Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto
ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the
bridegroom.
 
Matthew 25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
 
Matthew 25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took
no oil with them:
 
Matthew 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their
lamps.
 
Matthew 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered
and slept.
 
Matthew 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the
bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
 
Matthew 25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their
lamps.
 
Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of
your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
 
Matthew 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there
be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell,
and buy for yourselves.
 
Matthew 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came;
and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and
the door was shut.
 
Matthew 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying,
Lord, Lord, open to us.
 
Matthew 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you,
I know you not.
 
Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor
the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
 
Matthew 25:14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling
into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered
unto them his goods.
 
Matthew 25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another
two, and to another one; to every man according to his several
ability; and straightway took his journey.
 
Matthew 25:16 Then he that had received the five talents went
and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
 
Matthew 25:17 And likewise he that had received two, he also
gained other two.
 
Matthew 25:18 But he that had received one went and digged in
the earth, and hid his lord's money.
 
Matthew 25:19 After a long time the lord of those servants
cometh, and reckoneth with them.
 
Matthew 25:20 And so he that had received five talents came and
brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto
me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents
more.
 
Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and
faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I
will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of
thy lord.
 
Matthew 25:22 He also that had received two talents came and
said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have
gained two other talents beside them.
 
Matthew 25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and
faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I
will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of
thy lord.
 
Matthew 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came
and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping
where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not
strawed:
 
Matthew 25:25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in
the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
 
Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked
and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not,
and gather where I have not strawed:
 
Matthew 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to
the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine
own with usury.
 
Matthew 25:28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it
unto him which hath ten talents.
 
Matthew 25:29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and
he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be
taken away even that which he hath.
 
Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 
Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and
all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne
of his glory:
 
Matthew 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and
he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth
his sheep from the goats:
 
Matthew 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but
the goats on the left.
 
Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world:
 
Matthew 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was
thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me
in:
 
Matthew 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye
visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
 
Matthew 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying,
Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink?
 
Matthew 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or
naked, and clothed thee?
 
Matthew 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came
unto thee?
 
Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
 
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left
hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels:
 
Matthew 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I
was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
 
Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked,
and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me
not.
 
Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord,
when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked,
or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
 
Matthew 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say
unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these,
ye did it not to me.
 
Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
 
Matthew 26:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all
these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
 
Matthew 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the
passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
 
Matthew 26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the
scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the
high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
 
Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by
subtilty, and kill him.
 
Matthew 26:5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be
an uproar among the people.
 
Matthew 26:6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of
Simon the leper,
 
Matthew 26:7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster
box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he
sat at meat.
 
Matthew 26:8 But when his disciples saw it, they had
indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
 
Matthew 26:9 For this ointment might have been sold for much,
and given to the poor.
 
Matthew 26:10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why
trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
 
Matthew 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye
have not always.
 
Matthew 26:12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my
body, she did it for my burial.
 
Matthew 26:13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that
this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
 
Matthew 26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot,
went unto the chief priests,
 
Matthew 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I
will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for
thirty pieces of silver.
 
Matthew 26:16 And from that time he sought opportunity to
betray him.
 
Matthew 26:17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened
bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt
thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
 
Matthew 26:18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and
say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep
the passover at thy house with my disciples.
 
Matthew 26:19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed
them; and they made ready the passover.
 
Matthew 26:20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the
twelve.
 
Matthew 26:21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto
you, that one of you shall betray me.
 
Matthew 26:22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began
every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
 
Matthew 26:23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his
hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
 
Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but
woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been
good for that man if he had not been born.
 
Matthew 26:25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and
said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
 
Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said,
Take, eat; this is my body.
 
Matthew 26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it
to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
 
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many for the remission of sins.
 
Matthew 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth
of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new
with you in my Father's kingdom.
 
Matthew 26:30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out
into the mount of Olives.
 
Matthew 26:31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be
offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will
smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered
abroad.
 
Matthew 26:32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you
into Galilee.
 
Matthew 26:33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men
shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
 
Matthew 26:34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That
this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
 
Matthew 26:35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with
thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the
disciples.
 
Matthew 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called
Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go
and pray yonder.
 
Matthew 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of
Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
 
Matthew 26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding
sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
 
Matthew 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his
face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou
wilt.
 
Matthew 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth
them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with
me one hour?
 
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into
temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
 
Matthew 26:42 He went away again the second time, and prayed,
saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me,
except I drink it, thy will be done.
 
Matthew 26:43 And he came and found them asleep again: for
their eyes were heavy.
 
Matthew 26:44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed
the third time, saying the same words.
 
Matthew 26:45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto
them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at
hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
 
Matthew 26:46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that
doth betray me.
 
Matthew 26:47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the
twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and
staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
 
Matthew 26:48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign,
saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
 
Matthew 26:49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail,
master; and kissed him.
 
Matthew 26:50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art
thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.
 
Matthew 26:51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus
stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant
of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
 
Matthew 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword
into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish
with the sword.
 
Matthew 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my
Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions
of angels?
 
Matthew 26:54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled,
that thus it must be?
 
Matthew 26:55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes,
Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to
take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid
no hold on me.
 
Matthew 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the
prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him,
and fled.
 
Matthew 26:57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away
to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders
were assembled.
 
Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high
priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see
the end.
 
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the
council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
 
Matthew 26:60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses
came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
 
Matthew 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy
the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
 
Matthew 26:62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him,
Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against
thee?
 
Matthew 26:63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest
answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that
thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
 
Matthew 26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said:
nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of
man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds
of heaven.
 
Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He
hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses?
behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
 
Matthew 26:66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is
guilty of death.
 
Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him;
and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
 
Matthew 26:68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he
that smote thee?
 
Matthew 26:69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel
came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
 
Matthew 26:70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not
what thou sayest.
 
Matthew 26:71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another
maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was
also with Jesus of Nazareth.
 
Matthew 26:72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know
the man.
 
Matthew 26:73 And after a while came unto him they that stood
by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy
speech bewrayeth thee.
 
Matthew 26:74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I
know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
 
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which
said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
And he went out, and wept bitterly.
 
Matthew 27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests
and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to
death:
 
Matthew 27:2 And when they had bound him, they led him away,
and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
 
Matthew 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw
that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
 
Matthew 27:4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the
innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to
that.
 
Matthew 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the
temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
 
Matthew 27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and
said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because
it is the price of blood.
 
Matthew 27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the
potter's field, to bury strangers in.
 
Matthew 27:8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of
blood, unto this day.
 
Matthew 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy
the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver,
the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of
Israel did value;
 
Matthew 27:10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord
appointed me.
 
Matthew 27:11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the
governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And
Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
 
Matthew 27:12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and
elders, he answered nothing.
 
Matthew 27:13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how
many things they witness against thee?
 
Matthew 27:14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch
that the governor marvelled greatly.
 
Matthew 27:15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to
release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
 
Matthew 27:16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called
Barabbas.
 
Matthew 27:17 Therefore when they were gathered together,
Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you?
Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
 
Matthew 27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
 
Matthew 27:19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his
wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that
just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream
because of him.
 
Matthew 27:20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the
multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
 
Matthew 27:21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether
of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said,
Barabbas.
 
Matthew 27:22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with
Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be
crucified.
 
Matthew 27:23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he
done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
 
Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing,
but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his
hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of
this just person: see ye to it.
 
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood
be on us, and on our children.
 
Matthew 27:26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he
had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
 
Matthew 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into
the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of
soldiers.
 
Matthew 27:28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet
robe.
 
Matthew 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they
put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they
bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of
the Jews!
 
Matthew 27:30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and
smote him on the head.
 
Matthew 27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the
robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him
away to crucify him.
 
Matthew 27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene,
Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
 
Matthew 27:33 And when they were come unto a place called
Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
 
Matthew 27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall:
and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
 
Matthew 27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments,
casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture
did they cast lots.
 
Matthew 27:36 And sitting down they watched him there;
 
Matthew 27:37 And set up over his head his accusation written,
THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
 
Matthew 27:38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him,
one on the right hand, and another on the left.
 
Matthew 27:39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging
their heads,
 
Matthew 27:40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and
buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of
God, come down from the cross.
 
Matthew 27:41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with
the scribes and elders, said,
 
Matthew 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be
the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we
will believe him.
 
Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he
will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
 
Matthew 27:44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him,
cast the same in his teeth.
 
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over
all the land unto the ninth hour.
 
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
 
Matthew 27:47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard
that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
 
Matthew 27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a
spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and
gave him to drink.
 
Matthew 27:49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias
will come to save him.
 
Matthew 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice,
yielded up the ghost.
 
Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in
twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and
the rocks rent;
 
Matthew 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of
the saints which slept arose,
 
Matthew 27:53 And came out of the graves after his
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many.
 
Matthew 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with
him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that
were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of
God.
 
Matthew 27:55 And many women were there beholding afar off,
which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
 
Matthew 27:56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.
 
Matthew 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of
Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
 
Matthew 27:58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
 
Matthew 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it
in a clean linen cloth,
 
Matthew 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had
hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of
the sepulchre, and departed.
 
Matthew 27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary,
sitting over against the sepulchre.
 
Matthew 27:62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the
preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto
Pilate,
 
Matthew 27:63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said,
while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
 
Matthew 27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure
until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal
him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so
the last error shall be worse than the first.
 
Matthew 27:65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your
way, make it as sure as ye can.
 
Matthew 27:66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure,
sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
 
Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary to see the sepulchre.
 
Matthew 28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the
angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back
the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
 
Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his
raiment white as snow:
 
Matthew 28:4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and
became as dead men.
 
Matthew 28:5 And the angel answered and said unto the women,
Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
 
Matthew 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay.
 
Matthew 28:7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is
risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into
Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
 
Matthew 28:8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with
fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
 
Matthew 28:9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold,
Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by
the feet, and worshipped him.
 
Matthew 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell
my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see
me.
 
Matthew 28:11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the
watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all
the things that were done.
 
Matthew 28:12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and
had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
 
Matthew 28:13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and
stole him away while we slept.
 
Matthew 28:14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will
persuade him, and secure you.
 
Matthew 28:15 So they took the money, and did as they were
taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until
this day.
 
Matthew 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee,
into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
 
Matthew 28:17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but
some doubted.
 
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
 
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost:
 
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the
end of the world. Amen. 
 
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son
of God;
 
Mark 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my
messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before
thee.
 
Mark 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
 
Mark 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the
baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
 
Mark 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea,
and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river
of Jordan, confessing their sins.
 
Mark 1:6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a
girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild
honey;
 
Mark 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I
after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop
down and unloose.
 
Mark 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
 
Mark 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came
from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
 
Mark 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw
the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon
him:
 
Mark 1:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art
my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
 
Mark 1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the
wilderness.
 
Mark 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days,
tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels
ministered unto him.
 
Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came
into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
 
Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of
God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
 
Mark 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon
and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were
fishers.
 
Mark 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I
will make you to become fishers of men.
 
Mark 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed
him.
 
Mark 1:19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in
the ship mending their nets.
 
Mark 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their
father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went
after him.
 
Mark 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the
sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
 
Mark 1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he
taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
 
Mark 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an
unclean spirit; and he cried out,
 
Mark 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee,
thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee
who thou art, the Holy One of God.
 
Mark 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and
come out of him.
 
Mark 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried
with a loud voice, he came out of him.
 
Mark 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they
questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new
doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the
unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
 
Mark 1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all
the region round about Galilee.
 
Mark 1:29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the
synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with
James and John.
 
Mark 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and
anon they tell him of her.
 
Mark 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her
up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto
them.
 
Mark 1:32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto
him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with
devils.
 
Mark 1:33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.
 
Mark 1:34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases,
and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak,
because they knew him.
 
Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before
day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there
prayed.
 
Mark 1:36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after
him.
 
Mark 1:37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All
men seek for thee.
 
Mark 1:38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns,
that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
 
Mark 1:39 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all
Galilee, and cast out devils.
 
Mark 1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and
kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou
canst make me clean.
 
Mark 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand,
and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
 
Mark 1:42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy
departed from him, and he was cleansed.
 
Mark 1:43 And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him
away;
 
Mark 1:44 And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man:
but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy
cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony
unto them.
 
Mark 1:45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to
blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly
enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they
came to him from every quarter.
 
Mark 2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days;
and it was noised that he was in the house.
 
Mark 2:2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch
that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about
the door: and he preached the word unto them.
 
Mark 2:3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the
palsy, which was borne of four.
 
Mark 2:4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the
press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had
broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy
lay.
 
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of
the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
 
Mark 2:6 But there was certain of the scribes sitting there,
and reasoning in their hearts,
 
Mark 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can
forgive sins but God only?
 
Mark 2:8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit
that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why
reason ye these things in your hearts?
 
Mark 2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy,
Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed,
and walk?
 
Mark 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power
on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
 
Mark 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go
thy way into thine house.
 
Mark 2:12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went
forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and
glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
 
Mark 2:13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the
multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
 
Mark 2:14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus
sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me.
And he arose and followed him.
 
Mark 2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in
his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with
Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed
him.
 
Mark 2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with
publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it
that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
 
Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that
are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick:
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
 
Mark 2:18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used
to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of
John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
 
Mark 2:19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the
bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as
they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
 
Mark 2:20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be
taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
 
Mark 2:21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old
garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from
the old, and the rent is made worse.
 
Mark 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else
the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and
the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new
bottles.
 
Mark 2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn
fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went,
to pluck the ears of corn.
 
Mark 2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they
on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
 
Mark 2:25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David
did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were
with him?
 
Mark 2:26 How he went into the house of God in the days of
Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not
lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which
were with him?
 
Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the sabbath:
 
Mark 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
 
Mark 3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was
a man there which had a withered hand.
 
Mark 3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the
sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
 
Mark 3:3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand,
Stand forth.
 
Mark 3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the
sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they
held their peace.
 
Mark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger,
being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the
man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his
hand was restored whole as the other.
 
Mark 3:6 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took
counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy
him.
 
Mark 3:7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the
sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from
Judaea,
 
Mark 3:8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond
Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when
they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
 
Mark 3:9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship
should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should
throng him.
 
Mark 3:10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed
upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
 
Mark 3:11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down
before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
 
Mark 3:12 And he straitly charged them that they should not
make him known.
 
Mark 3:13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him
whom he would: and they came unto him.
 
Mark 3:14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him,
and that he might send them forth to preach,
 
Mark 3:15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out
devils:
 
Mark 3:16 And Simon he surnamed Peter;
 
Mark 3:17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of
James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of
thunder:
 
Mark 3:18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew,
and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and
Simon the Canaanite,
 
Mark 3:19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they
went into an house.
 
Mark 3:20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they
could not so much as eat bread.
 
Mark 3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to
lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
 
Mark 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said,
He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out
devils.
 
Mark 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in
parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
 
Mark 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that
kingdom cannot stand.
 
Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house
cannot stand.
 
Mark 3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided,
he cannot stand, but hath an end.
 
Mark 3:27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil
his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he
will spoil his house.
 
Mark 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven
unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall
blaspheme:
 
Mark 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
 
Mark 3:30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
 
Mark 3:31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and,
standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
 
Mark 3:32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto
him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
 
Mark 3:33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my
brethren?
 
Mark 3:34 And he looked round about on them which sat about
him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
 
Mark 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is
my brother, and my sister, and mother.
 
Mark 4:1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there
was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into
a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the
sea on the land.
 
Mark 4:2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said
unto them in his doctrine,
 
Mark 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
 
Mark 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way
side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
 
Mark 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much
earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of
earth:
 
Mark 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because
it had no root, it withered away.
 
Mark 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up,
and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
 
Mark 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit
that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and
some sixty, and some an hundred.
 
Mark 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear.
 
Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with
the twelve asked of him the parable.
 
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know
the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are
without, all these things are done in parables:
 
Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and
hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they
should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
 
Mark 4:13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and
how then will ye know all parables?
 
Mark 4:14 The sower soweth the word.
 
Mark 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is
sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and
taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
 
Mark 4:16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony
ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive
it with gladness;
 
Mark 4:17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for
a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the
word's sake, immediately they are offended.
 
Mark 4:18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such
as hear the word,
 
Mark 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of
riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the
word, and it becometh unfruitful.
 
Mark 4:20 And these are they which are sown on good ground;
such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit,
some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
 
Mark 4:21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put
under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a
candlestick?
 
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be
manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should
come abroad.
 
Mark 4:23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
 
Mark 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you
that hear shall more be given.
 
Mark 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that
hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
 
Mark 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man
should cast seed into the ground;
 
Mark 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the
seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
 
Mark 4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first
the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
 
Mark 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he
putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
 
Mark 4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of
God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
 
Mark 4:31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is
sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the
earth:
 
Mark 4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh
greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that
the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
 
Mark 4:33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto
them, as they were able to hear it.
 
Mark 4:34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and
when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
 
Mark 4:35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith
unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
 
Mark 4:36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took
him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him
other little ships.
 
Mark 4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves
beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
 
Mark 4:38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on
a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest
thou not that we perish?
 
Mark 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the
sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great
calm.
 
Mark 4:40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is
it that ye have no faith?
 
Mark 4:41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another,
What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey
him?
 
Mark 5:1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea,
into the country of the Gadarenes.
 
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately
there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
 
Mark 5:3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could
bind him, no, not with chains:
 
Mark 5:4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and
chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the
fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
 
Mark 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains,
and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
 
Mark 5:6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped
him,
 
Mark 5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to
do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee
by God, that thou torment me not.
 
Mark 5:8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou
unclean spirit.
 
Mark 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered,
saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
 
Mark 5:10 And he besought him much that he would not send them
away out of the country.
 
Mark 5:11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great
herd of swine feeding.
 
Mark 5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into
the swine, that we may enter into them.
 
Mark 5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean
spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran
violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two
thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
 
Mark 5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the
city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was
that was done.
 
Mark 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was
possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and
clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
 
Mark 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him
that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
 
Mark 5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their
coasts.
 
Mark 5:18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been
possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
 
Mark 5:19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him,
Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord
hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
 
Mark 5:20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis
how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
 
Mark 5:21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the
other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto
the sea.
 
Mark 5:22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the
synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his
feet,
 
Mark 5:23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter
lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands
on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
 
Mark 5:24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed
him, and thronged him.
 
Mark 5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood
twelve years,
 
Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and
had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather
grew worse,
 
Mark 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press
behind, and touched his garment.
 
Mark 5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall
be whole.
 
Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried
up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
 
Mark 5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who
touched my clothes?
 
Mark 5:31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the
multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
 
Mark 5:32 And he looked round about to see her that had done
this thing.
 
Mark 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was
done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the
truth.
 
Mark 5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made
thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
 
Mark 5:35 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the
synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why
troublest thou the Master any further?
 
Mark 5:36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he
saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only
believe.
 
Mark 5:37 And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and
James, and John the brother of James.
 
Mark 5:38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the
synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed
greatly.
 
Mark 5:39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make
ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
 
Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put
them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel,
and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was
lying.
 
Mark 5:41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto
her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say
unto thee, arise.
 
Mark 5:42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she
was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a
great astonishment.
 
Mark 5:43 And he charged them straitly that no man should know
it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
 
Mark 6:1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own
country; and his disciples follow him.
 
Mark 6:2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach
in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying,
From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this
which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought
by his hands?
 
Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the
brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not
his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
 
Mark 6:4 But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without
honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his
own house.
 
Mark 6:5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he
laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
 
Mark 6:6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he
went round about the villages, teaching.
 
Mark 6:7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send
them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean
spirits;
 
Mark 6:8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for
their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in
their purse:
 
Mark 6:9 But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
 
Mark 6:10 And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter
into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
 
Mark 6:11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you,
when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a
testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more
tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for
that city.
 
Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should
repent.
 
Mark 6:13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil
many that were sick, and healed them.
 
Mark 6:14 And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread
abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the
dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
 
Mark 6:15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That
it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
 
Mark 6:16 But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John,
whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
 
Mark 6:17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon
John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother
Philip's wife: for he had married her.
 
Mark 6:18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for
thee to have thy brother's wife.
 
Mark 6:19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and
would have killed him; but she could not:
 
Mark 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man
and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many
things, and heard him gladly.
 
Mark 6:21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his
birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief
estates of Galilee;
 
Mark 6:22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in,
and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the
king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I
will give it thee.
 
Mark 6:23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of
me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
 
Mark 6:24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What
shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
 
Mark 6:25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king,
and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a
charger the head of John the Baptist.
 
Mark 6:26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's
sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject
her.
 
Mark 6:27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and
commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in
the prison,
 
Mark 6:28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the
damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
 
Mark 6:29 And when his disciples heard of it, they came and
took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
 
Mark 6:30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto
Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what
they had taught.
 
Mark 6:31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into
a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and
going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
 
Mark 6:32 And they departed into a desert place by ship
privately.
 
Mark 6:33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him,
and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and
came together unto him.
 
Mark 6:34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was
moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not
having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
 
Mark 6:35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples
came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time
is far passed:
 
Mark 6:36 Send them away, that they may go into the country
round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for
they have nothing to eat.
 
Mark 6:37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat.
And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth
of bread, and give them to eat?
 
Mark 6:38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and
see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
 
Mark 6:39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by
companies upon the green grass.
 
Mark 6:40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by
fifties.
 
Mark 6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two
fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the
loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and
the two fishes divided he among them all.
 
Mark 6:42 And they did all eat, and were filled.
 
Mark 6:43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the
fragments, and of the fishes.
 
Mark 6:44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five
thousand men.
 
Mark 6:45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get
into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida,
while he sent away the people.
 
Mark 6:46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a
mountain to pray.
 
Mark 6:47 And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of
the sea, and he alone on the land.
 
Mark 6:48 And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was
contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he
cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by
them.
 
Mark 6:49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they
supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:
 
Mark 6:50 For they all saw him, and were troubled. And
immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good
cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
 
Mark 6:51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind
ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure,
and wondered.
 
Mark 6:52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves:
for their heart was hardened.
 
Mark 6:53 And when they had passed over, they came into the
land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.
 
Mark 6:54 And when they were come out of the ship, straightway
they knew him,
 
Mark 6:55 And ran through that whole region round about, and
began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they
heard he was.
 
Mark 6:56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or
cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and
besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of
his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
 
Mark 7:1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain
of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
 
Mark 7:2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with
defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
 
Mark 7:3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash
their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
 
Mark 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash,
they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have
received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen
vessels, and of tables.
 
Mark 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not
thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
bread with unwashen hands?
 
Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people
honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
 
Mark 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men.
 
Mark 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the
tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other
such like things ye do.
 
Mark 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the
commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
 
Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother;
and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
 
Mark 7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or
mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou
mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
 
Mark 7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father
or his mother;
 
Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your
tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do
ye.
 
Mark 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he
said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
 
Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering
into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him,
those are they that defile the man.
 
Mark 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
 
Mark 7:17 And when he was entered into the house from the
people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
 
Mark 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without
understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing
from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
 
Mark 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the
belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
 
Mark 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that
defileth the man.
 
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed
evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
 
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,
lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
 
Mark 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile
the man.
 
Mark 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders
of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no
man know it: but he could not be hid.
 
Mark 7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an
unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
 
Mark 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and
she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her
daughter.
 
Mark 7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be
filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to
cast it unto the dogs.
 
Mark 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet
the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
 
Mark 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the
devil is gone out of thy daughter.
 
Mark 7:30 And when she was come to her house, she found the
devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
 
Mark 7:31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and
Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the
coasts of Decapolis.
 
Mark 7:32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an
impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand
upon him.
 
Mark 7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his
fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
 
Mark 7:34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto
him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
 
Mark 7:35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string
of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
 
Mark 7:36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but
the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they
published it;
 
Mark 7:37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath
done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the
dumb to speak.
 
Mark 8:1 In those days the multitude being very great, and
having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and
saith unto them,
 
Mark 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have
now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
 
Mark 8:3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses,
they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
 
Mark 8:4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man
satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
 
Mark 8:5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they
said, Seven.
 
Mark 8:6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground:
and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and
gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them
before the people.
 
Mark 8:7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and
commanded to set them also before them.
 
Mark 8:8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of
the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
 
Mark 8:9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and
he sent them away.
 
Mark 8:10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his
disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
 
Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question
with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
 
Mark 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why
doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you,
There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
 
Mark 8:13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again
departed to the other side.
 
Mark 8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread,
neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
 
Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
 
Mark 8:16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is
because we have no bread.
 
Mark 8:17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why
reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither
understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
 
Mark 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye
not? and do ye not remember?
 
Mark 8:19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how
many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him,
Twelve.
 
Mark 8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many
baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
 
Mark 8:21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not
understand?
 
Mark 8:22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind
man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
 
Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him
out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his
hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
 
Mark 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees,
walking.
 
Mark 8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and
made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
 
Mark 8:26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go
into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
 
Mark 8:27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns
of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples,
saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
 
Mark 8:28 And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say,
Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
 
Mark 8:29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
 
Mark 8:30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of
him.
 
Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must
suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the
chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days
rise again.
 
Mark 8:32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him,
and began to rebuke him.
 
Mark 8:33 But when he had turned about and looked on his
disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan:
for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things
that be of men.
 
Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his
disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
 
Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but
whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the
same shall save it.
 
Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his own soul?
 
Mark 8:37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
 
Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my
words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall
the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his
Father with the holy angels.
 
Mark 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That
there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of
death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
 
Mark 9:2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and
James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart
by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
 
Mark 9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as
snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
 
Mark 9:4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and
they were talking with Jesus.
 
Mark 9:5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is
good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one
for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
 
Mark 9:6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore
afraid.
 
Mark 9:7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a
voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear
him.
 
Mark 9:8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they
saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.
 
Mark 9:9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged
them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till
the Son of man were risen from the dead.
 
Mark 9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves,
questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should
mean.
 
Mark 9:11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that
Elias must first come?
 
Mark 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh
first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son
of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
 
Mark 9:13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and
they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written
of him.
 
Mark 9:14 And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great
multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
 
Mark 9:15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him,
were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.
 
Mark 9:16 And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
 
Mark 9:17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I
have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
 
Mark 9:18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he
foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I
spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they
could not.
 
Mark 9:19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation,
how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring
him unto me.
 
Mark 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him,
straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and
wallowed foaming.
 
Mark 9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since
this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
 
Mark 9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into
the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have
compassion on us, and help us.
 
Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all
things are possible to him that believeth.
 
Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out,
and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
 
Mark 9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together,
he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf
spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into
him.
 
Mark 9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out
of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is
dead.
 
Mark 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up;
and he arose.
 
Mark 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples
asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
 
Mark 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by
nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
 
Mark 9:30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee;
and he would not that any man should know it.
 
Mark 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The
Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall
kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third
day.
 
Mark 9:32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid
to ask him.
 
Mark 9:33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he
asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the
way?
 
Mark 9:34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had
disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
 
Mark 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith
unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last
of all, and servant of all.
 
Mark 9:36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of
them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
 
Mark 9:37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my
name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not
me, but him that sent me.
 
Mark 9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one
casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we
forbad him, because he followeth not us.
 
Mark 9:39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man
which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil
of me.
 
Mark 9:40 For he that is not against us is on our part.
 
Mark 9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink
in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you,
he shall not lose his reward.
 
Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones
that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
 
Mark 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better
for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go
into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
 
Mark 9:44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.
 
Mark 9:45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better
for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast
into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
 
Mark 9:46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.
 
Mark 9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is
better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye,
than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
 
Mark 9:48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.
 
Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every
sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
 
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness,
wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have
peace one with another.
 
Mark 10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts
of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort
unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
 
Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it
lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
 
Mark 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses
command you?
 
Mark 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of
divorcement, and to put her away.
 
Mark 10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the
hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
 
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them
male and female.
 
Mark 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and cleave to his wife;
 
Mark 10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are
no more twain, but one flesh.
 
Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man
put asunder.
 
Mark 10:10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of
the same matter.
 
Mark 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his
wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
 
Mark 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be
married to another, she committeth adultery.
 
Mark 10:13 And they brought young children to him, that he
should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought
them.
 
Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and
said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
 
Mark 10:15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive
the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
 
Mark 10:16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon
them, and blessed them.
 
Mark 10:17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came
one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what
shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
 
Mark 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
there is none good but one, that is, God.
 
Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit
adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,
Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. 
 
Mark 10:20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these
have I observed from my youth.
 
Mark 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto
him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
 
Mark 10:22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away
grieved: for he had great possessions.
 
Mark 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his
disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the
kingdom of God!
 
Mark 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But
Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is
it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of
God!
 
Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
 
Mark 10:26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying
among themselves, Who then can be saved?
 
Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is
impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are
possible.
 
Mark 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left
all, and have followed thee.
 
Mark 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you,
There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake,
and the gospel's,
 
Mark 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this
time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and
children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come
eternal life.
 
Mark 10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last
first.
 
Mark 10:32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and
Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they
followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and
began to tell them what things should happen unto him,
 
Mark 10:33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son
of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the
scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver
him to the Gentiles:
 
Mark 10:34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and
shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he
shall rise again.
 
Mark 10:35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto
him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us
whatsoever we shall desire.
 
Mark 10:36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should
do for you?
 
Mark 10:37 They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit,
one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy
glory.
 
Mark 10:38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask:
can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with?
 
Mark 10:39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto
them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with
the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
 
Mark 10:40 But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is
not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is
prepared.
 
Mark 10:41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be much
displeased with James and John.
 
Mark 10:42 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them,
Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise
authority upon them.
 
Mark 10:43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will
be great among you, shall be your minister:
 
Mark 10:44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be
servant of all.
 
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
 
Mark 10:46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of
Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind
Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
 
Mark 10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he
began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy
on me.
 
Mark 10:48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace:
but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy
on me.
 
Mark 10:49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be
called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good
comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
 
Mark 10:50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to
Jesus.
 
Mark 10:51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou
that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord,
that I might receive my sight.
 
Mark 10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath
made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and
followed Jesus in the way.
 
Mark 11:1 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage
and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his
disciples,
 
Mark 11:2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village
over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall
find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring
him.
 
Mark 11:3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye
that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him
hither.
 
Mark 11:4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by
the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose
him.
 
Mark 11:5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them,
What do ye, loosing the colt?
 
Mark 11:6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded:
and they let them go.
 
Mark 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their
garments on him; and he sat upon him.
 
Mark 11:8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others
cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
 
Mark 11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed,
cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of
the Lord:
 
Mark 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that
cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
 
Mark 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the
temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and
now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the
twelve.
 
Mark 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany,
he was hungry:
 
Mark 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he
came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came
to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not
yet.
 
Mark 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat
fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
 
Mark 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the
temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the
temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the
seats of them that sold doves;
 
Mark 11:16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any
vessel through the temple.
 
Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written,
My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but
ye have made it a den of thieves.
 
Mark 11:18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and
sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because
all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
 
Mark 11:19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
 
Mark 11:20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the
fig tree dried up from the roots.
 
Mark 11:21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him,
Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered
away.
 
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in
God.
 
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the
sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that
those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have
whatsoever he saith.
 
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall
have them.
 
Mark 11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought
against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive
you your trespasses.
 
Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father
which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
 
Mark 11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was
walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and
the scribes, and the elders,
 
Mark 11:28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these
things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
 
Mark 11:29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also
ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by
what authority I do these things.
 
Mark 11:30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
answer me.
 
Mark 11:31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we
shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe
him?
 
Mark 11:32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people:
for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
 
Mark 11:33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot
tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you
by what authority I do these things.
 
Mark 12:1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A
certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and
digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out
to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
 
Mark 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a
servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit
of the vineyard.
 
Mark 12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away
empty.
 
Mark 12:4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at
him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him
away shamefully handled.
 
Mark 12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and
many others; beating some, and killing some.
 
Mark 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he
sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
 
Mark 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is
the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be
our's.
 
Mark 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out
of the vineyard.
 
Mark 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he
will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard
unto others.
 
Mark 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which
the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
 
Mark 12:11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in
our eyes?
 
Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the
people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against
them: and they left him, and went their way.
 
Mark 12:13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and
of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
 
Mark 12:14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master,
we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou
regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in
truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
 
Mark 12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing
their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a
penny, that I may see it.
 
Mark 12:16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose
is this image and superscription? And they said unto him,
Caesar's.
 
Mark 12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar
the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are
God's. And they marvelled at him.
 
Mark 12:18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is
no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
 
Mark 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die,
and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his
brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
 
Mark 12:20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a
wife, and dying left no seed.
 
Mark 12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he
any seed: and the third likewise.
 
Mark 12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all
the woman died also.
 
Mark 12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise,
whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
 
Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not
therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the
power of God?
 
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither
marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are
in heaven.
 
Mark 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye
not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto
him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob?
 
Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the
living: ye therefore do greatly err.
 
Mark 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them
reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them
well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
 
Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the
commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
 
Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all
thy strength: this is the first commandment.
 
Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater
than these.
 
Mark 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou
hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none
other but he:
 
Mark 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the
understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength,
and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices.
 
Mark 12:34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he
said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no
man after that durst ask him any question.
 
Mark 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the
temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
 
Mark 12:36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD
said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
 
Mark 12:37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence
is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
 
Mark 12:38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the
scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations
in the marketplaces,
 
Mark 12:39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the
uppermost rooms at feasts:
 
Mark 12:40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make
long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
 
Mark 12:41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld
how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were
rich cast in much.
 
Mark 12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw
in two mites, which make a farthing.
 
Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto
them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more
in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
 
Mark 12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she
of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
 
Mark 13:1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his
disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and
what buildings are here!
 
Mark 13:2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these
great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down.
 
Mark 13:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against
the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him
privately,
 
Mark 13:4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
 
Mark 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest
any man deceive you:
 
Mark 13:6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ;
and shall deceive many.
 
Mark 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars,
be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end
shall not be yet.
 
Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places,
and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings
of sorrows.
 
Mark 13:9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver
you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and
ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a
testimony against them.
 
Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all
nations.
 
Mark 13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up,
take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that
speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
 
Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death,
and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their
parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
 
Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:
but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not,
(let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in
Judaea flee to the mountains:
 
Mark 13:15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into
the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his
house:
 
Mark 13:16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again
for to take up his garment.
 
Mark 13:17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them
that give suck in those days!
 
Mark 13:18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
 
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was
not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto
this time, neither shall be.
 
Mark 13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days,
no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath
chosen, he hath shortened the days.
 
Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is
Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
 
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and
shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible,
even the elect.
 
Mark 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all
things.
 
Mark 13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
 
Mark 13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers
that are in heaven shall be shaken.
 
Mark 13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the
clouds with great power and glory.
 
Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part
of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
 
Mark 13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch
is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is
near:
 
Mark 13:29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things
come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
 
Mark 13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall
not pass, till all these things be done.
 
Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall
not pass away.
 
Mark 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the
Father.
 
Mark 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when
the time is.
 
Mark 13:34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey,
who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to
every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
 
Mark 13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master
of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the
cockcrowing, or in the morning:
 
Mark 13:36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
 
Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
 
Mark 14:1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of
unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought
how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
 
Mark 14:2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an
uproar of the people.
 
Mark 14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of
ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and
poured it on his head.
 
Mark 14:4 And there were some that had indignation within
themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
 
Mark 14:5 For it might have been sold for more than three
hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured
against her.
 
Mark 14:6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her?
she hath wrought a good work on me.
 
Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever
ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
 
Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand
to anoint my body to the burying.
 
Mark 14:9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall
be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath
done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
 
Mark 14:10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the
chief priests, to betray him unto them.
 
Mark 14:11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised
to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray
him.
 
Mark 14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they
killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou
that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
 
Mark 14:13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith
unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man
bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
 
Mark 14:14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the
goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the
guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
 
Mark 14:15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished
and prepared: there make ready for us.
 
Mark 14:16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the
city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the
passover.
 
Mark 14:17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
 
Mark 14:18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I
say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
 
Mark 14:19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him
one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
 
Mark 14:20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the
twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
 
Mark 14:21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of
him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good
were it for that man if he had never been born.
 
Mark 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed,
and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my
body.
 
Mark 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks,
he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
 
Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many.
 
Mark 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the
fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the
kingdom of God.
 
Mark 14:26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into
the mount of Olives.
 
Mark 14:27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended
because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the
shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
 
Mark 14:28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into
Galilee.
 
Mark 14:29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be
offended, yet will not I.
 
Mark 14:30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice,
thou shalt deny me thrice.
 
Mark 14:31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die
with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said
they all.
 
Mark 14:32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane:
and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
 
Mark 14:33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and
began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
 
Mark 14:34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful
unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
 
Mark 14:35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the
ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass
from him.
 
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible
unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I
will, but what thou wilt.
 
Mark 14:37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith
unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one
hour?
 
Mark 14:38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
 
Mark 14:39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the
same words.
 
Mark 14:40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again,
(for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer
him.
 
Mark 14:41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them,
Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come;
behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
 
Mark 14:42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at
hand.
 
Mark 14:43 And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas,
one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and
staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
 
Mark 14:44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token,
saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and
lead him away safely.
 
Mark 14:45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to
him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him.
 
Mark 14:46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.
 
Mark 14:47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and
smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
 
Mark 14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come
out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
 
Mark 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye
took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
 
Mark 14:50 And they all forsook him, and fled.
 
Mark 14:51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a
linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid
hold on him:
 
Mark 14:52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them
naked.
 
Mark 14:53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with
him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the
scribes.
 
Mark 14:54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the
palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and
warmed himself at the fire.
 
Mark 14:55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for
witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
 
Mark 14:56 For many bare false witness against him, but their
witness agreed not together.
 
Mark 14:57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness
against him, saying,
 
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is
made with hands, and within three days I will build another made
without hands.
 
Mark 14:59 But neither so did their witness agree together.
 
Mark 14:60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked
Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these
witness against thee?
 
Mark 14:61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again
the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the
Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
 
Mark 14:62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of
man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds
of heaven.
 
Mark 14:63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith,
What need we any further witnesses?
 
Mark 14:64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they
all condemned him to be guilty of death.
 
Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his
face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the
servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
 
Mark 14:66 And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh
one of the maids of the high priest:
 
Mark 14:67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked
upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
 
Mark 14:68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither
understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch;
and the cock crew.
 
Mark 14:69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them
that stood by, This is one of them.
 
Mark 14:70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they
that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them:
for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.
 
Mark 14:71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know
not this man of whom ye speak.
 
Mark 14:72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called
to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow
twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he
wept.
 
Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held
a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council,
and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to
Pilate.
 
Mark 15:2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And he answering said unto them, Thou sayest it.
 
Mark 15:3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but
he answered nothing.
 
Mark 15:4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou
nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
 
Mark 15:5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate
marvelled.
 
Mark 15:6 Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner,
whomsoever they desired.
 
Mark 15:7 And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound
with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed
murder in the insurrection.
 
Mark 15:8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to
do as he had ever done unto them.
 
Mark 15:9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I
release unto you the King of the Jews?
 
Mark 15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him
for envy.
 
Mark 15:11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he
should rather release Barabbas unto them.
 
Mark 15:12 And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What
will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of
the Jews?
 
Mark 15:13 And they cried out again, Crucify him.
 
Mark 15:14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he
done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
 
Mark 15:15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people,
released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had
scourged him, to be crucified.
 
Mark 15:16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called
Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
 
Mark 15:17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a
crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
 
Mark 15:18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
 
Mark 15:19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did
spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
 
Mark 15:20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the
purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out
to crucify him.
 
Mark 15:21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by,
coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to
bear his cross.
 
Mark 15:22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which
is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
 
Mark 15:23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh:
but he received it not.
 
Mark 15:24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his
garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
 
Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
 
Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written
over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
 
Mark 15:27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on
his right hand, and the other on his left.
 
Mark 15:28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he
was numbered with the transgressors.
 
Mark 15:29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their
heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and
buildest it in three days,
 
Mark 15:30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
 
Mark 15:31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among
themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot
save.
 
Mark 15:32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the
cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified
with him reviled him.
 
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness
over the whole land until the ninth hour.
 
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being
interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
 
Mark 15:35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it,
said, Behold, he calleth Elias.
 
Mark 15:36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and
put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let
us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
 
Mark 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the
ghost.
 
Mark 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from
the top to the bottom.
 
Mark 15:39 And when the centurion, which stood over against
him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said,
Truly this man was the Son of God.
 
Mark 15:40 There were also women looking on afar off: among
whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less
and of Joses, and Salome;
 
Mark 15:41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and
ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him
unto Jerusalem.
 
Mark 15:42 And now when the even was come, because it was the
preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
 
Mark 15:43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor,
which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in
boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
 
Mark 15:44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and
calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been
any while dead.
 
Mark 15:45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the
body to Joseph.
 
Mark 15:46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and
wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was
hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the
sepulchre.
 
Mark 15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses
beheld where he was laid.
 
Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and
Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices,
that they might come and anoint him.
 
Mark 16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the
week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
 
Mark 16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
 
Mark 16:4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was
rolled away: for it was very great.
 
Mark 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and
they were affrighted.
 
Mark 16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek
Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not
here: behold the place where they laid him.
 
Mark 16:7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he
goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said
unto you.
 
Mark 16:8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the
sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they
any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
 
Mark 16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the
week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had
cast seven devils.
 
Mark 16:10 And she went and told them that had been with him,
as they mourned and wept.
 
Mark 16:11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and
had been seen of her, believed not.
 
Mark 16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of
them, as they walked, and went into the country.
 
Mark 16:13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither
believed they them.
 
Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at
meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of
heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he
was risen.
 
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature.
 
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
 
Mark 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In
my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new
tongues;
 
Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover.
 
Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was
received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
 
Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the
Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs
following. Amen.
 
Luke 1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in
order a declaration of those things which are most surely
believed among us,
 
Luke 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the
beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
 
Luke 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect
understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto
thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
 
Luke 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things,
wherein thou hast been instructed.
 
Luke 1:5 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a
certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his
wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
 
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in
all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
 
Luke 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was
barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
 
Luke 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the
priest's office before God in the order of his course,
 
Luke 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his
lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
 
Luke 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying
without at the time of incense.
 
Luke 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord
standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
 
Luke 1:12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear
fell upon him.
 
Luke 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for
thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a
son, and thou shalt call his name John.
 
Luke 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall
rejoice at his birth.
 
Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and
shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled
with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
 
Luke 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to
the Lord their God.
 
Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of
Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord.
 
Luke 1:18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I
know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in
years.
 
Luke 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel,
that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto
thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
 
Luke 1:20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to
speak, until the day that these things shall be performed,
because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in
their season.
 
Luke 1:21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled
that he tarried so long in the temple.
 
Luke 1:22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them:
and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for
he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
 
Luke 1:23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his
ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
 
Luke 1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived,
and hid herself five months, saying,
 
Luke 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein
he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
 
Luke 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent
from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
 
Luke 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph,
of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
 
Luke 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou
that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou
among women.
 
Luke 1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying,
and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
 
Luke 1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou
hast found favour with God.
 
Luke 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
 
Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the
Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his
father David:
 
Luke 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever;
and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
 
Luke 1:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be,
seeing I know not a man?
 
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy
Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be
born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
 
Luke 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also
conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with
her, who was called barren.
 
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
 
Luke 1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it
unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
 
Luke 1:39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill
country with haste, into a city of Juda;
 
Luke 1:40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted
Elisabeth.
 
Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the
salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth
was filled with the Holy Ghost:
 
Luke 1:42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said,
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb.
 
Luke 1:43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord
should come to me?
 
Luke 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation
sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
 
Luke 1:45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be
a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
 
Luke 1:46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
 
Luke 1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
 
Luke 1:48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his
handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall
call me blessed.
 
Luke 1:49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things;
and holy is his name.
 
Luke 1:50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from
generation to generation.
 
Luke 1:51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath
scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
 
Luke 1:52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and
exalted them of low degree.
 
Luke 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the
rich he hath sent empty away.
 
Luke 1:54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of
his mercy;
 
Luke 1:55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his
seed for ever.
 
Luke 1:56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and
returned to her own house.
 
Luke 1:57 Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be
delivered; and she brought forth a son.
 
Luke 1:58 And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord
had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
 
Luke 1:59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came
to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the
name of his father.
 
Luke 1:60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he
shall be called John.
 
Luke 1:61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred
that is called by this name.
 
Luke 1:62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have
him called.
 
Luke 1:63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying,
His name is John. And they marvelled all.
 
Luke 1:64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue
loosed, and he spake, and praised God.
 
Luke 1:65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and
all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill
country of Judaea.
 
Luke 1:66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their
hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand
of the Lord was with him.
 
Luke 1:67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy
Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
 
Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath
visited and redeemed his people,
 
Luke 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the
house of his servant David;
 
Luke 1:70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which
have been since the world began:
 
Luke 1:71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from
the hand of all that hate us;
 
Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to
remember his holy covenant;
 
Luke 1:73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
 
Luke 1:74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered
out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
 
Luke 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the
days of our life.
 
Luke 1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the
Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare
his ways;
 
Luke 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the
remission of their sins,
 
Luke 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the
dayspring from on high hath visited us,
 
Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
 
Luke 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and
was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
 
Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out
a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
 
Luke 2:2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was
governor of Syria.)
 
Luke 2:3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
 
Luke 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city
of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called
Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
 
Luke 2:5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great
with child.
 
Luke 2:6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days
were accomplished that she should be delivered.
 
Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there
was no room for them in the inn.
 
Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding
in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
 
Luke 2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore
afraid.
 
Luke 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
people.
 
Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
 
Luke 2:12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the
babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
 
Luke 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
 
Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men.
 
Luke 2:15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away
from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us
now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to
pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
 
Luke 2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph,
and the babe lying in a manger.
 
Luke 2:17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the
saying which was told them concerning this child.
 
Luke 2:18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things
which were told them by the shepherds.
 
Luke 2:19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in
her heart.
 
Luke 2:20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising
God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was
told unto them.
 
Luke 2:21 And when eight days were accomplished for the
circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was
so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
 
Luke 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to
the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to
Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
 
Luke 2:23 (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male
that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
 
Luke 2:24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is
said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young
pigeons.
 
Luke 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name
was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the
consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
 
Luke 2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that
he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
 
Luke 2:27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when
the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the
custom of the law,
 
Luke 2:28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and
said,
 
Luke 2:29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,
according to thy word:
 
Luke 2:30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
 
Luke 2:31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all
people;
 
Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy
people Israel.
 
Luke 2:33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things
which were spoken of him.
 
Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his
mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again
of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
 
Luke 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul
also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
 
Luke 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of
Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had
lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
 
Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four
years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with
fastings and prayers night and day.
 
Luke 2:38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise
unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for
redemption in Jerusalem.
 
Luke 2:39 And when they had performed all things according to
the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own
city Nazareth.
 
Luke 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit,
filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
 
Luke 2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the
feast of the passover.
 
Luke 2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to
Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
 
Luke 2:43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they
returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph
and his mother knew not of it.
 
Luke 2:44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company,
went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk
and acquaintance.
 
Luke 2:45 And when they found him not, they turned back again
to Jerusalem, seeking him.
 
Luke 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found
him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both
hearing them, and asking them questions.
 
Luke 2:47 And all that heard him were astonished at his
understanding and answers.
 
Luke 2:48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his
mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
 
Luke 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
 
Luke 2:50 And they understood not the saying which he spake
unto them.
 
Luke 2:51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and
was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in
her heart.
 
Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in
favour with God and man.
 
Luke 3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being
tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea
and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of
Abilene,
 
Luke 3:2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of
God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
 
Luke 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan,
preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
 
Luke 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias
the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
 
Luke 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and
hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
 
Luke 3:6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
 
Luke 3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be
baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to
flee from the wrath to come?
 
Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and
begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our
father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to
raise up children unto Abraham.
 
Luke 3:9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the
trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
 
Luke 3:10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do
then?
 
Luke 3:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two
coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath
meat, let him do likewise.
 
Luke 3:12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said
unto him, Master, what shall we do?
 
Luke 3:13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which
is appointed you.
 
Luke 3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying,
And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no
man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
 
Luke 3:15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men
mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or
not;
 
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize
you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of
whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost and with fire:
 
Luke 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge
his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the
chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
 
Luke 3:18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he
unto the people.
 
Luke 3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for
Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which
Herod had done,
 
Luke 3:20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in
prison.
 
Luke 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to
pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was
opened,
 
Luke 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a
dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art
my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
 
Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of
age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son
of Heli,
 
Luke 3:24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of
Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna,
which was the son of Joseph,
 
Luke 3:25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of
Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which
was the son of Nagge,
 
Luke 3:26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of
Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of
Joseph, which was the son of Juda,
 
Luke 3:27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of
Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of
Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,
 
Luke 3:28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of
Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam,
which was the son of Er,
 
Luke 3:29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of
Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of
Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
 
Luke 3:30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of
Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan,
which was the son of Eliakim,
 
Luke 3:31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of
Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of
Nathan, which was the son of David,
 
Luke 3:32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of
Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon,
which was the son of Naasson,
 
Luke 3:33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of
Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares,
which was the son of Juda,
 
Luke 3:34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of
Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara,
which was the son of Nachor,
 
Luke 3:35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of
Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber,
which was the son of Sala,
 
Luke 3:36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of
Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe,
which was the son of Lamech,
 
Luke 3:37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of
Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel,
which was the son of Cainan,
 
Luke 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth,
which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
 
Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from
Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
 
Luke 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those
days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward
hungered.
 
Luke 4:3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of
God, command this stone that it be made bread.
 
Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
 
Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain,
shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
time.
 
Luke 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I
give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me;
and to whomsoever I will I give it.
 
Luke 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
 
Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind
me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God, and him only shalt thou serve.
 
Luke 4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a
pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of
God, cast thyself down from hence:
 
Luke 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge
over thee, to keep thee:
 
Luke 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at
any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
 
Luke 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou
shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
 
Luke 4:13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he
departed from him for a season.
 
Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into
Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region
round about.
 
Luke 4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of
all.
 
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought
up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
 
Luke 4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the
place where it was written,
 
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that
are bruised,
 
Luke 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
 
Luke 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the
synagogue were fastened on him.
 
Luke 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears.
 
Luke 4:22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the
gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said,
Is not this Joseph's son?
 
Luke 4:23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me
this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard
done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
 
Luke 4:24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is
accepted in his own country.
 
Luke 4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel
in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and
six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
 
Luke 4:26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto
Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
 
Luke 4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus
the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the
Syrian.
 
Luke 4:28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these
things, were filled with wrath,
 
Luke 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led
him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that
they might cast him down headlong.
 
Luke 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his
way,
 
Luke 4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and
taught them on the sabbath days.
 
Luke 4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his
word was with power.
 
Luke 4:33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a
spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
 
Luke 4:34 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee,
thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee
who thou art; the Holy One of God.
 
Luke 4:35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and
come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst,
he came out of him, and hurt him not.
 
Luke 4:36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves,
saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he
commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
 
Luke 4:37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the
country round about.
 
Luke 4:38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into
Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great
fever; and they besought him for her.
 
Luke 4:39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it
left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
 
Luke 4:40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any
sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his
hands on every one of them, and healed them.
 
Luke 4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and
saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them
suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
 
Luke 4:42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a
desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and
stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
 
Luke 4:43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of
God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
 
Luke 4:44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
 
Luke 5:1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon
him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
 
Luke 5:2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the
fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
 
Luke 5:3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was
Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from
the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.
 
Luke 5:4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon,
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
 
Luke 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have
toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy
word I will let down the net.
 
Luke 5:6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great
multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
 
Luke 5:7 And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in
the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they
came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
 
Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
 
Luke 5:9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at
the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
 
Luke 5:10 And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee,
which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear
not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
 
Luke 5:11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they
forsook all, and followed him.
 
Luke 5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city,
behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face,
and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me
clean.
 
Luke 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I
will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from
him.
 
Luke 5:14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew
thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as
Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
 
Luke 5:15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him:
and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by
him of their infirmities.
 
Luke 5:16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and
prayed.
 
Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was
teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law
sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and
Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to
heal them.
 
Luke 5:18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was
taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to
lay him before him.
 
Luke 5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might
bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the
housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into
the midst before Jesus.
 
Luke 5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man,
thy sins are forgiven thee.
 
Luke 5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason,
saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive
sins, but God alone?
 
Luke 5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering
said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
 
Luke 5:23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee;
or to say, Rise up and walk?
 
Luke 5:24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power
upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,)
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine
house.
 
Luke 5:25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up
that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying
God.
 
Luke 5:26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and
were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to
day.
 
Luke 5:27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a
publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he
said unto him, Follow me.
 
Luke 5:28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
 
Luke 5:29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and
there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat
down with them.
 
Luke 5:30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his
disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and
sinners?
 
Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are
whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
 
Luke 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.
 
Luke 5:33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John
fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the
Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
 
Luke 5:34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of
the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
 
Luke 5:35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be
taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
 
Luke 5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth
a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the
new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new
agreeth not with the old.
 
Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else
the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the
bottles shall perish.
 
Luke 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both
are preserved.
 
Luke 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway
desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
 
Luke 6:1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the
first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples
plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their
hands.
 
Luke 6:2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye
that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
 
Luke 6:3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so
much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and
they which were with him;
 
Luke 6:4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and
eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him;
which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
 
Luke 6:5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord
also of the sabbath.
 
Luke 6:6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he
entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose
right hand was withered.
 
Luke 6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he
would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation
against him.
 
Luke 6:8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which
had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And
he arose and stood forth.
 
Luke 6:9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing;
Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to
save life, or to destroy it?
 
Luke 6:10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto
the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was
restored whole as the other.
 
Luke 6:11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one
with another what they might do to Jesus.
 
Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out
into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to
God.
 
Luke 6:13 And when it was day, he called unto him his
disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named
apostles;
 
Luke 6:14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his
brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
 
Luke 6:15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and
Simon called Zelotes,
 
Luke 6:16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot,
which also was the traitor.
 
Luke 6:17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain,
and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people
out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre
and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their
diseases;
 
Luke 6:18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and
they were healed.
 
Luke 6:19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for
there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
 
Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said,
Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 6:21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be
filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
 
Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when
they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach
you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
 
Luke 6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for,
behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner
did their fathers unto the prophets.
 
Luke 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received
your consolation.
 
Luke 6:25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe
unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
 
Luke 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
 
Luke 6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do
good to them which hate you,
 
Luke 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which
despitefully use you.
 
Luke 6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer
also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to
take thy coat also.
 
Luke 6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him
that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
 
Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also
to them likewise.
 
Luke 6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have
ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
 
Luke 6:33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what
thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
 
Luke 6:34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive,
what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive
as much again.
 
Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend,
hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye
shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the
unthankful and to the evil.
 
Luke 6:36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is
merciful.
 
Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not,
and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
 
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure,
pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men
give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete
withal it shall be measured to you again.
 
Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead
the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
 
Luke 6:40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one
that is perfect shall be as his master.
 
Luke 6:41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own
eye?
 
Luke 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother,
let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself
beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite,
cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou
see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
 
Luke 6:43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit;
neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
 
Luke 6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of
thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they
grapes.
 
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the
evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for
of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
 
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
which I say?
 
Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and
doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
 
Luke 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged
deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood
arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not
shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
 
Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man
that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against
which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell;
and the ruin of that house was great.
 
Luke 7:1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience
of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
 
Luke 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto
him, was sick, and ready to die.
 
Luke 7:3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the
elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal
his servant.
 
Luke 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him
instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
 
Luke 7:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a
synagogue.
 
Luke 7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far
from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto
him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou
shouldest enter under my roof:
 
Luke 7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto
thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
 
Luke 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under
me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to
another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he
doeth it.
 
Luke 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him,
and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him,
I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in
Israel.
 
Luke 7:10 And they that were sent, returning to the house,
found the servant whole that had been sick.
 
Luke 7:11 And it came to pass the day after, that he went into
a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and
much people.
 
Luke 7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city,
behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his
mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with
her.
 
Luke 7:13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her,
and said unto her, Weep not.
 
Luke 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare
him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
 
Luke 7:15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And
he delivered him to his mother.
 
Luke 7:16 And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God,
saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God
hath visited his people.
 
Luke 7:17 And this rumour of him went forth throughout all
Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.
 
Luke 7:18 And the disciples of John shewed him of all these
things.
 
Luke 7:19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent
them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we
for another?
 
Luke 7:20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John
Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should
come? or look we for another?
 
Luke 7:21 And in that same hour he cured many of their
infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that
were blind he gave sight.
 
Luke 7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and
tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind
see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
 
Luke 7:23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in
me.
 
Luke 7:24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he
began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out
into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
 
Luke 7:25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in
soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and
live delicately, are in kings' courts.
 
Luke 7:26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I
say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
 
Luke 7:27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my
messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before
thee.
 
Luke 7:28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of
women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but
he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
 
Luke 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans,
justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
 
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of
God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
 
Luke 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the
men of this generation? and to what are they like?
 
Luke 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the
marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have
piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you,
and ye have not wept.
 
Luke 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor
drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
 
Luke 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye
say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of
publicans and sinners!
 
Luke 7:35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
 
Luke 7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would
eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down
to meat.
 
Luke 7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner,
when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box of ointment,
 
Luke 7:38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began
to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of
her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the
ointment.
 
Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he
spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet,
would have known who and what manner of woman this is that
toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
 
Luke 7:40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have
somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
 
Luke 7:41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors:
the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
 
Luke 7:42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave
them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
 
Luke 7:43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom
he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
 
Luke 7:44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon,
Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me
no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and
wiped them with the hairs of her head.
 
Luke 7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time
I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
 
Luke 7:46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this
woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
 
Luke 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many,
are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven,
the same loveth little.
 
Luke 7:48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
 
Luke 7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say
within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
 
Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee;
go in peace.
 
Luke 8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout
every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of
the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
 
Luke 8:2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil
spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went
seven devils,
 
Luke 8:3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and
Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their
substance.
 
Luke 8:4 And when much people were gathered together, and were
come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
 
Luke 8:5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed,
some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls
of the air devoured it.
 
Luke 8:6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was
sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
 
Luke 8:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up
with it, and choked it.
 
Luke 8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare
fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he
cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
 
Luke 8:9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this
parable be?
 
Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that
seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
 
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
 
Luke 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh
the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest
they should believe and be saved.
 
Luke 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear,
receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a
while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
 
Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which,
when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and
riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to
perfection.
 
Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an
honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring
forth fruit with patience.
 
Luke 8:16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it
with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a
candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
 
Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made
manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come
abroad.
 
Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath,
to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be
taken even that which he seemeth to have.
 
Luke 8:19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and
could not come at him for the press.
 
Luke 8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother
and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
 
Luke 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my
brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
 
Luke 8:22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went
into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go
over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.
 
Luke 8:23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came
down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with
water, and were in jeopardy.
 
Luke 8:24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master,
master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the
raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
 
Luke 8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they
being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man
is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they
obey him.
 
Luke 8:26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,
which is over against Galilee.
 
Luke 8:27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of
the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no
clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
 
Luke 8:28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before
him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee,
Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
 
Luke 8:29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out
of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept
bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was
driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
 
Luke 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he
said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
 
Luke 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them
to go out into the deep.
 
Luke 8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on
the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to
enter into them. And he suffered them.
 
Luke 8:33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into
the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the
lake, and were choked.
 
Luke 8:34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled,
and went and told it in the city and in the country.
 
Luke 8:35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to
Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed,
sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and
they were afraid.
 
Luke 8:36 They also which saw it told them by what means he
that was possessed of the devils was healed.
 
Luke 8:37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the
Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they
were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and
returned back again.
 
Luke 8:38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed
besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away,
saying,
 
Luke 8:39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things
God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published
throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto
him.
 
Luke 8:40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned,
the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for
him.
 
Luke 8:41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he
was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet,
and besought him that he would come into his house:
 
Luke 8:42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of
age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
 
Luke 8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years,
which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be
healed of any,
 
Luke 8:44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his
garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
 
Luke 8:45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied,
Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude
throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
 
Luke 8:46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I
perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
 
Luke 8:47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came
trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him
before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how
she was healed immediately.
 
Luke 8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort:
thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.
 
Luke 8:49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler
of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead;
trouble not the Master.
 
Luke 8:50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying,
Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.
 
Luke 8:51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man
to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the
mother of the maiden.
 
Luke 8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep
not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
 
Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was
dead.
 
Luke 8:54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand,
and called, saying, Maid, arise.
 
Luke 8:55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway:
and he commanded to give her meat.
 
Luke 8:56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them
that they should tell no man what was done.
 
Luke 9:1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave
them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
 
Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to
heal the sick.
 
Luke 9:3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey,
neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither
have two coats apiece.
 
Luke 9:4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and
thence depart.
 
Luke 9:5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of
that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony
against them.
 
Luke 9:6 And they departed, and went through the towns,
preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
 
Luke 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by
him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that
John was risen from the dead;
 
Luke 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others,
that one of the old prophets was risen again.
 
Luke 9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this,
of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
 
Luke 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him
all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside
privately into a desert place belonging to the city called
Bethsaida.
 
Luke 9:11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and
he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and
healed them that had need of healing.
 
Luke 9:12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the
twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may
go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get
victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
 
Luke 9:13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they
said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we
should go and buy meat for all this people.
 
Luke 9:14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to
his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
 
Luke 9:15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
 
Luke 9:16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the
disciples to set before the multitude.
 
Luke 9:17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was
taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
 
Luke 9:18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his
disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the
people that I am?
 
Luke 9:19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say,
Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen
again.
 
Luke 9:20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter
answering said, The Christ of God.
 
Luke 9:21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to
tell no man that thing;
 
Luke 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and
be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
slain, and be raised the third day.
 
Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow
me.
 
Luke 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but
whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
 
Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole
world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
 
Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words,
of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his
own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
 
Luke 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing
here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom
of God.
 
Luke 9:28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these
sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a
mountain to pray.
 
Luke 9:29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was
altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
 
Luke 9:30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which
were Moses and Elias:
 
Luke 9:31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which
he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
 
Luke 9:32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with
sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two
men that stood with him.
 
Luke 9:33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter
said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us
make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one
for Elias: not knowing what he said.
 
Luke 9:34 While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and
overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the
cloud.
 
Luke 9:35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This
is my beloved Son: hear him.
 
Luke 9:36 And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone.
And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of
those things which they had seen.
 
Luke 9:37 And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they
were come down from the hill, much people met him.
 
Luke 9:38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying,
Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only
child.
 
Luke 9:39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth
out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him
hardly departeth from him.
 
Luke 9:40 And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and
they could not.
 
Luke 9:41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring
thy son hither.
 
Luke 9:42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down,
and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed
the child, and delivered him again to his father.
 
Luke 9:43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God.
But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did,
he said unto his disciples,
 
Luke 9:44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the
Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
 
Luke 9:45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid
from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him
of that saying.
 
Luke 9:46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of
them should be greatest.
 
Luke 9:47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart,
took a child, and set him by him,
 
Luke 9:48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this
child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me
receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all,
the same shall be great.
 
Luke 9:49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one
casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he
followeth not with us.
 
Luke 9:50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that
is not against us is for us.
 
Luke 9:51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he
should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to
Jerusalem,
 
Luke 9:52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went,
and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for
him.
 
Luke 9:53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as
though he would go to Jerusalem.
 
Luke 9:54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they
said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from
heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
 
Luke 9:55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know
not what manner of spirit ye are of.
 
Luke 9:56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's
lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
 
Luke 9:57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a
certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever
thou goest.
 
Luke 9:58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds
of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay
his head.
 
Luke 9:59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said,
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
 
Luke 9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead:
but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 9:61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but
let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
 
Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand
to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 10:1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy
also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city
and place, whither he himself would come.
 
Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is
great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
 
Luke 10:3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among
wolves.
 
Luke 10:4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute
no man by the way.
 
Luke 10:5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace
be to this house.
 
Luke 10:6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall
rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
 
Luke 10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking
such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire.
Go not from house to house.
 
Luke 10:8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive
you, eat such things as are set before you:
 
Luke 10:9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto
them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
 
Luke 10:10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive
you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
 
Luke 10:11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on
us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of
this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
 
Luke 10:12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable
in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
 
Luke 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida!
for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which
have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented,
sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
 
Luke 10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at
the judgment, than for you.
 
Luke 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven,
shalt be thrust down to hell.
 
Luke 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that
despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth
him that sent me.
 
Luke 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying,
Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
 
Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning
fall from heaven.
 
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents
and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing
shall by any means hurt you.
 
Luke 10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the
spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your
names are written in heaven.
 
Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I
thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed
them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy
sight.
 
Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no
man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father
is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
 
Luke 10:23 And he turned him unto his disciples, and said
privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
 
Luke 10:24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have
desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them;
and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
 
Luke 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted
him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
 
Luke 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how
readest thou?
 
Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
 
Luke 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this
do, and thou shalt live.
 
Luke 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus,
And who is my neighbour?
 
Luke 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped
him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him
half dead.
 
Luke 10:31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that
way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
 
Luke 10:32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place,
came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
 
Luke 10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where
he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
 
Luke 10:34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in
oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an
inn, and took care of him.
 
Luke 10:35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two
pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of
him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will
repay thee.
 
Luke 10:36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was
neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
 
Luke 10:37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said
Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
 
Luke 10:38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered
into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received
him into her house.
 
Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at
Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
 
Luke 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came
to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath
left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
 
Luke 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha,
Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
 
Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that
good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
 
Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a
certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto
him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
 
Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
 
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
 
Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every
one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but
deliver us from evil.
 
Luke 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a
friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him,
Friend, lend me three loaves;
 
Luke 11:6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me,
and I have nothing to set before him?
 
Luke 11:7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me
not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I
cannot rise and give thee.
 
Luke 11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him,
because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will
rise and give him as many as he needeth.
 
Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
 
Luke 11:10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
 
Luke 11:11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a
father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he
for a fish give him a serpent?
 
Luke 11:12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a
scorpion?
 
Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
 
Luke 11:14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And
it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and
the people wondered.
 
Luke 11:15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through
Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
 
Luke 11:16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from
heaven.
 
Luke 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them,
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation;
and a house divided against a house falleth.
 
Luke 11:18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall
his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through
Beelzebub.
 
Luke 11:19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do
your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
 
Luke 11:20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no
doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
 
Luke 11:21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his
goods are in peace:
 
Luke 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and
overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he
trusted, and divideth his spoils.
 
Luke 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth.
 
Luke 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he
walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he
saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
 
Luke 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and
garnished.
 
Luke 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits
more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and
the last state of that man is worse than the first.
 
Luke 11:27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a
certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto
him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou
hast sucked.
 
Luke 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear
the word of God, and keep it.
 
Luke 11:29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he
began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and
there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the
prophet.
 
Luke 11:30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall
also the Son of man be to this generation.
 
Luke 11:31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment
with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came
from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
 
Luke 11:32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the
preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
 
Luke 11:33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in
a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick,
that they which come in may see the light.
 
Luke 11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when
thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but
when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
 
Luke 11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee
be not darkness.
 
Luke 11:36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having
no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the
bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
 
Luke 11:37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to
dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
 
Luke 11:38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he
had not first washed before dinner.
 
Luke 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make
clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward
part is full of ravening and wickedness.
 
Luke 11:40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without
make that which is within also?
 
Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and,
behold, all things are clean unto you.
 
Luke 11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and
rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love
of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone.
 
Luke 11:43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost
seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
 
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over
them are not aware of them.
 
Luke 11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him,
Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
 
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye
lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves
touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
 
Luke 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the
prophets, and your fathers killed them.
 
Luke 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of
your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their
sepulchres.
 
Luke 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send
them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and
persecute:
 
Luke 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed
from the foundation of the world, may be required of this
generation;
 
Luke 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias
which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say
unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
 
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the
key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that
were entering in ye hindered.
 
Luke 11:53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes
and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke
him to speak of many things:
 
Luke 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something
out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
 
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together
an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one
upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all,
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
 
Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be
revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
 
Luke 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall
be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear
in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
 
Luke 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them
that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
 
Luke 12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him,
which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I
say unto you, Fear him.
 
Luke 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not
one of them is forgotten before God?
 
Luke 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all
numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many
sparrows.
 
Luke 12:8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me
before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the
angels of God:
 
Luke 12:9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied
before the angels of God.
 
Luke 12:10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of
man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth
against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
 
Luke 12:11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and
unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what
thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
 
Luke 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour
what ye ought to say.
 
Luke 12:13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak
to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
 
Luke 12:14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a
divider over you?
 
Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of
covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of
the things which he possesseth.
 
Luke 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground
of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
 
Luke 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I
do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
 
Luke 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my
barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits
and my goods.
 
Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much
goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be
merry.
 
Luke 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy
soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be,
which thou hast provided?
 
Luke 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is
not rich toward God.
 
Luke 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto
you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither
for the body, what ye shall put on.
 
Luke 12:23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more
than raiment.
 
Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap;
which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how
much more are ye better than the fowls?
 
Luke 12:25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his
stature one cubit?
 
Luke 12:26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is
least, why take ye thought for the rest?
 
Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not,
they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.
 
Luke 12:28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in
the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more
will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
 
Luke 12:29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
 
Luke 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world
seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these
things.
 
Luke 12:31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these
things shall be added unto you.
 
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom.
 
Luke 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves
bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth
not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
 
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.
 
Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights
burning;
 
Luke 12:36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their
lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh
and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
 
Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he
cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall
gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come
forth and serve them.
 
Luke 12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in
the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
 
Luke 12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had
known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and
not have suffered his house to be broken through.
 
Luke 12:40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man
cometh at an hour when ye think not.
 
Luke 12:41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this
parable unto us, or even to all?
 
Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and
wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household,
to give them their portion of meat in due season?
 
Luke 12:43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he
cometh shall find so doing.
 
Luke 12:44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him
ruler over all that he hath.
 
Luke 12:45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord
delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and
maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
 
Luke 12:46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he
looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and
will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the
unbelievers.
 
Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and
prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be
beaten with many stripes.
 
Luke 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy
of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever
much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men
have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
 
Luke 12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will
I, if it be already kindled?
 
Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am
I straitened till it be accomplished!
 
Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I
tell you, Nay; but rather division:
 
Luke 12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house
divided, three against two, and two against three.
 
Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the
son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the
daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her
daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
 
Luke 12:54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud
rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower;
and so it is.
 
Luke 12:55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There
will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
 
Luke 12:56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky
and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
 
Luke 12:57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is
right?
 
Luke 12:58 When thou goest with thine adversary to the
magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou
mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and
the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee
into prison.
 
Luke 12:59 I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou
hast paid the very last mite.
 
Luke 13:1 There were present at that season some that told him
of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their
sacrifices.
 
Luke 13:2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that
these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because
they suffered such things?
 
Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish.
 
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam
fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all
men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
 
Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish.
 
Luke 13:6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig
tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit
thereon, and found none.
 
Luke 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard,
Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree,
and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
 
Luke 13:8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone
this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
 
Luke 13:9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after
that thou shalt cut it down.
 
Luke 13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the
sabbath.
 
Luke 13:11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no
wise lift up herself.
 
Luke 13:12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and
said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
 
Luke 13:13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she
was made straight, and glorified God.
 
Luke 13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with
indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day,
and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought
to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the
sabbath day.
 
Luke 13:15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou
hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox
or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
 
Luke 13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be
loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
 
Luke 13:17 And when he had said these things, all his
adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the
glorious things that were done by him.
 
Luke 13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like?
and whereunto shall I resemble it?
 
Luke 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great
tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
 
Luke 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the
kingdom of God?
 
Luke 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
 
Luke 13:22 And he went through the cities and villages,
teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
 
Luke 13:23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be
saved? And he said unto them,
 
Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I
say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
 
Luke 13:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and
hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to
knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall
answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
 
Luke 13:26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk
in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
 
Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence
ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
 
Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when
ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets,
in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
 
Luke 13:29 And they shall come from the east, and from the
west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down
in the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 13:30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first,
and there are first which shall be last.
 
Luke 13:31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees,
saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will
kill thee.
 
Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox,
Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow,
and the third day I shall be perfected.
 
Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and
the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of
Jerusalem.
 
Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets,
and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have
gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood
under her wings, and ye would not!
 
Luke 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and
verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come
when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord.
 
Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one
of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they
watched him.
 
Luke 14:2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which
had the dropsy.
 
Luke 14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and
Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
 
Luke 14:4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and
healed him, and let him go;
 
Luke 14:5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an
ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him
out on the sabbath day?
 
Luke 14:6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
 
Luke 14:7 And he put forth a parable to those which were
bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying
unto them.
 
Luke 14:8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not
down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be
bidden of him;
 
Luke 14:9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee,
Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest
room.
 
Luke 14:10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the
lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto
thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the
presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
 
Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and
he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
 
Luke 14:12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou
makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy
brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they
also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
 
Luke 14:13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the
maimed, the lame, the blind:
 
Luke 14:14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot
recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the
resurrection of the just.
 
Luke 14:15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard
these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat
bread in the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great
supper, and bade many:
 
Luke 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them
that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
 
Luke 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I
must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
 
Luke 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen,
and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
 
Luke 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and
therefore I cannot come.
 
Luke 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these
things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his
servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city,
and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and
the blind.
 
Luke 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast
commanded, and yet there is room.
 
Luke 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house
may be filled.
 
Luke 14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which
were bidden shall taste of my supper.
 
Luke 14:25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he
turned, and said unto them,
 
Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
 
Luke 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come
after me, cannot be my disciple.
 
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower,
sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have
sufficient to finish it?
 
Luke 14:29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and
is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
 
Luke 14:30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to
finish.
 
Luke 14:31 Or what king, going to make war against another
king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able
with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty
thousand?
 
Luke 14:32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he
sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
 
Luke 14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh
not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
 
Luke 14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour,
wherewith shall it be seasoned?
 
Luke 14:35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the
dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
 
Luke 15:1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners
for to hear him.
 
Luke 15:2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This
man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
 
Luke 15:3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
 
Luke 15:4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose
one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the
wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
 
Luke 15:5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his
shoulders, rejoicing.
 
Luke 15:6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his
friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I
have found my sheep which was lost.
 
Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven
over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine
just persons, which need no repentance.
 
Luke 15:8 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she
lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and
seek diligently till she find it?
 
Luke 15:9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends
and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have
found the piece which I had lost.
 
Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the
presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
 
Luke 15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
 
Luke 15:12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father,
give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided
unto them his living.
 
Luke 15:13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all
together, and took his journey into a far country, and there
wasted his substance with riotous living.
 
Luke 15:14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty
famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
 
Luke 15:15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that
country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
 
Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the
husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
 
Luke 15:17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I
perish with hunger!
 
Luke 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto
him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
 
Luke 15:19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me
as one of thy hired servants.
 
Luke 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he
was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion,
and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
 
Luke 15:21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be
called thy son.
 
Luke 15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the
best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and
shoes on his feet:
 
Luke 15:23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and
let us eat, and be merry:
 
Luke 15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was
lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
 
Luke 15:25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came
and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
 
Luke 15:26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what
these things meant.
 
Luke 15:27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy
father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him
safe and sound.
 
Luke 15:28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore
came his father out, and intreated him.
 
Luke 15:29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many
years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy
commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might
make merry with my friends:
 
Luke 15:30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath
devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the
fatted calf.
 
Luke 15:31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me,
and all that I have is thine.
 
Luke 15:32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad:
for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost,
and is found.
 
Luke 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a
certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused
unto him that he had wasted his goods.
 
Luke 16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that
I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou
mayest be no longer steward.
 
Luke 16:3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I
do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot
dig; to beg I am ashamed.
 
Luke 16:4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of
the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
 
Luke 16:5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto
him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
 
Luke 16:6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said
unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
 
Luke 16:7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And
he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take
thy bill, and write fourscore.
 
Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he
had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their
generation wiser than the children of light.
 
Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the
mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive
you into everlasting habitations.
 
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is
faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is
unjust also in much.
 
Luke 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true
riches?
 
Luke 16:12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is
another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
 
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will
hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
 
Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all
these things: and they derided him.
 
Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify
yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that
which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of
God.
 
Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that
time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into
it.
 
Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than
one tittle of the law to fail.
 
Luke 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth
another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is
put away from her husband committeth adultery.
 
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in
purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
 
Luke 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which
was laid at his gate, full of sores,
 
Luke 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell
from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his
sores.
 
Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was
carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also
died, and was buried;
 
Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
 
Luke 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on
me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in
water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
 
Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy
lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
 
Luke 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a
great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you
cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
 
Luke 16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that
thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
 
Luke 16:28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto
them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
 
Luke 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the
prophets; let them hear them.
 
Luke 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went
unto them from the dead, they will repent.
 
Luke 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from
the dead.
 
Luke 17:1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but
that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they
come!
 
Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged
about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should
offend one of these little ones.
 
Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass
against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
 
Luke 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day,
and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent;
thou shalt forgive him.
 
Luke 17:5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our
faith.
 
Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou
plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it
should obey you.
 
Luke 17:7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding
cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the
field, Go and sit down to meat?
 
Luke 17:8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready
wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have
eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
 
Luke 17:9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things
that were commanded him? I trow not.
 
Luke 17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those
things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable
servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
 
Luke 17:11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that
he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
 
Luke 17:12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met
him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
 
Luke 17:13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus,
Master, have mercy on us.
 
Luke 17:14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew
yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they
went, they were cleansed.
 
Luke 17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed,
turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
 
Luke 17:16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him
thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
 
Luke 17:17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten
cleansed? but where are the nine?
 
Luke 17:18 There are not found that returned to give glory to
God, save this stranger.
 
Luke 17:19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith
hath made thee whole.
 
Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The
kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
 
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for,
behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
 
Luke 17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come,
when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man,
and ye shall not see it.
 
Luke 17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there:
go not after them, nor follow them.
 
Luke 17:24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one
part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so
shall also the Son of man be in his day.
 
Luke 17:25 But first must he suffer many things, and be
rejected of this generation.
 
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be
also in the days of the Son of man.
 
Luke 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they
were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the
ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
 
Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did
eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they
builded;
 
Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
 
Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man
is revealed.
 
Luke 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop,
and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it
away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return
back.
 
Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
 
Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it;
and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
 
Luke 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in
one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
 
Luke 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall
be taken, and the other left.
 
Luke 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left.
 
Luke 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord?
And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the
eagles be gathered together.
 
Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that
men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
 
Luke 18:2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not
God, neither regarded man:
 
Luke 18:3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto
him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
 
Luke 18:4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said
within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
 
Luke 18:5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge
her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
 
Luke 18:6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
 
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day
and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
 
Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on
the earth?
 
Luke 18:9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted
in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
 
Luke 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a
Pharisee, and the other a publican.
 
Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself,
God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
 
Luke 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that
I possess.
 
Luke 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift
up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast,
saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
 
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house
justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth
himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted.
 
Luke 18:15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he
would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked
them.
 
Luke 18:16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer
little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such
is the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 18:17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive
the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter
therein.
 
Luke 18:18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
 
Luke 18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
none is good, save one, that is, God.
 
Luke 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit
adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,
Honour thy father and thy mother.
 
Luke 18:21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
 
Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him,
Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and
distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven:
and come, follow me.
 
Luke 18:23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for
he was very rich.
 
Luke 18:24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he
said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the
kingdom of God!
 
Luke 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a
needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God.
 
Luke 18:26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?
 
Luke 18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with
men are possible with God.
 
Luke 18:28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed
thee.
 
Luke 18:29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There
is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife,
or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
 
Luke 18:30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present
time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
 
Luke 18:31 Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto
them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are
written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be
accomplished.
 
Luke 18:32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and
shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
 
Luke 18:33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death:
and the third day he shall rise again.
 
Luke 18:34 And they understood none of these things: and this
saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were
spoken.
 
Luke 18:35 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto
Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:
 
Luke 18:36 And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it
meant.
 
Luke 18:37 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth
by.
 
Luke 18:38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me.
 
Luke 18:39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he
should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of
David, have mercy on me.
 
Luke 18:40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought
unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,
 
Luke 18:41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?
And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
 
Luke 18:42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy
faith hath saved thee.
 
Luke 18:43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed
him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave
praise unto God.
 
Luke 19:1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
 
Luke 19:2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which
was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
 
Luke 19:3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not
for the press, because he was little of stature.
 
Luke 19:4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore
tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
 
Luke 19:5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and
saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down;
for to day I must abide at thy house.
 
Luke 19:6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him
joyfully.
 
Luke 19:7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That
he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
 
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold,
Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have
taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him
fourfold.
 
Luke 19:9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come
to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
 
Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that
which was lost.
 
Luke 19:11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a
parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they
thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
 
Luke 19:12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a
far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
 
Luke 19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them
ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
 
Luke 19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after
him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
 
Luke 19:15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned,
having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to
be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might
know how much every man had gained by trading.
 
Luke 19:16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath
gained ten pounds.
 
Luke 19:17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant:
because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou
authority over ten cities.
 
Luke 19:18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath
gained five pounds.
 
Luke 19:19 And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five
cities.
 
Luke 19:20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy
pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
 
Luke 19:21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man:
thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou
didst not sow.
 
Luke 19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I
judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an
austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I
did not sow:
 
Luke 19:23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the
bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with
usury?
 
Luke 19:24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him
the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
 
Luke 19:25 (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)
 
Luke 19:26 For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath
shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath
shall be taken away from him.
 
Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I
should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
 
Luke 19:28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before,
ascending up to Jerusalem.
 
Luke 19:29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to
Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives,
he sent two of his disciples,
 
Luke 19:30 Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in
the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet
never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
 
Luke 19:31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus
shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
 
Luke 19:32 And they that were sent went their way, and found
even as he had said unto them.
 
Luke 19:33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners
thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
 
Luke 19:34 And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
 
Luke 19:35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their
garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
 
Luke 19:36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the
way.
 
Luke 19:37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent
of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples
began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the
mighty works that they had seen;
 
Luke 19:38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name
of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
 
Luke 19:39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude
said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
 
Luke 19:40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that,
if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately
cry out.
 
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and
wept over it,
 
Luke 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in
this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now
they are hid from thine eyes.
 
Luke 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine
enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round,
and keep thee in on every side,
 
Luke 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy
children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone
upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy
visitation.
 
Luke 19:45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out
them that sold therein, and them that bought;
 
Luke 19:46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the
house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
 
Luke 19:47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief
priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to
destroy him,
 
Luke 19:48 And could not find what they might do: for all the
people were very attentive to hear him.
 
Luke 20:1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he
taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the
chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
 
Luke 20:2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what
authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee
this authority?
 
Luke 20:3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask
you one thing; and answer me:
 
Luke 20:4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
 
Luke 20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we
shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him
not?
 
Luke 20:6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone
us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
 
Luke 20:7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it
was.
 
Luke 20:8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what
authority I do these things.
 
Luke 20:9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A
certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen,
and went into a far country for a long time.
 
Luke 20:10 And at the season he sent a servant to the
husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the
vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
 
Luke 20:11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him
also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
 
Luke 20:12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him
also, and cast him out.
 
Luke 20:13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do?
I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him
when they see him.
 
Luke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among
themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that
the inheritance may be ours.
 
Luke 20:15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed
him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
 
Luke 20:16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and
shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they
said, God forbid.
 
Luke 20:17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that
is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is
become the head of the corner?
 
Luke 20:18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be
broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder.
 
Luke 20:19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour
sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they
perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
 
Luke 20:20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which
should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of
his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and
authority of the governor.
 
Luke 20:21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that
thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the
person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
 
Luke 20:22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or
no?
 
Luke 20:23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto
them, Why tempt ye me?
 
Luke 20:24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath
it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
 
Luke 20:25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar
the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be
God's.
 
Luke 20:26 And they could not take hold of his words before the
people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
 
Luke 20:27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which
deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
 
Luke 20:28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's
brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his
brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
 
Luke 20:29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first
took a wife, and died without children.
 
Luke 20:30 And the second took her to wife, and he died
childless.
 
Luke 20:31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven
also: and they left no children, and died.
 
Luke 20:32 Last of all the woman died also.
 
Luke 20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is
she? for seven had her to wife.
 
Luke 20:34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of
this world marry, and are given in marriage:
 
Luke 20:35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain
that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry,
nor are given in marriage:
 
Luke 20:36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal
unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children
of the resurrection.
 
Luke 20:37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at
the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
 
Luke 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living:
for all live unto him.
 
Luke 20:39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master,
thou hast well said.
 
Luke 20:40 And after that they durst not ask him any question
at all.
 
Luke 20:41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is
David's son?
 
Luke 20:42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The
LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
 
Luke 20:43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
 
Luke 20:44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his
son?
 
Luke 20:45 Then in the audience of all the people he said unto
his disciples,
 
Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long
robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats
in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
 
Luke 20:47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make
long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
 
Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their
gifts into the treasury.
 
Luke 21:2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in
thither two mites.
 
Luke 21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this
poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
 
Luke 21:4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto
the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the
living that she had.
 
Luke 21:5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned
with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
 
Luke 21:6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will
come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon
another, that shall not be thrown down.
 
Luke 21:7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall
these things be? and what sign will there be when these things
shall come to pass?
 
Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time
draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
 
Luke 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not
terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end
is not by and by.
 
Luke 21:10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
 
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and
famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs
shall there be from heaven.
 
Luke 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on
you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and
into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's
sake.
 
Luke 21:13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
 
Luke 21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate
before what ye shall answer:
 
Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all
your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
 
Luke 21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and
brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they
cause to be put to death.
 
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
 
Luke 21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
 
Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
 
Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with
armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
 
Luke 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the
mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out;
and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
 
Luke 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things
which are written may be fulfilled.
 
Luke 21:23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them
that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress
in the land, and wrath upon this people.
 
Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and
shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall
be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles
be fulfilled.
 
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the
moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
 
Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking
after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers
of heaven shall be shaken.
 
Luke 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a
cloud with power and great glory.
 
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then
look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth
nigh.
 
Luke 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,
and all the trees;
 
Luke 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your
own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
 
Luke 21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to
pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
 
Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not
pass away, till all be fulfilled.
 
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall
not pass away.
 
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares
of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
 
Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell
on the face of the whole earth.
 
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to
pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
 
Luke 21:37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple;
and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called
the mount of Olives.
 
Luke 21:38 And all the people came early in the morning to him
in the temple, for to hear him.
 
Luke 22:1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is
called the Passover.
 
Luke 22:2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they
might kill him; for they feared the people.
 
Luke 22:3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot,
being of the number of the twelve.
 
Luke 22:4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief
priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
 
Luke 22:5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
 
Luke 22:6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him
unto them in the absence of the multitude.
 
Luke 22:7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the
passover must be killed.
 
Luke 22:8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us
the passover, that we may eat.
 
Luke 22:9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we
prepare?
 
Luke 22:10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered
into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of
water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
 
Luke 22:11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The
Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall
eat the passover with my disciples?
 
Luke 22:12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished:
there make ready.
 
Luke 22:13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them:
and they made ready the passover.
 
Luke 22:14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the
twelve apostles with him.
 
Luke 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to
eat this passover with you before I suffer:
 
Luke 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof,
until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take
this, and divide it among yourselves:
 
Luke 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of
the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
 
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it,
and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for
you: this do in remembrance of me.
 
Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup
is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
 
Luke 22:21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is
with me on the table.
 
Luke 22:22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was
determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
 
Luke 22:23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of
them it was that should do this thing.
 
Luke 22:24 And there was also a strife among them, which of
them should be accounted the greatest.
 
Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority
upon them are called benefactors.
 
Luke 22:26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest
among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he
that doth serve.
 
Luke 22:27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or
he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among
you as he that serveth.
 
Luke 22:28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my
temptations.
 
Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath
appointed unto me;
 
Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom,
and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
 
Luke 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath
desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
 
Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not:
and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
 
Luke 22:33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with
thee, both into prison, and to death.
 
Luke 22:34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not
crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou
knowest me.
 
Luke 22:35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without
purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said,
Nothing.
 
Luke 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a
purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath
no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
 
Luke 22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must
yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the
transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
 
Luke 22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords.
And he said unto them, It is enough.
 
Luke 22:39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the
mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
 
Luke 22:40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them,
Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
 
Luke 22:41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast,
and kneeled down, and prayed,
 
Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup
from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
 
Luke 22:43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,
strengthening him.
 
Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and
his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the
ground.
 
Luke 22:45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his
disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
 
Luke 22:46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray,
lest ye enter into temptation.
 
Luke 22:47 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he
that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and
drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
 
Luke 22:48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the
Son of man with a kiss?
 
Luke 22:49 When they which were about him saw what would
follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
 
Luke 22:50 And one of them smote the servant of the high
priest, and cut off his right ear.
 
Luke 22:51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And
he touched his ear, and healed him.
 
Luke 22:52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains
of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come
out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
 
Luke 22:53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye
stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and
the power of darkness.
 
Luke 22:54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him
into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
 
Luke 22:55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the
hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
 
Luke 22:56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire,
and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with
him.
 
Luke 22:57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
 
Luke 22:58 And after a little while another saw him, and said,
Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
 
Luke 22:59 And about the space of one hour after another
confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was
with him: for he is a Galilaean.
 
Luke 22:60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest.
And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
 
Luke 22:61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And
Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him,
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
 
Luke 22:62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
 
Luke 22:63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote
him.
 
Luke 22:64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him
on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that
smote thee?
 
Luke 22:65 And many other things blasphemously spake they
against him.
 
Luke 22:66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people
and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him
into their council, saying,
 
Luke 22:67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them,
If I tell you, ye will not believe:
 
Luke 22:68 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor
let me go.
 
Luke 22:69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand
of the power of God.
 
Luke 22:70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God?
And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.
 
Luke 22:71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for
we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
 
Luke 23:1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him
unto Pilate.
 
Luke 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this
fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to
Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
 
Luke 23:3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of
the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
 
Luke 23:4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the
people, I find no fault in this man.
 
Luke 23:5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up
the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee
to this place.
 
Luke 23:6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the
man were a Galilaean.
 
Luke 23:7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's
jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at
Jerusalem at that time.
 
Luke 23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for
he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard
many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done
by him.
 
Luke 23:9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he
answered him nothing.
 
Luke 23:10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and
vehemently accused him.
 
Luke 23:11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and
mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him
again to Pilate.
 
Luke 23:12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends
together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
 
Luke 23:13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief
priests and the rulers and the people,
 
Luke 23:14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as
one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined
him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those
things whereof ye accuse him:
 
Luke 23:15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo,
nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
 
Luke 23:16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
 
Luke 23:17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at
the feast.)
 
Luke 23:18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with
this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
 
Luke 23:19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and
for murder, was cast into prison.)
 
Luke 23:20 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake
again to them.
 
Luke 23:21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
 
Luke 23:22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil
hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will
therefore chastise him, and let him go.
 
Luke 23:23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring
that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the
chief priests prevailed.
 
Luke 23:24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they
required.
 
Luke 23:25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and
murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he
delivered Jesus to their will.
 
Luke 23:26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one
Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they
laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
 
Luke 23:27 And there followed him a great company of people,
and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
 
Luke 23:28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of
Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your
children.
 
Luke 23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they
shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare,
and the paps which never gave suck.
 
Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall
on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
 
Luke 23:31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what
shall be done in the dry?
 
Luke 23:32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with
him to be put to death.
 
Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is
called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
 
Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know
not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
 
Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also
with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save
himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
 
Luke 23:36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and
offering him vinegar,
 
Luke 23:37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save
thyself.
 
Luke 23:38 And a superscription also was written over him in
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE
JEWS.
 
Luke 23:39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed
on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
 
Luke 23:40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost
not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
 
Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward
of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
 
Luke 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom.
 
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To
day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
 
Luke 23:44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a
darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
 
Luke 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple
was rent in the midst.
 
Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus,
he gave up the ghost.
 
Luke 23:47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he
glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
 
Luke 23:48 And all the people that came together to that sight,
beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and
returned.
 
Luke 23:49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that
followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these
things.
 
Luke 23:50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a
counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
 
Luke 23:51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed
of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also
himself waited for the kingdom of God.
 
Luke 23:52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of
Jesus.
 
Luke 23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and
laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man
before was laid.
 
Luke 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath
drew on.
 
Luke 23:55 And the women also, which came with him from
Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his
body was laid.
 
Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and
ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the
commandment.
 
Luke 24:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the
morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which
they had prepared, and certain others with them.
 
Luke 24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the
sepulchre.
 
Luke 24:3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the
Lord Jesus.
 
Luke 24:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed
thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
 
Luke 24:5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces
to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among
the dead?
 
Luke 24:6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake
unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
 
Luke 24:7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the
hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise
again.
 
Luke 24:8 And they remembered his words,
 
Luke 24:9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these
things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
 
Luke 24:10 It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the
mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told
these things unto the apostles.
 
Luke 24:11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and
they believed them not.
 
Luke 24:12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and
stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves,
and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to
pass.
 
Luke 24:13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a
village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore
furlongs.
 
Luke 24:14 And they talked together of all these things which
had happened.
 
Luke 24:15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed
together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with
them.
 
Luke 24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know
him.
 
Luke 24:17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications
are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
 
Luke 24:18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas,
answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem,
and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in
these days?
 
Luke 24:19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said
unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet
mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
 
Luke 24:20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered
him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
 
Luke 24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have
redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day
since these things were done.
 
Luke 24:22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us
astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
 
Luke 24:23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying,
that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he
was alive.
 
Luke 24:24 And certain of them which were with us went to the
sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him
they saw not.
 
Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart
to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
 
Luke 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and
to enter into his glory?
 
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he
expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
himself.
 
Luke 24:28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they
went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
 
Luke 24:29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for
it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to
tarry with them.
 
Luke 24:30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he
took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
 
Luke 24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and
he vanished out of their sight.
 
Luke 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn
within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he
opened to us the scriptures?
 
Luke 24:33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to
Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that
were with them,
 
Luke 24:34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared
to Simon.
 
Luke 24:35 And they told what things were done in the way, and
how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
 
Luke 24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the
midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
 
Luke 24:37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed
that they had seen a spirit.
 
Luke 24:38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why
do thoughts arise in your hearts?
 
Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye
see me have.
 
Luke 24:40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his
hands and his feet.
 
Luke 24:41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and
wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
 
Luke 24:42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of
an honeycomb.
 
Luke 24:43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
 
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I
spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
 
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures,
 
Luke 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it
behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third
day:
 
Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
 
Luke 24:48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
 
Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon
you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued
with power from on high.
 
Luke 24:50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he
lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
 
Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was
parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
 
Luke 24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem
with great joy:
 
Luke 24:53 And were continually in the temple, praising and
blessing God. Amen. 
 
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
 
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
 
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not
any thing made that was made.
 
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
 
John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.
 
John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
 
John 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light, that all men through him might believe.
 
John 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of
that Light.
 
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world.
 
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not.
 
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
 
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
 
John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
 
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth.
 
John 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was
he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before
me: for he was before me.
 
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace
for grace.
 
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth
came by Jesus Christ.
 
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten
Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
 
John 1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent
priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
 
John 1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am
not the Christ.
 
John 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he
saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
 
John 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may
give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
 
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the
prophet Esaias.
 
John 1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
 
John 1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest
thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that
prophet?
 
John 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but
there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
 
John 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me,
whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
 
John 1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan,
where John was baptizing.
 
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and
saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.
 
John 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man
which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
 
John 1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made
manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
 
John 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit
descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
 
John 1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize
with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the
Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
 
John 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of
God.
 
John 1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his
disciples;
 
John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold
the Lamb of God!
 
John 1:37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they
followed Jesus.
 
John 1:38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith
unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to
say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
 
John 1:39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw
where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the
tenth hour.
 
John 1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed
him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
 
John 1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith
unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted,
the Christ.
 
John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld
him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be
called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
 
John 1:43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee,
and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
 
John 1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and
Peter.
 
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have
found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write,
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
 
John 1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing
come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
 
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him,
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
 
John 1:48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee,
when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
 
John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou
art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
 
John 1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto
thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt
see greater things than these.
 
John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
 
John 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of
Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
 
John 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the
marriage.
 
John 2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith
unto him, They have no wine.
 
John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with
thee? mine hour is not yet come.
 
John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he
saith unto you, do it.
 
John 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after
the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three
firkins apiece.
 
John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water.
And they filled them up to the brim.
 
John 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto
the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
 
John 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that
was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants
which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the
bridegroom,
 
John 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth
set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that
which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
 
John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of
Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples
believed on him.
 
John 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his
mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued
there not many days.
 
John 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
 
John 2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and
sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
 
John 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he
drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen;
and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
 
John 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things
hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
 
John 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The
zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
 
John 2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign
shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
 
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
 
John 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this
temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
 
John 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
 
John 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his
disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they
believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
 
John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the
feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles
which he did.
 
John 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because
he knew all men,
 
John 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he
knew what was in man.
 
John 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews:
 
John 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him,
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man
can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
 
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I
say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
 
John 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when
he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb,
and be born?
 
John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God.
 
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
 
John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born
again.
 
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
 
John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these
things be?
 
John 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master
of Israel, and knowest not these things?
 
John 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do
know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our
witness.
 
John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe
not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
 
John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that
came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
 
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
 
John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have eternal life.
 
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
 
John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
 
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he
that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
 
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into
the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil.
 
John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
 
John 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his
deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
 
John 3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into
the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
 
John 3:23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim,
because there was much water there: and they came, and were
baptized.
 
John 3:24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
 
John 3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's
disciples and the Jews about purifying.
 
John 3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he
that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,
behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
 
John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing,
except it be given him from heaven.
 
John 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not
the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
 
John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the
friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him,
rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy
therefore is fulfilled.
 
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
 
John 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of
the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh
from heaven is above all.
 
John 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth;
and no man receiveth his testimony.
 
John 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his
seal that God is true.
 
John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
 
John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things
into his hand.
 
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the
wrath of God abideth on him.
 
John 4:1 When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had
heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
 
John 4:2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his
disciples,)
 
John 4:3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
 
John 4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
 
John 4:5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son
Joseph.
 
John 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being
wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about
the sixth hour.
 
John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus
saith unto her, Give me to drink.
 
John 4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy
meat.)
 
John 4:9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it
that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of
Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
 
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the
gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink;
thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee
living water.
 
John 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to
draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that
living water?
 
John 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us
the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle?
 
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh
of this water shall thirst again:
 
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give
him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
 
John 4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water,
that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
 
John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come
hither.
 
John 4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus
said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
 
John 4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now
hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
 
John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou
art a prophet.
 
John 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say,
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
 
John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father.
 
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship:
for salvation is of the Jews.
 
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for
the Father seeketh such to worship him.
 
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.
 
John 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh,
which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all
things.
 
John 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
 
John 4:27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that
he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or,
Why talkest thou with her?
 
John 4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way
into the city, and saith to the men,
 
John 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I
did: is not this the Christ?
 
John 4:30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
 
John 4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying,
Master, eat.
 
John 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye
know not of.
 
John 4:33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any
man brought him ought to eat?
 
John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of
him that sent me, and to finish his work.
 
John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then
cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
 
John 4:36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth
fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together.
 
John 4:37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and
another reapeth.
 
John 4:38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no
labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their
labours.
 
John 4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on
him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all
that ever I did.
 
John 4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they
besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there
two days.
 
John 4:41 And many more believed because of his own word;
 
John 4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because
of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that
this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
 
John 4:43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into
Galilee.
 
John 4:44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no
honour in his own country.
 
John 4:45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans
received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem
at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
 
John 4:46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he
made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son
was sick at Capernaum.
 
John 4:47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into
Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come
down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
 
John 4:48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and
wonders, ye will not believe.
 
John 4:49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my
child die.
 
John 4:50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And
the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he
went his way.
 
John 4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him,
and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
 
John 4:52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to
amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the
fever left him.
 
John 4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in
the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself
believed, and his whole house.
 
John 4:54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when
he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
 
John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
 
John 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five
porches.
 
John 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
 
John 5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the
pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the
troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever
disease he had.
 
John 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity
thirty and eight years.
 
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now
a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made
whole?
 
John 5:7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man,
when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I
am coming, another steppeth down before me.
 
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
 
John 5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up
his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
 
John 5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It
is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
 
John 5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same
said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
 
John 5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto
thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
 
John 5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus
had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
 
John 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said
unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse
thing come unto thee.
 
John 5:15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was
Jesus, which had made him whole.
 
John 5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and
sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the
sabbath day.
 
John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto,
and I work.
 
John 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him,
because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that
God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
 
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth,
these also doeth the Son likewise.
 
John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all
things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works
than these, that ye may marvel.
 
John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth
them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
 
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all
judgment unto the Son:
 
John 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they
honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not
the Father which hath sent him.
 
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my
word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,
and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death
unto life.
 
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God:
and they that hear shall live.
 
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he
given to the Son to have life in himself;
 
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment
also, because he is the Son of man.
 
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the
which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
 
John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto
the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation.
 
John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I
judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
 
John 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
 
John 5:32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I
know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
 
John 5:33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the
truth.
 
John 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these
things I say, that ye might be saved.
 
John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were
willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
 
John 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the
works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works
that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
 
John 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath
borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time,
nor seen his shape.
 
John 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he
hath sent, him ye believe not.
 
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
 
John 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
 
John 5:41 I receive not honour from men.
 
John 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in
you.
 
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not:
if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
 
John 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of
another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
 
John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father:
there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
 
John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me;
for he wrote of me.
 
John 5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye
believe my words?
 
John 6:1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee,
which is the sea of Tiberias.
 
John 6:2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw
his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
 
John 6:3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat
with his disciples.
 
John 6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
 
John 6:5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great
company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy
bread, that these may eat?
 
John 6:6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew
what he would do.
 
John 6:7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread
is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a
little.
 
John 6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
saith unto him,
 
John 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves,
and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
 
John 6:10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was
much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about
five thousand.
 
John 6:11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given
thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to
them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as
they would.
 
John 6:12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples,
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
 
John 6:13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled
twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves,
which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
 
John 6:14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that
Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come
into the world.
 
John 6:15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come
and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into
a mountain himself alone.
 
John 6:16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down
unto the sea,
 
John 6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward
Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
 
John 6:18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that
blew.
 
John 6:19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or
thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing
nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
 
John 6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
 
John 6:21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and
immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
 
John 6:22 The day following, when the people which stood on the
other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there,
save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that
Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his
disciples were gone away alone;
 
John 6:23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh
unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had
given thanks:)
 
John 6:24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not
there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came
to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
 
John 6:25 And when they had found him on the other side of the
sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
 
John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but
because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
 
John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that
meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man
shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
 
John 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we
might work the works of God?
 
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work
of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
 
John 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou
then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
 
John 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is
written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
 
John 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father
giveth you the true bread from heaven.
 
John 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from
heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
 
John 6:34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this
bread.
 
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he
that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me
shall never thirst.
 
John 6:36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and
believe not.
 
John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
 
John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me.
 
John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me,
that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but
should raise it up again at the last day.
 
John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every
one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have
everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
John 6:41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am
the bread which came down from heaven.
 
John 6:42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph,
whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I
came down from heaven?
 
John 6:43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur
not among yourselves.
 
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath
sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all
taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath
learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
 
John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which
is of God, he hath seen the Father.
 
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
me hath everlasting life.
 
John 6:48 I am that bread of life.
 
John 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are
dead.
 
John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that
a man may eat thereof, and not die.
 
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if
any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread
that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of
the world.
 
John 6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying,
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
 
John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his
blood, ye have no life in you.
 
John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath
eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink
indeed.
 
John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me, and I in him.
 
John 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the
Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
 
John 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not
as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of
this bread shall live for ever.
 
John 6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught
in Capernaum.
 
John 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard
this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
 
John 6:61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples
murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
 
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up
where he was before?
 
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and
they are life.
 
John 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus
knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who
should betray him.
 
John 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man
can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
 
John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and
walked no more with him.
 
John 6:67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go
away?
 
John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we
go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
 
John 6:69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that
Christ, the Son of the living God.
 
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve,
and one of you is a devil?
 
John 6:71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he
it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
 
John 7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he
would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
 
John 7:2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
 
John 7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence,
and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works
that thou doest.
 
John 7:4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret,
and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these
things, shew thyself to the world.
 
John 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
 
John 7:6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come:
but your time is alway ready.
 
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I
testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
 
John 7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this
feast: for my time is not yet full come.
 
John 7:9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still
in Galilee.
 
John 7:10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also
up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
 
John 7:11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said,
Where is he?
 
John 7:12 And there was much murmuring among the people
concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said,
Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
 
John 7:13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the
Jews.
 
John 7:14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into
the temple, and taught.
 
John 7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man
letters, having never learned?
 
John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not
mine, but his that sent me.
 
John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the
doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
 
John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:
but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true,
and no unrighteousness is in him.
 
John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
 
John 7:20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who
goeth about to kill thee?
 
John 7:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one
work, and ye all marvel.
 
John 7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not
because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the
sabbath day circumcise a man.
 
John 7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision,
that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me,
because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
 
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge
righteous judgment.
 
John 7:25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he,
whom they seek to kill?
 
John 7:26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing
unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
 
John 7:27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when
Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
 
John 7:28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying,
Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of
myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
 
John 7:29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent
me.
 
John 7:30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands
on him, because his hour was not yet come.
 
John 7:31 And many of the people believed on him, and said,
When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which
this man hath done?
 
John 7:32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such
things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests
sent officers to take him.
 
John 7:33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I
with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
 
John 7:34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I
am, thither ye cannot come.
 
John 7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he
go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed
among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
 
John 7:36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall
seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot
come?
 
John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me,
and drink.
 
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
 
John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that
believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet
given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
 
John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this
saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
 
John 7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall
Christ come out of Galilee?
 
John 7:42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of
the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David
was?
 
John 7:43 So there was a division among the people because of
him.
 
John 7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man
laid hands on him.
 
John 7:45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and
Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
 
John 7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
 
John 7:47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also
deceived?
 
John 7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed
on him?
 
John 7:49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
 
John 7:50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by
night, being one of them,)
 
John 7:51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and
know what he doeth?
 
John 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of
Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
 
John 7:53 And every man went unto his own house.
 
John 8:1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
 
John 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the
temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and
taught them.
 
John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman
taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
 
John 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in
adultery, in the very act.
 
John 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be
stoned: but what sayest thou?
 
John 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to
accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on
the ground, as though he heard them not.
 
John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up
himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you,
let him first cast a stone at her.
 
John 8:8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
 
John 8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even
unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing
in the midst.
 
John 8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but
the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine
accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
 
John 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her,
Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
 
John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the
light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of life.
 
John 8:13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest
record of thyself; thy record is not true.
 
John 8:14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear
record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I
came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and
whither I go.
 
John 8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
 
John 8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not
alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
 
John 8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of
two men is true.
 
John 8:18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father
that sent me beareth witness of me.
 
John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus
answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me,
ye should have known my Father also.
 
John 8:20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught
in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not
yet come.
 
John 8:21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye
shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye
cannot come.
 
John 8:22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he
saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
 
John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from
above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
 
John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your
sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your
sins.
 
John 8:25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus
saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the
beginning.
 
John 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he
that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which
I have heard of him.
 
John 8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the
Father.
 
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the
Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do
nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these
things.
 
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not
left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
 
John 8:30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
 
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
 
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free.
 
John 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were
never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made
free?
 
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
 
John 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever:
but the Son abideth ever.
 
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed.
 
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to
kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
 
John 8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye
do that which ye have seen with your father.
 
John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our
father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye
would do the works of Abraham.
 
John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you
the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
 
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to
him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
 
John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye
would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither
came I of myself, but he sent me.
 
John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye
cannot hear my word.
 
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of
your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the
father of it.
 
John 8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
 
John 8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the
truth, why do ye not believe me?
 
John 8:47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore
hear them not, because ye are not of God.
 
John 8:48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not
well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
 
John 8:49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my
Father, and ye do dishonour me.
 
John 8:50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that
seeketh and judgeth.
 
John 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my
saying, he shall never see death.
 
John 8:52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou
hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest,
If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
 
John 8:53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is
dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
 
John 8:54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is
nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that
he is your God:
 
John 8:55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I
should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but
I know him, and keep his saying.
 
John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he
saw it, and was glad.
 
John 8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty
years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
 
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.
 
John 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus
hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst
of them, and so passed by.
 
John 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind
from his birth.
 
John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did
sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
 
John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his
parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in
him.
 
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is
day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
 
John 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world.
 
John 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and
made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind
man with the clay,
 
John 9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,
(which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore,
and washed, and came seeing.
 
John 9:8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had
seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and
begged?
 
John 9:9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him:
but he said, I am he.
 
John 9:10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes
opened?
 
John 9:11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made
clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of
Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
 
John 9:12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know
not.
 
John 9:13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was
blind.
 
John 9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay,
and opened his eyes.
 
John 9:15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had
received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine
eyes, and I washed, and do see.
 
John 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not
of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How
can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a
division among them.
 
John 9:17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou
of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
 
John 9:18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he
had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the
parents of him that had received his sight.
 
John 9:19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye
say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
 
John 9:20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this
is our son, and that he was born blind:
 
John 9:21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who
hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he
shall speak for himself.
 
John 9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared
the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did
confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the
synagogue.
 
John 9:23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
 
John 9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and
said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a
sinner.
 
John 9:25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I
know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
 
John 9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how
opened he thine eyes?
 
John 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did
not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his
disciples?
 
John 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his
disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
 
John 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this
fellow, we know not from whence he is.
 
John 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a
marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he
hath opened mine eyes.
 
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any
man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
 
John 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man
opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
 
John 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
 
John 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether
born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
 
John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he
had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of
God?
 
John 9:36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might
believe on him?
 
John 9:37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and
it is he that talketh with thee.
 
John 9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
 
John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this
world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see
might be made blind.
 
John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard
these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
 
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should
have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin
remaineth.
 
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not
by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way,
the same is a thief and a robber.
 
John 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd
of the sheep.
 
John 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his
voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them
out.
 
John 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth
before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
 
John 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee
from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
 
John 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they
understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
 
John 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
 
John 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers:
but the sheep did not hear them.
 
John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be
saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
 
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill,
and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly.
 
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep.
 
John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd,
whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth
the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth
the sheep.
 
John 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and
careth not for the sheep.
 
John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am
known of mine.
 
John 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father:
and I lay down my life for the sheep.
 
John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there
shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
 
John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down
my life, that I might take it again.
 
John 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
 
John 10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews
for these sayings.
 
John 10:20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad;
why hear ye him?
 
John 10:21 Others said, These are not the words of him that
hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
 
John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication,
and it was winter.
 
John 10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
 
John 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto
him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ,
tell us plainly.
 
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed
not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness
of me.
 
John 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep,
as I said unto you.
 
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me:
 
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
 
John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;
and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
 
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
 
John 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
 
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed
you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
 
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we
stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a
man, makest thyself God.
 
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods?
 
John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God
came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
 
John 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and
sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the
Son of God?
 
John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
 
John 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the
works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me,
and I in him.
 
John 10:39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he
escaped out of their hand,
 
John 10:40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place
where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
 
John 10:41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no
miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
 
John 10:42 And many believed on him there.
 
John 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of
Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
 
John 11:2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with
ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus
was sick.)
 
John 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord,
behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
 
John 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not
unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might
be glorified thereby.
 
John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
 
John 11:6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he
abode two days still in the same place where he was.
 
John 11:7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go
into Judaea again.
 
John 11:8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late
sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
 
John 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the
day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he
seeth the light of this world.
 
John 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth,
because there is no light in him.
 
John 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto
them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him
out of sleep.
 
John 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall
do well.
 
John 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought
that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
 
John 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
 
John 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,
to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
 
John 11:16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his
fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
 
John 11:17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in
the grave four days already.
 
John 11:18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen
furlongs off:
 
John 11:19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to
comfort them concerning their brother.
 
John 11:20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was
coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
 
John 11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died.
 
John 11:22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask
of God, God will give it thee.
 
John 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
 
John 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise
again in the resurrection at the last day.
 
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the
life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live:
 
John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never
die. Believest thou this?
 
John 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou
art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
 
John 11:28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and
called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and
calleth for thee.
 
John 11:29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and
came unto him.
 
John 11:30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in
that place where Martha met him.
 
John 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and
comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and
went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep
there.
 
John 11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw
him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou
hadst been here, my brother had not died.
 
John 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews
also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and
was troubled.
 
John 11:34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto
him, Lord, come and see.
 
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
 
John 11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
 
John 11:37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which
opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man
should not have died?
 
John 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to
the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
 
John 11:39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the
sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time
he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
 
John 11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if
thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
 
John 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where
the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said,
Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
 
John 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because
of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe
that thou hast sent me.
 
John 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud
voice, Lazarus, come forth.
 
John 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot
with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
 
John 11:45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had
seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
 
John 11:46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees,
and told them what things Jesus had done.
 
John 11:47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a
council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
 
John 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on
him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and
nation.
 
John 11:49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high
priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
 
John 11:50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one
man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish
not.
 
John 11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high
priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that
nation;
 
John 11:52 And not for that nation only, but that also he
should gather together in one the children of God that were
scattered abroad.
 
John 11:53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together
for to put him to death.
 
John 11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the
Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into
a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
 
John 11:55 And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many
went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to
purify themselves.
 
John 11:56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among
themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he
will not come to the feast?
 
John 11:57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had
given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he
should shew it, that they might take him.
 
John 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to
Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised
from the dead.
 
John 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but
Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
 
John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very
costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with
her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the
ointment.
 
John 12:4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot,
Simon's son, which should betray him,
 
John 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred
pence, and given to the poor?
 
John 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but
because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put
therein.
 
John 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my
burying hath she kept this.
 
John 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have
not always.
 
John 12:9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was
there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they
might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
 
John 12:10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put
Lazarus also to death;
 
John 12:11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went
away, and believed on Jesus.
 
John 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the
feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
 
John 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet
him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that
cometh in the name of the Lord.
 
John 12:14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat
thereon; as it is written,
 
John 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt.
 
John 12:16 These things understood not his disciples at the
first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that
these things were written of him, and that they had done these
things unto him.
 
John 12:17 The people therefore that was with him when he
called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead,
bare record.
 
John 12:18 For this cause the people also met him, for that
they heard that he had done this miracle.
 
John 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves,
Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone
after him.
 
John 12:20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came
up to worship at the feast:
 
John 12:21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of
Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see
Jesus.
 
John 12:22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew
and Philip tell Jesus.
 
John 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come,
that the Son of man should be glorified.
 
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it
die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
 
John 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that
hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
 
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I
am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will
my Father honour.
 
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say?
Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto
this hour.
 
John 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice
from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify
it again.
 
John 12:29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it,
said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
 
John 12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because
of me, but for your sakes.
 
John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the
prince of this world be cast out.
 
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw
all men unto me.
 
John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
 
John 12:34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the
law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of
man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
 
John 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the
light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come
upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he
goeth.
 
John 12:36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye
may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and
departed, and did hide himself from them.
 
John 12:37 But though he had done so many miracles before them,
yet they believed not on him:
 
John 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be
fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report?
and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
 
John 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because that
Esaias said again,
 
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their
heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand
with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
 
John 12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and
spake of him.
 
John 12:42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many
believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not
confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
 
John 12:43 For they loved the praise of men more than the
praise of God.
 
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me,
believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
 
John 12:45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
 
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever
believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
 
John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I
judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the
world.
 
John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words,
hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same
shall judge him in the last day.
 
John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father
which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and
what I should speak.
 
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:
whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so
I speak.
 
John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew
that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world
unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he
loved them unto the end.
 
John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into
the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
 
John 13:3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things
into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
 
John 13:4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments;
and took a towel, and girded himself.
 
John 13:5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began
to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
wherewith he was girded.
 
John 13:6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto
him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?
 
John 13:7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou
knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
 
John 13:8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with
me.
 
John 13:9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head.
 
John 13:10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not
save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean,
but not all.
 
John 13:11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said
he, Ye are not all clean.
 
John 13:12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his
garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what
I have done to you?
 
John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so
I am.
 
John 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your
feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
 
John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do
as I have done to you.
 
John 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he
that sent him.
 
John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
 
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen:
but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread
with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
 
John 13:19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come
to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
 
John 13:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth
whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me
receiveth him that sent me.
 
John 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit,
and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one
of you shall betray me.
 
John 13:22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting
of whom he spake.
 
John 13:23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved.
 
John 13:24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he
should ask who it should be of whom he spake.
 
John 13:25 He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord,
who is it?
 
John 13:26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a
sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he
gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
 
John 13:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said
Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
 
John 13:28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he
spake this unto him.
 
John 13:29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag,
that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need
of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the
poor.
 
John 13:30 He then having received the sop went immediately
out: and it was night.
 
John 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is
the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
 
John 13:32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify
him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
 
John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you.
Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye
cannot come; so now I say to you.
 
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one
another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
 
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one to another.
 
John 13:36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou?
Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now;
but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
 
John 13:37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee
now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
 
John 13:38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for
my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not
crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
 
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
believe also in me.
 
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were
not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
 
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may
be also.
 
John 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
 
John 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou
goest; and how can we know the way?
 
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
 
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father
also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
 
John 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and
it sufficeth us.
 
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with
you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the
Father?
 
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of
myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
 
John 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
 
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than
these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
 
John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I
do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
 
John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
 
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
 
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
 
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
 
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you.
 
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more;
but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
 
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father,
and ye in me, and I in you.
 
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he
it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
 
John 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it
that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
 
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me,
he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will
come unto him, and make our abode with him.
 
John 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and
the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent
me.
 
John 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet
present with you.
 
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you.
 
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be afraid.
 
John 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and
come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I
said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
 
John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass,
that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
 
John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the
prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
 
John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father;
and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let
us go hence.
 
John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
 
John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh
away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit.
 
John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken
unto you.
 
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye,
except ye abide in me.
 
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth
in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for
without me ye can do nothing.
 
John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into
the fire, and they are burned.
 
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
 
John 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much
fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
 
John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love.
 
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my
love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in
his love.
 
John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy
might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
 
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as
I have loved you.
 
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends.
 
John 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you.
 
John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant
knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends;
for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known
unto you.
 
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and
ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that
your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you.
 
John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one
another.
 
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me
before it hated you.
 
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his
own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you
out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
 
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant
is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they
will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will
keep yours also.
 
John 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my
name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
 
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not
had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
 
John 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
 
John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none
other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen
and hated both me and my Father.
 
John 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be
fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a
cause.
 
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
 
John 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been
with me from the beginning.
 
John 16:1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should
not be offended.
 
John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the
time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth
God service.
 
John 16:3 And these things will they do unto you, because they
have not known the Father, nor me.
 
John 16:4 But these things have I told you, that when the time
shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these
things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with
you.
 
John 16:5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of
you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
 
John 16:6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow
hath filled your heart.
 
John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient
for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will
not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
 
John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
 
John 16:9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
 
John 16:10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye
see me no more;
 
John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is
judged.
 
John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now.
 
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he
will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself;
but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will
shew you things to come.
 
John 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine,
and shall shew it unto you.
 
John 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore
said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
 
John 16:16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again,
a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
 
John 16:17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves,
What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall
not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and,
Because I go to the Father?
 
John 16:18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A
little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
 
John 16:19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him,
and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I
said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a
little while, and ye shall see me?
 
John 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep
and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be
sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
 
John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because
her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child,
she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born
into the world.
 
John 16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh
from you.
 
John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you.
 
John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and
ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
 
John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but
the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs,
but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
 
John 16:26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not
unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
 
John 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have
loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
 
John 16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the
world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
 
John 16:29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou
plainly, and speakest no proverb.
 
John 16:30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and
needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that
thou camest forth from God.
 
John 16:31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
 
John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye
shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me
alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
 
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be
of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
 
John 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to
heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that
thy Son also may glorify thee:
 
John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he
should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
 
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee
the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
 
John 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do.
 
John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own
self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
 
John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou
gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them
me; and they have kept thy word.
 
John 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou
hast given me are of thee.
 
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou
gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely
that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst
send me.
 
John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for
them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
 
John 17:10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am
glorified in them.
 
John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in
the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine
own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as
we are.
 
John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in
thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them
is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be
fulfilled.
 
John 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in
the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
 
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated
them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world.
 
John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
 
John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world.
 
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
 
John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I
also sent them into the world.
 
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they
also might be sanctified through the truth.
 
John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on me through their word;
 
John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me.
 
John 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
 
John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent
me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
 
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given
me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which
thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of
the world.
 
John 17:25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee:
but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent
me.
 
John 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will
declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in
them, and I in them.
 
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with
his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the
which he entered, and his disciples.
 
John 18:2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place:
for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
 
John 18:3 Judas then, having received a band of men and
officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither
with lanterns and torches and weapons.
 
John 18:4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come
upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
 
John 18:5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith
unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood
with them.
 
John 18:6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they
went backward, and fell to the ground.
 
John 18:7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they
said, Jesus of Nazareth.
 
John 18:8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if
therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
 
John 18:9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake,
Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
 
John 18:10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote
the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The
servant's name was Malchus.
 
John 18:11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into
the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not
drink it?
 
John 18:12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the
Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
 
John 18:13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father
in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
 
John 18:14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews,
that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
 
John 18:15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another
disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went
in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.
 
John 18:16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out
that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and
spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
 
John 18:17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter,
Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am
not.
 
John 18:18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had
made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed
themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
 
John 18:19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples,
and of his doctrine.
 
John 18:20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I
ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews
always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
 
John 18:21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I
have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
 
John 18:22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers
which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying,
Answerest thou the high priest so?
 
John 18:23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear
witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
 
John 18:24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high
priest.
 
John 18:25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said
therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He
denied it, and said, I am not.
 
John 18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his
kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the
garden with him?
 
John 18:27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock
crew.
 
John 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of
judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the
judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might
eat the passover.
 
John 18:29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What
accusation bring ye against this man?
 
John 18:30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a
malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
 
John 18:31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge
him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It
is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
 
John 18:32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which
he spake, signifying what death he should die.
 
John 18:33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again,
and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the
Jews?
 
John 18:34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of
thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?
 
John 18:35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and
the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou
done?
 
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if
my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that
I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not
from hence.
 
John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king
then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end
was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I
should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the
truth heareth my voice.
 
John 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he
had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto
them, I find in him no fault at all.
 
John 18:39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you
one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you
the King of the Jews?
 
John 18:40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but
Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
 
John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
 
John 19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put
it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
 
John 19:3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him
with their hands.
 
John 19:4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto
them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I
find no fault in him.
 
John 19:5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns,
and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
 
John 19:6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw
him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate
saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no
fault in him.
 
John 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law
he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
 
John 19:8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the
more afraid;
 
John 19:9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto
Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
 
John 19:10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto
me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have
power to release thee?
 
John 19:11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all
against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he
that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
 
John 19:12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him:
but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art
not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh
against Caesar.
 
John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought
Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is
called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
 
John 19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and
about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your
King!
 
John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him,
crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?
The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
 
John 19:16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be
crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
 
John 19:17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place
called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew
Golgotha:
 
John 19:18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on
either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
 
John 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross.
And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
 
John 19:20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place
where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was
written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
 
John 19:21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate,
Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of
the Jews.
 
John 19:22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
 
John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part;
and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the
top throughout.
 
John 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not
rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the
scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment
among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things
therefore the soldiers did.
 
John 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother,
and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene.
 
John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the
disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother,
Woman, behold thy son!
 
John 19:27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!
And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
 
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I
thirst.
 
John 19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they
filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it
to his mouth.
 
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he
said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost.
 
John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath
day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that
their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
 
John 19:32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the
first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
 
John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was
dead already, they brake not his legs:
 
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his
side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
 
John 19:35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is
true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
 
John 19:36 For these things were done, that the scripture
should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
 
John 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look
on him whom they pierced.
 
John 19:38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought
Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave
him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
 
John 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first
came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about an hundred pound weight.
 
John 19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in
linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to
bury.
 
John 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a
garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man
yet laid.
 
John 19:42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews'
preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
 
John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene
early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the
stone taken away from the sepulchre.
 
John 20:2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to
the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They
have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not
where they have laid him.
 
John 20:3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple,
and came to the sepulchre.
 
John 20:4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did
outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
 
John 20:5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen
clothes lying; yet went he not in.
 
John 20:6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into
the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
 
John 20:7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying
with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by
itself.
 
John 20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came
first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
 
John 20:9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must
rise again from the dead.
 
John 20:10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own
home.
 
John 20:11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and
as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
 
John 20:12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at
the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had
lain.
 
John 20:13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She
saith unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know
not where they have laid him.
 
John 20:14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back,
and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
 
John 20:15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom
seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto
him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast
laid him, and I will take him away.
 
John 20:16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and
saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
 
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet
ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them,
I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your
God.
 
John 20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she
had seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
 
John 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of
the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were
assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the
midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
 
John 20:20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his
hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw
the LORD.
 
John 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as
my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
 
John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and
saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
 
John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto
them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
 
John 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was
not with them when Jesus came.
 
John 20:25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have
seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his
hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of
the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
 
John 20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were
within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being
shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
 
John 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger,
and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it
into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
 
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and
my God.
 
John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen
me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and
yet have believed.
 
John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence
of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
 
John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might
have life through his name.
 
John 21:1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the
disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he
himself.
 
John 21:2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called
Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of
Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
 
John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say
unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into
a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
 
John 21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the
shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
 
John 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any
meat? They answered him, No.
 
John 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side
of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they
were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
 
John 21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto
Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the
Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and
did cast himself into the sea.
 
John 21:8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for
they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,)
dragging the net with fishes.
 
John 21:9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a
fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
 
John 21:10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye
have now caught.
 
John 21:11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full
of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all
there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
 
John 21:12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of
the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was
the Lord.
 
John 21:13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth
them, and fish likewise.
 
John 21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself
to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
 
John 21:15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith
unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto
him, Feed my lambs.
 
John 21:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of
Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest
that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
 
John 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of
Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him
the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou
knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith
unto him, Feed my sheep.
 
John 21:18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast
young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest:
but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,
and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest
not.
 
John 21:19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should
glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him,
Follow me.
 
John 21:20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom
Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper,
and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
 
John 21:21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what
shall this man do?
 
John 21:22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I
come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
 
John 21:23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren,
that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him,
He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what
is that to thee?
 
John 21:24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these
things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is
true.
 
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus
did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose
that even the world itself could not contain the books that
should be written. Amen.
 
Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all
that Jesus began both to do and teach,
 
Acts 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he
through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles
whom he had chosen:
 
Acts 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion
by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and
speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
 
Acts 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded
them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the
promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
 
Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
 
Acts 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of
him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the
kingdom to Israel?
 
Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the
times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
 
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost
is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth.
 
Acts 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they
beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their
sight.
 
Acts 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
 
Acts 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye
gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from
you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him
go into heaven.
 
Acts 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount
called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
 
Acts 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an
upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and
Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the
son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of
James.
 
Acts 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
with his brethren.
 
Acts 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the
disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an
hundred and twenty,)
 
Acts 1:16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been
fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake
before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
 
Acts 1:17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of
this ministry.
 
Acts 1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of
iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst,
and all his bowels gushed out.
 
Acts 1:19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem;
insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue,
Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
 
Acts 1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his
habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his
bishoprick let another take.
 
Acts 1:21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us
all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
 
Acts 1:22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same
day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a
witness with us of his resurrection.
 
Acts 1:23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who
was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
 
Acts 1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest
the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast
chosen,
 
Acts 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and
apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he
might go to his own place.
 
Acts 1:26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon
Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
 
Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place.
 
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a
rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
sitting.
 
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of
fire, and it sat upon each of them.
 
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.
 
Acts 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men,
out of every nation under heaven.
 
Acts 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came
together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them
speak in his own language.
 
Acts 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to
another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
 
Acts 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein
we were born?
 
Acts 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers
in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and
Asia,
 
Acts 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of
Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
 
Acts 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
tongues the wonderful works of God.
 
Acts 2:12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying
one to another, What meaneth this?
 
Acts 2:13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
 
Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his
voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that
dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my
words:
 
Acts 2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it
is but the third hour of the day.
 
Acts 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet
Joel;
 
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith
God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see
visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
 
Acts 2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour
out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
 
Acts 2:19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in
the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
 
Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon
into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
 
Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
 
Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of
Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders
and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye
yourselves also know:
 
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have
crucified and slain:
 
Acts 2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of
death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of
it.
 
Acts 2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord
always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should
not be moved:
 
Acts 2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was
glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
 
Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither
wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
 
Acts 2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou
shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
 
Acts 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the
patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his
sepulchre is with us unto this day.
 
Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had
sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins,
according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne;
 
Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of
Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did
see corruption.
 
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are
witnesses.
 
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and
having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he
hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
 
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he
saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand,
 
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
 
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both
Lord and Christ.
 
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their
heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men
and brethren, what shall we do?
 
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children,
and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God
shall call.
 
Acts 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort,
saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
 
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three
thousand souls.
 
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles'
doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in
prayers.
 
Acts 2:43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and
signs were done by the apostles.
 
Acts 2:44 And all that believed were together, and had all
things common;
 
Acts 2:45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them
to all men, as every man had need.
 
Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the
temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their
meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
 
Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people.
And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
 
Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at
the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
 
Acts 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was
carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is
called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the
temple;
 
Acts 3:3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple
asked an alms.
 
Acts 3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John,
said, Look on us.
 
Acts 3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive
something of them.
 
Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such
as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
rise up and walk.
 
Acts 3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up:
and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
 
Acts 3:8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with
them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
 
Acts 3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
 
Acts 3:10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at
the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with
wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
 
Acts 3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and
John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is
called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
 
Acts 3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people,
Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so
earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had
made this man to walk?
 
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the
God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye
delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he
was determined to let him go.
 
Acts 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired
a murderer to be granted unto you;
 
Acts 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised
from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
 
Acts 3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this
man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him
hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
 
Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye
did it, as did also your rulers.
 
Acts 3:18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the
mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so
fulfilled.
 
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from
the presence of the Lord.
 
Acts 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was
preached unto you:
 
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of
all his holy prophets since the world began.
 
Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet
shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say
unto you.
 
Acts 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which
will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the
people.
 
Acts 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that
follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of
these days.
 
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the
covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham,
And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
 
Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus,
sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his
iniquities.
 
Acts 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and
the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
 
Acts 4:2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and
preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
 
Acts 4:3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto
the next day: for it was now eventide.
 
Acts 4:4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed;
and the number of the men was about five thousand.
 
Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers,
and elders, and scribes,
 
Acts 4:6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and
Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest,
were gathered together at Jerusalem.
 
Acts 4:7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked,
By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
 
Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto
them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
 
Acts 4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to
the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
 
Acts 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this
man stand here before you whole.
 
Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you
builders, which is become the head of the corner.
 
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is
none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.
 
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they
marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been
with Jesus.
 
Acts 4:14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with
them, they could say nothing against it.
 
Acts 4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of
the council, they conferred among themselves,
 
Acts 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that
indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to
all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
 
Acts 4:17 But that it spread no further among the people, let
us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man
in this name.
 
Acts 4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak
at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
 
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them,
Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more
than unto God, judge ye.
 
Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen
and heard.
 
Acts 4:21 So when they had further threatened them, they let
them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of
the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
 
Acts 4:22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this
miracle of healing was shewed.
 
Acts 4:23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and
reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto
them.
 
Acts 4:24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice
to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast
made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
 
Acts 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why
did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
 
Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were
gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
 
Acts 4:27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom
thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the
Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
 
Acts 4:28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel
determined before to be done.
 
Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant
unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy
word,
 
Acts 4:30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that
signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child
Jesus.
 
Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where
they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
 
Acts 4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one
heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the
things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things
common.
 
Acts 4:33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them
all.
 
Acts 4:34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as
many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought
the prices of the things that were sold,
 
Acts 4:35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and
distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
 
Acts 4:36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas,
(which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite,
and of the country of Cyprus,
 
Acts 4:37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid
it at the apostles' feet.
 
Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his
wife, sold a possession,
 
Acts 5:2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being
privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the
apostles' feet.
 
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine
heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the
price of the land?
 
Acts 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it
was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived
this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto
God.
 
Acts 5:5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up
the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these
things.
 
Acts 5:6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him
out, and buried him.
 
Acts 5:7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when
his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
 
Acts 5:8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold
the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
 
Acts 5:9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have
agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet
of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall
carry thee out.
 
Acts 5:10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and
yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her
dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
 
Acts 5:11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as
many as heard these things.
 
Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one
accord in Solomon's porch.
 
Acts 5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them:
but the people magnified them.
 
Acts 5:14 And believers were the more added to the Lord,
multitudes both of men and women.)
 
Acts 5:15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the
streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the
shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
 
Acts 5:16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round
about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were
vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
 
Acts 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were
with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled
with indignation,
 
Acts 5:18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in
the common prison.
 
Acts 5:19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison
doors, and brought them forth, and said,
 
Acts 5:20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all
the words of this life.
 
Acts 5:21 And when they heard that, they entered into the
temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest
came, and they that were with him, and called the council
together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent
to the prison to have them brought.
 
Acts 5:22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the
prison, they returned and told,
 
Acts 5:23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all
safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but
when we had opened, we found no man within.
 
Acts 5:24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the
temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of
them whereunto this would grow.
 
Acts 5:25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men
whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching
the people.
 
Acts 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought
them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they
should have been stoned.
 
Acts 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before
the council: and the high priest asked them,
 
Acts 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye
should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled
Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's
blood upon us.
 
Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said,
We ought to obey God rather than men.
 
Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew
and hanged on a tree.
 
Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a
Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and
forgiveness of sins.
 
Acts 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is
also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
 
Acts 5:33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and
took counsel to slay them.
 
Acts 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee,
named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all
the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little
space;
 
Acts 5:35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to
yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.
 
Acts 5:36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting
himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four
hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as
obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
 
Acts 5:37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days
of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also
perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
 
Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and
let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it
will come to nought:
 
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest
haply ye be found even to fight against God.
 
Acts 5:40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the
apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not
speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
 
Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council,
rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his
name.
 
Acts 5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they
ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
 
Acts 6:1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples
was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against
the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily
ministration.
 
Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples
unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the
word of God, and serve tables.
 
Acts 6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men
of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may
appoint over this business.
 
Acts 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and
to the ministry of the word.
 
Acts 6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they
chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and
Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and
Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
 
Acts 6:6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had
prayed, they laid their hands on them.
 
Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the
disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of
the priests were obedient to the faith.
 
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great
wonders and miracles among the people.
 
Acts 6:9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is
called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and
Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with
Stephen.
 
Acts 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the
spirit by which he spake.
 
Acts 6:11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him
speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
 
Acts 6:12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and
the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him
to the council,
 
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man
ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place,
and the law:
 
Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of
Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs
which Moses delivered us.
 
Acts 6:15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly
on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
 
Acts 7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
 
Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The
God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in
Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
 
Acts 7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and
from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
 
Acts 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and
dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he
removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
 
Acts 7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so
much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it
to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet
he had no child.
 
Acts 7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should
sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into
bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
 
Acts 7:7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I
judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve
me in this place.
 
Acts 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so
Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and
Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
 
Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into
Egypt: but God was with him,
 
Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and
gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
 
Acts 7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt
and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no
sustenance.
 
Acts 7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he
sent out our fathers first.
 
Acts 7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his
brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
 
Acts 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him,
and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
 
Acts 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our
fathers,
 
Acts 7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the
sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of
Emmor the father of Sychem.
 
Acts 7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God
had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
 
Acts 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
 
Acts 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil
entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young
children, to the end they might not live.
 
Acts 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair,
and nourished up in his father's house three months:
 
Acts 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him
up, and nourished him for her own son.
 
Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
 
Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into
his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
 
Acts 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him,
and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
 
Acts 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood
how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood
not.
 
Acts 7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they
strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye
are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
 
Acts 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away,
saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
 
Acts 7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
yesterday?
 
Acts 7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in
the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
 
Acts 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to
him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a
flame of fire in a bush.
 
Acts 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as
he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
 
Acts 7:32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses
trembled, and durst not behold.
 
Acts 7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy
feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
 
Acts 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people
which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come
down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
 
Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a
ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a
deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the
bush.
 
Acts 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders
and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the
wilderness forty years.
 
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of
Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of
your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
 
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
 
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him
from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
 
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for
as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we
wot not what is become of him.
 
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered
sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own
hands.
 
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host
of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye
house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and
sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
 
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the
star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
 
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the
wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he
should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
 
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in
with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave
out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
 
Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a
tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
 
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
 
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made
with hands; as saith the prophet,
 
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what
house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of
my rest?
 
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
 
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do
ye.
 
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers
persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the
coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers
and murderers:
 
Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of
angels, and have not kept it.
 
Acts 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the
heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
 
Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up
stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God,
 
Acts 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the
Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
 
Acts 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped
their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
 
Acts 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the
witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose
name was Saul.
 
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and
saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
 
Acts 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said
this, he fell asleep.
 
Acts 8:1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that
time there was a great persecution against the church which was
at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the
regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
 
Acts 8:2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made
great lamentation over him.
 
Acts 8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering
into every house, and haling men and women committed them to
prison.
 
Acts 8:4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every
where preaching the word.
 
Acts 8:5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and
preached Christ unto them.
 
Acts 8:6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those
things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which
he did.
 
Acts 8:7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out
of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with
palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
 
Acts 8:8 And there was great joy in that city.
 
Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which
beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the
people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
 
Acts 8:10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the
greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
 
Acts 8:11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time
he had bewitched them with sorceries.
 
Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things
concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they
were baptized, both men and women.
 
Acts 8:13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was
baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the
miracles and signs which were done.
 
Acts 8:14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard
that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them
Peter and John:
 
Acts 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that
they might receive the Holy Ghost:
 
Acts 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only
they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
 
Acts 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received
the Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 8:18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the
apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
 
Acts 8:19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I
lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee,
because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased
with money.
 
Acts 8:21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for
thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
 
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray
God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
 
Acts 8:23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of
bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
 
Acts 8:24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD
for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon
me.
 
Acts 8:25 And they, when they had testified and preached the
word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel
in many villages of the Samaritans.
 
Acts 8:26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying,
Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from
Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
 
Acts 8:27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of
Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the
Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come
to Jerusalem for to worship,
 
Acts 8:28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias
the prophet.
 
Acts 8:29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join
thyself to this chariot.
 
Acts 8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the
prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
 
Acts 8:31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide
me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
 
Acts 8:32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He
was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before
his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
 
Acts 8:33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and
who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the
earth.
 
Acts 8:34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray
thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some
other man?
 
Acts 8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same
scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
 
Acts 8:36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a
certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth
hinder me to be baptized?
 
Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine
heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
 
Acts 8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they
went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he
baptized him.
 
Acts 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the
Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no
more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
 
Acts 8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through
he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
 
Acts 9:1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
 
Acts 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the
synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were
men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
 
Acts 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and
suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
 
Acts 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying
unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
 
Acts 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I
am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks.
 
Acts 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go
into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
 
Acts 9:7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
 
Acts 9:8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were
opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought
him into Damascus.
 
Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did
eat nor drink.
 
Acts 9:10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named
Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he
said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
 
Acts 9:11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the
street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of
Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
 
Acts 9:12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming
in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
 
Acts 9:13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of
this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
 
Acts 9:14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to
bind all that call on thy name.
 
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a
chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and
kings, and the children of Israel:
 
Acts 9:16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer
for my name's sake.
 
Acts 9:17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house;
and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even
Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath
sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with
the Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had
been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was
baptized.
 
Acts 9:19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened.
Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at
Damascus.
 
Acts 9:20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues,
that he is the Son of God.
 
Acts 9:21 But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not
this he that destroyed them which called on this name in
Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring
them bound unto the chief priests?
 
Acts 9:22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and
confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is
very Christ.
 
Acts 9:23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews
took counsel to kill him:
 
Acts 9:24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they
watched the gates day and night to kill him.
 
Acts 9:25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him
down by the wall in a basket.
 
Acts 9:26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to
join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him,
and believed not that he was a disciple.
 
Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the
apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the
way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached
boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
 
Acts 9:28 And he was with them coming in and going out at
Jerusalem.
 
Acts 9:29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay
him.
 
Acts 9:30 Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down
to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
 
Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and
Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of
the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
 
Acts 9:32 And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all
quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
 
Acts 9:33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which
had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
 
Acts 9:34 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh
thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
 
Acts 9:35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and
turned to the Lord.
 
Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named
Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was
full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
 
Acts 9:37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick,
and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper
chamber.
 
Acts 9:38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the
disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two
men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
 
Acts 9:39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was
come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows
stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which
Dorcas made, while she was with them.
 
Acts 9:40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and
prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she
opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
 
Acts 9:41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when
he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
 
Acts 9:42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many
believed in the Lord.
 
Acts 9:43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in
Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
 
Acts 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius,
a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
 
Acts 10:2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his
house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God
alway.
 
Acts 10:3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of
the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him,
Cornelius.
 
Acts 10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said,
What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine
alms are come up for a memorial before God.
 
Acts 10:5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon,
whose surname is Peter:
 
Acts 10:6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by
the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
 
Acts 10:7 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was
departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout
soldier of them that waited on him continually;
 
Acts 10:8 And when he had declared all these things unto them,
he sent them to Joppa.
 
Acts 10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and
drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray
about the sixth hour:
 
Acts 10:10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
 
Acts 10:11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel
descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the
four corners, and let down to the earth:
 
Acts 10:12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the
earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the
air.
 
Acts 10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill,
and eat.
 
Acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten
any thing that is common or unclean.
 
Acts 10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time,
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
 
Acts 10:16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up
again into heaven.
 
Acts 10:17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision
which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent
from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood
before the gate,
 
Acts 10:18 And called, and asked whether Simon, which was
surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
 
Acts 10:19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said
unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
 
Acts 10:20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with
them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
 
Acts 10:21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto
him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what
is the cause wherefore ye are come?
 
Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man,
and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation
of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for
thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
 
Acts 10:23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the
morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa
accompanied him.
 
Acts 10:24 And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And
Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen
and near friends.
 
Acts 10:25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and
fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
 
Acts 10:26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself
also am a man.
 
Acts 10:27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found
many that were come together.
 
Acts 10:28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an
unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come
unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should
not call any man common or unclean.
 
Acts 10:29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as
soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have
sent for me?
 
Acts 10:30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting
until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and,
behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
 
Acts 10:31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine
alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
 
Acts 10:32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon,
whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a
tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto
thee.
 
Acts 10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast
well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here
present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of
God.
 
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I
perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
 
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness, is accepted with him.
 
Acts 10:36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
 
Acts 10:37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published
throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism
which John preached;
 
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all
that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
 
Acts 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both
in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and
hanged on a tree:
 
Acts 10:40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him
openly;
 
Acts 10:41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen
before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he
rose from the dead.
 
Acts 10:42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and
to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the
Judge of quick and dead.
 
Acts 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through
his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of
sins.
 
Acts 10:44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost
fell on all them which heard the word.
 
Acts 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were
astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the
Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 10:46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify
God. Then answered Peter,
 
Acts 10:47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be
baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
 
Acts 10:48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of
the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
 
Acts 11:1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea
heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
 
Acts 11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that
were of the circumcision contended with him,
 
Acts 11:3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and
didst eat with them.
 
Acts 11:4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning,
and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
 
Acts 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I
saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great
sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to
me:
 
Acts 11:6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I
considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild
beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
 
Acts 11:7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter;
slay and eat.
 
Acts 11:8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or
unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
 
Acts 11:9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God
hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
 
Acts 11:10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up
again into heaven.
 
Acts 11:11 And, behold, immediately there were three men
already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto
me.
 
Acts 11:12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing
doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we
entered into the man's house:
 
Acts 11:13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his
house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call
for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
 
Acts 11:14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy
house shall be saved.
 
Acts 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on
them, as on us at the beginning.
 
Acts 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he
said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 11:17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he
did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I,
that I could withstand God?
 
Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace,
and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles
granted repentance unto life.
 
Acts 11:19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the
persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice,
and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the
Jews only.
 
Acts 11:20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene,
which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians,
preaching the LORD Jesus.
 
Acts 11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great
number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
 
Acts 11:22 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of
the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas,
that he should go as far as Antioch.
 
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God,
was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they
would cleave unto the Lord.
 
Acts 11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost
and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
 
Acts 11:25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
 
Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto
Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled
themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the
disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
 
Acts 11:27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto
Antioch.
 
Acts 11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and
signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth
throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of
Claudius Caesar.
 
Acts 11:29 Then the disciples, every man according to his
ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt
in Judaea:
 
Acts 11:30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by
the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
 
Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth
his hands to vex certain of the church.
 
Acts 12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the
sword.
 
Acts 12:3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded
further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened
bread.)
 
Acts 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in
prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep
him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
 
Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was
made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
 
Acts 12:6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same
night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two
chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
 
Acts 12:7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and
a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and
raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off
from his hands.
 
Acts 12:8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind
on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy
garment about thee, and follow me.
 
Acts 12:9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that
it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a
vision.
 
Acts 12:10 When they were past the first and the second ward,
they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which
opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed
on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
 
Acts 12:11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I
know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath
delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the
expectation of the people of the Jews.
 
Acts 12:12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the
house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where
many were gathered together praying.
 
Acts 12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a
damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
 
Acts 12:14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the
gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before
the gate.
 
Acts 12:15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she
constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is
his angel.
 
Acts 12:16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had
opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
 
Acts 12:17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold
their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out
of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and
to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
 
Acts 12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir
among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.
 
Acts 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him
not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be
put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there
abode.
 
Acts 12:20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre
and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made
Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace;
because their country was nourished by the king's country.
 
Acts 12:21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel,
sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
 
Acts 12:22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice
of a god, and not of a man.
 
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him,
because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and
gave up the ghost.
 
Acts 12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
 
Acts 12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when
they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose
surname was Mark.
 
Acts 13:1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch
certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was
called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been
brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
 
Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy
Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
I have called them.
 
Acts 13:3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their
hands on them, they sent them away.
 
Acts 13:4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed
unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
 
Acts 13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word
of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to
their minister.
 
Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos,
they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name
was Barjesus:
 
Acts 13:7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius
Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and
desired to hear the word of God.
 
Acts 13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by
interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy
from the faith.
 
Acts 13:9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the
Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.
 
Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief,
thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt
thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
 
Acts 13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee,
and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And
immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went
about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
 
Acts 13:12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done,
believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
 
Acts 13:13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos,
they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them
returned to Jerusalem.
 
Acts 13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to
Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath
day, and sat down.
 
Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and
brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say
on.
 
Acts 13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand
said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
 
Acts 13:17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers,
and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land
of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
 
Acts 13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their
manners in the wilderness.
 
Acts 13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land
of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
 
Acts 13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the
space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
 
Acts 13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto
them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the
space of forty years.
 
Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them
David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and
said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own
heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
 
Acts 13:23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise
raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
 
Acts 13:24 When John had first preached before his coming the
baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
 
Acts 13:25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom
think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one
after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
 
Acts 13:26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham,
and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this
salvation sent.
 
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers,
because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets
which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in
condemning him.
 
Acts 13:28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet
desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
 
Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of
him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a
sepulchre.
 
Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:
 
Acts 13:31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with
him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the
people.
 
Acts 13:32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the
promise which was made unto the fathers,
 
Acts 13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children,
in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in
the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
 
Acts 13:34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the
dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise,
I will give you the sure mercies of David.
 
Acts 13:35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt
not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
 
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by
the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers,
and saw corruption:
 
Acts 13:37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
 
Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren,
that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of
sins:
 
Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all
things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
 
Acts 13:40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is
spoken of in the prophets;
 
Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I
work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise
believe, though a man declare it unto you.
 
Acts 13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue,
the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them
the next sabbath.
 
Acts 13:43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the
Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who,
speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
 
Acts 13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city
together to hear the word of God.
 
Acts 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were
filled with envy, and spake against those things which were
spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
 
Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was
necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to
you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy
of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
 
Acts 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have
set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be
for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
 
Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad,
and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed.
 
Acts 13:49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout
all the region.
 
Acts 13:50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable
women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution
against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
 
Acts 13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against
them, and came unto Iconium.
 
Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the
Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both
together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a
great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
 
Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and
made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
 
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the
Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and
granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
 
Acts 14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part
held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
 
Acts 14:5 And when there was an assault made both of the
Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them
despitefully, and to stone them,
 
Acts 14:6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe,
cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
 
Acts 14:7 And there they preached the gospel.
 
Acts 14:8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in
his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had
walked:
 
Acts 14:9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding
him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
 
Acts 14:10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet.
And he leaped and walked.
 
Acts 14:11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they
lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The
gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
 
Acts 14:12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul,
Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
 
Acts 14:13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their
city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have
done sacrifice with the people.
 
Acts 14:14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard
of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying
out,
 
Acts 14:15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also
are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye
should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
 
Acts 14:16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in
their own ways.
 
Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in
that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful
seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
 
Acts 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the
people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
 
Acts 14:19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and
Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew
him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
 
Acts 14:20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he
rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed
with Barnabas to Derbe.
 
Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city,
and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to
Iconium, and Antioch,
 
Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting
them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much
tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
 
Acts 14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every
church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the
Lord, on whom they believed.
 
Acts 14:24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they
came to Pamphylia.
 
Acts 14:25 And when they had preached the word in Perga, they
went down into Attalia:
 
Acts 14:26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had
been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they
fulfilled.
 
Acts 14:27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church
together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how
he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
 
Acts 14:28 And there they abode long time with the disciples.
 
Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught
the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner
of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
 
Acts 15:2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small
dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul
and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to
Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
 
Acts 15:3 And being brought on their way by the church, they
passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of
the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
 
Acts 15:4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were
received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they
declared all things that God had done with them.
 
Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the
Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to
circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
 
Acts 15:6 And the apostles and elders came together for to
consider of this matter.
 
Acts 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose
up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good
while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth
should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
 
Acts 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness,
giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
 
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying
their hearts by faith.
 
Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon
the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were
able to bear?
 
Acts 15:11 But we believe that through the grace of the LORD
Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
 
Acts 15:12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave
audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and
wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
 
Acts 15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered,
saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
 
Acts 15:14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit
the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
 
Acts 15:15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it
is written,
 
Acts 15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the
tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again
the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
 
Acts 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord,
and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the
Lord, who doeth all these things.
 
Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning
of the world.
 
Acts 15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them,
which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
 
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from
pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things
strangled, and from blood.
 
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that
preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
 
Acts 15:22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the
whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch
with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and
Silas, chief men among the brethren:
 
Acts 15:23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner;
The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the
brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and
Cilicia.
 
Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went
out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls,
saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave
no such commandment:
 
Acts 15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one
accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and
Paul,
 
Acts 15:26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Acts 15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall
also tell you the same things by mouth.
 
Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to
lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
 
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and
from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from
which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
 
Acts 15:30 So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch:
and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered
the epistle:
 
Acts 15:31 Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the
consolation.
 
Acts 15:32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves,
exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
 
Acts 15:33 And after they had tarried there a space, they were
let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
 
Acts 15:34 Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there
still.
 
Acts 15:35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch,
teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others
also.
 
Acts 15:36 And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us
go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have
preached the word of the LORD, and see how they do.
 
Acts 15:37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John,
whose surname was Mark.
 
Acts 15:38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who
departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the
work.
 
Acts 15:39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that
they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took
Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
 
Acts 15:40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being
recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
 
Acts 15:41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming
the churches.
 
Acts 16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a
certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain
woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a
Greek:
 
Acts 16:2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were
at Lystra and Iconium.
 
Acts 16:3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took
and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those
quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
 
Acts 16:4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered
them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles
and elders which were at Jerusalem.
 
Acts 16:5 And so were the churches established in the faith,
and increased in number daily.
 
Acts 16:6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the
region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach
the word in Asia,
 
Acts 16:7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go
into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
 
Acts 16:8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
 
Acts 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There
stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into
Macedonia, and help us.
 
Acts 16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we
endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the
Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
 
Acts 16:11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a
straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
 
Acts 16:12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city
of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city
abiding certain days.
 
Acts 16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a
river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down,
and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
 
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple,
of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose
heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which
were spoken of Paul.
 
Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she
besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the
Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained
us.
 
Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain
damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which
brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
 
Acts 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying,
These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto
us the way of salvation.
 
Acts 16:18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved,
turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of
Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
 
Acts 16:19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their
gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into
the marketplace unto the rulers,
 
Acts 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These
men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
 
Acts 16:21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to
receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
 
Acts 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and
the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat
them.
 
Acts 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they
cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
 
Acts 16:24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into
the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
 
Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang
praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
 
Acts 16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that
the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all
the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
 
Acts 16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his
sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword,
and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had
been fled.
 
Acts 16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself
no harm: for we are all here.
 
Acts 16:29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came
trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
 
Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do
to be saved?
 
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
 
Acts 16:32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to
all that were in his house.
 
Acts 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and
washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his,
straightway.
 
Acts 16:34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set
meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his
house.
 
Acts 16:35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the
serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
 
Acts 16:36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to
Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore
depart, and go in peace.
 
Acts 16:37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly
uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now
do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come
themselves and fetch us out.
 
Acts 16:38 And the serjeants told these words unto the
magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were
Romans.
 
Acts 16:39 And they came and besought them, and brought them
out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
 
Acts 16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into
the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they
comforted them, and departed.
 
Acts 17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and
Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of
the Jews:
 
Acts 17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and
three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
 
Acts 17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have
suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus,
whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
 
Acts 17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul
and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the
chief women not a few.
 
Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy,
took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and
gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and
assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the
people.
 
Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and
certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that
have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
 
Acts 17:7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary
to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one
Jesus.
 
Acts 17:8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the
city, when they heard these things.
 
Acts 17:9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the
other, they let them go.
 
Acts 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and
Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the
synagogue of the Jews.
 
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in
that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and
searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
 
Acts 17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable
women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
 
Acts 17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that
the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither
also, and stirred up the people.
 
Acts 17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to
go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there
still.
 
Acts 17:15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto
Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for
to come to him with all speed, they departed.
 
Acts 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit
was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to
idolatry.
 
Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the
Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with
them that met with him.
 
Acts 17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of
the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this
babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of
strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the
resurrection.
 
Acts 17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus,
saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou
speakest, is?
 
Acts 17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our
ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
 
Acts 17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were
there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to
hear some new thing.)
 
Acts 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and
said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too
superstitious.
 
Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I
found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
 
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands;
 
Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he
needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and
all things;
 
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to
dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
 
Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might
feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one
of us:
 
Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
 
Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we
ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver,
or stone, graven by art and man's device.
 
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but
now commandeth all men every where to repent:
 
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he
will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath
ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that
he hath raised him from the dead.
 
Acts 17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead,
some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this
matter.
 
Acts 17:33 So Paul departed from among them.
 
Acts 17:34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed:
among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named
Damaris, and others with them.
 
Acts 18:1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and
came to Corinth;
 
Acts 18:2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,
lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that
Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came
unto them.
 
Acts 18:3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with
them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
 
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and
persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
 
Acts 18:5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from
Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the
Jews that Jesus was Christ.
 
Acts 18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he
shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your
own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the
Gentiles.
 
Acts 18:7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain
man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house
joined hard to the synagogue.
 
Acts 18:8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue,
believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the
Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
 
Acts 18:9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision,
Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
 
Acts 18:10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to
hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
 
Acts 18:11 And he continued there a year and six months,
teaching the word of God among them.
 
Acts 18:12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews
made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him
to the judgment seat,
 
Acts 18:13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God
contrary to the law.
 
Acts 18:14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth,
Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked
lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
 
Acts 18:15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of
your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
 
Acts 18:16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.
 
Acts 18:17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler
of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And
Gallio cared for none of those things.
 
Acts 18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while,
and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into
Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head
in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
 
Acts 18:19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he
himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
 
Acts 18:20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with
them, he consented not;
 
Acts 18:21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means
keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again
unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
 
Acts 18:22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and
saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
 
Acts 18:23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed,
and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order,
strengthening all the disciples.
 
Acts 18:24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria,
an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
 
Acts 18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and
being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the
things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
 
Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom
when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and
expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
 
Acts 18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the
brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when
he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
 
Acts 18:28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
 
Acts 19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at
Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to
Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
 
Acts 19:2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost
since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as
heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
 
Acts 19:3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye
baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
 
Acts 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism
of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe
on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
 
Acts 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name
of the Lord Jesus.
 
Acts 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy
Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
 
Acts 19:7 And all the men were about twelve.
 
Acts 19:8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for
the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things
concerning the kingdom of God.
 
Acts 19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but
spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from
them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school
of one Tyrannus.
 
Acts 19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so
that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord
Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
 
Acts 19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of
Paul:
 
Acts 19:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick
handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and
the evil spirits went out of them.
 
Acts 19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took
upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of
the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul
preacheth.
 
Acts 19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and
chief of the priests, which did so.
 
Acts 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know,
and Paul I know; but who are ye?
 
Acts 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on
them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they
fled out of that house naked and wounded.
 
Acts 19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also
dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of
the Lord Jesus was magnified.
 
Acts 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and
shewed their deeds.
 
Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought
their books together, and burned them before all men: and they
counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of
silver.
 
Acts 19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
 
Acts 19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the
spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to
Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
 
Acts 19:22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that
ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed
in Asia for a season.
 
Acts 19:23 And the same time there arose no small stir about
that way.
 
Acts 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith,
which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto
the craftsmen;
 
Acts 19:25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like
occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have
our wealth.
 
Acts 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus,
but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and
turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are
made with hands:
 
Acts 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be
set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess
Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be
destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
 
Acts 19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of
wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
 
Acts 19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and
having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's
companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the
theatre.
 
Acts 19:30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people,
the disciples suffered him not.
 
Acts 19:31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his
friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure
himself into the theatre.
 
Acts 19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another:
for the assembly was confused: and the more part knew not
wherefore they were come together.
 
Acts 19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the
Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand,
and would have made his defence unto the people.
 
Acts 19:34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one
voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of
the Ephesians.
 
Acts 19:35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he
said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how
that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great
goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
 
Acts 19:36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken
against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
 
Acts 19:37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are
neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
 
Acts 19:38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are
with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and
there are deputies: let them implead one another.
 
Acts 19:39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other
matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
 
Acts 19:40 For we are in danger to be called in question for
this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an
account of this concourse.
 
Acts 19:41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the
assembly.
 
Acts 20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him
the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into
Macedonia.
 
Acts 20:2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given
them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
 
Acts 20:3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid
wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to
return through Macedonia.
 
Acts 20:4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea;
and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of
Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
 
Acts 20:5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
 
Acts 20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of
unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where
we abode seven days.
 
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the
disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them,
ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until
midnight.
 
Acts 20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber,
where they were gathered together.
 
Acts 20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named
Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long
preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third
loft, and was taken up dead.
 
Acts 20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing
him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
 
Acts 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken
bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of
day, so he departed.
 
Acts 20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a
little comforted.
 
Acts 20:13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos,
there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding
himself to go afoot.
 
Acts 20:14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in,
and came to Mitylene.
 
Acts 20:15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over
against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried
at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
 
Acts 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because
he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were
possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
 
Acts 20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the
elders of the church.
 
Acts 20:18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them,
Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what
manner I have been with you at all seasons,
 
Acts 20:19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with
many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait
of the Jews:
 
Acts 20:20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto
you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from
house to house,
 
Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Acts 20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto
Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
 
Acts 20:23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city,
saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
 
Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my
life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy,
and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to
testify the gospel of the grace of God.
 
Acts 20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I
have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no
more.
 
Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am
pure from the blood of all men.
 
Acts 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the
counsel of God.
 
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the
flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to
feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
blood.
 
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall
grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
 
Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking
perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
 
Acts 20:31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of
three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with
tears.
 
Acts 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the
word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you
an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
 
Acts 20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
 
Acts 20:34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have
ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
 
Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring
ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to
receive.
 
Acts 20:36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and
prayed with them all.
 
Acts 20:37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and
kissed him,
 
Acts 20:38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake,
that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him
unto the ship.
 
Acts 21:1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from
them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos,
and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:
 
Acts 21:2 And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we
went aboard, and set forth.
 
Acts 21:3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the
left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there
the ship was to unlade her burden.
 
Acts 21:4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days:
who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to
Jerusalem.
 
Acts 21:5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed
and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives
and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down
on the shore, and prayed.
 
Acts 21:6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we
took ship; and they returned home again.
 
Acts 21:7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we
came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them
one day.
 
Acts 21:8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company
departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house
of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode
with him.
 
Acts 21:9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which
did prophesy.
 
Acts 21:10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down
from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
 
Acts 21:11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle,
and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy
Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth
this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the
Gentiles.
 
Acts 21:12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of
that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
 
Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to
break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also
to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
 
Acts 21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased,
saying, The will of the Lord be done.
 
Acts 21:15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and
went up to Jerusalem.
 
Acts 21:16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of
Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old
disciple, with whom we should lodge.
 
Acts 21:17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren
received us gladly.
 
Acts 21:18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto
James; and all the elders were present.
 
Acts 21:19 And when he had saluted them, he declared
particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by
his ministry.
 
Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and
said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews
there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
 
Acts 21:21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest
all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses,
saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither
to walk after the customs.
 
Acts 21:22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come
together: for they will hear that thou art come.
 
Acts 21:23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four
men which have a vow on them;
 
Acts 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at
charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may
know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning
thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly,
and keepest the law.
 
Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have
written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only
that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from
blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
 
Acts 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying
himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the
accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an
offering should be offered for every one of them.
 
Acts 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews
which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up
all the people, and laid hands on him,
 
Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man,
that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the
law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the
temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
 
Acts 21:29 (For they had seen before with him in the city
Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought
into the temple.)
 
Acts 21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran
together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and
forthwith the doors were shut.
 
Acts 21:31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came
unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an
uproar.
 
Acts 21:32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and
ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the
soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
 
Acts 21:33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and
commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he
was, and what he had done.
 
Acts 21:34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the
multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the
tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
 
Acts 21:35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he
was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
 
Acts 21:36 For the multitude of the people followed after,
crying, Away with him.
 
Acts 21:37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said
unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst
thou speak Greek?
 
Acts 21:38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days
madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four
thousand men that were murderers?
 
Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus,
a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech
thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
 
Acts 21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the
stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when
there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew
tongue, saying,
 
Acts 22:1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which
I make now unto you.
 
Acts 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew
tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
 
Acts 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a
city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of
Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law
of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this
day.
 
Acts 22:4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and
delivering into prisons both men and women.
 
Acts 22:5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all
the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto
the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were
there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
 
Acts 22:6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and
was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from
heaven a great light round about me.
 
Acts 22:7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying
unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
 
Acts 22:8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto
me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
 
Acts 22:9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and
were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to
me.
 
Acts 22:10 And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said
unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told
thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.
 
Acts 22:11 And when I could not see for the glory of that
light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came
into Damascus.
 
Acts 22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law,
having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
 
Acts 22:13 Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother
Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
 
Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen
thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One,
and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
 
Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what
thou hast seen and heard.
 
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
 
Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to
Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
 
Acts 22:18 And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee
quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony
concerning me.
 
Acts 22:19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and
beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
 
Acts 22:20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I
also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the
raiment of them that slew him.
 
Acts 22:21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee
far hence unto the Gentiles.
 
Acts 22:22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then
lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from
the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
 
Acts 22:23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes,
and threw dust into the air,
 
Acts 22:24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into
the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging;
that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
 
Acts 22:25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto
the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a
man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
 
Acts 22:26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the
chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is
a Roman.
 
Acts 22:27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell
me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
 
Acts 22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum
obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
 
Acts 22:29 Then straightway they departed from him which should
have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after
he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
 
Acts 22:30 On the morrow, because he would have known the
certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him
from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their
council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before
them.
 
Acts 23:1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men
and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God
until this day.
 
Acts 23:2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood
by him to smite him on the mouth.
 
Acts 23:3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou
whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and
commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
 
Acts 23:4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high
priest?
 
Acts 23:5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the
high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the
ruler of thy people.
 
Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were
Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council,
Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the
hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
 
Acts 23:7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension
between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was
divided.
 
Acts 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection,
neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
 
Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that
were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no
evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him,
let us not fight against God.
 
Acts 23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief
captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of
them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force
from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
 
Acts 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and
said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in
Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
 
Acts 23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded
together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they
would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
 
Acts 23:13 And they were more than forty which had made this
conspiracy.
 
Acts 23:14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and
said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will
eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
 
Acts 23:15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the
chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as
though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him:
and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
 
Acts 23:16 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in
wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
 
Acts 23:17 Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and
said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a
certain thing to tell him.
 
Acts 23:18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief
captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and
prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something
to say unto thee.
 
Acts 23:19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and
went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou
hast to tell me?
 
Acts 23:20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee
that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as
though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
 
Acts 23:21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in
wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound
themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink
till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a
promise from thee.
 
Acts 23:22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart,
and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these
things to me.
 
Acts 23:23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make
ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen
threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour
of the night;
 
Acts 23:24 And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on,
and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
 
Acts 23:25 And he wrote a letter after this manner:
 
Acts 23:26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor
Felix sendeth greeting.
 
Acts 23:27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been
killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having
understood that he was a Roman.
 
Acts 23:28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they
accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
 
Acts 23:29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their
law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of
bonds.
 
Acts 23:30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait
for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to
his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him.
Farewell.
 
Acts 23:31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took
Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
 
Acts 23:32 On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him,
and returned to the castle:
 
Acts 23:33 Who, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the
epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
 
Acts 23:34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked
of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of
Cilicia;
 
Acts 23:35 I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are
also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment
hall.
 
Acts 24:1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended
with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who
informed the governor against Paul.
 
Acts 24:2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to
accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness,
and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy
providence,
 
Acts 24:3 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble
Felix, with all thankfulness.
 
Acts 24:4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto
thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a
few words.
 
Acts 24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a
mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a
ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
 
Acts 24:6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom
we took, and would have judged according to our law.
 
Acts 24:7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with
great violence took him away out of our hands,
 
Acts 24:8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by
examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these
things, whereof we accuse him.
 
Acts 24:9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things
were so.
 
Acts 24:10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto
him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been
of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully
answer for myself:
 
Acts 24:11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are
yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
 
Acts 24:12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing
with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the
synagogues, nor in the city:
 
Acts 24:13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now
accuse me.
 
Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way
which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and in the
prophets:
 
Acts 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also
allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of
the just and unjust.
 
Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a
conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.
 
Acts 24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my
nation, and offerings.
 
Acts 24:18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified
in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
 
Acts 24:19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object,
if they had ought against me.
 
Acts 24:20 Or else let these same here say, if they have found
any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
 
Acts 24:21 Except it be for this one voice, that I cried
standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am
called in question by you this day.
 
Acts 24:22 And when Felix heard these things, having more
perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When
Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the
uttermost of your matter.
 
Acts 24:23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to
let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his
acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
 
Acts 24:24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his
wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard
him concerning the faith in Christ.
 
Acts 24:25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for
this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
 
Acts 24:26 He hoped also that money should have been given him
of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the
oftener, and communed with him.
 
Acts 24:27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix'
room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul
bound.
 
Acts 25:1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after
three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
 
Acts 25:2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews
informed him against Paul, and besought him,
 
Acts 25:3 And desired favour against him, that he would send
for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
 
Acts 25:4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at
Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
 
Acts 25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are
able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any
wickedness in him.
 
Acts 25:6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten
days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the
judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
 
Acts 25:7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from
Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous
complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
 
Acts 25:8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the
law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against
Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
 
Acts 25:9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure,
answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there
be judged of these things before me?
 
Acts 25:10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat,
where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as
thou very well knowest.
 
Acts 25:11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing
worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of
these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto
them. I appeal unto Caesar.
 
Acts 25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council,
answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou
go.
 
Acts 25:13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came
unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
 
Acts 25:14 And when they had been there many days, Festus
declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain
man left in bonds by Felix:
 
Acts 25:15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief
priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have
judgment against him.
 
Acts 25:16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the
Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused
have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for
himself concerning the crime laid against him.
 
Acts 25:17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any
delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the
man to be brought forth.
 
Acts 25:18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they
brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
 
Acts 25:19 But had certain questions against him of their own
superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul
affirmed to be alive.
 
Acts 25:20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I
asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged
of these matters.
 
Acts 25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the
hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send
him to Caesar.
 
Acts 25:22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the
man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
 
Acts 25:23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and
Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of
hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city,
at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
 
Acts 25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are
here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the
multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and
also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
 
Acts 25:25 But when I found that he had committed nothing
worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I
have determined to send him.
 
Acts 25:26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my
lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and
specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination
had, I might have somewhat to write.
 
Acts 25:27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a
prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
 
Acts 26:1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to
speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and
answered for himself:
 
Acts 26:2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall
answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things
whereof I am accused of the Jews:
 
Acts 26:3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all
customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I
beseech thee to hear me patiently.
 
Acts 26:4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the
first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
 
Acts 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would
testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I
lived a Pharisee.
 
Acts 26:6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the
promise made of God, unto our fathers:
 
Acts 26:7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly
serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake,
king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
 
Acts 26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you,
that God should raise the dead?
 
Acts 26:9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many
things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
 
Acts 26:10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the
saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from
the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my
voice against them.
 
Acts 26:11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and
compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against
them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
 
Acts 26:12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and
commission from the chief priests,
 
Acts 26:13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from
heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me
and them which journeyed with me.
 
Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a
voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks.
 
Acts 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am
Jesus whom thou persecutest.
 
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have
appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and
a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those
things in the which I will appear unto thee;
 
Acts 26:17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the
Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
 
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness
to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may
receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are
sanctified by faith that is in me.
 
Acts 26:19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient
unto the heavenly vision:
 
Acts 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at
Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to
the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do
works meet for repentance.
 
Acts 26:21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple,
and went about to kill me.
 
Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue
unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none
other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say
should come:
 
Acts 26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the
first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto
the people, and to the Gentiles.
 
Acts 26:24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a
loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth
make thee mad.
 
Acts 26:25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but
speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
 
Acts 26:26 For the king knoweth of these things, before whom
also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things
are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
 
Acts 26:27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know
that thou believest.
 
Acts 26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest
me to be a Christian.
 
Acts 26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou,
but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and
altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
 
Acts 26:30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and
the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
 
Acts 26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between
themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of
bonds.
 
Acts 26:32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have
been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
 
Acts 27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail into
Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one
named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.
 
Acts 27:2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched,
meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a
Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
 
Acts 27:3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius
courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his
friends to refresh himself.
 
Acts 27:4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under
Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
 
Acts 27:5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and
Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
 
Acts 27:6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria
sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.
 
Acts 27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce
were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we
sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
 
Acts 27:8 And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is
called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
 
Acts 27:9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was
now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul
admonished them,
 
Acts 27:10 And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this
voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading
and ship, but also of our lives.
 
Acts 27:11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and
the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken
by Paul.
 
Acts 27:12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter
in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means
they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an
haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
 
Acts 27:13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that
they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed
close by Crete.
 
Acts 27:14 But not long after there arose against it a
tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
 
Acts 27:15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up
into the wind, we let her drive.
 
Acts 27:16 And running under a certain island which is called
Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
 
Acts 27:17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps,
undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into
the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
 
Acts 27:18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the
next day they lightened the ship;
 
Acts 27:19 And the third day we cast out with our own hands the
tackling of the ship.
 
Acts 27:20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days
appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should
be saved was then taken away.
 
Acts 27:21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the
midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me,
and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and
loss.
 
Acts 27:22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there
shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
 
Acts 27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God,
whose I am, and whom I serve,
 
Acts 27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before
Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with
thee.
 
Acts 27:25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe
God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
 
Acts 27:26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
 
Acts 27:27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were
driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed
that they drew near to some country;
 
Acts 27:28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when
they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it
fifteen fathoms.
 
Acts 27:29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks,
they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
 
Acts 27:30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the
ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour
as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
 
Acts 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers,
Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
 
Acts 27:32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and
let her fall off.
 
Acts 27:33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them
all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye
have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
 
Acts 27:34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is
for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head
of any of you.
 
Acts 27:35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave
thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it,
he began to eat.
 
Acts 27:36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took
some meat.
 
Acts 27:37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred
threescore and sixteen souls.
 
Acts 27:38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the
ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
 
Acts 27:39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but
they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they
were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
 
Acts 27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they
committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands,
and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
 
Acts 27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they
ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained
unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of
the waves.
 
Acts 27:42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners,
lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
 
Acts 27:43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them
from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim
should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
 
Acts 27:44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken
pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all
safe to land.
 
Acts 28:1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the
island was called Melita.
 
Acts 28:2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little
kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one,
because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
 
Acts 28:3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and
laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and
fastened on his hand.
 
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang
on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a
murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance
suffereth not to live.
 
Acts 28:5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no
harm.
 
Acts 28:6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or
fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great
while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and
said that he was a god.
 
Acts 28:7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief
man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and
lodged us three days courteously.
 
Acts 28:8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay
sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in,
and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
 
Acts 28:9 So when this was done, others also, which had
diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
 
Acts 28:10 Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we
departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
 
Acts 28:11 And after three months we departed in a ship of
Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor
and Pollux.
 
Acts 28:12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three
days.
 
Acts 28:13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to
Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the
next day to Puteoli:
 
Acts 28:14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry
with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
 
Acts 28:15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they
came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns:
whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
 
Acts 28:16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered
the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered
to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
 
Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul
called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come
together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have
committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers,
yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the
Romans.
 
Acts 28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me
go, because there was no cause of death in me.
 
Acts 28:19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was
constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse
my nation of.
 
Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to
see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of
Israel I am bound with this chain.
 
Acts 28:21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters
out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that
came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
 
Acts 28:22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest:
for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is
spoken against.
 
Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came
many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified
the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of
the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till
evening.
 
Acts 28:24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and
some believed not.
 
Acts 28:25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they
departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the
Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
 
Acts 28:26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye
shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see,
and not perceive:
 
Acts 28:27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and
their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed;
lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I
should heal them.
 
Acts 28:28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation
of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
 
Acts 28:29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed,
and had great reasoning among themselves.
 
Acts 28:30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired
house, and received all that came in unto him,
 
Acts 28:31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those
things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence,
no man forbidding him. 
 
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an
apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
 
Romans 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the
holy scriptures,)
 
Romans 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was
made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
 
Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the
dead:
 
Romans 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for
obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
 
Romans 1:6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
 
Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be
saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
 
Romans 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you
all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
 
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit
in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of
you always in my prayers;
 
Romans 1:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I
might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto
you.
 
Romans 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you
some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
 
Romans 1:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you
by the mutual faith both of you and me.
 
Romans 1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that
oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,)
that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other
Gentiles.
 
Romans 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the
Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
 
Romans 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the
gospel to you that are at Rome also.
 
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for
it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
 
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by
faith.
 
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the
truth in unrighteousness;
 
Romans 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest
in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
 
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they
are without excuse:
 
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
 
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools,
 
Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into
an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves:
 
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen.
 
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into
that which is against nature:
 
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use
of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with
men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet.
 
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in
their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which are not convenient;
 
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
 
Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
 
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without
natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
 
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which
commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but
have pleasure in them that do them.
 
Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever
thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou
condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
 
Romans 2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth against them which commit such things.
 
Romans 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them
which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape
the judgment of God?
 
Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and
forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of
God leadeth thee to repentance?
 
Romans 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
 
Romans 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
 
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing
seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
 
Romans 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey
the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
 
Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that
doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
 
Romans 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that
worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
 
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
 
Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also
perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall
be judged by the law;
 
Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before
God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
 
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do
by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the
law, are a law unto themselves:
 
Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their
hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts
the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
 
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
 
Romans 2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the
law, and makest thy boast of God,
 
Romans 2:18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that
are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
 
Romans 2:19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of
the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
 
Romans 2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes,
which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
 
Romans 2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest
thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal,
dost thou steal?
 
Romans 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery,
dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou
commit sacrilege?
 
Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through
breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
 
Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the
Gentiles through you, as it is written.
 
Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the
law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is
made uncircumcision.
 
Romans 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the
righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted
for circumcision?
 
Romans 2:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if
it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision
dost transgress the law?
 
Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly;
neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
 
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the
letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
 
Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision?
 
Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God.
 
Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their
unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
 
Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy
sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
 
Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness
of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? (I speak as a man)
 
Romans 3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
 
Romans 3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through
my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
 
Romans 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and
as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?
whose damnation is just.
 
Romans 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise:
for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are
all under sin;
 
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not
one:
 
Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none
that seeketh after God.
 
Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
 
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their
tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their
lips:
 
Romans 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
 
Romans 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
 
Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
 
Romans 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
 
Romans 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
 
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
 
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge
of sin.
 
Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
 
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of
Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there
is no difference:
 
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God;
 
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
 
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
 
Romans 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus.
 
Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
 
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by
faith without the deeds of the law.
 
Romans 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of
the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
 
Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
 
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God
forbid: yea, we establish the law.
 
Romans 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as
pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
 
Romans 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath
whereof to glory; but not before God.
 
Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God,
and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
 
Romans 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned
of grace, but of debt.
 
Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness.
 
Romans 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the
man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
 
Romans 4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
 
Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute
sin.
 
Romans 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision
only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was
reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
 
Romans 4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in
circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision.
 
Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of
the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being
uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that
believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might
be imputed unto them also:
 
Romans 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not
of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that
faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet
uncircumcised.
 
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the
world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith.
 
Romans 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is
made void, and the promise made of none effect:
 
Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is,
there is no transgression.
 
Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by
grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not
to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of
the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
 
Romans 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of
many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who
quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as
though they were.
 
Romans 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations, according to that which was
spoken, So shall thy seed be.
 
Romans 4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his
own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
 
Romans 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
 
Romans 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had
promised, he was able also to perform.
 
Romans 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for
righteousness.
 
Romans 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it
was imputed to him;
 
Romans 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we
believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
 
Romans 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised
again for our justification.
 
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
 
Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
 
Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
 
Romans 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
 
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given
unto us.
 
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly.
 
Romans 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet
peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
 
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
 
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we
shall be saved from wrath through him.
 
Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to
God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life.
 
Romans 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
 
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned:
 
Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is
not imputed when there is no law.
 
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even
over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
 
Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift.
For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the
grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many.
 
Romans 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the
gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free
gift is of many offences unto justification.
 
Romans 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one;
much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
 
Romans 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came
upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one
the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
 
Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
 
Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
 
Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might
grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus
Christ our Lord.
 
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,
that grace may abound?
 
Romans 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live
any longer therein?
 
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
 
Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life.
 
Romans 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness
of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection:
 
Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin.
 
Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
 
Romans 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we
shall also live with him:
 
Romans 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth
no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
 
Romans 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in
that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
 
Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
 
Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,
that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
 
Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those
that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God.
 
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye
are not under the law, but under grace.
 
Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under
the law, but under grace? God forbid.
 
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves
servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of
sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
 
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of
sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
which was delivered you.
 
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the
servants of righteousness.
 
Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members
servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so
now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
 
Romans 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free
from righteousness.
 
Romans 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye
are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
 
Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.
 
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 
Romans 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that
know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long
as he liveth?
 
Romans 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the
law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be
dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
 
Romans 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married
to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her
husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
adulteress, though she be married to another man.
 
Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to
the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to
another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should
bring forth fruit unto God.
 
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth
fruit unto death.
 
Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being
dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of
spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
 
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known
lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
 
Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought
in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was
dead.
 
Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
 
Romans 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I
found to be unto death.
 
Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me.
 
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment
holy, and just, and good.
 
Romans 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by
that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become
exceeding sinful.
 
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am
carnal, sold under sin.
 
Romans 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would,
that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
 
Romans 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto
the law that it is good.
 
Romans 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me.
 
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how
to perform that which is good I find not.
 
Romans 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil
which I would not, that I do.
 
Romans 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that
do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
 
Romans 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil
is present with me.
 
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man:
 
Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the
law of sin which is in my members.
 
Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death?
 
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then
with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh
the law of sin.
 
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.
 
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
 
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
 
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
 
Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of
the Spirit.
 
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace.
 
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for
it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
 
Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please
God.
 
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if
so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
 
Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because
of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
 
Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth
in you.
 
Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the
flesh, to live after the flesh.
 
Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but
if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live.
 
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God.
 
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage
again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
 
Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God:
 
Romans 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that
we may be also glorified together.
 
Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.
 
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth
for the manifestation of the sons of God.
 
Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not
willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in
hope,
 
Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the
children of God.
 
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now.
 
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of
our body.
 
Romans 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is
not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
 
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with
patience wait for it.
 
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered.
 
Romans 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is
the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the
saints according to the will of God.
 
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good
to them that love God, to them who are the called according to
his purpose.
 
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.
 
Romans 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified.
 
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be
for us, who can be against us?
 
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
things?
 
Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's
elect? It is God that justifieth.
 
Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died,
yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us.
 
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
 
Romans 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all
the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
 
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us.
 
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come,
 
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience
also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
 
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in
my heart.
 
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from
Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
 
Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption,
and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and
the service of God, and the promises;
 
Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the
flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
 
Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none
effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
 
Romans 9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are
they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
 
Romans 9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God: but the children of the
promise are counted for the seed.
 
Romans 9:9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I
come, and Sarah shall have a son.
 
Romans 9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had
conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
 
Romans 9:11 (For the children being not yet born, neither
having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
 
Romans 9:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the
younger.
 
Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have
I hated.
 
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness
with God? God forbid.
 
Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I
will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion.
 
Romans 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
 
Romans 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this
same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in
thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth.
 
Romans 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy,
and whom he will he hardeneth.
 
Romans 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find
fault? For who hath resisted his will?
 
Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against
God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast
thou made me thus?
 
Romans 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the
same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto
dishonour?
 
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make
his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction:
 
Romans 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his
glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto
glory,
 
Romans 9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only,
but also of the Gentiles?
 
Romans 9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my
people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not
beloved.
 
Romans 9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where
it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be
called the children of the living God.
 
Romans 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the
number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a
remnant shall be saved:
 
Romans 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the
earth.
 
Romans 9:29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of
Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made
like unto Gomorrha.
 
Romans 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which
followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith.
 
Romans 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of
righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
 
Romans 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but
as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone;
 
Romans 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a
stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on
him shall not be ashamed.
 
Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for
Israel is, that they might be saved.
 
Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of
God, but not according to knowledge.
 
Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and
going about to establish their own righteousness, have not
submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
 
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to every one that believeth.
 
Romans 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of
the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by
them.
 
Romans 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on
this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?
(that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
 
Romans 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to
bring up Christ again from the dead.)
 
Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in
thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we
preach;
 
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
 
Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
 
Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on
him shall not be ashamed.
 
Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the
Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon
him.
 
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
 
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have
not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have
not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
 
Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as
it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
 
Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For
Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
 
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.
 
Romans 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their
sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of
the world.
 
Romans 10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith,
I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by
a foolish nation I will anger you.
 
Romans 10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of
them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked
not after me.
 
Romans 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have
stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying
people.
 
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God
forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of
the tribe of Benjamin.
 
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he
foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he
maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
 
Romans 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged
down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
 
Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the
knee to the image of Baal.
 
Romans 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace.
 
Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it
is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
 
Romans 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were
blinded.
 
Romans 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them
the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears
that they should not hear;) unto this day.
 
Romans 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare,
and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
 
Romans 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
and bow down their back alway.
 
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should
fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come
unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
 
Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the
world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles;
how much more their fulness?
 
Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
 
Romans 11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them
which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
 
Romans 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling
of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from
the dead?
 
Romans 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also
holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
 
Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and
thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and
with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
 
Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
 
Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in.
 
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
 
Romans 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take
heed lest he also spare not thee.
 
Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God:
on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou
continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
 
Romans 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in
unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in
again.
 
Romans 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which
is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a
good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
 
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the
fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
 
Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is
written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall
turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
 
Romans 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall
take away their sins.
 
Romans 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for
your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for
the father's sakes.
 
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without
repentance.
 
Romans 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet
have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
 
Romans 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that
through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
 
Romans 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that
he might have mercy upon all.
 
Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his
ways past finding out!
 
Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who
hath been his counsellor?
 
Romans 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto him again?
 
Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all
things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
 
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
 
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what
is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
 
Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to
every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly
than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God
hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
 
Romans 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all
members have not the same office:
 
Romans 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and
every one members one of another.
 
Romans 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace
that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of faith;
 
Romans 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he
that teacheth, on teaching;
 
Romans 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that
giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with
diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
 
Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which
is evil; cleave to that which is good.
 
Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with
brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
 
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit;
serving the Lord;
 
Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation;
continuing instant in prayer;
 
Romans 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to
hospitality.
 
Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse
not.
 
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with
them that weep.
 
Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not
high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in
your own conceits.
 
Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things
honest in the sight of all men.
 
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
peaceably with all men.
 
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather
give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I
will repay, saith the Lord.
 
Romans 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he
thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of
fire on his head.
 
Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good.
 
Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained
of God.
 
Romans 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth
the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to
themselves damnation.
 
Romans 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to
the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that
which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
 
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But
if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the
sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
 
Romans 13:5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for
wrath, but also for conscience sake.
 
Romans 13:6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they
are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
 
Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom
tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour
to whom honour.
 
Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for
he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
 
Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false
witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other
commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 
Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law.
 
Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than
when we believed.
 
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the
armour of light.
 
Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in
rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in
strife and envying.
 
Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
 
Romans 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not
to doubtful disputations.
 
Romans 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things:
another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
 
Romans 14:3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth
not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for
God hath received him.
 
Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to
his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden
up: for God is able to make him stand.
 
Romans 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another
esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in
his own mind.
 
Romans 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the
Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not
regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God
thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and
giveth God thanks.
 
Romans 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself.
 
Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and
whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore,
or die, we are the Lord's.
 
Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and
revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
 
Romans 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost
thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the
judgment seat of Christ.
 
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord,
every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to
God.
 
Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of
himself to God.
 
Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more:
but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an
occasion to fall in his brother's way.
 
Romans 14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that
there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any
thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
 
Romans 14:15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now
walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for
whom Christ died.
 
Romans 14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
 
Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
 
Romans 14:18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is
acceptable to God, and approved of men.
 
Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which
make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
 
Romans 14:20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things
indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with
offence.
 
Romans 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink
wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is
offended, or is made weak.
 
Romans 14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God.
Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he
alloweth.
 
Romans 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because
he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
 
Romans 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
 
Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his
good to edification.
 
Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is
written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
 
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of
the scriptures might have hope.
 
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you
to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
 
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify
God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Romans 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also
received us to the glory of God.
 
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the
circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made
unto the fathers:
 
Romans 15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his
mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee
among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
 
Romans 15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his
people.
 
Romans 15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and
laud him, all ye people.
 
Romans 15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of
Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him
shall the Gentiles trust.
 
Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power
of the Holy Ghost.
 
Romans 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my
brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all
knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
 
Romans 15:15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more
boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of
the grace that is given to me of God,
 
Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to
the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up
of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy
Ghost.
 
Romans 15:17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus
Christ in those things which pertain to God.
 
Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those
things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles
obedient, by word and deed,
 
Romans 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of
the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto
Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
 
Romans 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not
where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's
foundation:
 
Romans 15:21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken
of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall
understand.
 
Romans 15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered
from coming to you.
 
Romans 15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and
having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
 
Romans 15:24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will
come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be
brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat
filled with your company.
 
Romans 15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the
saints.
 
Romans 15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia
to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at
Jerusalem.
 
Romans 15:27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors
they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their
spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in
carnal things.
 
Romans 15:28 When therefore I have performed this, and have
sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
 
Romans 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall
come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
 
Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus
Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive
together with me in your prayers to God for me;
 
Romans 15:31 That I may be delivered from them that do not
believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem
may be accepted of the saints;
 
Romans 15:32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of
God, and may with you be refreshed.
 
Romans 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
 
Romans 16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a
servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
 
Romans 16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh
saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath
need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself
also.
 
Romans 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ
Jesus:
 
Romans 16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks:
unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of
the Gentiles.
 
Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of
Achaia unto Christ.
 
Romans 16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
 
Romans 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my
fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also
were in Christ before me.
 
Romans 16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
 
Romans 16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my
beloved.
 
Romans 16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them
which are of Aristobulus' household.
 
Romans 16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of
the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
 
Romans 16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the
Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
 
Romans 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother
and mine.
 
Romans 16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
 
Romans 16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his
sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
 
Romans 16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches
of Christ salute you.
 
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause
divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have
learned; and avoid them.
 
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus
Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple.
 
Romans 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I
am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise
unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
 
Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your
feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Amen.
 
Romans 16:21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason,
and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
 
Romans 16:22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in
the Lord.
 
Romans 16:23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth
you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and
Quartus a brother.
 
Romans 16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen.
 
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you
according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret
since the world began,
 
Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of
the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting
God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
 
Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ
for ever. Amen. 
 
1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ
through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
 
1 Corinthians 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth,
to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ
our Lord, both their's and our's:
 
1 Corinthians 1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the
grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
 
1 Corinthians 1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him,
in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
 
1 Corinthians 1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed
in you:
 
1 Corinthians 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting
for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
 
1 Corinthians 1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that
ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto
the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that
there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined
together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
 
1 Corinthians 1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my
brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are
contentions among you.
 
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith,
I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for
you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
 
1 Corinthians 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but
Crispus and Gaius;
 
1 Corinthians 1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in
mine own name.
 
1 Corinthians 1:16 And I baptized also the household of
Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
 
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to
preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of
Christ should be made of none effect.
 
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the
power of God.
 
1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent.
 
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe?
where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?
 
1 Corinthians 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe.
 
1 Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks
seek after wisdom:
 
1 Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the
Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
 
1 Corinthians 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
 
1 Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
 
1 Corinthians 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that
not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many
noble, are called:
 
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of
the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
 
1 Corinthians 1:28 And base things of the world, and things
which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are
not, to bring to nought things that are:
 
1 Corinthians 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
 
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of
God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and
sanctification, and redemption:
 
1 Corinthians 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that
glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not
with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the
testimony of God.
 
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among
you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
 
1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling.
 
1 Corinthians 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the
Spirit and of power:
 
1 Corinthians 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
 
1 Corinthians 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are
perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of
this world, that come to nought:
 
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto
our glory:
 
1 Corinthians 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew:
for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory.
 
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him.
 
1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
of God.
 
1 Corinthians 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man,
save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
 
1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God.
 
1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words
which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
 
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
 
1 Corinthians 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
yet he himself is judged of no man.
 
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as
unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat:
for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye
able.
 
1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is
among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal,
and walk as men?
 
1 Corinthians 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and
another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
 
1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every
man?
 
1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave
the increase.
 
1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any
thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the
increase.
 
1 Corinthians 3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are
one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his
own labour.
 
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
 
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given
unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and
another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereupon.
 
1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than
that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
 
1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for
the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
 
1 Corinthians 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
 
1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall
suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
 
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye
are.
 
1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among
you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that
he may be wise.
 
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness.
 
1 Corinthians 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of
the wise, that they are vain.
 
1 Corinthians 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all
things are your's;
 
1 Corinthians 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come;
all are your's;
 
1 Corinthians 3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
 
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the
ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
 
1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a
man be found faithful.
 
1 Corinthians 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I
should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not
mine own self.
 
1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not
hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden
things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the
hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
 
1 Corinthians 4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that
ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is
written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
 
1 Corinthians 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another?
and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst
receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received
it?
 
1 Corinthians 4:8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have
reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign,
that we also might reign with you.
 
1 Corinthians 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the
apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a
spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
 
1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are
wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are
honourable, but we are despised.
 
1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger,
and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain
dwellingplace;
 
1 Corinthians 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands:
being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
 
1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as
the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things
unto this day.
 
1 Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but
as my beloved sons I warn you.
 
1 Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers
in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I
have begotten you through the gospel.
 
1 Corinthians 4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of
me.
 
1 Corinthians 4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you
Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who
shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ,
as I teach every where in every church.
 
1 Corinthians 4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would
not come to you.
 
1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord
will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up,
but the power.
 
1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but
in power.
 
1 Corinthians 4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a
rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
 
1 Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as
named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
 
1 Corinthians 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away
from among you.
 
1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present
in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done this deed,
 
1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye
are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord
Jesus Christ,
 
1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day
of the Lord Jesus.
 
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
 
1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye
may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
passover is sacrificed for us:
 
1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
 
1 Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company
with fornicators:
 
1 Corinthians 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of
this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
 
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep
company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
 
1 Corinthians 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also
that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
 
1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
 
1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against
another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
 
1 Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge
the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye
unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
 
1 Corinthians 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how
much more things that pertain to this life?
 
1 Corinthians 6:4 If then ye have judgments of things
pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed
in the church.
 
1 Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there
is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to
judge between his brethren?
 
1 Corinthians 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and
that before the unbelievers.
 
1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among
you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather
take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be
defrauded?
 
1 Corinthians 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your
brethren.
 
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind,
 
1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
 
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are
washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
 
1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I
will not be brought under the power of any.
 
1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for
meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is
not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
 
1 Corinthians 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and
will also raise up us by his own power.
 
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members
of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them
the members of an harlot? God forbid.
 
1 Corinthians 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to
an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
 
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit.
 
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth
is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth
against his own body.
 
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?
 
1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
 
1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote
unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
 
1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every
man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
 
1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
 
1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but
the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his
own body, but the wife.
 
1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be
with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting
and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for
your incontinency.
 
1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of
commandment.
 
1 Corinthians 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I
myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this
manner, and another after that.
 
1 Corinthians 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows,
It is good for them if they abide even as I.
 
1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry:
for it is better to marry than to burn.
 
1 Corinthians 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I,
but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
 
1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain
unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the
husband put away his wife.
 
1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If
any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to
dwell with him, let him not put her away.
 
1 Corinthians 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that
believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her
not leave him.
 
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by
the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband:
else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
 
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him
depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases:
but God hath called us to peace.
 
1 Corinthians 7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou
shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou
shalt save thy wife?
 
1 Corinthians 7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as
the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I
in all churches.
 
1 Corinthians 7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him
not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let
him not be circumcised.
 
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision
is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
 
1 Corinthians 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling
wherein he was called.
 
1 Corinthians 7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not
for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
 
1 Corinthians 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a
servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called,
being free, is Christ's servant.
 
1 Corinthians 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the
servants of men.
 
1 Corinthians 7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is
called, therein abide with God.
 
1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment
of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained
mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
 
1 Corinthians 7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for
the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
 
1 Corinthians 7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be
loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
 
1 Corinthians 7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned;
and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such
shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
 
1 Corinthians 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short:
it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they
had none;
 
1 Corinthians 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not;
and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that
buy, as though they possessed not;
 
1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing
it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
 
1 Corinthians 7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He
that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord,
how he may please the Lord:
 
1 Corinthians 7:33 But he that is married careth for the things
that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
 
1 Corinthians 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and
a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord,
that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is
married careth for the things of the world, how she may please
her husband.
 
1 Corinthians 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not
that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely,
and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
 
1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth
himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her
age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth
not: let them marry.
 
1 Corinthians 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in
his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will,
and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin,
doeth well.
 
1 Corinthians 7:38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth
well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
 
1 Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her
husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to
be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my
judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
 
1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we
know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but
charity edifieth.
 
1 Corinthians 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any
thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
 
1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of
him.
 
1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those
things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an
idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God
but one.
 
1 Corinthians 8:5 For though there be that are called gods,
whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords
many,)
 
1 Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father,
of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom are all things, and we by him.
 
1 Corinthians 8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that
knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour
eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience
being weak is defiled.
 
1 Corinthians 8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for
neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not,
are we the worse.
 
1 Corinthians 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty
of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
 
1 Corinthians 8:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge
sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him
which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered
to idols;
 
1 Corinthians 8:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak
brother perish, for whom Christ died?
 
1 Corinthians 8:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and
wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 8:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to
offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make
my brother to offend.
 
1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I
not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
 
1 Corinthians 9:2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet
doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in
the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 9:3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is
this,
 
1 Corinthians 9:4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
 
1 Corinthians 9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a
wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord,
and Cephas?
 
1 Corinthians 9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to
forbear working?
 
1 Corinthians 9:7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own
charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit
thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of
the flock?
 
1 Corinthians 9:8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the
law the same also?
 
1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou
shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Doth God take care for oxen?
 
1 Corinthians 9:10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For
our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should
plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be
partaker of his hope.
 
1 Corinthians 9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
 
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over
you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power;
but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of
Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister
about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they
which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
 
1 Corinthians 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they
which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
 
1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have used none of these things:
neither have I written these things, that it should be so done
unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man
should make my glorying void.
 
1 Corinthians 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have
nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is
unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
 
1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a
reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is
committed unto me.
 
1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I
preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without
charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
 
1 Corinthians 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have
I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
 
1 Corinthians 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the
law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
 
1 Corinthians 9:21 To them that are without law, as without
law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,)
that I might gain them that are without law.
 
1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might
gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by
all means save some.
 
1 Corinthians 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I
might be partaker thereof with you.
 
1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race
run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
 
1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery
is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a
corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
 
1 Corinthians 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
 
1 Corinthians 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into
subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to
others, I myself should be a castaway.
 
1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye
should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the
cloud, and all passed through the sea;
 
1 Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the
cloud and in the sea;
 
1 Corinthians 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
 
1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and
that Rock was Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 10:5 But with many of them God was not well
pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 
1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the
intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
 
1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and
rose up to play.
 
1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some
of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 
1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them
also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
 
1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also
murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
 
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the
ends of the world are come.
 
1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall.
 
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you
to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the
temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear
it.
 
1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from
idolatry.
 
1 Corinthians 10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I
say.
 
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it
not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we
break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
 
1 Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one
body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
 
1 Corinthians 10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they
which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
 
1 Corinthians 10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any
thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any
thing?
 
1 Corinthians 10:20 But I say, that the things which the
Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and
I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
 
1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and
the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table,
and of the table of devils.
 
1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we
stronger than he?
 
1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all
things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all
things edify not.
 
1 Corinthians 10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every man
another's wealth.
 
1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that
eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
 
1 Corinthians 10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the
fulness thereof.
 
1 Corinthians 10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you to
a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you,
eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
 
1 Corinthians 10:28 But if any man say unto you, This is
offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed
it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the
fulness thereof:
 
1 Corinthians 10:29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of
the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's
conscience?
 
1 Corinthians 10:30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I
evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
 
1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
 
1 Corinthians 10:32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor
to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
 
1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not
seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be
saved.
 
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of
Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember
me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to
you.
 
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of
every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and
the head of Christ is God.
 
1 Corinthians 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his
head covered, dishonoureth his head.
 
1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth
with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even
all one as if she were shaven.
 
1 Corinthians 11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her
also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or
shaven, let her be covered.
 
1 Corinthians 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his
head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the
woman is the glory of the man.
 
1 Corinthians 11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the
woman of the man.
 
1 Corinthians 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman;
but the woman for the man.
 
1 Corinthians 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have
power on her head because of the angels.
 
1 Corinthians 11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the
woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is
the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
 
1 Corinthians 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a
woman pray unto God uncovered?
 
1 Corinthians 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you,
that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
 
1 Corinthians 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a
glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
 
1 Corinthians 11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we
have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
 
1 Corinthians 11:17 Now in this that I declare unto you I
praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for
the worse.
 
1 Corinthians 11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in
the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I
partly believe it.
 
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you,
that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
 
1 Corinthians 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one
place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
 
1 Corinthians 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other
his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
 
1 Corinthians 11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to
drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that
have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I
praise you not.
 
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which
also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in
which he was betrayed took bread:
 
1 Corinthians 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it,
and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you:
this do in remembrance of me.
 
1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my
blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
 
1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
 
1 Corinthians 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread,
and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of
the body and blood of the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
 
1 Corinthians 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the
Lord's body.
 
1 Corinthians 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly
among you, and many sleep.
 
1 Corinthians 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should
not be judged.
 
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of
the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
 
1 Corinthians 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come
together to eat, tarry one for another.
 
1 Corinthians 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home;
that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I
set in order when I come.
 
1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I
would not have you ignorant.
 
1 Corinthians 12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away
unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
 
1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no
man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and
that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy
Ghost.
 
1 Corinthians 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the
same Spirit.
 
1 Corinthians 12:5 And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but
it is the same God which worketh all in all.
 
1 Corinthians 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given
to every man to profit withal.
 
1 Corinthians 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word
of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
 
1 Corinthians 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to
another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
 
1 Corinthians 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to
another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another
divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of
tongues:
 
1 Corinthians 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
 
1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are
one body: so also is Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or
free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
 
1 Corinthians 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
 
1 Corinthians 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the
hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
 
1 Corinthians 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not
the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
 
1 Corinthians 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were
the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
 
1 Corinthians 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one
of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
 
1 Corinthians 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were
the body?
 
1 Corinthians 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one
body.
 
1 Corinthians 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I
have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no
need of you.
 
1 Corinthians 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body,
which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
 
1 Corinthians 12:23 And those members of the body, which we
think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant
honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
 
1 Corinthians 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God
hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honour to that part which lacked.
 
1 Corinthians 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body;
but that the members should have the same care one for another.
 
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the
members rejoice with it.
 
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members
in particular.
 
1 Corinthians 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that
miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities
of tongues.
 
1 Corinthians 12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all
teachers? are all workers of miracles?
 
1 Corinthians 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak
with tongues? do all interpret?
 
1 Corinthians 12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet
shew I unto you a more excellent way.
 
1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.
 
1 Corinthians 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have
all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not
charity, I am nothing.
 
1 Corinthians 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the
poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not
charity, it profiteth me nothing.
 
1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
 
1 Corinthians 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not
her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
 
1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth;
 
1 Corinthians 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
 
1 Corinthians 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall
cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
 
1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part.
 
1 Corinthians 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
 
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a
man, I put away childish things.
 
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but
then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even
as also I am known.
 
1 Corinthians 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the greatest of these is charity.
 
1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual
gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
 
1 Corinthians 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue
speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth
him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
 
1 Corinthians 14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to
edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
 
1 Corinthians 14:4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue
edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
 
1 Corinthians 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but
rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth
than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the
church may receive edifying.
 
1 Corinthians 14:6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking
with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to
you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or
by doctrine?
 
1 Corinthians 14:7 And even things without life giving sound,
whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the
sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
 
1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,
who shall prepare himself to the battle?
 
1 Corinthians 14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the
tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is
spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
 
1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of
voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
 
1 Corinthians 14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the
voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that
speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
 
1 Corinthians 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of
spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the
church.
 
1 Corinthians 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an
unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
 
1 Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my
spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
 
1 Corinthians 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the
spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing
with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
 
1 Corinthians 14:16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit,
how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at
thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou
sayest?
 
1 Corinthians 14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the
other is not edified.
 
1 Corinthians 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more
than ye all:
 
1 Corinthians 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five
words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach
others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
 
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding:
howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
 
1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other
tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for
all that will they not hear me, saith the LORD.
 
1 Corinthians 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to
them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying
serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which
believe.
 
1 Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come
together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there
come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not
say that ye are mad?
 
1 Corinthians 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one
that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he
is judged of all:
 
1 Corinthians 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made
manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God,
and report that God is in you of a truth.
 
1 Corinthians 14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come
together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a
tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things
be done unto edifying.
 
1 Corinthians 14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let
it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and
let one interpret.
 
1 Corinthians 14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him
keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to
God.
 
1 Corinthians 14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and
let the other judge.
 
1 Corinthians 14:30 If any thing be revealed to another that
sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
 
1 Corinthians 14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that
all may learn, and all may be comforted.
 
1 Corinthians 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject
to the prophets.
 
1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but
of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
 
1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they
are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
 
1 Corinthians 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them
ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak
in the church.
 
1 Corinthians 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or
came it unto you only?
 
1 Corinthians 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet,
or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write
unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be
ignorant.
 
1 Corinthians 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and
forbid not to speak with tongues.
 
1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in
order.
 
1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received,
and wherein ye stand;
 
1 Corinthians 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in
memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
 
1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures;
 
1 Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the scriptures:
 
1 Corinthians 15:5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the
twelve:
 
1 Corinthians 15:6 After that, he was seen of above five
hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto
this present, but some are fallen asleep.
 
1 Corinthians 15:7 After that, he was seen of James; then of
all the apostles.
 
1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as
of one born out of due time.
 
1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am
not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church
of God.
 
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and
his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I
laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace
of God which was with me.
 
1 Corinthians 15:11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we
preach, and so ye believed.
 
1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from
the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of
the dead?
 
1 Corinthians 15:13 But if there be no resurrection of the
dead, then is Christ not risen:
 
1 Corinthians 15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our
preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
 
1 Corinthians 15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of
God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ:
whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
 
1 Corinthians 15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not
Christ raised:
 
1 Corinthians 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is
vain; ye are yet in your sins.
 
1 Corinthians 15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in
Christ are perished.
 
1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
 
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits of them that slept.
 
1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead.
 
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive.
 
1 Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
 
1 Corinthians 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have
delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall
have put down all rule and all authority and power.
 
1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all
enemies under his feet.
 
1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death.
 
1 Corinthians 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet.
But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest
that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
 
1 Corinthians 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto
him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put
all things under him, that God may be all in all.
 
1 Corinthians 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized
for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then
baptized for the dead?
 
1 Corinthians 15:30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
 
1 Corinthians 15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in
Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
 
1 Corinthians 15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought
with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise
not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
 
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications
corrupt good manners.
 
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for
some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
 
1 Corinthians 15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead
raised up? and with what body do they come?
 
1 Corinthians 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die:
 
1 Corinthians 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not
that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat,
or of some other grain:
 
1 Corinthians 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
him, and to every seed his own body.
 
1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there
is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of
fishes, and another of birds.
 
1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory
of the terrestrial is another.
 
1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another
glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star
differeth from another star in glory.
 
1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It
is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
 
1 Corinthians 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in
glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
 
1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
body.
 
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit.
 
1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is
spiritual.
 
1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the
second man is the Lord from heaven.
 
1 Corinthians 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that
are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly.
 
1 Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the
earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
 
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption.
 
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
 
1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 
1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
 
1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then
shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory.
 
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where
is thy victory?
 
1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
 
1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
 
1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the
saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so
do ye.
 
1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one
of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there
be no gatherings when I come.
 
1 Corinthians 16:3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve
by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto
Jerusalem.
 
1 Corinthians 16:4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall
go with me.
 
1 Corinthians 16:5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass
through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
 
1 Corinthians 16:6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and
winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever
I go.
 
1 Corinthians 16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I
trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
 
1 Corinthians 16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
 
1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened
unto me, and there are many adversaries.
 
1 Corinthians 16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be
with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I
also do.
 
1 Corinthians 16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but
conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look
for him with the brethren.
 
1 Corinthians 16:12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly
desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was
not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall
have convenient time.
 
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you
like men, be strong.
 
1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all your things be done with charity.
 
1 Corinthians 16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house
of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they
have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
 
1 Corinthians 16:16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to
every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
 
1 Corinthians 16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and
Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part
they have supplied.
 
1 Corinthians 16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and
your's: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
 
1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and
Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in
their house.
 
1 Corinthians 16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one
another with an holy kiss.
 
1 Corinthians 16:21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own
hand.
 
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be Anathema Maranatha.
 
1 Corinthians 16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you.
 
1 Corinthians 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.
Amen.
 
2 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will
of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is
at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
 
2 Corinthians 1:2 Grace be to you and peace from God our
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
 
2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by
the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
 
2 Corinthians 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us,
so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your
consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of
the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be
comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
 
2 Corinthians 1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing,
that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also
of the consolation.
 
2 Corinthians 1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant
of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out
of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of
life:
 
2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in
ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God
which raiseth the dead:
 
2 Corinthians 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and
doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
 
2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us,
that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons
thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
 
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of
our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with
fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our
conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
 
2 Corinthians 1:13 For we write none other things unto you,
than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall
acknowledge even to the end;
 
2 Corinthians 1:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part,
that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day
of the Lord Jesus.
 
2 Corinthians 1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come
unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
 
2 Corinthians 1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to
come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on
my way toward Judaea.
 
2 Corinthians 1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use
lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according
to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
 
2 Corinthians 1:18 But as God is true, our word toward you was
not yea and nay.
 
2 Corinthians 1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was
preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus,
was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
 
2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea,
and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
 
2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in
Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
 
2 Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
 
2 Corinthians 1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my
soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
 
2 Corinthians 1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your
faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
 
2 Corinthians 2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I
would not come again to you in heaviness.
 
2 Corinthians 2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that
maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
 
2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I
came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice;
having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
 
2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of
heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be
grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more
abundantly unto you.
 
2 Corinthians 2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not
grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
 
2 Corinthians 2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment,
which was inflicted of many.
 
2 Corinthians 2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to
forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be
swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
 
2 Corinthians 2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm
your love toward him.
 
2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I
might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all
things.
 
2 Corinthians 2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive
also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your
sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
 
2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:
for we are not ignorant of his devices.
 
2 Corinthians 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach
Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
 
2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found
not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from
thence into Macedonia.
 
2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth
us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his
knowledge by us in every place.
 
2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of
Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
 
2 Corinthians 2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto
death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is
sufficient for these things?
 
2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the
word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of
God speak we in Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or
need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or
letters of commendation from you?
 
2 Corinthians 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts,
known and read of all men:
 
2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be
the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but
with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in
fleshy tables of the heart.
 
2 Corinthians 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-
ward:
 
2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
 
2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the
new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
 
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel
could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of
his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
 
2 Corinthians 3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit
be rather glorious?
 
2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be
glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in
glory.
 
2 Corinthians 3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no
glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
 
2 Corinthians 3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious,
much more that which remaineth is glorious.
 
2 Corinthians 3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use
great plainness of speech:
 
2 Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his
face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to
the end of that which is abolished:
 
2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this
day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the
old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read,
the vail is upon their heart.
 
2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord,
the vail shall be taken away.
 
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
 
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
 
2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we
have received mercy, we faint not;
 
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of
God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
 
2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them
that are lost:
 
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them.
 
2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
 
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out
of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
 
2 Corinthians 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not
distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
 
2 Corinthians 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but
not destroyed;
 
2 Corinthians 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying
of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our body.
 
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto
death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh.
 
2 Corinthians 4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in
you.
 
2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith,
according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I
spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
 
2 Corinthians 4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord
Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with
you.
 
2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the
abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to
the glory of God.
 
2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our
outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
 
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory;
 
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are
seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which
are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal.
 
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
 
2 Corinthians 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to
be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
 
2 Corinthians 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be
found naked.
 
2 Corinthians 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan,
being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed
upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
 
2 Corinthians 5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame
thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the
Spirit.
 
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing
that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the
Lord:
 
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
 
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather
to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
 
2 Corinthians 5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or
absent, we may be accepted of him.
 
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his
body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
 
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we
persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also
are made manifest in your consciences.
 
2 Corinthians 5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you,
but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have
somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in
heart.
 
2 Corinthians 5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to
God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
 
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all
dead:
 
2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which
live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him
which died for them, and rose again.
 
2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after
the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet
now henceforth know we him no more.
 
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new.
 
2 Corinthians 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us
the ministry of reconciliation;
 
2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
 
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead,
be ye reconciled to God.
 
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who
knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in
him.
 
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him,
beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
 
2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time
accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee:
behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation.)
 
2 Corinthians 6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the
ministry be not blamed:
 
2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the
ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses,
 
2 Corinthians 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in
labours, in watchings, in fastings;
 
2 Corinthians 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering,
by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
 
2 Corinthians 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by
the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
 
2 Corinthians 6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and
good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
 
2 Corinthians 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying,
and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
 
2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor,
yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all
things.
 
2 Corinthians 6:11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto
you, our heart is enlarged.
 
2 Corinthians 6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are
straitened in your own bowels.
 
2 Corinthians 6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak
as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
 
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
 
2 Corinthians 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or
what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
 
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God
with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath
said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
 
2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and
I will receive you.
 
2 Corinthians 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall
be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
 
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the
flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
 
2 Corinthians 7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have
corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
 
2 Corinthians 7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have
said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
 
2 Corinthians 7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you,
great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am
exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
 
2 Corinthians 7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our
flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without
were fightings, within were fears.
 
2 Corinthians 7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that
are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
 
2 Corinthians 7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the
consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us
your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me;
so that I rejoiced the more.
 
2 Corinthians 7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I
do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same
epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
 
2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry,
but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after
a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
 
2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to
salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world
worketh death.
 
2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye
sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you,
yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea,
what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what
revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in
this matter.
 
2 Corinthians 7:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it
not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that
suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God
might appear unto you.
 
2 Corinthians 7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort:
yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus,
because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
 
2 Corinthians 7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of
you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in
truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found
a truth.
 
2 Corinthians 7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant
toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how
with fear and trembling ye received him.
 
2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence
in you in all things.
 
2 Corinthians 8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the
grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
 
2 Corinthians 8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the
abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the
riches of their liberality.
 
2 Corinthians 8:3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and
beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
 
2 Corinthians 8:4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would
receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the
ministering to the saints.
 
2 Corinthians 8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first
gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of
God.
 
2 Corinthians 8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he
had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
 
2 Corinthians 8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in
faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in
your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
 
2 Corinthians 8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion
of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your
love.
 
2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became
poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
 
2 Corinthians 8:10 And herein I give my advice: for this is
expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but
also to be forward a year ago.
 
2 Corinthians 8:11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that
as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance
also out of that which ye have.
 
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is
accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that
he hath not.
 
2 Corinthians 8:13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and
ye burdened:
 
2 Corinthians 8:14 But by an equality, that now at this time
your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their
abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be
equality:
 
2 Corinthians 8:15 As it is written, He that had gathered much
had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
 
2 Corinthians 8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same
earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
 
2 Corinthians 8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but
being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
 
2 Corinthians 8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose
praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
 
2 Corinthians 8:19 And not that only, but who was also chosen
of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is
administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration
of your ready mind:
 
2 Corinthians 8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us
in this abundance which is administered by us:
 
2 Corinthians 8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the
sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
 
2 Corinthians 8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom
we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much
more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
 
2 Corinthians 8:23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my
partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be
enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the
glory of Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the
churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your
behalf.
 
2 Corinthians 9:1 For as touching the ministering to the
saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
 
2 Corinthians 9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for
which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready
a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
 
2 Corinthians 9:3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our
boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I
said, ye may be ready:
 
2 Corinthians 9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me,
and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be
ashamed in this same confident boasting.
 
2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort
the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up
beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the
same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of
covetousness.
 
2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly
shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall
reap also bountifully.
 
2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his
heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God
loveth a cheerful giver.
 
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound
toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things,
may abound to every good work:
 
2 Corinthians 9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad;
he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
 
2 Corinthians 9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower
both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown,
and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
 
2 Corinthians 9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all
bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
 
2 Corinthians 9:12 For the administration of this service not
only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by
many thanksgivings unto God;
 
2 Corinthians 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this
ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto
the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto
them, and unto all men;
 
2 Corinthians 9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long
after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
 
2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
 
2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the
meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among
you, but being absent am bold toward you:
 
2 Corinthians 10:2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold
when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be
bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to
the flesh.
 
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh:
 
2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong
holds;)
 
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
 
2 Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
 
2 Corinthians 10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward
appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let
him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so
are we Christ's.
 
2 Corinthians 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of
our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and
not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
 
2 Corinthians 10:9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify
you by letters.
 
2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and
powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech
contemptible.
 
2 Corinthians 10:11 Let such an one think this, that, such as
we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be
also in deed when we are present.
 
2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the
number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves:
but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing
themselves among themselves, are not wise.
 
2 Corinthians 10:13 But we will not boast of things without our
measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath
distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
 
2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our
measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as
far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
 
2 Corinthians 10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure,
that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith
is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our
rule abundantly,
 
2 Corinthians 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond
you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready
to our hand.
 
2 Corinthians 10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord.
 
2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is
approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
 
2 Corinthians 11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little
in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
 
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the
serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another
Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another
spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye
have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
 
2 Corinthians 11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the
very chiefest apostles.
 
2 Corinthians 11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in
knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in
all things.
 
2 Corinthians 11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing
myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you
the gospel of God freely?
 
2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of
them, to do you service.
 
2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted,
I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the
brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I
have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I
keep myself.
 
2 Corinthians 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man
shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
 
2 Corinthians 11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God
knoweth.
 
2 Corinthians 11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may
cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein
they glory, they may be found even as we.
 
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
 
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light.
 
2 Corinthians 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works.
 
2 Corinthians 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if
otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a
little.
 
2 Corinthians 11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after
the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of
boasting.
 
2 Corinthians 11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I
will glory also.
 
2 Corinthians 11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye
yourselves are wise.
 
2 Corinthians 11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into
bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man
exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
 
2 Corinthians 11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though
we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak
foolishly,) I am bold also.
 
2 Corinthians 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they
Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
 
2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a
fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above
measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
 
2 Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty
stripes save one.
 
2 Corinthians 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I
stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have
been in the deep;
 
2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters,
in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils
by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
 
2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness.
 
2 Corinthians 11:28 Beside those things that are without, that
which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
 
2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is
offended, and I burn not?
 
2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the
things which concern mine infirmities.
 
2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
 
2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the
king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to
apprehend me:
 
2 Corinthians 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let
down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
 
2 Corinthians 12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to
glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
 
2 Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years
ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the
body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the
third heaven.
 
2 Corinthians 12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body,
or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
 
2 Corinthians 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and
heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to
utter.
 
2 Corinthians 12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I
will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
 
2 Corinthians 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall
not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest
any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or
that he heareth of me.
 
2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a
thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I
should be exalted above measure.
 
2 Corinthians 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice,
that it might depart from me.
 
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient
for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most
gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me.
 
2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for
Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
 
2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have
compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in
nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be
nothing.
 
2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought
among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty
deeds.
 
2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to
other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to
you? forgive me this wrong.
 
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come
to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not
your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the
parents, but the parents for the children.
 
2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent
for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be
loved.
 
2 Corinthians 12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you:
nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
 
2 Corinthians 12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them
whom I sent unto you?
 
2 Corinthians 12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a
brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same
spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
 
2 Corinthians 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves
unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things,
dearly beloved, for your edifying.
 
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not
find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such
as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths,
strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
 
2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will
humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have
sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and
fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
 
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you.
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established.
 
2 Corinthians 13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I
were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to
them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I
come again, I will not spare:
 
2 Corinthians 13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in
me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
 
2 Corinthians 13:4 For though he was crucified through
weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak
in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward
you.
 
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how
that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
 
2 Corinthians 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are
not reprobates.
 
2 Corinthians 13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not
that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which
is honest, though we be as reprobates.
 
2 Corinthians 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but
for the truth.
 
2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye
are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
 
2 Corinthians 13:10 Therefore I write these things being
absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to
the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to
destruction.
 
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be
of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of
love and peace shall be with you.
 
2 Corinthians 13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
 
2 Corinthians 13:13 All the saints salute you.
 
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you
all. Amen.
 
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man,
but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the
dead;)
 
Galatians 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the
churches of Galatia:
 
Galatians 1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father,
and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
 
Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might
deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of
God and our Father:
 
Galatians 1:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
 
Galatians 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
 
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto
you, let him be accursed.
 
Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man
preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let
him be accursed.
 
Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek
to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the
servant of Christ.
 
Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel
which was preached of me is not after man.
 
Galatians 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I
taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
 
Galatians 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time
past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted
the church of God, and wasted it:
 
Galatians 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my
equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the
traditions of my fathers.
 
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from
my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
 
Galatians 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him
among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and
blood:
 
Galatians 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which
were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned
again unto Damascus.
 
Galatians 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to
see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
 
Galatians 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James
the Lord's brother.
 
Galatians 1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold,
before God, I lie not.
 
Galatians 1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and
Cilicia;
 
Galatians 1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of
Judaea which were in Christ:
 
Galatians 1:23 But they had heard only, That he which
persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he
destroyed.
 
Galatians 1:24 And they glorified God in me.
 
Galatians 2:1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to
Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
 
Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated
unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but
privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I
should run, or had run, in vain.
 
Galatians 2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a
Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
 
Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares
brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we
have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
 
Galatians 2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for
an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
 
Galatians 2:6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat,
(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth
no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in
conference added nothing to me:
 
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel
of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the
circumcision was unto Peter;
 
Galatians 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the
apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward
the Gentiles:)
 
Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to
be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave
to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should
go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
 
Galatians 2:10 Only they would that we should remember the
poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
 
Galatians 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood
him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
 
Galatians 2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did
eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and
separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
 
Galatians 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him;
insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation.
 
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly
according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before
them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of
Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the
Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
 
Galatians 2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of
the Gentiles,
 
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works
of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have
believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith
of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of
the law shall no flesh be justified.
 
Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ,
we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the
minister of sin? God forbid.
 
Galatians 2:18 For if I build again the things which I
destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
 
Galatians 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I
might live unto God.
 
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live
in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me.
 
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if
righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
 
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that
ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath
been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
 
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the
Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
 
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
 
Galatians 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be
yet in vain.
 
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit,
and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the
law, or by the hearing of faith?
 
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness.
 
Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
the same are the children of Abraham.
 
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel
unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
 
Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with
faithful Abraham.
 
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the
law to do them.
 
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the
sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
 
Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that
doeth them shall live in them.
 
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the
law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree:
 
Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise
of the Spirit through faith.
 
Galatians 3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men;
Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man
disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
 
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises
made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And
to thy seed, which is Christ.
 
Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was
confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four
hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should
make the promise of none effect.
 
Galatians 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no
more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
 
Galatians 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added
because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a
mediator.
 
Galatians 3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God
is one.
 
Galatians 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God
forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given
life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
 
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin,
that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them
that believe.
 
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the
law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
 
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
 
Galatians 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer
under a schoolmaster.
 
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus.
 
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into
Christ have put on Christ.
 
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus.
 
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's
seed, and heirs according to the promise.
 
Galatians 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a
child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of
all;
 
Galatians 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time
appointed of the father.
 
Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in
bondage under the elements of the world:
 
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God
sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
 
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we
might receive the adoption of sons.
 
Galatians 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
 
Galatians 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son;
and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
 
Galatians 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did
service unto them which by nature are no gods.
 
Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather
are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly
elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
 
Galatians 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and
years.
 
Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon
you labour in vain.
 
Galatians 4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as
ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
 
Galatians 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I
preached the gospel unto you at the first.
 
Galatians 4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye
despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God,
even as Christ Jesus.
 
Galatians 4:15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I
bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have
plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
 
Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell
you the truth?
 
Galatians 4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea,
they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
 
Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always
in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
 
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth
again until Christ be formed in you,
 
Galatians 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to
change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
 
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do
ye not hear the law?
 
Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons,
the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
 
Galatians 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after
the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
 
Galatians 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the
two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to
bondage, which is Agar.
 
Galatians 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and
answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her
children.
 
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is
the mother of us all.
 
Galatians 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that
bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for
the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an
husband.
 
Galatians 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children
of promise.
 
Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
 
Galatians 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out
the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not
be heir with the son of the freewoman.
 
Galatians 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman, but of the free.
 
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage.
 
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be
circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
 
Galatians 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is
circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
 
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever
of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
 
Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of
righteousness by faith.
 
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth
any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
 
Galatians 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye
should not obey the truth?
 
Galatians 5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth
you.
 
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
 
Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that
ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall
bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
 
Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,
why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross
ceased.
 
Galatians 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble
you.
 
Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty;
only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love
serve one another.
 
Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even
in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 
Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed
that ye be not consumed one of another.
 
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye
shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and
the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to
the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
 
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under
the law.
 
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which
are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
 
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 
Galatians 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and
such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told
you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.
 
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 
Galatians 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no
law.
 
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts.
 
Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in
the Spirit.
 
Galatians 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking
one another, envying one another.
 
Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye
which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of
meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
 
Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the
law of Christ.
 
Galatians 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when
he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
 
Galatians 6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then
shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
 
Galatians 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
 
Galatians 6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate
unto him that teacheth in all good things.
 
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
 
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap life everlasting.
 
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not.
 
Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good
unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of
faith.
 
Galatians 6:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto
you with mine own hand.
 
Galatians 6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the
flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they
should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
 
Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised
keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may
glory in your flesh.
 
Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified
unto me, and I unto the world.
 
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
 
Galatians 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule,
peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
 
Galatians 6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I
bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
 
Galatians 6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with your spirit. Amen.
 
Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in
Christ Jesus:
 
Ephesians 1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father,
and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ:
 
Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love:
 
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will,
 
Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein
he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
 
Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
 
Ephesians 1:8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom
and prudence;
 
Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his
will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in
himself:
 
Ephesians 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times
he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
 
Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh
all things after the counsel of his own will:
 
Ephesians 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory,
who first trusted in Christ.
 
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise,
 
Ephesians 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of
his glory.
 
Ephesians 1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in
the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
 
Ephesians 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention
of you in my prayers;
 
Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him:
 
Ephesians 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling,
and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints,
 
Ephesians 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power
to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty
power,
 
Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him
from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly
places,
 
Ephesians 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and
might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in
this world, but also in that which is to come:
 
Ephesians 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave
him to be the head over all things to the church,
 
Ephesians 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that
filleth all in all.
 
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins;
 
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the
air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
 
Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of
the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others.
 
Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us,
 
Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
 
Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
 
Ephesians 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through
Christ Jesus.
 
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
 
Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
 
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.
 
Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past
Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that
which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
 
Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the
covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the
world:
 
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were
far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
 
Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and
hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
 
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even
the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in
himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
 
Ephesians 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
 
Ephesians 2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh.
 
Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one
Spirit unto the Father.
 
Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the
household of God;
 
Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner stone;
 
Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
 
Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.
 
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus
Christ for you Gentiles,
 
Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace
of God which is given me to you-ward:
 
Ephesians 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the
mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
 
Ephesians 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my
knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
 
Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the
sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and
prophets by the Spirit;
 
Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of
the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the
gospel:
 
Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the
gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working
of his power.
 
Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all
saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
 
Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of
the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid
in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
 
Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities
and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the
manifold wisdom of God,
 
Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
 
Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with
confidence by the faith of him.
 
Ephesians 3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my
tribulations for you, which is your glory.
 
Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
 
Ephesians 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named,
 
Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches
of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the
inner man;
 
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
 
Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what
is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
 
Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
 
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that worketh in us,
 
Ephesians 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
 
Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech
you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
 
Ephesians 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with
longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
 
Ephesians 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in
the bond of peace.
 
Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are
called in one hope of your calling;
 
Ephesians 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
 
Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all.
 
Ephesians 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according
to the measure of the gift of Christ.
 
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high,
he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
 
Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he
also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
 
Ephesians 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended
up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
 
Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
 
Ephesians 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work
of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
 
Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and
of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
 
Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed
to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the
sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait
to deceive;
 
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into
him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
 
Ephesians 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together
and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to
the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh
increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
 
Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity
of their mind,
 
Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in
them, because of the blindness of their heart:
 
Ephesians 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves
over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness.
 
Ephesians 4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
 
Ephesians 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been
taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
 
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former
conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts;
 
Ephesians 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
 
Ephesians 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God
is created in righteousness and true holiness.
 
Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man
truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
 
Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go
down upon your wrath:
 
Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
 
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let
him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that
he may have to give to him that needeth.
 
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may
minister grace unto the hearers.
 
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby
ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
 
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all
malice:
 
Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you.
 
Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear
children;
 
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,
and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God
for a sweetsmelling savour.
 
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or
covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh
saints;
 
Ephesians 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor
jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
 
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor
unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
 
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for
because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children
of disobedience.
 
Ephesians 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
 
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye
light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
 
Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
and righteousness and truth;)
 
Ephesians 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
 
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works
of darkness, but rather reprove them.
 
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret.
 
Ephesians 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made
manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is
light.
 
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
 
Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as
fools, but as wise,
 
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
 
Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is.
 
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
but be filled with the Spirit;
 
Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the
Lord;
 
Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and
the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear
of God.
 
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as unto the Lord.
 
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the
body.
 
Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ,
so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
 
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
 
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word,
 
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious
church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that
it should be holy and without blemish.
 
Ephesians 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
 
Ephesians 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
 
Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh,
and of his bones.
 
Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be
one flesh.
 
Ephesians 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the church.
 
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular
so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she
reverence her husband.
 
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this
is right.
 
Ephesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first
commandment with promise;
 
Ephesians 6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest
live long on the earth.
 
Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord.
 
Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your
masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in
singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
 
Ephesians 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
 
Ephesians 6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and
not to men:
 
Ephesians 6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth,
the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or
free.
 
Ephesians 6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them,
forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in
heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
 
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and
in the power of his might.
 
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
 
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places.
 
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done
all, to stand.
 
Ephesians 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
 
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace;
 
Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith
ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
 
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword
of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
 
Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints;
 
Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me,
that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the
gospel,
 
Ephesians 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that
therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
 
Ephesians 6:21 But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I
do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the
Lord, shall make known to you all things:
 
Ephesians 6:22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose,
that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your
hearts.
 
Ephesians 6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith,
from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus
Christ in sincerity. Amen.
 
Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus
Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi,
with the bishops and deacons:
 
Philippians 1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Philippians 1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
 
Philippians 1:4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all
making request with joy,
 
Philippians 1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the
first day until now;
 
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he
which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day
of Jesus Christ:
 
Philippians 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you
all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my
bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all
are partakers of my grace.
 
Philippians 1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after
you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
 
Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet
more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
 
Philippians 1:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent;
that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of
Christ.
 
Philippians 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness,
which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
 
Philippians 1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren,
that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather
unto the furtherance of the gospel;
 
Philippians 1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all
the palace, and in all other places;
 
Philippians 1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing
confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word
without fear.
 
Philippians 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and
strife; and some also of good will:
 
Philippians 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not
sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
 
Philippians 1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set
for the defence of the gospel.
 
Philippians 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether
in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do
rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
 
Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my
salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of
Jesus Christ,
 
Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my
hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all
boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my
body, whether it be by life, or by death.
 
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain.
 
Philippians 1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit
of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
 
Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a
desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
 
Philippians 1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more
needful for you.
 
Philippians 1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I
shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and
joy of faith;
 
Philippians 1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in
Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
 
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh
the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be
absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one
spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the
gospel;
 
Philippians 1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries:
which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of
salvation, and that of God.
 
Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of
Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his
sake;
 
Philippians 1:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me,
and now hear to be in me.
 
Philippians 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in
Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any bowels and mercies,
 
Philippians 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having
the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
 
Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or
vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better
than themselves.
 
Philippians 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every
man also on the things of others.
 
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus:
 
Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
 
Philippians 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of
men:
 
Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
 
Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name:
 
Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under
the earth;
 
Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
 
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
 
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to
will and to do of his good pleasure.
 
Philippians 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and
disputings:
 
Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the
sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
 
Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may
rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain,
neither laboured in vain.
 
Philippians 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice
and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
 
Philippians 2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice
with me.
 
Philippians 2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send
Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort,
when I know your state.
 
Philippians 2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will
naturally care for your state.
 
Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which
are Jesus Christ's.
 
Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
 
Philippians 2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so
soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
 
Philippians 2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself
shall come shortly.
 
Philippians 2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and
fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my
wants.
 
Philippians 2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of
heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
 
Philippians 2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but
God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I
should have sorrow upon sorrow.
 
Philippians 2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that,
when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less
sorrowful.
 
Philippians 2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all
gladness; and hold such in reputation:
 
Philippians 2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh
unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of
service toward me.
 
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To
write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but
for you it is safe.
 
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware
of the concision.
 
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God
in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence in the flesh.
 
Philippians 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the
flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might
trust in the flesh, I more:
 
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of
Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as
touching the law, a Pharisee;
 
Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;
touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
 
Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I
counted loss for Christ.
 
Philippians 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them
but dung, that I may win Christ,
 
Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the
faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
 
Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his death;
 
Philippians 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the
resurrection of the dead.
 
Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either
were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend
that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
 
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things
which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are
before,
 
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
 
Philippians 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be
thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God
shall reveal even this unto you.
 
Philippians 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already
attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same
thing.
 
Philippians 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and
mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
 
Philippians 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often,
and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the
cross of Christ:
 
Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their
belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
things.)
 
Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence
also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
 
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working
whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
 
Philippians 4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and
longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my
dearly beloved.
 
Philippians 4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that
they be of the same mind in the Lord.
 
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help
those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement
also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the
book of life.
 
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say,
Rejoice.
 
Philippians 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The
Lord is at hand.
 
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God.
 
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus.
 
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and
if there be any praise, think on these things.
 
Philippians 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and
received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace
shall be with you.
 
Philippians 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now
at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye
were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
 
Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I
have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
 
Philippians 4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how
to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to
be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
 
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me.
 
Philippians 4:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did
communicate with my affliction.
 
Philippians 4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the
beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no
church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving,
but ye only.
 
Philippians 4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and
again unto my necessity.
 
Philippians 4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire
fruit that may abound to your account.
 
Philippians 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having
received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an
odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to
God.
 
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
 
Philippians 4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever
and ever. Amen.
 
Philippians 4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The
brethren which are with me greet you.
 
Philippians 4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that
are of Caesar's household.
 
Philippians 4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen. 
 
Colossians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God, and Timotheus our brother,
 
Colossians 1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ
which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Colossians 1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
 
Colossians 1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,
and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
 
Colossians 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,
whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
 
Colossians 1:6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the
world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since
the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
 
Colossians 1:7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear
fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
 
Colossians 1:8 Who also declared unto us your love in the
Spirit.
 
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard
it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be
filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding;
 
Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in
the knowledge of God;
 
Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his
glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with
joyfulness;
 
Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in
light:
 
Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear
Son:
 
Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins:
 
Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature:
 
Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
things were created by him, and for him:
 
Colossians 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist.
 
Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things
he might have the preeminence.
 
Colossians 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should
all fulness dwell;
 
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I
say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
 
Colossians 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
 
Colossians 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
 
Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and
settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which
ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is
under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
 
Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and
fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my
flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
 
Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the
dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the
word of God;
 
Colossians 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages
and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
 
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches
of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory:
 
Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching
every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in
Christ Jesus:
 
Colossians 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to
his working, which worketh in me mightily.
 
Colossians 2:1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I
have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have
not seen my face in the flesh;
 
Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and
of the Father, and of Christ;
 
Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.
 
Colossians 2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you
with enticing words.
 
Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I
with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the
stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
 
Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk ye in him:
 
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in
the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving.
 
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments
of the world, and not after Christ.
 
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the
Godhead bodily.
 
Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head
of all principality and power:
 
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
 
Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are
risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead.
 
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with
him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
 
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that
was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the
way, nailing it to his cross;
 
Colossians 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers,
he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
 
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the
sabbath days:
 
Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the
body is of Christ.
 
Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a
voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into
those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his
fleshly mind,
 
Colossians 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the
body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit
together, increaseth with the increase of God.
 
Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the
rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are
ye subject to ordinances,
 
Colossians 2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
 
Colossians 2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after
the commandments and doctrines of men?
 
Colossians 2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in
will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in
any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
 
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of
God.
 
Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on
things on the earth.
 
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
Christ in God.
 
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then
shall ye also appear with him in glory.
 
Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon
the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
 
Colossians 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh
on the children of disobedience:
 
Colossians 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye
lived in them.
 
Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath,
malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
 
Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put
off the old man with his deeds;
 
Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed
in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
 
Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
free: but Christ is all, and in all.
 
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and
beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind,
meekness, longsuffering;
 
Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one
another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ
forgave you, so also do ye.
 
Colossians 3:14 And above all these things put on charity,
which is the bond of perfectness.
 
Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,
to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
 
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in
all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to
the Lord.
 
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in
the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father
by him.
 
Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
 
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter
against them.
 
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for
this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
 
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger,
lest they be discouraged.
 
Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters
according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but
in singleness of heart, fearing God;
 
Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the
Lord, and not unto men;
 
Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the
reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
 
Colossians 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the
wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
 
Colossians 4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is
just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
 
Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
thanksgiving;
 
Colossians 4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open
unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for
which I am also in bonds:
 
Colossians 4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to
speak.
 
Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without,
redeeming the time.
 
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
 
Colossians 4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you,
who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and
fellowservant in the Lord:
 
Colossians 4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose,
that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
 
Colossians 4:9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother,
who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things
which are done here.
 
Colossians 4:10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and
Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received
commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
 
Colossians 4:11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of
the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the
kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.
 
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of
Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in
prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will
of God.
 
Colossians 4:13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great
zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in
Hierapolis.
 
Colossians 4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet
you.
 
Colossians 4:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and
Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
 
Colossians 4:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause
that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye
likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
 
Colossians 4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry
which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
 
Colossians 4:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember
my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the
church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the
Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all,
making mention of you in our prayers;
 
1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of
faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
 
1 Thessalonians 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of
God.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word
only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much
assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for
your sake.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the
Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of
the Holy Ghost.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that
believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the
Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place
your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to
speak any thing.
 
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner
of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from
idols to serve the living and true God;
 
1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom
he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the
wrath to come.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance
in unto you, that it was not in vain:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before,
and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were
bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much
contention.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor
of uncleanness, nor in guile:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in
trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but
God, which trieth our hearts.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering
words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you,
nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the
apostles of Christ.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a
nurse cherisheth her children:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we
were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God
only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and
travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be
chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of
God.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily
and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that
believe:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted
and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
 
1 Thessalonians 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath
called you unto his kingdom and glory.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without
ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard
of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in
truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you
that believe.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the
churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also
have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they
have of the Jews:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their
own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God,
and are contrary to all men:
 
1 Thessalonians 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles
that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the
wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for
a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more
abundantly to see your face with great desire.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you,
even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
 
1 Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of
rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus
Christ at his coming?
 
1 Thessalonians 2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
 
1 Thessalonians 3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear,
we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
 
1 Thessalonians 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and
minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ,
to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
 
1 Thessalonians 3:3 That no man should be moved by these
afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
 
1 Thessalonians 3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told
you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to
pass, and ye know.
 
1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer
forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the
tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
 
1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto
us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and
that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to
see us, as we also to see you:
 
1 Thessalonians 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over
you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
 
1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the
Lord.
 
1 Thessalonians 3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again
for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before
our God;
 
1 Thessalonians 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we
might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in
your faith?
 
1 Thessalonians 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our
Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
 
1 Thessalonians 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and
abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we
do toward you:
 
1 Thessalonians 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts
unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren,
and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us
how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more
and more.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you
by the Lord Jesus.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your
sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
 
1 Thessalonians 4:4 That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
 
1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as
the Gentiles which know not God:
 
1 Thessalonians 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his
brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of
all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God hath not called us unto
uncleanness, but unto holiness.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not
man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not
that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to
love one another.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the
brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you,
brethren, that ye increase more and more;
 
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do
your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we
commanded you;
 
1 Thessalonians 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that
are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not,
even as others which have no hope.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with
him.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of
the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of
the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord
in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren,
ye have no need that I write unto you.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman
with child; and they shall not escape.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others;
but let us watch and be sober.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and
they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet,
the hope of salvation.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but
to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
 
1 Thessalonians 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or
sleep, we should live together with him.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and
edify one another, even as also ye do.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them
which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and
admonish you;
 
1 Thessalonians 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for
their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them
that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be
patient toward all men.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto
any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among
yourselves, and to all men.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice evermore.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is
the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is
good.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you
wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also
will do it.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle
be read unto all the holy brethren.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you. Amen. 
 
2 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ:
 
2 Thessalonians 1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each
other aboundeth;
 
2 Thessalonians 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the
churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
 
2 Thessalonians 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous
judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of
God, for which ye also suffer:
 
2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to
recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
 
2 Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels,
 
2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them
that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ:
 
2 Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of
his power;
 
2 Thessalonians 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his
saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our
testimony among you was believed) in that day.
 
2 Thessalonians 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you,
that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil
all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with
power:
 
2 Thessalonians 1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may
be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our
God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
 
2 Thessalonians 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be
troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from
us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 
2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with
you, I told you these things?
 
2 Thessalonians 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of
the way.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
 
2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working
of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 
2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not
the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
 
2 Thessalonians 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to
God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from
the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of
the Spirit and belief of the truth:
 
2 Thessalonians 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold
the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our
epistle.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and
God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us
everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
 
2 Thessalonians 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in
every good word and work.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the
word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as
it is with you:
 
2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from
unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall
stablish you, and keep you from evil.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching
you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the
love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every
brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition
which he received of us.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow
us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
 
2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for
nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that
we might not be chargeable to any of you:
 
2 Thessalonians 3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make
ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we
commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk
among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now them that are such we command and
exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work,
and eat their own bread.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well
doing.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this
epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may
be ashamed.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but
admonish him as a brother.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you
peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand,
which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
 
2 Thessalonians 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you all. Amen. 
 
1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is
our hope;
 
1 Timothy 1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace,
mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
 
1 Timothy 1:3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus,
when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that
they teach no other doctrine,
 
1 Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying
which is in faith: so do.
 
1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of
a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
 
1 Timothy 1:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside
unto vain jangling;
 
1 Timothy 1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding
neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
 
1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it
lawfully;
 
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a
righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the
ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of
fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
 
1 Timothy 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile
themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured
persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to
sound doctrine;
 
1 Timothy 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed
God, which was committed to my trust.
 
1 Timothy 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath
enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the
ministry;
 
1 Timothy 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly
in unbelief.
 
1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant
with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
 
1 Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners; of whom I am chief.
 
1 Timothy 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in
me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a
pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life
everlasting.
 
1 Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible,
the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 
1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,
according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou
by them mightest war a good warfare;
 
1 Timothy 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some
having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
 
1 Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have
delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
 
1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be
made for all men;
 
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and
honesty.
 
1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
God our Saviour;
 
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come
unto the knowledge of the truth.
 
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
 
1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be
testified in due time.
 
1 Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an
apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of
the Gentiles in faith and verity.
 
1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where,
lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
 
1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves
in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with
broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
 
1 Timothy 2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness)
with good works.
 
1 Timothy 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all
subjection.
 
1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the man, but to be in silence.
 
1 Timothy 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
 
1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was in the transgression.
 
1 Timothy 2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in
childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness
with sobriety.
 
1 Timothy 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office
of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
 
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of
one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to
hospitality, apt to teach;
 
1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of
filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
 
1 Timothy 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his
children in subjection with all gravity;
 
1 Timothy 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house,
how shall he take care of the church of God?)
 
1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he
fall into the condemnation of the devil.
 
1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which
are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the
devil.
 
1 Timothy 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not
doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy
lucre;
 
1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure
conscience.
 
1 Timothy 3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let
them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
 
1 Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not
slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
 
1 Timothy 3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife,
ruling their children and their own houses well.
 
1 Timothy 3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon
well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in
the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
1 Timothy 3:14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come
unto thee shortly:
 
1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how
thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the
church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
 
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the
Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on
in the world, received up into glory.
 
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
 
1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron;
 
1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain
from meats, which God hath created to be received with
thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
 
1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to
be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
 
1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and
prayer.
 
1 Timothy 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these
things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished
up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou
hast attained.
 
1 Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and
exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
 
1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but
godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the
life that now is, and of that which is to come.
 
1 Timothy 4:9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation.
 
1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer
reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour
of all men, specially of those that believe.
 
1 Timothy 4:11 These things command and teach.
 
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an
example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity,
in spirit, in faith, in purity.
 
1 Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to
exhortation, to doctrine.
 
1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was
given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the
presbytery.
 
1 Timothy 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly
to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
 
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;
continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself,
and them that hear thee.
 
1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father;
and the younger men as brethren;
 
1 Timothy 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as
sisters, with all purity.
 
1 Timothy 5:3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
 
1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let
them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their
parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
 
1 Timothy 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate,
trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers
night and day.
 
1 Timothy 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she
liveth.
 
1 Timothy 5:7 And these things give in charge, that they may be
blameless.
 
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially
for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is
worse than an infidel.
 
1 Timothy 5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
 
1 Timothy 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have
brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have
washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if
she have diligently followed every good work.
 
1 Timothy 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they
have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
 
1 Timothy 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off
their first faith.
 
1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering
about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also
and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
 
1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry,
bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the
adversary to speak reproachfully.
 
1 Timothy 5:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
 
1 Timothy 5:16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows,
let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it
may relieve them that are widows indeed.
 
1 Timothy 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy
of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and
doctrine.
 
1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle
the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of
his reward.
 
1 Timothy 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but
before two or three witnesses.
 
1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others
also may fear.
 
1 Timothy 5:21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things
without preferring one before another, doing nothing by
partiality.
 
1 Timothy 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be
partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
 
1 Timothy 5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for
thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
 
1 Timothy 5:24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going
before to judgment; and some men they follow after.
 
1 Timothy 5:25 Likewise also the good works of some are
manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
 
1 Timothy 6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count
their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and
his doctrine be not blasphemed.
 
1 Timothy 6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them
not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them
service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the
benefit. These things teach and exhort.
 
1 Timothy 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to
wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to
the doctrine which is according to godliness;
 
1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
railings, evil surmisings,
 
1 Timothy 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and
destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from
such withdraw thyself.
 
1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
 
1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing out.
 
1 Timothy 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith
content.
 
1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown
men in destruction and perdition.
 
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil:
which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
 
1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,
meekness.
 
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed
a good profession before many witnesses.
 
1 Timothy 6:13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who
quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before
Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
 
1 Timothy 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot,
unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
 
1 Timothy 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the
blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
 
1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light
which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can
see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
 
1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that
they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the
living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
 
1 Timothy 6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good
works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
 
1 Timothy 6:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good
foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on
eternal life.
 
1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy
trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of
science falsely so called:
 
1 Timothy 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the
faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
 
2 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
 
2 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy,
and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers
with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of
thee in my prayers night and day;
 
2 Timothy 1:4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of
thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
 
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith
that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and
thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
 
2 Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou
stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my
hands.
 
2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but
of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
 
2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the
afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
 
2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy
calling, not according to our works, but according to his own
purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the
world began,
 
2 Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our
Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought
life and immortality to light through the gospel:
 
2 Timothy 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an
apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
 
2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things:
nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
committed unto him against that day.
 
2 Timothy 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou
hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
 
2 Timothy 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee
keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
 
2 Timothy 1:15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in
Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and
Hermogenes.
 
2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of
Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my
chain:
 
2 Timothy 1:17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very
diligently, and found me.
 
2 Timothy 1:18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy
of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered
unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
 
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace
that is in Christ Jesus.
 
2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among
many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall
be able to teach others also.
 
2 Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier
of Jesus Christ.
 
2 Timothy 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the
affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him
to be a soldier.
 
2 Timothy 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he
not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
 
2 Timothy 2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first
partaker of the fruits.
 
2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee
understanding in all things.
 
2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David
was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
 
2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even
unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
 
2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's
sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ
Jesus with eternal glory.
 
2 Timothy 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with
him, we shall also live with him:
 
2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if
we deny him, he also will deny us:
 
2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he
cannot deny himself.
 
2 Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance,
charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to
no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
 
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word
of truth.
 
2 Timothy 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they
will increase unto more ungodliness.
 
2 Timothy 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of
whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
 
2 Timothy 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that
the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of
some.
 
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth
sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And,
Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from
iniquity.
 
2 Timothy 2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels
of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to
honour, and some to dishonour.
 
2 Timothy 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he
shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the
master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
 
2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow
righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the
Lord out of a pure heart.
 
2 Timothy 2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
knowing that they do gender strifes.
 
2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but
be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
 
2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth;
 
2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the
snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
 
2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come.
 
2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,
 
2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 
2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God;
 
2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof: from such turn away.
 
2 Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into
houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away
with divers lusts,
 
2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
 
2 Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do
these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate
concerning the faith.
 
2 Timothy 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their
folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
 
2 Timothy 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of
life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
 
2 Timothy 3:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at
Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but
out of them all the Lord delivered me.
 
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution.
 
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and
worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast
learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast
learned them;
 
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy
scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness:
 
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.
 
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord
Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his
appearing and his kingdom;
 
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine.
 
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears;
 
2 Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
 
2 Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
 
2 Timothy 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of
my departure is at hand.
 
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith:
 
2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me
at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love
his appearing.
 
2 Timothy 4:9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
 
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this
present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to
Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
 
2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him
with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
 
2 Timothy 4:12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
 
2 Timothy 4:13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when
thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the
parchments.
 
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the
Lord reward him according to his works:
 
2 Timothy 4:15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly
withstood our words.
 
2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all
men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their
charge.
 
2 Timothy 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and
strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known,
and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of
the mouth of the lion.
 
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil
work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be
glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 
2 Timothy 4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of
Onesiphorus.
 
2 Timothy 4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I
left at Miletum sick.
 
2 Timothy 4:21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus
greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the
brethren.
 
2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace
be with you. Amen. 
 
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the
acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
 
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie,
promised before the world began;
 
Titus 1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word through
preaching, which is committed unto me according to the
commandment of God our Saviour;
 
Titus 1:4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace,
mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
our Saviour.
 
Titus 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou
shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain
elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
 
Titus 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having
faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
 
Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of
God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no
striker, not given to filthy lucre;
 
Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men,
sober, just, holy, temperate;
 
Titus 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been
taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and
to convince the gainsayers.
 
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and
deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
 
Titus 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole
houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's
sake.
 
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own,
said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
 
Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be sound in the faith;
 
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments
of men, that turn from the truth.
 
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them
that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their
mind and conscience is defiled.
 
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they
deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good
work reprobate.
 
Titus 2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound
doctrine:
 
Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound
in faith, in charity, in patience.
 
Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as
becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine,
teachers of good things;
 
Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to
love their husbands, to love their children,
 
Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not
blasphemed.
 
Titus 2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
 
Titus 2:7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good
works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
 
Titus 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that
is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to
say of you.
 
Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own
masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering
again;
 
Titus 2:10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that
they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
 
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath
appeared to all men,
 
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly
lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this
present world;
 
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
 
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us
from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people,
zealous of good works.
 
Titus 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all
authority. Let no man despise thee.
 
Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and
powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
 
Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but
gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
 
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living
in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
 
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our
Saviour toward man appeared,
 
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
 
Titus 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ
our Saviour;
 
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made
heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
 
Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will
that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God
might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good
and profitable unto men.
 
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and
contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are
unprofitable and vain.
 
Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second
admonition reject;
 
Titus 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and
sinneth, being condemned of himself.
 
Titus 3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be
diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined
there to winter.
 
Titus 3:13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey
diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
 
Titus 3:14 And let our's also learn to maintain good works for
necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
 
Titus 3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that
love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
 
Philemon 1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our
brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
 
Philemon 1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our
fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
 
Philemon 1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Philemon 1:4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in
my prayers,
 
Philemon 1:5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast
toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
 
Philemon 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become
effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in
you in Christ Jesus.
 
Philemon 1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love,
because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
 
Philemon 1:8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ
to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
 
Philemon 1:9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being
such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus
Christ.
 
Philemon 1:10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have
begotten in my bonds:
 
Philemon 1:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but
now profitable to thee and to me:
 
Philemon 1:12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive
him, that is, mine own bowels:
 
Philemon 1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy
stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the
gospel:
 
Philemon 1:14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy
benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
 
Philemon 1:15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season,
that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
 
Philemon 1:16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a
brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee,
both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
 
Philemon 1:17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him
as myself.
 
Philemon 1:18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put
that on mine account;
 
Philemon 1:19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will
repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even
thine own self besides.
 
Philemon 1:20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the
Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
 
Philemon 1:21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto
thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
 
Philemon 1:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust
that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
 
Philemon 1:23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in
Christ Jesus;
 
Philemon 1:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my
fellowlabourers.
 
Philemon 1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit. Amen. 
 
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
 
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds;
 
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the
express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word
of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the Majesty on high:
 
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he
hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
 
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will
be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
 
Hebrews 1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten
into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship
him.
 
Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels
spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
 
Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is
for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of
thy kingdom.
 
Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows.
 
Hebrews 1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the
foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine
hands:
 
Hebrews 1:11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they
all shall wax old as doth a garment;
 
Hebrews 1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they
shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not
fail.
 
Hebrews 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time,
Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
 
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth
to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
 
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to
the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let
them slip.
 
Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and
every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence
of reward;
 
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great
salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and
was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
 
Hebrews 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and
wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost,
according to his own will?
 
Hebrews 2:5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection
the world to come, whereof we speak.
 
Hebrews 2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What
is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou
visitest him?
 
Hebrews 2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels;
thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over
the works of thy hands:
 
Hebrews 2:8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his
feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left
nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all
things put under him.
 
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than
the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every
man.
 
Hebrews 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make
the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
 
Hebrews 2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are
sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to
call them brethren,
 
Hebrews 2:12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren,
in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
 
Hebrews 2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again,
Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
 
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death he might destroy him that had the power of
death, that is, the devil;
 
Hebrews 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage.
 
Hebrews 2:16 For verily he took not on him the nature of
angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
 
Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people.
 
Hebrews 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
 
Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly
calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession,
Christ Jesus;
 
Hebrews 3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also
Moses was faithful in all his house.
 
Hebrews 3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour
than the house.
 
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that
built all things is God.
 
Hebrews 3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as
a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be
spoken after;
 
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house
are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end.
 
Hebrews 3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye
will hear his voice,
 
Hebrews 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in
the day of temptation in the wilderness:
 
Hebrews 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
works forty years.
 
Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and
said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known
my ways.
 
Hebrews 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into
my rest.)
 
Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you
an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
 
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called
To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of
sin.
 
Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold
the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
 
Hebrews 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
 
Hebrews 3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke:
howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 
Hebrews 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it
not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness?
 
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter
into his rest, but to them that believed not?
 
Hebrews 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of
unbelief.
 
Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left
us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come
short of it.
 
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as
unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in them that heard it.
 
Hebrews 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as
he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my
rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the
world.
 
Hebrews 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day
on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his
works.
 
Hebrews 4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into
my rest.
 
Hebrews 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter
therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in
because of unbelief:
 
Hebrews 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David,
To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
 
Hebrews 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not
afterward have spoken of another day.
 
Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
God.
 
Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
 
Hebrews 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest,
lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
 
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest
in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes
of him with whom we have to do.
 
Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that
is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold
fast our profession.
 
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
 
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time
of need.
 
Hebrews 5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is
ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer
both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
 
Hebrews 5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on
them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is
compassed with infirmity.
 
Hebrews 5:3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people,
so also for himself, to offer for sins.
 
Hebrews 5:4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he
that is called of God, as was Aaron.
 
Hebrews 5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an
high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day
have I begotten thee.
 
Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a
priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
 
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered
up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto
him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that
he feared;
 
Hebrews 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by
the things which he suffered;
 
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
 
Hebrews 5:10 Called of God an high priest after the order of
Melchisedec.
 
Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be
uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
 
Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye
have need that one teach you again which be the first principles
of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk,
and not of strong meat.
 
Hebrews 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the
word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
 
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full
age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
to discern both good and evil.
 
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of
Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the
foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward
God,
 
Hebrews 6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of
hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
 
Hebrews 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
 
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once
enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made
partakers of the Holy Ghost,
 
Hebrews 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the
powers of the world to come,
 
Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and put him to an open shame.
 
Hebrews 6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that
cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by
whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
 
Hebrews 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is
rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
 
Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of
you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
 
Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and
labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye
have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
 
Hebrews 6:11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the
same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
 
Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
 
Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he
could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
 
Hebrews 6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and
multiplying I will multiply thee.
 
Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he
obtained the promise.
 
Hebrews 6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath
for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
 
Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto
the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed
it by an oath:
 
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was
impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
 
Hebrews 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both
sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
 
Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even
Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.
 
Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the
most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of
the kings, and blessed him;
 
Hebrews 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all;
first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after
that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
 
Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent,
having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like
unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
 
Hebrews 7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even
the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
 
Hebrews 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who
receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take
tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their
brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
 
Hebrews 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them
received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the
promises.
 
Hebrews 7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed
of the better.
 
Hebrews 7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he
receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
 
Hebrews 7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth
tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
 
Hebrews 7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when
Melchisedec met him.
 
Hebrews 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical
priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what
further need was there that another priest should rise after the
order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
 
Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of
necessity a change also of the law.
 
Hebrews 7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth
to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
 
Hebrews 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of
Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
 
Hebrews 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the
similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
 
Hebrews 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal
commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
 
Hebrews 7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec.
 
Hebrews 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the
commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness
thereof.
 
Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing
in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
 
Hebrews 7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made
priest:
 
Hebrews 7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but
this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and
will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec:)
 
Hebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better
testament.
 
Hebrews 7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they
were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
 
Hebrews 7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood.
 
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them.
 
Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than
the heavens;
 
Hebrews 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to
offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the
people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
 
Hebrews 7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have
infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law,
maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
 
Hebrews 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the
sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
 
Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
 
Hebrews 8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts
and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have
somewhat also to offer.
 
Hebrews 8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the
law:
 
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make
the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
 
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry,
by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which
was established upon better promises.
 
Hebrews 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second.
 
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the
days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
 
Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead
them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my
covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
 
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my
laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
 
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall
know me, from the least to the greatest.
 
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
 
Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the
first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to
vanish away.
 
Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
 
Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein
was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is
called the sanctuary.
 
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is
called the Holiest of all;
 
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the
covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden
pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables
of the covenant;
 
Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the
mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
 
Hebrews 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the
priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the
service of God.
 
Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once
every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and
for the errors of the people:
 
Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into
the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing:
 
Hebrews 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make
him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
conscience;
 
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers
washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time
of reformation.
 
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good
things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not
made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
 
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us.
 
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh:
 
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
 
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first testament, they which
are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
 
Hebrews 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator.
 
Hebrews 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead:
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
 
Hebrews 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was
dedicated without blood.
 
Hebrews 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of
goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book, and all the people,
 
Hebrews 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which
God hath enjoined unto you.
 
Hebrews 9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the
tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
 
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with
blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
 
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of
things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
 
Hebrews 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
 
Hebrews 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the
high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of
others;
 
Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world
hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
 
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgment:
 
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
 
Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to
come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the
comers thereunto perfect.
 
Hebrews 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins.
 
Hebrews 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance
again made of sins every year.
 
Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and
of goats should take away sins.
 
Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me:
 
Hebrews 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
hast had no pleasure.
 
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book
it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
 
Hebrews 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and
burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither
hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
 
Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
 
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
 
Hebrews 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take
away sins:
 
Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
 
Hebrews 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool.
 
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever
them that are sanctified.
 
Hebrews 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us:
for after that he had said before,
 
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their
hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
 
Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no
more.
 
Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more
offering for sin.
 
Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
 
Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
 
Hebrews 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
 
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
 
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith
without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
 
Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto
love and to good works:
 
Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:
and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
 
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins,
 
Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and
fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
 
Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy
under two or three witnesses:
 
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall
he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God,
and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?
 
Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance
belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again,
The Lord shall judge his people.
 
Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
the living God.
 
Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in
which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of
afflictions;
 
Hebrews 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by
reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became
companions of them that were so used.
 
Hebrews 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took
joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that
ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
 
Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which
hath great recompence of reward.
 
Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have
done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
 
Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come
will come, and will not tarry.
 
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man
draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
 
Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
 
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
 
Hebrews 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
 
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear.
 
Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was
righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead
yet speaketh.
 
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for
before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased
God.
 
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
 
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of
his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir
of the righteousness which is by faith.
 
Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out
into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
 
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as
in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and
Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
 
Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.
 
Hebrews 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength
to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past
age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
 
Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as
good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and
as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
 
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the
promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of
them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth.
 
Hebrews 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly
that they seek a country.
 
Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that
country from whence they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned.
 
Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God:
for he hath prepared for them a city.
 
Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only
begotten son,
 
Hebrews 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed
be called:
 
Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up,
even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
 
Hebrews 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning
things to come.
 
Hebrews 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both
the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his
staff.
 
Hebrews 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of
the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment
concerning his bones.
 
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three
months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child;
and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
 
Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
 
Hebrews 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
 
Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the
recompence of the reward.
 
Hebrews 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath
of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
 
Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the
sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should
touch them.
 
Hebrews 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by
dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
 
Hebrews 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after
they were compassed about seven days.
 
Hebrews 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them
that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
 
Hebrews 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would
fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of
Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
 
Hebrews 11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
 
Hebrews 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge
of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in
fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
 
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again:
and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they
might obtain a better resurrection:
 
Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
 
Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were
tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in
sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
 
Hebrews 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered
in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
 
Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report
through faith, received not the promise:
 
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us,
that they without us should not be made perfect.
 
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and
the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us,
 
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the
throne of God.
 
Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction
of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds.
 
Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving
against sin.
 
Hebrews 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
 
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
 
Hebrews 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
 
Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
 
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much
rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
 
Hebrews 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after
their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be
partakers of his holiness.
 
Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby.
 
Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and
the feeble knees;
 
Hebrews 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that
which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be
healed.
 
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord:
 
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace
of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and
thereby many be defiled;
 
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person,
as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
 
Hebrews 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would
have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no
place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
 
Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and
darkness, and tempest,
 
Hebrews 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of
words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should
not be spoken to them any more:
 
Hebrews 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was
commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall
be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
 
Hebrews 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:)
 
Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels,
 
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of
all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
 
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that
that of Abel.
 
Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more
shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from
heaven:
 
Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven.
 
Hebrews 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are
made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
 
Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably
with reverence and godly fear:
 
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
 
Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
 
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for
thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
 
Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with
them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also
in the body.
 
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed
undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
 
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and
be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will
never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
 
Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper,
and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
 
Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who
have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow,
considering the end of their conversation.
 
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and
for ever.
 
Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange
doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established
with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that
have been occupied therein.
 
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to
eat which serve the tabernacle.
 
Hebrews 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned
without the camp.
 
Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the
people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
 
Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the
camp, bearing his reproach.
 
Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek
one to come.
 
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of
praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving
thanks to his name.
 
Hebrews 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for
with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
 
Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give
account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for
that is unprofitable for you.
 
Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good
conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
 
Hebrews 13:19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I
may be restored to you the sooner.
 
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the
dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through
the blood of the everlasting covenant,
 
Hebrews 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his
will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight,
through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 
Hebrews 13:22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of
exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
 
Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at
liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
 
Hebrews 13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and
all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
 
Hebrews 13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
 
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
 
James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
divers temptations;
 
James 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.
 
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may
be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
 
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be
given him.
 
James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed.
 
James 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any
thing of the Lord.
 
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
 
James 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
exalted:
 
James 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the
flower of the grass he shall pass away.
 
James 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat,
but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and
the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich
man fade away in his ways.
 
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for
when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the
Lord hath promised to them that love him.
 
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of
God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any
man:
 
James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed.
 
James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
 
James 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
 
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.
 
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
 
James 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be
swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
 
James 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness
of God.
 
James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity
of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.
 
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves.
 
James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,
he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
 
James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
 
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and
bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
religion is vain.
 
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the
Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their
affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
 
James 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
 
James 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a
gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man
in vile raiment;
 
James 2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay
clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and
say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my
footstool:
 
James 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become
judges of evil thoughts?
 
James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the
poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which
he hath promised to them that love him?
 
James 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men
oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
 
James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which
ye are called?
 
James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the
scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
 
James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and
are convinced of the law as transgressors.
 
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
 
James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also,
Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill,
thou art become a transgressor of the law.
 
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged
by the law of liberty.
 
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath
shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
 
James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say
he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
 
James 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of
daily food,
 
James 2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye
warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things
which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
 
James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being
alone.
 
James 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have
works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee
my faith by my works.
 
James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest
well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
 
James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without
works is dead?
 
James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when
he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
 
James 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by
works was faith made perfect?
 
James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham
believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and
he was called the Friend of God.
 
James 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith only.
 
James 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by
works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them
out another way?
 
James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also.
 
James 3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we
shall receive the greater condemnation.
 
James 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend
not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle
the whole body.
 
James 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they
may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
 
James 3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great,
and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a
very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
 
James 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
 
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is
the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body,
and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire
of hell.
 
James 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of
serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed
of mankind:
 
James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison.
 
James 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and
therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of
God.
 
James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
 
James 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet
water and bitter?
 
James 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and
fresh.
 
James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among
you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with
meekness of wisdom.
 
James 3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your
hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
 
James 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is
earthly, sensual, devilish.
 
James 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work.
 
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 
James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of
them that make peace.
 
James 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come
they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
 
James 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have,
and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye
ask not.
 
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that
ye may consume it upon your lusts.
 
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore
will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
 
James 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The
spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
 
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God
resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
 
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.
 
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double
minded.
 
James 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter
be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
 
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he
shall lift you up.
 
James 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that
speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh
evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law,
thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 
James 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
 
James 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will
go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell,
and get gain:
 
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For
what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a
little time, and then vanisheth away.
 
James 4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall
live, and do this, or that.
 
James 4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such
rejoicing is evil.
 
James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.
 
James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you.
 
James 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are
motheaten.
 
James 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of
them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as
it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
 
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped
down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and
the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of
the Lord of sabaoth.
 
James 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been
wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
 
James 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth
not resist you.
 
James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of
the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit
of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the
early and latter rain.
 
James 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the
coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
 
James 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
 
James 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in
the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and
of patience.
 
James 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have
heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord;
that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
 
James 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other
oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall
into condemnation.
 
James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any
merry? let him sing psalms.
 
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders
of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil
in the name of the Lord:
 
James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the
Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they
shall be forgiven him.
 
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for
another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.
 
James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are,
and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not
on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
 
James 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and
the earth brought forth her fruit.
 
James 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and
one convert him;
 
James 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner
from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall
hide a multitude of sins. 
 
1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and
Bithynia,
 
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the
Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and
peace, be multiplied.
 
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us
again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead,
 
1 Peter 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
 
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
 
1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold
temptations:
 
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more
precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with
fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ:
 
1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now
ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory:
 
1 Peter 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation
of your souls.
 
1 Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and
searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come
unto you:
 
1 Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit
of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified
beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should
follow.
 
1 Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto
themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are
now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto
you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the
angels desire to look into.
 
1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought
unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
 
1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves
according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
 
1 Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye
holy in all manner of conversation;
 
1 Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
 
1 Peter 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect
of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time
of your sojourning here in fear:
 
1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
 
1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish and without spot:
 
1 Peter 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
 
1 Peter 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up
from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might
be in God.
 
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
 
1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for
ever.
 
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of
man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower
thereof falleth away:
 
1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And
this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
 
1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile,
and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
 
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby:
 
1 Peter 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
 
1 Peter 2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed
indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
 
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
 
1 Peter 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture,
Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and
he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
 
1 Peter 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious:
but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
 
1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence,
even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient:
whereunto also they were appointed.
 
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light;
 
1 Peter 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now
the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have
obtained mercy.
 
1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and
pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
 
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the
Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they
may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in
the day of visitation.
 
1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for
the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
 
1 Peter 2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by
him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them
that do well.
 
1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye
may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
 
1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of
maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
 
1 Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.
Honour the king.
 
1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all
fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
 
1 Peter 2:19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience
toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
 
1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for
your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well,
and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with
God.
 
1 Peter 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ
also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should
follow his steps:
 
1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his
mouth:
 
1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when
he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that
judgeth righteously:
 
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
 
1 Peter 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now
returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
 
1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own
husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without
the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
 
1 Peter 3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled
with fear.
 
1 Peter 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning
of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of
apparel;
 
1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that
which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
 
1 Peter 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy
women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in
subjection unto their own husbands:
 
1 Peter 3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord:
whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid
with any amazement.
 
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to
knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that
your prayers be not hindered.
 
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion
one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
 
1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for
railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto
called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
 
1 Peter 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let
him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no
guile:
 
1 Peter 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek
peace, and ensue it.
 
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous,
and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the
Lord is against them that do evil.
 
1 Peter 3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be
followers of that which is good?
 
1 Peter 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake,
happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be
troubled;
 
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be
ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a
reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
 
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak
evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely
accuse your good conversation in Christ.
 
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that
ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
 
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the
just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
 
1 Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison;
 
1 Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark
was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by
water.
 
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also
now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but
the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ:
 
1 Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand
of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto
him.
 
1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in
the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he
that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
 
1 Peter 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time
in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
 
1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to
have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in
lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings,
and abominable idolatries:
 
1 Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with
them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
 
1 Peter 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead.
 
1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to
them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in
the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
 
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
 
1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among
yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
 
1 Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
 
1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so
minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God.
 
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of
God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which
God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
 
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery
trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened
unto you:
 
1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of
Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye
may be glad also with exceeding joy.
 
1 Peter 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy
are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on
their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is
glorified.
 
1 Peter 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a
thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's
matters.
 
1 Peter 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not
be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
 
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at
the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end
be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
 
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where
shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
 
1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the
will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well
doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
 
1 Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am
also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and
also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
 
1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking
the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for
filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
 
1 Peter 5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but
being ensamples to the flock.
 
1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall
receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
 
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the
elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed
with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to
the humble.
 
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand
of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
 
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for
you.
 
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may
devour:
 
1 Peter 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the
same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in
the world.
 
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto
his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a
while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
 
1 Peter 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.
 
1 Peter 5:12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I
suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that
this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
 
1 Peter 5:13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together
with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
 
1 Peter 5:14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace
be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
 
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
 
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
 
2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
 
2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust.
 
2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
 
2 Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness;
 
2 Peter 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.
 
2 Peter 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they
make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
2 Peter 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and
cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from
his old sins.
 
2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to
make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things,
ye shall never fall:
 
2 Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.
 
2 Peter 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you
always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and
be established in the present truth.
 
2 Peter 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
 
2 Peter 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
 
2 Peter 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able
after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
 
2 Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
 
2 Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and
glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent
glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
 
2 Peter 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
 
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that
shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star
arise in your hearts:
 
2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of any private interpretation.
 
2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will
of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost.
 
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord
that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
 
2 Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by
reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
 
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
 
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of
darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
 
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
upon the world of the ungodly;
 
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into
ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample
unto those that after should live ungodly;
 
2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked:
 
2 Peter 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with
their unlawful deeds;)
 
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment
to be punished:
 
2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the
lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are
they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
 
2 Peter 2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and
might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
 
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they
understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
 
2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,
as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots
they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own
deceivings while they feast with you;
 
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot
cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have
exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
 
2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone
astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved
the wages of unrighteousness;
 
2 Peter 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
 
2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are
carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved
for ever.
 
2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of
vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much
wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in
error.
 
2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves
are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of
the same is he brought in bondage.
 
2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the
latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
 
2 Peter 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn
from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true
proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow
that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
 
2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you;
in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
 
2 Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were
spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us
the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
 
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the
last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
 
2 Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
from the beginning of the creation.
 
2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by
the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing
out of the water and in the water:
 
2 Peter 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished:
 
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by
the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the
day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
 
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.
 
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as
some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.
 
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
 
2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness,
 
2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day
of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
 
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 
2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such
things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without
spot, and blameless.
 
2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the
wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
 
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
these things; in which are some things hard to be understood,
which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also
the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
 
2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things
before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the
wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
 
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for
ever. Amen.
 
1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have
heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked
upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
 
1 John 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it,
and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was
with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
 
1 John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto
you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our
fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
 
1 John 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy
may be full.
 
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him,
and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no
darkness at all.
 
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk
in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
 
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
 
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us.
 
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 
1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a
liar, and his word is not in us.
 
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
 
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for
our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
 
1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep
his commandments.
 
1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
 
1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
 
1 John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also
so to walk, even as he walked.
 
1 John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but
an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old
commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
 
1 John 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which
thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past,
and the true light now shineth.
 
1 John 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his
brother, is in darkness even until now.
 
1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light,
and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
 
1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and
walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because
that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
 
1 John 2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your
sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
 
1 John 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known
him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men,
because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little
children, because ye have known the Father.
 
1 John 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have
known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you,
young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in
you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
 
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in
the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is
not in him.
 
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of
the Father, but is of the world.
 
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
 
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye
have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many
antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
 
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for
if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with
us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they
were not all of us.
 
1 John 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye
know all things.
 
1 John 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the
truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
 
1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
 
1 John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
 
1 John 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have
heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the
beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son,
and in the Father.
 
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us,
even eternal life.
 
1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning
them that seduce you.
 
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as
the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and
is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
 
1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when
he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed
before him at his coming.
 
1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every
one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
 
1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the
world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
 
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
 
1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure.
 
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law:
for sin is the transgression of the law.
 
1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our
sins; and in him is no sin.
 
1 John 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever
sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
 
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that
doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
 
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the
devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
 
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for
his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born
of God.
 
1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the
children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not
of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
 
1 John 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the
beginning, that we should love one another.
 
1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew
his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works
were evil, and his brother's righteous.
 
1 John 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
 
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life,
because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother
abideth in death.
 
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye
know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
 
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid
down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren.
 
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from
him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
 
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word,
neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
 
1 John 3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and
shall assure our hearts before him.
 
1 John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than
our heart, and knoweth all things.
 
1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we
confidence toward God.
 
1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because
we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing
in his sight.
 
1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe
on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he
gave us commandment.
 
1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in
him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by
the Spirit which he hath given us.
 
1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world.
 
1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
 
1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that
spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come;
and even now already is it in the world.
 
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome
them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in
the world.
 
1 John 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the
world, and the world heareth them.
 
1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he
that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of
truth, and the spirit of error.
 
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of
God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
 
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
 
1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us,
because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that
we might live through him.
 
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
 
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love
one another.
 
1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one
another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
 
1 John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit.
 
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father
sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
 
1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of
God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
 
1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God, and God in him.
 
1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in
this world.
 
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth
out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made
perfect in love.
 
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
 
1 John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother,
he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath
seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
 
1 John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who
loveth God love his brother also.
 
1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born
of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also
that is begotten of him.
 
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God, and keep his commandments.
 
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
 
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our
faith.
 
1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that
believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
 
1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus
Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the
Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
 
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
 
1 John 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the
Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in
one.
 
1 John 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God
is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath
testified of his Son.
 
1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a
liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his
Son.
 
1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
 
1 John 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath
not the Son of God hath not life.
 
1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of
God.
 
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
 
1 John 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask,
we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
 
1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not
unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them
that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say
that he shall pray for it.
 
1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not
unto death.
 
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not;
but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked
one toucheth him not.
 
1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world
lieth in wickedness.
 
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath
given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and
we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is
the true God, and eternal life.
 
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. 
 
2 John 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom
I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have
known the truth;
 
2 John 1:2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and
shall be with us for ever.
 
2 John 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in
truth and love.
 
2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children
walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the
Father.
 
2 John 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote
a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the
beginning, that we love one another.
 
2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his
commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard
from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
 
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who
confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an antichrist.
 
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things
which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
 
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the
doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
 
2 John 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this
doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God
speed:
 
2 John 1:11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of
his evil deeds.
 
2 John 1:12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not
write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak
face to face, that our joy may be full.
 
2 John 1:13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen. 
 
3 John 1:1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in
the truth.
 
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
 
3 John 1:3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and
testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in
the truth.
 
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children
walk in truth.
 
3 John 1:5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest
to the brethren, and to strangers;
 
3 John 1:6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the
church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly
sort, thou shalt do well:
 
3 John 1:7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth,
taking nothing of the Gentiles.
 
3 John 1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be
fellowhelpers to the truth.
 
3 John 1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth
to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
 
3 John 1:10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds
which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not
content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren,
and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the
church.
 
3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that
which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth
evil hath not seen God.
 
3 John 1:12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the
truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our
record is true.
 
3 John 1:13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink
and pen write unto thee:
 
3 John 1:14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall
speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee.
Greet the friends by name. 
 
Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of
James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and
preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
 
Jude 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
 
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you
of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you,
and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith
which was once delivered unto the saints.
 
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were
before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning
the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only
Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye
once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of
the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
 
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but
left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
 
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them
in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.
 
Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh,
despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
 
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the
devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring
against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
 
Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know
not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those
things they corrupt themselves.
 
Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain,
and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and
perished in the gainsaying of Core.
 
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they
feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are
without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
 
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
for ever.
 
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of
these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints,
 
Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all
that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they
have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which
ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
 
Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having
men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
 
Jude 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken
before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 
Jude 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the
last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
 
Jude 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual,
having not the Spirit.
 
Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most
holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
 
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 
Jude 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
 
Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the
fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 
Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling,
and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy,
 
Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
 
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave
unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly
come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his
servant John:
 
Revelation 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the
testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
 
Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear
the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are
written therein: for the time is at hand.
 
Revelation 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was,
and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before
his throne;
 
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of
the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us
from our sins in his own blood,
 
Revelation 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and
his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
 
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye
shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds
of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
 
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty.
 
Revelation 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion
in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,
was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and
for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
 
Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and
heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
 
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the
seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna,
and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
 
Revelation 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with
me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
 
Revelation 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one
like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the
foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
 
Revelation 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as
white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
 
Revelation 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they
burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
 
Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and
out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance
was as the sun shineth in his strength.
 
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I
am the first and the last:
 
Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold,
I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of
death.
 
Revelation 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the
things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
 
Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou
sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The
seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven
candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
 
Revelation 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write;
These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right
hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
 
Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy
patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and
thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not,
and hast found them liars:
 
Revelation 2:3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my
name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
 
Revelation 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy first love.
 
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,
and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee
quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except
thou repent.
 
Revelation 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds
of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
 
Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I
give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the
paradise of God.
 
Revelation 2:8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna
write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead,
and is alive;
 
Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,
(but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say
they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
 
Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt
suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison,
that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be
thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
 
Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be
hurt of the second death.
 
Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos
write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two
edges;
 
Revelation 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even
where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast
not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my
faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
 
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because
thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught
Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to
eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
 
Revelation 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine
of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
 
Revelation 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly,
and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
 
Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I
give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone,
and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving
he that receiveth it.
 
Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira
write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like
unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
 
Revelation 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and
faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more
than the first.
 
Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against
thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth
herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to
commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
 
Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her
fornication; and she repented not.
 
Revelation 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them
that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they
repent of their deeds.
 
Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and
all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the
reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according
to your works.
 
Revelation 2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in
Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not
known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you
none other burden.
 
Revelation 2:25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I
come.
 
Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works
unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
 
Revelation 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as
the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as
I received of my Father.
 
Revelation 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
 
Revelation 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
 
Revelation 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis
write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God,
and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that
thou livest, and art dead.
 
Revelation 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which
remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works
perfect before God.
 
Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and
heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not
watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know
what hour I will come upon thee.
 
Revelation 3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have
not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white:
for they are worthy.
 
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in
white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book
of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before
his angels.
 
Revelation 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
 
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia
write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he
that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth;
and shutteth, and no man openeth;
 
Revelation 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee
an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little
strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
 
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of
Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold,
I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know
that I have loved thee.
 
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience,
I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall
come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
 
Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which
thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
 
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the
temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write
upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God,
which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my
God: and I will write upon him my new name.
 
Revelation 3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
 
Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the
Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and
true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
 
Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold
nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
 
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither
cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
 
Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou
art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
 
Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the
fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou
mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not
appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest
see.
 
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be
zealous therefore, and repent.
 
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any
man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and
will sup with him, and he with me.
 
Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with
me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne.
 
Revelation 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
 
Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it
were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither,
and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
 
Revelation 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and,
behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
 
Revelation 4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper
and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the
throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
 
Revelation 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty
seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting,
clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of
gold.
 
Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and
thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire
burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
 
Revelation 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass
like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round
about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and
behind.
 
Revelation 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the
second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a
man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
 
Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings
about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not
day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which
was, and is, and is to come.
 
Revelation 4:9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and
thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and
ever,
 
Revelation 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him
that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and
ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
 
Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy
pleasure they are and were created.
 
Revelation 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on
the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with
seven seals.
 
Revelation 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud
voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals
thereof?
 
Revelation 5:3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither
under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look
thereon.
 
Revelation 5:4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy
to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
 
Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not:
behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath
prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
 
Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the
throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven
eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the
earth.
 
Revelation 5:7 And he came and took the book out of the right
hand of him that sat upon the throne.
 
Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts
and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which
are the prayers of saints.
 
Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art
worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
 
Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and
priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
 
Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many
angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and
the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and
thousands of thousands;
 
Revelation 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and
strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
 
Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on
the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and
all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and
glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
 
Revelation 5:14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four
and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for
ever and ever.
 
Revelation 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four
beasts saying, Come and see.
 
Revelation 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that
sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went
forth conquering, and to conquer.
 
Revelation 6:3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard
the second beast say, Come and see.
 
Revelation 6:4 And there went out another horse that was red:
and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from
the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was
given unto him a great sword.
 
Revelation 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard
the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black
horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
 
Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four
beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of
barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
 
Revelation 6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard
the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
 
Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his
name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And
power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to
kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the
beasts of the earth.
 
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw
under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of
God, and for the testimony which they held:
 
Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How
long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our
blood on them that dwell on the earth?
 
Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of
them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a
little season, until their fellowservants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be
fulfilled.
 
Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal,
and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black
as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
 
Revelation 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,
even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken
of a mighty wind.
 
Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is
rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of
their places.
 
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men,
and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and
every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and
in the rocks of the mountains;
 
Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on
us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb:
 
Revelation 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who
shall be able to stand?
 
Revelation 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels
standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds
of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on
the sea, nor on any tree.
 
Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east,
having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice
to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and
the sea,
 
Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor
the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads.
 
Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were
sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four
thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
 
Revelation 7:5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
 
Revelation 7:6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
 
Revelation 7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
 
Revelation 7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
 
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude,
which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the
Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
 
Revelation 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation
to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
 
Revelation 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the
throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before
the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
 
Revelation 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom,
and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our
God for ever and ever. Amen.
 
Revelation 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me,
What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came
they?
 
Revelation 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he
said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation,
and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of
the Lamb.
 
Revelation 7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on
the throne shall dwell among them.
 
Revelation 7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any
more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
 
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains
of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
 
Revelation 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there
was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
 
Revelation 8:2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before
God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
 
Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar,
having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much
incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints
upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
 
Revelation 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with
the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the
angel's hand.
 
Revelation 8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it
with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there
were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
 
Revelation 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven
trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
 
Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail
and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth:
and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was
burnt up.
 
Revelation 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a
great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the
third part of the sea became blood;
 
Revelation 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were
in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships
were destroyed.
 
Revelation 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a
great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell
upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of
waters;
 
Revelation 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:
and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men
died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
 
Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third
part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and
the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was
darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the
night likewise.
 
Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through
the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to
the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the
trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
 
Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of
the bottomless pit.
 
Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there
arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace;
and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of
the pit.
 
Revelation 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the
earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the
earth have power.
 
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not
hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any
tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their
foreheads.
 
Revelation 9:5 And to them it was given that they should not
kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and
their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh
a man.
 
Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and
shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee
from them.
 
Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto
horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were
crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
 
Revelation 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and
their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
 
Revelation 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were
breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the
sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
 
Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and
there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men
five months.
 
Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the
angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is
Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
 
Revelation 9:12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two
woes more hereafter.
 
Revelation 9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a
voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before
God,
 
Revelation 9:14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the
trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river
Euphrates.
 
Revelation 9:15 And the four angels were loosed, which were
prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to
slay the third part of men.
 
Revelation 9:16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were
two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
 
Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and
them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of
jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the
heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and
brimstone.
 
Revelation 9:18 By these three was the third part of men
killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone,
which issued out of their mouths.
 
Revelation 9:19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their
tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads,
and with them they do hurt.
 
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed
by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands,
that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and
silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see,
nor hear, nor walk:
 
Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of
their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
 
Revelation 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from
heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head,
and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of
fire:
 
Revelation 10:2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and
he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the
earth,
 
Revelation 10:3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion
roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their
voices.
 
Revelation 10:4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their
voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders
uttered, and write them not.
 
Revelation 10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea
and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
 
Revelation 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,
who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the
earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the
things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
 
Revelation 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh
angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be
finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
 
Revelation 10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake
unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is
open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and
upon the earth.
 
Revelation 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him,
Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it
up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy
mouth sweet as honey.
 
Revelation 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's
hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and
as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
 
Revelation 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again
before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
 
Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod:
and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God,
and the altar, and them that worship therein.
 
Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave
out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and
the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
 
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses,
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days, clothed in sackcloth.
 
Revelation 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two
candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
 
Revelation 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth
out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man
will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
 
Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain
not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to
turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as
often as they will.
 
Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their
testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit
shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill
them.
 
Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street
of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified.
 
Revelation 11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues
and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half,
and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
 
Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall
rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to
another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on
the earth.
 
Revelation 11:11 And after three days and an half the spirit of
life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet;
and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
 
Revelation 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven
in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
 
Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great
earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the
earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were
affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
 
Revelation 11:14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third
woe cometh quickly.
 
Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were
great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall
reign for ever and ever.
 
Revelation 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat
before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped
God,
 
Revelation 11:17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God
Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast
taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
 
Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is
come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and
that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets,
and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great;
and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
 
Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven,
and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and
there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an
earthquake, and great hail.
 
Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon
her head a crown of twelve stars:
 
Revelation 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered.
 
Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns,
and seven crowns upon his heads.
 
Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars
of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood
before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour
her child as soon as it was born.
 
Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up
unto God, and to his throne.
 
Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where
she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there
a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
 
Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his
angels,
 
Revelation 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place
found any more in heaven.
 
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast
out with him.
 
Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now
is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and
the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast
down, which accused them before our God day and night.
 
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not
their lives unto the death.
 
Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!
for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because
he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
 
Revelation 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto
the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man
child.
 
Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a
great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her
place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a
time, from the face of the serpent.
 
Revelation 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as
a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried
away of the flood.
 
Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon
cast out of his mouth.
 
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the
commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
 
Revelation 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a
beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns,
and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of
blasphemy.
 
Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a
leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth
as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and
his seat, and great authority.
 
Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded
to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world
wondered after the beast.
 
Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power
unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is
like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
 
Revelation 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking
great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to
continue forty and two months.
 
Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against
God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven.
 
Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the
saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all
kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
 
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship
him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world.
 
Revelation 13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
 
Revelation 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into
captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the
sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
 
Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of
the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a
dragon.
 
Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first
beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell
therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was
healed.
 
Revelation 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
 
Revelation 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight
of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they
should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a
sword, and did live.
 
Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image
of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast
should be killed.
 
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand,
or in their foreheads:
 
Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name.
 
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number
of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
 
Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the
mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand,
having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
 
Revelation 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice
of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard
the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
 
Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the
throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man
could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four
thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
 
Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with
women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being
the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
 
Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they
are without fault before the throne of God.
 
Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that
dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue,
and people,
 
Revelation 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give
glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains
of waters.
 
Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
 
Revelation 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with
a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
 
Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath
of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his
indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
 
Revelation 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up
for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who
worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark
of his name.
 
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are
they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
 
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labours; and their works do follow them.
 
Revelation 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and
upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his
head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
 
Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple,
crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in
thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for
the harvest of the earth is ripe.
 
Revelation 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his
sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
 
Revelation 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which
is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
 
Revelation 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar,
which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that
had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and
gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are
fully ripe.
 
Revelation 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the
earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the
great winepress of the wrath of God.
 
Revelation 14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the
city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse
bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
 
Revelation 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and
marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in
them is filled up the wrath of God.
 
Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled
with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast,
and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his
name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
 
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of
God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are
thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou
King of saints.
 
Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify
thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and
worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
 
Revelation 15:5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the
temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
 
Revelation 15:6 And the seven angels came out of the temple,
having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and
having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
 
Revelation 15:7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven
angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth
for ever and ever.
 
Revelation 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the
glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter
into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were
fulfilled.
 
Revelation 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple
saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials
of the wrath of God upon the earth.
 
Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial
upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon
the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which
worshipped his image.
 
Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon
the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every
living soul died in the sea.
 
Revelation 16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon
the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
 
Revelation 16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou
art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because
thou hast judged thus.
 
Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and
prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are
worthy.
 
Revelation 16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even
so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
 
Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon
the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
 
Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and
blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues:
and they repented not to give him glory.
 
Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon
the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and
they gnawed their tongues for pain,
 
Revelation 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of
their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
 
Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon
the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,
that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
 
Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs
come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the
beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
 
Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of
God Almighty.
 
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that
watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they
see his shame.
 
Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
 
Revelation 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into
the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of
heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
 
Revelation 16:18 And there were voices, and thunders, and
lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not
since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so
great.
 
Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three
parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came
in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine
of the fierceness of his wrath.
 
Revelation 16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains
were not found.
 
Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of
heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men
blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague
thereof was exceeding great.
 
Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come
hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore
that sitteth upon many waters:
 
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed
fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made
drunk with the wine of her fornication.
 
Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast,
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
 
Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet
colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and
filthiness of her fornication:
 
Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
 
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of
the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when
I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
 
Revelation 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst
thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of
the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten
horns.
 
Revelation 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and
shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition:
and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were
not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,
when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
 
Revelation 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
 
Revelation 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,
and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he
must continue a short space.
 
Revelation 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is
the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
 
Revelation 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten
kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power
as kings one hour with the beast.
 
Revelation 17:13 These have one mind, and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast.
 
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of
kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and
faithful.
 
Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou
sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues.
 
Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the
beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate
and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
 
Revelation 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his
will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until
the words of God shall be fulfilled.
 
Revelation 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great
city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
 
Revelation 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come
down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened
with his glory.
 
Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a
cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
 
Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
 
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.
 
Revelation 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God
hath remembered her iniquities.
 
Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double
unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath
filled fill to her double.
 
Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived
deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith
in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no
sorrow.
 
Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,
death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned
with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
 
Revelation 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed
fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and
lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
 
Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment,
saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for
in one hour is thy judgment come.
 
Revelation 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and
mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
 
Revelation 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and
precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and
silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of
ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of
brass, and iron, and marble,
 
Revelation 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and
frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and
beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and
souls of men.
 
Revelation 18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are
departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly
are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
 
Revelation 18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made
rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment,
weeping and wailing,
 
Revelation 18:16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that
was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked
with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
 
Revelation 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to
nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and
sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
 
Revelation 18:18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her
burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
 
Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried,
weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein
were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her
costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
 
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy
apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
 
Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a
great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with
violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall
be found no more at all.
 
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and
of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee;
and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any
more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more
at all in thee;
 
Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more
at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride
shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the
great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations
deceived.
 
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets,
and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
 
Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of
much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory,
and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
 
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for
he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with
her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at
her hand.
 
Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke
rose up for ever and ever.
 
Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four
beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne,
saying, Amen; Alleluia.
 
Revelation 19:5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying,
Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both
small and great.
 
Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of
mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth.
 
Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to
him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made
herself ready.
 
Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints.
 
Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they
which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he
saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
 
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he
said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of
thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for
the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
 
Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and
in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
 
Revelation 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his
head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man
knew, but he himself.
 
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
 
Revelation 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed
him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
 
Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that
with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with
a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness
and wrath of Almighty God.
 
Revelation 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a
name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
 
Revelation 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he
cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the
midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the
supper of the great God;
 
Revelation 19:18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the
flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of
horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men,
both free and bond, both small and great.
 
Revelation 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the
earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against
him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
 
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the
false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he
deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them
that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake
of fire burning with brimstone.
 
Revelation 19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of
him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his
mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
 
Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand.
 
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old
serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years,
 
Revelation 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut
him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the
nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and
after that he must be loosed a little season.
 
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God,
and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
 
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until
the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
 
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the
first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but
they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with
him a thousand years.
 
Revelation 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan
shall be loosed out of his prison,
 
Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which
are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather
them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the
sea.
 
Revelation 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth,
and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city:
and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
 
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into
the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false
prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever.
 
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that
sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away;
and there was found no place for them.
 
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was
opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in the books, according to
their works.
 
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it;
and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and
they were judged every man according to their works.
 
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death.
 
Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the
book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
 
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the
first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea.
 
Revelation 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband.
 
Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, and be their God.
 
Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away.
 
Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I
make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words
are true and faithful.
 
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is
athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
 
Revelation 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
 
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
 
Revelation 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels
which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride,
the Lamb's wife.
 
Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a
great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
 
Revelation 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was
like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear
as crystal;
 
Revelation 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve
gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of
Israel:
 
Revelation 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three
gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
 
Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb.
 
Revelation 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed
to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
 
Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length
is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and
the height of it are equal.
 
Revelation 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred
and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man,
that is, of the angel.
 
Revelation 21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of
jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
 
Revelation 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city
were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first
foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a
chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
 
Revelation 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the
seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the
tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an
amethyst.
 
Revelation 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every
several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was
pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
 
Revelation 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
 
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither
of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb is the light thereof.
 
Revelation 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall
walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring
their glory and honour into it.
 
Revelation 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all
by day: for there shall be no night there.
 
Revelation 21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of
the nations into it.
 
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any
thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or
maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of
life.
 
Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life,
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the
Lamb.
 
Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either
side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve
manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the
leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
 
Revelation 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants
shall serve him:
 
Revelation 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall
be in their foreheads.
 
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they
need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth
them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
 
Revelation 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful
and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to
shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
 
Revelation 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that
keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
 
Revelation 22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them.
And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the
feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
 
Revelation 22:9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for
I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of
them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
 
Revelation 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of
the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
 
Revelation 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still:
and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let
him be holy still.
 
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is
with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
 
Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end, the first and the last.
 
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city.
 
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth
and maketh a lie.
 
Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto
you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring
of David, and the bright and morning star.
 
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And
let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
 
Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the
words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto
these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written
in this book:
 
Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words
of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of
the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things
which are written in this book.
 
Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely
I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
 
Revelation 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen. 

PREFACE 0:0 THE BOOK OF MORMON, An Account Written By THE HAND OF
MORMON, Upon Plates Taken From The Plates Of Nephi.
 
PREFACE 0:1 Wherefore, it is an abridgment of the record of the
people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites--Written to the
Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to
Jew and Gentile--Written by way of commandment, and also by the
spirit of prophecy and of revelation--Written and sealed up, and
hid up unto the Lord, that they might not be destroyed--To come
forth by the gift and power of God unto the interpretation
thereof--Sealed by the hand of Moroni, and hid up unto the Lord,
to come forth in due time by way of the Gentile--The
interpretation thereof by the gift of God.
 
PREFACE 0:2 An abridgment taken from the Book of Ether also,
which is a record of the people of Jared, who were scattered at
the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, when
they were building a tower to get to heaven--Which is to show
unto the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the
Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the
covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever--And
also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the
CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations--
And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men;
wherefore, condemn not the things of God, that ye may be found
spotless at the judgment-seat of Christ.
 
PREFACE 0:3 Translated By Joseph Smith, Jun.
 
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PREFACE 0:4 The Testimony Of Three Witnesses
 
PREFACE 0:5 Be It Known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and
people, unto whom this work shall come: That we, through the
grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the
plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people
of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of
the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been
spoken. And we also know that they have been translated by the
gift and power of God, for his voice hath declared it unto us;
wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true. And we also
testify that we have seen the engravings which are upon the
plates; and they have been shown unto us by the power of God, and
not of man. And we declare with words of soberness, that an angel
of God came down from heaven, and he brought and laid before our
eyes, that we beheld and saw the plates, and the engravings
thereon; and we know that it is by the grace of God the Father,
and our Lord Jesus Christ, that we beheld and bear record that
these things are true. And it is marvelous in our eyes.
Nevertheless, the voice of the Lord commanded us that we should
bear record of it; wherefore, to be obedient unto the
commandments of God, we bear testimony of these things. And we
know that if we are faithful in Christ, we shall rid our garments
of the blood of all men, and be found spotless before the
judgment-seat of Christ, and shall dwell with him eternally in
the heavens. And the honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and
to the Holy Ghost, which is one God. Amen. /s/ Oliver Cowdery,
David Whitmer, Martin Harris
 
PREFACE 0:6 The Testimony Of Eight Witnesses
 
PREFACE 0:7 Be It Known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and
people, unto whom this work shall come: That Joseph Smith, Jun.,
the translator of this work, has shown unto us the plates of
which hath been spoken, which have the appearance of gold; and as
many of the leaves as the said Smith has translated we did handle
with our hands; and we also saw the engravings thereon, all of
which has the appearance of ancient work, and of curious
workmanship. And this we bear record with words of soberness,
that the said Smith has shown unto us, for we have seen and
hefted, and know of a surety that the said Smith has got the
plates of which we have spoken. And we give our names unto the
world, to witness unto the world that which we have seen. And we
lie not, God bearing witness of it. /s/ Christian Whitmer; Jacob
Whitmer; Peter Whitmer, Jun.; John Whitmer; Hiram Page; Joseph
Smith, Sen.; Hyrum Smith; Samuel H. Smith
 
THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI, His Reign And Ministry
 
1 Nephi 0:0 An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four
sons, being called, (beginning at the eldest) Laman, Lemuel, Sam,
and Nephi. The Lord warns Lehi to depart out of the land of
Jerusalem, because he prophesieth unto the people concerning
their iniquity and they seek to destroy his life. He taketh three
days' journey into the wilderness with his family. Nephi taketh
his brethren and returneth to the land of Jerusalem after the
record of the Jews. The account of their sufferings. They take
the daughters of Ishmael to wife. They take their families and
depart into the wilderness. Their sufferings and afflictions in
the wilderness. The course of their travels. They come to the
large waters. Nephi's brethren rebel against him. He confoundeth
them, and buildeth a ship. They call the place Bountiful. They
cross the large waters into the promised land, &c. This is
according to the account of Nephi; or in other words, I, Nephi,
wrote this record.
 
1 Nephi 1:0 Lehi's vision of the pillar of fire and the book of
prophecy--he predicts the impending fate of Jerusalem, and
foretells the coming of the Messiah--The Jews seek his life.
 
1 Nephi 1:1 I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents,
therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father;
and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days,
nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my
days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the
mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in
my days.
 
1 Nephi 1:2 Yea, I make a record in the language of my father,
which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of
the Egyptians.
 
1 Nephi 1:3 And I know that the record which I make is true; and
I make it with mine own hand; and I make it according to my
knowledge.
 
1 Nephi 1:4 For it came to pass in the commencement of the first
year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father, Lehi,
having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days); and in that same year
there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they
must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.
 
1 Nephi 1:5 Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he
went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in
behalf of his people.
 
1 Nephi 1:6 And it came to pass as he prayed unto the Lord, there
came a pillar of fire and dwelt upon a rock before him; and he
saw and heard much; and because of the things which he saw and
heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly.
 
1 Nephi 1:7 And it came to pass that he returned to his own house
at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome
with the Spirit and the things which he had seen.
 
1 Nephi 1:8 And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was
carried away in a vision, even that he saw the heavens open, and
he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with
numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and
praising their God.
 
1 Nephi 1:9 And it came to pass that he saw One descending out of
the midst of heaven, and he beheld that his luster was above that
of the sun at noon-day.
 
1 Nephi 1:10 And he also saw twelve others following him, and
their brightness did exceed that of the stars in the firmament.
 
1 Nephi 1:11 And they came down and went forth upon the face of
the earth; and the first came and stood before my father, and
gave unto him a book, and bade him that he should read.
 
1 Nephi 1:12 And it came to pass that as he read, he was filled
with the Spirit of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 1:13 And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I
have seen thine abominations! Yea, and many things did my father
read concerning Jerusalem--that it should be destroyed, and the
inhabitants thereof; many should perish by the sword, and many
should be carried away captive into Babylon.
 
1 Nephi 1:14 And it came to pass that when my father had read and
seen many great and marvelous things, he did exclaim many things
unto the Lord; such as: Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord
God Almighty! Thy throne is high in the heavens, and thy power,
and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the
earth; and, because thou art merciful, thou wilt not suffer those
who come unto thee that they shall perish!
 
1 Nephi 1:15 And after this manner was the language of my father
in the praising of his God; for his soul did rejoice, and his
whole heart was filled, because of the things which he had seen,
yea, which the Lord had shown unto him.
 
1 Nephi 1:16 And now I, Nephi, do not make a full account of the
things which my father hath written, for he hath written many
things which he saw in visions and in dreams; and he also hath
written many things which he prophesied and spake unto his
children, of which I shall not make a full account.
 
1 Nephi 1:17 But I shall make an account of my proceedings in my
days. Behold, I make an abridgment of the record of my father,
upon plates which I have made with mine own hands; wherefore,
after I have abridged the record of my father then will I make an
account of mine own life.
 
1 Nephi 1:18 Therefore, I would that ye should know, that after
the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi,
yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, behold he went
forth among the people, and began to prophesy and to declare unto
them concerning the things which he had both seen and heard.
 
1 Nephi 1:19 And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him
because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly
testified of their wickedness and their abominations; and he
testified that the things which he saw and heard, and also the
things which he read in the book, manifested plainly of the
coming of a Messiah, and also the redemption of the world.
 
1 Nephi 1:20 And when the Jews heard these things they were angry
with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had
cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life,
that they might take it away. But behold, I, Nephi, will show
unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those
whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty
even unto the power of deliverance.
 
1 Nephi 2:0 Lehi departs with his family into the wilderness
bordering on the Red Sea--His elder sons, Laman and Lemuel,
murmur against him--Nephi and Sam believe his words--The Lord's
promises to Nephi.
 
1 Nephi 2:1 For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto
my father, yea, even in a dream, and said unto him: Blessed art
thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done; and
because thou hast been faithful and declared unto this people the
things which I commanded thee, behold, they seek to take away thy
life.
 
1 Nephi 2:2 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my
father, even in a dream, that he should take his family and
depart into the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 2:3 And it came to pass that he was obedient unto the
word of the Lord, wherefore he did as the Lord commanded him.
 
1 Nephi 2:4 And it came to pass that he departed into the
wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his
inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious
things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and
provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 2:5 And he came down by the borders near the shore of the
Red Sea; and he traveled in the wilderness in the borders which
are nearer the Red Sea; and he did travel in the wilderness with
his family, which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder
brothers, who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.
 
1 Nephi 2:6 And it came to pass that when he had traveled three
days in the wilderness, he pitched his tent in a valley by the
side of a river of water.
 
1 Nephi 2:7 And it came to pass that he built an altar of stones,
and made an offering unto the Lord, and gave thanks unto the Lord
our God.
 
1 Nephi 2:8 And it came to pass that he called the name of the
river, Laman, and it emptied into the Red Sea; and the valley was
in the borders near the mouth thereof.
 
1 Nephi 2:9 And when my father saw that the waters of the river
emptied into the fountain of the Red Sea, he spake unto Laman,
saying: O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually
running into the fountain of all righteousness!
 
1 Nephi 2:10 And he also spake unto Lemuel: O that thou mightest
be like unto this valley, firm and steadfast, and immovable in
keeping the commandments of the Lord!
 
1 Nephi 2:11 Now this he spake because of the stiffneckedness of
Laman and Lemuel; for behold they did murmur in many things
against their father, because he was a visionary man, and had led
them out of the land of Jerusalem, to leave the land of their
inheritance, and their gold, and their silver, and their precious
things, to perish in the wilderness. And this they said he had
done because of the foolish imaginations of his heart.
 
1 Nephi 2:12 And thus Laman and Lemuel, being the eldest, did
murmur against their father. And they did murmur because they
knew not the dealings of that God who had created them.
 
1 Nephi 2:13 Neither did they believe that Jerusalem, that great
city, could be destroyed according to the words of the prophets.
And they were like unto the Jews who were at Jerusalem, who
sought to take away the life of my father.
 
1 Nephi 2:14 And it came to pass that my father did speak unto
them in the valley of Lemuel, with power, being filled with the
Spirit, until their frames did shake before him. And he did
confound them, that they durst not utter against him; wherefore,
they did as he commanded them.
 
1 Nephi 2:15 And my father dwelt in a tent.
 
1 Nephi 2:16 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, being exceedingly
young, nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great
desires to know of the mysteries of God, wherefore, I did cry
unto the Lord; and behold he did visit me, and did soften my
heart that I did believe all the words which had been spoken by
my father; wherefore, I did not rebel against him like unto my
brothers.
 
1 Nephi 2:17 And I spake unto Sam, making known unto him the
things which the Lord had manifested unto me by his Holy Spirit.
And it came to pass that he believed in my words.
 
1 Nephi 2:18 But, behold, Laman and Lemuel would not hearken unto
my words; and being grieved because of the hardness of their
hearts I cried unto the Lord for them.
 
1 Nephi 2:19 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me,
saying: Blessed art thou, Nephi, because of thy faith, for thou
hast sought me diligently, with lowliness of heart.
 
1 Nephi 2:20 And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye
shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a
land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice
above all other lands.
 
1 Nephi 2:21 And inasmuch as thy brethren shall rebel against
thee, they shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 2:22 And inasmuch as thou shalt keep my commandments,
thou shalt be made a ruler and a teacher over thy brethren.
 
1 Nephi 2:23 For behold, in that day that they shall rebel
against me, I will curse them even with a sore curse, and they
shall have no power over thy seed except they shall rebel against
me also.
 
1 Nephi 2:24 And if it so be that they rebel against me, they
shall be a scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in the ways of
remembrance.
 
1 Nephi 3:0 Lehi's sons sent back to Jerusalem to obtain the
plates of brass--Laban refuses to deliver the plates--Laman and
Lemuel reproved by an angel.
 
1 Nephi 3:1 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, returned from
speaking with the Lord, to the tent of my father.
 
1 Nephi 3:2 And it came to pass that he spake unto me, saying:
Behold I have dreamed a dream, in the which the Lord hath
commanded me that thou and thy brethren shall return to
Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 3:3 For behold, Laban hath the record of the Jews and
also a genealogy of my forefathers, and they are engraven upon
plates of brass.
 
1 Nephi 3:4 Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me that thou and
thy brothers should go unto the house of Laban, and seek the
records, and bring them down hither into the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 3:5 And now, behold thy brothers murmur, saying it is a
hard thing which I have required of them; but behold I have not
required it of them, but it is a commandment of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 3:6 Therefore go, my son, and thou shalt be favored of
the Lord, because thou hast not murmured.
 
1 Nephi 3:7 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my
father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath
commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto
the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that
they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.
 
1 Nephi 3:8 And it came to pass that when my father had heard
these words he was exceedingly glad, for he knew that I had been
blessed of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 3:9 And I, Nephi, and my brethren took our journey in the
wilderness, with our tents, to go up to the land of Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 3:10 And it came to pass that when we had gone up to the
land of Jerusalem, I and my brethren did consult one with
another.
 
1 Nephi 3:11 And we cast lots--who of us should go in unto the
house of Laban. And it came to pass that the lot fell upon Laman;
and Laman went in unto the house of Laban, and he talked with him
as he sat in his house.
 
1 Nephi 3:12 And he desired of Laban the records which were
engraven upon the plates of brass, which contained the genealogy
of my father.
 
1 Nephi 3:13 And behold, it came to pass that Laban was angry,
and thrust him out from his presence; and he would not that he
should have the records. Wherefore, he said unto him: Behold thou
art a robber, and I will slay thee.
 
1 Nephi 3:14 But Laman fled out of his presence, and told the
things which Laban had done, unto us. And we began to be
exceedingly sorrowful, and my brethren were about to return unto
my father in the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 3:15 But behold I said unto them that: As the Lord
liveth, and as we live, we will not go down unto our father in
the wilderness until we have accomplished the thing which the
Lord hath commanded us.
 
1 Nephi 3:16 Wherefore, let us be faithful in keeping the
commandments of the Lord; therefore let us go down to the land of
our father's inheritance, for behold he left gold and silver, and
all manner of riches. And all this he hath done because of the
commandments of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 3:17 For he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed,
because of the wickedness of the people.
 
1 Nephi 3:18 For behold, they have rejected the words of the
prophets. Wherefore, if my father should dwell in the land after
he hath been commanded to flee out of the land, behold, he would
also perish. Wherefore, it must needs be that he flee out of the
land.
 
1 Nephi 3:19 And behold, it is wisdom in God that we should
obtain these records, that we may preserve unto our children the
language of our fathers;
 
1 Nephi 3:20 And also that we may preserve unto them the words
which have been spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets,
which have been delivered unto them by the Spirit and power of
God, since the world began, even down unto this present time.
 
1 Nephi 3:21 And it came to pass that after this manner of
language did I persuade my brethren, that they might be faithful
in keeping the commandments of God.
 
1 Nephi 3:22 And it came to pass that we went down to the land of
our inheritance, and we did gather together our gold, and our
silver, and our precious things.
 
1 Nephi 3:23 And after we had gathered these things together, we
went up again unto the house of Laban.
 
1 Nephi 3:24 And it came to pass that we went in unto Laban, and
desired him that he would give unto us the records which were
engraven upon the plates of brass, for which we would give unto
him our gold, and our silver, and all our precious things.
 
1 Nephi 3:25 And it came to pass that when Laban saw our
property, and that it was exceedingly great, he did lust after
it, insomuch that he thrust us out, and sent his servants to slay
us, that he might obtain our property.
 
1 Nephi 3:26 And it came to pass that we did flee before the
servants of Laban, and we were obliged to leave behind our
property, and it fell into the hands of Laban.
 
1 Nephi 3:27 And it came to pass that we fled into the
wilderness, and the servants of Laban did not overtake us, and we
hid ourselves in the cavity of a rock.
 
1 Nephi 3:28 And it came to pass that Laman was angry with me,
and also with my father; and also was Lemuel, for he hearkened
unto the words of Laman. Wherefore Laman and Lemuel did speak
many hard words unto us, their younger brothers, and they did
smite us even with a rod.
 
1 Nephi 3:29 And it came to pass as they smote us with a rod,
behold, an angel of the Lord came and stood before them, and he
spake unto them, saying: Why do ye smite your younger brother
with a rod? Know ye not that the Lord hath chosen him to be a
ruler over you, and this because of your iniquities? Behold ye
shall go up to Jerusalem again, and the Lord will deliver Laban
into your hands.
 
1 Nephi 3:30 And after the angel had spoken unto us, he departed.
 
1 Nephi 3:31 And after the angel had departed, Laman and Lemuel
again began to murmur, saying: How is it possible that the Lord
will deliver Laban into our hands? Behold, he is a mighty man,
and he can command fifty, yea, even he can slay fifty; then why
not us?
 
1 Nephi 4:0 Nephi secures possession of the plates by stratagem--
Laban slain with his own sword--Zoram accompanies Nephi and his
brothers into the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 4:1 And it came to pass that I spake unto my brethren,
saying: Let us go up again unto Jerusalem, and let us be faithful
in keeping the commandments of the Lord; for behold he is
mightier than all the earth, then why not mightier than Laban and
his fifty, yea, or even than his tens of thousands?
 
1 Nephi 4:2 Therefore let us go up; let us be strong like unto
Moses; for he truly spake unto the waters of the Red Sea and they
divided hither and thither, and our fathers came through, out of
captivity, on dry ground, and the armies of Pharaoh did follow
and were drowned in the waters of the Red Sea.
 
1 Nephi 4:3 Now behold ye know that this is true; and ye also
know that an angel hath spoken unto you; wherefore can ye doubt?
Let us go up; the Lord is able to deliver us, even as our
fathers, and to destroy Laban, even as the Egyptians.
 
1 Nephi 4:4 Now when I had spoken these words, they were yet
wroth, and did still continue to murmur; nevertheless they did
follow me up until we came without the walls of Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 4:5 And it was by night; and I caused that they should
hide themselves without the walls. And after they had hid
themselves, I, Nephi, crept into the city and went forth towards
the house of Laban.
 
1 Nephi 4:6 And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand
the things which I should do.
 
1 Nephi 4:7 Nevertheless I went forth, and as I came near unto
the house of Laban I beheld a man, and he had fallen to the earth
before me, for he was drunken with wine.
 
1 Nephi 4:8 And when I came to him I found that it was Laban.
 
1 Nephi 4:9 And I beheld his sword, and I drew it forth from the
sheath thereof; and the hilt thereof was of pure gold, and the
workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine, and I saw that the
blade thereof was of the most precious steel.
 
1 Nephi 4:10 And it came to pass that I was constrained by the
Spirit that I should kill Laban; but I said in my heart: Never at
any time have I shed the blood of man. And I shrunk and would
that I might not slay him.
 
1 Nephi 4:11 And the Spirit said unto me again: Behold the Lord
hath delivered him into thy hands. Yea, and I also knew that he
had sought to take away mine own life; yea, and he would not
hearken unto the commandments of the Lord; and he also had taken
away our property.
 
1 Nephi 4:12 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me
again: Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands;
 
1 Nephi 4:13 Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth
his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish
than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.
 
1 Nephi 4:14 And now, when I, Nephi, had heard these words, I
remembered the words of the Lord which he spake unto me in the
wilderness, saying that: Inasmuch as thy seed shall keep my
commandments, they shall prosper in the land of promise.
 
1 Nephi 4:15 Yea, and I also thought that they could not keep the
commandments of the Lord according to the law of Moses, save they
should have the law.
 
1 Nephi 4:16 And I also knew that the law was engraven upon the
plates of brass.
 
1 Nephi 4:17 And again, I knew that the Lord had delivered Laban
into my hands for this cause--that I might obtain the records
according to his commandments.
 
1 Nephi 4:18 Therefore I did obey the voice of the Spirit, and
took Laban by the hair of the head, and I smote off his head with
his own sword.
 
1 Nephi 4:19 And after I had smitten off his head with his own
sword, I took the garments of Laban and put them upon mine own
body; yea, even every whit; and I did gird on his armor about my
loins.
 
1 Nephi 4:20 And after I had done this, I went forth unto the
treasury of Laban. And as I went forth towards the treasury of
Laban, behold, I saw the servant of Laban who had the keys of the
treasury. And I commanded him in the voice of Laban, that he
should go with me into the treasury.
 
1 Nephi 4:21 And he supposed me to be his master, Laban, for he
beheld the garments and also the sword girded about my loins.
 
1 Nephi 4:22 And he spake unto me concerning the elders of the
Jews, he knowing that his master, Laban, had been out by night
among them.
 
1 Nephi 4:23 And I spake unto him as if it had been Laban.
 
1 Nephi 4:24 And I also spake unto him that I should carry the
engravings, which were upon the plates of brass, to my elder
brethren, who were without the walls.
 
1 Nephi 4:25 And I also bade him that he should follow me.
 
1 Nephi 4:26 And he, supposing that I spake of the brethren of
the church, and that I was truly that Laban whom I had slain,
wherefore he did follow me.
 
1 Nephi 4:27 And he spake unto me many times concerning the
elders of the Jews, as I went forth unto my brethren, who were
without the walls.
 
1 Nephi 4:28 And it came to pass that when Laman saw me he was
exceedingly frightened, and also Lemuel and Sam. And they fled
from before my presence; for they supposed it was Laban, and that
he had slain me and had sought to take away their lives also.
 
1 Nephi 4:29 And it came to pass that I called after them, and
they did hear me; wherefore they did cease to flee from my
presence.
 
1 Nephi 4:30 And it came to pass that when the servant of Laban
beheld my brethren he began to tremble, and was about to flee
from before me and return to the city of Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 4:31 And now I, Nephi, being a man large in stature, and
also having received much strength of the Lord, therefore I did
seize upon the servant of Laban, and held him, that he should not
flee.
 
1 Nephi 4:32 And it came to pass that I spake with him, that if
he would hearken unto my words, as the Lord liveth, and as I
live, even so that if he would hearken unto our words, we would
spare his life.
 
1 Nephi 4:33 And I spake unto him, even with an oath, that he
need not fear; that he should be a free man like unto us if he
would go down in the wilderness with us.
 
1 Nephi 4:34 And I also spake unto him, saying: Surely the Lord
hath commanded us to do this thing; and shall we not be diligent
in keeping the commandments of the Lord? Therefore, if thou wilt
go down into the wilderness to my father thou shalt have place
with us.
 
1 Nephi 4:35 And it came to pass that Zoram did take courage at
the words which I spake. Now Zoram was the name of the servant;
and he promised that he would go down into the wilderness unto
our father. Yea, and he also made an oath unto us that he would
tarry with us from that time forth.
 
1 Nephi 4:36 Now we were desirous that he should tarry with us
for this cause, that the Jews might not know concerning our
flight into the wilderness, lest they should pursue us and
destroy us.
 
1 Nephi 4:37 And it came to pass that when Zoram had made an oath
unto us, our fears did cease concerning him.
 
1 Nephi 4:38 And it came to pass that we took the plates of brass
and the servant of Laban, and departed into the wilderness, and
journeyed unto the tent of our father.
 
1 Nephi 5:0 Sariah's complaint against Lehi--Both rejoice over
their sons' return--Contents of the brass plates--Lehi a
descendant of Joseph--Laban also of that lineage--Lehi's
prophecies.
 
1 Nephi 5:1 And it came to pass that after we had come down into
the wilderness unto our father, behold, he was filled with joy,
and also my mother, Sariah, was exceedingly glad, for she truly
had mourned because of us.
 
1 Nephi 5:2 For she had supposed that we had perished in the
wilderness; and she also had complained against my father,
telling him that he was a visionary man; saying: Behold thou hast
led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my sons are no
more, and we perish in the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 5:3 And after this manner of language had my mother
complained against my father.
 
1 Nephi 5:4 And it had come to pass that my father spake unto
her, saying: I know that I am a visionary man; for if I had not
seen the things of God in a vision I should not have known the
goodness of God, but had tarried at Jerusalem, and had perished
with my brethren.
 
1 Nephi 5:5 But behold, I have obtained a land of promise, in the
which things I do rejoice; yea, and I know that the Lord will
deliver my sons out of the hands of Laban, and bring them down
again unto us in the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 5:6 And after this manner of language did my father,
Lehi, comfort my mother, Sariah, concerning us, while we
journeyed in the wilderness up to the land of Jerusalem, to
obtain the record of the Jews.
 
1 Nephi 5:7 And when we had returned to the tent of my father,
behold their joy was full, and my mother was comforted.
 
1 Nephi 5:8 And she spake, saying: Now I know of a surety that
the Lord hath commanded my husband to flee into the wilderness;
yea, and I also know of a surety that the Lord hath protected my
sons, and delivered them out of the hands of Laban, and given
them power whereby they could accomplish the thing which the Lord
hath commanded them. And after this manner of language did she
speak.
 
1 Nephi 5:9 And it came to pass that they did rejoice
exceedingly, and did offer sacrifice and burnt offerings unto the
Lord; and they gave thanks unto the God of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 5:10 And after they had given thanks unto the God of
Israel, my father, Lehi, took the records which were engraven
upon the plates of brass, and he did search them from the
beginning.
 
1 Nephi 5:11 And he beheld that they did contain the five books
of Moses, which gave an account of the creation of the world, and
also of Adam and Eve, who were our first parents;
 
1 Nephi 5:12 And also a record of the Jews from the beginning,
even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah, king of
Judah;
 
1 Nephi 5:13 And also the prophecies of the holy prophets, from
the beginning, even down to the commencement of the reign of
Zedekiah; and also many prophecies which have been spoken by the
mouth of Jeremiah.
 
1 Nephi 5:14 And it came to pass that my father, Lehi, also found
upon the plates of brass a genealogy of his fathers; wherefore he
knew that he was a descendant of Joseph; yea, even that Joseph
who was the son of Jacob, who was sold into Egypt, and who was
preserved by the hand of the Lord, that he might preserve his
father, Jacob, and all his household from perishing with famine.
 
1 Nephi 5:15 And they were also led out of captivity and out of
the land of Egypt, by that same God who had preserved them.
 
1 Nephi 5:16 And thus my father, Lehi, did discover the genealogy
of his fathers. And Laban also was a descendant of Joseph,
wherefore he and his fathers had kept the records.
 
1 Nephi 5:17 And now when my father saw all these things, he was
filled with the Spirit, and began to prophesy concerning his
seed-- 
 
1 Nephi 5:18 That these plates of brass should go forth unto all
nations, kindreds, tongues, and people who were of his seed.
 
1 Nephi 5:19 Wherefore, he said that these plates of brass should
never perish; neither should they be dimmed any more by time. And
he prophesied many things concerning his seed.
 
1 Nephi 5:20 And it came to pass that thus far I and my father
had kept the commandments wherewith the Lord had commanded us.
 
1 Nephi 5:21 And we had obtained the records which the Lord had
commanded us, and searched them and found that they were
desirable; yea, even of great worth unto us, insomuch that we
could preserve the commandments of the Lord unto our children.
 
1 Nephi 5:22 Wherefore, it was wisdom in the Lord that we should
carry them with us, as we journeyed in the wilderness towards the
land of promise.
 
1 Nephi 6:0 Nephi's intent--He writes what is pleasing to God.
 
1 Nephi 6:1 And now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my
fathers in this part of my record; neither at any time shall I
give it after upon these plates which I am writing; for it is
given in the record which has been kept by my father; wherefore,
I do not write it in this work.
 
1 Nephi 6:2 For it sufficeth me to say that we are descendants of
Joseph.
 
1 Nephi 6:3 And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to
give a full account of all the things of my father, for they
cannot be written upon these plates, for I desire the room that I
may write of the things of God.
 
1 Nephi 6:4 For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade
men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, and be saved.
 
1 Nephi 6:5 Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the
world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God
and unto those who are not of the world.
 
1 Nephi 6:6 Wherefore, I shall give commandment unto my seed,
that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not
of worth unto the children of men.
 
1 Nephi 7:0 Lehi's sons again sent back to Jerusalem--Ishmael and
household agree to join Lehi's company--Dissension--Nephi, bound
with cords, is freed through power of faith--His rebellious
brethren repent.
 
1 Nephi 7:1 And now I would that ye might know, that after my
father, Lehi, had made an end of prophesying concerning his seed,
it came to pass that the Lord spake unto him again, saying that
it was not meet for him, Lehi, that he should take his family
into the wilderness alone; but that his sons should take
daughters to wife, that they might raise up seed unto the Lord in
the land of promise.
 
1 Nephi 7:2 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded him that
I, Nephi, and my brethren, should again return unto the land of
Jerusalem, and bring down Ishmael and his family into the
wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 7:3 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did again, with my
brethren, go forth into the wilderness to go up to Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 7:4 And it came to pass that we went up unto the house of
Ishmael, and we did gain favor in the sight of Ishmael, insomuch
that we did speak unto him the words of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 7:5 And it came to pass that the Lord did soften the
heart of Ishmael, and also his household, insomuch that they took
their journey with us down into the wilderness to the tent of our
father.
 
1 Nephi 7:6 And it came to pass that as we journeyed in the
wilderness, behold Laman and Lemuel, and two of the daughters of
Ishmael, and the two sons of Ishmael and their families, did
rebel against us; yea, against me, Nephi, and Sam, and their
father, Ishmael, and his wife, and his three other daughters.
 
1 Nephi 7:7 And it came to pass in the which rebellion, they were
desirous to return unto the land of Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 7:8 And now I, Nephi, being grieved for the hardness of
their hearts, therefore I spake unto them, saying, yea, even unto
Laman and unto Lemuel: Behold ye are mine elder brethren, and how
is it that ye are so hard in your hearts, and so blind in your
minds, that ye have need that I, your younger brother, should
speak unto you, yea, and set an example for you?
 
1 Nephi 7:9 How is it that ye have not hearkened unto the word of
the Lord?
 
1 Nephi 7:10 How is it that ye have forgotten that ye have seen
an angel of the Lord?
 
1 Nephi 7:11 Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten what great
things the Lord hath done for us, in delivering us out of the
hands of Laban, and also that we should obtain the record?
 
1 Nephi 7:12 Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the
Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the
children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him?
Wherefore, let us be faithful to him.
 
1 Nephi 7:13 And if it so be that we are faithful to him, we
shall obtain the land of promise; and ye shall know at some
future period that the word of the Lord shall be fulfilled
concerning the destruction of Jerusalem; for all things which the
Lord hath spoken concerning the destruction of Jerusalem must be
fulfilled.
 
1 Nephi 7:14 For behold, the Spirit of the Lord ceaseth soon to
strive with them; for behold, they have rejected the prophets,
and Jeremiah have they cast into prison. And they have sought to
take away the life of my father, insomuch that they have driven
him out of the land.
 
1 Nephi 7:15 Now behold, I say unto you that if ye will return
unto Jerusalem ye shall also perish with them. And now, if ye
have choice, go up to the land, and remember the words which I
speak unto you, that if ye go ye will also perish; for thus the
Spirit of the Lord constraineth me that I should speak.
 
1 Nephi 7:16 And it came to pass that when I, Nephi, had spoken
these words unto my brethren, they were angry with me. And it
came to pass that they did lay their hands upon me, for behold,
they were exceedingly wroth, and they did bind me with cords, for
they sought to take away my life, that they might leave me in the
wilderness to be devoured by wild beasts.
 
1 Nephi 7:17 But it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord,
saying: O Lord, according to my faith which is in thee, wilt thou
deliver me from the hands of my brethren; yea, even give me
strength that I may burst these bands with which I am bound.
 
1 Nephi 7:18 And it came to pass that when I had said these
words, behold, the bands were loosed from off my hands and feet,
and I stood before my brethren, and I spake unto them again.
 
1 Nephi 7:19 And it came to pass that they were angry with me
again, and sought to lay hands upon me; but behold, one of the
daughters of Ishmael, yea, and also her mother, and one of the
sons of Ishmael, did plead with my brethren, insomuch that they
did soften their hearts; and they did cease striving to take away
my life.
 
1 Nephi 7:20 And it came to pass that they were sorrowful,
because of their wickedness, insomuch that they did bow down
before me, and did plead with me that I would forgive them of the
thing that they had done against me.
 
1 Nephi 7:21 And it came to pass that I did frankly forgive them
all that they had done, and I did exhort them that they would
pray unto the Lord their God for forgiveness. And it came to pass
that they did so. And after they had done praying unto the Lord
we did again travel on our journey towards the tent of our
father.
 
1 Nephi 7:22 And it came to pass that we did come down unto the
tent of our father. And after I and my brethren and all the house
of Ishmael had come down unto the tent of my father, they did
give thanks unto the Lord their God; and they did offer sacrifice
and burnt offerings unto him.
 
1 Nephi 8:0 Lehi's dream of the tree, the river and the rod of
iron--Laman and Lemuel partake not of the fruit of the tree.
 
1 Nephi 8:1 And it came to pass that we had gathered together all
manner of seeds of every kind, both of grain of every kind, and
also of the seeds of fruit of every kind.
 
1 Nephi 8:2 And it came to pass that while my father tarried in
the wilderness he spake unto us, saying: Behold, I have dreamed a
dream; or, in other words, I have seen a vision.
 
1 Nephi 8:3 And behold, because of the thing which I have seen, I
have reason to rejoice in the Lord because of Nephi and also of
Sam; for I have reason to suppose that they, and also many of
their seed, will be saved.
 
1 Nephi 8:4 But behold, Laman and Lemuel, I fear exceedingly
because of you; for behold, methought I saw in my dream, a dark
and dreary wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 8:5 And it came to pass that I saw a man, and he was
dressed in a white robe; and he came and stood before me.
 
1 Nephi 8:6 And it came to pass that he spake unto me, and bade
me follow him.
 
1 Nephi 8:7 And it came to pass that as I followed him I beheld
myself that I was in a dark and dreary waste.
 
1 Nephi 8:8 And after I had traveled for the space of many hours
in darkness, I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have
mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies.
 
1 Nephi 8:9 And it came to pass after I had prayed unto the Lord
I beheld a large and spacious field.
 
1 Nephi 8:10 And it came to pass that I beheld a tree, whose
fruit was desirable to make one happy.
 
1 Nephi 8:11 And it came to pass that I did go forth and partake
of the fruit thereof; and I beheld that it was most sweet, above
all that I ever before tasted. Yea, and I beheld that the fruit
thereof was white, to exceed all the whiteness that I had ever
seen.
 
1 Nephi 8:12 And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my
soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be
desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew
that it was desirable above all other fruit.
 
1 Nephi 8:13 And as I cast my eyes round about, that perhaps I
might discover my family also, I beheld a river of water; and it
ran along, and it was near the tree of which I was partaking the
fruit.
 
1 Nephi 8:14 And I looked to behold from whence it came; and I
saw the head thereof a little way off; and at the head thereof I
beheld your mother Sariah, and Sam, and Nephi; and they stood as
if they knew not whither they should go.
 
1 Nephi 8:15 And it came to pass that I beckoned unto them; and I
also did say unto them with a loud voice that they should come
unto me, and partake of the fruit, which was desirable above all
other fruit.
 
1 Nephi 8:16 And it came to pass that they did come unto me and
partake of the fruit also.
 
1 Nephi 8:17 And it came to pass that I was desirous that Laman
and Lemuel should come and partake of the fruit also; wherefore,
I cast mine eyes towards the head of the river, that perhaps I
might see them.
 
1 Nephi 8:18 And it came to pass that I saw them, but they would
not come unto me and partake of the fruit.
 
1 Nephi 8:19 And I beheld a rod of iron, and it extended along
the bank of the river, and led to the tree by which I stood.
 
1 Nephi 8:20 And I also beheld a strait and narrow path, which
came along by the rod of iron, even to the tree by which I stood;
and it also led by the head of the fountain, unto a large and
spacious field, as if it had been a world.
 
1 Nephi 8:21 And I saw numberless concourses of people, many of
whom were pressing forward, that they might obtain the path which
led unto the tree by which I stood.
 
1 Nephi 8:22 And it came to pass that they did come forth, and
commence in the path which led to the tree.
 
1 Nephi 8:23 And it came to pass that there arose a mist of
darkness; yea, even an exceedingly great mist of darkness,
insomuch that they who had commenced in the path did lose their
way, that they wandered off and were lost.
 
1 Nephi 8:24 And it came to pass that I beheld others pressing
forward, and they came forth and caught hold of the end of the
rod of iron; and they did press forward through the mist of
darkness, clinging to the rod of iron, even until they did come
forth and partake of the fruit of the tree.
 
1 Nephi 8:25 And after they had partaken of the fruit of the tree
they did cast their eyes about as if they were ashamed.
 
1 Nephi 8:26 And I also cast my eyes round about, and beheld, on
the other side of the river of water, a great and spacious
building; and it stood as it were in the air, high above the
earth.
 
1 Nephi 8:27 And it was filled with people, both old and young,
both male and female; and their manner of dress was exceedingly
fine; and they were in the attitude of mocking and pointing their
fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the
fruit.
 
1 Nephi 8:28 And after they had tasted of the fruit they were
ashamed, because of those that were scoffing at them; and they
fell away into forbidden paths and were lost.
 
1 Nephi 8:29 And now I, Nephi, do not speak all the words of my
father.
 
1 Nephi 8:30 But, to be short in writing, behold, he saw other
multitudes pressing forward; and they came and caught hold of the
end of the rod of iron; and they did press their way forward,
continually holding fast to the rod of iron, until they came
forth and fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree.
 
1 Nephi 8:31 And he also saw other multitudes feeling their way
towards that great and spacious building.
 
1 Nephi 8:32 And it came to pass that many were drowned in the
depths of the fountain; and many were lost from his view,
wandering in strange roads.
 
1 Nephi 8:33 And great was the multitude that did enter into that
strange building. And after they did enter into that building
they did point the finger of scorn at me and those that were
partaking of the fruit also; but we heeded them not.
 
1 Nephi 8:34 These are the words of my father: For as many as
heeded them, had fallen away.
 
1 Nephi 8:35 And Laman and Lemuel partook not of the fruit, said
my father.
 
1 Nephi 8:36 And it came to pass after my father had spoken all
the words of his dream or vision, which were many, he said unto
us, because of these things which he saw in a vision, he
exceedingly feared for Laman and Lemuel; yea, he feared lest they
should be cast off from the presence of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 8:37 And he did exhort them then with all the feeling of
a tender parent, that they would hearken to his words, that
perhaps the Lord would be merciful to them, and not cast them
off; yea, my father did preach unto them.
 
1 Nephi 8:38 And after he had preached unto them, and also
prophesied unto them of many things, he bade them to keep the
commandments of the Lord; and he did cease speaking unto them.
 
1 Nephi 9:0 Concerning the plates of Nephi--Two sets of records,
one of the ministry, the other of rulers, wars, etc.
 
1 Nephi 9:1 And all these things did my father see, and hear, and
speak, as he dwelt in a tent, in the valley of Lemuel, and also a
great many more things, which cannot be written upon these
plates.
 
1 Nephi 9:2 And now, as I have spoken concerning these plates,
behold they are not the plates upon which I make a full account
of the history of my people; for the plates upon which I make a
full account of my people I have given the name of Nephi;
wherefore, they are called the plates of Nephi, after mine own
name; and these plates also are called the plates of Nephi.
 
1 Nephi 9:3 Nevertheless, I have received a commandment of the
Lord that I should make these plates, for the special purpose
that there should be an account engraven of the ministry of my
people.
 
1 Nephi 9:4 Upon the other plates should be engraven an account
of the reign of the kings, and the wars and contentions of my
people; wherefore these plates are for the more part of the
ministry; and the other plates are for the more part of the reign
of the kings and the wars and contentions of my people.
 
1 Nephi 9:5 Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me to make these
plates for a wise purpose in him, which purpose I know not.
 
1 Nephi 9:6 But the Lord knoweth all things from the beginning;
wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among
the children of men; for behold, he hath all power unto the
fulfilling of all his words. And thus it is. Amen.
 
1 Nephi 10:0 Lehi predicts the Babylonian captivity, and the
coming of the Lamb of God--The house of Israel likened to an
olive-tree--Dispersion and subsequent gathering typified.
 
1 Nephi 10:1 And now I, Nephi, proceed to give an account upon
these plates of my proceedings, and my reign and ministry;
wherefore, to proceed with mine account, I must speak somewhat of
the things of my father, and also of my brethren.
 
1 Nephi 10:2 For behold, it came to pass after my father had made
an end of speaking the words of his dream, and also of exhorting
them to all diligence, he spake unto them concerning the Jews--1
Nephi 10:3 That after they should be destroyed, even that great
city Jerusalem, and many be carried away captive into Babylon,
according to the own due time of the Lord, they should return
again, yea, even be brought back out of captivity; and after they
should be brought back out of captivity they should possess again
the land of their inheritance.
 
1 Nephi 10:4 Yea, even six hundred years from the time that my
father left Jerusalem, a prophet would the Lord God raise up
among the Jews--even a Messiah, or, in other words, a Savior of
the world.
 
1 Nephi 10:5 And he also spake concerning the prophets, how great
a number had testified of these things, concerning this Messiah,
of whom he had spoken, or this Redeemer of the world.
 
1 Nephi 10:6 Wherefore, all mankind were in a lost and in a
fallen state, and ever would be save they should rely on this
Redeemer.
 
1 Nephi 10:7 And he spake also concerning a prophet who should
come before the Messiah, to prepare the way of the Lord-- 
 
1 Nephi 10:8 Yea, even he should go forth and cry in the
wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths
straight; for there standeth one among you whom ye know not; and
he is mightier than I, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to
unloose. And much spake my father concerning this thing.
 
1 Nephi 10:9 And my father said he should baptize in Bethabara,
beyond Jordan; and he also said he should baptize with water;
even that he should baptize the Messiah with water.
 
1 Nephi 10:10 And after he had baptized the Messiah with water,
he should behold and bear record that he had baptized the Lamb of
God, who should take away the sins of the world.
 
1 Nephi 10:11 And it came to pass after my father had spoken
these words he spake unto my brethren concerning the gospel which
should be preached among the Jews, and also concerning the
dwindling of the Jews in unbelief. And after they had slain the
Messiah, who should come, and after he had been slain he should
rise from the dead, and should make himself manifest, by the Holy
Ghost, unto the Gentiles.
 
1 Nephi 10:12 Yea, even my father spake much concerning the
Gentiles, and also concerning the house of Israel, that they
should be compared like unto an olive-tree, whose branches should
be broken off and should be scattered upon all the face of the
earth.
 
1 Nephi 10:13 Wherefore, he said it must needs be that we should
be led with one accord into the land of promise, unto the
fulfilling of the word of the Lord, that we should be scattered
upon all the face of the earth.
 
1 Nephi 10:14 And after the house of Israel should be scattered
they should be gathered together again; or, in fine, after the
Gentiles had received the fulness of the Gospel, the natural
branches of the olive-tree, or the remnants of the house of
Israel, should be grafted in, or come to the knowledge of the
true Messiah, their Lord and their Redeemer.
 
1 Nephi 10:15 And after this manner of language did my father
prophesy and speak unto my brethren, and also many more things
which I do not write in this book; for I have written as many of
them as were expedient for me in mine other book.
 
1 Nephi 10:16 And all these things, of which I have spoken, were
done as my father dwelt in a tent, in the valley of Lemuel.
 
1 Nephi 10:17 And it came to pass after I, Nephi, having heard
all the words of my father, concerning the things which he saw in
a vision, and also the things which he spake by the power of the
Holy Ghost, which power he received by faith on the Son of God--
and the Son of God was the Messiah who should come--I, Nephi, was
desirous also that I might see, and hear, and know of these
things, by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is the gift of God
unto all those who diligently seek him, as well in times of old
as in the time that he should manifest himself unto the children
of men.
 
1 Nephi 10:18 For he is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever;
and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the
world, if it so be that they repent and come unto him.
 
1 Nephi 10:19 For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the
mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the
Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as
well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course
of the Lord is one eternal round.
 
1 Nephi 10:20 Therefore remember, O man, for all thy doings thou
shalt be brought into judgment.
 
1 Nephi 10:21 Wherefore, if ye have sought to do wickedly in the
days of your probation, then ye are found unclean before the
judgment-seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God;
wherefore, ye must be cast off forever.
 
1 Nephi 10:22 And the Holy Ghost giveth authority that I should
speak these things, and deny them not.
 
1 Nephi 11:0 Nephi and the Spirit of the Lord--Lehi's prophetic
dream interpreted--Nephi's vision of the Virgin and the Son of
God--Christ's ministry foreshown.
 
1 Nephi 11:1 For it came to pass after I had desired to know the
things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was
able to make them known unto me, as I sat pondering in mine heart
I was caught away in the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an
exceedingly high mountain, which I never had before seen, and
upon which I never had before set my foot.
 
1 Nephi 11:2 And the Spirit said unto me: Behold, what desirest
thou?
 
1 Nephi 11:3 And I said: I desire to behold the things which my
father saw.
 
1 Nephi 11:4 And the Spirit said unto me: Believest thou that thy
father saw the tree of which he hath spoken?
 
1 Nephi 11:5 And I said: Yea, thou knowest that I believe all the
words of my father.
 
1 Nephi 11:6 And when I had spoken these words, the Spirit cried
with a loud voice, saying: Hosanna to the Lord, the most high
God; for he is God over all the earth, yea, even above all. And
blessed art thou, Nephi, because thou believest in the Son of the
most high God; wherefore, thou shalt behold the things which thou
hast desired.
 
1 Nephi 11:7 And behold this thing shall be given unto thee for a
sign, that after thou hast beheld the tree which bore the fruit
which thy father tasted, thou shalt also behold a man descending
out of heaven, and him shall ye witness; and after ye have
witnessed him ye shall bear record that it is the Son of God.
 
1 Nephi 11:8 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me:
Look! And I looked and beheld a tree; and it was like unto the
tree which my father had seen; and the beauty thereof was far
beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty; and the whiteness thereof
did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow.
 
1 Nephi 11:9 And it came to pass after I had seen the tree, I
said unto the Spirit: I behold thou hast shown unto me the tree
which is precious above all.
 
1 Nephi 11:10 And he said unto me: What desirest thou?
 
1 Nephi 11:11 And I said unto him: To know the interpretation
thereof--for I spake unto him as a man speaketh; for I beheld
that he was in the form of a man; yet nevertheless, I knew that
it was the Spirit of the Lord; and he spake unto me as a man
speaketh with another.
 
1 Nephi 11:12 And it came to pass that he said unto me: Look! And
I looked as if to look upon him, and I saw him not; for he had
gone from before my presence.
 
1 Nephi 11:13 And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the
great city of Jerusalem, and also other cities. And I beheld the
city of Nazareth; and in the city of Nazareth I beheld a virgin,
and she was exceedingly fair and white.
 
1 Nephi 11:14 And it came to pass that I saw the heavens open;
and an angel came down and stood before me; and he said unto me:
Nephi, what beholdest thou?
 
1 Nephi 11:15 And I said unto him: A virgin, most beautiful and
fair above all other virgins.
 
1 Nephi 11:16 And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension
of God?
 
1 Nephi 11:17 And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his
children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.
 
1 Nephi 11:18 And he said unto me: Behold, the virgin whom thou
seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the
flesh.
 
1 Nephi 11:19 And it came to pass that I beheld that she was
carried away in the Spirit; and after she had been carried away
in the Spirit for the space of a time the angel spake unto me,
saying: Look!
 
1 Nephi 11:20 And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a
child in her arms.
 
1 Nephi 11:21 And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God,
yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father! Knowest thou the meaning
of the tree which thy father saw?
 
1 Nephi 11:22 And I answered him, saying: Yea, it is the love of
God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children
of men; wherefore, it is the most desirable above all things.
 
1 Nephi 11:23 And he spake unto me, saying: Yea, and the most
joyous to the soul.
 
1 Nephi 11:24 And after he had said these words, he said unto me:
Look! And I looked, and I beheld the Son of God going forth among
the children of men; and I saw many fall down at his feet and
worship him.
 
1 Nephi 11:25 And it came to pass that I beheld that the rod of
iron, which my father had seen, was the word of God, which led to
the fountain of living waters, or to the tree of life; which
waters are a representation of the love of God; and I also beheld
that the tree of life was a representation of the love of God.
 
1 Nephi 11:26 And the angel said unto me again: Look and behold
the condescension of God!
 
1 Nephi 11:27 And I looked and beheld the Redeemer of the world,
of whom my father had spoken; and I also beheld the prophet who
should prepare the way before him. And the Lamb of God went forth
and was baptized of him; and after he was baptized, I beheld the
heavens open, and the Holy Ghost come down out of heaven and
abide upon him in the form of a dove.
 
1 Nephi 11:28 And I beheld that he went forth ministering unto
the people, in power and great glory; and the multitudes were
gathered together to hear him; and I beheld that they cast him
out from among them.
 
1 Nephi 11:29 And I also beheld twelve others following him. And
it came to pass that they were carried away in the Spirit from
before my face, and I saw them not.
 
1 Nephi 11:30 And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me
again, saying: Look! And I looked, and I beheld the heavens open
again, and I saw angels descending upon the children of men; and
they did minister unto them.
 
1 Nephi 11:31 And he spake unto me again, saying: Look! And I
looked, and I beheld the Lamb of God going forth among the
children of men. And I beheld multitudes of people who were sick,
and who were afflicted with all manner of diseases, and with
devils and unclean spirits; and the angel spake and showed all
these things unto me. And they were healed by the power of the
Lamb of God; and the devils and the unclean spirits were cast
out.
 
1 Nephi 11:32 And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me
again, saying: Look! And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God,
that he was taken by the people; yea, the Son of the everlasting
God was judged of the world; and I saw and bear record.
 
1 Nephi 11:33 And I, Nephi, saw that he was lifted up upon the
cross and slain for the sins of the world.
 
1 Nephi 11:34 And after he was slain I saw the multitudes of the
earth, that they were gathered together to fight against the
apostles of the Lamb; for thus were the twelve called by the
angel of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 11:35 And the multitude of the earth was gathered
together; and I beheld that they were in a large and spacious
building, like unto the building which my father saw. And the
angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Behold the world
and the wisdom thereof; yea, behold the house of Israel hath
gathered together to fight against the twelve apostles of the
Lamb.
 
1 Nephi 11:36 And it came to pass that I saw and bear record,
that the great and spacious building was the pride of the world;
and it fell, and the fall thereof was exceedingly great. And the
angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Thus shall be the
destruction of all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, that
shall fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
 
1 Nephi 12:0 Nephi's vision of the land of promise--The future
appearing of the Savior to the people of Nephi--Their
righteousness, iniquity, and downfall foreseen.
 
1 Nephi 12:1 And it came to pass that the angel said unto me:
Look, and behold thy seed, and also the seed of thy brethren. And
I looked and beheld the land of promise; and I beheld multitudes
of people, yea, even as it were in number as many as the sand of
the sea.
 
1 Nephi 12:2 And it came to pass that I beheld multitudes
gathered together to battle, one against the other; and I beheld
wars, and rumors of wars, and great slaughters with the sword
among my people.
 
1 Nephi 12:3 And it came to pass that I beheld many generations
pass away, after the manner of wars and contentions in the land;
and I beheld many cities, yea, even that I did not number them.
 
1 Nephi 12:4 And it came to pass that I saw a mist of darkness on
the face of the land of promise; and I saw lightnings, and I
heard thunderings, and earthquakes, and all manner of tumultuous
noises; and I saw the earth and the rocks, that they rent; and I
saw mountains tumbling into pieces; and I saw the plains of the
earth, that they were broken up; and I saw many cities that they
were sunk; and I saw many that they were burned with fire; and I
saw many that did tumble to the earth, because of the quaking
thereof.
 
1 Nephi 12:5 And it came to pass after I saw these things, I saw
the vapor of darkness, that it passed from off the face of the
earth; and behold, I saw multitudes who had not fallen because of
the great and terrible judgments of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 12:6 And I saw the heavens open, and the Lamb of God
descending out of heaven; and he came down and showed himself
unto them.
 
1 Nephi 12:7 And I also saw and bear record that the Holy Ghost
fell upon twelve others; and they were ordained of God, and
chosen.
 
1 Nephi 12:8 And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the
twelve disciples of the Lamb, who are chosen to minister unto thy
seed.
 
1 Nephi 12:9 And he said unto me: Thou rememberest the twelve
apostles of the Lamb? Behold they are they who shall judge the
twelve tribes of Israel; wherefore, the twelve ministers of thy
seed shall be judged of them; for ye are of the house of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 12:10 And these twelve ministers whom thou beholdest
shall judge thy seed. And, behold, they are righteous forever;
for because of their faith in the Lamb of God their garments are
made white in his blood.
 
1 Nephi 12:11 And the angel said unto me: Look! And I looked, and
beheld three generations pass away in righteousness; and their
garments were white even like unto the Lamb of God. And the angel
said unto me: These are made white in the blood of the Lamb,
because of their faith in him.
 
1 Nephi 12:12 And I, Nephi, also saw many of the fourth
generation who passed away in righteousness.
 
1 Nephi 12:13 And it came to pass that I saw the multitudes of
the earth gathered together.
 
1 Nephi 12:14 And the angel said unto me: Behold thy seed, and
also the seed of thy brethren.
 
1 Nephi 12:15 And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the
people of my seed gathered together in multitudes against the
seed of my brethren; and they were gathered together to battle.
 
1 Nephi 12:16 And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the
fountain of filthy water which thy father saw; yea, even the
river of which he spake; and the depths thereof are the depths of
hell.
 
1 Nephi 12:17 And the mists of darkness are the temptations of
the devil, which blindeth the eyes, and hardeneth the hearts of
the children of men, and leadeth them away into broad roads, that
they perish and are lost.
 
1 Nephi 12:18 And the large and spacious building, which thy
father saw, is vain imaginations and the pride of the children of
men. And a great and a terrible gulf divideth them; yea, even the
word of the justice of the Eternal God, and the Messiah who is
the Lamb of God, of whom the Holy Ghost beareth record, from the
beginning of the world until this time, and from this time
henceforth and forever.
 
1 Nephi 12:19 And while the angel spake these words, I beheld and
saw that the seed of my brethren did contend against my seed,
according to the word of the angel; and because of the pride of
my seed, and the temptations of the devil, I beheld that the seed
of my brethren did overpower the people of my seed.
 
1 Nephi 12:20 And it came to pass that I beheld, and saw the
people of the seed of my brethren that they had overcome my seed;
and they went forth in multitudes upon the face of the land.
 
1 Nephi 12:21 And I saw them gathered together in multitudes; and
I saw wars and rumors of wars among them; and in wars and rumors
of wars I saw many generations pass away.
 
1 Nephi 12:22 And the angel said unto me: Behold these shall
dwindle in unbelief.
 
1 Nephi 12:23 And it came to pass that I beheld, after they had
dwindled in unbelief they became a dark, and loathsome, and a
filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of abominations.
 
1 Nephi 13:0 The nations of the Gentiles--A great and abominable
church--America's history foreshadowed--The Bible and the Book of
Mormon.
 
1 Nephi 13:1 And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me,
saying: Look! And I looked and beheld many nations and kingdoms.
 
1 Nephi 13:2 And the angel said unto me: What beholdest thou? And
I said: I behold many nations and kingdoms.
 
1 Nephi 13:3 And he said unto me: These are the nations and
kingdoms of the Gentiles.
 
1 Nephi 13:4 And it came to pass that I saw among the nations of
the Gentiles the formation of a great church.
 
1 Nephi 13:5 And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of
a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which
slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth
them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them
down into captivity.
 
1 Nephi 13:6 And it came to pass that I beheld this great and
abominable church; and I saw the devil that he was the founder of
it.
 
1 Nephi 13:7 And I also saw gold, and silver, and silks, and
scarlets, and fine-twined linen, and all manner of precious
clothing; and I saw many harlots.
 
1 Nephi 13:8 And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the
gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the
fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots,
are the desires of this great and abominable church.
 
1 Nephi 13:9 And also for the praise of the world do they destroy
the saints of God, and bring them down into captivity.
 
1 Nephi 13:10 And it came to pass that I looked and beheld many
waters; and they divided the Gentiles from the seed of my
brethren.
 
1 Nephi 13:11 And it came to pass that the angel said unto me:
Behold the wrath of God is upon the seed of thy brethren.
 
1 Nephi 13:12 And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles,
who was separated from the seed of my brethren by the many
waters; and I beheld the Spirit of God, that it came down and
wrought upon the man; and he went forth upon the many waters,
even unto the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land.
 
1 Nephi 13:13 And it came to pass that I beheld the Spirit of
God, that it wrought upon other Gentiles; and they went forth out
of captivity, upon the many waters.
 
1 Nephi 13:14 And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes
of the Gentiles upon the land of promise; and I beheld the wrath
of God, that it was upon the seed of my brethren; and they were
scattered before the Gentiles and were smitten.
 
1 Nephi 13:15 And I beheld the Spirit of the Lord, that it was
upon the Gentiles, and they did prosper and obtain the land for
their inheritance; and I beheld that they were white, and
exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people before they
were slain.
 
1 Nephi 13:16 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that the
Gentiles who had gone forth out of captivity did humble
themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with
them.
 
1 Nephi 13:17 And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were
gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to
battle against them.
 
1 Nephi 13:18 And I beheld that the power of God was with them,
and also that the wrath of God was upon all those that were
gathered together against them to battle.
 
1 Nephi 13:19 And I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles that had
gone out of captivity were delivered by the power of God out of
the hands of all other nations.
 
1 Nephi 13:20 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that they
did prosper in the land; and I beheld a book, and it was carried
forth among them.
 
1 Nephi 13:21 And the angel said unto me: Knowest thou the
meaning of the book?
 
1 Nephi 13:22 And I said unto him: I know not.
 
1 Nephi 13:23 And he said: Behold it proceedeth out of the mouth
of a Jew. And I, Nephi, beheld it; and he said unto me: The book
that thou beholdest is a record of the Jews, which contains the
covenants of the Lord, which he hath made unto the house of
Israel; and it also containeth many of the prophecies of the holy
prophets; and it is a record like unto the engravings which are
upon the plates of brass, save there are not so many;
nevertheless, they contain the covenants of the Lord, which he
hath made unto the house of Israel; wherefore, they are of great
worth unto the Gentiles.
 
1 Nephi 13:24 And the angel of the Lord said unto me: Thou hast
beheld that the book proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew; and
when it proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew it contained the
fulness of the gospel of the Lord, of whom the twelve apostles
bear record; and they bear record according to the truth which is
in the Lamb of God.
 
1 Nephi 13:25 Wherefore, these things go forth from the Jews in
purity unto the Gentiles, according to the truth which is in God.
 
1 Nephi 13:26 And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest
the formation of a great and abominable church, which is most
abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken
away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and
most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they
taken away.
 
1 Nephi 13:27 And all this have they done that they might pervert
the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and
harden the hearts of the children of men.
 
1 Nephi 13:28 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone
forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that
there are many plain and precious things taken away from the
book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.
 
1 Nephi 13:29 And after these plain and precious things were
taken away it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles;
and after it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles,
yea, even across the many waters which thou hast seen with the
Gentiles which have gone forth out of captivity, thou seest--
because of the many plain and precious things which have been
taken out of the book, which were plain unto the understanding of
the children of men, according to the plainness which is in the
Lamb of God--because of these things which are taken away out of
the gospel of the Lamb, an exceedingly great many do stumble,
yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.
 
1 Nephi 13:30 Nevertheless, thou beholdest that the Gentiles who
have gone forth out of captivity, and have been lifted up by the
power of God above all other nations, upon the face of the land
which is choice above all other lands, which is the land that the
Lord God hath covenanted with thy father that his seed should
have for the land of their inheritance; wherefore, thou seest
that the Lord God will not suffer that the Gentiles will utterly
destroy the mixture of thy seed, which are among thy brethren.
 
1 Nephi 13:31 Neither will he suffer that the Gentiles shall
destroy the seed of thy brethren.
 
1 Nephi 13:32 Neither will the Lord God suffer that the Gentiles
shall forever remain in that awful state of blindness, which thou
beholdest they are in, because of the plain and most precious
parts of the gospel of the Lamb which have been kept back by that
abominable church, whose formation thou hast seen.
 
1 Nephi 13:33 Wherefore saith the Lamb of God: I will be merciful
unto the Gentiles, unto the visiting of the remnant of the house
of Israel in great judgment.
 
1 Nephi 13:34 And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord
spake unto me, saying: Behold, saith the Lamb of God, after I
have visited the remnant of the house of Israel--and this remnant
of whom I speak is the seed of thy father--wherefore, after I
have visited them in judgment, and smitten them by the hand of
the Gentiles, and after the Gentiles do stumble exceedingly,
because of the most plain and precious parts of the gospel of the
Lamb which have been kept back by that abominable church, which
is the mother of harlots, saith the Lamb--I will be merciful unto
the Gentiles in that day, insomuch that I will bring forth unto
them, in mine own power, much of my gospel, which shall be plain
and precious, saith the Lamb.
 
1 Nephi 13:35 For, behold, saith the Lamb: I will manifest myself
unto thy seed, that they shall write many things which I shall
minister unto them, which shall be plain and precious; and after
thy seed shall be destroyed, and dwindle in unbelief, and also
the seed of thy brethren, behold, these things shall be hid up,
to come forth unto the Gentiles, by the gift and power of the
Lamb.
 
1 Nephi 13:36 And in them shall be written my gospel, saith the
Lamb, and my rock and my salvation.
 
1 Nephi 13:37 And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth
my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power
of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be
lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting
kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings
of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be.
 
1 Nephi 13:38 And it came to pass that I beheld the remnant of
the seed of my brethren, and also the book of the Lamb of God,
which had proceeded forth from the mouth of the Jew, that it came
forth from the Gentiles unto the remnant of the seed of my
brethren.
 
1 Nephi 13:39 And after it had come forth unto them I beheld
other books, which came forth by the power of the Lamb, from the
Gentiles unto them, unto the convincing of the Gentiles and the
remnant of the seed of my brethren, and also the Jews who were
scattered upon all the face of the earth, that the records of the
prophets and of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are true.
 
1 Nephi 13:40 And the angel spake unto me, saying: These last
records, which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall establish
the truth of the first, which are of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb, and shall make known the plain and precious things which
have been taken away from them; and shall make known to all
kindreds, tongues, and people, that the Lamb of God is the Son of
the Eternal Father, and the Savior of the world; and that all men
must come unto him, or they cannot be saved.
 
1 Nephi 13:41 And they must come according to the words which
shall be established by the mouth of the Lamb; and the words of
the Lamb shall be made known in the records of thy seed, as well
as in the records of the twelve apostles of the Lamb; wherefore
they both shall be established in one; for there is one God and
one Shepherd over all the earth.
 
1 Nephi 13:42 And the time cometh that he shall manifest himself
unto all nations, both unto the Jews and also unto the Gentiles;
and after he has manifested himself unto the Jews and also unto
the Gentiles, then he shall manifest himself unto the Gentiles
and also unto the Jews, and the last shall be first, and the
first shall be last.
 
1 Nephi 14:0 Alternative blessing or cursing for the Gentiles--
Two churches only--Doom of the mother of harlots--Mission of John
the Revelator--End of Nephi's vision.
 
1 Nephi 14:1 And it shall come to pass, that if the Gentiles
shall hearken unto the Lamb of God in that day that he shall
manifest himself unto them in word, and also in power, in very
deed, unto the taking away of their stumbling blocks-- 
 
1 Nephi 14:2 And harden not their hearts against the Lamb of God,
they shall be numbered among the seed of thy father; yea, they
shall be numbered among the house of Israel; and they shall be a
blessed people upon the promised land forever; they shall be no
more brought down into captivity; and the house of Israel shall
no more be confounded.
 
1 Nephi 14:3 And that great pit, which hath been digged for them
by that great and abominable church, which was founded by the
devil and his children, that he might lead away the souls of men
down to hell--yea, that great pit which hath been digged for the
destruction of men shall be filled by those who digged it, unto
their utter destruction, saith the Lamb of God; not the
destruction of the soul, save it be the casting of it into that
hell which hath no end.
 
1 Nephi 14:4 For behold, this is according to the captivity of
the devil, and also according to the justice of God, upon all
those who will work wickedness and abomination before him.
 
1 Nephi 14:5 And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me,
Nephi, saying: Thou hast beheld that if the Gentiles repent it
shall be well with them; and thou also knowest concerning the
covenants of the Lord unto the house of Israel; and thou also
hast heard that whoso repenteth not must perish.
 
1 Nephi 14:6 Therefore, wo be unto the Gentiles if it so be that
they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God.
 
1 Nephi 14:7 For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I
will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men;
a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on
the other--either to the convincing of them unto peace and life
eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their
hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought
down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally
and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of
which I have spoken.
 
1 Nephi 14:8 And it came to pass that when the angel had spoken
these words, he said unto me: Rememberest thou the covenants of
the Father unto the house of Israel? I said unto him, Yea.
 
1 Nephi 14:9 And it came to pass that he said unto me: Look, and
behold that great and abominable church, which is the mother of
abominations, whose founder is the devil.
 
1 Nephi 14:10 And he said unto me: Behold there are save two
churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the
other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not
to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church,
which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all
the earth.
 
1 Nephi 14:11 And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the
whore of all the earth, and she sat upon many waters; and she had
dominion over all the earth, among all nations, kindreds,
tongues, and people.
 
1 Nephi 14:12 And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the
Lamb of God, and its numbers were few, because of the wickedness
and abominations of the whore who sat upon many waters;
nevertheless, I beheld that the church of the Lamb, who were the
saints of God, were also upon all the face of the earth; and
their dominions upon the face of the earth were small, because of
the wickedness of the great whore whom I saw.
 
1 Nephi 14:13 And it came to pass that I beheld that the great
mother of abominations did gather together multitudes upon the
face of all the earth, among all the nations of the Gentiles, to
fight against the Lamb of God.
 
1 Nephi 14:14 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power
of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the
church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who
were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were
armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great
glory.
 
1 Nephi 14:15 And it came to pass that I beheld that the wrath of
God was poured out upon that great and abominable church,
insomuch that there were wars and rumors of wars among all the
nations and kindreds of the earth.
 
1 Nephi 14:16 And as there began to be wars and rumors of wars
among all the nations which belonged to the mother of
abominations, the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold, the wrath
of God is upon the mother of harlots; and behold, thou seest all
these things-- 
 
1 Nephi 14:17 And when the day cometh that the wrath of God is
poured out upon the mother of harlots, which is the great and
abominable church of all the earth, whose founder is the devil,
then, at that day, the work of the Father shall commence, in
preparing the way for the fulfilling of his covenants, which he
hath made to his people who are of the house of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 14:18 And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me,
saying: Look!
 
1 Nephi 14:19 And I looked and beheld a man, and he was dressed
in a white robe.
 
1 Nephi 14:20 And the angel said unto me: Behold one of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb.
 
1 Nephi 14:21 Behold, he shall see and write the remainder of
these things; yea, and also many things which have been.
 
1 Nephi 14:22 And he shall also write concerning the end of the
world.
 
1 Nephi 14:23 Wherefore, the things which he shall write are just
and true; and behold they are written in the book which thou
beheld proceeding out of the mouth of the Jew; and at the time
they proceeded out of the mouth of the Jew, or, at the time the
book proceeded out of the mouth of the Jew, the things which were
written were plain and pure, and most precious and easy to the
understanding of all men.
 
1 Nephi 14:24 And behold, the things which this apostle of the
Lamb shall write are many things which thou hast seen; and
behold, the remainder shalt thou see.
 
1 Nephi 14:25 But the things which thou shalt see hereafter thou
shalt not write; for the Lord God hath ordained the apostle of
the Lamb of God that he should write them.
 
1 Nephi 14:26 And also others who have been, to them hath he
shown all things, and they have written them; and they are sealed
up to come forth in their purity, according to the truth which is
in the Lamb, in the own due time of the Lord, unto the house of
Israel.
 
1 Nephi 14:27 And I, Nephi, heard and bear record, that the name
of the apostle of the Lamb was John, according to the word of the
angel.
 
1 Nephi 14:28 And behold, I, Nephi, am forbidden that I should
write the remainder of the things which I saw and heard;
wherefore the things which I have written sufficeth me; and I
have written but a small part of the things which I saw.
 
1 Nephi 14:29 And I bear record that I saw the things which my
father saw, and the angel of the Lord did make them known unto
me.
 
1 Nephi 14:30 And now I make an end of speaking concerning the
things which I saw while I was carried away in the spirit; and if
all the things which I saw are not written, the things which I
have written are true. And thus it is. Amen.
 
1 Nephi 15:0 Lehi's teachings interpreted by Nephi--The olive-
tree--The tree of life--The word of God.
 
1 Nephi 15:1 And it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had been
carried away in the spirit, and seen all these things, I returned
to the tent of my father.
 
1 Nephi 15:2 And it came to pass that I beheld my brethren, and
they were disputing one with another concerning the things which
my father had spoken unto them.
 
1 Nephi 15:3 For he truly spake many great things unto them,
which were hard to be understood, save a man should inquire of
the Lord; and they being hard in their hearts, therefore they did
not look unto the Lord as they ought.
 
1 Nephi 15:4 And now I, Nephi, was grieved because of the
hardness of their hearts, and also, because of the things which I
had seen, and knew they must unavoidably come to pass because of
the great wickedness of the children of men.
 
1 Nephi 15:5 And it came to pass that I was overcome because of
my afflictions, for I considered that mine afflictions were great
above all, because of the destruction of my people, for I had
beheld their fall.
 
1 Nephi 15:6 And it came to pass that after I had received
strength I spake unto my brethren, desiring to know of them the
cause of their disputations.
 
1 Nephi 15:7 And they said: Behold, we cannot understand the
words which our father hath spoken concerning the natural
branches of the olive-tree, and also concerning the Gentiles.
 
1 Nephi 15:8 And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord?
 
1 Nephi 15:9 And they said unto me: We have not; for the Lord
maketh no such thing known unto us.
 
1 Nephi 15:10 Behold, I said unto them: How is it that ye do not
keep the commandments of the Lord? How is it that ye will perish,
because of the hardness of your hearts?
 
1 Nephi 15:11 Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath
said? --If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith,
believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my
commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you.
 
1 Nephi 15:12 Behold, I say unto you, that the house of Israel
was compared unto an olive-tree, by the Spirit of the Lord which
was in our father; and behold are we not broken off from the
house of Israel, and are we not a branch of the house of Israel?
 
1 Nephi 15:13 And now, the thing which our father meaneth
concerning the grafting in of the natural branches through the
fulness of the Gentiles, is, that in the latter days, when our
seed shall have dwindled in unbelief, yea, for the space of many
years, and many generations after the Messiah shall be manifested
in body unto the children of men, then shall the fulness of the
gospel of the Messiah come unto the Gentiles, and from the
Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed-- 
 
1 Nephi 15:14 And at that day shall the remnant of our seed know
that they are of the house of Israel, and that they are the
covenant people of the Lord; and then shall they know and come to
the knowledge of their forefathers, and also to the knowledge of
the gospel of their Redeemer, which was ministered unto their
fathers by him; wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of
their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine, that they may
know how to come unto him and be saved.
 
1 Nephi 15:15 And then at that day will they not rejoice and give
praise unto their everlasting God, their rock and their
salvation? Yea, at that day, will they not receive the strength
and nourishment from the true vine? Yea, will they not come unto
the true fold of God?
 
1 Nephi 15:16 Behold, I say unto you, Yea; they shall be
remembered again among the house of Israel; they shall be grafted
in, being a natural branch of the olive-tree, into the true
olive-tree.
 
1 Nephi 15:17 And this is what our father meaneth; and he meaneth
that it will not come to pass until after they are scattered by
the Gentiles; and he meaneth that it shall come by way of the
Gentiles, that the Lord may show his power unto the Gentiles, for
the very cause that he shall be rejected of the Jews, or of the
house of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 15:18 Wherefore, our father hath not spoken of our seed
alone, but also of all the house of Israel, pointing to the
covenant which should be fulfilled in the latter days; which
covenant the Lord made to our father Abraham, saying: In thy seed
shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
 
1 Nephi 15:19 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, spake much unto
them concerning these things; yea, I spake unto them concerning
the restoration of the Jews in the latter days.
 
1 Nephi 15:20 And I did rehearse unto them the words of Isaiah,
who spake concerning the restoration of the Jews, or of the house
of Israel; and after they were restored they should no more be
confounded, neither should they be scattered again. And it came
to pass that I did speak many words unto my brethren, that they
were pacified and did humble themselves before the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 15:21 And it came to pass that they did speak unto me
again, saying: What meaneth this thing which our father saw in a
dream? What meaneth the tree which he saw?
 
1 Nephi 15:22 And I said unto them: It was a representation of
the tree of life.
 
1 Nephi 15:23 And they said unto me: What meaneth the rod of iron
which our father saw, that led to the tree?
 
1 Nephi 15:24 And I said unto them that it was the word of God;
and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast
unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations
and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto
blindness, to lead them away to destruction.
 
1 Nephi 15:25 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give heed
unto the word of the Lord; yea, I did exhort them with all the
energies of my soul, and with all the faculty which I possessed,
that they would give heed to the word of God and remember to keep
his commandments always in all things.
 
1 Nephi 15:26 And they said unto me: What meaneth the river of
water which our father saw?
 
1 Nephi 15:27 And I said unto them that the water which my father
saw was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in
other things that he beheld not the filthiness of the water.
 
1 Nephi 15:28 And I said unto them that it was an awful gulf,
which separated the wicked from the tree of life, and also from
the saints of God.
 
1 Nephi 15:29 And I said unto them that it was a representation
of that awful hell, which the angel said unto me was prepared for
the wicked.
 
1 Nephi 15:30 And I said unto them that our father also saw that
the justice of God did also divide the wicked from the righteous;
and the brightness thereof was like unto the brightness of a
flaming fire, which ascendeth up unto God forever and ever, and
hath no end.
 
1 Nephi 15:31 And they said unto me: Doth this thing mean the
torment of the body in the days of probation, or doth it mean the
final state of the soul after the death of the temporal body, or
doth it speak of the things which are temporal?
 
1 Nephi 15:32 And it came to pass that I said unto them that it
was a representation of things both temporal and spiritual; for
the day should come that they must be judged of their works, yea,
even the works which were done by the temporal body in their days
of probation.
 
1 Nephi 15:33 Wherefore, if they should die in their wickedness
they must be cast off also, as to the things which are spiritual,
which are pertaining to righteousness; wherefore, they must be
brought to stand before God, to be judged of their works; and if
their works have been filthiness they must needs be filthy; and
if they be filthy it must needs be that they cannot dwell in the
kingdom of God; if so, the kingdom of God must be filthy also.
 
1 Nephi 15:34 But behold, I say unto you, the kingdom of God is
not filthy, and there cannot any unclean thing enter into the
kingdom of God; wherefore there must needs be a place of
filthiness prepared for that which is filthy.
 
1 Nephi 15:35 And there is a place prepared, yea, even that awful
hell of which I have spoken, and the devil is the preparator of
it; wherefore the final state of the souls of men is to dwell in
the kingdom of God, or to be cast out because of that justice of
which I have spoken.
 
1 Nephi 15:36 Wherefore, the wicked are rejected from the
righteous, and also from that tree of life, whose fruit is most
precious and most desirable above all other fruits; yea, and it
is the greatest of all the gifts of God. And thus I spake unto my
brethren. Amen.
 
1 Nephi 16:0 Lehi's sons and the daughters of Ishmael intermarry-
-The journey continued--The ball or director given--Death of
Ishmael.
 
1 Nephi 16:1 And now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had
made an end of speaking to my brethren, behold they said unto me:
Thou hast declared unto us hard things, more than we are able to
bear.
 
1 Nephi 16:2 And it came to pass that I said unto them that I
knew that I had spoken hard things against the wicked, according
to the truth; and the righteous have I justified, and testified
that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the
guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the
very center.
 
1 Nephi 16:3 And now my brethren, if ye were righteous and were
willing to hearken to the truth, and give heed unto it, that ye
might walk uprightly before God, then ye would not murmur because
of the truth, and say: Thou speakest hard things against us.
 
1 Nephi 16:4 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did exhort my
brethren, with all diligence, to keep the commandments of the
Lord.
 
1 Nephi 16:5 And it came to pass that they did humble themselves
before the Lord; insomuch that I had joy and great hopes of them,
that they would walk in the paths of righteousness.
 
1 Nephi 16:6 Now, all these things were said and done as my
father dwelt in a tent in the valley which he called Lemuel.
 
1 Nephi 16:7 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, took one of the
daughters of Ishmael to wife; and also, my brethren took of the
daughters of Ishmael to wife; and also Zoram took the eldest
daughter of Ishmael to wife.
 
1 Nephi 16:8 And thus my father had fulfilled all the
commandments of the Lord which had been given unto him. And also,
I, Nephi, had been blessed of the Lord exceedingly.
 
1 Nephi 16:9 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord spake
unto my father by night, and commanded him that on the morrow he
should take his journey into the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 16:10 And it came to pass that as my father arose in the
morning, and went forth to the tent door, to his great
astonishment he beheld upon the ground a round ball of curious
workmanship; and it was of fine brass. And within the ball were
two spindles; and the one pointed the way whither we should go
into the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 16:11 And it came to pass that we did gather together
whatsoever things we should carry into the wilderness, and all
the remainder of our provisions which the Lord had given unto us;
and we did take seed of every kind that we might carry into the
wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 16:12 And it came to pass that we did take our tents and
depart into the wilderness, across the river Laman.
 
1 Nephi 16:13 And it came to pass that we traveled for the space
of four days, nearly a south-southeast direction, and we did
pitch our tents again; and we did call the name of the place
Shazer.
 
1 Nephi 16:14 And it came to pass that we did take our bows and
our arrows, and go forth into the wilderness to slay food for our
families; and after we had slain food for our families we did
return again to our families in the wilderness, to the place of
Shazer. And we did go forth again in the wilderness, following
the same direction, keeping in the most fertile parts of the
wilderness, which were in the borders near the Red Sea.
 
1 Nephi 16:15 And it came to pass that we did travel for the
space of many days, slaying food by the way, with our bows and
our arrows and our stones and our slings.
 
1 Nephi 16:16 And we did follow the directions of the ball, which
led us in the more fertile parts of the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 16:17 And after we had traveled for the space of many
days, we did pitch our tents for the space of a time, that we
might again rest ourselves and obtain food for our families.
 
1 Nephi 16:18 And it came to pass that as I, Nephi, went forth to
slay food, behold, I did break my bow, which was made of fine
steel; and after I did break my bow, behold, my brethren were
angry with me because of the loss of my bow, for we did obtain no
food.
 
1 Nephi 16:19 And it came to pass that we did return without food
to our families, and being much fatigued, because of their
journeying, they did suffer much for the want of food.
 
1 Nephi 16:20 And it came to pass that Laman and Lemuel and the
sons of Ishmael did begin to murmur exceedingly, because of their
sufferings and afflictions in the wilderness; and also my father
began to murmur against the Lord his God; yea, and they were all
exceedingly sorrowful, even that they did murmur against the
Lord.
 
1 Nephi 16:21 Now it came to pass that I, Nephi, having been
afflicted with my brethren because of the loss of my bow, and
their bows having lost their springs, it began to be exceedingly
difficult, yea, insomuch that we could obtain no food.
 
1 Nephi 16:22 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did speak much
unto my brethren, because they had hardened their hearts again,
even unto complaining against the Lord their God.
 
1 Nephi 16:23 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did make out of
wood a bow, and out of a straight stick, an arrow; wherefore, I
did arm myself with a bow and an arrow, with a sling and with
stones. And I said unto my father: Whither shall I go to obtain
food?
 
1 Nephi 16:24 And it came to pass that he did inquire of the
Lord, for they had humbled themselves because of my words; for I
did say many things unto them in the energy of my soul.
 
1 Nephi 16:25 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came
unto my father; and he was truly chastened because of his
murmuring against the Lord, insomuch that he was brought down
into the depths of sorrow.
 
1 Nephi 16:26 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord said
unto him: Look upon the ball, and behold the things which are
written.
 
1 Nephi 16:27 And it came to pass that when my father beheld the
things which were written upon the ball, he did fear and tremble
exceedingly, and also my brethren and the sons of Ishmael and our
wives.
 
1 Nephi 16:28 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the
pointers which were in the ball, that they did work according to
the faith and diligence and heed which we did give unto them.
 
1 Nephi 16:29 And there was also written upon them a new writing,
which was plain to be read, which did give us understanding
concerning the ways of the Lord; and it was written and changed
from time to time, according to the faith and diligence which we
gave unto it. And thus we see that by small means the Lord can
bring about great things.
 
1 Nephi 16:30 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did go forth up
into the top of the mountain, according to the directions which
were given upon the ball.
 
1 Nephi 16:31 And it came to pass that I did slay wild beasts,
insomuch that I did obtain food for our families.
 
1 Nephi 16:32 And it came to pass that I did return to our tents,
bearing the beasts which I had slain; and now when they beheld
that I had obtained food, how great was their joy! And it came to
pass that they did humble themselves before the Lord, and did
give thanks unto him.
 
1 Nephi 16:33 And it came to pass that we did again take our
journey, traveling nearly the same course as in the beginning;
and after we had traveled for the space of many days we did pitch
our tents again, that we might tarry for the space of a time.
 
1 Nephi 16:34 And it came to pass that Ishmael died, and was
buried in the place which was called Nahom.
 
1 Nephi 16:35 And it came to pass that the daughters of Ishmael
did mourn exceedingly, because of the loss of their father, and
because of their afflictions in the wilderness; and they did
murmur against my father, because he had brought them out of the
land of Jerusalem, saying: Our father is dead; yea, and we have
wandered much in the wilderness, and we have suffered much
affliction, hunger, thirst, and fatigue; and after all these
sufferings we must perish in the wilderness with hunger.
 
1 Nephi 16:36 And thus they did murmur against my father, and
also against me; and they were desirous to return again to
Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 16:37 And Laman said unto Lemuel and also unto the sons
of Ishmael: Behold, let us slay our father, and also our brother
Nephi, who has taken it upon him to be our ruler and our teacher,
who are his elder brethren.
 
1 Nephi 16:38 Now, he says that the Lord has talked with him, and
also that angels have ministered unto him. But behold, we know
that he lies unto us; and he tells us these things, and he
worketh many things by his cunning arts, that he may deceive our
eyes, thinking, perhaps, that he may lead us away into some
strange wilderness; and after he has led us away, he has thought
to make himself a king and a ruler over us, that he may do with
us according to his will and pleasure. And after this manner did
my brother Laman stir up their hearts to anger.
 
1 Nephi 16:39 And it came to pass that the Lord was with us, yea,
even the voice of the Lord came and did speak many words unto
them, and did chasten them exceedingly; and after they were
chastened by the voice of the Lord they did turn away their
anger, and did repent of their sins, insomuch that the Lord did
bless us again with food, that we did not perish.
 
1 Nephi 17:0 Irreantum or many waters--The Lord commands Nephi to
build a ship--His brethren oppose him and are confounded.
 
1 Nephi 17:1 And it came to pass that we did again take our
journey in the wilderness; and we did travel nearly eastward from
that time forth. And we did travel and wade through much
affliction in the wilderness; and our women did bear children in
the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 17:2 And so great were the blessings of the Lord upon us,
that while we did live upon raw meat in the wilderness, our women
did give plenty of suck for their children, and were strong, yea,
even like unto the men; and they began to bear their journeyings
without murmurings.
 
1 Nephi 17:3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be
fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the
commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them,
and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he
has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while
we did sojourn in the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 17:4 And we did sojourn for the space of many years, yea,
even eight years in the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 17:5 And we did come to the land which we called
Bountiful, because of its much fruit and also wild honey; and all
these things were prepared of the Lord that we might not perish.
And we beheld the sea, which we called Irreantum, which, being
interpreted, is many waters.
 
1 Nephi 17:6 And it came to pass that we did pitch our tents by
the seashore; and notwithstanding we had suffered many
afflictions and much difficulty, yea, even so much that we cannot
write them all, we were exceedingly rejoiced when we came to the
seashore; and we called the place Bountiful, because of its much
fruit.
 
1 Nephi 17:7 And it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had been in
the land of Bountiful for the space of many days, the voice of
the Lord came unto me, saying: Arise, and get thee into the
mountain. And it came to pass that I arose and went up into the
mountain, and cried unto the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 17:8 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me,
saying: Thou shalt construct a ship, after the manner which I
shall show thee, that I may carry thy people across these waters.
 
1 Nephi 17:9 And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I may find
ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after
the manner which thou hast shown unto me?
 
1 Nephi 17:10 And it came to pass that the Lord told me whither I
should go to find ore, that I might make tools.
 
1 Nephi 17:11 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did make a
bellows wherewith to blow the fire, of the skins of beasts; and
after I had made a bellows, that I might have wherewith to blow
the fire, I did smite two stones together that I might make fire.
 
1 Nephi 17:12 For the Lord had not hitherto suffered that we
should make much fire, as we journeyed in the wilderness; for he
said: I will make thy food become sweet, that ye cook it not;
 
1 Nephi 17:13 And I will also be your light in the wilderness;
and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall
keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my
commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye
shall know that it is by me that ye are led.
 
1 Nephi 17:14 Yea, and the Lord said also that: After ye have
arrived in the promised land, ye shall know that I, the Lord, am
God; and that I, the Lord, did deliver you from destruction; yea,
that I did bring you out of the land of Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 17:15 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did strive to keep the
commandments of the Lord, and I did exhort my brethren to
faithfulness and diligence.
 
1 Nephi 17:16 And it came to pass that I did make tools of the
ore which I did molten out of the rock.
 
1 Nephi 17:17 And when my brethren saw that I was about to build
a ship, they began to murmur against me, saying: Our brother is a
fool, for he thinketh that he can build a ship; yea, and he also
thinketh that he can cross these great waters.
 
1 Nephi 17:18 And thus my brethren did complain against me, and
were desirous that they might not labor, for they did not believe
that I could build a ship; neither would they believe that I was
instructed of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 17:19 And now it came to pass that I, Nephi, was
exceedingly sorrowful because of the hardness of their hearts;
and now when they saw that I began to be sorrowful they were glad
in their hearts, insomuch that they did rejoice over me, saying:
We knew that ye could not construct a ship, for we knew that ye
were lacking in judgment; wherefore, thou canst not accomplish so
great a work.
 
1 Nephi 17:20 And thou art like unto our father, led away by the
foolish imaginations of his heart; yea, he hath led us out of the
land of Jerusalem, and we have wandered in the wilderness for
these many years; and our women have toiled, being big with
child; and they have borne children in the wilderness and
suffered all things, save it were death; and it would have been
better that they had died before they came out of Jerusalem than
to have suffered these afflictions.
 
1 Nephi 17:21 Behold, these many years we have suffered in the
wilderness, which time we might have enjoyed our possessions and
the land of our inheritance; yea, and we might have been happy.
 
1 Nephi 17:22 And we know that the people who were in the land of
Jerusalem were a righteous people; for they kept the statutes and
judgments of the Lord, and all his commandments, according to the
law of Moses; wherefore, we know that they are a righteous
people; and our father hath judged them, and hath led us away
because we would hearken unto his words; yea, and our brother is
like unto him. And after this manner of language did my brethren
murmur and complain against us.
 
1 Nephi 17:23 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, spake unto them,
saying: Do ye believe that our fathers, who were the children of
Israel, would have been led away out of the hands of the
Egyptians if they had not hearkened unto the words of the Lord?
 
1 Nephi 17:24 Yea, do ye suppose that they would have been led
out of bondage, if the Lord had not commanded Moses that he
should lead them out of bondage?
 
1 Nephi 17:25 Now ye know that the children of Israel were in
bondage; and ye know that they were laden with tasks, which were
grievous to be borne; wherefore, ye know that it must needs be a
good thing for them, that they should be brought out of bondage.
 
1 Nephi 17:26 Now ye know that Moses was commanded of the Lord to
do that great work; and ye know that by his word the waters of
the Red Sea were divided hither and thither, and they passed
through on dry ground.
 
1 Nephi 17:27 But ye know that the Egyptians were drowned in the
Red Sea, who were the armies of Pharaoh.
 
1 Nephi 17:28 And ye also know that they were fed with manna in
the wilderness.
 
1 Nephi 17:29 Yea, and ye also know that Moses, by his word
according to the power of God which was in him, smote the rock,
and there came forth water, that the children of Israel might
quench their thirst.
 
1 Nephi 17:30 And notwithstanding they being led, the Lord their
God, their Redeemer, going before them, leading them by day and
giving light unto them by night, and doing all things for them
which were expedient for man to receive, they hardened their
hearts and blinded their minds, and reviled against Moses and
against the true and living God.
 
1 Nephi 17:31 And it came to pass that according to his word he
did destroy them; and according to his word he did lead them; and
according to his word he did do all things for them; and there
was not any thing done save it were by his word.
 
1 Nephi 17:32 And after they had crossed the river Jordan he did
make them mighty unto the driving out of the children of the
land, yea, unto the scattering them to destruction.
 
1 Nephi 17:33 And now, do ye suppose that the children of this
land, who were in the land of promise, who were driven out by our
fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous? Behold, I say
unto you, Nay.
 
1 Nephi 17:34 Do ye suppose that our fathers would have been more
choice than they if they had been righteous? I say unto you, Nay.
 
1 Nephi 17:35 Behold, the Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he
that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had
rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and
the fulness of the wrath of God was upon them; and the Lord did
curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea,
he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did
bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it.
 
1 Nephi 17:36 Behold, the Lord hath created the earth that it
should be inhabited; and he hath created his children that they
should possess it.
 
1 Nephi 17:37 And he raiseth up a righteous nation, and
destroyeth the nations of the wicked.
 
1 Nephi 17:38 And he leadeth away the righteous into precious
lands, and the wicked he destroyeth, and curseth the land unto
them for their sakes.
 
1 Nephi 17:39 He ruleth high in the heavens, for it is his
throne, and this earth is his footstool.
 
1 Nephi 17:40 And he loveth those who will have him to be their
God. Behold, he loved our fathers, and he covenanted with them,
yea, even Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he remembered the
covenants which he had made; wherefore, he did bring them out of
the land of Egypt.
 
1 Nephi 17:41 And he did straiten them in the wilderness with his
rod; for they hardened their hearts, even as ye have; and the
Lord straitened them because of their iniquity. He sent fiery
flying serpents among them; and after they were bitten he
prepared a way that they might be healed; and the labor which
they had to perform was to look; and because of the simpleness of
the way, or the easiness of it, there were many who perished.
 
1 Nephi 17:42 And they did harden their hearts from time to time,
and they did revile against Moses, and also against God;
nevertheless, ye know that they were led forth by his matchless
power into the land of promise.
 
1 Nephi 17:43 And now, after all these things, the time has come
that they have become wicked, yea, nearly unto ripeness; and I
know not but they are at this day about to be destroyed; for I
know that the day must surely come that they must be destroyed,
save a few only, who shall be led away into captivity.
 
1 Nephi 17:44 Wherefore, the Lord commanded my father that he
should depart into the wilderness; and the Jews also sought to
take away his life; yea, and ye also have sought to take away his
life; wherefore, ye are murderers in your hearts and ye are like
unto them.
 
1 Nephi 17:45 Ye are swift to do iniquity but slow to remember
the Lord your God. Ye have seen an angel, and he spake unto you;
yea, ye have heard his voice from time to time; and he hath
spoken unto you in a still small voice, but ye were past feeling,
that ye could not feel his words; wherefore, he has spoken unto
you like unto the voice of thunder, which did cause the earth to
shake as if it were to divide asunder.
 
1 Nephi 17:46 And ye also know that by the power of his almighty
word he can cause the earth that it shall pass away; yea, and ye
know that by his word he can cause the rough places to be made
smooth, and smooth places shall be broken up. O, then, why is it,
that ye can be so hard in your hearts?
 
1 Nephi 17:47 Behold, my soul is rent with anguish because of
you, and my heart is pained; I fear lest ye shall be cast off
forever. Behold, I am full of the Spirit of God, insomuch that my
frame has no strength.
 
1 Nephi 17:48 And now it came to pass that when I had spoken
these words they were angry with me, and were desirous to throw
me into the depths of the sea; and as they came forth to lay
their hands upon me I spake unto them, saying: In the name of the
Almighty God, I command you that ye touch me not, for I am filled
with the power of God, even unto the consuming of my flesh; and
whoso shall lay his hands upon me shall wither even as a dried
reed; and he shall be as naught before the power of God, for God
shall smite him.
 
1 Nephi 17:49 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto them
that they should murmur no more against their father; neither
should they withhold their labor from me, for God had commanded
me that I should build a ship.
 
1 Nephi 17:50 And I said unto them: If God had commanded me to do
all things I could do them. If he should command me that I should
say unto this water, be thou earth, it should be earth; and if I
should say it, it would be done.
 
1 Nephi 17:51 And now, if the Lord has such great power, and has
wrought so many miracles among the children of men, how is it
that he cannot instruct me, that I should build a ship?
 
1 Nephi 17:52 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said many things
unto my brethren, insomuch that they were confounded and could
not contend against me; neither durst they lay their hands upon
me nor touch me with their fingers, even for the space of many
days. Now they durst not do this lest they should wither before
me, so powerful was the Spirit of God; and thus it had wrought
upon them.
 
1 Nephi 17:53 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me:
Stretch forth thine hand again unto thy brethren, and they shall
not wither before thee, but I will shock them, saith the Lord,
and this will I do, that they may know that I am the Lord their
God.
 
1 Nephi 17:54 And it came to pass that I stretched forth my hand
unto my brethren, and they did not wither before me; but the Lord
did shake them, even according to the word which he had spoken.
 
1 Nephi 17:55 And now, they said: We know of a surety that the
Lord is with thee, for we know that it is the power of the Lord
that has shaken us. And they fell down before me, and were about
to worship me, but I would not suffer them, saying: I am thy
brother, yea, even thy younger brother; wherefore, worship the
Lord thy God, and honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days
may be long in the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
 
1 Nephi 18:0 The ship completed--Jacob and Joseph--The voyage
begun--Revelry and rebellion--A storm at sea--Arrival in the
promised land.
 
1 Nephi 18:1 And it came to pass that they did worship the Lord,
and did go forth with me; and we did work timbers of curious
workmanship. And the Lord did show me from time to time after
what manner I should work the timbers of the ship.
 
1 Nephi 18:2 Now I, Nephi, did not work the timbers after the
manner which was learned by men, neither did I build the ship
after the manner of men; but I did build it after the manner
which the Lord had shown unto me; wherefore, it was not after the
manner of men.
 
1 Nephi 18:3 And I, Nephi, did go into the mount oft, and I did
pray oft unto the Lord; wherefore the Lord showed unto me great
things.
 
1 Nephi 18:4 And it came to pass that after I had finished the
ship, according to the word of the Lord, my brethren beheld that
it was good, and that the workmanship thereof was exceedingly
fine; wherefore, they did humble themselves again before the
Lord.
 
1 Nephi 18:5 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came
unto my father, that we should arise and go down into the ship.
 
1 Nephi 18:6 And it came to pass that on the morrow, after we had
prepared all things, much fruits and meat from the wilderness,
and honey in abundance, and provisions according to that which
the Lord had commanded us, we did go down into the ship, with all
our loading and our seeds, and whatsoever thing we had brought
with us, every one according to his age; wherefore, we did all go
down into the ship, with our wives and our children.
 
1 Nephi 18:7 And now, my father had begat two sons in the
wilderness; the elder was called Jacob and the younger Joseph.
 
1 Nephi 18:8 And it came to pass after we had all gone down into
the ship, and had taken with us our provisions and things which
had been commanded us, we did put forth into the sea and were
driven forth before the wind towards the promised land.
 
1 Nephi 18:9 And after we had been driven forth before the wind
for the space of many days, behold, my brethren and the sons of
Ishmael and also their wives began to make themselves merry,
insomuch that they began to dance, and to sing, and to speak with
much rudeness, yea, even that they did forget by what power they
had been brought thither; yea, they were lifted up unto exceeding
rudeness.
 
1 Nephi 18:10 And I, Nephi, began to fear exceedingly lest the
Lord should be angry with us, and smite us because of our
iniquity, that we should be swallowed up in the depths of the
sea; wherefore, I, Nephi, began to speak to them with much
soberness; but behold they were angry with me, saying: We will
not that our younger brother shall be a ruler over us.
 
1 Nephi 18:11 And it came to pass that Laman and Lemuel did take
me and bind me with cords, and they did treat me with much
harshness; nevertheless, the Lord did suffer it that he might
show forth his power, unto the fulfilling of his word which he
had spoken concerning the wicked.
 
1 Nephi 18:12 And it came to pass that after they had bound me
insomuch that I could not move, the compass, which had been
prepared of the Lord, did cease to work.
 
1 Nephi 18:13 Wherefore, they knew not whither they should steer
the ship, insomuch that there arose a great storm, yea, a great
and terrible tempest, and we were driven back upon the waters for
the space of three days; and they began to be frightened
exceedingly lest they should be drowned in the sea; nevertheless
they did not loose me.
 
1 Nephi 18:14 And on the fourth day, which we had been driven
back, the tempest began to be exceedingly sore.
 
1 Nephi 18:15 And it came to pass that we were about to be
swallowed up in the depths of the sea. And after we had been
driven back upon the waters for the space of four days, my
brethren began to see that the judgments of God were upon them,
and that they must perish save that they should repent of their
iniquities; wherefore, they came unto me, and loosed the bands
which were upon my wrists, and behold they had swollen
exceedingly; and also mine ankles were much swollen, and great
was the soreness thereof.
 
1 Nephi 18:16 Nevertheless, I did look unto my God, and I did
praise him all the day long; and I did not murmur against the
Lord because of mine afflictions.
 
1 Nephi 18:17 Now my father, Lehi, had said many things unto
them, and also unto the sons of Ishmael; but, behold, they did
breathe out much threatenings against anyone that should speak
for me; and my parents being stricken in years, and having
suffered much grief because of their children, they were brought
down, yea, even upon their sick-beds.
 
1 Nephi 18:18 Because of their grief and much sorrow, and the
iniquity of my brethren, they were brought near even to be
carried out of this time to meet their God; yea, their grey hairs
were about to be brought down to lie low in the dust; yea, even
they were near to be cast with sorrow into a watery grave.
 
1 Nephi 18:19 And Jacob and Joseph also, being young, having need
of much nourishment, were grieved because of the afflictions of
their mother; and also my wife with her tears and prayers, and
also my children, did not soften the hearts of my brethren that
they would loose me.
 
1 Nephi 18:20 And there was nothing save it were the power of
God, which threatened them with destruction, could soften their
hearts; wherefore, when they saw that they were about to be
swallowed up in the depths of the sea they repented of the thing
which they had done, insomuch that they loosed me.
 
1 Nephi 18:21 And it came to pass after they had loosed me,
behold, I took the compass, and it did work whither I desired it.
And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord; and after I had
prayed the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there
was a great calm.
 
1 Nephi 18:22 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did guide the
ship, that we sailed again towards the promised land.
 
1 Nephi 18:23 And it came to pass that after we had sailed for
the space of many days we did arrive at the promised land; and we
went forth upon the land, and did pitch our tents; and we did
call it the promised land.
 
1 Nephi 18:24 And it came to pass that we did begin to till the
earth, and we began to plant seeds; yea, we did put all our seeds
into the earth, which we had brought from the land of Jerusalem.
And it came to pass that they did grow exceedingly; wherefore, we
were blessed in abundance.
 
1 Nephi 18:25 And it came to pass that we did find upon the land
of promise, as we journeyed in the wilderness, that there were
beasts in the forests of every kind, both the cow and the ox, and
the ass and the horse, and the goat and the wild goat, and all
manner of wild animals, which were for the use of men. And we did
find all manner of ore, both of gold, and of silver, and of
copper.
 
1 Nephi 19:0 Nephi's record of his people--Sundry prophets
mentioned--Zenos and his predictions.
 
1 Nephi 19:1 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded me,
wherefore I did make plates of ore that I might engraven upon
them the record of my people. And upon the plates which I made I
did engraven the record of my father, and also our journeyings in
the wilderness, and the prophecies of my father; and also many of
mine own prophecies have I engraven upon them.
 
1 Nephi 19:2 And I knew not at the time when I made them that I
should be commanded of the Lord to make these plates; wherefore,
the record of my father, and the genealogy of his fathers, and
the more part of all our proceedings in the wilderness are
engraven upon those first plates of which I have spoken;
wherefore, the things which transpired before I made these plates
are, of a truth, more particularly made mention upon the first
plates.
 
1 Nephi 19:3 And after I had made these plates by way of
commandment, I, Nephi, received a commandment that the ministry
and the prophecies, the more plain and precious parts of them,
should be written upon these plates; and that the things which
were written should be kept for the instruction of my people, who
should possess the land, and also for other wise purposes, which
purposes are known unto the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 19:4 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did make a record upon the
other plates, which gives an account, or which gives a greater
account of the wars and contentions and destructions of my
people. And this have I done, and commanded my people what they
should do after I was gone; and that these plates should be
handed down from one generation to another, or from one prophet
to another, until further commandments of the Lord.
 
1 Nephi 19:5 And an account of my making these plates shall be
given hereafter; and then, behold, I proceed according to that
which I have spoken; and this I do that the more sacred things
may be kept for the knowledge of my people.
 
1 Nephi 19:6 Nevertheless, I do not write anything upon plates
save it be that I think it be sacred. And now, if I do err, even
did they err of old; not that I would excuse myself because of
other men, but because of the weakness which is in me, according
to the flesh, I would excuse myself.
 
1 Nephi 19:7 For the things which some men esteem to be of great
worth, both to the body and soul, others set at naught and
trample under their feet. Yea, even the very God of Israel do men
trample under their feet; I say, trample under their feet but I
would speak in other words--they set him at naught, and hearken
not to the voice of his counsels.
 
1 Nephi 19:8 And behold he cometh, according to the words of the
angel, in six hundred years from the time my father left
Jerusalem.
 
1 Nephi 19:9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall
judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him,
and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it.
Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his
loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of
men.
 
1 Nephi 19:10 And the God of our fathers, who were led out of
Egypt, out of bondage, and also were preserved in the wilderness
by him, yea, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, yieldeth himself, according to the words of the angel, as
a man, into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up, according
to the words of Zenock, and to be crucified, according to the
words of Neum, and to be buried in a sepulchre, according to the
words of Zenos, which he spake concerning the three days of
darkness, which should be a sign given of his death unto those
who should inhabit the isles of the sea, more especially given
unto those who are of the house of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 19:11 For thus spake the prophet: The Lord God surely
shall visit all the house of Israel at that day, some with his
voice, because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and
salvation, and others with the thunderings and the lightnings of
his power, by tempest, by fire, and by smoke, and vapor of
darkness, and by the opening of the earth, and by mountains which
shall be carried up.
 
1 Nephi 19:12 And all these things must surely come, saith the
prophet Zenos. And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because
of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of
the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim:
The God of nature suffers.
 
1 Nephi 19:13 And as for those who are at Jerusalem, saith the
prophet, they shall be scourged by all people, because they
crucify the God of Israel, and turn their hearts aside, rejecting
signs and wonders, and the power and glory of the God of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 19:14 And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the
prophet, and have despised the Holy One of Israel, they shall
wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword,
and be hated among all nations.
 
1 Nephi 19:15 Nevertheless, when that day cometh, saith the
prophet, that they no more turn aside their hearts against the
Holy One of Israel, then will he remember the covenants which he
made to their fathers.
 
1 Nephi 19:16 Yea, then will he remember the isles of the sea;
yea, and all the people who are of the house of Israel, will I
gather in, saith the Lord, according to the words of the prophet
Zenos, from the four quarters of the earth.
 
1 Nephi 19:17 Yea, and all the earth shall see the salvation of
the Lord, saith the prophet; every nation, kindred, tongue and
people shall be blessed.
 
1 Nephi 19:18 And I, Nephi, have written these things unto my
people, that perhaps I might persuade them that they would
remember the Lord their Redeemer.
 
1 Nephi 19:19 Wherefore, I speak unto all the house of Israel, if
it so be that they should obtain these things.
 
1 Nephi 19:20 For behold, I have workings in the spirit, which
doth weary me even that all my joints are weak, for those who are
at Jerusalem; for had not the Lord been merciful, to show unto me
concerning them, even as he had prophets of old, I should have
perished also.
 
1 Nephi 19:21 And he surely did show unto the prophets of old all
things concerning them; and also he did show unto many concerning
us; wherefore, it must needs be that we know concerning them for
they are written upon the plates of brass.
 
1 Nephi 19:22 Now it came to pass that I, Nephi, did teach my
brethren these things; and it came to pass that I did read many
things to them, which were engraven upon the plates of brass,
that they might know concerning the doings of the Lord in other
lands, among people of old.
 
1 Nephi 19:23 And I did read many things unto them which were
written in the books of Moses; but that I might more fully
persuade them to believe in the Lord their Redeemer I did read
unto them that which was written by the prophet Isaiah; for I did
liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and
learning.
 
1 Nephi 19:24 Wherefore I spake unto them, saying: Hear ye the
words of the prophet, ye who are a remnant of the house of
Israel, a branch who have been broken off; hear ye the words of
the prophet, which were written unto all the house of Israel, and
liken them unto yourselves, that ye may have hope as well as your
brethren from whom ye have been broken off; for after this manner
has the prophet written.
 
1 Nephi 20:0 Prophecies recorded on the plates of brass--Compare
Isaiah 48.
 
1 Nephi 20:1 Hearken and hear this, O house of Jacob, who are
called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the
waters of Judah, or out of the waters of baptism, who swear by
the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, yet
they swear not in truth nor in righteousness.
 
1 Nephi 20:2 Nevertheless, they call themselves of the holy city,
but they do not stay themselves upon the God of Israel, who is
the Lord of Hosts; yea, the Lord of Hosts is his name.
 
1 Nephi 20:3 Behold, I have declared the former things from the
beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed
them. I did show them suddenly.
 
1 Nephi 20:4 And I did it because I knew that thou art obstinate,
and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
 
1 Nephi 20:5 And I have even from the beginning declared to thee;
before it came to pass I showed them thee; and I showed them for
fear lest thou shouldst say--Mine idol hath done them, and my
graven image, and my molten image hath commanded them.
 
1 Nephi 20:6 Thou hast seen and heard all this; and will ye not
declare them? And that I have showed thee new things from this
time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
 
1 Nephi 20:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning,
even before the day when thou heardest them not they were
declared unto thee, lest thou shouldst say--Behold I knew them.
 
1 Nephi 20:8 Yea, and thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not;
yea, from that time thine ear was not opened; for I knew that
thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor from the womb.
 
1 Nephi 20:9 Nevertheless, for my name's sake will I defer mine
anger, and for my praise will I refrain from thee, that I cut
thee not off.
 
1 Nephi 20:10 For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen
thee in the furnace of affliction.
 
1 Nephi 20:11 For mine own sake, yea, for mine own sake will I do
this, for I will not suffer my name to be polluted, and I will
not give my glory unto another.
 
1 Nephi 20:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called, for
I am he; I am the first, and I am also the last.
 
1 Nephi 20:13 Mine hand hath also laid the foundation of the
earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens. I call unto
them and they stand up together.
 
1 Nephi 20:14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among
them hath declared these things unto them? The Lord hath loved
him; yea, and he will fulfil his word which he hath declared by
them; and he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall
come upon the Chaldeans.
 
1 Nephi 20:15 Also, saith the Lord; I the Lord, yea, I have
spoken; yea, I have called him to declare, I have brought him,
and he shall make his way prosperous.
 
1 Nephi 20:16 Come ye near unto me; I have not spoken in secret;
from the beginning, from the time that it was declared have I
spoken; and the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
 
1 Nephi 20:17 And thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One
of Israel; I have sent him, the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to
profit, who leadeth thee by the way thou shouldst go, hath done
it.
 
1 Nephi 20:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments--
then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the
waves of the sea.
 
1 Nephi 20:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand; the offspring
of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have
been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
 
1 Nephi 20:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans,
with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter to the end
of the earth; say ye: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
 
1 Nephi 20:21 And they thirsted not; he led them through the
deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;
he clave the rock also and the waters gushed out.
 
1 Nephi 20:22 And notwithstanding he hath done all this, and
greater also, there is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
 
1 Nephi 21:0 Isaiah's writings, as recorded upon the plates of
brass, continued--Compare Isaiah 49.
 
1 Nephi 21:1 And again: Hearken, O ye house of Israel, all ye
that are broken off and are driven out because of the wickedness
of the pastors of my people; yea, all ye that are broken off,
that are scattered abroad, who are of my people, O house of
Israel. Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken ye people from far;
the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
mother hath he made mention of my name.
 
1 Nephi 21:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the
shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft;
in his quiver hath he hid me;
 
1 Nephi 21:3 And said unto me: Thou art my servant, O Israel, in
whom I will be glorified.
 
1 Nephi 21:4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my
strength for naught and in vain; surely my judgment is with the
Lord, and my work with my God.
 
1 Nephi 21:5 And now, saith the Lord--that formed me from the
womb that I should be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him--
though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the
eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
 
1 Nephi 21:6 And he said: It is a light thing that thou shouldst
be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the
earth.
 
1 Nephi 21:7 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, his
Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nations
abhorreth, to servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise,
princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful.
 
1 Nephi 21:8 Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time have I
heard thee, O isles of the sea, and in a day of salvation have I
helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee my servant
for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to
inherit the desolate heritages;
 
1 Nephi 21:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners: Go forth; to
them that sit in darkness: Show yourselves. They shall feed in
the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
 
1 Nephi 21:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the
heat nor the sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them shall
lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
 
1 Nephi 21:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
highways shall be exalted.
 
1 Nephi 21:12 And then, O house of Israel, behold, these shall
come from far; and lo, these from the north and from the west;
and these from the land of Sinim.
 
1 Nephi 21:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; for the
feet of those who are in the east shall be established; and break
forth into singing, O mountains; for they shall be smitten no
more; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy
upon his afflicted.
 
1 Nephi 21:14 But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken
me, and my Lord hath forgotten me--but he will show that he hath
not.
 
1 Nephi 21:15 For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may
forget, yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 21:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands; thy walls are continually before me.
 
1 Nephi 21:17 Thy children shall make haste against thy
destroyers; and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
 
1 Nephi 21:18 Lift up thine eyes round about and behold; all
these gather themselves together, and they shall come to thee.
And as I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with
them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on even as a bride.
 
1 Nephi 21:19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land
of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants; and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
 
1 Nephi 21:20 The children whom thou shalt have, after thou hast
lost the first, shall again in thine ears say: The place is too
strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
 
1 Nephi 21:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart: Who hath
begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am
desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? And who hath
brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have
they been?
 
1 Nephi 21:22 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will lift up
mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people;
and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders.
 
1 Nephi 21:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their
queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with
their face towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet;
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.
 
1 Nephi 21:24 For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captives delivered?
 
1 Nephi 21:25 But thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered; for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,
and I will save thy children.
 
1 Nephi 21:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their
own flesh; they shall be drunken with their own blood as with
sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am thy
Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
 
1 Nephi 22:0 Nephi expounds the prophecies of Isaiah--prediction
of a mighty Gentile nation on the promised land--Lehi's
descendants to be nourished by the Gentiles--The fate of those
who fight against Zion.
 
1 Nephi 22:1 And now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had
read these things which were engraven upon the plates of brass,
my brethren came unto me and said unto me: What meaneth these
things which ye have read? Behold, are they to be understood
according to things which are spiritual, which shall come to pass
according to the spirit and not the flesh?
 
1 Nephi 22:2 And I, Nephi, said unto them: Behold they were
manifest unto the prophet by the voice of the Spirit; for by the
Spirit are all things made known unto the prophets, which shall
come upon the children of men according to the flesh.
 
1 Nephi 22:3 Wherefore, the things of which I have read are
things pertaining to things both temporal and spiritual; for it
appears that the house of Israel, sooner or later, will be
scattered upon all the face of the earth, and also among all
nations.
 
1 Nephi 22:4 And behold, there are many who are already lost from
the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part
of all the tribes have been led away; and they are scattered to
and fro upon the isles of the sea; and whither they are none of
us knoweth, save that we know that they have been led away.
 
1 Nephi 22:5 And since they have been led away, these things have
been prophesied concerning them, and also concerning all those
who shall hereafter be scattered and be confounded, because of
the Holy One of Israel; for against him will they harden their
hearts; wherefore, they shall be scattered among all nations and
shall be hated of all men.
 
1 Nephi 22:6 Nevertheless, after they shall be nursed by the
Gentiles, and the Lord has lifted up his hand upon the Gentiles
and set them up for a standard, and their children have been
carried in their arms, and their daughters have been carried upon
their shoulders, behold these things of which are spoken are
temporal; for thus are the covenants of the Lord with our
fathers; and it meaneth us in the days to come, and also all our
brethren who are of the house of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 22:7 And it meaneth that the time cometh that after all
the house of Israel have been scattered and confounded, that the
Lord God will raise up a mighty nation among the Gentiles, yea,
even upon the face of this land; and by them shall our seed be
scattered.
 
1 Nephi 22:8 And after our seed is scattered the Lord God will
proceed to do a marvelous work among the Gentiles, which shall be
of great worth unto our seed; wherefore, it is likened unto their
being nourished by the Gentiles and being carried in their arms
and upon their shoulders.
 
1 Nephi 22:9 And it shall also be of worth unto the Gentiles; and
not only unto the Gentiles but unto all the house of Israel, unto
the making known of the covenants of the Father of heaven unto
Abraham, saying: In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth
be blessed.
 
1 Nephi 22:10 And I would, my brethren, that ye should know that
all the kindreds of the earth cannot be blessed unless he shall
make bare his arm in the eyes of the nations.
 
1 Nephi 22:11 Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to make bare
his arm in the eyes of all the nations, in bringing about his
covenants and his gospel unto those who are of the house of
Israel.
 
1 Nephi 22:12 Wherefore, he will bring them again out of
captivity, and they shall be gathered together to the lands of
their inheritance; and they shall be brought out of obscurity and
out of darkness; and they shall know that the Lord is their
Savior and their Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel.
 
1 Nephi 22:13 And the blood of that great and abominable church,
which is the whore of all the earth, shall turn upon their own
heads; for they shall war among themselves, and the sword of
their own hands shall fall upon their own heads, and they shall
be drunken with their own blood.
 
1 Nephi 22:14 And every nation which shall war against thee, O
house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they
shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people
of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed,
and that great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the
Lord, yea, that great and abominable church, shall tumble to the
dust and great shall be the fall of it.
 
1 Nephi 22:15 For behold, saith the prophet, the time cometh
speedily that Satan shall have no more power over the hearts of
the children of men; for the day soon cometh that all the proud
and they who do wickedly shall be as stubble; and the day cometh
that they must be burned.
 
1 Nephi 22:16 For the time soon cometh that the fulness of the
wrath of God shall be poured out upon all the children of men;
for he will not suffer that the wicked shall destroy the
righteous.
 
1 Nephi 22:17 Wherefore, he will preserve the righteous by his
power, even if it so be that the fulness of his wrath must come,
and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of
their enemies by fire. Wherefore, the righteous need not fear;
for thus saith the prophet, they shall be saved, even if it so be
as by fire.
 
1 Nephi 22:18 Behold, my brethren, I say unto you, that these
things must shortly come; yea, even blood, and fire, and vapor of
smoke must come; and it must needs be upon the face of this
earth; and it cometh unto men according to the flesh if it so be
that they will harden their hearts against the Holy One of
Israel.
 
1 Nephi 22:19 For behold, the righteous shall not perish; for the
time surely must come that all they who fight against Zion shall
be cut off.
 
1 Nephi 22:20 And the Lord will surely prepare a way for his
people, unto the fulfilling of the words of Moses, which he
spake, saying: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto
you, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he
shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that all those who
will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the
people.
 
1 Nephi 22:21 And now I, Nephi, declare unto you, that this
prophet of whom Moses spake was the Holy One of Israel;
wherefore, he shall execute judgment in righteousness.
 
1 Nephi 22:22 And the righteous need not fear, for they are those
who shall not be confounded. But it is the kingdom of the devil,
which shall be built up among the children of men, which kingdom
is established among them which are in the flesh-- 
 
1 Nephi 22:23 For the time speedily shall come that all churches
which are built up to get gain, and all those who are built up to
get power over the flesh, and those who are built up to become
popular in the eyes of the world, and those who seek the lusts of
the flesh and the things of the world, and to do all manner of
iniquity; yea, in fine, all those who belong to the kingdom of
the devil are they who need fear, and tremble, and quake; they
are those who must be brought low in the dust; they are those who
must be consumed as stubble; and this is according to the words
of the prophet.
 
1 Nephi 22:24 And the time cometh speedily that the righteous
must be led up as calves of the stall, and the Holy One of Israel
must reign in dominion, and might, and power, and great glory.
 
1 Nephi 22:25 And he gathereth his children from the four
quarters of the earth; and he numbereth his sheep, and they know
him; and there shall be one fold and one shepherd; and he shall
feed his sheep, and in him they shall find pasture.
 
1 Nephi 22:26 And because of the righteousness of his people,
Satan has no power; wherefore, he cannot be loosed for the space
of many years; for he hath no power over the hearts of the
people, for they dwell in righteousness, and the Holy One of
Israel reigneth.
 
1 Nephi 22:27 And now behold, I, Nephi, say unto you that all
these things must come according to the flesh.
 
1 Nephi 22:28 But, behold, all nations, kindreds, tongues, and
people shall dwell safely in the Holy One of Israel if it so be
that they will repent.
 
1 Nephi 22:29 And now I, Nephi, make an end; for I durst not
speak further as yet concerning these things.
 
1 Nephi 22:30 Wherefore, my brethren, I would that ye should
consider that the things which have been written upon the plates
of brass are true; and they testify that a man must be obedient
to the commandments of God.
 
1 Nephi 22:31 Wherefore, ye need not suppose that I and my father
are the only ones that have testified, and also taught them.
Wherefore, if ye shall be obedient to the commandments, and
endure to the end, ye shall be saved at the last day. And thus it
is. Amen.
 
THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI
 
2 Nephi 0:0 An account of the death of Lehi. Nephi's brethren
rebel against him. The Lord warns Nephi to depart into the
wilderness. His journeyings in the wilderness, &c.
 
2 Nephi 1:0 A land of liberty, blessed for the righteous but
cursed for the wicked--Lehi's exhortation.
 
2 Nephi 1:1 And now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had made
an end of teaching my brethren, our father, Lehi, also spake many
things unto them, and rehearsed unto them, how great things the
Lord had done for them in bringing them out of the land of
Jerusalem.
 
2 Nephi 1:2 And he spake unto them concerning their rebellions
upon the waters, and the mercies of God in sparing their lives,
that they were not swallowed up in the sea.
 
2 Nephi 1:3 And he also spake unto them concerning the land of
promise, which they had obtained--how merciful the Lord had been
in warning us that we should flee out of the land of Jerusalem.
 
2 Nephi 1:4 For, behold, said he, I have seen a vision, in which
I know that Jerusalem is destroyed; and had we remained in
Jerusalem we should also have perished.
 
2 Nephi 1:5 But, said he, notwithstanding our afflictions, we
have obtained a land of promise, a land which is choice above all
other lands; a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me
should be a land for the inheritance of my seed. Yea, the Lord
hath covenanted this land unto me, and to my children forever,
and also all those who should be led out of other countries by
the hand of the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 1:6 Wherefore, I, Lehi, prophesy according to the
workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall none come
into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the
Lord.
 
2 Nephi 1:7 Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he
shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according
to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of
liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down
into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if
iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes,
but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever.
 
2 Nephi 1:8 And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be
kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many
nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for
an inheritance.
 
2 Nephi 1:9 Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that
inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land
of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon
the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other
nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if
it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be
blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to
molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and
they shall dwell safely forever.
 
2 Nephi 1:10 But behold, when the time cometh that they shall
dwindle in unbelief, after they have received so great blessings
from the hand of the Lord--having a knowledge of the creation of
the earth, and all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of
the Lord from the creation of the world; having power given them
to do all things by faith; having all the commandments from the
beginning, and having been brought by his infinite goodness into
this precious land of promise--behold, I say, if the day shall
come that they will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true
Messiah, their Redeemer and their God, behold, the judgments of
him that is just shall rest upon them.
 
2 Nephi 1:11 Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he
will give unto them power, and he will take away from them the
lands of their possessions, and he will cause them to be
scattered and smitten.
 
2 Nephi 1:12 Yea, as one generation passeth to another there
shall be bloodsheds, and great visitations among them; wherefore,
my sons, I would that ye would remember; yea, I would that ye
would hearken unto my words.
 
2 Nephi 1:13 O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea,
even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by
which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children
of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal
gulf of misery and woe.
 
2 Nephi 1:14 Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words
of a trembling parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the
cold and silent grave, from whence no traveler can return; a few
more days and I go the way of all the earth.
 
2 Nephi 1:15 But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from
hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally
in the arms of his love.
 
2 Nephi 1:16 And I desire that ye should remember to observe the
statutes and the judgments of the Lord; behold, this hath been
the anxiety of my soul from the beginning.
 
2 Nephi 1:17 My heart hath been weighed down with sorrow from
time to time, for I have feared, lest for the hardness of your
hearts the Lord your God should come out in the fulness of his
wrath upon you, that ye be cut off and destroyed forever;
 
2 Nephi 1:18 Or, that a cursing should come upon you for the
space of many generations; and ye are visited by sword, and by
famine, and are hated, and are led according to the will and
captivity of the devil.
 
2 Nephi 1:19 O my sons, that these things might not come upon
you, but that ye might be a choice and a favored people of the
Lord. But behold, his will be done; for his ways are
righteousness forever.
 
2 Nephi 1:20 And he hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my
commandments ye shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch as ye
will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my
presence.
 
2 Nephi 1:21 And now that my soul might have joy in you, and that
my heart might leave this world with gladness because of you,
that I might not be brought down with grief and sorrow to the
grave, arise from the dust, my sons, and be men, and be
determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things,
that ye may not come down into captivity;
 
2 Nephi 1:22 That ye may not be cursed with a sore cursing; and
also, that ye may not incur the displeasure of a just God upon
you, unto the destruction, yea, the eternal destruction of both
soul and body.
 
2 Nephi 1:23 Awake, my sons; put on the armor of righteousness.
Shake off the chains with which ye are bound, and come forth out
of obscurity, and arise from the dust.
 
2 Nephi 1:24 Rebel no more against your brother, whose views have
been glorious, and who hath kept the commandments from the time
that we left Jerusalem; and who hath been an instrument in the
hands of God, in bringing us forth into the land of promise; for
were it not for him, we must have perished with hunger in the
wilderness; nevertheless, ye sought to take away his life; yea,
and he hath suffered much sorrow because of you.
 
2 Nephi 1:25 And I exceedingly fear and tremble because of you,
lest he shall suffer again; for behold, ye have accused him that
he sought power and authority over you; but I know that he hath
not sought for power nor authority over you, but he hath sought
the glory of God, and your own eternal welfare.
 
2 Nephi 1:26 And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto
you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been
angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of
the power of the word of God, which was in him; and that which ye
call anger was the truth, according to that which is in God,
which he could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your
iniquities.
 
2 Nephi 1:27 And it must needs be that the power of God must be
with him, even unto his commanding you that ye must obey. But
behold, it was not he, but it was the Spirit of the Lord which
was in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not
shut it.
 
2 Nephi 1:28 And now my son, Laman, and also Lemuel and Sam, and
also my sons who are the sons of Ishmael, behold, if ye will
hearken unto the voice of Nephi ye shall not perish. And if ye
will hearken unto him I leave unto you a blessing, yea, even my
first blessing.
 
2 Nephi 1:29 But if ye will not hearken unto him I take away my
first blessing, yea, even my blessing, and it shall rest upon
him.
 
2 Nephi 1:30 And now, Zoram, I speak unto you: Behold, thou art
the servant of Laban; nevertheless, thou hast been brought out of
the land of Jerusalem, and I know that thou art a true friend
unto my son, Nephi, forever.
 
2 Nephi 1:31 Wherefore, because thou hast been faithful thy seed
shall be blessed with his seed, that they dwell in prosperity
long upon the face of this land; and nothing, save it shall be
iniquity among them, shall harm or disturb their prosperity upon
the face of this land forever.
 
2 Nephi 1:32 Wherefore, if ye shall keep the commandments of the
Lord, the Lord hath consecrated this land for the security of thy
seed with the seed of my son.
 
2 Nephi 2:0 Lehi to his son Jacob--Opposition necessary in all
things--The forbidden fruit and the tree of life--Adam fell that
men might be--Messiah, the great Mediator, to redeem mankind.
 
2 Nephi 2:1 And now, Jacob, I speak unto you: Thou art my first-
born in the days of my tribulation in the wilderness. And behold,
in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow,
because of the rudeness of thy brethren.
 
2 Nephi 2:2 Nevertheless, Jacob, my first-born in the wilderness,
thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine
afflictions for thy gain.
 
2 Nephi 2:3 Wherefore, thy soul shall be blessed, and thou shalt
dwell safely with thy brother, Nephi; and thy days shall be spent
in the service of thy God. Wherefore, I know that thou art
redeemed, because of the righteousness of thy Redeemer; for thou
hast beheld that in the fulness of time he cometh to bring
salvation unto men.
 
2 Nephi 2:4 And thou hast beheld in thy youth his glory;
wherefore, thou art blessed even as they unto whom he shall
minister in the flesh; for the Spirit is the same, yesterday,
today, and forever. And the way is prepared from the fall of man,
and salvation is free.
 
2 Nephi 2:5 And men are instructed sufficiently that they know
good from evil. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no
flesh is justified; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the
temporal law they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law
they perish from that which is good, and become miserable
forever.
 
2 Nephi 2:6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy
Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.
 
2 Nephi 2:7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to
answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken
heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of
the law be answered.
 
2 Nephi 2:8 Wherefore, how great the importance to make these
things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may
know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of
God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the
Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh,
and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring
to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should
rise.
 
2 Nephi 2:9 Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch
as he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and
they that believe in him shall be saved.
 
2 Nephi 2:10 And because of the intercession for all, all men
come unto God; wherefore, they stand in the presence of him, to
be judged of him according to the truth and holiness which is in
him. Wherefore, the ends of the law which the Holy One hath
given, unto the inflicting of the punishment which is affixed,
which punishment that is affixed is in opposition to that of the
happiness which is affixed, to answer the ends of the atonement--
2 Nephi 2:11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in
all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness,
righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness,
neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all
things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should
be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither
death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery,
neither sense nor insensibility.
 
2 Nephi 2:12 Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a
thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in
the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy
the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power,
and the mercy, and the justice of God.
 
2 Nephi 2:13 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also
say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall
also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no
righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no
righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery.
And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no
God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no
creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon;
wherefore, all things must have vanished away.
 
2 Nephi 2:14 And now, my sons, I speak unto you these things for
your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath created
all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that
in them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon.
 
2 Nephi 2:15 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end
of man, after he had created our first parents, and the beasts of
the field and the fowls of the air, and in fine, all things which
are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition; even
the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one
being sweet and the other bitter.
 
2 Nephi 2:16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should
act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it
should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.
 
2 Nephi 2:17 And I, Lehi, according to the things which I have
read, must needs suppose that an angel of God, according to that
which is written, had fallen from heaven; wherefore, he became a
devil, having sought that which was evil before God.
 
2 Nephi 2:18 And because he had fallen from heaven, and had
become miserable forever, he sought also the misery of all
mankind. Wherefore, he said unto Eve, yea, even that old serpent,
who is the devil, who is the father of all lies, wherefore he
said: Partake of the forbidden fruit, and ye shall not die, but
ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
 
2 Nephi 2:19 And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden
fruit they were driven out of the garden of Eden, to till the
earth.
 
2 Nephi 2:20 And they have brought forth children; yea, even the
family of all the earth.
 
2 Nephi 2:21 And the days of the children of men were prolonged,
according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the
flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of probation, and
their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which
the Lord God gave unto the children of men. For he gave
commandment that all men must repent; for he showed unto all men
that they were lost, because of the transgression of their
parents.
 
2 Nephi 2:22 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he
would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden
of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in
the same state in which they were after they were created; and
they must have remained forever, and had no end.
 
2 Nephi 2:23 And they would have had no children; wherefore they
would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for
they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
 
2 Nephi 2:24 But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom
of him who knoweth all things.
 
2 Nephi 2:25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they
might have joy.
 
2 Nephi 2:26 And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that
he may redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that
they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever,
knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted
upon, save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and
last day, according to the commandments which God hath given.
 
2 Nephi 2:27 Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and
all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they
are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great
Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according
to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all
men might be miserable like unto himself.
 
2 Nephi 2:28 And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the
great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments; and be
faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life, according to
the will of his Holy Spirit;
 
2 Nephi 2:29 And not choose eternal death, according to the will
of the flesh and the evil which is therein, which giveth the
spirit of the devil power to captivate, to bring you down to
hell, that he may reign over you in his own kingdom.
 
2 Nephi 2:30 I have spoken these few words unto you all, my sons,
in the last days of my probation; and I have chosen the good
part, according to the words of the prophet. And I have none
other object save it be the everlasting welfare of your souls.
Amen.
 
2 Nephi 3:0 Lehi to his son Joseph--A prophecy by Joseph in
Egypt--A choice seer foretold--The mission of Moses--Hebrew and
Nephite scriptures.
 
2 Nephi 3:1 And now I speak unto you, Joseph, my last-born. Thou
wast born in the wilderness of mine afflictions; yea, in the days
of my greatest sorrow did thy mother bear thee.
 
2 Nephi 3:2 And may the Lord consecrate also unto thee this land,
which is a most precious land, for thine inheritance and the
inheritance of thy seed with thy brethren, for thy security
forever, if it so be that ye shall keep the commandments of the
Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 3:3 And now, Joseph, my last-born, whom I have brought
out of the wilderness of mine afflictions, may the Lord bless
thee forever, for thy seed shall not utterly be destroyed.
 
2 Nephi 3:4 For behold, thou art the fruit of my loins; and I am
a descendant of Joseph who was carried captive into Egypt. And
great were the covenants of the Lord which he made unto Joseph.
 
2 Nephi 3:5 Wherefore, Joseph truly saw our day. And he obtained
a promise of the Lord, that out of the fruit of his loins the
Lord God would raise up a righteous branch unto the house of
Israel; not the Messiah, but a branch which was to be broken off,
nevertheless, to be remembered in the covenants of the Lord that
the Messiah should be made manifest unto them in the latter days,
in the spirit of power, unto the bringing of them out of darkness
unto light--yea, out of hidden darkness and out of captivity unto
freedom.
 
2 Nephi 3:6 For Joseph truly testified, saying: A seer shall the
Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit
of my loins.
 
2 Nephi 3:7 Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the Lord unto me:
A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins; and
he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins. And
unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the
fruit of thy loins, his brethren, which shall be of great worth
unto them, even to the bringing of them to the knowledge of the
covenants which I have made with thy fathers.
 
2 Nephi 3:8 And I will give unto him a commandment that he shall
do none other work, save the work which I shall command him. And
I will make him great in mine eyes; for he shall do my work.
 
2 Nephi 3:9 And he shall be great like unto Moses, whom I have
said I would raise up unto you, to deliver my people, O house of
Israel.
 
2 Nephi 3:10 And Moses will I raise up, to deliver thy people out
of the land of Egypt.
 
2 Nephi 3:11 But a seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy
loins; and unto him will I give power to bring forth my word unto
the seed of thy loins--and not to the bringing forth my word
only, saith the Lord, but to the convincing them of my word,
which shall have already gone forth among them.
 
2 Nephi 3:12 Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins shall write; and
the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall
be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall
be written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow
together, unto the confounding of false doctrines and laying down
of contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of thy
loins, and bringing them to the knowledge of their fathers in the
latter days, and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the
Lord.
 
2 Nephi 3:13 And out of weakness he shall be made strong, in that
day when my work shall commence among all my people, unto the
restoring thee, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 3:14 And thus prophesied Joseph, saying: Behold, that
seer will the Lord bless; and they that seek to destroy him shall
be confounded; for this promise, which I have obtained of the
Lord, of the fruit of my loins, shall be fulfilled. Behold, I am
sure of the fulfilling of this promise;
 
2 Nephi 3:15 And his name shall be called after me; and it shall
be after the name of his father. And he shall be like unto me;
for the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by
the power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation.
 
2 Nephi 3:16 Yea, thus prophesied Joseph: I am sure of this
thing, even as I am sure of the promise of Moses; for the Lord
hath said unto me, I will preserve thy seed forever.
 
2 Nephi 3:17 And the Lord hath said: I will raise up a Moses; and
I will give power unto him in a rod; and I will give judgment
unto him in writing. Yet I will not loose his tongue, that he
shall speak much, for I will not make him mighty in speaking. But
I will write unto him my law, by the finger of mine own hand; and
I will make a spokesman for him.
 
2 Nephi 3:18 And the Lord said unto me also: I will raise up unto
the fruit of thy loins; and I will make for him a spokesman. And
I, behold, I will give unto him that he shall write the writing
of the fruit of thy loins, unto the fruit of thy loins; and the
spokesman of thy loins shall declare it.
 
2 Nephi 3:19 And the words which he shall write shall be the
words which are expedient in my wisdom should go forth unto the
fruit of thy loins. And it shall be as if the fruit of thy loins
had cried unto them from the dust; for I know their faith.
 
2 Nephi 3:20 And they shall cry from the dust; yea, even
repentance unto their brethren, even after many generations have
gone by them. And it shall come to pass that their cry shall go,
even according to the simpleness of their words.
 
2 Nephi 3:21 Because of their faith their words shall proceed
forth out of my mouth unto their brethren who are the fruit of
thy loins; and the weakness of their words will I make strong in
their faith, unto the remembering of my covenant which I made
unto thy fathers.
 
2 Nephi 3:22 And now, behold, my son Joseph, after this manner
did my father of old prophesy.
 
2 Nephi 3:23 Wherefore, because of this covenant thou art
blessed; for thy seed shall not be destroyed, for they shall
hearken unto the words of the book.
 
2 Nephi 3:24 And there shall rise up one mighty among them, who
shall do much good, both in word and in deed, being an instrument
in the hands of God, with exceeding faith, to work mighty
wonders, and do that thing which is great in the sight of God,
unto the bringing to pass much restoration unto the house of
Israel, and unto the seed of thy brethren.
 
2 Nephi 3:25 And now, blessed art thou, Joseph. Behold, thou art
little; wherefore hearken unto the words of thy brother, Nephi,
and it shall be done unto thee even according to the words which
I have spoken. Remember the words of thy dying father. Amen.
 
2 Nephi 4:0 Lehi blesses the sons and daughters of Laman and
Lemuel--Blessings upon Ishmael's household and upon Sam and his
posterity--death of Lehi--Further rebellion.
 
2 Nephi 4:1 And now, I, Nephi, speak concerning the prophecies of
which my father hath spoken, concerning Joseph, who was carried
into Egypt.
 
2 Nephi 4:2 For behold, he truly prophesied concerning all his
seed. And the prophecies which he wrote, there are not many
greater. And he prophesied concerning us, and our future
generations; and they are written upon the plates of brass.
 
2 Nephi 4:3 Wherefore, after my father had made an end of
speaking concerning the prophecies of Joseph, he called the
children of Laman, his sons, and his daughters, and said unto
them: Behold, my sons, and my daughters, who are the sons and the
daughters of my first-born, I would that ye should give ear unto
my words.
 
2 Nephi 4:4 For the Lord God hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall
keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch
as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my
presence.
 
2 Nephi 4:5 But behold, my sons and my daughters, I cannot go
down to my grave save I should leave a blessing upon you; for
behold, I know that if ye are brought up in the way ye should go
ye will not depart from it.
 
2 Nephi 4:6 Wherefore, if ye are cursed, behold, I leave my
blessing upon you, that the cursing may be taken from you and be
answered upon the heads of your parents.
 
2 Nephi 4:7 Wherefore, because of my blessing the Lord God will
not suffer that ye shall perish; wherefore, he will be merciful
unto you and unto your seed forever.
 
2 Nephi 4:8 And it came to pass that after my father had made an
end of speaking to the sons and daughters of Laman, he caused the
sons and daughters of Lemuel to be brought before him.
 
2 Nephi 4:9 And he spake unto them, saying: Behold, my sons and
my daughters, who are the sons and the daughters of my second
son; behold I leave unto you the same blessing which I left unto
the sons and daughters of Laman; wherefore, thou shalt not
utterly be destroyed; but in the end thy seed shall be blessed.
 
2 Nephi 4:10 And it came to pass that when my father had made an
end of speaking unto them, behold, he spake unto the sons of
Ishmael, yea, and even all his household.
 
2 Nephi 4:11 And after he had made an end of speaking unto them,
he spake unto Sam, saying: Blessed art thou, and thy seed; for
thou shalt inherit the land like unto thy brother Nephi. And thy
seed shall be numbered with his seed; and thou shalt be even like
unto thy brother, and thy seed like unto his seed; and thou shalt
be blessed in all thy days.
 
2 Nephi 4:12 And it came to pass after my father, Lehi, had
spoken unto all his household, according to the feelings of his
heart and the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, he waxed old.
And it came to pass that he died, and was buried.
 
2 Nephi 4:13 And it came to pass that not many days after his
death, Laman and Lemuel and the sons of Ishmael were angry with
me because of the admonitions of the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 4:14 For I, Nephi, was constrained to speak unto them,
according to his word; for I had spoken many things unto them,
and also my father, before his death; many of which sayings are
written upon mine other plates; for a more history part are
written upon mine other plates.
 
2 Nephi 4:15 And upon these I write the things of my soul, and
many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of
brass. For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart
pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit
of my children.
 
2 Nephi 4:16 Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the
Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I
have seen and heard.
 
2 Nephi 4:17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of
the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart
exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth
because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.
 
2 Nephi 4:18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations
and the sins which do so easily beset me.
 
2 Nephi 4:19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth
because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.
 
2 Nephi 4:20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through
mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon
the waters of the great deep.
 
2 Nephi 4:21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the
consuming of my flesh.
 
2 Nephi 4:22 He hath confounded mine enemies, unto the causing of
them to quake before me.
 
2 Nephi 4:23 Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath
given me knowledge by visions in the nighttime.
 
2 Nephi 4:24 And by day have I waxed bold in mighty prayer before
him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down
and ministered unto me.
 
2 Nephi 4:25 And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been
carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have
beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was
bidden that I should not write them.
 
2 Nephi 4:26 O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord
in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in
so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the
valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength
slacken, because of mine afflictions?
 
2 Nephi 4:27 And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh?
Yea, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have
place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Why am
I angry because of mine enemy?
 
2 Nephi 4:28 Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O
my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.
 
2 Nephi 4:29 Do not anger again because of mine enemies. Do not
slacken my strength because of mine afflictions.
 
2 Nephi 4:30 Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say:
O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in
thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
 
2 Nephi 4:31 O Lord, wilt thou redeem my soul? Wilt thou deliver
me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may
shake at the appearance of sin?
 
2 Nephi 4:32 May the gates of hell be shut continually before me,
because that my heart is broken and my spirit is contrite! O
Lord, wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before
me, that I may walk in the path of the low valley, that I may be
strict in the plain road!
 
2 Nephi 4:33 O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of
thy righteousness! O Lord, wilt thou make a way for mine escape
before mine enemies! Wilt thou make my path straight before me!
Wilt thou not place a stumbling block in my way--but that thou
wouldst clear my way before me, and hedge not up my way, but the
ways of mine enemy.
 
2 Nephi 4:34 O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in
thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I
know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of
flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh
flesh his arm.
 
2 Nephi 4:35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that
asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I
will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my
God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever
ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.
 
2 Nephi 5:0 Nephi, warned of God, separates from those who seek
his life--Zoram, Sam, Jacob and Joseph and others accompany him--
The sword of Laban--A temple built--Nephi a king or protector--
The rebellious cursed with a dark skin--Priests and teachers
consecrated.
 
2 Nephi 5:1 Behold, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cry much
unto the Lord my God, because of the anger of my brethren.
 
2 Nephi 5:2 But behold, their anger did increase against me,
insomuch that they did seek to take away my life.
 
2 Nephi 5:3 Yea, they did murmur against me, saying: Our younger
brother thinks to rule over us; and we have had much trial
because of him; wherefore, now let us slay him, that we may not
be afflicted more because of his words. For behold, we will not
have him to be our ruler; for it belongs unto us, who are the
elder brethren, to rule over this people.
 
2 Nephi 5:4 Now I do not write upon these plates all the words
which they murmured against me. But it sufficeth me to say, that
they did seek to take away my life.
 
2 Nephi 5:5 And it came to pass that the Lord did warn me, that
I, Nephi, should depart from them and flee into the wilderness,
and all those who would go with me.
 
2 Nephi 5:6 Wherefore, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did take my
family, and also Zoram and his family, and Sam, mine elder
brother and his family, and Jacob and Joseph, my younger
brethren, and also my sisters, and all those who would go with
me. And all those who would go with me were those who believed in
the warnings and the revelations of God; wherefore, they did
hearken unto my words.
 
2 Nephi 5:7 And we did take our tents and whatsoever things were
possible for us, and did journey in the wilderness for the space
of many days. And after we had journeyed for the space of many
days we did pitch our tents.
 
2 Nephi 5:8 And my people would that we should call the name of
the place Nephi; wherefore, we did call it Nephi.
 
2 Nephi 5:9 And all those who were with me did take upon them to
call themselves the people of Nephi.
 
2 Nephi 5:10 And we did observe to keep the judgments, and the
statutes, and the commandments of the Lord in all things,
according to the law of Moses.
 
2 Nephi 5:11 And the Lord was with us; and we did prosper
exceedingly; for we did sow seed, and we did reap again in
abundance. And we began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals
of every kind.
 
2 Nephi 5:12 And I, Nephi, had also brought the records which
were engraven upon the plates of brass; and also the ball, or
compass, which was prepared for my father by the hand of the
Lord, according to that which is written.
 
2 Nephi 5:13 And it came to pass that we began to prosper
exceedingly, and to multiply in the land.
 
2 Nephi 5:14 And I, Nephi, did take the sword of Laban, and after
the manner of it did make many swords, lest by any means the
people who were now called Lamanites should come upon us and
destroy us; for I knew their hatred towards me and my children
and those who were called my people.
 
2 Nephi 5:15 And I did teach my people to build buildings, and to
work in all manner of wood, and of iron, and of copper, and of
brass, and of steel, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious
ores, which were in great abundance.
 
2 Nephi 5:16 And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did
construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it
were not built of so many precious things; for they were not to
be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like
unto Solomon's temple. But the manner of the construction was
like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was
exceedingly fine.
 
2 Nephi 5:17 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cause my
people to be industrious, and to labor with their hands.
 
2 Nephi 5:18 And it came to pass that they would that I should be
their king. But I, Nephi, was desirous that they should have no
king; nevertheless, I did for them according to that which was in
my power.
 
2 Nephi 5:19 And behold, the words of the Lord had been fulfilled
unto my brethren, which he spake concerning them, that I should
be their ruler and their teacher. Wherefore, I had been their
ruler and their teacher, according to the commandments of the
Lord, until the time they sought to take away my life.
 
2 Nephi 5:20 Wherefore, the word of the Lord was fulfilled which
he spake unto me, saying that: Inasmuch as they will not hearken
unto thy words they shall be cut off from the presence of the
Lord. And behold, they were cut off from his presence.
 
2 Nephi 5:21 And he had caused the cursing to come upon them,
yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold,
they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become
like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly
fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my
people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon
them.
 
2 Nephi 5:22 And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they
shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of
their iniquities.
 
2 Nephi 5:23 And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with
their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.
And the Lord spake it, and it was done.
 
2 Nephi 5:24 And because of their cursing which was upon them
they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety,
and did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey.
 
2 Nephi 5:25 And the Lord God said unto me: They shall be a
scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in remembrance of me; and
inasmuch as they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words,
they shall scourge them even unto destruction.
 
2 Nephi 5:26 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did consecrate
Jacob and Joseph, that they should be priests and teachers over
the land of my people.
 
2 Nephi 5:27 And it came to pass that we lived after the manner
of happiness.
 
2 Nephi 5:28 And thirty years had passed away from the time we
left Jerusalem.
 
2 Nephi 5:29 And I, Nephi, had kept the records upon my plates,
which I had made, of my people thus far.
 
2 Nephi 5:30 And it came to pass that the Lord God said unto me:
Make other plates; and thou shalt engraven many things upon them
which are good in my sight, for the profit of thy people.
 
2 Nephi 5:31 Wherefore, I, Nephi, to be obedient to the
commandments of the Lord, went and made these plates upon which I
have engraven these things.
 
2 Nephi 5:32 And I engraved that which is pleasing unto God. And
if my people are pleased with the things of God they will be
pleased with mine engravings which are upon these plates.
 
2 Nephi 5:33 And if my people desire to know the more particular
part of the history of my people they must search mine other
plates.
 
2 Nephi 5:34 And it sufficeth me to say that forty years had
passed away, and we had already had wars and contentions with our
brethren.
 
2 Nephi 6:0 Jacob's exhortation to the people--He cites the
prophecies of Isaiah.
 
2 Nephi 6:1 The words of Jacob, the brother of Nephi, which he
spake unto the people of Nephi:
 
2 Nephi 6:2 Behold, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob, having been
called of God, and ordained after the manner of his holy order,
and having been consecrated by my brother Nephi, unto whom ye
look as a king or a protector, and on whom ye depend for safety,
behold ye know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many
things.
 
2 Nephi 6:3 Nevertheless, I speak unto you again; for I am
desirous for the welfare of your souls. Yea, mine anxiety is
great for you; and ye yourselves know that it ever has been. For
I have exhorted you with all diligence; and I have taught you the
words of my father; and I have spoken unto you concerning all
things which are written, from the creation of the world.
 
2 Nephi 6:4 And now, behold, I would speak unto you concerning
things which are, and which are to come; wherefore, I will read
you the words of Isaiah. And they are the words which my brother
has desired that I should speak unto you. And I speak unto you
for your sakes, that ye may learn and glorify the name of your
God.
 
2 Nephi 6:5 And now, the words which I shall read are they which
Isaiah spake concerning all the house of Israel; wherefore, they
may be likened unto you, for ye are of the house of Israel. And
there are many things which have been spoken by Isaiah which may
be likened unto you, because ye are of the house of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 6:6 And now, these are the words: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up
my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their
arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
 
2 Nephi 6:7 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their
queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with
their faces towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet;
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.
 
2 Nephi 6:8 And now I, Jacob, would speak somewhat concerning
these words. For behold, the Lord has shown me that those who
were at Jerusalem, from whence we came, have been slain and
carried away captive.
 
2 Nephi 6:9 Nevertheless, the Lord has shown unto me that they
should return again. And he also has shown unto me that the Lord
God, the Holy One of Israel, should manifest himself unto them in
the flesh; and after he should manifest himself they should
scourge him and crucify him, according to the words of the angel
who spake it unto me.
 
2 Nephi 6:10 And after they have hardened their hearts and
stiffened their necks against the Holy One of Israel, behold, the
judgments of the Holy One of Israel shall come upon them. And the
day cometh that they shall be smitten and afflicted.
 
2 Nephi 6:11 Wherefore, after they are driven to and fro, for
thus saith the angel, many shall be afflicted in the flesh, and
shall not be suffered to perish, because of the prayers of the
faithful; they shall be scattered, and smitten, and hated;
nevertheless, the Lord will be merciful unto them, that when they
shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer, they shall be
gathered together again to the lands of their inheritance.
 
2 Nephi 6:12 And blessed are the Gentiles, they of whom the
prophet has written; for behold, if it so be that they shall
repent and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to
that great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the
Lord God will fulfil his covenants which he has made unto his
children; and for this cause the prophet has written these
things.
 
2 Nephi 6:13 Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the
covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet;
and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people
of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for
the coming of the Messiah.
 
2 Nephi 6:14 And behold, according to the words of the prophet,
the Messiah will set himself again the second time to recover
them; wherefore, he will manifest himself unto them in power and
great glory, unto the destruction of their enemies, when that day
cometh when they shall believe in him; and none will he destroy
that believe in him.
 
2 Nephi 6:15 And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed,
both by fire, and by tempest, and by earthquakes, and by
bloodsheds, and by pestilence, and by famine. And they shall know
that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 6:16 For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captive delivered?
 
2 Nephi 6:17 But thus saith the Lord: Even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered; for the Mighty God shall deliver his covenant people.
For thus saith the Lord: I will contend with them that contendeth
with thee-- 
 
2 Nephi 6:18 And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their
own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with
sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy
Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
 
2 Nephi 7:0 Jacob's teachings continued--Compare Isaiah 50.
 
2 Nephi 7:1 Yea, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away,
or have I cast thee off forever? For thus saith the Lord: Where
is the bill of your mother's divorcement? To whom have I put thee
away, or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Yea, to whom
have I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
 
2 Nephi 7:2 Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I
called, yea, there was none to answer. O house of Israel, is my
hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power
to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make their
rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters
are dried up, and they die because of thirst.
 
2 Nephi 7:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering.
 
2 Nephi 7:4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O
house of Israel. When ye are weary he waketh morning by morning.
He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.
 
2 Nephi 7:5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away back.
 
2 Nephi 7:6 I gave my back to the smiter, and my cheeks to them
that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
 
2 Nephi 7:7 For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not
be confounded. Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I shall not be ashamed.
 
2 Nephi 7:8 And the Lord is near, and he justifieth me. Who will
contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is mine adversary?
Let him come near me, and I will smite him with the strength of
my mouth.
 
2 Nephi 7:9 For the Lord God will help me. And all they who shall
condemn me, behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, and the
moth shall eat them up.
 
2 Nephi 7:10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth
the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no
light?
 
2 Nephi 7:11 Behold all ye that kindle fire, that compass
yourselves about with sparks, walk in the light of your fire and
in the sparks which ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine
hand--ye shall lie down in sorrow.
 
2 Nephi 8:0 Jacob's teachings continued--Compare Isaiah 51
 
2 Nephi 8:1 Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness.
Look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of
the pit from whence ye are digged.
 
2 Nephi 8:2 Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, she
that bare you; for I called him alone, and blessed him.
 
2 Nephi 8:3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all
her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be
found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
 
2 Nephi 8:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O
my nation; for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
judgment to rest for a light for the people.
 
2 Nephi 8:5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth,
and mine arm shall judge the people. The isles shall wait upon
me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
 
2 Nephi 8:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the
earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be
forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
 
2 Nephi 8:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people in whose heart I have written my law, fear ye not the
reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
 
2 Nephi 8:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and
the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be
forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
 
2 Nephi 8:9 Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
awake as in the ancient days. Art thou not he that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
 
2 Nephi 8:10 Art thou not he who hath dried the sea, the waters
of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for
the ransomed to pass over?
 
2 Nephi 8:11 Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return,
and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy and holiness
shall be upon their heads; and they shall obtain gladness and
joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
 
2 Nephi 8:12 I am he; yea, I am he that comforteth you. Behold,
who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of man, who shall die,
and of the son of man, who shall be made like unto grass?
 
2 Nephi 8:13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath
stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the
earth, and hast feared continually every day, because of the fury
of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? And where is
the fury of the oppressor?
 
2 Nephi 8:14 The captive exile hasteneth, that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail.
 
2 Nephi 8:15 But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared; the
Lord of Hosts is my name.
 
2 Nephi 8:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have
covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the
heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion:
Behold, thou art my people.
 
2 Nephi 8:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast
drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury--thou hast
drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling wrung out-- 
 
2 Nephi 8:18 And none to guide her among all the sons she hath
brought forth; neither that taketh her by the hand, of all the
sons she hath brought up.
 
2 Nephi 8:19 These two sons are come unto thee, who shall be
sorry for thee--thy desolation and destruction, and the famine
and the sword--and by whom shall I comfort thee?
 
2 Nephi 8:20 Thy sons have fainted, save these two; they lie at
the head of all the streets; as a wild bull in a net, they are
full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
 
2 Nephi 8:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, and not with wine:
 
2 Nephi 8:22 Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord and thy God pleadeth
the cause of his people; behold, I have taken out of thine hand
the cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt
no more drink it again.
 
2 Nephi 8:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict
thee; who have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over--
and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to
them that went over.
 
2 Nephi 8:24 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on
thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised
and the unclean.
 
2 Nephi 8:25 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O
Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.
 
2 Nephi 9:0 Jacob's teachings continued--The infinite atonement--
The Savior's sufferings foreseen--Where there is no law there is
no punishment.
 
2 Nephi 9:1 And now, my beloved brethren, I have read these
things that ye might know concerning the covenants of the Lord
that he has covenanted with all the house of Israel--
 
2 Nephi 9:2 That he has spoken unto the Jews, by the mouth of his
holy prophets, even from the beginning down, from generation to
generation, until the time comes that they shall be restored to
the true church and fold of God; when they shall be gathered home
to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in
all their lands of promise.
 
2 Nephi 9:3 Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these
things that ye may rejoice, and lift up your heads forever,
because of the blessings which the Lord God shall bestow upon
your children.
 
2 Nephi 9:4 For I know that ye have searched much, many of you,
to know of things to come; wherefore I know that ye know that our
flesh must waste away and die; nevertheless, in our bodies we
shall see God.
 
2 Nephi 9:5 Yea, I know that ye know that in the body he shall
show himself unto those at Jerusalem, from whence we came; for it
is expedient that it should be among them; for it behooveth the
great Creator that he suffereth himself to become subject unto
man in the flesh, and die for all men, that all men might become
subject unto him.
 
2 Nephi 9:6 For as death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the
merciful plan of the great Creator, there must needs be a power
of resurrection, and the resurrection must needs come unto man by
reason of the fall; and the fall came by reason of transgression;
and because man became fallen they were cut off from the presence
of the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 9:7 Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement--
save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not
put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came
upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if
so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its
mother earth, to rise no more.
 
2 Nephi 9:8 O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace! For behold,
if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject
to that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal
God, and became the devil, to rise no more.
 
2 Nephi 9:9 And our spirits must have become like unto him, and
we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the
presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in
misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our
first parents, who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of
light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret
combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of
darkness.
 
2 Nephi 9:10 O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a
way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea,
that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body,
and also the death of the spirit.
 
2 Nephi 9:11 And because of the way of deliverance of our God,
the Holy One of Israel, this death, of which I have spoken, which
is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead; which death is the
grave.
 
2 Nephi 9:12 And this death of which I have spoken, which is the
spiritual death, shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death
is hell; wherefore, death and hell must deliver up their dead,
and hell must deliver up its captive spirits, and the grave must
deliver up its captive bodies, and the bodies and the spirits of
men will be restored one to the other; and it is by the power of
the resurrection of the Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 9:13 O how great the plan of our God! For on the other
hand, the paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the
righteous, and the grave deliver up the body of the righteous;
and the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all
men become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living
souls, having a perfect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save
it be that our knowledge shall be perfect.
 
2 Nephi 9:14 Wherefore, we shall have a perfect knowledge of all
our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; and the
righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and
their righteousness, being clothed with purity, yea, even with
the robe of righteousness.
 
2 Nephi 9:15 And it shall come to pass that when all men shall
have passed from this first death unto life, insomuch as they
have become immortal, they must appear before the judgment-seat
of the Holy One of Israel; and then cometh the judgment, and then
must they be judged according to the holy judgment of God.
 
2 Nephi 9:16 And assuredly, as the Lord liveth, for the Lord God
hath spoken it, and it is his eternal word, which cannot pass
away, that they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and
they who are filthy shall be filthy still; wherefore, they who
are filthy are the devil and his angels; and they shall go away
into everlasting fire, prepared for them; and their torment is as
a lake of fire and brimstone, whose flame ascendeth up forever
and ever and has no end.
 
2 Nephi 9:17 O the greatness and the justice of our God! For he
executeth all his words, and they have gone forth out of his
mouth, and his law must be fulfilled.
 
2 Nephi 9:18 But, behold, the righteous, the saints of the Holy
One of Israel, they who have believed in the Holy One of Israel,
they who have endured the crosses of the world, and despised the
shame of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was
prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy
shall be full forever.
 
2 Nephi 9:19 O the greatness of the mercy of our God, the Holy
One of Israel! For he delivereth his saints from that awful
monster the devil, and death, and hell, and that lake of fire and
brimstone, which is endless torment.
 
2 Nephi 9:20 O how great the holiness of our God! For he knoweth
all things, and there is not anything save he knows it.
 
2 Nephi 9:21 And he cometh into the world that he may save all
men if they will hearken unto his voice; for behold, he suffereth
the pains of all men, yea, the pains of every living creature,
both men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam.
 
2 Nephi 9:22 And he suffereth this that the resurrection might
pass upon all men, that all might stand before him at the great
and judgment day.
 
2 Nephi 9:23 And he commandeth all men that they must repent, and
be baptized in his name, having perfect faith in the Holy One of
Israel, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.
 
2 Nephi 9:24 And if they will not repent and believe in his name,
and be baptized in his name, and endure to the end, they must be
damned; for the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has spoken it.
 
2 Nephi 9:25 Wherefore, he has given a law; and where there is no
law given there is no punishment; and where there is no
punishment there is no condemnation; and where there is no
condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim
upon them, because of the atonement; for they are delivered by
the power of him.
 
2 Nephi 9:26 For the atonement satisfieth the demands of his
justice upon all those who have not the law given to them, that
they are delivered from that awful monster, death and hell, and
the devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless
torment; and they are restored to that God who gave them breath,
which is the Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 9:27 But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that
has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that
transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation,
for awful is his state!
 
2 Nephi 9:28 O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness,
and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are
learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the
counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of
themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it
profiteth them not. And they shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 9:29 But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the
counsels of God.
 
2 Nephi 9:30 But wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things
of the world. For because they are rich they despise the poor,
and they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their
treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their god. And behold,
their treasure shall perish with them also.
 
2 Nephi 9:31 And wo unto the deaf that will not hear; for they
shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 9:32 Wo unto the blind that will not see; for they shall
perish also.
 
2 Nephi 9:33 Wo unto the uncircumcised of heart, for a knowledge
of their iniquities shall smite them at the last day.
 
2 Nephi 9:34 Wo unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down to
hell.
 
2 Nephi 9:35 Wo unto the murderer who deliberately killeth, for
he shall die.
 
2 Nephi 9:36 Wo unto them who commit whoredoms, for they shall be
thrust down to hell.
 
2 Nephi 9:37 Yea, wo unto those that worship idols, for the devil
of all devils delighteth in them.
 
2 Nephi 9:38 And, in fine, wo unto all those who die in their
sins; for they shall return to God, and behold his face, and
remain in their sins.
 
2 Nephi 9:39 O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in
transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of
yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember, to be
carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life
eternal.
 
2 Nephi 9:40 O, my beloved brethren, give ear to my words.
Remember the greatness of the Holy One of Israel. Do not say that
I have spoken hard things against you; for if ye do, ye will
revile against the truth; for I have spoken the words of your
Maker. I know that the words of truth are hard against all
uncleanness; but the righteous fear them not, for they love the
truth and are not shaken.
 
2 Nephi 9:41 O then, my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the
Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the way
for man is narrow, but it lieth in a straight course before him,
and the keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he
employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it
be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is
his name.
 
2 Nephi 9:42 And whoso knocketh, to him will he open; and the
wise, and the learned, and they that are rich, who are puffed up
because of their learning, and their wisdom, and their riches--
yea, they are they whom he despiseth; and save they shall cast
these things away, and consider themselves fools before God, and
come down in the depths of humility, he will not open unto them.
 
2 Nephi 9:43 But the things of the wise and the prudent shall be
hid from them forever--yea, that happiness which is prepared for
the saints.
 
2 Nephi 9:44 O, my beloved brethren, remember my words. Behold, I
take off my garments, and I shake them before you; I pray the God
of my salvation that he view me with his all-searching eye;
wherefore, ye shall know at the last day, when all men shall be
judged of their works, that the God of Israel did witness that I
shook your iniquities from my soul, and that I stand with
brightness before him, and am rid of your blood.
 
2 Nephi 9:45 O, my beloved brethren, turn away from your sins;
shake off the chains of him that would bind you fast; come unto
that God who is the rock of your salvation.
 
2 Nephi 9:46 Prepare your souls for that glorious day when
justice shall be administered unto the righteous, even the day of
judgment, that ye may not shrink with awful fear; that ye may not
remember your awful guilt in perfectness, and be constrained to
exclaim: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God Almighty--but I
know my guilt; I transgressed thy law, and my transgressions are
mine; and the devil hath obtained me, that I am a prey to his
awful misery.
 
2 Nephi 9:47 But behold, my brethren, is it expedient that I
should awake you to an awful reality of these things? Would I
harrow up your souls if your minds were pure? Would I be plain
unto you according to the plainness of the truth if ye were freed
from sin?
 
2 Nephi 9:48 Behold, if ye were holy I would speak unto you of
holiness; but as ye are not holy, and ye look upon me as a
teacher, it must needs be expedient that I teach you the
consequences of sin.
 
2 Nephi 9:49 Behold, my soul abhorreth sin, and my heart
delighteth in righteousness; and I will praise the holy name of
my God.
 
2 Nephi 9:50 Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth, come ye
to the waters; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat; yea,
come buy wine and milk without money and without price.
 
2 Nephi 9:51 Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of
no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy. Hearken
diligently unto me, and remember the words which I have spoken;
and come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which
perisheth not, neither can be corrupted, and let your soul
delight in fatness.
 
2 Nephi 9:52 Behold, my beloved brethren, remember the words of
your God; pray unto him continually by day, and give thanks unto
his holy name by night. Let your hearts rejoice.
 
2 Nephi 9:53 And behold how great the covenants of the Lord, and
how great his condescensions unto the children of men; and
because of his greatness, and his grace and mercy, he has
promised unto us that our seed shall not utterly be destroyed,
according to the flesh, but that he would preserve them; and in
future generations they shall become a righteous branch unto the
house of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 9:54 And now, my brethren, I would speak unto you more;
but on the morrow I will declare unto you the remainder of my
words. Amen.
 
2 Nephi 10:0 Jacob's teachings continued--The coming of Christ--
No kings upon the land of promise--they who fight against Zion
shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 10:1 And now I, Jacob, speak unto you again, my beloved
brethren, concerning this righteous branch of which I have
spoken.
 
2 Nephi 10:2 For behold, the promises which we have obtained are
promises unto us according to the flesh; wherefore, as it has
been shown unto me that many of our children shall perish in the
flesh because of unbelief, nevertheless, God will be merciful
unto many; and our children shall be restored, that they may come
to that which will give them the true knowledge of their
Redeemer.
 
2 Nephi 10:3 Wherefore, as I said unto you, it must needs be
expedient that Christ--for in the last night the angel spake unto
me that this should be his name--should come among the Jews,
among those who are the more wicked part of the world; and they
shall crucify him--for thus it behooveth our God, and there is
none other nation on earth that would crucify their God.
 
2 Nephi 10:4 For should the mighty miracles be wrought among
other nations they would repent, and know that he be their God.
 
2 Nephi 10:5 But because of priestcrafts and iniquities, they at
Jerusalem will stiffen their necks against him, that he be
crucified.
 
2 Nephi 10:6 Wherefore, because of their iniquities,
destructions, famines, pestilences, and bloodshed shall come upon
them; and they who shall not be destroyed shall be scattered
among all nations.
 
2 Nephi 10:7 But behold, thus saith the Lord God: When the day
cometh that they shall believe in me, that I am Christ, then have
I covenanted with their fathers that they shall be restored in
the flesh, upon the earth, unto the lands of their inheritance.
 
2 Nephi 10:8 And it shall come to pass that they shall be
gathered in from their long dispersion, from the isles of the
sea, and from the four parts of the earth; and the nations of the
Gentiles shall be great in the eyes of me, saith God, in carrying
them forth to the lands of their inheritance.
 
2 Nephi 10:9 Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing
fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers;
wherefore, the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles,
for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute?
 
2 Nephi 10:10 But behold, this land, said God, shall be a land of
thine inheritance, and the Gentiles shall be blessed upon the
land.
 
2 Nephi 10:11 And this land shall be a land of liberty unto the
Gentiles, and there shall be no kings upon the land, who shall
raise up unto the Gentiles.
 
2 Nephi 10:12 And I will fortify this land against all other
nations.
 
2 Nephi 10:13 And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish,
saith God.
 
2 Nephi 10:14 For he that raiseth up a king against me shall
perish, for I, the Lord, the king of heaven, will be their king,
and I will be a light unto them forever, that hear my words.
 
2 Nephi 10:15 Wherefore, for this cause, that my covenants may be
fulfilled which I have made unto the children of men, that I will
do unto them while they are in the flesh, I must needs destroy
the secret works of darkness, and of murders, and of
abominations.
 
2 Nephi 10:16 Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew
and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall
perish; for they are they who are the whore of all the earth; for
they who are not for me are against me, saith our God.
 
2 Nephi 10:17 For I will fulfil my promises which I have made
unto the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are
in the flesh-- 
 
2 Nephi 10:18 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, thus saith our God:
I will afflict thy seed by the hand of the Gentiles;
nevertheless, I will soften the hearts of the Gentiles, that they
shall be like unto a father to them; wherefore, the Gentiles
shall be blessed and numbered among the house of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 10:19 Wherefore, I will consecrate this land unto thy
seed, and them who shall be numbered among thy seed, forever, for
the land of their inheritance; for it is a choice land, saith God
unto me, above all other lands, wherefore I will have all men
that dwell thereon that they shall worship me, saith God.
 
2 Nephi 10:20 And now, my beloved brethren, seeing that our
merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these
things, let us remember him, and lay aside our sins, and not hang
down our heads, for we are not cast off; nevertheless, we have
been driven out of the land of our inheritance; but we have been
led to a better land, for the Lord has made the sea our path, and
we are upon an isle of the sea.
 
2 Nephi 10:21 But great are the promises of the Lord unto them
who are upon the isles of the sea; wherefore as it says isles,
there must needs be more than this, and they are inhabited also
by our brethren.
 
2 Nephi 10:22 For behold, the Lord God has led away from time to
time from the house of Israel, according to his will and
pleasure. And now behold, the Lord remembereth all them who have
been broken off, wherefore he remembereth us also.
 
2 Nephi 10:23 Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that
ye are free to act for yourselves--to choose the way of
everlasting death or the way of eternal life.
 
2 Nephi 10:24 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile
yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil
and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God,
that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are
saved.
 
2 Nephi 10:25 Wherefore, may God raise you from death by the
power of the resurrection, and also from everlasting death by the
power of the atonement, that ye may be received into the eternal
kingdom of God, that ye may praise him through grace divine.
Amen.
 
2 Nephi 11:0 Jacob's teachings continued--Witnesses for the word
of God--Types of the Redeemer.
 
2 Nephi 11:1 And now, Jacob spake many more things to my people
at that time; nevertheless only these things have I caused to be
written, for the things which I have written sufficeth me.
 
2 Nephi 11:2 And now I, Nephi, write more of the words of Isaiah,
for my soul delighteth in his words. For I will liken his words
unto my people, and I will send them forth unto all my children,
for he verily saw my Redeemer, even as I have seen him.
 
2 Nephi 11:3 And my brother, Jacob, also has seen him as I have
seen him; wherefore, I will send their words forth unto my
children to prove unto them that my words are true. Wherefore, by
the words of three, God hath said, I will establish my word.
Nevertheless, God sendeth more witnesses, and he proveth all his
words.
 
2 Nephi 11:4 Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my people
the truth of the coming of Christ; for, for this end hath the law
of Moses been given; and all things which have been given of God
from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of
him.
 
2 Nephi 11:5 And also my soul delighteth in the covenants of the
Lord which he hath made to our fathers; yea, my soul delighteth
in his grace, and in his justice, and power, and mercy in the
great and eternal plan of deliverance from death.
 
2 Nephi 11:6 And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people
that save Christ should come all men must perish.
 
2 Nephi 11:7 For if there be no Christ there be no God; and if
there be no God we are not, for there could have been no
creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in
the fulness of his own time.
 
2 Nephi 11:8 And now I write some of the words of Isaiah, that
whoso of my people shall see these words may lift up their hearts
and rejoice for all men. Now these are the words, and ye may
liken them unto you and unto all men.
 
2 Nephi 12:0 Prophecies as recorded on the brass plates--Compare
Isaiah 2.
 
2 Nephi 12:1 The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
 
2 Nephi 12:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all
nations shall flow unto it.
 
2 Nephi 12:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let
us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem.
 
2 Nephi 12:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-
shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks--nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.
 
2 Nephi 12:5 O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the
light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every
one to his wicked ways.
 
2 Nephi 12:6 Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people,
the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east,
and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they
please themselves in the children of strangers.
 
2 Nephi 12:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither
is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of
horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
 
2 Nephi 12:8 Their land is also full of idols; they worship the
work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
 
2 Nephi 12:9 And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man
humbleth himself not, therefore, forgive him not.
 
2 Nephi 12:10 O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide
thee in the dust, for the fear of the Lord and the glory of his
majesty shall smite thee.
 
2 Nephi 12:11 And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of
man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed
down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
 
2 Nephi 12:12 For the day of the Lord of Hosts soon cometh upon
all nations, yea, upon every one; yea, upon the proud and lofty,
and upon every one who is lifted up, and he shall be brought low.
 
2 Nephi 12:13 Yea, and the day of the Lord shall come upon all
the cedars of Lebanon, for they are high and lifted up; and upon
all the oaks of Bashan;
 
2 Nephi 12:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the
hills, and upon all the nations which are lifted up, and upon
every people;
 
2 Nephi 12:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced
wall;
 
2 Nephi 12:16 And upon all the ships of the sea, and upon all the
ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
 
2 Nephi 12:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day.
 
2 Nephi 12:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
 
2 Nephi 12:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and
into the caves of the earth, for the fear of the Lord shall come
upon them and the glory of his majesty shall smite them, when he
ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
 
2 Nephi 12:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship,
to the moles and to the bats;
 
2 Nephi 12:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for the fear of the Lord shall come
upon them and the majesty of his glory shall smite them, when he
ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
 
2 Nephi 12:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for wherein is he to be accounted of?
 
2 Nephi 13:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 3.
 
2 Nephi 13:1 For behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take
away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the
whole staff of bread, and the whole stay of water-- 
 
2 Nephi 13:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and
the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient;
 
2 Nephi 13:3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the
counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
 
2 Nephi 13:4 And I will give children unto them to be their
princes, and babes shall rule over them.
 
2 Nephi 13:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by
another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall behave
himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
honorable.
 
2 Nephi 13:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the
house of his father, and shall say: Thou hast clothing, be thou
our ruler, and let not this ruin come under thy hand--
 
 2 Nephi 13:7 In that day shall he swear, saying: I will not be a
healer; for in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; make
me not a ruler of the people.
 
2 Nephi 13:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen,
because their tongues and their doings have been against the
Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
 
2 Nephi 13:9 The show of their countenance doth witness against
them, and doth declare their sin to be even as Sodom, and they
cannot hide it. Wo unto their souls, for they have rewarded evil
unto themselves!
 
2 Nephi 13:10 Say unto the righteous that it is well with them;
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
 
2 Nephi 13:11 Wo unto the wicked, for they shall perish; for the
reward of their hands shall be upon them!
 
2 Nephi 13:12 And my people, children are their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee
to err and destroy the way of thy paths.
 
2 Nephi 13:13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the people.
 
2 Nephi 13:14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients
of his people and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the
vineyard and the spoil of the poor in your houses.
 
2 Nephi 13:15 What mean ye? Ye beat my people to pieces, and
grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 13:16 Moreover, the Lord saith: Because the daughters of
Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with
their feet-- 
 
2 Nephi 13:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown
of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover
their secret parts.
 
2 Nephi 13:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
their tinkling ornaments, and cauls, and round tires like the
moon;
 
2 Nephi 13:19 The chains and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
 
2 Nephi 13:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings;
 
2 Nephi 13:21 The rings, and nose jewels;
 
2 Nephi 13:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping-pins;
 
2 Nephi 13:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and hoods, and the
veils.
 
2 Nephi 13:24 And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and
instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a
girding of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty.
 
2 Nephi 13:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in
the war.
 
2 Nephi 13:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall
be desolate, and shall sit upon the ground.
 
2 Nephi 14:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 4.
 
2 Nephi 14:1 And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one
man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel;
only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach.
 
2 Nephi 14:2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be
beautiful and glorious; the fruit of the earth excellent and
comely to them that are escaped of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 14:3 And it shall come to pass, they that are left in
Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be called holy, every one that
is written among the living in Jerusalem-- 
 
2 Nephi 14:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of
the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of
Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by
the spirit of burning.
 
2 Nephi 14:5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place
of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day
and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the
glory of Zion shall be a defence.
 
2 Nephi 14:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the
daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and a covert
from storm and from rain.
 
2 Nephi 15:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 5.
 
2 Nephi 15:1 And then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my
beloved, touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard
in a very fruitful hill.
 
2 Nephi 15:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower
in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth
wild grapes.
 
2 Nephi 15:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
 
2 Nephi 15:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I
have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.
 
2 Nephi 15:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard--I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down;
 
2 Nephi 15:6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor
digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns; I will also
command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
 
2 Nephi 15:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house
of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked
for judgment, and behold, oppression; for righteousness, but
behold, a cry.
 
2 Nephi 15:8 Wo unto them that join house to house, till there
can be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of
the earth!
 
2 Nephi 15:9 In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth
many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without
inhabitant.
 
2 Nephi 15:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
 
2 Nephi 15:11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, and
wine inflame them!
 
2 Nephi 15:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the
Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
 
2 Nephi 15:13 Therefore, my people are gone into captivity,
because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are
famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
 
2 Nephi 15:14 Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened
her mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
 
2 Nephi 15:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled.
 
2 Nephi 15:16 But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
 
2 Nephi 15:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and
the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
 
2 Nephi 15:18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
 
2 Nephi 15:19 That say: Let him make speed, hasten his work, that
we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
nigh and come, that we may know it.
 
2 Nephi 15:20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil,
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 
2 Nephi 15:21 Wo unto the wise in their own eyes and prudent in
their own sight!
 
2 Nephi 15:22 Wo unto the mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink;
 
2 Nephi 15:23 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away
the righteousness of the righteous from him!
 
2 Nephi 15:24 Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and
the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness,
and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast
away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 15:25 Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against
his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their
carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
2 Nephi 15:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from
far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and
behold, they shall come with speed swiftly; none shall be weary
nor stumble among them.
 
2 Nephi 15:27 None shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the
girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes
be broken;
 
2 Nephi 15:28 Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows
bent, and their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and
their wheels like a whirlwind, their roaring like a lion.
 
2 Nephi 15:29 They shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall
roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry away safe, and
none shall deliver.
 
2 Nephi 15:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like
the roaring of the sea; and if they look unto the land, behold,
darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.
 
2 Nephi 16:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 6.
 
2 Nephi 16:1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple.
 
2 Nephi 16:2 Above it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings;
with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his
feet, and with twain he did fly.
 
2 Nephi 16:3 And one cried unto another, and said: Holy, holy,
holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.
 
2 Nephi 16:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
 
2 Nephi 16:5 Then said I: Wo is unto me! for I am undone; because
I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people
of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of
Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 16:6 Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live
coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar;
 
2 Nephi 16:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said: Lo, this has
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged.
 
2 Nephi 16:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I;
send me.
 
2 Nephi 16:9 And he said: Go and tell this people--Hear ye
indeed, but they understood not; and see ye indeed, but they
perceived not.
 
2 Nephi 16:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes--lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be
converted and be healed.
 
2 Nephi 16:11 Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man,
and the land be utterly desolate;
 
2 Nephi 16:12 And the Lord have removed men far away, for there
shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
 
2 Nephi 16:13 But yet there shall be a tenth, and they shall
return, and shall be eaten, as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose
substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the holy
seed shall be the substance thereof.
 
2 Nephi 17:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 7.
 
2 Nephi 17:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against
it.
 
2 Nephi 17:2 And it was told the house of David, saying: Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart
of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
 
2 Nephi 17:3 Then said the Lord unto Isaiah: Go forth now to meet
Ahaz, thou and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
 
2 Nephi 17:4 And say unto him: Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the
son of Remaliah.
 
2 Nephi 17:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have taken evil counsel against thee, saying:
 
2 Nephi 17:6 Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us
make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it,
yea, the son of Tabeal.
 
2 Nephi 17:7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, neither
shall it come to pass.
 
2 Nephi 17:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus, Rezin; and within three score and five years shall
Ephraim be broken that it be not a people.
 
2 Nephi 17:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of
Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe surely ye shall
not be established.
 
2 Nephi 17:10 Moreover, the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying:
 
2 Nephi 17:11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either
in the depths, or in the heights above.
 
2 Nephi 17:12 But Ahaz said: I will not ask, neither will I tempt
the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 17:13 And he said: Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a
small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
 
2 Nephi 17:14 Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign--
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall
call his name Immanuel.
 
2 Nephi 17:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to
refuse the evil and to choose the good.
 
2 Nephi 17:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil
and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of both her kings.
 
2 Nephi 17:17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come from
the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, the king of Assyria.
 
2 Nephi 17:18 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord
shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
 
2 Nephi 17:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in
the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes.
 
2 Nephi 17:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor
that is hired, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria,
the head, and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the
beard.
 
2 Nephi 17:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, a man shall
nourish a young cow and two sheep;
 
2 Nephi 17:22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of
milk they shall give he shall eat butter; for butter and honey
shall every one eat that is left in the land.
 
2 Nephi 17:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, every place
shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, which shall be for briers and thorns.
 
2 Nephi 17:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither,
because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
 
2 Nephi 17:25 And all hills that shall be digged with the
mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and
thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and the
treading of lesser cattle.
 
2 Nephi 18:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 8.
 
2 Nephi 18:1 Moreover, the word of the Lord said unto me: Take
thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen, concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
 
2 Nephi 18:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record,
Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
 
2 Nephi 18:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived
and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me: Call his name, Maher-
shalal-hash-baz.
 
2 Nephi 18:4 For behold, the child shall not have knowledge to
cry, My father, and my mother, before the riches of Damascus and
the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of
Assyria.
 
2 Nephi 18:5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying:
 
2 Nephi 18:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
 
2 Nephi 18:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon
them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks.
 
2 Nephi 18:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow
and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching
out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
 
2 Nephi 18:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries; gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces.
 
2 Nephi 18:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught;
speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
 
2 Nephi 18:11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,
and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying:
 
2 Nephi 18:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all to whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor
be afraid.
 
2 Nephi 18:13 Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be
your fear, and let him be your dread.
 
2 Nephi 18:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling, and for a rock of offense to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
2 Nephi 18:15 And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
 
2 Nephi 18:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
 
2 Nephi 18:17 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
 
2 Nephi 18:18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given
me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of
Hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion.
 
2 Nephi 18:19 And when they shall say unto you: Seek unto them
that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and
mutter--should not a people seek unto their God for the living to
hear from the dead?
 
2 Nephi 18:20 To the law and to the testimony; and if they speak
not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.
 
2 Nephi 18:21 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and
hungry; and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God,
and look upward.
 
2 Nephi 18:22 And they shall look unto the earth and behold
trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish, and shall be driven to
darkness.
 
2 Nephi 19:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 9.
 
2 Nephi 19:1 Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was
in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterwards did more
grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea beyond Jordan in
Galilee of the nations.
 
2 Nephi 19:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great
light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined.
 
2 Nephi 19:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and increased the
joy--they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as
men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
 
2 Nephi 19:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor.
 
2 Nephi 19:5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused
noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with
burning and fuel of fire.
 
2 Nephi 19:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall
be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
 
2 Nephi 19:7 Of the increase of government and peace there is no
end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will
perform this.
 
2 Nephi 19:8 The Lord sent his word unto Jacob and it hath
lighted upon Israel.
 
2 Nephi 19:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitants of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart:
 
2 Nephi 19:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with
hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars.
 
2 Nephi 19:11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of
Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
 
2 Nephi 19:12 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and
they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
2 Nephi 19:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth
them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 19:14 Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head
and tail, branch and rush in one day.
 
2 Nephi 19:15 The ancient, he is the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he is the tail.
 
2 Nephi 19:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they that are led of them are destroyed.
 
2 Nephi 19:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young
men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for
every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
 
2 Nephi 19:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it shall devour
the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forests, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
 
2 Nephi 19:19 Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man
shall spare his brother.
 
2 Nephi 19:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand and be
hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand and they shall not be
satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm--2
Nephi 19:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; they
together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
2 Nephi 20:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 10.
 
2 Nephi 20:1 Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and
that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
 
2 Nephi 20:2 To turn away the needy from judgment, and to take
away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be
their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
 
2 Nephi 20:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in
the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee
for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
 
2 Nephi 20:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,
and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 
2 Nephi 20:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is their indignation.
 
2 Nephi 20:6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and
against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take
the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
mire of the streets.
 
2 Nephi 20:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so; but in his heart it is to destroy and cut off nations
not a few.
 
2 Nephi 20:8 For he saith: Are not my princes altogether kings?
 
2 Nephi 20:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad?
Is not Samaria as Damascus?
 
2 Nephi 20:10 As my hand hath founded the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria;
 
2 Nephi 20:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her
idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her idols?
 
2 Nephi 20:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord
hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem,
I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
 
2 Nephi 20:13 For he saith: By the strength of my hand and by my
wisdom I have done these things; for I am prudent; and I have
moved the borders of the people, and have robbed their treasures,
and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man;
 
2 Nephi 20:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
people; and as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered
all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened
the mouth, or peeped.
 
2 Nephi 20:15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh
it? As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it
up, or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no
wood!
 
2 Nephi 20:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send
among his fat ones, leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle
a burning like the burning of a fire.
 
2 Nephi 20:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and
his Holy One for a flame, and shall burn and shall devour his
thorns and his briers in one day;
 
2 Nephi 20:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of
his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when
a standard-bearer fainteth.
 
2 Nephi 20:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be
few, that a child may write them.
 
2 Nephi 20:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,
shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay
upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
 
2 Nephi 20:21 The remnant shall return, yea, even the remnant of
Jacob, unto the mighty God.
 
2 Nephi 20:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the
sea, yet a remnant of them shall return; the consumption decreed
shall overflow with righteousness.
 
2 Nephi 20:23 For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption,
even determined in all the land.
 
2 Nephi 20:24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of Hosts: O my
people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he
shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
thee, after the manner of Egypt.
 
2 Nephi 20:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation
shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
 
2 Nephi 20:26 And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for
him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and
as his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the
manner of Egypt.
 
2 Nephi 20:27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his
burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke
from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
 
2 Nephi 20:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at
Michmash he hath laid up his carriages.
 
2 Nephi 20:29 They are gone over the passage; they have taken up
their lodging at Geba; Ramath is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
 
2 Nephi 20:30 Lift up the voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it
to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
 
2 Nephi 20:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim
gather themselves to flee.
 
2 Nephi 20:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day; he shall
shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the
hill of Jerusalem.
 
2 Nephi 20:33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts shall lop the
bough with terror; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn
down; and the haughty shall be humbled.
 
2 Nephi 20:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests
with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
 
2 Nephi 21:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 11.
 
2 Nephi 21:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
 
2 Nephi 21:2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the
spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
 
2 Nephi 21:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the
fear of the Lord; and he shall not judge after the sight of his
eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears.
 
2 Nephi 21:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite
the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he slay the wicked.
 
2 Nephi 21:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
 
2 Nephi 21:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young
lion and fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
 
2 Nephi 21:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young
ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like
the ox.
 
2 Nephi 21:8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's
den.
 
2 Nephi 21:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
 
2 Nephi 21:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be glorious.
 
2 Nephi 21:11 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant
of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt,
and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
 
2 Nephi 21:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
 
2 Nephi 21:13 The envy of Ephraim also shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
 
2 Nephi 21:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines towards the west; they shall spoil them of the east
together; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the
children of Ammon shall obey them.
 
2 Nephi 21:15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of
the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind he shall shake his
hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and
make men go over dry shod.
 
2 Nephi 21:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his
people which shall be left, from Assyria, like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
 
2 Nephi 22:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 12.
 
2 Nephi 22:1 And in that day thou shalt say: O Lord, I will
praise thee; though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned
away, and thou comfortedest me.
 
2 Nephi 22:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not
be afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he
also has become my salvation.
 
2 Nephi 22:3 Therefore, with joy shall ye draw water out of the
wells of salvation.
 
2 Nephi 22:4 And in that day shall ye say: Praise the Lord, call
upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention
that his name is exalted.
 
2 Nephi 22:5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent
things; this is known in all the earth.
 
2 Nephi 22:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for
great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
 
2 Nephi 23:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 13.
 
2 Nephi 23:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see.
 
2 Nephi 23:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt
the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the
gates of the nobles.
 
2 Nephi 23:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also
called my mighty ones, for mine anger is not upon them that
rejoice in my highness.
 
2 Nephi 23:4 The noise of the multitude in the mountains like as
of a great people, a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together, the Lord of Hosts mustereth the hosts of the
battle.
 
2 Nephi 23:5 They come from a far country, from the end of
heaven, yea, the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to
destroy the whole land.
 
2 Nephi 23:6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand; it
shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
 
2 Nephi 23:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, every man's
heart shall melt;
 
2 Nephi 23:8 And they shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows shall
take hold of them; they shall be amazed one at another; their
faces shall be as flames.
 
2 Nephi 23:9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
 
2 Nephi 23:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations
thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
 
2 Nephi 23:11 And I will punish the world for evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity; I will cause the arrogancy of the
proud to cease, and will lay down the haughtiness of the
terrible.
 
2 Nephi 23:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
 
2 Nephi 23:13 Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth
shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
and in the day of his fierce anger.
 
2 Nephi 23:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep
that no man taketh up; and they shall every man turn to his own
people, and flee every one into his own land.
 
2 Nephi 23:15 Every one that is proud shall be thrust through;
yea, and every one that is joined to the wicked shall fall by the
sword.
 
2 Nephi 23:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces
before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives
ravished.
 
2 Nephi 23:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver and gold, nor shall they delight in
it.
 
2 Nephi 23:18 Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces;
and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes
shall not spare children.
 
2 Nephi 23:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of
the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah.
 
2 Nephi 23:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold
there.
 
2 Nephi 23:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and
their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
 
2 Nephi 23:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in
their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and
her time is near to come, and her day shall not be prolonged. For
I will destroy her speedily; yea, for I will be merciful unto my
people, but the wicked shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 24:0 Scriptures from the brass plates continued--Compare
Isaiah 14.
 
2 Nephi 24:1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the strangers
shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of
Jacob.
 
2 Nephi 24:2 And the people shall take them and bring them to
their place; yea, from far unto the ends of the earth; and they
shall return to their lands of promise. And the house of Israel
shall possess them, and the land of the Lord shall be for
servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captives unto
whom they were captives; and they shall rule over their
oppressors.
 
2 Nephi 24:3 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord
shall give thee rest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and
from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
 
2 Nephi 24:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that thou
shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:
How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
 
2 Nephi 24:5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the
scepters of the rulers.
 
2 Nephi 24:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual
stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and
none hindereth.
 
2 Nephi 24:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; they break
forth into singing.
 
2 Nephi 24:8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and also the
cedars of Lebanon, saying: Since thou art laid down no feller is
come up against us.
 
2 Nephi 24:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at
thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations.
 
2 Nephi 24:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee: Art thou
also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
 
2 Nephi 24:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave; the noise of
thy viols is not heard; the worm is spread under thee, and the
worms cover thee.
 
2 Nephi 24:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
the morning! Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken
the nations!
 
2 Nephi 24:13 For thou hast said in thy heart: I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the
north;
 
2 Nephi 24:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the Most High.
 
2 Nephi 24:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
sides of the pit.
 
2 Nephi 24:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
and shall consider thee, and shall say: Is this the man that made
the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?
 
2 Nephi 24:17 And made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his prisoners?
 
2 Nephi 24:18 All the kings of the nations, yea, all of them, lie
in glory, every one of them in his own house.
 
2 Nephi 24:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an
abominable branch, and the remnant of those that are slain,
thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the
pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
 
2 Nephi 24:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people; the
seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.
 
2 Nephi 24:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the
iniquities of their fathers, that they do not rise, nor possess
the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
 
2 Nephi 24:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of
Hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son,
and nephew, saith the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 24:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern,
and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 24:24 The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I
have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand-- 
 
2 Nephi 24:25 That I will bring the Assyrian in my land, and upon
my mountains tread him under foot; then shall his yoke depart
from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
 
2 Nephi 24:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
nations.
 
2 Nephi 24:27 For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it
back?
 
2 Nephi 24:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
 
2 Nephi 24:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod
of him that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root
shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent.
 
2 Nephi 24:30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the
needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
 
2 Nephi 24:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,
art dissolved; for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be alone in his appointed times.
 
2 Nephi 24:32 What shall then answer the messengers of the
nations? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his
people shall trust in it.
 
2 Nephi 25:0 Nephi's comments--His prediction of the scattering
and subsequent gathering of Israel--Time of the Messiah's advent
specified.
 
2 Nephi 25:1 Now I, Nephi, do speak somewhat concerning the words
which I have written, which have been spoken by the mouth of
Isaiah. For behold, Isaiah spake many things which were hard for
many of my people to understand; for they know not concerning the
manner of prophesying among the Jews.
 
2 Nephi 25:2 For I, Nephi, have not taught them many things
concerning the manner of the Jews; for their works were works of
darkness, and their doings were doings of abominations.
 
2 Nephi 25:3 Wherefore, I write unto my people, unto all those
that shall receive hereafter these things which I write, that
they may know the judgments of God, that they come upon all
nations, according to the word which he hath spoken.
 
2 Nephi 25:4 Wherefore, hearken, O my people, which are of the
house of Israel, and give ear unto my words; for because the
words of Isaiah are not plain unto you, nevertheless they are
plain unto all those that are filled with the spirit of prophecy.
But I give unto you a prophecy, according to the spirit which is
in me; wherefore I shall prophesy according to the plainness
which hath been with me from the time that I came out from
Jerusalem with my father; for behold, my soul delighteth in
plainness unto my people, that they may learn.
 
2 Nephi 25:5 Yea, and my soul delighteth in the words of Isaiah,
for I came out from Jerusalem, and mine eyes hath beheld the
things of the Jews, and I know that the Jews do understand the
things of the prophets, and there is none other people that
understand the things which were spoken unto the Jews like unto
them, save it be that they are taught after the manner of the
things of the Jews.
 
2 Nephi 25:6 But behold, I, Nephi, have not taught my children
after the manner of the Jews; but behold, I, of myself, have
dwelt at Jerusalem, wherefore I know concerning the regions round
about; and I have made mention unto my children concerning the
judgments of God, which hath come to pass among the Jews, unto my
children, according to all that which Isaiah hath spoken, and I
do not write them.
 
2 Nephi 25:7 But behold, I proceed with mine own prophecy,
according to my plainness; in the which I know that no man can
err; nevertheless, in the days that the prophecies of Isaiah
shall be fulfilled men shall know of a surety, at the times when
they shall come to pass.
 
2 Nephi 25:8 Wherefore, they are of worth unto the children of
men, and he that supposeth that they are not, unto them will I
speak particularly, and confine the words unto mine own people;
for I know that they shall be of great worth unto them in the
last days; for in that day shall they understand them; wherefore,
for their good have I written them.
 
2 Nephi 25:9 And as one generation hath been destroyed among the
Jews because of iniquity, even so have they been destroyed from
generation to generation according to their iniquities; and never
hath any of them been destroyed save it were foretold them by the
prophets of the Lord.
 
2 Nephi 25:10 Wherefore, it hath been told them concerning the
destruction which should come upon them, immediately after my
father left Jerusalem; nevertheless, they hardened their hearts;
and according to my prophecy they have been destroyed, save it be
those which are carried away captive into Babylon.
 
2 Nephi 25:11 And now this I speak because of the spirit which is
in me. And notwithstanding they have been carried away they shall
return again, and possess the land of Jerusalem; wherefore, they
shall be restored again to the land of their inheritance.
 
2 Nephi 25:12 But, behold, they shall have wars, and rumors of
wars; and when the day cometh that the Only Begotten of the
Father, yea, even the Father of heaven and of earth, shall
manifest himself unto them in the flesh, behold, they will reject
him, because of their iniquities, and the hardness of their
hearts, and the stiffness of their necks.
 
2 Nephi 25:13 Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid
in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the
dead, with healing in his wings; and all those who shall believe
on his name shall be saved in the kingdom of God. Wherefore, my
soul delighteth to prophesy concerning him, for I have seen his
day, and my heart doth magnify his holy name.
 
2 Nephi 25:14 And behold it shall come to pass that after the
Messiah hath risen from the dead, and hath manifested himself
unto his people, unto as many as will believe on his name,
behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that
fight against God and the people of his church.
 
2 Nephi 25:15 Wherefore, the Jews shall be scattered among all
nations; yea, and also Babylon shall be destroyed; wherefore, the
Jews shall be scattered by other nations.
 
2 Nephi 25:16 And after they have been scattered, and the Lord
God hath scourged them by other nations for the space of many
generations, yea, even down from generation to generation until
they shall be persuaded to believe in Christ, the Son of God, and
the atonement, which is infinite for all mankind--and when that
day shall come that they shall believe in Christ, and worship the
Father in his name, with pure hearts and clean hands, and look
not forward any more for another Messiah, then, at that time, the
day will come that it must needs be expedient that they should
believe these things.
 
2 Nephi 25:17 And the Lord will set his hand again the second
time to restore his people from their lost and fallen state.
Wherefore, he will proceed to do a marvelous work and a wonder
among the children of men.
 
2 Nephi 25:18 Wherefore, he shall bring forth his words unto
them, which words shall judge them at the last day, for they
shall be given them for the purpose of convincing them of the
true Messiah, who was rejected by them; and unto the convincing
of them that they need not look forward any more for a Messiah to
come, for there should not any come, save it should be a false
Messiah which should deceive the people; for there is save one
Messiah spoken of by the prophets, and that Messiah is he who
should be rejected of the Jews.
 
2 Nephi 25:19 For according to the words of the prophets, the
Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father
left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and
also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus
Christ, the Son of God.
 
2 Nephi 25:20 And now, my brethren, I have spoken plainly that ye
cannot err. And as the Lord God liveth that brought Israel up out
of the land of Egypt, and gave unto Moses power that he should
heal the nations after they had been bitten by the poisonous
serpents, if they would cast their eyes unto the serpent which he
did raise up before them, and also gave him power that he should
smite the rock and the water should come forth; yea, behold I say
unto you, that as these things are true, and as the Lord God
liveth, there is none other name given under heaven save it be
this Jesus Christ, of which I have spoken, whereby man can be
saved.
 
2 Nephi 25:21 Wherefore, for this cause hath the Lord God
promised unto me that these things which I write shall be kept
and preserved, and handed down unto my seed, from generation to
generation, that the promise may be fulfilled unto Joseph, that
his seed should never perish as long as the earth should stand.
 
2 Nephi 25:22 Wherefore, these things shall go from generation to
generation as long as the earth shall stand; and they shall go
according to the will and pleasure of God; and the nations who
shall possess them shall be judged of them according to the words
which are written.
 
2 Nephi 25:23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our
children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be
reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are
saved, after all we can do.
 
2 Nephi 25:24 And, notwithstanding we believe in Christ, we keep
the law of Moses, and look forward with steadfastness unto
Christ, until the law shall be fulfilled.
 
2 Nephi 25:25 For, for this end was the law given; wherefore the
law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ
because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the
commandments.
 
2 Nephi 25:26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we
preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according
to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they
may look for a remission of their sins.
 
2 Nephi 25:27 Wherefore, we speak concerning the law that our
children may know the deadness of the law; and they, by knowing
the deadness of the law, may look forward unto that life which is
in Christ, and know for what end the law was given. And after the
law is fulfilled in Christ, that they need not harden their
hearts against him when the law ought to be done away.
 
2 Nephi 25:28 And now behold, my people, ye are a stiffnecked
people; wherefore, I have spoken plainly unto you, that ye cannot
misunderstand. And the words which I have spoken shall stand as a
testimony against you; for they are sufficient to teach any man
the right way; for the right way is to believe in Christ and deny
him not; for by denying him ye also deny the prophets and the
law.
 
2 Nephi 25:29 And now behold, I say unto you that the right way
is to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy
One of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship
him with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul;
and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out.
 
2 Nephi 25:30 And, inasmuch as it shall be expedient, ye must
keep the performances and ordinances of God until the law shall
be fulfilled which was given unto Moses.
 
2 Nephi 26:0 Nephi's predictions continued--Christ to come to the
Nephites--Their final destruction--The days of the Gentiles.
 
2 Nephi 26:1 And after Christ shall have risen from the dead he
shall show himself unto you, my children, and my beloved
brethren; and the words which he shall speak unto you shall be
the law which ye shall do.
 
2 Nephi 26:2 For behold, I say unto you that I have beheld that
many generations shall pass away, and there shall be great wars
and contentions among my people.
 
2 Nephi 26:3 And after the Messiah shall come there shall be
signs given unto my people of his birth, and also of his death
and resurrection; and great and terrible shall that day be unto
the wicked, for they shall perish; and they perish because they
cast out the prophets, and the saints, and stone them, and slay
them; wherefore the cry of the blood of the saints shall ascend
up to God from the ground against them.
 
2 Nephi 26:4 Wherefore, all those who are proud, and that do
wickedly, the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord
of Hosts, for they shall be as stubble.
 
2 Nephi 26:5 And they that kill the prophets, and the saints, the
depths of the earth shall swallow them up, saith the Lord of
Hosts; and mountains shall cover them, and whirlwinds shall carry
them away, and buildings shall fall upon them and crush them to
pieces and grind them to powder.
 
2 Nephi 26:6 And they shall be visited with thunderings, and
lightnings, and earthquakes, and all manner of destructions, for
the fire of the anger of the Lord shall be kindled against them,
and they shall be as stubble, and the day that cometh shall
consume them, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 26:7 O the pain, and the anguish of my soul for the loss
of the slain of my people! For I, Nephi, have seen it, and it
well nigh consumeth me before the presence of the Lord; but I
must cry unto my God: Thy ways are just.
 
2 Nephi 26:8 But behold, the righteous that hearken unto the
words of the prophets, and destroy them not, but look forward
unto Christ with steadfastness for the signs which are given,
notwithstanding all persecution--behold, they are they which
shall not perish.
 
2 Nephi 26:9 But the Son of righteousness shall appear unto them;
and he shall heal them, and they shall have peace with him, until
three generations shall have passed away, and many of the fourth
generation shall have passed away in righteousness.
 
2 Nephi 26:10 And when these things have passed away a speedy
destruction cometh unto my people; for, notwithstanding the pains
of my soul, I have seen it; wherefore, I know that it shall come
to pass; and they sell themselves for naught; for, for the reward
of their pride and their foolishness they shall reap destruction;
for because they yield unto the devil and choose works of
darkness rather than light, therefore they must go down to hell.
 
2 Nephi 26:11 For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive
with man. And when the Spirit ceaseth to strive with man then
cometh speedy destruction, and this grieveth my soul.
 
2 Nephi 26:12 And as I spake concerning the convincing of the
Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the
Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal
God;
 
2 Nephi 26:13 And that he manifesteth himself unto all those who
believe in him, by the power of the Holy Ghost; yea, unto every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people, working mighty miracles,
signs, and wonders, among the children of men according to their
faith.
 
2 Nephi 26:14 But behold, I prophesy unto you concerning the last
days; concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these
things forth unto the children of men.
 
2 Nephi 26:15 After my seed and the seed of my brethren shall
have dwindled in unbelief, and shall have been smitten by the
Gentiles; yea, after the Lord God shall have camped against them
round about, and shall have laid siege against them with a mount,
and raised forts against them; and after they shall have been
brought down low in the dust, even that they are not, yet the
words of the righteous shall be written, and the prayers of the
faithful shall be heard, and all those who have dwindled in
unbelief shall not be forgotten.
 
2 Nephi 26:16 For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto
them out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the
dust, and their voice shall be as one that hath a familiar
spirit; for the Lord God will give unto him power, that he may
whisper concerning them, even as it were out of the ground; and
their speech shall whisper out of the dust.
 
2 Nephi 26:17 For thus saith the Lord God: They shall write the
things which shall be done among them, and they shall be written
and sealed up in a book, and those who have dwindled in unbelief
shall not have them, for they seek to destroy the things of God.
 
2 Nephi 26:18 Wherefore, as those who have been destroyed have
been destroyed speedily; and the multitude of their terrible ones
shall be as chaff that passeth away--yea, thus saith the Lord
God: It shall be at an instant, suddenly-- 
 
2 Nephi 26:19 And it shall come to pass, that those who have
dwindled in unbelief shall be smitten by the hand of the
Gentiles.
 
2 Nephi 26:20 And the Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of
their eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of their
stumbling block, that they have built up many churches;
nevertheless, they put down the power and miracles of God, and
preach up unto themselves their own wisdom and their own
learning, that they may get gain and grind upon the face of the
poor.
 
2 Nephi 26:21 And there are many churches built up which cause
envyings, and strifes, and malice.
 
2 Nephi 26:22 And there are also secret combinations, even as in
times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, for he
is the founder of all these things; yea, the founder of murder,
and works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with
a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords
forever.
 
2 Nephi 26:23 For behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you
that the Lord God worketh not in darkness.
 
2 Nephi 26:24 He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of
the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his
own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he
commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.
 
2 Nephi 26:25 Behold, doth he cry unto any, saying: Depart from
me? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but he saith: Come unto me all
ye ends of the earth, buy milk and honey, without money and
without price.
 
2 Nephi 26:26 Behold, hath he commanded any that they should
depart out of the synagogues, or out of the houses of worship?
Behold, I say unto you, Nay.
 
2 Nephi 26:27 Hath he commanded any that they should not partake
of his salvation? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but he hath given
it free for all men; and he hath commanded his people that they
should persuade all men to repentance.
 
2 Nephi 26:28 Behold, hath the Lord commanded any that they
should not partake of his goodness? Behold I say unto you, Nay;
but all men are privileged the one like unto the other, and none
are forbidden.
 
2 Nephi 26:29 He commandeth that there shall be no priestcrafts;
for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves
up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise
of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion.
 
2 Nephi 26:30 Behold, the Lord hath forbidden this thing;
wherefore, the Lord God hath given a commandment that all men
should have charity, which charity is love. And except they
should have charity they were nothing. Wherefore, if they should
have charity they would not suffer the laborer in Zion to perish.
 
2 Nephi 26:31 But the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for
if they labor for money they shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 26:32 And again, the Lord God hath commanded that men
should not murder; that they should not lie; that they should not
steal; that they should not take the name of the Lord their God
in vain; that they should not envy; that they should not have
malice; that they should not contend one with another; that they
should not commit whoredoms; and that they should do none of
these things; for whoso doeth them shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 26:33 For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for
he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he
doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he
inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness;
and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and
free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all
are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
 
2 Nephi 27:0 Nephi's predictions continued--God's judgments upon
the wicked--The sealed book--The unlearned man--The three
witnesses--A marvelous work and a wonder.
 
2 Nephi 27:1 But, behold, in the last days, or in the days of the
Gentiles--yea, behold all the nations of the Gentiles and also
the Jews, both those who shall come upon this land and those who
shall be upon other lands, yea, even upon all the lands of the
earth, behold, they will be drunken with iniquity and all manner
of abominations-- 
 
2 Nephi 27:2 And when that day shall come they shall be visited
of the Lord of Hosts, with thunder and with earthquake, and with
a great noise, and with storm, and with tempest, and with the
flame of devouring fire.
 
2 Nephi 27:3 And all the nations that fight against Zion, and
that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea, it
shall be unto them, even as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and
behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like
unto a thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he
awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite; yea,
even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight
against Mount Zion.
 
2 Nephi 27:4 For behold, all ye that doeth iniquity, stay
yourselves and wonder, for ye shall cry out, and cry; yea, ye
shall be drunken but not with wine, ye shall stagger but not with
strong drink.
 
2 Nephi 27:5 For behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you the
spirit of deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your eyes, and
ye have rejected the prophets; and your rulers, and the seers
hath he covered because of your iniquity.
 
2 Nephi 27:6 And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall
bring forth unto you the words of a book, and they shall be the
words of them which have slumbered.
 
2 Nephi 27:7 And behold the book shall be sealed; and in the book
shall be a revelation from God, from the beginning of the world
to the ending thereof.
 
2 Nephi 27:8 Wherefore, because of the things which are sealed
up, the things which are sealed shall not be delivered in the day
of the wickedness and abominations of the people. Wherefore the
book shall be kept from them.
 
2 Nephi 27:9 But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and he
shall deliver the words of the book, which are the words of those
who have slumbered in the dust, and he shall deliver these words
unto another;
 
2 Nephi 27:10 But the words which are sealed he shall not
deliver, neither shall he deliver the book. For the book shall be
sealed by the power of God, and the revelation which was sealed
shall be kept in the book until the own due time of the Lord,
that they may come forth; for behold, they reveal all things from
the foundation of the world unto the end thereof.
 
2 Nephi 27:11 And the day cometh that the words of the book which
were sealed shall be read upon the house tops; and they shall be
read by the power of Christ; and all things shall be revealed
unto the children of men which ever have been among the children
of men, and which ever will be even unto the end of the earth.
 
2 Nephi 27:12 Wherefore, at that day when the book shall be
delivered unto the man of whom I have spoken, the book shall be
hid from the eyes of the world, that the eyes of none shall
behold it save it be that three witnesses shall behold it, by the
power of God, besides him to whom the book shall be delivered;
and they shall testify to the truth of the book and the things
therein.
 
2 Nephi 27:13 And there is none other which shall view it, save
it be a few according to the will of God, to bear testimony of
his word unto the children of men; for the Lord God hath said
that the words of the faithful should speak as if it were from
the dead.
 
2 Nephi 27:14 Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to bring forth
the words of the book; and in the mouth of as many witnesses as
seemeth him good will he establish his word; and wo be unto him
that rejecteth the word of God!
 
2 Nephi 27:15 But behold, it shall come to pass that the Lord God
shall say unto him to whom he shall deliver the book: Take these
words which are not sealed and deliver them to another, that he
may show them unto the learned, saying: Read this, I pray thee.
And the learned shall say: Bring hither the book, and I will read
them.
 
2 Nephi 27:16 And now, because of the glory of the world and to
get gain will they say this, and not for the glory of God.
 
2 Nephi 27:17 And the man shall say: I cannot bring the book, for
it is sealed.
 
2 Nephi 27:18 Then shall the learned say: I cannot read it.
 
2 Nephi 27:19 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that the Lord God
will deliver again the book and the words thereof to him that is
not learned; and the man that is not learned shall say: I am not
learned.
 
2 Nephi 27:20 Then shall the Lord God say unto him: The learned
shall not read them, for they have rejected them, and I am able
to do mine own work; wherefore thou shalt read the words which I
shall give unto thee.
 
2 Nephi 27:21 Touch not the things which are sealed, for I will
bring them forth in mine own due time; for I will show unto the
children of men that I am able to do mine own work.
 
2 Nephi 27:22 Wherefore, when thou hast read the words which I
have commanded thee, and obtained the witnesses which I have
promised unto thee, then shalt thou seal up the book again, and
hide it up unto me, that I may preserve the words which thou hast
not read, until I shall see fit in mine own wisdom to reveal all
things unto the children of men.
 
2 Nephi 27:23 For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles;
and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday,
today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save
it be according to their faith.
 
2 Nephi 27:24 And again it shall come to pass that the Lord shall
say unto him that shall read the words that shall be delivered
him:
 
2 Nephi 27:25 Forasmuch as this people draw near unto me with
their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed
their hearts far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by
the precepts of men-- 
 
2 Nephi 27:26 Therefore, I will proceed to do a marvelous work
among this people, yea, a marvelous work and a wonder, for the
wisdom of their wise and learned shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent shall be hid.
 
2 Nephi 27:27 And wo unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the Lord! And their works are in the dark; and they
say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us? And they also say: Surely,
your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay. But behold, I will show unto them, saith the Lord
of Hosts, that I know all their works. For shall the work say of
him that made it, he made me not? Or shall the thing framed say
of him that framed it, he had no understanding?
 
2 Nephi 27:28 But behold, saith the Lord of Hosts: I will show
unto the children of men that it is yet a very little while and
Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field; and the fruitful
field shall be esteemed as a forest.
 
2 Nephi 27:29 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of
the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity
and out of darkness.
 
2 Nephi 27:30 And the meek also shall increase, and their joy
shall be in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 27:31 For assuredly as the Lord liveth they shall see
that the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;
 
2 Nephi 27:32 And they that make a man an offender for a word,
and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn
aside the just for a thing of naught.
 
2 Nephi 27:33 Therefore, thus saith the Lord, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be
ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
 
2 Nephi 27:34 But when he seeth his children, the work of my
hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 27:35 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
 
2 Nephi 28:0 Nephi's predictions continued--Latter-day churches
and conditions--The kingdom of the devil to be shaken--The
misleading precepts of men.
 
2 Nephi 28:1 And now, behold, my brethren, I have spoken unto
you, according as the Spirit hath constrained me; wherefore, I
know that they must surely come to pass.
 
2 Nephi 28:2 And the things which shall be written out of the
book shall be of great worth unto the children of men, and
especially unto our seed, which is a remnant of the house of
Israel.
 
2 Nephi 28:3 For it shall come to pass in that day that the
churches which are built up, and not unto the Lord, when the one
shall say unto the other: Behold, I, I am the Lord's; and the
others shall say: I, I am the Lord's; and thus shall every one
say that hath built up churches, and not unto the Lord-- 
 
2 Nephi 28:4 And they shall contend one with another; and their
priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with
their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth utterance.
 
2 Nephi 28:5 And they deny the power of God, the Holy One of
Israel; and they say unto the people: Hearken unto us, and hear
ye our precept; for behold there is no God today, for the Lord
and the Redeemer hath done his work, and he hath given his power
unto men;
 
2 Nephi 28:6 Behold, hearken ye unto my precept; if they shall
say there is a miracle wrought by the hand of the Lord, believe
it not; for this day he is not a God of miracles; he hath done
his work.
 
2 Nephi 28:7 Yea, and there shall be many which shall say: Eat,
drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die; and it shall be well
with us.
 
2 Nephi 28:8 And there shall also be many which shall say: Eat,
drink, and be merry; nevertheless, fear God--he will justify in
committing a little sin; yea, lie a little, take the advantage of
one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no
harm in this; and do all these things, for tomorrow we die; and
if it so be that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few
stripes, and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God.
 
2 Nephi 28:9 Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after
this manner, false and vain and foolish doctrines, and shall be
puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their
counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark.
 
2 Nephi 28:10 And the blood of the saints shall cry from the
ground against them.
 
2 Nephi 28:11 Yea, they have all gone out of the way; they have
become corrupted.
 
2 Nephi 28:12 Because of pride, and because of false teachers,
and false doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, and
their churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed
up.
 
2 Nephi 28:13 They rob the poor because of their fine
sanctuaries; they rob the poor because of their fine clothing;
and they persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in
their pride they are puffed up.
 
2 Nephi 28:14 They wear stiff necks and high heads; yea, and
because of pride, and wickedness, and abominations, and
whoredoms, they have all gone astray save it be a few, who are
the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that
in many instances they do err because they are taught by the
precepts of men.
 
2 Nephi 28:15 O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that are
puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those who preach
false doctrines, and all those who commit whoredoms, and pervert
the right way of the Lord, wo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the
Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!
 
2 Nephi 28:16 Wo unto them that turn aside the just for a thing
of naught and revile against that which is good, and say that is
of no worth! For the day shall come that the Lord God will
speedily visit the inhabitants of the earth; and in that day that
they are fully ripe in iniquity they shall perish.
 
2 Nephi 28:17 But behold, if the inhabitants of the earth shall
repent of their wickedness and abominations they shall not be
destroyed, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 28:18 But behold, that great and abominable church, the
whore of all the earth, must tumble to the earth, and great must
be the fall thereof.
 
2 Nephi 28:19 For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they
which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or
the devil will grasp them with his everlasting chains, and they
be stirred up to anger, and perish;
 
2 Nephi 28:20 For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts
of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that
which is good.
 
2 Nephi 28:21 And others will he pacify, and lull them away into
carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea,
Zion prospereth, all is well--and thus the devil cheateth their
souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.
 
2 Nephi 28:22 And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth
them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for
there is none--and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he
grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no
deliverance.
 
2 Nephi 28:23 Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and
death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized
therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged
according to their works, from whence they must go into the place
prepared for them, even a lake of fire and brimstone, which is
endless torment.
 
2 Nephi 28:24 Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!
 
2 Nephi 28:25 Wo be unto him that crieth: All is well!
 
2 Nephi 28:26 Yea, wo be unto him that hearkeneth unto the
precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of
the Holy Ghost!
 
2 Nephi 28:27 Yea, wo be unto him that saith: We have received,
and we need no more!
 
2 Nephi 28:28 And in fine, wo unto all those who tremble, and are
angry because of the truth of God! For behold, he that is built
upon the rock receiveth it with gladness; and he that is built
upon a sandy foundation trembleth lest he shall fall.
 
2 Nephi 28:29 Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the
word of God, and we need no more of the word of God, for we have
enough!
 
2 Nephi 28:30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give
unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept,
here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who
hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for
they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give
more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them
shall be taken away even that which they have.
 
2 Nephi 28:31 Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, or
maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the precepts of men,
save their precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy
Ghost.
 
2 Nephi 28:32 Wo be unto the Gentiles, saith the Lord God of
Hosts! For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out mine arm unto
them from day to day, they will deny me; nevertheless, I will be
merciful unto them, saith the Lord God, if they will repent and
come unto me; for mine arm is lengthened out all the day long,
saith the Lord God of Hosts.
 
2 Nephi 29:0 Nephi's predictions continued--The Gentiles and the
Bible--Other records--God's words to be gathered in one.
 
2 Nephi 29:1 But behold, there shall be many--at that day when I
shall proceed to do a marvelous work among them, that I may
remember my covenants which I have made unto the children of men,
that I may set my hand again the second time to recover my
people, which are of the house of Israel;
 
2 Nephi 29:2 And also, that I may remember the promises which I
have made unto thee, Nephi, and also unto thy father, that I
would remember your seed; and that the words of your seed should
proceed forth out of my mouth unto your seed; and my words shall
hiss forth unto the ends of the earth, for a standard unto my
people, which are of the house of Israel;
 
2 Nephi 29:3 And because my words shall hiss forth--many of the
Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and
there cannot be any more Bible.
 
2 Nephi 29:4 But thus saith the Lord God: O fools, they shall
have a Bible; and it shall proceed forth from the Jews, mine
ancient covenant people. And what thank they the Jews for the
Bible which they receive from them? Yea, what do the Gentiles
mean? Do they remember the travails, and the labors, and the
pains of the Jews, and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth
salvation unto the Gentiles?
 
2 Nephi 29:5 O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine
ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have
hated them, and have not sought to recover them. But behold, I
will return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord
have not forgotten my people.
 
2 Nephi 29:6 Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a
Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save
it were by the Jews?
 
2 Nephi 29:7 Know ye not that there are more nations than one?
Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and
that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that
I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring
forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the
nations of the earth?
 
2 Nephi 29:8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive
more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is
a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like
unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation
like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together
the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.
 
2 Nephi 29:9 And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am
the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my
words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have
spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another;
for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the
end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.
 
2 Nephi 29:10 Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not
suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose
that I have not caused more to be written.
 
2 Nephi 29:11 For I command all men, both in the east and in the
west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of
the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them;
for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the
world, every man according to their works, according to that
which is written.
 
2 Nephi 29:12 For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews and they
shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they
shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of
the house of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write
it; and I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they
shall write it.
 
2 Nephi 29:13 And it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have
the words of the Nephites, and the Nephites shall have the words
of the Jews; and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words
of the lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall
have the words of the Nephites and the Jews.
 
2 Nephi 29:14 And it shall come to pass that my people, which are
of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of
their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one. And
I will show unto them that fight against my word and against my
people, who are of the house of Israel, that I am God, and that I
covenanted with Abraham that I would remember his seed forever.
 
2 Nephi 30:0 Nephi's predictions continued--Converted Gentiles to
be numbered with the covenant people--Jews and Lamanites to
believe--The wicked to be destroyed.
 
2 Nephi 30:1 And now behold, my beloved brethren, I would speak
unto you; for I, Nephi, would not suffer that ye should suppose
that ye are more righteous than the Gentiles shall be. For
behold, except ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall all
likewise perish; and because of the words which have been spoken
ye need not suppose that the Gentiles are utterly destroyed.
 
2 Nephi 30:2 For behold, I say unto you that as many of the
Gentiles as will repent are the covenant people of the Lord; and
as many of the Jews as will not repent shall be cast off; for the
Lord covenanteth with none save it be with them that repent and
believe in his Son, who is the Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 30:3 And now, I would prophesy somewhat more concerning
the Jews and the Gentiles. For after the book of which I have
spoken shall come forth, and be written unto the Gentiles, and
sealed up again unto the Lord, there shall be many which shall
believe the words which are written; and they shall carry them
forth unto the remnant of our seed.
 
2 Nephi 30:4 And then shall the remnant of our seed know
concerning us, how that we came out from Jerusalem, and that they
are descendants of the Jews.
 
2 Nephi 30:5 And the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be declared
among them; wherefore, they shall be restored unto the knowledge
of their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus Christ,
which was had among their fathers.
 
2 Nephi 30:6 And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know
that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their
scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many
generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a
pure and a delightsome people.
 
2 Nephi 30:7 And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are
scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ; and they shall
begin to gather in upon the face of the land; and as many as
shall believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people.
 
2 Nephi 30:8 And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall
commence his work among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and
people, to bring about the restoration of his people upon the
earth.
 
2 Nephi 30:9 And with righteousness shall the Lord God judge the
poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth. And he
shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the
breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
 
2 Nephi 30:10 For the time speedily cometh that the Lord God
shall cause a great division among the people, and the wicked
will he destroy; and he will spare his people, yea, even if it so
be that he must destroy the wicked by fire.
 
2 Nephi 30:11 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
 
2 Nephi 30:12 And then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb; and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the
young lion, and the fatling, together; and a little child shall
lead them.
 
2 Nephi 30:13 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young
ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like
the ox.
 
2 Nephi 30:14 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's
den.
 
2 Nephi 30:15 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
Lord as the waters cover the sea.
 
2 Nephi 30:16 Wherefore, the things of all nations shall be made
known; yea, all things shall be made known unto the children of
men.
 
2 Nephi 30:17 There is nothing which is secret save it shall be
revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be made
manifest in the light; and there is nothing which is sealed upon
the earth save it shall be loosed.
 
2 Nephi 30:18 Wherefore, all things which have been revealed unto
the children of men shall at that day be revealed; and Satan
shall have power over the hearts of the children of men no more,
for a long time. And now, my beloved brethren, I make an end of
my sayings.
 
2 Nephi 31:0 Nephi's predictions continued--Why the Savior would
be baptized--The straight and narrow way.
 
2 Nephi 31:1 And now I, Nephi, make an end of my prophesying unto
you, my beloved brethren. And I cannot write but a few things,
which I know must surely come to pass; neither can I write but a
few of the words of my brother Jacob.
 
2 Nephi 31:2 Wherefore, the things which I have written sufficeth
me, save it be a few words which I must speak concerning the
doctrine of Christ; wherefore, I shall speak unto you plainly,
according to the plainness of my prophesying.
 
2 Nephi 31:3 For my soul delighteth in plainness; for after this
manner doth the Lord God work among the children of men. For the
Lord God giveth light unto the understanding; for he speaketh
unto men according to their language, unto their understanding.
 
2 Nephi 31:4 Wherefore, I would that ye should remember that I
have spoken unto you concerning that prophet which the Lord
showed unto me, that should baptize the Lamb of God, which should
take away the sins of the world.
 
2 Nephi 31:5 And now, if the Lamb of God, he being holy, should
have need to be baptized by water, to fulfil all righteousness, O
then, how much more need have we, being unholy, to be baptized,
yea, even by water!
 
2 Nephi 31:6 And now, I would ask of you, my beloved brethren,
wherein the Lamb of God did fulfil all righteousness in being
baptized by water?
 
2 Nephi 31:7 Know ye not that he was holy? But notwithstanding he
being holy, he showeth unto the children of men that, according
to the flesh he humbleth himself before the Father, and
witnesseth unto the Father that he would be obedient unto him in
keeping his commandments.
 
2 Nephi 31:8 Wherefore, after he was baptized with water the Holy
Ghost descended upon him in the form of a dove.
 
2 Nephi 31:9 And again, it showeth unto the children of men the
straightness of the path, and the narrowness of the gate, by
which they should enter, he having set the example before them.
 
2 Nephi 31:10 And he said unto the children of men: Follow thou
me. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, can we follow Jesus save we
shall be willing to keep the commandments of the Father?
 
2 Nephi 31:11 And the Father said: Repent ye, repent ye, and be
baptized in the name of my Beloved Son.
 
2 Nephi 31:12 And also, the voice of the Son came unto me,
saying: He that is baptized in my name, to him will the Father
give the Holy Ghost, like unto me; wherefore, follow me, and do
the things which ye have seen me do.
 
2 Nephi 31:13 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I know that if ye
shall follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no
hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent,
repenting of your sins, witnessing unto the Father that ye are
willing to take upon you the name of Christ, by baptism--yea, by
following your Lord and your Savior down into the water,
according to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy
Ghost; yea, then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy
Ghost; and then can ye speak with the tongue of angels, and shout
praises unto the Holy One of Israel.
 
2 Nephi 31:14 But, behold, my beloved brethren, thus came the
voice of the Son unto me, saying: After ye have repented of your
sins, and witnessed unto the Father that ye are willing to keep
my commandments, by the baptism of water, and have received the
baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost, and can speak with a new
tongue, yea, even with the tongue of angels, and after this
should deny me, it would have been better for you that ye had not
known me.
 
2 Nephi 31:15 And I heard a voice from the Father, saying: Yea,
the words of my Beloved are true and faithful. He that endureth
to the end, the same shall be saved.
 
2 Nephi 31:16 And now, my beloved brethren, I know by this that
unless a man shall endure to the end, in following the example of
the Son of the living God, he cannot be saved.
 
2 Nephi 31:17 Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I
have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for
this cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the
gate by which ye should enter. For the gate by which ye should
enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a
remission of your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost.
 
2 Nephi 31:18 And then are ye in this strait and narrow path
which leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate;
ye have done according to the commandments of the Father and the
Son; and ye have received the Holy Ghost, which witnesses of the
Father and the Son, unto the fulfilling of the promise which he
hath made, that if ye entered in by the way ye should receive.
 
2 Nephi 31:19 And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten
into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done?
Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save
it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying
wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.
 
2 Nephi 31:20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a
steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and
a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press
forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end,
behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
 
2 Nephi 31:21 And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the
way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven
whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold,
this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one
God, without end. Amen.
 
2 Nephi 32:0 Nephi's predictions continued--The tongue of angels-
-Office of the Holy Ghost.
 
2 Nephi 32:1 And now, behold, my beloved brethren, I suppose that
ye ponder somewhat in your hearts concerning that which ye should
do after ye have entered in by the way. But, behold, why do ye
ponder these things in your hearts?
 
2 Nephi 32:2 Do ye not remember that I said unto you that after
ye had received the Holy Ghost ye could speak with the tongue of
angels? And now, how could ye speak with the tongue of angels
save it were by the Holy Ghost?
 
2 Nephi 32:3 Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost;
wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto
you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of
Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.
 
2 Nephi 32:4 Wherefore, now after I have spoken these words, if
ye cannot understand them it will be because ye ask not, neither
do ye knock; wherefore, ye are not brought into the light, but
must perish in the dark.
 
2 Nephi 32:5 For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will
enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show
unto you all things what ye should do.
 
2 Nephi 32:6 Behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and there
will be no more doctrine given until after he shall manifest
himself unto you in the flesh. And when he shall manifest himself
unto you in the flesh, the things which he shall say unto you
shall ye observe to do.
 
2 Nephi 32:7 And now I, Nephi, cannot say more; the Spirit
stoppeth mine utterance, and I am left to mourn because of the
unbelief, and the wickedness, and the ignorance, and the
stiffneckedness of men; for they will not search knowledge, nor
understand great knowledge, when it is given unto them in
plainness, even as plain as word can be.
 
2 Nephi 32:8 And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye
ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak
concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit
which teacheth a man to pray ye would know that ye must pray; for
the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that
he must not pray.
 
2 Nephi 32:9 But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always,
and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord
save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name
of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee,
that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul.
 
2 Nephi 33:0 Nephi's parting testimony--Not mighty in writing as
in speaking--His great concern for his people.
 
2 Nephi 33:1 And now I, Nephi, cannot write all the things which
were taught among my people; neither am I mighty in writing, like
unto speaking; for when a man speaketh by the power of the Holy
Ghost the power of the Holy Ghost carrieth it unto the hearts of
the children of men.
 
2 Nephi 33:2 But behold, there are many that harden their hearts
against the Holy Spirit, that it hath no place in them;
wherefore, they cast many things away which are written and
esteem them as things of naught.
 
2 Nephi 33:3 But I, Nephi, have written what I have written, and
I esteem it as of great worth, and especially unto my people. For
I pray continually for them by day, and mine eyes water my pillow
by night, because of them; and I cry unto my God in faith, and I
know that he will hear my cry.
 
2 Nephi 33:4 And I know that the Lord God will consecrate my
prayers for the gain of my people. And the words which I have
written in weakness will be made strong unto them; for it
persuadeth them to do good; it maketh known unto them of their
fathers; and it speaketh of Jesus, and persuadeth them to believe
in him, and to endure to the end, which is life eternal.
 
2 Nephi 33:5 And it speaketh harshly against sin, according to
the plainness of the truth; wherefore, no man will be angry at
the words which I have written save he shall be of the spirit of
the devil.
 
2 Nephi 33:6 I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in
my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell.
 
2 Nephi 33:7 I have charity for my people, and great faith in
Christ that I shall meet many souls spotless at his judgment-
seat.
 
2 Nephi 33:8 I have charity for the Jew--I say Jew, because I
mean them from whence I came.
 
2 Nephi 33:9 I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold,
for none of these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto
Christ, and enter into the narrow gate, and walk in the strait
path which leads to life, and continue in the path until the end
of the day of probation.
 
2 Nephi 33:10 And now, my beloved brethren, and also Jew, and all
ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and believe in
Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ.
And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words,
for they are the words of Christ, and he hath given them unto me;
and they teach all men that they should do good.
 
2 Nephi 33:11 And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye--
for Christ will show unto you, with power and great glory, that
they are his words, at the last day; and you and I shall stand
face to face before his bar; and ye shall know that I have been
commanded of him to write these things, notwithstanding my
weakness.
 
2 Nephi 33:12 And I pray the Father in the name of Christ that
many of us, if not all, may be saved in his kingdom at that great
and last day.
 
2 Nephi 33:13 And now, my beloved brethren, all those who are of
the house of Israel, and all ye ends of the earth, I speak unto
you as the voice of one crying from the dust: Farewell until that
great day shall come.
 
2 Nephi 33:14 And you that will not partake of the goodness of
God, and respect the words of the Jews, and also my words, and
the words which shall proceed forth out of the mouth of the Lamb
of God, behold, I bid you an everlasting farewell, for these
words shall condemn you at the last day.
 
2 Nephi 33:15 For what I seal on earth, shall be brought against
you at the judgment bar; for thus hath the Lord commanded me, and
I must obey. Amen.
 
THE BOOK OF JACOB, the brother of Nephi
 
Jacob 0:0 The words of his preaching unto his brethren. He
confoundeth a man who seeketh to overthrow the doctrine of
Christ. A few words concerning the history of the people of
Nephi.
 
Jacob 1:0 Nephites and Lamanites--Death of Nephi, son of Lehi--
Hardness of heart and wicked practices.
 
Jacob 1:1 For behold, it came to pass that fifty and five years
had passed away from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem;
wherefore, Nephi gave me, Jacob, a commandment concerning the
small plates, upon which these things are engraven.
 
Jacob 1:2 And he gave me, Jacob, a commandment that I should
write upon these plates a few of the things which I considered to
be most precious; that I should not touch, save it were lightly,
concerning the history of this people which are called the people
of Nephi.
 
Jacob 1:3 For he said that the history of his people should be
engraven upon his other plates, and that I should preserve these
plates and hand them down unto my seed, from generation to
generation.
 
Jacob 1:4 And if there were preaching which was sacred, or
revelation which was great, or prophesying, that I should
engraven the heads of them upon these plates, and touch upon them
as much as it were possible, for Christ's sake, and for the sake
of our people.
 
Jacob 1:5 For because of faith and great anxiety, it truly had
been made manifest unto us concerning our people, what things
should happen unto them.
 
Jacob 1:6 And we also had many revelations, and the spirit of
much prophecy; wherefore, we knew of Christ and his kingdom,
which should come.
 
Jacob 1:7 Wherefore we labored diligently among our people, that
we might persuade them to come unto Christ, and partake of the
goodness of God, that they might enter into his rest, lest by any
means he should swear in his wrath they should not enter in, as
in the provocation in the days of temptation while the children
of Israel were in the wilderness.
 
Jacob 1:8 Wherefore, we would to God that we could persuade all
men not to rebel against God, to provoke him to anger, but that
all men would believe in Christ, and view his death, and suffer
his cross and bear the shame of the world; wherefore, I, Jacob,
take it upon me to fulfil the commandment of my brother Nephi.
 
Jacob 1:9 Now Nephi began to be old, and he saw that he must soon
die; wherefore, he anointed a man to be a king and a ruler over
his people now, according to the reigns of the kings.
 
Jacob 1:10 The people having loved Nephi exceedingly, he having
been a great protector for them, having wielded the sword of
Laban in their defence, and having labored in all his days for
their welfare-- 
 
Jacob 1:11 Wherefore, the people were desirous to retain in
remembrance his name. And whoso should reign in his stead were
called by the people, second Nephi, third Nephi, and so forth,
according to the reigns of the kings; and thus they were called
by the people, let them be of whatever name they would.
 
Jacob 1:12 And it came to pass that Nephi died.
 
Jacob 1:13 Now the people which were not Lamanites were Nephites;
nevertheless, they were called Nephites, Jacobites, Josephites,
Zoramites, Lamanites, Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites.
 
Jacob 1:14 But I, Jacob, shall not hereafter distinguish them by
these names, but I shall call them Lamanites that seek to destroy
the people of Nephi, and those who are friendly to Nephi I shall
call Nephites, or the people of Nephi, according to the reigns of
the kings.
 
Jacob 1:15 And now it came to pass that the people of Nephi,
under the reign of the second king, began to grow hard in their
hearts, and indulge themselves somewhat in wicked practices, such
as like unto David of old desiring many wives and concubines, and
also Solomon, his son.
 
Jacob 1:16 Yea, and they also began to search much gold and
silver, and began to be lifted up somewhat in pride.
 
Jacob 1:17 Wherefore I, Jacob, gave unto them these words as I
taught them in the temple, having first obtained mine errand from
the Lord.
 
Jacob 1:18 For I, Jacob, and my brother Joseph had been
consecrated priests and teachers of this people, by the hand of
Nephi.
 
Jacob 1:19 And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking
upon us the responsibility, answering the sins of the people upon
our own heads if we did not teach them the word of God with all
diligence; wherefore, by laboring with our might their blood
might not come upon our garments; otherwise their blood would
come upon our garments, and we would not be found spotless at the
last day.
 
Jacob 2:0 Jacob's denunciation of unchastity and other sins--
Plurality of wives forbidden because of iniquity.
 
Jacob 2:1 The words which Jacob, the brother of Nephi, spake unto
the people of Nephi, after the death of Nephi:
 
Jacob 2:2 Now, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob, according to the
responsibility which I am under to God, to magnify mine office
with soberness, and that I might rid my garments of your sins, I
come up into the temple this day that I might declare unto you
the word of God.
 
Jacob 2:3 And ye yourselves know that I have hitherto been
diligent in the office of my calling; but I this day am weighed
down with much more desire and anxiety for the welfare of your
souls than I have hitherto been.
 
Jacob 2:4 For behold, as yet, ye have been obedient unto the word
of the Lord, which I have given unto you.
 
Jacob 2:5 But behold, hearken ye unto me, and know that by the
help of the all-powerful Creator of heaven and earth I can tell
you concerning your thoughts, how that ye are beginning to labor
in sin, which sin appeareth very abominable unto me, yea, and
abominable unto God.
 
Jacob 2:6 Yea, it grieveth my soul and causeth me to shrink with
shame before the presence of my Maker, that I must testify unto
you concerning the wickedness of your hearts.
 
Jacob 2:7 And also it grieveth me that I must use so much
boldness of speech concerning you, before your wives and your
children, many of whose feelings are exceedingly tender and
chaste and delicate before God, which thing is pleasing unto God;
 
Jacob 2:8 And it supposeth me that they have come up hither to
hear the pleasing word of God, yea, the word which healeth the
wounded soul.
 
Jacob 2:9 Wherefore, it burdeneth my soul that I should be
constrained, because of the strict commandment which I have
received from God, to admonish you according to your crimes, to
enlarge the wounds of those who are already wounded, instead of
consoling and healing their wounds; and those who have not been
wounded, instead of feasting upon the pleasing word of God have
daggers placed to pierce their souls and wound their delicate
minds.
 
Jacob 2:10 But, notwithstanding the greatness of the task, I must
do according to the strict commands of God, and tell you
concerning your wickedness and abominations, in the presence of
the pure in heart, and the broken heart, and under the glance of
the piercing eye of the Almighty God.
 
Jacob 2:11 Wherefore, I must tell you the truth according to the
plainness of the word of God. For behold, as I inquired of the
Lord, thus came the word unto me, saying: Jacob, get thou up into
the temple on the morrow, and declare the word which I shall give
thee unto this people.
 
Jacob 2:12 And now behold, my brethren, this is the word which I
declare unto you, that many of you have begun to search for gold,
and for silver, and for all manner of precious ores, in the which
this land, which is a land of promise unto you and to your seed,
doth abound most plentifully.
 
Jacob 2:13 And the hand of providence hath smiled upon you most
pleasingly, that you have obtained many riches; and because some
of you have obtained more abundantly than that of your brethren
ye are lifted up in the pride of your hearts, and wear stiff
necks and high heads because of the costliness of your apparel,
and persecute your brethren because ye suppose that ye are better
than they.
 
Jacob 2:14 And now, my brethren, do ye suppose that God
justifieth you in this thing? Behold, I say unto you, Nay. But he
condemneth you, and if ye persist in these things his judgments
must speedily come unto you.
 
Jacob 2:15 O that he would show you that he can pierce you, and
with one glance of his eye he can smite you to the dust!
 
Jacob 2:16 O that he would rid you from this iniquity and
abomination. And, O that ye would listen unto the word of his
commands, and let not this pride of your hearts destroy your
souls!
 
Jacob 2:17 Think of your brethren like unto yourselves, and be
familiar with all and free with your substance, that they may be
rich like unto you.
 
Jacob 2:18 But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom
of God.
 
Jacob 2:19 And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall
obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the
intent to do good--to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry,
and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick
and the afflicted.
 
Jacob 2:20 And now, my brethren, I have spoken unto you
concerning pride; and those of you which have afflicted your
neighbor, and persecuted him because ye were proud in your
hearts, of the things which God hath given you, what say ye of
it?
 
Jacob 2:21 Do ye not suppose that such things are abominable unto
him who created all flesh? And the one being is as precious in
his sight as the other. And all flesh is of the dust; and for the
selfsame end hath he created them, that they should keep his
commandments and glorify him forever.
 
Jacob 2:22 And now I make an end of speaking unto you concerning
this pride. And were it not that I must speak unto you concerning
a grosser crime, my heart would rejoice exceedingly because of
you.
 
Jacob 2:23 But the word of God burdens me because of your grosser
crimes. For behold, thus saith the Lord: This people begin to wax
in iniquity; they understand not the scriptures, for they seek to
excuse themselves in committing whoredoms, because of the things
which were written concerning David, and Solomon his son.
 
Jacob 2:24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and
concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
 
Jacob 2:25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people
forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm,
that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit
of the loins of Joseph.
 
Jacob 2:26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this
people shall do like unto them of old.
 
Jacob 2:27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the
word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save
it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
 
Jacob 2:28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women.
And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord
of Hosts.
 
Jacob 2:29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments,
saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
 
Jacob 2:30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed
unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken
unto these things.
 
Jacob 2:31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and
heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of
Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the
wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
 
Jacob 2:32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that
the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led
out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the
men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
Jacob 2:33 For they shall not lead away captive the daughters of
my people because of their tenderness, save I shall visit them
with a sore curse, even unto destruction; for they shall not
commit whoredoms, like unto them of old, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
Jacob 2:34 And now behold, my brethren, ye know that these
commandments were given to our father, Lehi; wherefore, ye have
known them before; and ye have come unto great condemnation; for
ye have done these things which ye ought not to have done.
 
Jacob 2:35 Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the
Lamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the hearts of your tender
wives, and lost the confidence of your children, because of your
bad examples before them; and the sobbings of their hearts ascend
up to God against you. And because of the strictness of the word
of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced
with deep wounds.
 
Jacob 3:0 Jacob's denunciation continued--Lamanites more
righteous than Nephites--The former commended for fidelity in
marriage--The latter again warned.
 
Jacob 3:1 But behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are
pure in heart. Look unto God with firmness of mind, and pray unto
him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your
afflictions, and he will plead your cause, and send down justice
upon those who seek your destruction.
 
Jacob 3:2 O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and
receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his love; for ye
may, if your minds are firm, forever.
 
Jacob 3:3 But, wo, wo, unto you that are not pure in heart, that
are filthy this day before God; for except ye repent the land is
cursed for your sakes; and the Lamanites, which are not filthy
like unto you, nevertheless they are cursed with a sore cursing,
shall scourge you even unto destruction.
 
Jacob 3:4 And the time speedily cometh, that except ye repent
they shall possess the land of your inheritance, and the Lord God
will lead away the righteous out from among you.
 
Jacob 3:5 Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate
because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon
their skins, are more righteous than you; for they have not
forgotten the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto our
father--that they should have save it were one wife, and
concubines they should have none, and there should not be
whoredoms committed among them.
 
Jacob 3:6 And now, this commandment they observe to keep;
wherefore, because of this observance, in keeping this
commandment, the Lord God will not destroy them, but will be
merciful unto them; and one day they shall become a blessed
people.
 
Jacob 3:7 Behold, their husbands love their wives, and their
wives love their husbands; and their husbands and their wives
love their children; and their unbelief and their hatred towards
you is because of the iniquity of their fathers; wherefore, how
much better are you than they, in the sight of your great
Creator?
 
Jacob 3:8 O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of
your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours, when ye
shall be brought with them before the throne of God.
 
Jacob 3:9 Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, which is the
word of God, that ye revile no more against them because of the
darkness of their skins; neither shall ye revile against them
because of their filthiness; but ye shall remember your own
filthiness, and remember that their filthiness came because of
their fathers.
 
Jacob 3:10 Wherefore, ye shall remember your children, how that
ye have grieved their hearts because of the example that ye have
set before them; and also, remember that ye may, because of your
filthiness, bring your children unto destruction, and their sins
be heaped upon your heads at the last day.
 
Jacob 3:11 O my brethren, hearken unto my words; arouse the
faculties of your souls; shake yourselves that ye may awake from
the slumber of death; and loose yourselves from the pains of hell
that ye may not become angels to the devil, to be cast into that
lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death.
 
Jacob 3:12 And now I, Jacob, spake many more things unto the
people of Nephi, warning them against fornication and
lasciviousness, and every kind of sin, telling them the awful
consequences of them.
 
Jacob 3:13 And a hundredth part of the proceedings of this
people, which now began to be numerous, cannot be written upon
these plates; but many of their proceedings are written upon the
larger plates, and their wars, and their contentions, and the
reigns of their kings.
 
Jacob 3:14 These plates are called the plates of Jacob, and they
were made by the hand of Nephi. And I make an end of speaking
these words.
 
Jacob 4:0 Jacob's teachings continued--The law of Moses among the
Nephites pointing them to Christ--His rejection by the Jews
forseen.
 
Jacob 4:1 Now behold, it came to pass that I, Jacob, having
ministered much unto my people in word, (and I cannot write but a
little of my words, because of the difficulty of engraving our
words upon plates) and we know that the things which we write
upon plates must remain;
 
Jacob 4:2 But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be
upon plates must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few
words upon plates, which will give our children, and also our
beloved brethren, a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or
concerning their fathers-- 
 
Jacob 4:3 Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor
diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our
beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful
hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not
with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first
parents.
 
Jacob 4:4 For, for this intent have we written these things, that
they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his
glory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we
ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy prophets
which were before us.
 
Jacob 4:5 Behold, they believed in Christ and worshiped the
Father in his name, and also we worship the Father in his name.
And for this intent we keep the law of Moses, it pointing our
souls to him; and for this cause it is sanctified unto us for
righteousness, even as it was accounted unto Abraham in the
wilderness to be obedient unto the commands of God in offering up
his son Isaac, which is a similitude of God and his Only Begotten
Son.
 
Jacob 4:6 Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many
revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these
witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken,
insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the
very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.
 
Jacob 4:7 Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our weakness that
we may know that it is by his grace, and his great condescensions
unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.
 
Jacob 4:8 Behold, great and marvelous are the works of the Lord.
How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it
is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man
knoweth of his ways save it be revealed unto him; wherefore,
brethren, despise not the revelations of God.
 
Jacob 4:9 For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the
face of the earth, which earth was created by the power of his
word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was,
and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command
the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it,
according to his will and pleasure?
 
Jacob 4:10 Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but
to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know
that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy,
over all his works.
 
Jacob 4:11 Wherefore, beloved brethren, be reconciled unto him
through the atonement of Christ, his Only Begotten Son, and ye
may obtain a resurrection, according to the power of the
resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the first-
fruits of Christ unto God, having faith, and obtained a good hope
of glory in him before he manifesteth himself in the flesh.
 
Jacob 4:12 And now, beloved, marvel not that I tell you these
things; for why not speak of the atonement of Christ, and attain
to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a
resurrection and the world to come?
 
Jacob 4:13 Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him
prophesy to the understanding of men; for the Spirit speaketh the
truth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they
really are, and of things as they really will be; wherefore,
these things are manifested unto us plainly, for the salvation of
our souls. But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these
things; for God also spake them unto prophets of old.
 
Jacob 4:14 But behold, the Jews were a stiffnecked people; and
they despised the words of plainness, and killed the prophets,
and sought for things that they could not understand. Wherefore,
because of their blindness, which blindness came by looking
beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away
his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things
which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And
because they desired it God hath done it, that they may stumble.
 
Jacob 4:15 And now I, Jacob, am led on by the Spirit unto
prophesying; for I perceive by the workings of the Spirit which
is in me, that by the stumbling of the Jews they will reject the
stone upon which they might build and have safe foundation.
 
Jacob 4:16 But behold, according to the scriptures, this stone
shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure
foundation, upon which the Jews can build.
 
Jacob 4:17 And now, my beloved, how is it possible that these,
after having rejected the sure foundation, can ever build upon
it, that it may become the head of their corner?
 
Jacob 4:18 Behold, my beloved brethren, I will unfold this
mystery unto you; if I do not, by any means, get shaken from my
firmness in the Spirit, and stumble because of my over anxiety
for you.
 
Jacob 5:0 Jacob quotes the prophet Zenos--Allegory of the tame
and wild olive-tree--Israel and the Gentiles.
 
Jacob 5:1 Behold, my brethren, do ye not remember to have read
the words of the prophet Zenos, which he spake unto the house of
Israel, saying:
 
Jacob 5:2 Hearken, O ye house of Israel, and hear the words of
me, a prophet of the Lord.
 
Jacob 5:3 For behold, thus saith the Lord, I will liken thee, O
house of Israel, like unto a tame olive-tree, which a man took
and nourished in his vineyard; and it grew, and waxed old, and
began to decay.
 
Jacob 5:4 And it came to pass that the master of the vineyard
went forth, and he saw that his olive-tree began to decay; and he
said: I will prune it, and dig about it, and nourish it, that
perhaps it may shoot forth young and tender branches, and it
perish not.
 
Jacob 5:5 And it came to pass that he pruned it, and digged about
it, and nourished it according to his word.
 
Jacob 5:6 And it came to pass that after many days it began to
put forth somewhat a little, young and tender branches; but
behold, the main top thereof began to perish.
 
Jacob 5:7 And it came to pass that the master of the vineyard saw
it, and he said unto his servant: It grieveth me that I should
lose this tree; wherefore, go and pluck the branches from a wild
olive-tree, and bring them hither unto me; and we will pluck off
those main branches which are beginning to wither away, and we
will cast them into the fire that they may be burned.
 
Jacob 5:8 And behold, saith the Lord of the vineyard, I take away
many of these young and tender branches, and I will graft them
whithersoever I will; and it mattereth not that if it so be that
the root of this tree will perish, I may preserve the fruit
thereof unto myself; wherefore, I will take these young and
tender branches, and I will graft them whithersoever I will.
 
Jacob 5:9 Take thou the branches of the wild olive-tree, and
graft them in, in the stead thereof; and these which I have
plucked off I will cast into the fire and burn them, that they
may not cumber the ground of my vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:10 And it came to pass that the servant of the Lord of
the vineyard did according to the word of the Lord of the
vineyard, and grafted in the branches of the wild olive-tree.
 
Jacob 5:11 And the Lord of the vineyard caused that it should be
digged about, and pruned, and nourished, saying unto his servant:
It grieveth me that I should lose this tree; wherefore, that
perhaps I might preserve the roots thereof that they perish not,
that I might preserve them unto myself, I have done this thing.
 
Jacob 5:12 Wherefore, go thy way; watch the tree, and nourish it,
according to my words.
 
Jacob 5:13 And these will I place in the nethermost part of my
vineyard, whithersoever I will, it mattereth not unto thee; and I
do it that I may preserve unto myself the natural branches of the
tree; and also, that I may lay up fruit thereof against the
season, unto myself; for it grieveth me that I should lose this
tree and the fruit thereof.
 
Jacob 5:14 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard went
his way, and hid the natural branches of the tame olive-tree in
the nethermost parts of the vineyard, some in one and some in
another, according to his will and pleasure.
 
Jacob 5:15 And it came to pass that a long time passed away, and
the Lord of the vineyard said unto his servant: Come, let us go
down into the vineyard, that we may labor in the vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:16 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard, and
also the servant, went down into the vineyard to labor. And it
came to pass that the servant said unto his master: Behold, look
here; behold the tree.
 
Jacob 5:17 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard
looked and beheld the tree in the which the wild olive branches
had been grafted; and it had sprung forth and begun to bear
fruit. And he beheld that it was good; and the fruit thereof was
like unto the natural fruit.
 
Jacob 5:18 And he said unto the servant: Behold, the branches of
the wild tree have taken hold of the moisture of the root
thereof, that the root thereof hath brought forth much strength;
and because of the much strength of the root thereof the wild
branches have brought forth tame fruit. Now, if we had not
grafted in these branches, the tree thereof would have perished.
And now, behold, I shall lay up much fruit, which the tree
thereof hath brought forth; and the fruit thereof I shall lay up
against the season, unto mine own self.
 
Jacob 5:19 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
unto the servant: Come, let us go to the nethermost part of the
vineyard, and behold if the natural branches of the tree have not
brought forth much fruit also, that I may lay up of the fruit
thereof against the season, unto mine own self.
 
Jacob 5:20 And it came to pass that they went forth whither the
master had hid the natural branches of the tree, and he said unto
the servant: Behold these; and he beheld the first that it had
brought forth much fruit; and he beheld also that it was good.
And he said unto the servant: Take of the fruit thereof, and lay
it up against the season, that I may preserve it unto mine own
self; for behold, said he, this long time have I nourished it,
and it hath brought forth much fruit.
 
Jacob 5:21 And it came to pass that the servant said unto his
master: How comest thou hither to plant this tree, or this branch
of the tree? For behold, it was the poorest spot in all the land
of thy vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:22 And the Lord of the vineyard said unto him: Counsel me
not; I knew that it was a poor spot of ground; wherefore, I said
unto thee, I have nourished it this long time, and thou beholdest
that it hath brought forth much fruit.
 
Jacob 5:23 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
unto his servant: Look hither; behold I have planted another
branch of the tree also; and thou knowest that this spot of
ground was poorer than the first. But, behold the tree. I have
nourished it this long time, and it hath brought forth much
fruit; therefore, gather it, and lay it up against the season,
that I may preserve it unto mine own self.
 
Jacob 5:24 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
again unto his servant: Look hither, and behold another branch
also, which I have planted; behold that I have nourished it also,
and it hath brought forth fruit.
 
Jacob 5:25 And he said unto the servant: Look hither and behold
the last. Behold, this have I planted in a good spot of ground;
and I have nourished it this long time, and only a part of the
tree hath brought forth tame fruit, and the other part of the
tree hath brought forth wild fruit; behold, I have nourished this
tree like unto the others.
 
Jacob 5:26 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
unto the servant: Pluck off the branches that have not brought
forth good fruit, and cast them into the fire.
 
Jacob 5:27 But behold, the servant said unto him: Let us prune
it, and dig about it, and nourish it a little longer, that
perhaps it may bring forth good fruit unto thee, that thou canst
lay it up against the season.
 
Jacob 5:28 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard and
the servant of the Lord of the vineyard did nourish all the fruit
of the vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:29 And it came to pass that a long time had passed away,
and the Lord of the vineyard said unto his servant: Come, let us
go down into the vineyard, that we may labor again in the
vineyard. For behold, the time draweth near, and the end soon
cometh; wherefore, I must lay up fruit against the season, unto
mine own self.
 
Jacob 5:30 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard and
the servant went down into the vineyard; and they came to the
tree whose natural branches had been broken off, and the wild
branches had been grafted in; and behold all sorts of fruit did
cumber the tree.
 
Jacob 5:31 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard did
taste of the fruit, every sort according to its number. And the
Lord of the vineyard said: Behold, this long time have we
nourished this tree, and I have laid up unto myself against the
season much fruit.
 
Jacob 5:32 But behold, this time it hath brought forth much
fruit, and there is none of it which is good. And behold, there
are all kinds of bad fruit; and it profiteth me nothing,
notwithstanding all our labor; and now it grieveth me that I
should lose this tree.
 
Jacob 5:33 And the Lord of the vineyard said unto the servant:
What shall we do unto the tree, that I may preserve again good
fruit thereof unto mine own self?
 
Jacob 5:34 And the servant said unto his master: Behold, because
thou didst graft in the branches of the wild olive-tree they have
nourished the roots, that they are alive and they have not
perished; wherefore thou beholdest that they are yet good.
 
Jacob 5:35 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
unto his servant: The tree profiteth me nothing, and the roots
thereof profit me nothing so long as it shall bring forth evil
fruit.
 
Jacob 5:36 Nevertheless, I know that the roots are good, and for
mine own purpose I have preserved them; and because of their much
strength they have hitherto brought forth, from the wild
branches, good fruit.
 
Jacob 5:37 But behold, the wild branches have grown and have
overrun the roots thereof; and because that the wild branches
have overcome the roots thereof it hath brought forth much evil
fruit; and because that it hath brought forth so much evil fruit
thou beholdest that it beginneth to perish; and it will soon
become ripened, that it may be cast into the fire, except we
should do something for it to preserve it.
 
Jacob 5:38 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
unto his servant: Let us go down into the nethermost parts of the
vineyard, and behold if the natural branches have also brought
forth evil fruit.
 
Jacob 5:39 And it came to pass that they went down into the
nethermost parts of the vineyard. And it came to pass that they
beheld that the fruit of the natural branches had become corrupt
also; yea, the first and the second and also the last; and they
had all become corrupt.
 
Jacob 5:40 And the wild fruit of the last had overcome that part
of the tree which brought forth good fruit, even that the branch
had withered away and died.
 
Jacob 5:41 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard
wept, and said unto the servant: What could I have done more for
my vineyard?
 
Jacob 5:42 Behold, I knew that all the fruit of the vineyard,
save it were these, had become corrupted. And now these which
have once brought forth good fruit have also become corrupted;
and now all the trees of my vineyard are good for nothing save it
be to be hewn down and cast into the fire.
 
Jacob 5:43 And behold this last, whose branch hath withered away,
I did plant in a good spot of ground; yea, even that which was
choice unto me above all other parts of the land of my vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:44 And thou beheldest that I also cut down that which
cumbered this spot of ground, that I might plant this tree in the
stead thereof.
 
Jacob 5:45 And thou beheldest that a part thereof brought forth
good fruit, and a part thereof brought forth wild fruit; and
because I plucked not the branches thereof and cast them into the
fire, behold, they have overcome the good branch that it hath
withered away.
 
Jacob 5:46 And now, behold, notwithstanding all the care which we
have taken of my vineyard, the trees thereof have become
corrupted, that they bring forth no good fruit; and these I had
hoped to preserve, to have laid up fruit thereof against the
season, unto mine own self. But, behold, they have become like
unto the wild olive-tree, and they are of no worth but to be hewn
down and cast into the fire; and it grieveth me that I should
lose them.
 
Jacob 5:47 But what could I have done more in my vineyard? Have I
slackened mine hand, that I have not nourished it? Nay, I have
nourished it, and I have digged about it, and I have pruned it,
and I have dunged it; and I have stretched forth mine hand almost
all the day long, and the end draweth nigh. And it grieveth me
that I should hew down all the trees of my vineyard, and cast
them into the fire that they should be burned. Who is it that has
corrupted my vineyard?
 
Jacob 5:48 And it came to pass that the servant said unto his
master: Is it not the loftiness of thy vineyard--have not the
branches thereof overcome the roots which are good? And because
the branches have overcome the roots thereof, behold they grew
faster than the strength of the roots, taking strength unto
themselves. Behold, I say, is not this the cause that the trees
of thy vineyard have become corrupted?
 
Jacob 5:49 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said
unto the servant: Let us go to and hew down the trees of the
vineyard and cast them into the fire, that they shall not cumber
the ground of my vineyard, for I have done all. What could I have
done more for my vineyard?
 
Jacob 5:50 But, behold, the servant said unto the Lord of the
vineyard: Spare it a little longer.
 
Jacob 5:51 And the Lord said: Yea, I will spare it a little
longer, for it grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my
vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:52 Wherefore, let us take of the branches of these which
I have planted in the nethermost parts of my vineyard, and let us
graft them into the tree from whence they came; and let us pluck
from the tree those branches whose fruit is most bitter, and
graft in the natural branches of the tree in the stead thereof.
 
Jacob 5:53 And this will I do that the tree may not perish, that,
perhaps, I may preserve unto myself the roots thereof for mine
own purpose.
 
Jacob 5:54 And, behold, the roots of the natural branches of the
tree which I planted whithersoever I would are yet alive;
wherefore, that I may preserve them also for mine own purpose, I
will take of the branches of this tree, and I will graft them in
unto them. Yea, I will graft in unto them the branches of their
mother tree, that I may preserve the roots also unto mine own
self, that when they shall be sufficiently strong perhaps they
may bring forth good fruit unto me, and I may yet have glory in
the fruit of my vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:55 And it came to pass that they took from the natural
tree which had become wild, and grafted in unto the natural
trees, which also had become wild.
 
Jacob 5:56 And they also took of the natural trees which had
become wild, and grafted into their mother tree.
 
Jacob 5:57 And the Lord of the vineyard said unto the servant:
Pluck not the wild branches from the trees, save it be those
which are most bitter; and in them ye shall graft according to
that which I have said.
 
Jacob 5:58 And we will nourish again the trees of the vineyard,
and we will trim up the branches thereof; and we will pluck from
the trees those branches which are ripened, that must perish, and
cast them into the fire.
 
Jacob 5:59 And this I do that, perhaps, the roots thereof may
take strength because of their goodness; and because of the
change of the branches, that the good may overcome the evil.
 
Jacob 5:60 And because that I have preserved the natural branches
and the roots thereof, and that I have grafted in the natural
branches again into their mother tree, and have preserved the
roots of their mother tree, that, perhaps, the trees of my
vineyard may bring forth again good fruit; and that I may have
joy again in the fruit of my vineyard, and, perhaps, that I may
rejoice exceedingly that I have preserved the roots and the
branches of the first fruit-- 
 
Jacob 5:61 Wherefore, go to, and call servants, that we may labor
diligently with our might in the vineyard, that we may prepare
the way, that I may bring forth again the natural fruit, which
natural fruit is good and the most precious above all other
fruit.
 
Jacob 5:62 Wherefore, let us go to and labor with our might this
last time, for behold the end draweth nigh, and this is for the
last time that I shall prune my vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:63 Graft in the branches; begin at the last that they may
be first, and that the first may be last, and dig about the
trees, both old and young, the first and the last; and the last
and the first, that all may be nourished once again for the last
time.
 
Jacob 5:64 Wherefore, dig about them, and prune them, and dung
them once more, for the last time, for the end draweth nigh. And
if it be so that these last grafts shall grow, and bring forth
the natural fruit, then shall ye prepare the way for them, that
they may grow.
 
Jacob 5:65 And as they begin to grow ye shall clear away the
branches which bring forth bitter fruit, according to the
strength of the good and the size thereof; and ye shall not clear
away the bad thereof all at once, lest the roots thereof should
be too strong for the graft, and the graft thereof shall perish,
and I lose the trees of my vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:66 For it grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my
vineyard; wherefore ye shall clear away the bad according as the
good shall grow, that the root and the top may be equal in
strength, until the good shall overcome the bad, and the bad be
hewn down and cast into the fire, that they cumber not the ground
of my vineyard; and thus will I sweep away the bad out of my
vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:67 And the branches of the natural tree will I graft in
again into the natural tree;
 
Jacob 5:68 And the branches of the natural tree will I graft into
the natural branches of the tree; and thus will I bring them
together again, that they shall bring forth the natural fruit,
and they shall be one.
 
Jacob 5:69 And the bad shall be cast away, yea, even out of all
the land of my vineyard; for behold, only this once will I prune
my vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:70 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard sent
his servant; and the servant went and did as the Lord had
commanded him, and brought other servants; and they were few.
 
Jacob 5:71 And the Lord of the vineyard said unto them: Go to,
and labor in the vineyard, with your might. For behold, this is
the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is
nigh at hand, and the season speedily cometh; and if ye labor
with your might with me ye shall have joy in the fruit which I
shall lay up unto myself against the time which will soon come.
 
Jacob 5:72 And it came to pass that the servants did go and labor
with their mights; and the Lord of the vineyard labored also with
them; and they did obey the commandments of the Lord of the
vineyard in all things.
 
Jacob 5:73 And there began to be the natural fruit again in the
vineyard; and the natural branches began to grow and thrive
exceedingly; and the wild branches began to be plucked off and to
be cast away; and they did keep the root and the top thereof
equal, according to the strength thereof.
 
Jacob 5:74 And thus they labored, with all diligence, according
to the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard, even until the
bad had been cast away out of the vineyard, and the Lord had
preserved unto himself that the trees had become again the
natural fruit; and they became like unto one body; and the fruits
were equal; and the Lord of the vineyard had preserved unto
himself the natural fruit, which was most precious unto him from
the beginning.
 
Jacob 5:75 And it came to pass that when the Lord of the vineyard
saw that his fruit was good, and that his vineyard was no more
corrupt, he called up his servants, and said unto them: Behold,
for this last time have we nourished my vineyard; and thou
beholdest that I have done according to my will; and I have
preserved the natural fruit, that it is good, even like as it was
in the beginning. And blessed art thou; for because ye have been
diligent in laboring with me in my vineyard, and have kept my
commandments, and have brought unto me again the natural fruit,
that my vineyard is no more corrupted, and the bad is cast away,
behold ye shall have joy with me because of the fruit of my
vineyard.
 
Jacob 5:76 For behold, for a long time will I lay up of the fruit
of my vineyard unto mine own self against the season, which
speedily cometh; and for the last time have I nourished my
vineyard, and pruned it, and dug about it, and dunged it;
wherefore I will lay up unto mine own self of the fruit, for a
long time, according to that which I have spoken.
 
Jacob 5:77 And when the time cometh that evil fruit shall again
come into my vineyard, then will I cause the good and the bad to
be gathered; and the good will I preserve unto myself, and the
bad will I cast away into its own place. And then cometh the
season and the end; and my vineyard will I cause to be burned
with fire.
 
Jacob 6:0 Jacob expounds the allegory of the olive-tree--The
pruning of the vineyard.
 
Jacob 6:1 And now, behold, my brethren, as I said unto you that I
would prophesy, behold, this is my prophecy--that the things
which this prophet Zenos spake, concerning the house of Israel,
in the which he likened them unto a tame olive-tree, must surely
come to pass.
 
Jacob 6:2 And the day that he shall set his hand again the second
time to recover his people, is the day, yea, even the last time,
that the servants of the Lord shall go forth in his power, to
nourish and prune his vineyard; and after that the end soon
cometh.
 
Jacob 6:3 And how blessed are they who have labored diligently in
his vineyard; and how cursed are they who shall be cast out into
their own place! And the world shall be burned with fire.
 
Jacob 6:4 And how merciful is our God unto us, for he remembereth
the house of Israel, both roots and branches; and he stretches
forth his hands unto them all the day long; and they are a
stiffnecked and a gainsaying people; but as many as will not
harden their hearts shall be saved in the kingdom of God.
 
Jacob 6:5 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I beseech of you in
words of soberness that ye would repent, and come with full
purpose of heart, and cleave unto God as he cleaveth unto you.
And while his arm of mercy is extended towards you in the light
of the day, harden not your hearts.
 
Jacob 6:6 Yea, today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts; for why will ye die?
 
Jacob 6:7 For behold, after ye have been nourished by the good
word of God all the day long, will ye bring forth evil fruit,
that ye must be hewn down and cast into the fire?
 
Jacob 6:8 Behold, will ye reject these words? Will ye reject the
words of the prophets; and will ye reject all the words which
have been spoken concerning Christ, after so many have spoken
concerning him; and deny the good word of Christ, and the power
of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and quench the Holy
Spirit, and make a mock of the great plan of redemption, which
hath been laid for you?
 
Jacob 6:9 Know ye not that if ye will do these things, that the
power of the redemption and the resurrection, which is in Christ,
will bring you to stand with shame and awful guilt before the bar
of God?
 
Jacob 6:10 And according to the power of justice, for justice
cannot be denied, ye must go away into that lake of fire and
brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke
ascendeth up forever and ever, which lake of fire and brimstone
is endless torment.
 
Jacob 6:11 O then, my beloved brethren, repent ye, and enter in
at the strait gate, and continue in the way which is narrow,
until ye shall obtain eternal life.
 
Jacob 6:12 O be wise; what can I say more?
 
Jacob 6:13 Finally, I bid you farewell, until I shall meet you
before the pleasing bar of God, which bar striketh the wicked
with awful dread and fear. Amen.
 
Jacob 7:0 Sherem, denying the Christ, demands a sign and is
stricken--He confesses his sins and dies--A reformation begins--
Hatred of Lamanites for Nephites--Jacob gives the plates to his
son Enos.
 
Jacob 7:1 And now it came to pass after some years had passed
away, there came a man among the people of Nephi, whose name was
Sherem.
 
Jacob 7:2 And it came to pass that he began to preach among the
people, and to declare unto them that there should be no Christ.
And he preached many things which were flattering unto the
people; and this he did that he might overthrow the doctrine of
Christ.
 
Jacob 7:3 And he labored diligently that he might lead away the
hearts of the people, insomuch that he did lead away many hearts;
and he knowing that I, Jacob, had faith in Christ who should
come, he sought much opportunity that he might come unto me.
 
Jacob 7:4 And he was learned, that he had a perfect knowledge of
the language of the people; wherefore, he could use much
flattery, and much power of speech, according to the power of the
devil.
 
Jacob 7:5 And he had hope to shake me from the faith,
notwithstanding the many revelations and the many things which I
had seen concerning these things; for I truly had seen angels,
and they had ministered unto me. And also, I had heard the voice
of the Lord speaking unto me in very word, from time to time;
wherefore, I could not be shaken.
 
Jacob 7:6 And it came to pass that he came unto me, and on this
wise did he speak unto me, saying: Brother Jacob, I have sought
much opportunity that I might speak unto you; for I have heard
and also know that thou goest about much, preaching that which ye
call the gospel, or the doctrine of Christ.
 
Jacob 7:7 And ye have led away much of this people that they
pervert the right way of God, and keep not the law of Moses which
is the right way; and convert the law of Moses into the worship
of a being which ye say shall come many hundred years hence. And
now behold, I, Sherem, declare unto you that this is blasphemy;
for no man knoweth of such things; for he cannot tell of things
to come. And after this manner did Sherem contend against me.
 
Jacob 7:8 But behold, the Lord God poured in his Spirit into my
soul, insomuch that I did confound him in all his words.
 
Jacob 7:9 And I said unto him: Deniest thou the Christ who shall
come? And he said: If there should be a Christ, I would not deny
him; but I know that there is no Christ, neither has been, nor
ever will be.
 
Jacob 7:10 And I said unto him: Believest thou the scriptures?
And he said, Yea.
 
Jacob 7:11 And I said unto him: Then ye do not understand them;
for they truly testify of Christ. Behold, I say unto you that
none of the prophets have written, nor prophesied, save they have
spoken concerning this Christ.
 
Jacob 7:12 And this is not all--it has been made manifest unto
me, for I have heard and seen; and it also has been made manifest
unto me by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, I know if
there should be no atonement made all mankind must be lost.
 
Jacob 7:13 And it came to pass that he said unto me: Show me a
sign by this power of the Holy Ghost, in the which ye know so
much.
 
Jacob 7:14 And I said unto him: What am I that I should tempt God
to show unto thee a sign in the thing which thou knowest to be
true? Yet thou wilt deny it, because thou art of the devil.
Nevertheless, not my will be done; but if God shall smite thee,
let that be a sign unto thee that he has power, both in heaven
and in earth; and also, that Christ shall come. And thy will, O
Lord, be done, and not mine.
 
Jacob 7:15 And it came to pass that when I, Jacob, had spoken
these words, the power of the Lord came upon him, insomuch that
he fell to the earth. And it came to pass that he was nourished
for the space of many days.
 
Jacob 7:16 And it came to pass that he said unto the people:
Gather together on the morrow, for I shall die; wherefore, I
desire to speak unto the people before I shall die.
 
Jacob 7:17 And it came to pass that on the morrow the multitude
were gathered together; and he spake plainly unto them and denied
the things which he had taught them, and confessed the Christ,
and the power of the Holy Ghost, and the ministering of angels.
 
Jacob 7:18 And he spake plainly unto them, that he had been
deceived by the power of the devil. And he spake of hell, and of
eternity, and of eternal punishment.
 
Jacob 7:19 And he said: I fear lest I have committed the
unpardonable sin, for I have lied unto God; for I denied the
Christ, and said that I believed the scriptures; and they truly
testify of him. And because I have thus lied unto God I greatly
fear lest my case shall be awful; but I confess unto God.
 
Jacob 7:20 And it came to pass that when he had said these words
he could say no more, and he gave up the ghost.
 
Jacob 7:21 And when the multitude had witnessed that he spake
these things as he was about to give up the ghost, they were
astonished exceedingly; insomuch that the power of God came down
upon them, and they were overcome that they fell to the earth.
 
Jacob 7:22 Now, this thing was pleasing unto me, Jacob, for I had
requested it of my Father who was in heaven; for he had heard my
cry and answered my prayer.
 
Jacob 7:23 And it came to pass that peace and the love of God was
restored again among the people; and they searched the
scriptures, and hearkened no more to the words of this wicked
man.
 
Jacob 7:24 And it came to pass that many means were devised to
reclaim and restore the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth;
but it all was vain, for they delighted in wars and bloodshed,
and they had an eternal hatred against us, their brethren. And
they sought by the power of their arms to destroy us continually.
 
Jacob 7:25 Wherefore, the people of Nephi did fortify against
them with their arms, and with all their might, trusting in the
God and rock of their salvation; wherefore, they became as yet,
conquerors of their enemies.
 
Jacob 7:26 And it came to pass that I, Jacob, began to be old;
and the record of this people being kept on the other plates of
Nephi, wherefore, I conclude this record, declaring that I have
written according to the best of my knowledge, by saying that the
time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as
it were unto us a dream, we being a lonesome and a solemn people,
wanderers, cast out from Jerusalem, born in tribulation, in a
wilderness, and hated of our brethren, which caused wars and
contentions; wherefore, we did mourn out our days.
 
Jacob 7:27 And I, Jacob, saw that I must soon go down to my
grave; wherefore, I said unto my son Enos: Take these plates. And
I told him the things which my brother Nephi had commanded me,
and he promised obedience unto the commands. And I make an end of
my writing upon these plates, which writing has been small; and
to the reader I bid farewell, hoping that many of my brethren may
read my words. Brethren, adieu.
 
THE BOOK OF ENOS
 
Enos 0:0 The Lord's promise concerning a Nephite record to come
forth to the Lamanites--Character, condition, and wars of the two
peoples.
 
Enos 1:1 Behold, it came to pass that I, Enos, knowing my father
that he was a just man--for he taught me in his language, and
also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord--and blessed be
the name of my God for it--
 
Enos 1:2 And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before
God, before I received a remission of my sins.
 
Enos 1:3 Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the
words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal
life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart.
 
Enos 1:4 And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my
Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for
mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and
when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it
reached the heavens.
 
Enos 1:5 And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins
are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed.
 
Enos 1:6 And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my
guilt was swept away.
 
Enos 1:7 And I said: Lord, how is it done?
 
Enos 1:8 And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ,
whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass
away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go
to, thy faith hath made thee whole.
 
Enos 1:9 Now, it came to pass that when I had heard these words I
began to feel a desire for the welfare of my brethren, the
Nephites; wherefore, I did pour out my whole soul unto God for
them.
 
Enos 1:10 And while I was thus struggling in the spirit, behold,
the voice of the Lord came into my mind again, saying: I will
visit thy brethren according to their diligence in keeping my
commandments. I have given unto them this land, and it is a holy
land; and I curse it not save it be for the cause of iniquity;
wherefore, I will visit thy brethren according as I have said;
and their transgressions will I bring down with sorrow upon their
own heads.
 
Enos 1:11 And after I, Enos, had heard these words, my faith
began to be unshaken in the Lord; and I prayed unto him with many
long strugglings for my brethren, the Lamanites.
 
Enos 1:12 And it came to pass that after I had prayed and labored
with all diligence, the Lord said unto me: I will grant unto thee
according to thy desires, because of thy faith.
 
Enos 1:13 And now behold, this was the desire which I desired of
him--that if it should so be, that my people, the Nephites,
should fall into transgression, and by any means be destroyed,
and the Lamanites should not be destroyed, that the Lord God
would preserve a record of my people, the Nephites; even if it so
be by the power of his holy arm, that it might be brought forth
at some future day unto the Lamanites, that, perhaps, they might
be brought unto salvation--
 
Enos 1:14 For at the present our strugglings were vain in
restoring them to the true faith. And they swore in their wrath
that, if it were possible, they would destroy our records and us,
and also all the traditions of our fathers.
 
Enos 1:15 Wherefore, I knowing that the Lord God was able to
preserve our records, I cried unto him continually, for he had
said unto me: Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, believing
that ye shall receive in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it.
 
Enos 1:16 And I had faith, and I did cry unto God that he would
preserve the records; and he covenanted with me that he would
bring them forth unto the Lamanites in his own due time.
 
Enos 1:17 And I, Enos, knew it would be according to the covenant
which he had made; wherefore my soul did rest.
 
Enos 1:18 And the Lord said unto me: Thy fathers have also
required of me this thing; and it shall be done unto them
according to their faith; for their faith was like unto thine.
 
Enos 1:19 And now it came to pass that I, Enos, went about among
the people of Nephi, prophesying of things to come, and
testifying of the things which I had heard and seen.
 
Enos 1:20 And I bear record that the people of Nephi did seek
diligently to restore the Lamanites unto the true faith in God.
But our labors were vain; their hatred was fixed, and they were
led by their evil nature that they became wild, and ferocious,
and a blood-thirsty people, full of idolatry and filthiness;
feeding upon beasts of prey; dwelling in tents, and wandering
about in the wilderness with a short skin girdle about their
loins and their heads shaven; and their skill was in the bow, and
in the cimeter, and the ax. And many of them did eat nothing save
it was raw meat; and they were continually seeking to destroy us.
 
Enos 1:21 And it came to pass that the people of Nephi did till
the land, and raise all manner of grain, and of fruit, and flocks
of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle of every kind, and
goats, and wild goats, and also many horses.
 
Enos 1:22 And there were exceedingly many prophets among us. And
the people were a stiffnecked people, hard to understand.
 
Enos 1:23 And there was nothing save it was exceeding harshness,
preaching and prophesying of wars, and contentions, and
destructions, and continually reminding them of death, and the
duration of eternity, and the judgments and the power of God, and
all these things--stirring them up continually to keep them in
the fear of the Lord. I say there was nothing short of these
things, and exceedingly great plainness of speech, would keep
them from going down speedily to destruction. And after this
manner do I write concerning them.
 
Enos 1:24 And I saw wars between the Nephites and Lamanites in
the course of my days.
 
Enos 1:25 And it came to pass that I began to be old, and an
hundred and seventy and nine years had passed away from the time
that our father Lehi left Jerusalem.
 
Enos 1:26 And I saw that I must soon go down to my grave, having
been wrought upon by the power of God that I must preach and
prophesy unto this people, and declare the word according to the
truth which is in Christ. And I have declared it in all my days,
and have rejoiced in it above that of the world.
 
Enos 1:27 And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my
Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in
the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand
before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will
say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared
for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen.
 
THE BOOK OF JAROM
 
Jarom 0:0 Jarom, son of Enos, keeps the records--The Nephites
serve the Lord and are prospered.
 
Jarom 1:1 Now behold, I, Jarom, write a few words according to
the commandment of my father, Enos, that our genealogy may be
kept.
 
Jarom 1:2 And as these plates are small, and as these things are
written for the intent of the benefit of our brethren the
Lamanites, wherefore, it must needs be that I write a little; but
I shall not write the things of my prophesying, nor of my
revelations. For what could I write more than my fathers have
written? For have not they revealed the plan of salvation? I say
unto you, Yea; and this sufficeth me.
 
Jarom 1:3 Behold, it is expedient that much should be done among
this people, because of the hardness of their hearts, and the
deafness of their ears, and the blindness of their minds, and the
stiffness of their necks; nevertheless, God is exceedingly
merciful unto them, and has not as yet swept them off from the
face of the land.
 
Jarom 1:4 And there are many among us who have many revelations,
for they are not all stiffnecked. And as many as are not
stiffnecked and have faith, have communion with the Holy Spirit,
which maketh manifest unto the children of men, according to
their faith.
 
Jarom 1:5 And now, behold, two hundred years had passed away, and
the people of Nephi had waxed strong in the land. They observed
to keep the law of Moses and the sabbath day holy unto the Lord.
And they profaned not; neither did they blaspheme. And the laws
of the land were exceedingly strict.
 
Jarom 1:6 And they were scattered upon much of the face of the
land, and the Lamanites also. And they were exceedingly more
numerous than were they of the Nephites; and they loved murder
and would drink the blood of beasts.
 
Jarom 1:7 And it came to pass that they came many times against
us, the Nephites, to battle. But our kings and our leaders were
mighty men in the faith of the Lord; and they taught the people
the ways of the Lord; wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and
swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our
cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance.
 
Jarom 1:8 And we multiplied exceedingly, and spread upon the face
of the land, and became exceedingly rich in gold, and in silver,
and in precious things, and in fine workmanship of wood, in
buildings, and in machinery, and also in iron and copper, and
brass and steel, making all manner of tools of every kind to till
the ground, and weapons of war--yea, the sharp pointed arrow, and
the quiver, and the dart, and the javelin, and all preparations
for war.
 
Jarom 1:9 And thus being prepared to meet the Lamanites, they did
not prosper against us. But the word of the Lord was verified,
which he spake unto our fathers, saying that: Inasmuch as ye will
keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land.
 
Jarom 1:10 And it came to pass that the prophets of the Lord did
threaten the people of Nephi, according to the word of God, that
if they did not keep the commandments, but should fall into
transgression, they should be destroyed from off the face of the
land.
 
Jarom 1:11 Wherefore, the prophets, and the priests, and the
teachers, did labor diligently, exhorting with all long-suffering
the people to diligence; teaching the law of Moses, and the
intent for which it was given; persuading them to look forward
unto the Messiah, and believe in him to come as though he already
was. And after this manner did they teach them.
 
Jarom 1:12 And it came to pass that by so doing they kept them
from being destroyed upon the face of the land; for they did
prick their hearts with the word, continually stirring them up
unto repentance.
 
Jarom 1:13 And it came to pass that two hundred and thirty and
eight years had passed away--after the manner of wars, and
contentions, and dissensions, for the space of much of the time.
 
Jarom 1:14 And I, Jarom, do not write more, for the plates are
small. But behold, my brethren, ye can go to the other plates of
Nephi; for behold, upon them the records of our wars are
engraven, according to the writings of the kings, or those which
they caused to be written.
 
Jarom 1:15 And I deliver these plates into the hands of my son
Omni, that they may be kept according to the commandments of my
fathers.
 
THE BOOK OF OMNI
 
Omni 0:0 Comprising records kept by Omni, Amaron, Chemish,
Abinadom, and Amaleki--Mosiah, leaving the land of Nephi,
discovers the land of Zarahemla, occupied by another colony from
Jerusalem--He is made king--Coriantumr, the last of the
Jaredites--King Benjamin--Other migrations.
 
Omni 1:1 Behold, it came to pass that I, Omni, being commanded by
my father, Jarom, that I should write somewhat upon these plates,
to preserve our genealogy--
 
Omni 1:2 Wherefore, in my days, I would that ye should know that
I fought much with the sword to preserve my people, the Nephites,
from falling into the hands of their enemies, the Lamanites. But
behold, I of myself am a wicked man, and I have not kept the
statutes and the commandments of the Lord as I ought to have
done.
 
Omni 1:3 And it came to pass that two hundred and seventy and six
years had passed away, and we had many seasons of peace; and we
had many seasons of serious war and bloodshed. Yea, and in fine,
two hundred and eighty and two years had passed away, and I had
kept these plates according to the commandments of my fathers;
and I conferred them upon my son Amaron. And I make an end.
 
Omni 1:4 And now I, Amaron, write the things whatsoever I write,
which are few, in the book of my father.
 
Omni 1:5 Behold, it came to pass that three hundred and twenty
years had passed away, and the more wicked part of the Nephites
were destroyed.
 
Omni 1:6 For the Lord would not suffer, after he had led them out
of the land of Jerusalem and kept and preserved them from falling
into the hands of their enemies, yea, he would not suffer that
the words should not be verified, which he spake unto our
fathers, saying that: Inasmuch as ye will not keep my
commandments ye shall not prosper in the land.
 
Omni 1:7 Wherefore, the Lord did visit them in great judgment;
nevertheless, he did spare the righteous that they should not
perish, but did deliver them out of the hands of their enemies.
 
Omni 1:8 And it came to pass that I did deliver the plates unto
my brother Chemish.
 
Omni 1:9 Now I, Chemish, write what few things I write, in the
same book with my brother; for behold, I saw the last which he
wrote, that he wrote it with his own hand; and he wrote it in the
day that he delivered them unto me. And after this manner we keep
the records, for it is according to the commandments of our
fathers. And I make an end.
 
Omni 1:10 Behold, I, Abinadom, am the son of Chemish. Behold, it
came to pass that I saw much war and contention between my
people, the Nephites, and the Lamanites; and I, with my own
sword, have taken the lives of many of the Lamanites in the
defence of my brethren.
 
Omni 1:11 And behold, the record of this people is engraven upon
plates which is had by the kings, according to the generations;
and I know of no revelation save that which has been written,
neither prophecy; wherefore, that which is sufficient is written.
And I make an end.
 
Omni 1:12 Behold, I am Amaleki, the son of Abinadom. Behold, I
will speak unto you somewhat concerning Mosiah, who was made king
over the land of Zarahemla; for behold, he being warned of the
Lord that he should flee out of the land of Nephi, and as many as
would hearken unto the voice of the Lord should also depart out
of the land with him, into the wilderness--
 
Omni 1:13 And it came to pass that he did according as the Lord
had commanded him. And they departed out of the land into the
wilderness, as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord;
and they were led by many preachings and prophesyings. And they
were admonished continually by the word of God; and they were led
by the power of his arm, through the wilderness until they came
down into the land which is called the land of Zarahemla.
 
Omni 1:14 And they discovered a people, who were called the
people of Zarahemla. Now, there was great rejoicing among the
people of Zarahemla; and also Zarahemla did rejoice exceedingly,
because the Lord had sent the people of Mosiah with the plates of
brass which contained the record of the Jews.
 
Omni 1:15 Behold, it came to pass that Mosiah discovered that the
people of Zarahemla came out from Jerusalem at the time that
Zedekiah, king of Judah, was carried away captive into Babylon.
 
Omni 1:16 And they journeyed in the wilderness, and were brought
by the hand of the Lord across the great waters, into the land
where Mosiah discovered them; and they had dwelt there from that
time forth.
 
Omni 1:17 And at the time that Mosiah discovered them, they had
become exceedingly numerous. Nevertheless, they had had many wars
and serious contentions, and had fallen by the sword from time to
time; and their language had become corrupted; and they had
brought no records with them; and they denied the being of their
Creator; and Mosiah, nor the people of Mosiah, could understand
them.
 
Omni 1:18 But it came to pass that Mosiah caused that they should
be taught in his language. And it came to pass that after they
were taught in the language of Mosiah, Zarahemla gave a genealogy
of his fathers, according to his memory; and they are written,
but not in these plates.
 
Omni 1:19 And it came to pass that the people of Zarahemla, and
of Mosiah, did unite together; and Mosiah was appointed to be
their king.
 
Omni 1:20 And it came to pass in the days of Mosiah, there was a
large stone brought unto him with engravings on it; and he did
interpret the engravings by the gift and power of God.
 
Omni 1:21 And they gave an account of one Coriantumr, and the
slain of his people. And Coriantumr was discovered by the people
of Zarahemla; and he dwelt with them for the space of nine moons.
 
Omni 1:22 It also spake a few words concerning his fathers. And
his first parents came out from the tower, at the time the Lord
confounded the language of the people; and the severity of the
Lord fell upon them according to his judgments, which are just;
and their bones lay scattered in the land northward.
 
Omni 1:23 Behold, I, Amaleki, was born in the days of Mosiah; and
I have lived to see his death; and Benjamin, his son, reigneth in
his stead.
 
Omni 1:24 And behold, I have seen, in the days of king Benjamin,
a serious war and much bloodshed between the Nephites and the
Lamanites. But behold, the Nephites did obtain much advantage
over them; yea, insomuch that king Benjamin did drive them out of
the land of Zarahemla.
 
Omni 1:25 And it came to pass that I began to be old; and, having
no seed, and knowing king Benjamin to be a just man before the
Lord, wherefore, I shall deliver up these plates unto him,
exhorting all men to come unto God, the Holy One of Israel, and
believe in prophesying, and in revelations, and in the
ministering of angels, and in the gift of speaking with tongues,
and in the gift of interpreting languages, and in all things
which are good; for there is nothing which is good save it comes
from the Lord; and that which is evil cometh from the devil.
 
Omni 1:26 And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should
come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of
his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto
him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and
continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as
the Lord liveth ye will be saved.
 
Omni 1:27 And now I would speak somewhat concerning a certain
number who went up into the wilderness to return to the land of
Nephi; for there was a large number who were desirous to possess
the land of their inheritance.
 
Omni 1:28 Wherefore, they went up into the wilderness. And their
leader being a strong and mighty man, and a stiffnecked man,
wherefore he caused a contention among them; and they were all
slain, save fifty, in the wilderness, and they returned again to
the land of Zarahemla.
 
Omni 1:29 And it came to pass that they also took others to a
considerable number, and took their journey again into the
wilderness.
 
Omni 1:30 And I, Amaleki, had a brother, who also went with them;
and I have not since known concerning them. And I am about to lie
down in my grave; and these plates are full. And I make an end of
my speaking.
 
THE WORDS OF MORMON
 
Words of Mormon 0:0 Mormon's abridgment and the smaller plates of
Nephi--Relation of the foregoing part of the Book of Mormon to
that which follows.
 
Words of Mormon 1:1 And now I, Mormon, being about to deliver up
the record which I have been making into the hands of my son
Moroni, behold I have witnessed almost all the destruction of my
people, the Nephites.
 
Words of Mormon 1:2 And it is many hundred years after the coming
of Christ that I deliver these records into the hands of my son;
and it supposeth me that he will witness the entire destruction
of my people. But may God grant that he may survive them, that he
may write somewhat concerning them, and somewhat concerning
Christ, that perhaps some day it may profit them.
 
Words of Mormon 1:3 And now, I speak somewhat concerning that
which I have written; for after I had made an abridgment from the
plates of Nephi, down to the reign of this king Benjamin, of whom
Amaleki spake, I searched among the records which had been
delivered into my hands, and I found these plates, which
contained this small account of the prophets, from Jacob down to
the reign of this king Benjamin, and also many of the words of
Nephi.
 
Words of Mormon 1:4 And the things which are upon these plates
pleasing me, because of the prophecies of the coming of Christ;
and my fathers knowing that many of them have been fulfilled;
yea, and I also know that as many things as have been prophesied
concerning us down to this day have been fulfilled, and as many
as go beyond this day must surely come to pass--
 
Words of Mormon 1:5 Wherefore, I chose these things, to finish my
record upon them, which remainder of my record I shall take from
the plates of Nephi; and I cannot write the hundredth part of the
things of my people.
 
Words of Mormon 1:6 But behold, I shall take these plates, which
contain these prophesyings and revelations, and put them with the
remainder of my record, for they are choice unto me; and I know
they will be choice unto my brethren.
 
Words of Mormon 1:7 And I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it
whispereth me, according to the workings of the Spirit of the
Lord which is in me. And now, I do not know all things; but the
Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh
in me to do according to his will.
 
Words of Mormon 1:8 And my prayer to God is concerning my
brethren, that they may once again come to the knowledge of God,
yea, the redemption of Christ; that they may once again be a
delightsome people.
 
Words of Mormon 1:9 And now I, Mormon, proceed to finish out my
record, which I take from the plates of Nephi; and I make it
according to the knowledge and the understanding which God has
given me.
 
Words of Mormon 1:10 Wherefore, it came to pass that after
Amaleki had delivered up these plates into the hands of king
Benjamin, he took them and put them with the other plates, which
contained records which had been handed down by the kings, from
generation to generation until the days of king Benjamin.
 
Words of Mormon 1:11 And they were handed down from king
Benjamin, from generation to generation until they have fallen
into my hands. And I, Mormon, pray to God that they may be
preserved from this time henceforth. And I know that they will be
preserved; for there are great things written upon them, out of
which my people and their brethren shall be judged at the great
and last day, according to the word of God which is written.
 
Words of Mormon 1:12 And now, concerning this king Benjamin--he
had somewhat of contentions among his own people.
 
Words of Mormon 1:13 And it came to pass also that the armies of
the Lamanites came down out of the land of Nephi, to battle
against his people. But behold, king Benjamin gathered together
his armies, and he did stand against them; and he did fight with
the strength of his own arm, with the sword of Laban.
 
Words of Mormon 1:14 And in the strength of the Lord they did
contend against their enemies, until they had slain many
thousands of the Lamanites. And it came to pass that they did
contend against the Lamanites until they had driven them out of
all the lands of their inheritance.
 
Words of Mormon 1:15 And it came to pass that after there had
been false Christs, and their mouths had been shut, and they
punished according to their crimes;
 
Words of Mormon 1:16 And after there had been false prophets, and
false preachers and teachers among the people, and all these
having been punished according to their crimes; and after there
having been much contention and many dissensions away unto the
Lamanites, behold, it came to pass that king Benjamin, with the
assistance of the holy prophets who were among his people--
 
Words of Mormon 1:17 For behold, king Benjamin was a holy man,
and he did reign over his people in righteousness; and there were
many holy men in the land, and they did speak the word of God
with power and with authority; and they did use much sharpness
because of the stiffneckedness of the people--
 
Words of Mormon 1:18 Wherefore, with the help of these, king
Benjamin, by laboring with all the might of his body and the
faculty of his whole soul, and also the prophets, did once more
establish peace in the land.
 
THE BOOK OF MOSIAH
 
Mosiah 1:0 King Benjamin's exhortation to his sons--Mosiah chosen
to succeed his father--Mosiah receives the records, etc.
 
Mosiah 1:1 And now there was no more contention in all the land
of Zarahemla, among all the people who belonged to king Benjamin,
so that king Benjamin had continual peace all the remainder of
his days.
 
Mosiah 1:2 And it came to pass that he had three sons; and he
called their names Mosiah, and Helorum, and Helaman. And he
caused that they should be taught in all the language of his
fathers, that thereby they might become men of understanding; and
that they might know concerning the prophecies which had been
spoken by the mouths of their fathers, which were delivered them
by the hand of the Lord.
 
Mosiah 1:3 And he also taught them concerning the records which
were engraven on the plates of brass, saying: My sons, I would
that ye should remember that were it not for these plates, which
contain these records and these commandments, we must have
suffered in ignorance, even at this present time, not knowing the
mysteries of God.
 
Mosiah 1:4 For it were not possible that our father, Lehi, could
have remembered all these things, to have taught them to his
children, except it were for the help of these plates; for he
having been taught in the language of the Egyptians therefore he
could read these engravings, and teach them to his children, that
thereby they could teach them to their children, and so
fulfilling the commandments of God, even down to this present
time.
 
Mosiah 1:5 I say unto you, my sons, were it not for these things,
which have been kept and preserved by the hand of God, that we
might read and understand of his mysteries, and have his
commandments always before our eyes, that even our fathers would
have dwindled in unbelief, and we should have been like unto our
brethren, the Lamanites, who know nothing concerning these
things, or even do not believe them when they are taught them,
because of the traditions of their fathers, which are not
correct.
 
Mosiah 1:6 O my sons, I would that ye should remember that these
sayings are true, and also that these records are true. And
behold, also the plates of Nephi, which contain the records and
the sayings of our fathers from the time they left Jerusalem
until now, and they are true; and we can know of their surety
because we have them before our eyes.
 
Mosiah 1:7 And now, my sons, I would that ye should remember to
search them diligently, that ye may profit thereby; and I would
that ye should keep the commandments of God, that ye may prosper
in the land according to the promises which the Lord made unto
our fathers.
 
Mosiah 1:8 And many more things did king Benjamin teach his sons,
which are not written in this book.
 
Mosiah 1:9 And it came to pass that after king Benjamin had made
an end of teaching his sons, that he waxed old, and he saw that
he must very soon go the way of all the earth; therefore, he
thought it expedient that he should confer the kingdom upon one
of his sons.
 
Mosiah 1:10 Therefore, he had Mosiah brought before him; and
these are the words which he spake unto him, saying: My son, I
would that ye should make a proclamation throughout all this land
among all this people, or the people of Zarahemla, and the people
of Mosiah who dwell in the land, that thereby they may be
gathered together; for on the morrow I shall proclaim unto this
my people out of mine own mouth that thou art a king and a ruler
over this people, whom the Lord our God hath given us.
 
Mosiah 1:11 And moreover, I shall give this people a name, that
thereby they may be distinguished above all the people which the
Lord God hath brought out of the land of Jerusalem; and this I do
because they have been a diligent people in keeping the
commandments of the Lord.
 
Mosiah 1:12 And I give unto them a name that never shall be
blotted out, except it be through transgression.
 
Mosiah 1:13 Yea, and moreover I say unto you, that if this highly
favored people of the Lord should fall into transgression, and
become a wicked and an adulterous people, that the Lord will
deliver them up, that thereby they become weak like unto their
brethren; and he will no more preserve them by his matchless and
marvelous power, as he has hitherto preserved our fathers.
 
Mosiah 1:14 For I say unto you, that if he had not extended his
arm in the preservation of our fathers they must have fallen into
the hands of the Lamanites, and become victims to their hatred.
 
Mosiah 1:15 And it came to pass that after king Benjamin had made
an end of these sayings to his son, that he gave him charge
concerning all the affairs of the kingdom.
 
Mosiah 1:16 And moreover, he also gave him charge concerning the
records which were engraven on the plates of brass; and also the
plates of Nephi; and also, the sword of Laban, and the ball or
director, which led our fathers through the wilderness, which was
prepared by the hand of the Lord that thereby they might be led,
every one according to the heed and diligence which they gave
unto him.
 
Mosiah 1:17 Therefore, as they were unfaithful they did not
prosper nor progress in their journey, but were driven back, and
incurred the displeasure of God upon them; and therefore they
were smitten with famine and sore afflictions, to stir them up in
remembrance of their duty.
 
Mosiah 1:18 And now, it came to pass that Mosiah went and did as
his father had commanded him, and proclaimed unto all the people
who were in the land of Zarahemla that thereby they might gather
themselves together, to go up to the temple to hear the words
which his father should speak unto them.
 
Mosiah 2:0 King Benjamin builds a tower from which he addresses
his people--the righteous reign of a God-fearing king.
 
Mosiah 2:1 And it came to pass that after Mosiah had done as his
father had commanded him, and had made a proclamation throughout
all the land, that the people gathered themselves together
throughout all the land, that they might go up to the temple to
hear the words which king Benjamin should speak unto them.
 
Mosiah 2:2 And there were a great number, even so many that they
did not number them; for they had multiplied exceedingly and
waxed great in the land.
 
Mosiah 2:3 And they also took of the firstlings of their flocks,
that they might offer sacrifice and burnt offerings according to
the law of Moses;
 
Mosiah 2:4 And also that they might give thanks to the Lord their
God, who had brought them out of the land of Jerusalem, and who
had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies, and had
appointed just men to be their teachers, and also a just man to
be their king, who had established peace in the land of
Zarahemla, and who had taught them to keep the commandments of
God, that they might rejoice and be filled with love towards God
and all men.
 
Mosiah 2:5 And it came to pass that when they came up to the
temple, they pitched their tents round about, every man according
to his family, consisting of his wife, and his sons, and his
daughters, and their sons, and their daughters, from the eldest
down to the youngest, every family being separate one from
another.
 
Mosiah 2:6 And they pitched their tents round about the temple,
every man having his tent with the door thereof towards the
temple, that thereby they might remain in their tents and hear
the words which king Benjamin should speak unto them;
 
Mosiah 2:7 For the multitude being so great that king Benjamin
could not teach them all within the walls of the temple,
therefore he caused a tower to be erected, that thereby his
people might hear the words which he should speak unto them.
 
Mosiah 2:8 And it came to pass that he began to speak to his
people from the tower; and they could not all hear his words
because of the greatness of the multitude; therefore he caused
that the words which he spake should be written and sent forth
among those that were not under the sound of his voice, that they
might also receive his words.
 
Mosiah 2:9 And these are the words which he spake and caused to
be written, saying: My brethren, all ye that have assembled
yourselves together, you that can hear my words which I shall
speak unto you this day; for I have not commanded you to come up
hither to trifle with the words which I shall speak, but that you
should hearken unto me, and open your ears that ye may hear, and
your hearts that ye may understand, and your minds that the
mysteries of God may be unfolded to your view.
 
Mosiah 2:10 I have not commanded you to come up hither that ye
should fear me, or that ye should think that I of myself am more
than a mortal man.
 
Mosiah 2:11 But I am like as yourselves, subject to all manner of
infirmities in body and mind; yet I have been chosen by this
people, and consecrated by my father, and was suffered by the
hand of the Lord that I should be a ruler and a king over this
people; and have been kept and preserved by his matchless power,
to serve you with all the might, mind and strength which the Lord
hath granted unto me.
 
Mosiah 2:12 I say unto you that as I have been suffered to spend
my days in your service, even up to this time, and have not
sought gold nor silver nor any manner of riches of you;
 
Mosiah 2:13 Neither have I suffered that ye should be confined in
dungeons, nor that ye should make slaves one of another, nor that
ye should murder, or plunder, or steal, or commit adultery; nor
even have I suffered that ye should commit any manner of
wickedness, and have taught you that ye should keep the
commandments of the Lord, in all things which he hath commanded
you--
 
Mosiah 2:14 And even I, myself, have labored with mine own hands
that I might serve you, and that ye should not be laden with
taxes, and that there should nothing come upon you which was
grievous to be borne--and of all these things which I have
spoken, ye yourselves are witnesses this day.
 
Mosiah 2:15 Yet, my brethren, I have not done these things that I
might boast, neither do I tell these things that thereby I might
accuse you; but I tell you these things that ye may know that I
can answer a clear conscience before God this day.
 
Mosiah 2:16 Behold, I say unto you that because I said unto you
that I had spent my days in your service, I do not desire to
boast, for I have only been in the service of God.
 
Mosiah 2:17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn
wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your
fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.
 
Mosiah 2:18 Behold, ye have called me your king; and if I, whom
ye call your king, do labor to serve you, then ought not ye to
labor to serve one another?
 
Mosiah 2:19 And behold also, if I, whom ye call your king, who
has spent his days in your service, and yet has been in the
service of God, do merit any thanks from you, O how you ought to
thank your heavenly King!
 
Mosiah 2:20 I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should
render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power
to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and
preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has
granted that ye should live in peace one with another--
 
Mosiah 2:21 I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has
created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to
day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do
according to your own will, and even supporting you from one
moment to another--I say, if ye should serve him with all your
whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.
 
Mosiah 2:22 And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep
his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep
his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth
vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his
commandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
 
Mosiah 2:23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and
granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
 
Mosiah 2:24 And secondly, he doth require that ye should do as he
hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless
you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted
unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of
what have ye to boast?
 
Mosiah 2:25 And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I
answer you, Nay. Ye cannot say that ye are even as much as the
dust of the earth; yet ye were created of the dust of the earth;
but behold, it belongeth to him who created you.
 
Mosiah 2:26 And I, even I, whom ye call your king, am no better
than ye yourselves are; for I am also of the dust. And ye behold
that I am old, and am about to yield up this mortal frame to its
mother earth.
 
Mosiah 2:27 Therefore, as I said unto you that I had served you,
walking with a clear conscience before God, even so I at this
time have caused that ye should assemble yourselves together,
that I might be found blameless, and that your blood should not
come upon me, when I shall stand to be judged of God of the
things whereof he hath commanded me concerning you.
 
Mosiah 2:28 I say unto you that I have caused that ye should
assemble yourselves together that I might rid my garments of your
blood, at this period of time when I am about to go down to my
grave, that I might go down in peace, and my immortal spirit may
join the choirs above in singing the praises of a just God.
 
Mosiah 2:29 And moreover, I say unto you that I have caused that
ye should assemble yourselves together, that I might declare unto
you that I can no longer be your teacher, nor your king;
 
Mosiah 2:30 For even at this time, my whole frame doth tremble
exceedingly while attempting to speak unto you; but the Lord God
doth support me, and hath suffered me that I should speak unto
you, and hath commanded me that I should declare unto you this
day, that my son Mosiah is a king and a ruler over you.
 
Mosiah 2:31 And now, my brethren, I would that ye should do as ye
have hitherto done. As ye have kept my commandments, and also the
commandments of my father, and have prospered, and have been kept
from falling into the hands of your enemies, even so if ye shall
keep the commandments of my son, or the commandments of God which
shall be delivered unto you by him, ye shall prosper in the land,
and your enemies shall have no power over you.
 
Mosiah 2:32 But, O my people, beware lest there shall arise
contentions among you, and ye list to obey the evil spirit, which
was spoken of by my father Mosiah.
 
Mosiah 2:33 For behold, there is a wo pronounced upon him who
listeth to obey that spirit; for if he listeth to obey him, and
remaineth and dieth in his sins, the same drinketh damnation to
his own soul; for he receiveth for his wages an everlasting
punishment, having transgressed the law of God contrary to his
own knowledge.
 
Mosiah 2:34 I say unto you, that there are not any among you,
except it be your little children that have not been taught
concerning these things, but what knoweth that ye are eternally
indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to him all that you
have and are; and also have been taught concerning the records
which contain the prophecies which have been spoken by the holy
prophets, even down to the time our father, Lehi, left Jerusalem;
 
Mosiah 2:35 And also, all that has been spoken by our fathers
until now. And behold, also, they spake that which was commanded
them of the Lord; therefore, they are just and true.
 
Mosiah 2:36 And now, I say unto you, my brethren, that after ye
have known and have been taught all these things, if ye should
transgress and go contrary to that which has been spoken, that ye
do withdraw yourselves from the Spirit of the Lord, that it may
have no place in you to guide you in wisdom's paths that ye may
be blessed, prospered, and preserved--
 
Mosiah 2:37 I say unto you, that the man that doeth this, the
same cometh out in open rebellion against God; therefore he
listeth to obey the evil spirit, and becometh an enemy to all
righteousness; therefore, the Lord has no place in him, for he
dwelleth not in unholy temples.
 
Mosiah 2:38 Therefore if that man repenteth not, and remaineth
and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do
awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt,
which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord, and
doth fill his breast with guilt, and pain, and anguish, which is
like an unquenchable fire, whose flame ascendeth up forever and
ever.
 
Mosiah 2:39 And now I say unto you, that mercy hath no claim on
that man; therefore his final doom is to endure a never-ending
torment.
 
Mosiah 2:40 O, all ye old men, and also ye young men, and you
little children who can understand my words, for I have spoken
plainly unto you that ye might understand, I pray that ye should
awake to a remembrance of the awful situation of those that have
fallen into transgression.
 
Mosiah 2:41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider
on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the
commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things,
both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the
end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell
with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember,
remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken
it.
 
Mosiah 3:0 King Benjamin's address continued--Another prophecy of
the Christ--More concerning the atonement.
 
Mosiah 3:1 And again my brethren, I would call your attention,
for I have somewhat more to speak unto you; for behold, I have
things to tell you concerning that which is to come.
 
Mosiah 3:2 And the things which I shall tell you are made known
unto me by an angel from God. And he said unto me: Awake; and I
awoke, and behold he stood before me.
 
Mosiah 3:3 And he said unto me: Awake, and hear the words which I
shall tell thee; for behold, I am come to declare unto you the
glad tidings of great joy.
 
Mosiah 3:4 For the Lord hath heard thy prayers, and hath judged
of thy righteousness, and hath sent me to declare unto thee that
thou mayest rejoice; and that thou mayest declare unto thy
people, that they may also be filled with joy.
 
Mosiah 3:5 For behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant,
that with power, the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth, who was, and
is from all eternity to all eternity, shall come down from heaven
among the children of men, and shall dwell in a tabernacle of
clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles,
such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to
walk, the blind to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and
curing all manner of diseases.
 
Mosiah 3:6 And he shall cast out devils, or the evil spirits
which dwell in the hearts of the children of men.
 
Mosiah 3:7 And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body,
hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer,
except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every
pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the
abominations of his people.
 
Mosiah 3:8 And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from
the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary.
 
Mosiah 3:9 And lo, he cometh unto his own, that salvation might
come unto the children of men even through faith on his name; and
even after all this they shall consider him a man, and say that
he hath a devil, and shall scourge him, and shall crucify him.
 
Mosiah 3:10 And he shall rise the third day from the dead; and
behold, he standeth to judge the world; and behold, all these
things are done that a righteous judgment might come upon the
children of men.
 
Mosiah 3:11 For behold, and also his blood atoneth for the sins
of those who have fallen by the transgression of Adam, who have
died not knowing the will of God concerning them, or who have
ignorantly sinned.
 
Mosiah 3:12 But wo, wo unto him who knoweth that he rebelleth
against God! For salvation cometh to none such except it be
through repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Mosiah 3:13 And the Lord God hath sent his holy prophets among
all the children of men, to declare these things to every
kindred, nation, and tongue, that thereby whosoever should
believe that Christ should come, the same might receive remission
of their sins, and rejoice with exceedingly great joy, even as
though he had already come among them.
 
Mosiah 3:14 Yet the Lord God saw that his people were a
stiffnecked people, and he appointed unto them a law, even the
law of Moses.
 
Mosiah 3:15 And many signs, and wonders, and types, and shadows
showed he unto them, concerning his coming; and also holy
prophets spake unto them concerning his coming; and yet they
hardened their hearts, and understood not that the law of Moses
availeth nothing except it were through the atonement of his
blood.
 
Mosiah 3:16 And even if it were possible that little children
could sin they could not be saved; but I say unto you they are
blessed; for behold, as in Adam, or by nature, they fall, even so
the blood of Christ atoneth for their sins.
 
Mosiah 3:17 And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no
other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation
can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name
of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.
 
Mosiah 3:18 For behold he judgeth, and his judgment is just; and
the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy; but men drink
damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and
become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and
is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ,
the Lord Omnipotent.
 
Mosiah 3:19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been
from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he
yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the
natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ
the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble,
patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the
Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit
to his father.
 
Mosiah 3:20 And moreover, I say unto you, that the time shall
come when the knowledge of a Savior shall spread throughout every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
 
Mosiah 3:21 And behold, when that time cometh, none shall be
found blameless before God, except it be little children, only
through repentance and faith on the name of the Lord God
Omnipotent.
 
Mosiah 3:22 And even at this time, when thou shalt have taught
thy people the things which the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,
even then are they found no more blameless in the sight of God,
only according to the words which I have spoken unto thee.
 
Mosiah 3:23 And now I have spoken the words which the Lord God
hath commanded me.
 
Mosiah 3:24 And thus saith the Lord: They shall stand as a bright
testimony against this people, at the judgment day; whereof they
shall be judged, every man according to his works, whether they
be good, or whether they be evil.
 
Mosiah 3:25 And if they be evil they are consigned to an awful
view of their own guilt and abominations, which doth cause them
to shrink from the presence of the Lord into a state of misery
and endless torment, from whence they can no more return;
therefore they have drunk damnation to their own souls.
 
Mosiah 3:26 Therefore, they have drunk out of the cup of the
wrath of God, which justice could no more deny unto them than it
could deny that Adam should fall because of his partaking of the
forbidden fruit; therefore, mercy could have claim on them no
more forever.
 
Mosiah 3:27 And their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone,
whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke ascendeth up
forever and ever. Thus hath the Lord commanded me. Amen.
 
Mosiah 4:0 King Benjamin's address concluded--The conditions of
salvation--Man's dependence upon God--Liberality, wisdom and
diligence enjoined.
 
Mosiah 4:1 And now, it came to pass that when king Benjamin had
made an end of speaking the words which had been delivered unto
him by the angel of the Lord, that he cast his eyes round about
on the multitude, and behold they had fallen to the earth, for
the fear of the Lord had come upon them.
 
Mosiah 4:2 And they had viewed themselves in their own carnal
state, even less than the dust of the earth. And they all cried
aloud with one voice, saying: O have mercy, and apply the atoning
blood of Christ that we may receive forgiveness of our sins, and
our hearts may be purified; for we believe in Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, who created heaven and earth, and all things; who
shall come down among the children of men.
 
Mosiah 4:3 And it came to pass that after they had spoken these
words the Spirit of the Lord came upon them, and they were filled
with joy, having received a remission of their sins, and having
peace of conscience, because of the exceeding faith which they
had in Jesus Christ who should come, according to the words which
king Benjamin had spoken unto them.
 
Mosiah 4:4 And king Benjamin again opened his mouth and began to
speak unto them, saying: My friends and my brethren, my kindred
and my people, I would again call your attention, that ye may
hear and understand the remainder of my words which I shall speak
unto you.
 
Mosiah 4:5 For behold, if the knowledge of the goodness of God at
this time has awakened you to a sense of your nothingness, and
your worthless and fallen state--
 
Mosiah 4:6 I say unto you, if ye have come to a knowledge of the
goodness of God, and his matchless power, and his wisdom, and his
patience, and his long-suffering towards the children of men; and
also, the atonement which has been prepared from the foundation
of the world, that thereby salvation might come to him that
should put his trust in the Lord, and should be diligent in
keeping his commandments, and continue in the faith even unto the
end of his life, I mean the life of the mortal body--
 
Mosiah 4:7 I say, that this is the man who receiveth salvation,
through the atonement which was prepared from the foundation of
the world for all mankind, which ever were since the fall of
Adam, or who are, or who ever shall be, even unto the end of the
world.
 
Mosiah 4:8 And this is the means whereby salvation cometh. And
there is none other salvation save this which hath been spoken
of; neither are there any conditions whereby man can be saved
except the conditions which I have told you.
 
Mosiah 4:9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he
created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he
has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth;
believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the
Lord can comprehend.
 
Mosiah 4:10 And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins
and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in
sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you
believe all these things see that ye do them.
 
Mosiah 4:11 And again I say unto you as I have said before, that
as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye
have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have
received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly
great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember,
and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your
own nothingness, and his goodness and long-suffering towards you,
unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of
humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing
steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was
spoken by the mouth of the angel.
 
Mosiah 4:12 And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye
shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and
always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the
knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the
knowledge of that which is just and true.
 
Mosiah 4:13 And ye will not have a mind to injure one another,
but to live peaceably, and to render to every man according to
that which is his due.
 
Mosiah 4:14 And ye will not suffer your children that they go
hungry, or naked; neither will ye suffer that they transgress the
laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and serve
the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the evil spirit
which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to
all righteousness.
 
Mosiah 4:15 But ye will teach them to walk in the ways of truth
and soberness; ye will teach them to love one another, and to
serve one another.
 
Mosiah 4:16 And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand
in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto
him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar
putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to
perish.
 
Mosiah 4:17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon
himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not
give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance
that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just--
 
Mosiah 4:18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the
same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that
which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in
the kingdom of God.
 
Mosiah 4:19 For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all
depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which
we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver,
and for all the riches which we have of every kind?
 
Mosiah 4:20 And behold, even at this time, ye have been calling
on his name, and begging for a remission of your sins. And has he
suffered that ye have begged in vain? Nay; he has poured out his
Spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled
with joy, and has caused that your mouths should be stopped that
ye could not find utterance, so exceedingly great was your joy.
 
Mosiah 4:21 And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are
dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth
grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith,
believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart
of the substance that ye have one to another.
 
Mosiah 4:22 And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition
to you for your substance that he perish not, and condemn him,
how much more just will be your condemnation for withholding your
substance, which doth not belong to you but to God, to whom also
your life belongeth; and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of
the thing which thou hast done.
 
Mosiah 4:23 I say unto you, wo be unto that man, for his
substance shall perish with him; and now, I say these things unto
those who are rich as pertaining to the things of this world.
 
Mosiah 4:24 And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and
yet have sufficient, that ye remain from day to day; I mean all
you who deny the beggar, because ye have not; I would that ye say
in your hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had
I would give.
 
Mosiah 4:25 And now, if ye say this in your hearts ye remain
guiltless, otherwise ye are condemned; and your condemnation is
just for ye covet that which ye have not received.
 
Mosiah 4:26 And now, for the sake of these things which I have
spoken unto you--that is, for the sake of retaining a remission
of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before
God--I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor,
every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the
hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering
to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to
their wants.
 
Mosiah 4:27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and
order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than
he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be
diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all
things must be done in order.
 
Mosiah 4:28 And I would that ye should remember, that whosoever
among you borroweth of his neighbor should return the thing that
he borroweth, according as he doth agree, or else thou shalt
commit sin; and perhaps thou shalt cause thy neighbor to commit
sin also.
 
Mosiah 4:29 And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby
ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so
many that I cannot number them.
 
Mosiah 4:30 But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch
yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds,
and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of
what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto
the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember,
and perish not.
 
Mosiah 5:0 Effect of king Benjamin's address--The people repent
and enter into covenant with Christ, and are called by his name.
 
Mosiah 5:1 And now, it came to pass that when king Benjamin had
thus spoken to his people, he sent among them, desiring to know
of his people if they believed the words which he had spoken unto
them.
 
Mosiah 5:2 And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we
believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also,
we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the
Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in
our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to
do good continually.
 
Mosiah 5:3 And we, ourselves, also, through the infinite goodness
of God, and the manifestations of his Spirit, have great views of
that which is to come; and were it expedient, we could prophesy
of all things.
 
Mosiah 5:4 And it is the faith which we have had on the things
which our king has spoken unto us that has brought us to this
great knowledge, whereby we do rejoice with such exceedingly
great joy.
 
Mosiah 5:5 And we are willing to enter into a covenant with our
God to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all
things that he shall command us, all the remainder of our days,
that we may not bring upon ourselves a never-ending torment, as
has been spoken by the angel, that we may not drink out of the
cup of the wrath of God.
 
Mosiah 5:6 And now, these are the words which king Benjamin
desired of them; and therefore he said unto them: Ye have spoken
the words that I desired; and the covenant which ye have made is
a righteous covenant.
 
Mosiah 5:7 And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye
shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his
daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you;
for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his
name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and
his daughters.
 
Mosiah 5:8 And under this head ye are made free, and there is no
other head whereby ye can be made free. There is no other name
given whereby salvation cometh; therefore, I would that ye should
take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into
the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the end of
your lives.
 
Mosiah 5:9 And it shall come to pass that whosoever doeth this
shall be found at the right hand of God, for he shall know the
name by which he is called; for he shall be called by the name of
Christ.
 
Mosiah 5:10 And now it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall
not take upon him the name of Christ must be called by some other
name; therefore, he findeth himself on the left hand of God.
 
Mosiah 5:11 And I would that ye should remember also, that this
is the name that I said I should give unto you that never should
be blotted out, except it be through transgression; therefore,
take heed that ye do not transgress, that the name be not blotted
out of your hearts.
 
Mosiah 5:12 I say unto you, I would that ye should remember to
retain the name written always in your hearts, that ye are not
found on the left hand of God, but that ye hear and know the
voice by which ye shall be called, and also, the name by which he
shall call you.
 
Mosiah 5:13 For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not
served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the
thoughts and intents of his heart?
 
Mosiah 5:14 And again, doth a man take an ass which belongeth to
his neighbor, and keep him? I say unto you, Nay; he will not even
suffer that he shall feed among his flocks, but will drive him
away, and cast him out. I say unto you, that even so shall it be
among you if ye know not the name by which ye are called.
 
Mosiah 5:15 Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and
immovable, always abounding in good works, that Christ, the Lord
God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you may be brought to
heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal life,
through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who
created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all.
Amen.
 
Mosiah 6:0 Names of the people recorded--Priests appointed--
Beginning of Mosiah's reign--Death of king Benjamin.
 
Mosiah 6:1 And now, king Benjamin thought it was expedient, after
having finished speaking to the people, that he should take the
names of all those who had entered into a covenant with God to
keep his commandments.
 
Mosiah 6:2 And it came to pass that there was not one soul,
except it were little children, but who had entered into the
covenant and had taken upon them the name of Christ.
 
Mosiah 6:3 And again, it came to pass that when king Benjamin had
made an end of all these things, and had consecrated his son
Mosiah to be a ruler and a king over his people, and had given
him all the charges concerning the kingdom, and also had
appointed priests to teach the people, that thereby they might
hear and know the commandments of God, and to stir them up in
remembrance of the oath which they had made, he dismissed the
multitude, and they returned, every one, according to their
families, to their own houses.
 
Mosiah 6:4 And Mosiah began to reign in his father's stead. And
he began to reign in the thirtieth year of his age, making in the
whole, about four hundred and seventy-six years from the time
that Lehi left Jerusalem.
 
Mosiah 6:5 And king Benjamin lived three years and he died.
 
Mosiah 6:6 And it came to pass that king Mosiah did walk in the
ways of the Lord, and did observe his judgments and his statutes,
and did keep his commandments in all things whatsoever he
commanded him.
 
Mosiah 6:7 And king Mosiah did cause his people that they should
till the earth. And he also, himself, did till the earth, that
thereby he might not become burdensome to his people, that he
might do according to that which his father had done in all
things. And there was no contention among all his people for the
space of three years.
 
Mosiah 7:0 Expedition to the land of Lehi-Nephi--Ammon and king
Limhi--People of Lehi-Nephi in bondage to Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 7:1 And now, it came to pass that after king Mosiah had
had continual peace for the space of three years, he was desirous
to know concerning the people who went up to dwell in the land of
Lehi-Nephi, or in the city of Lehi-Nephi; for his people had
heard nothing from them from the time they left the land of
Zarahemla; therefore, they wearied him with their teasings.
 
Mosiah 7:2 And it came to pass that king Mosiah granted that
sixteen of their strong men might go up to the land of Lehi-
Nephi, to inquire concerning their brethren.
 
Mosiah 7:3 And it came to pass that on the morrow they started to
go up, having with them one Ammon, he being a strong and mighty
man, and a descendant of Zarahemla; and he was also their leader.
 
Mosiah 7:4 And now, they knew not the course they should travel
in the wilderness to go up to the land of Lehi-Nephi; therefore
they wandered many days in the wilderness, even forty days did
they wander.
 
Mosiah 7:5 And when they had wandered forty days they came to a
hill, which is north of the land of Shilom, and there they
pitched their tents.
 
Mosiah 7:6 And Ammon took three of his brethren, and their names
were Amaleki, Helem, and Hem, and they went down into the land of
Nephi.
 
Mosiah 7:7 And behold, they met the king of the people who were
in the land of Nephi, and in the land of Shilom; and they were
surrounded by the king's guard, and were taken, and were bound,
and were committed to prison.
 
Mosiah 7:8 And it came to pass when they had been in prison two
days they were again brought before the king, and their bands
were loosed; and they stood before the king, and were permitted,
or rather commanded, that they should answer the questions which
he should ask them.
 
Mosiah 7:9 And he said unto them: Behold, I am Limhi, the son of
Noah, who was the son of Zeniff, who came up out of the land of
Zarahemla to inherit this land, which was the land of their
fathers, who was made a king by the voice of the people.
 
Mosiah 7:10 And now, I desire to know the cause whereby ye were
so bold as to come near the walls of the city, when I, myself,
was with my guards without the gate?
 
Mosiah 7:11 And now, for this cause have I suffered that ye
should be preserved, that I might inquire of you, or else I
should have caused that my guards should have put you to death.
Ye are permitted to speak.
 
Mosiah 7:12 And now, when Ammon saw that he was permitted to
speak, he went forth and bowed himself before the king; and
rising again he said: O king, I am very thankful before God this
day that I am yet alive, and am permitted to speak; and I will
endeavor to speak with boldness;
 
Mosiah 7:13 For I am assured that if ye had known me ye would not
have suffered that I should have worn these bands. For I am
Ammon, and am a descendant of Zarahemla, and have come up out of
the land of Zarahemla to inquire concerning our brethren, whom
Zeniff brought up out of that land.
 
Mosiah 7:14 And now, it came to pass that after Limhi had heard
the words of Ammon, he was exceedingly glad, and said: Now, I
know of a surety that my brethren who were in the land of
Zarahemla are yet alive. And now, I will rejoice; and on the
morrow I will cause that my people shall rejoice also.
 
Mosiah 7:15 For behold, we are in bondage to the Lamanites, and
are taxed with a tax which is grievous to be borne. And now,
behold, our brethren will deliver us out of our bondage, or out
of the hands of the Lamanites, and we will be their slaves; for
it is better that we be slaves to the Nephites than to pay
tribute to the king of the Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 7:16 And now, king Limhi commanded his guards that they
should no more bind Ammon nor his brethren, but caused that they
should go to the hill which was north of Shilom, and bring their
brethren into the city, that thereby they might eat, and drink,
and rest themselves from the labors of their journey; for they
had suffered many things; they had suffered hunger, thirst, and
fatigue.
 
Mosiah 7:17 And now, it came to pass on the morrow that king
Limhi sent a proclamation among all his people, that thereby they
might gather themselves together to the temple, to hear the words
which he should speak unto them.
 
Mosiah 7:18 And it came to pass that when they had gathered
themselves together that he spake unto them in this wise, saying:
O ye, my people, lift up your heads and be comforted; for behold,
the time is at hand, or is not far distant, when we shall no
longer be in subjection to our enemies, notwithstanding our many
strugglings, which have been in vain; yet I trust there remaineth
an effectual struggle to be made.
 
Mosiah 7:19 Therefore, lift up your heads, and rejoice, and put
your trust in God, in that God who was the God of Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob; and also, that God who brought the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt, and caused that they should walk
through the Red Sea on dry ground, and fed them with manna that
they might not perish in the wilderness; and many more things did
he do for them.
 
Mosiah 7:20 And again, that same God has brought our fathers out
of the land of Jerusalem, and has kept and preserved his people
even until now; and behold, it is because of our iniquities and
abominations that he has brought us into bondage.
 
Mosiah 7:21 And ye all are witnesses this day, that Zeniff, who
was made king over this people, he being over-zealous to inherit
the land of his fathers, therefore being deceived by the cunning
and craftiness of king Laman, who having entered into a treaty
with king Zeniff, and having yielded up into his hands the
possessions of a part of the land, or even the city of Lehi-
Nephi, and the city of Shilom; and the land round about--
 
Mosiah 7:22 And all this he did, for the sole purpose of bringing
this people into subjection or into bondage. And behold, we at
this time do pay tribute to the king of the Lamanites, to the
amount of one half of our corn, and our barley, and even all our
grain of every kind, and one half of the increase of our flocks
and our herds; and even one half of all we have or possess the
king of the Lamanites doth exact of us, or our lives.
 
Mosiah 7:23 And now, is not this grievous to be borne? And is not
this, our affliction, great? Now behold, how great reason we have
to mourn.
 
Mosiah 7:24 Yea, I say unto you, great are the reasons which we
have to mourn; for behold how many of our brethren have been
slain, and their blood has been spilt in vain, and all because of
iniquity.
 
Mosiah 7:25 For if this people had not fallen into transgression
the Lord would not have suffered that this great evil should come
upon them. But behold, they would not hearken unto his words; but
there arose contentions among them, even so much that they did
shed blood among themselves.
 
Mosiah 7:26 And a prophet of the Lord have they slain; yea, a
chosen man of God, who told them of their wickedness and
abominations, and prophesied of many things which are to come,
yea, even the coming of Christ.
 
Mosiah 7:27 And because he said unto them that Christ was the
God, the Father of all things, and said that he should take upon
him the image of man, and it should be the image after which man
was created in the beginning; or in other words, he said that man
was created after the image of God, and that God should come down
among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and
go forth upon the face of the earth--
 
Mosiah 7:28 And now, because he said this, they did put him to
death; and many more things did they do which brought down the
wrath of God upon them. Therefore, who wondereth that they are in
bondage, and that they are smitten with sore afflictions?
 
Mosiah 7:29 For behold, the Lord hath said: I will not succor my
people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up
their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a
stumbling block before them.
 
Mosiah 7:30 And again, he saith: If my people shall sow
filthiness they shall reap the chaff thereof in the whirlwind;
and the effect thereof is poison.
 
Mosiah 7:31 And again he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness
they shall reap the east wind, which bringeth immediate
destruction.
 
Mosiah 7:32 And now, behold, the promise of the Lord is
fulfilled, and ye are smitten and afflicted.
 
Mosiah 7:33 But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of
heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all
diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own
will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.
 
Mosiah 8:0 Ammon learns of the discovery of twenty-four gold
plates with engravings--He suggests their submission to king
Mosiah, prophet and seer.
 
Mosiah 8:1 And it came to pass that after king Limhi had made an
end of speaking to his people, for he spake many things unto them
and only a few of them have I written in this book, he told his
people all the things concerning their brethren who were in the
land of Zarahemla.
 
Mosiah 8:2 And he caused that Ammon should stand up before the
multitude, and rehearse unto them all that had happened unto
their brethren from the time that Zeniff went up out of the land
even until the time that he himself came up out of the land.
 
Mosiah 8:3 And he also rehearsed unto them the last words which
king Benjamin had taught them, and explained them to the people
of king Limhi, so that they might understand all the words which
he spake.
 
Mosiah 8:4 And it came to pass that after he had done all this,
that king Limhi dismissed the multitude, and caused that they
should return every one unto his own house.
 
Mosiah 8:5 And it came to pass that he caused that the plates
which contained the record of his people from the time that they
left the land of Zarahemla, should be brought before Ammon, that
he might read them.
 
Mosiah 8:6 Now, as soon as Ammon had read the record, the king
inquired of him to know if he could interpret languages, and
Ammon told him that he could not.
 
Mosiah 8:7 And the king said unto him: Being grieved for the
afflictions of my people, I caused that forty and three of my
people should take a journey into the wilderness, that thereby
they might find the land of Zarahemla, that we might appeal unto
our brethren to deliver us out of bondage.
 
Mosiah 8:8 And they were lost in the wilderness for the space of
many days, yet they were diligent, and found not the land of
Zarahemla but returned to this land, having traveled in a land
among many waters, having discovered a land which was covered
with bones of men, and of beasts, and was also covered with ruins
of buildings of every kind, having discovered a land which had
been peopled with a people who were as numerous as the hosts of
Israel.
 
Mosiah 8:9 And for a testimony that the things that they had said
are true they have brought twenty-four plates which are filled
with engravings, and they are of pure gold.
 
Mosiah 8:10 And behold, also, they have brought breastplates,
which are large, and they are of brass and of copper, and are
perfectly sound.
 
Mosiah 8:11 And again, they have brought swords, the hilts
thereof have perished, and the blades thereof were cankered with
rust; and there is no one in the land that is able to interpret
the language or the engravings that are on the plates. Therefore
I said unto thee: Canst thou translate?
 
Mosiah 8:12 And I say unto thee again: Knowest thou of any one
that can translate? For I am desirous that these records should
be translated into our language; for, perhaps, they will give us
a knowledge of a remnant of the people who have been destroyed,
from whence these records came; or, perhaps, they will give us a
knowledge of this very people who have been destroyed; and I am
desirous to know the cause of their destruction.
 
Mosiah 8:13 Now Ammon said unto him: I can assuredly tell thee, O
king, of a man that can translate the records; for he has
wherewith that he can look, and translate all records that are of
ancient date; and it is a gift from God. And the things are
called interpreters, and no man can look in them except he be
commanded, lest he should look for that he ought not and he
should perish. And whosoever is commanded to look in them, the
same is called seer.
 
Mosiah 8:14 And behold, the king of the people who are in the
land of Zarahemla is the man that is commanded to do these
things, and who has this high gift from God.
 
Mosiah 8:15 And the king said that a seer is greater than a
prophet.
 
Mosiah 8:16 And Ammon said that a seer is a revelator and a
prophet also; and a gift which is greater can no man have, except
he should possess the power of God, which no man can; yet a man
may have great power given him from God.
 
Mosiah 8:17 But a seer can know of things which are past, and
also of things which are to come, and by them shall all things be
revealed, or, rather, shall secret things be made manifest, and
hidden things shall come to light, and things which are not known
shall be made known by them, and also things shall be made known
by them which otherwise could not be known.
 
Mosiah 8:18 Thus God has provided a means that man, through
faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great
benefit to his fellow beings.
 
Mosiah 8:19 And now, when Ammon had made an end of speaking these
words the king rejoiced exceedingly, and gave thanks to God,
saying: Doubtless a great mystery is contained within these
plates, and these interpreters were doubtless prepared for the
purpose of unfolding all such mysteries to the children of men.
 
Mosiah 8:20 O how marvelous are the works of the Lord, and how
long doth he suffer with his people; yea, and how blind and
impenetrable are the understandings of the children of men; for
they will not seek wisdom, neither do they desire that she should
rule over them!
 
Mosiah 8:21 Yea, they are as a wild flock which fleeth from the
shepherd, and scattereth, and are driven, and are devoured by the
beasts of the forest.
 
Mosiah 9:00 THE RECORD OF ZENIFF. --An account of his people,
from the time they left the land of Zarahemla until the time that
they were delivered out of the hands of the Lamanites. Comprising
chapters 9 to 22 inclusive.
 
Mosiah 9:0 Zeniff goes to possess the land of Lehi-Nephi--A spy
among the Lamanites--The craftiness of king Laman.
 
Mosiah 9:1 I, Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of
the Nephites, and having had a knowledge of the land of Nephi, or
of the land of our fathers' first inheritance, and having been
sent as a spy among the Lamanites that I might spy out their
forces, that our army might come upon them and destroy them--but
when I saw that which was good among them I was desirous that
they should not be destroyed.
 
Mosiah 9:2 Therefore, I contended with my brethren in the
wilderness, for I would that our ruler should make a treaty with
them; but he being an austere and a blood-thirsty man commanded
that I should be slain; but I was rescued by the shedding of much
blood; for father fought against father, and brother against
brother, until the greater number of our army was destroyed in
the wilderness; and we returned, those of us that were spared, to
the land of Zarahemla, to relate that tale to their wives and
their children.
 
Mosiah 9:3 And yet, I being over-zealous to inherit the land of
our fathers, collected as many as were desirous to go up to
possess the land, and started again on our journey into the
wilderness to go up to the land; but we were smitten with famine
and sore afflictions; for we were slow to remember the Lord our
God.
 
Mosiah 9:4 Nevertheless, after many days' wandering in the
wilderness we pitched our tents in the place where our brethren
were slain, which was near to the land of our fathers.
 
Mosiah 9:5 And it came to pass that I went again with four of my
men into the city, in unto the king, that I might know of the
disposition of the king, and that I might know if I might go in
with my people and possess the land in peace.
 
Mosiah 9:6 And I went in unto the king, and he covenanted with me
that I might possess the land of Lehi-Nephi, and the land of
Shilom.
 
Mosiah 9:7 And he also commanded that his people should depart
out of the land, and I and my people went into the land that we
might possess it.
 
Mosiah 9:8 And we began to build buildings, and to repair the
walls of the city, yea, even the walls of the city of Lehi-Nephi,
and the city of Shilom.
 
Mosiah 9:9 And we began to till the ground, yea, even with all
manner of seeds, with seeds of corn, and of wheat, and of barley,
and with neas, and with sheum, and with seeds of all manner of
fruits; and we did begin to multiply and prosper in the land.
 
Mosiah 9:10 Now it was the cunning and the craftiness of king
Laman, to bring my people into bondage, that he yielded up the
land that we might possess it.
 
Mosiah 9:11 Therefore it came to pass, that after we had dwelt in
the land for the space of twelve years that king Laman began to
grow uneasy, lest by any means my people should wax strong in the
land, and that they could not overpower them and bring them into
bondage.
 
Mosiah 9:12 Now they were a lazy and an idolatrous people;
therefore they were desirous to bring us into bondage, that they
might glut themselves with the labors of our hands; yea, that
they might feast themselves upon the flocks of our fields.
 
Mosiah 9:13 Therefore it came to pass that king Laman began to
stir up his people that they should contend with my people;
therefore there began to be wars and contentions in the land.
 
Mosiah 9:14 For, in the thirteenth year of my reign in the land
of Nephi, away on the south of the land of Shilom, when my people
were watering and feeding their flocks, and tilling their lands,
a numerous host of Lamanites came upon them and began to slay
them, and to take off their flocks, and the corn of their fields.
 
Mosiah 9:15 Yea, and it came to pass that they fled, all that
were not overtaken, even into the city of Nephi, and did call
upon me for protection.
 
Mosiah 9:16 And it came to pass that I did arm them with bows,
and with arrows, with swords, and with cimeters, and with clubs,
and with slings, and with all manner of weapons which we could
invent, and I and my people did go forth against the Lamanites to
battle.
 
Mosiah 9:17 Yea, in the strength of the Lord did we go forth to
battle against the Lamanites; for I and my people did cry
mightily to the Lord that he would deliver us out of the hands of
our enemies, for we were awakened to a remembrance of the
deliverance of our fathers.
 
Mosiah 9:18 And God did hear our cries and did answer our
prayers; and we did go forth in his might; yea, we did go forth
against the Lamanites, and in one day and a night we did slay
three thousand and forty-three; we did slay them even until we
had driven them out of our land.
 
Mosiah 9:19 And I, myself, with mine own hands, did help to bury
their dead. And behold, to our great sorrow and lamentation, two
hundred and seventy-nine of our brethren were slain.
 
Mosiah 10:0 King Laman dies--Zeniff and his people prevail
against their oppressors.
 
Mosiah 10:1 And it came to pass that we again began to establish
the kingdom and we again began to possess the land in peace. And
I caused that there should be weapons of war made of every kind,
that thereby I might have weapons for my people against the time
the Lamanites should come up again to war against my people.
 
Mosiah 10:2 And I set guards round about the land, that the
Lamanites might not come upon us again unawares and destroy us;
and thus I did guard my people and my flocks, and keep them from
falling into the hands of our enemies.
 
Mosiah 10:3 And it came to pass that we did inherit the land of
our fathers for many years, yea, for the space of twenty and two
years.
 
Mosiah 10:4 And I did cause that the men should till the ground,
and raise all manner of grain and all manner of fruit of every
kind.
 
Mosiah 10:5 And I did cause that the women should spin, and toil,
and work, and work all manner of fine linen, yea, and cloth of
every kind, that we might clothe our nakedness; and thus we did
prosper in the land--thus we did have continual peace in the land
for the space of twenty and two years.
 
Mosiah 10:6 And it came to pass that king Laman died, and his son
began to reign in his stead. And he began to stir his people up
in rebellion against my people; therefore they began to prepare
for war, and to come up to battle against my people.
 
Mosiah 10:7 But I had sent my spies out round about the land of
Shemlon, that I might discover their preparations, that I might
guard against them, that they might not come upon my people and
destroy them.
 
Mosiah 10:8 And it came to pass that they came up upon the north
of the land of Shilom, with their numerous hosts, men armed with
bows, and with arrows, and with swords, and with cimeters, and
with stones, and with slings; and they had their heads shaved
that they were naked; and they were girded with a leathern girdle
about their loins.
 
Mosiah 10:9 And it came to pass that I caused that the women and
children of my people should be hid in the wilderness; and I also
caused that all my old men that could bear arms, and also all my
young men that were able to bear arms, should gather themselves
together to go to battle against the Lamanites; and I did place
them in their ranks, every man according to his age.
 
Mosiah 10:10 And it came to pass that we did go up to battle
against the Lamanites; and I, even I, in my old age, did go up to
battle against the Lamanites. And it came to pass that we did go
up in the strength of the Lord to battle.
 
Mosiah 10:11 Now, the Lamanites knew nothing concerning the Lord,
nor the strength of the Lord, therefore they depended upon their
own strength. Yet they were a strong people, as to the strength
of men.
 
Mosiah 10:12 They were a wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty
people, believing in the tradition of their fathers, which is
this--Believing that they were driven out of the land of
Jerusalem because of the iniquities of their fathers, and that
they were wronged in the wilderness by their brethren, and they
were also wronged while crossing the sea;
 
Mosiah 10:13 And again, that they were wronged while in the land
of their first inheritance, after they had crossed the sea, and
all this because that Nephi was more faithful in keeping the
commandments of the Lord--therefore he was favored of the Lord,
for the Lord heard his prayers and answered them, and he took the
lead of their journey in the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 10:14 And his brethren were wroth with him because they
understood not the dealings of the Lord; they were also wroth
with him upon the waters because they hardened their hearts
against the Lord.
 
Mosiah 10:15 And again, they were wroth with him when they had
arrived in the promised land, because they said that he had taken
the ruling of the people out of their hands; and they sought to
kill him.
 
Mosiah 10:16 And again, they were wroth with him because he
departed into the wilderness as the Lord had commanded him, and
took the records which were engraven on the plates of brass, for
they said that he robbed them.
 
Mosiah 10:17 And thus they have taught their children that they
should hate them, and that they should murder them, and that they
should rob and plunder them, and do all they could to destroy
them; therefore they have an eternal hatred towards the children
of Nephi.
 
Mosiah 10:18 For this very cause has king Laman, by his cunning,
and lying craftiness, and his fair promises, deceived me, that I
have brought this my people up into this land, that they may
destroy them; yea, and we have suffered these many years in the
land.
 
Mosiah 10:19 And now I, Zeniff, after having told all these
things unto my people concerning the Lamanites, I did stimulate
them to go to battle with their might, putting their trust in the
Lord; therefore, we did contend with them, face to face.
 
Mosiah 10:20 And it came to pass that we did drive them again out
of our land; and we slew them with a great slaughter, even so
many that we did not number them.
 
Mosiah 10:21 And it came to pass that we returned again to our
own land, and my people again began to tend their flocks, and to
till their ground.
 
Mosiah 10:22 And now I, being old, did confer the kingdom upon
one of my sons; therefore, I say no more. And may the Lord bless
my people. Amen.
 
Mosiah 11:0 The wicked king Noah and his priests--The prophet
Abinadi denounces the prevailing wickedness--King Noah seeks his
life.
 
Mosiah 11:1 And now it came to pass that Zeniff conferred the
kingdom upon Noah, one of his sons; therefore Noah began to reign
in his stead; and he did not walk in the ways of his father.
 
Mosiah 11:2 For behold, he did not keep the commandments of God,
but he did walk after the desires of his own heart. And he had
many wives and concubines. And he did cause his people to commit
sin, and do that which was abominable in the sight of the Lord.
Yea, and they did commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness.
 
Mosiah 11:3 And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they
possessed, a fifth part of their gold and of their silver, and a
fifth part of their ziff, and of their copper, and of their brass
and their iron; and a fifth part of their fatlings; and also a
fifth part of all their grain.
 
Mosiah 11:4 And all this did he take to support himself, and his
wives and his concubines; and also his priests, and their wives
and their concubines; thus he had changed the affairs of the
kingdom.
 
Mosiah 11:5 For he put down all the priests that had been
consecrated by his father, and consecrated new ones in their
stead, such as were lifted up in the pride of their hearts.
 
Mosiah 11:6 Yea, and thus they were supported in their laziness,
and in their idolatry, and in their whoredoms, by the taxes which
king Noah had put upon his people; thus did the people labor
exceedingly to support iniquity.
 
Mosiah 11:7 Yea, and they also became idolatrous, because they
were deceived by the vain and flattering words of the king and
priests; for they did speak flattering things unto them.
 
Mosiah 11:8 And it came to pass that king Noah built many elegant
and spacious buildings; and he ornamented them with fine work of
wood, and of all manner of precious things, of gold, and of
silver, and of iron, and of brass, and of ziff, and of copper;
 
Mosiah 11:9 And he also built him a spacious palace, and a throne
in the midst thereof, all of which was of fine wood and was
ornamented with gold and silver and with precious things.
 
Mosiah 11:10 And he also caused that his workmen should work all
manner of fine work within the walls of the temple, of fine wood,
and of copper, and of brass.
 
Mosiah 11:11 And the seats which were set apart for the high
priests, which were above all the other seats, he did ornament
with pure gold; and he caused a breastwork to be built before
them, that they might rest their bodies and their arms upon while
they should speak lying and vain words to his people.
 
Mosiah 11:12 And it came to pass that he built a tower near the
temple; yea, a very high tower, even so high that he could stand
upon the top thereof and overlook the land of Shilom, and also
the land of Shemlon, which was possessed by the Lamanites; and he
could even look over all the land round about.
 
Mosiah 11:13 And it came to pass that he caused many buildings to
be built in the land Shilom; and he caused a great tower to be
built on the hill north of the land Shilom, which had been a
resort for the children of Nephi at the time they fled out of the
land; and thus he did do with the riches which he obtained by the
taxation of his people.
 
Mosiah 11:14 And it came to pass that he placed his heart upon
his riches, and he spent his time in riotous living with his
wives and his concubines; and so did also his priests spend their
time with harlots.
 
Mosiah 11:15 And it came to pass that he planted vineyards round
about in the land; and he built wine-presses, and made wine in
abundance; and therefore he became a wine-bibber, and also his
people.
 
Mosiah 11:16 And it came to pass that the Lamanites began to come
in upon his people, upon small numbers, and to slay them in their
fields, and while they were tending their flocks.
 
Mosiah 11:17 And king Noah sent guards round about the land to
keep them off; but he did not send a sufficient number, and the
Lamanites came upon them and killed them, and drove many of their
flocks out of the land; thus the Lamanites began to destroy them,
and to exercise their hatred upon them.
 
Mosiah 11:18 And it came to pass that king Noah sent his armies
against them, and they were driven back, or they drove them back
for a time; therefore, they returned rejoicing in their spoil.
 
Mosiah 11:19 And now, because of this great victory they were
lifted up in the pride of their hearts; they did boast in their
own strength, saying that their fifty could stand against
thousands of the Lamanites; and thus they did boast, and did
delight in blood, and the shedding of the blood of their
brethren, and this because of the wickedness of their king and
priests.
 
Mosiah 11:20 And it came to pass that there was a man among them
whose name was Abinadi; and he went forth among them, and began
to prophesy, saying: Behold, thus saith the Lord, and thus hath
he commanded me, saying, Go forth, and say unto this people, thus
saith the Lord--Wo be unto this people, for I have seen their
abominations, and their wickedness, and their whoredoms; and
except they repent I will visit them in mine anger.
 
Mosiah 11:21 And except they repent and turn to the Lord their
God, behold, I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies;
yea, and they shall be brought into bondage; and they shall be
afflicted by the hand of their enemies.
 
Mosiah 11:22 And it shall come to pass that they shall know that
I am the Lord their God, and am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquities of my people.
 
Mosiah 11:23 And it shall come to pass that except this people
repent and turn unto the Lord their God, they shall be brought
into bondage; and none shall deliver them, except it be the Lord
the Almighty God.
 
Mosiah 11:24 Yea, and it shall come to pass that when they shall
cry unto me I will be slow to hear their cries; yea, and I will
suffer them that they be smitten by their enemies.
 
Mosiah 11:25 And except they repent in sackcloth and ashes, and
cry mightily to the Lord their God, I will not hear their
prayers, neither will I deliver them out of their afflictions;
and thus saith the Lord, and thus hath he commanded me.
 
Mosiah 11:26 Now it came to pass that when Abinadi had spoken
these words unto them they were wroth with him, and sought to
take away his life; but the Lord delivered him out of their
hands.
 
Mosiah 11:27 Now when king Noah had heard of the words which
Abinadi had spoken unto the people, he was also wroth; and he
said: Who is Abinadi, that I and my people should be judged of
him, or who is the Lord, that shall bring upon my people such
great affliction?
 
Mosiah 11:28 I command you to bring Abinadi hither, that I may
slay him, for he has said these things that he might stir up my
people to anger one with another, and to raise contentions among
my people; therefore I will slay him.
 
Mosiah 11:29 Now the eyes of the people were blinded; therefore
they hardened their hearts against the words of Abinadi, and they
sought from that time forward to take him. And king Noah hardened
his heart against the word of the Lord, and he did not repent of
his evil doings.
 
Mosiah 12:0 Abinadi, for denouncing evil-doers, is cast into
prison--The false priests sit in judgment upon him--They are
confounded.
 
Mosiah 12:1 And it came to pass that after the space of two years
that Abinadi came among them in disguise, that they knew him not,
and began to prophesy among them, saying: Thus has the Lord
commanded me, saying--Abinadi, go and prophesy unto this my
people, for they have hardened their hearts against my words;
they have repented not of their evil doings; therefore, I will
visit them in my anger, yea, in my fierce anger will I visit them
in their iniquities and abominations.
 
Mosiah 12:2 Yea, wo be unto this generation! And the Lord said
unto me: Stretch forth thy hand and prophesy, saying: Thus saith
the Lord, it shall come to pass that this generation, because of
their iniquities, shall be brought into bondage, and shall be
smitten on the cheek; yea, and shall be driven by men, and shall
be slain; and the vultures of the air, and the dogs, yea, and the
wild beasts, shall devour their flesh.
 
Mosiah 12:3 And it shall come to pass that the life of king Noah
shall be valued even as a garment in a hot furnace; for he shall
know that I am the Lord.
 
Mosiah 12:4 And it shall come to pass that I will smite this my
people with sore afflictions, yea, with famine and with
pestilence; and I will cause that they shall howl all the day
long.
 
Mosiah 12:5 Yea, and I will cause that they shall have burdens
lashed upon their backs; and they shall be driven before like a
dumb ass.
 
Mosiah 12:6 And it shall come to pass that I will send forth hail
among them, and it shall smite them; and they shall also be
smitten with the east wind; and insects shall pester their land
also, and devour their grain.
 
Mosiah 12:7 And they shall be smitten with a great pestilence--
and all this will I do because of their iniquities and
abominations.
 
Mosiah 12:8 And it shall come to pass that except they repent I
will utterly destroy them from off the face of the earth; yet
they shall leave a record behind them, and I will preserve them
for other nations which shall possess the land; yea, even this
will I do that I may discover the abominations of this people to
other nations. And many things did Abinadi prophesy against this
people.
 
Mosiah 12:9 And it came to pass that they were angry with him;
and they took him and carried him bound before the king, and said
unto the king: Behold, we have brought a man before thee who has
prophesied evil concerning thy people, and saith that God will
destroy them.
 
Mosiah 12:10 And he also prophesieth evil concerning thy life,
and saith that thy life shall be as a garment in a furnace of
fire.
 
Mosiah 12:11 And again, he saith that thou shalt be as a stalk,
even as a dry stalk of the field, which is run over by the beasts
and trodden under foot.
 
Mosiah 12:12 And again, he saith thou shalt be as the blossoms of
a thistle, which, when it is fully ripe, if the wind bloweth, it
is driven forth upon the face of the land. And he pretendeth the
Lord hath spoken it. And he saith all this shall come upon thee
except thou repent, and this because of thine iniquities.
 
Mosiah 12:13 And now, O king, what great evil hast thou done, or
what great sins have thy people committed, that we should be
condemned of God or judged of this man?
 
Mosiah 12:14 And now, O king, behold, we are guiltless, and thou,
O king, hast not sinned; therefore, this man has lied concerning
you, and he has prophesied in vain.
 
Mosiah 12:15 And behold, we are strong, we shall not come into
bondage, or be taken captive by our enemies; yea, and thou hast
prospered in the land, and thou shalt also prosper.
 
Mosiah 12:16 Behold, here is the man, we deliver him into thy
hands; thou mayest do with him as seemeth thee good.
 
Mosiah 12:17 And it came to pass that king Noah caused that
Abinadi should be cast into prison; and he commanded that the
priests should gather themselves together that he might hold a
council with them what he should do with him.
 
Mosiah 12:18 And it came to pass that they said unto the king:
Bring him hither that we may question him; and the king commanded
that he should be brought before them.
 
Mosiah 12:19 And they began to question him, that they might
cross him, that thereby they might have wherewith to accuse him;
but he answered them boldly, and withstood all their questions,
yea, to their astonishment; for he did withstand them in all
their questions, and did confound them in all their words.
 
Mosiah 12:20 And it came to pass that one of them said unto him:
What meaneth the words which are written, and which have been
taught by our fathers, saying:
 
Mosiah 12:21 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings; that publisheth peace; that bringeth
good tidings of good; that publisheth salvation; that saith unto
Zion, Thy God reigneth;
 
Mosiah 12:22 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice
together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the
Lord shall bring again Zion;
 
Mosiah 12:23 Break forth into joy; sing together ye waste places
of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath
redeemed Jerusalem;
 
Mosiah 12:24 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of
all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God?
 
Mosiah 12:25 And now Abinadi said unto them: Are you priests, and
pretend to teach this people, and to understand the spirit of
prophesying, and yet desire to know of me what these things mean?
 
Mosiah 12:26 I say unto you, wo be unto you for perverting the
ways of the Lord! For if ye understand these things ye have not
taught them; therefore, ye have perverted the ways of the Lord.
 
Mosiah 12:27 Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding;
therefore, ye have not been wise. Therefore, what teach ye this
people?
 
Mosiah 12:28 And they said: We teach the law of Moses.
 
Mosiah 12:29 And again he said unto them: If ye teach the law of
Moses why do ye not keep it? Why do ye set your hearts upon
riches? Why do ye commit whoredoms and spend your strength with
harlots, yea, and cause this people to commit sin, that the Lord
has cause to send me to prophesy against this people, yea, even a
great evil against this people?
 
Mosiah 12:30 Know ye not that I speak the truth? Yea, ye know
that I speak the truth; and you ought to tremble before God.
 
Mosiah 12:31 And it shall come to pass that ye shall be smitten
for your iniquities, for ye have said that ye teach the law of
Moses. And what know ye concerning the law of Moses? Doth
salvation come by the law of Moses? What say ye?
 
Mosiah 12:32 And they answered and said that salvation did come
by the law of Moses.
 
Mosiah 12:33 But now Abinadi said unto them: I know if ye keep
the commandments of God ye shall be saved; yea, if ye keep the
commandments which the Lord delivered unto Moses in the mount of
Sinai, saying:
 
Mosiah 12:34 I am the Lord thy God, who hath brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 
Mosiah 12:35 Thou shalt have no other God before me.
 
Mosiah 12:36 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing in heaven above, or things which are in
the earth beneath.
 
Mosiah 12:37 Now Abinadi said unto them, Have ye done all this? I
say unto you, Nay, ye have not. And have ye taught this people
that they should do all these things? I say unto you, Nay, ye
have not.
 
Mosiah 13:0 Abinadi the prophet, protected by divine power,
withstands the priests and cites the Law and the Gospel.
 
Mosiah 13:1 And now when the king had heard these words, he said
unto his priests: Away with this fellow, and slay him; for what
have we to do with him, for he is mad.
 
Mosiah 13:2 And they stood forth and attempted to lay their hands
on him; but he withstood them, and said unto them:
 
Mosiah 13:3 Touch me not, for God shall smite you if ye lay your
hands upon me, for I have not delivered the message which the
Lord sent me to deliver; neither have I told you that which ye
requested that I should tell; therefore, God will not suffer that
I shall be destroyed at this time.
 
Mosiah 13:4 But I must fulfil the commandments wherewith God has
commanded me; and because I have told you the truth ye are angry
with me. And again, because I have spoken the word of God ye have
judged me that I am mad.
 
Mosiah 13:5 Now it came to pass after Abinadi had spoken these
words that the people of king Noah durst not lay their hands on
him, for the Spirit of the Lord was upon him; and his face shone
with exceeding luster, even as Moses' did while in the mount of
Sinai, while speaking with the Lord.
 
Mosiah 13:6 And he spake with power and authority from God; and
he continued his words, saying:
 
Mosiah 13:7 Ye see that ye have not power to slay me, therefore I
finish my message. Yea, and I perceive that it cuts you to your
hearts because I tell you the truth concerning your iniquities.
 
Mosiah 13:8 Yea, and my words fill you with wonder and amazement,
and with anger.
 
Mosiah 13:9 But I finish my message; and then it matters not
whither I go, if it so be that I am saved.
 
Mosiah 13:10 But this much I tell you, what you do with me, after
this, shall be as a type and a shadow of things which are to
come.
 
Mosiah 13:11 And now I read unto you the remainder of the
commandments of God, for I perceive that they are not written in
your hearts; I perceive that ye have studied and taught iniquity
the most part of your lives.
 
Mosiah 13:12 And now, ye remember that I said unto you: Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of
things which are in heaven above, or which are in the earth
beneath, or which are in the water under the earth.
 
Mosiah 13:13 And again: Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto
them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto
the third and fourth generations of them that hate me;
 
Mosiah 13:14 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love
me and keep my commandments.
 
Mosiah 13:15 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.
 
Mosiah 13:16 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 
Mosiah 13:17 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
 
Mosiah 13:18 But the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy
God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
 
Mosiah 13:19 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and
the sea, and all that in them is; wherefore the Lord blessed the
sabbath day, and hallowed it.
 
Mosiah 13:20 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may
be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
 
Mosiah 13:21 Thou shalt not kill.
 
Mosiah 13:22 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not
steal.
 
Mosiah 13:23 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
 
Mosiah 13:24 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou
shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his
maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy
neighbor's.
 
Mosiah 13:25 And it came to pass that after Abinadi had made an
end of these sayings that he said unto them: Have ye taught this
people that they should observe to do all these things for to
keep these commandments?
 
Mosiah 13:26 I say unto you, Nay; for if ye had, the Lord would
not have caused me to come forth and to prophesy evil concerning
this people.
 
Mosiah 13:27 And now ye have said that salvation cometh by the
law of Moses. I say unto you that it is expedient that ye should
keep the law of Moses as yet; but I say unto you, that the time
shall come when it shall no more be expedient to keep the law of
Moses.
 
Mosiah 13:28 And moreover, I say unto you, that salvation doth
not come by the law alone; and were it not for the atonement,
which God himself shall make for the sins and iniquities of his
people, that they must unavoidably perish, notwithstanding the
law of Moses.
 
Mosiah 13:29 And now I say unto you that it was expedient that
there should be a law given to the children of Israel, yea, even
a very strict law; for they were a stiffnecked people, quick to
do iniquity, and slow to remember the Lord their God;
 
Mosiah 13:30 Therefore there was a law given them, yea, a law of
performances and of ordinances, a law which they were to observe
strictly from day to day, to keep them in remembrance of God and
their duty towards him.
 
Mosiah 13:31 But behold, I say unto you, that all these things
were types of things to come.
 
Mosiah 13:32 And now, did they understand the law? I say unto
you, Nay, they did not all understand the law; and this because
of the hardness of their hearts; for they understood not that
there could not any man be saved except it were through the
redemption of God.
 
Mosiah 13:33 For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them
concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem
his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied
ever since the world began--have they not spoken more or less
concerning these things?
 
Mosiah 13:34 Have they not said that God himself should come down
among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and
go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth?
 
Mosiah 13:35 Yea, and have they not said also that he should
bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, and that he, himself,
should be oppressed and afflicted?
 
Mosiah 14:0 Abinadi quotes Isaiah to the priests of king Noah--
Compare Isaiah 53.
 
Mosiah 14:1 Yea, even doth not Isaiah say: Who hath believed our
report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
 
Mosiah 14:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should
desire him.
 
Mosiah 14:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
 
Mosiah 14:4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted.
 
Mosiah 14:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
 
Mosiah 14:6 All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the
iniquities of us all.
 
Mosiah 14:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened
not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.
 
Mosiah 14:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who
shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land
of the living; for the transgressions of my people was he
stricken.
 
Mosiah 14:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the
rich in his death; because he had done no evil, neither was any
deceit in his mouth.
 
Mosiah 14:10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put
him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin
he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
 
Mosiah 14:11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
 
Mosiah 14:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he
hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
 
Mosiah 15:0 Abinadi's prophecy--God himself to come down and
redeem his people--Why Jesus Christ is called the Father and the
Son.
 
Mosiah 15:1 And now Abinadi said unto them: I would that ye
should understand that God himself shall come down among the
children of men, and shall redeem his people.
 
Mosiah 15:2 And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called
the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the
Father, being the Father and the Son--
 
Mosiah 15:3 The Father, because he was conceived by the power of
God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father
and Son--
 
Mosiah 15:4 And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of
heaven and of earth.
 
Mosiah 15:5 And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or
the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and
yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be
mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people.
 
Mosiah 15:6 And after all this, after working many mighty
miracles among the children of men, he shall be led, yea, even as
Isaiah said, as a sheep before the shearer is dumb, so he opened
not his mouth.
 
Mosiah 15:7 Yea, even so he shall be led, crucified, and slain,
the flesh becoming subject even unto death, the will of the Son
being swallowed up in the will of the Father.
 
Mosiah 15:8 And thus God breaketh the bands of death, having
gained the victory over death; giving the Son power to make
intercession for the children of men--
 
Mosiah 15:9 Having ascended into heaven, having the bowels of
mercy; being filled with compassion towards the children of men;
standing betwixt them and justice; having broken the bands of
death, taken upon himself their iniquity and their
transgressions, having redeemed them, and satisfied the demands
of justice.
 
Mosiah 15:10 And now I say unto you, who shall declare his
generation? Behold, I say unto you, that when his soul has been
made an offering for sin he shall see his seed. And now what say
ye? And who shall be his seed?
 
Mosiah 15:11 Behold I say unto you, that whosoever has heard the
words of the prophets, yea, all the holy prophets who have
prophesied concerning the coming of the Lord--I say unto you,
that all those who have hearkened unto their words, and believed
that the Lord would redeem his people, and have looked forward to
that day for a remission of their sins, I say unto you, that
these are his seed, or they are the heirs of the kingdom of God.
 
Mosiah 15:12 For these are they whose sins he has borne; these
are they for whom he has died, to redeem them from their
transgressions. And now, are they not his seed?
 
Mosiah 15:13 Yea, and are not the prophets, every one that has
opened his mouth to prophesy, that has not fallen into
transgression, I mean all the holy prophets ever since the world
began? I say unto you that they are his seed.
 
Mosiah 15:14 And these are they who have published peace, who
have brought good tidings of good, who have published salvation;
and said unto Zion: Thy God reigneth!
 
Mosiah 15:15 And O how beautiful upon the mountains were their
feet!
 
Mosiah 15:16 And again, how beautiful upon the mountains are the
feet of those that are still publishing peace!
 
Mosiah 15:17 And again, how beautiful upon the mountains are the
feet of those who shall hereafter publish peace, yea, from this
time henceforth and forever!
 
Mosiah 15:18 And behold, I say unto you, this is not all. For O
how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that is the founder of peace, yea, even
the Lord, who has redeemed his people; yea, him who has granted
salvation unto his people;
 
Mosiah 15:19 For were it not for the redemption which he hath
made for his people, which was prepared from the foundation of
the world, I say unto you, were it not for this, all mankind must
have perished.
 
Mosiah 15:20 But behold, the bands of death shall be broken, and
the Son reigneth, and hath power over the dead; therefore, he
bringeth to pass the resurrection of the dead.
 
Mosiah 15:21 And there cometh a resurrection, even a first
resurrection; yea, even a resurrection of those that have been,
and who are, and who shall be, even until the resurrection of
Christ--for so shall he be called.
 
Mosiah 15:22 And now, the resurrection of all the prophets, and
all those that have believed in their words, or all those that
have kept the commandments of God, shall come forth in the first
resurrection; therefore, they are the first resurrection.
 
Mosiah 15:23 They are raised to dwell with God who has redeemed
them; thus they have eternal life through Christ, who has broken
the bands of death.
 
Mosiah 15:24 And these are those who have part in the first
resurrection; and these are they that have died before Christ
came, in their ignorance, not having salvation declared unto
them. And thus the Lord bringeth about the restoration of these;
and they have a part in the first resurrection, or have eternal
life, being redeemed by the Lord.
 
Mosiah 15:25 And little children also have eternal life.
 
Mosiah 15:26 But behold, and fear, and tremble before God, for ye
ought to tremble; for the Lord redeemeth none such that rebel
against him and die in their sins; yea, even all those that have
perished in their sins ever since the world began, that have
wilfully rebelled against God, that have known the commandments
of God, and would not keep them; these are they that have no part
in the first resurrection.
 
Mosiah 15:27 Therefore ought ye not to tremble? For salvation
cometh to none such; for the Lord hath redeemed none such; yea,
neither can the Lord redeem such; for he cannot deny himself; for
he cannot deny justice when it has its claim.
 
Mosiah 15:28 And now I say unto you that the time shall come that
the salvation of the Lord shall be declared to every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people.
 
Mosiah 15:29 Yea, Lord, thy watchmen shall lift up their voice;
with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye
to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
 
Mosiah 15:30 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places
of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath
redeemed Jerusalem.
 
Mosiah 15:31 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of
all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.
 
Mosiah 16:0 Abinadi continues his prophecy--Christ the only
Redeemer--Resurrection and judgment.
 
Mosiah 16:1 And now, it came to pass that after Abinadi had
spoken these words he stretched forth his hand and said: The time
shall come when all shall see the salvation of the Lord; when
every nation, kindred, tongue, and people shall see eye to eye
and shall confess before God that his judgments are just.
 
Mosiah 16:2 And then shall the wicked be cast out, and they shall
have cause to howl, and weep, and wail, and gnash their teeth;
and this because they would not hearken unto the voice of the
Lord; therefore the Lord redeemeth them not.
 
Mosiah 16:3 For they are carnal and devilish, and the devil has
power over them; yea, even that old serpent that did beguile our
first parents, which was the cause of their fall; which was the
cause of all mankind becoming carnal, sensual, devilish, knowing
evil from good, subjecting themselves to the devil.
 
Mosiah 16:4 Thus all mankind were lost; and behold, they would
have been endlessly lost were it not that God redeemed his people
from their lost and fallen state.
 
Mosiah 16:5 But remember that he that persists in his own carnal
nature, and goes on in the ways of sin and rebellion against God,
remaineth in his fallen state and the devil hath all power over
him. Therefore he is as though there was no redemption made,
being an enemy to God; and also is the devil an enemy to God.
 
Mosiah 16:6 And now if Christ had not come into the world,
speaking of things to come as though they had already come, there
could have been no redemption.
 
Mosiah 16:7 And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have
broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory,
and that death should have no sting, there could have been no
resurrection.
 
Mosiah 16:8 But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath
no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.
 
Mosiah 16:9 He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a
light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also
a life which is endless, that there can be no more death.
 
Mosiah 16:10 Even this mortal shall put on immortality, and this
corruption shall put on incorruption, and shall be brought to
stand before the bar of God, to be judged of him according to
their works whether they be good or whether they be evil--
 
Mosiah 16:11 If they be good, to the resurrection of endless life
and happiness; and if they be evil, to the resurrection of
endless damnation, being delivered up to the devil, who hath
subjected them, which is damnation--
 
Mosiah 16:12 Having gone according to their own carnal wills and
desires; having never called upon the Lord while the arms of
mercy were extended towards them; for the arms of mercy were
extended towards them, and they would not; they being warned of
their iniquities and yet they would not depart from them; and
they were commanded to repent and yet they would not repent.
 
Mosiah 16:13 And now, ought ye not to tremble and repent of your
sins, and remember that only in and through Christ ye can be
saved?
 
Mosiah 16:14 Therefore, if ye teach the law of Moses, also teach
that it is a shadow of those things which are to come--
 
Mosiah 16:15 Teach them that redemption cometh through Christ the
Lord, who is the very Eternal Father. Amen.
 
Mosiah 17:0 Martyrdom of Abinadi--While suffering death by fire
he predicts retribution upon his murderers--Conversion of Alma.
 
Mosiah 17:1 And now it came to pass that when Abinadi had
finished these sayings, that the king commanded that the priests
should take him and cause that he should be put to death.
 
Mosiah 17:2 But there was one among them whose name was Alma, he
also being a descendant of Nephi. And he was a young man, and he
believed the words which Abinadi had spoken, for he knew
concerning the iniquity which Abinadi had testified against them;
therefore he began to plead with the king that he would not be
angry with Abinadi, but suffer that he might depart in peace.
 
Mosiah 17:3 But the king was more wroth, and caused that Alma
should be cast out from among them, and sent his servants after
him that they might slay him.
 
Mosiah 17:4 But he fled from before them and hid himself that
they found him not. And he being concealed for many days did
write all the words which Abinadi had spoken.
 
Mosiah 17:5 And it came to pass that the king caused that his
guards should surround Abinadi and take him; and they bound him
and cast him into prison.
 
Mosiah 17:6 And after three days, having counseled with his
priests, he caused that he should again be brought before him.
 
Mosiah 17:7 And he said unto him: Abinadi, we have found an
accusation against thee, and thou art worthy of death.
 
Mosiah 17:8 For thou hast said that God himself should come down
among the children of men; and now, for this cause thou shalt be
put to death unless thou wilt recall all the words which thou
hast spoken evil concerning me and my people.
 
Mosiah 17:9 Now Abinadi said unto him: I say unto you, I will not
recall the words which I have spoken unto you concerning this
people, for they are true; and that ye may know of their surety I
have suffered myself that I have fallen into your hands.
 
Mosiah 17:10 Yea, and I will suffer even until death, and I will
not recall my words, and they shall stand as a testimony against
you. And if ye slay me ye will shed innocent blood, and this
shall also stand as a testimony against you at the last day.
 
Mosiah 17:11 And now king Noah was about to release him, for he
feared his word; for he feared that the judgments of God would
come upon him.
 
Mosiah 17:12 But the priests lifted up their voices against him,
and began to accuse him, saying: He has reviled the king.
Therefore the king was stirred up in anger against him, and he
delivered him up that he might be slain.
 
Mosiah 17:13 And it came to pass that they took him and bound
him, and scourged his skin with faggots, yea, even unto death.
 
Mosiah 17:14 And now when the flames began to scorch him, he
cried unto them, saying:
 
Mosiah 17:15 Behold, even as ye have done unto me, so shall it
come to pass that thy seed shall cause that many shall suffer the
pains that I do suffer, even the pains of death by fire; and this
because they believe in the salvation of the Lord their God.
 
Mosiah 17:16 And it will come to pass that ye shall be afflicted
with all manner of diseases because of your iniquities.
 
Mosiah 17:17 Yea, and ye shall be smitten on every hand, and
shall be driven and scattered to and fro, even as a wild flock is
driven by wild and ferocious beasts.
 
Mosiah 17:18 And in that day ye shall be hunted, and ye shall be
taken by the hand of your enemies, and then ye shall suffer, as I
suffer, the pains of death by fire.
 
Mosiah 17:19 Thus God executeth vengeance upon those that destroy
his people. O God, receive my soul.
 
Mosiah 17:20 And now, when Abinadi had said these words, he fell,
having suffered death by fire; yea, having been put to death
because he would not deny the commandments of God, having sealed
the truth of his words by his death.
 
Mosiah 18:0 The waters of Mormon--Alma baptizes Helam and others-
-The church of Christ--King Noah sends an army to destroy Alma
and his followers.
 
Mosiah 18:1 And now, it came to pass that Alma, who had fled from
the servants of king Noah, repented of his sins and iniquities,
and went about privately among the people, and began to teach the
words of Abinadi--
 
Mosiah 18:2 Yea, concerning that which was to come, and also
concerning the resurrection of the dead, and the redemption of
the people, which was to be brought to pass through the power,
and sufferings, and death of Christ, and his resurrection and
ascension into heaven.
 
Mosiah 18:3 And as many as would hear his word he did teach. And
he taught them privately, that it might not come to the knowledge
of the king. And many did believe his words.
 
Mosiah 18:4 And it came to pass that as many as did believe him
did go forth to a place which was called Mormon, having received
its name from the king, being in the borders of the land having
been infested, by times or at seasons, by wild beasts.
 
Mosiah 18:5 Now, there was in Mormon a fountain of pure water,
and Alma resorted thither, there being near the water a thicket
of small trees, where he did hide himself in the daytime from the
searches of the king.
 
Mosiah 18:6 And it came to pass that as many as believed him went
thither to hear his words.
 
Mosiah 18:7 And it came to pass after many days there were a
goodly number gathered together at the place of Mormon, to hear
the words of Alma. Yea, all were gathered together that believed
on his word, to hear him. And he did teach them, and did preach
unto them repentance, and redemption, and faith on the Lord.
 
Mosiah 18:8 And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold,
here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and
now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be
called his people, and are willing to bear one another's burdens,
that they may be light;
 
Mosiah 18:9 Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn;
yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to
stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in
all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be
redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first
resurrection, that ye may have eternal life--
 
Mosiah 18:10 Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your
hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the
Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a
covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his
commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly
upon you?
 
Mosiah 18:11 And now when the people had heard these words, they
clapped their hands for joy, and exclaimed: This is the desire of
our hearts.
 
Mosiah 18:12 And now it came to pass that Alma took Helam, he
being one of the first, and went and stood forth in the water,
and cried, saying: O Lord, pour out thy Spirit upon thy servant,
that he may do this work with holiness of heart.
 
Mosiah 18:13 And when he had said these words, the Spirit of the
Lord was upon him, and he said: Helam, I baptize thee, having
authority from the Almighty God, as a testimony that ye have
entered into a covenant to serve him until you are dead as to the
mortal body; and may the Spirit of the Lord be poured out upon
you; and may he grant unto you eternal life, through the
redemption of Christ, whom he has prepared from the foundation of
the world.
 
Mosiah 18:14 And after Alma had said these words, both Alma and
Helam were buried in the water; and they arose and came forth out
of the water rejoicing, being filled with the Spirit.
 
Mosiah 18:15 And again, Alma took another, and went forth a
second time into the water, and baptized him according to the
first, only he did not bury himself again in the water.
 
Mosiah 18:16 And after this manner he did baptize every one that
went forth to the place of Mormon; and they were in number about
two hundred and four souls; yea, and they were baptized in the
waters of Mormon, and were filled with the grace of God.
 
Mosiah 18:17 And they were called the church of God, or the
church of Christ, from that time forward. And it came to pass
that whosoever was baptized by the power and authority of God was
added to his church.
 
Mosiah 18:18 And it came to pass that Alma, having authority from
God, ordained priests; even one priest to every fifty of their
number did he ordain to preach unto them, and to teach them
concerning the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
 
Mosiah 18:19 And he commanded them that they should teach nothing
save it were the things which he had taught, and which had been
spoken by the mouth of the holy prophets.
 
Mosiah 18:20 Yea, even he commanded them that they should preach
nothing save it were repentance and faith on the Lord, who had
redeemed his people.
 
Mosiah 18:21 And he commanded them that there should be no
contention one with another, but that they should look forward
with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their
hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another.
 
Mosiah 18:22 And thus he commanded them to preach. And thus they
became the children of God.
 
Mosiah 18:23 And he commanded them that they should observe the
sabbath day, and keep it holy, and also every day they should
give thanks to the Lord their God.
 
Mosiah 18:24 And he also commanded them that the priests whom he
had ordained should labor with their own hands for their support.
 
Mosiah 18:25 And there was one day in every week that was set
apart that they should gather themselves together to teach the
people, and to worship the Lord their God, and also, as often as
it was in their power, to assemble themselves together.
 
Mosiah 18:26 And the priests were not to depend upon the people
for their support; but for their labor they were to receive the
grace of God, that they might wax strong in the Spirit, having
the knowledge of God, that they might teach with power and
authority from God.
 
Mosiah 18:27 And again Alma commanded that the people of the
church should impart of their substance, every one according to
that which he had; if he have more abundantly he should impart
more abundantly; and of him that had but little, but little
should be required; and to him that had not should be given.
 
Mosiah 18:28 And thus they should impart of their substance of
their own free will and good desires towards God, and to those
priests that stood in need, yea, and to every needy, naked soul.
 
Mosiah 18:29 And this he said unto them, having been commanded of
God; and they did walk uprightly before God, imparting to one
another both temporally and spiritually according to their needs
and their wants.
 
Mosiah 18:30 And now it came to pass that all this was done in
Mormon, yea, by the waters of Mormon, in the forest that was near
the waters of Mormon; yea, the place of Mormon, the waters of
Mormon, the forest of Mormon, how beautiful are they to the eyes
of them who there came to the knowledge of their Redeemer; yea,
and how blessed are they, for they shall sing to his praise
forever.
 
Mosiah 18:31 And these things were done in the borders of the
land, that they might not come to the knowledge of the king.
 
Mosiah 18:32 But behold, it came to pass that the king, having
discovered a movement among the people, sent his servants to
watch them. Therefore on the day that they were assembling
themselves together to hear the word of the Lord they were
discovered unto the king.
 
Mosiah 18:33 And now the king said that Alma was stirring up the
people to rebellion against him; therefore he sent his army to
destroy them.
 
Mosiah 18:34 And it came to pass that Alma and the people of the
Lord were apprised of the coming of the king's army; therefore
they took their tents and their families and departed into the
wilderness.
 
Mosiah 18:35 And they were in number about four hundred and fifty
souls.
 
Mosiah 19:0 A futile search--Gideon's insurrection--A Lamanite
invasion--King Noah suffers death by fire--His son Limhi a
tributary monarch.
 
Mosiah 19:1 And it came to pass that the army of the king
returned, having searched in vain for the people of the Lord.
 
Mosiah 19:2 And now behold, the forces of the king were small,
having been reduced, and there began to be a division among the
remainder of the people.
 
Mosiah 19:3 And the lesser part began to breathe out threatenings
against the king, and there began to be a great contention among
them.
 
Mosiah 19:4 And now there was a man among them whose name was
Gideon, and he being a strong man and an enemy to the king,
therefore he drew his sword, and swore in his wrath that he would
slay the king.
 
Mosiah 19:5 And it came to pass that he fought with the king; and
when the king saw that he was about to overpower him, he fled and
ran and got upon the tower which was near the temple.
 
Mosiah 19:6 And Gideon pursued after him and was about to get
upon the tower to slay the king, and the king cast his eyes round
about towards the land of Shemlon, and behold, the army of the
Lamanites were within the borders of the land.
 
Mosiah 19:7 And now the king cried out in the anguish of his
soul, saying: Gideon, spare me, for the Lamanites are upon us,
and they will destroy us; yea, they will destroy my people.
 
Mosiah 19:8 And now the king was not so much concerned about his
people as he was about his own life; nevertheless, Gideon did
spare his life.
 
Mosiah 19:9 And the king commanded the people that they should
flee before the Lamanites, and he himself did go before them, and
they did flee into the wilderness, with their women and their
children.
 
Mosiah 19:10 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did pursue
them, and did overtake them, and began to slay them.
 
Mosiah 19:11 Now it came to pass that the king commanded them
that all the men should leave their wives and their children, and
flee before the Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 19:12 Now there were many that would not leave them, but
had rather stay and perish with them. And the rest left their
wives and their children and fled.
 
Mosiah 19:13 And it came to pass that those who tarried with
their wives and their children caused that their fair daughters
should stand forth and plead with the Lamanites that they would
not slay them.
 
Mosiah 19:14 And it came to pass that the Lamanites had
compassion on them, for they were charmed with the beauty of
their women.
 
Mosiah 19:15 Therefore the Lamanites did spare their lives, and
took them captives and carried them back to the land of Nephi,
and granted unto them that they might possess the land, under the
conditions that they would deliver up king Noah into the hands of
the Lamanites, and deliver up their property, even one half of
all they possessed, one half of their gold, and their silver, and
all their precious things, and thus they should pay tribute to
the king of the Lamanites from year to year.
 
Mosiah 19:16 And now there was one of the sons of the king among
those that were taken captive, whose name was Limhi.
 
Mosiah 19:17 And now Limhi was desirous that his father should
not be destroyed; nevertheless, Limhi was not ignorant of the
iniquities of his father, he himself being a just man.
 
Mosiah 19:18 And it came to pass that Gideon sent men into the
wilderness secretly, to search for the king and those that were
with him. And it came to pass that they met the people in the
wilderness, all save the king and his priests.
 
Mosiah 19:19 Now they had sworn in their hearts that they would
return to the land of Nephi, and if their wives and their
children were slain, and also those that had tarried with them,
that they would seek revenge, and also perish with them.
 
Mosiah 19:20 And the king commanded them that they should not
return; and they were angry with the king, and caused that he
should suffer, even unto death by fire.
 
Mosiah 19:21 And they were about to take the priests also and put
them to death, and they fled before them.
 
Mosiah 19:22 And it came to pass that they were about to return
to the land of Nephi, and they met the men of Gideon. And the men
of Gideon told them of all that had happened to their wives and
their children; and that the Lamanites had granted unto them that
they might possess the land by paying a tribute to the Lamanites
of one half of all they possessed.
 
Mosiah 19:23 And the people told the men of Gideon that they had
slain the king, and his priests had fled from them farther into
the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 19:24 And it came to pass that after they had ended the
ceremony, that they returned to the land of Nephi, rejoicing,
because their wives and their children were not slain; and they
told Gideon what they had done to the king.
 
Mosiah 19:25 And it came to pass that the king of the Lamanites
made an oath unto them, that his people should not slay them.
 
Mosiah 19:26 And also Limhi, being the son of the king, having
the kingdom conferred upon him by the people, made oath unto the
king of the Lamanites that his people should pay tribute unto
him, even one half of all they possessed.
 
Mosiah 19:27 And it came to pass that Limhi began to establish
the kingdom and to establish peace among his people.
 
Mosiah 19:28 And the king of the Lamanites set guards round about
the land, that he might keep the people of Limhi in the land,
that they might not depart into the wilderness; and he did
support his guards out of the tribute which he did receive from
the Nephites.
 
Mosiah 19:29 And now king Limhi did have continual peace in his
kingdom for the space of two years, that the Lamanites did not
molest them nor seek to destroy them.
 
Mosiah 20:0 Priests of king Noah carry off daughters of the
Lamanites--Lamanites seek revenge upon king Limhi and his people-
-They are repulsed and pacified.
 
Mosiah 20:1 Now there was a place in Shemlon where the daughters
of the Lamanites did gather themselves together to sing, and to
dance, and to make themselves merry.
 
Mosiah 20:2 And it came to pass that there was one day a small
number of them gathered together to sing and to dance.
 
Mosiah 20:3 And now the priests of king Noah, being ashamed to
return to the city of Nephi, yea, and also fearing that the
people would slay them, therefore they durst not return to their
wives and their children.
 
Mosiah 20:4 And having tarried in the wilderness, and having
discovered the daughters of the Lamanites, they laid and watched
them;
 
Mosiah 20:5 And when there were but few of them gathered together
to dance, they came forth out of their secret places and took
them and carried them into the wilderness; yea, twenty and four
of the daughters of the Lamanites they carried into the
wilderness.
 
Mosiah 20:6 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites found
that their daughters had been missing, they were angry with the
people of Limhi, for they thought it was the people of Limhi.
 
Mosiah 20:7 Therefore they sent their armies forth; yea, even the
king himself went before his people; and they went up to the land
of Nephi to destroy the people of Limhi.
 
Mosiah 20:8 And now Limhi had discovered them from the tower,
even all their preparations for war did he discover; therefore he
gathered his people together, and laid wait for them in the
fields and in the forests.
 
Mosiah 20:9 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites had come
up, that the people of Limhi began to fall upon them from their
waiting places, and began to slay them.
 
Mosiah 20:10 And it came to pass that the battle became
exceedingly sore, for they fought like lions for their prey.
 
Mosiah 20:11 And it came to pass that the people of Limhi began
to drive the Lamanites before them; yet they were not half so
numerous as the Lamanites. But they fought for their lives, and
for their wives, and for their children; therefore they exerted
themselves and like dragons did they fight.
 
Mosiah 20:12 And it came to pass that they found the king of the
Lamanites among the number of their dead; yet he was not dead,
having been wounded and left upon the ground, so speedy was the
flight of his people.
 
Mosiah 20:13 And they took him and bound up his wounds, and
brought him before Limhi, and said: Behold, here is the king of
the Lamanites; he having received a wound has fallen among their
dead, and they have left him; and behold, we have brought him
before you; and now let us slay him.
 
Mosiah 20:14 But Limhi said unto them: Ye shall not slay him, but
bring him hither that I may see him. And they brought him. And
Limhi said unto him: What cause have ye to come up to war against
my people? Behold, my people have not broken the oath that I made
unto you; therefore, why should ye break the oath which ye made
unto my people?
 
Mosiah 20:15 And now the king said: I have broken the oath
because thy people did carry away the daughters of my people;
therefore, in my anger I did cause my people to come up to war
against thy people.
 
Mosiah 20:16 And now Limhi had heard nothing concerning this
matter; therefore he said: I will search among my people and
whosoever has done this thing shall perish. Therefore he caused a
search to be made among his people.
 
Mosiah 20:17 Now when Gideon had heard these things, he being the
king's captain, he went forth and said unto the king: I pray thee
forbear, and do not search this people, and lay not this thing to
their charge.
 
Mosiah 20:18 For do ye not remember the priests of thy father,
whom this people sought to destroy? And are they not in the
wilderness? And are not they the ones who have stolen the
daughters of the Lamanites?
 
Mosiah 20:19 And now, behold, and tell the king of these things,
that he may tell his people that they may be pacified towards us;
for behold they are already preparing to come against us; and
behold also there are but few of us.
 
Mosiah 20:20 And behold, they come with their numerous hosts; and
except the king doth pacify them towards us we must perish.
 
Mosiah 20:21 For are not the words of Abinadi fulfilled, which he
prophesied against us--and all this because we would not hearken
unto the words of the Lord, and turn from our iniquities?
 
Mosiah 20:22 And now let us pacify the king, and we fulfil the
oath which we have made unto him; for it is better that we should
be in bondage than that we should lose our lives; therefore, let
us put a stop to the shedding of so much blood.
 
Mosiah 20:23 And now Limhi told the king all the things
concerning his father, and the priests that had fled into the
wilderness, and attributed the carrying away of their daughters
to them.
 
Mosiah 20:24 And it came to pass that the king was pacified
towards his people; and he said unto them: Let us go forth to
meet my people, without arms; and I swear unto you with an oath
that my people shall not slay thy people.
 
Mosiah 20:25 And it came to pass that they followed the king, and
went forth without arms to meet the Lamanites. And it came to
pass that they did meet the Lamanites; and the king of the
Lamanites did bow himself down before them, and did plead in
behalf of the people of Limhi.
 
Mosiah 20:26 And when the Lamanites saw the people of Limhi, that
they were without arms, they had compassion on them and were
pacified towards them, and returned with their king in peace to
their own land.
 
Mosiah 21:0 Abinadi's prophecy further fulfilled--Nephites in
bondage suffer great affliction--The Lord softens the hearts of
their enemies--More concerning the twenty-four plates.
 
Mosiah 21:1 And it came to pass that Limhi and his people
returned to the city of Nephi, and began to dwell in the land
again in peace.
 
Mosiah 21:2 And it came to pass that after many days the
Lamanites began again to be stirred up in anger against the
Nephites, and they began to come into the borders of the land
round about.
 
Mosiah 21:3 Now they durst not slay them, because of the oath
which their king had made unto Limhi; but they would smite them
on their cheeks, and exercise authority over them; and began to
put heavy burdens upon their backs, and drive them as they would
a dumb ass--
 
Mosiah 21:4 Yea, all this was done that the word of the Lord
might be fulfilled.
 
Mosiah 21:5 And now the afflictions of the Nephites were great,
and there was no way that they could deliver themselves out of
their hands, for the Lamanites had surrounded them on every side.
 
Mosiah 21:6 And it came to pass that the people began to murmur
with the king because of their afflictions; and they began to be
desirous to go against them to battle. And they did afflict the
king sorely with their complaints; therefore he granted unto them
that they should do according to their desires.
 
Mosiah 21:7 And they gathered themselves together again, and put
on their armor, and went forth against the Lamanites to drive
them out of their land.
 
Mosiah 21:8 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did beat them,
and drove them back, and slew many of them.
 
Mosiah 21:9 And now there was a great mourning and lamentation
among the people of Limhi, the widow mourning for her husband,
the son and the daughter mourning for their father, and the
brothers for their brethren.
 
Mosiah 21:10 Now there were a great many widows in the land, and
they did cry mightily from day to day, for a great fear of the
Lamanites had come upon them.
 
Mosiah 21:11 And it came to pass that their continual cries did
stir up the remainder of the people of Limhi to anger against the
Lamanites; and they went again to battle, but they were driven
back again, suffering much loss.
 
Mosiah 21:12 Yea, they went again even the third time, and
suffered in the like manner; and those that were not slain
returned again to the city of Nephi.
 
Mosiah 21:13 And they did humble themselves even to the dust,
subjecting themselves to the yoke of bondage, submitting
themselves to be smitten, and to be driven to and fro, and
burdened, according to the desires of their enemies.
 
Mosiah 21:14 And they did humble themselves even in the depths of
humility; and they did cry mightily to God; yea, even all the day
long did they cry unto their God that he would deliver them out
of their afflictions.
 
Mosiah 21:15 And now the Lord was slow to hear their cry because
of their iniquities; nevertheless the Lord did hear their cries,
and began to soften the hearts of the Lamanites that they began
to ease their burdens; yet the Lord did not see fit to deliver
them out of bondage.
 
Mosiah 21:16 And it came to pass that they began to prosper by
degrees in the land, and began to raise grain more abundantly,
and flocks, and herds, that they did not suffer with hunger.
 
Mosiah 21:17 Now there was a great number of women, more than
there was of men; therefore king Limhi commanded that every man
should impart to the support of the widows and their children,
that they might not perish with hunger; and this they did because
of the greatness of their number that had been slain.
 
Mosiah 21:18 Now the people of Limhi kept together in a body as
much as it was possible, and secured their grain and their
flocks;
 
Mosiah 21:19 And the king himself did not trust his person
without the walls of the city, unless he took his guards with
him, fearing that he might by some means fall into the hands of
the Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 21:20 And he caused that his people should watch the land
round about, that by some means they might take those priests
that fled into the wilderness, who had stolen the daughters of
the Lamanites, and that had caused such a great destruction to
come upon them.
 
Mosiah 21:21 For they were desirous to take them that they might
punish them; for they had come into the land of Nephi by night,
and carried off their grain and many of their precious things;
therefore they laid wait for them.
 
Mosiah 21:22 And it came to pass that there was no more
disturbance between the Lamanites and the people of Limhi, even
until the time that Ammon and his brethren came into the land.
 
Mosiah 21:23 And the king having been without the gates of the
city with his guard, discovered Ammon and his brethren; and
supposing them to be priests of Noah therefore he caused that
they should be taken, and bound, and cast into prison. And had
they been the priests of Noah he would have caused that they
should be put to death.
 
Mosiah 21:24 But when he found that they were not, but that they
were his brethren, and had come from the land of Zarahemla, he
was filled with exceedingly great joy.
 
Mosiah 21:25 Now king Limhi had sent, previous to the coming of
Ammon, a small number of men to search for the land of Zarahemla;
but they could not find it, and they were lost in the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 21:26 Nevertheless, they did find a land which had been
peopled; yea, a land which was covered with dry bones; yea, a
land which had been peopled and which had been destroyed; and
they, having supposed it to be the land of Zarahemla, returned to
the land of Nephi, having arrived in the borders of the land not
many days before the coming of Ammon.
 
Mosiah 21:27 And they brought a record with them, even a record
of the people whose bones they had found; and it was engraven on
plates of ore.
 
Mosiah 21:28 And now Limhi was again filled with joy in learning
from the mouth of Ammon that king Mosiah had a gift from God,
whereby he could interpret such engravings; yea, and Ammon also
did rejoice.
 
Mosiah 21:29 Yet Ammon and his brethren were filled with sorrow
because so many of their brethren had been slain;
 
Mosiah 21:30 And also that king Noah and his priests had caused
the people to commit so many sins and iniquities against God; and
they also did mourn for the death of Abinadi; and also for the
departure of Alma and the people that went with him, who had
formed a church of God through the strength and power of God, and
faith on the words which had been spoken by Abinadi.
 
Mosiah 21:31 Yea, they did mourn for their departure, for they
knew not whither they had fled. Now they would have gladly joined
with them, for they themselves had entered into a covenant with
God to serve him and keep his commandments.
 
Mosiah 21:32 And now since the coming of Ammon, king Limhi had
also entered into a covenant with God, and also many of his
people, to serve him and keep his commandments.
 
Mosiah 21:33 And it came to pass that king Limhi and many of his
people were desirous to be baptized; but there was none in the
land that had authority from God. And Ammon declined doing this
thing, considering himself an unworthy servant.
 
Mosiah 21:34 Therefore they did not at that time form themselves
into a church, waiting upon the Spirit of the Lord. Now they were
desirous to become even as Alma and his brethren, who had fled
into the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 21:35 They were desirous to be baptized as a witness and a
testimony that they were willing to serve God with all their
hearts; nevertheless they did prolong the time; and an account of
their baptism shall be given hereafter.
 
Mosiah 21:36 And now all the study of Ammon and his people, and
king Limhi and his people, was to deliver themselves out of the
hands of the Lamanites and from bondage.
 
Mosiah 22:0 Plan to throw off Lamanite yoke--Gideon's proposal--
Lamanites made drunk--The captive people escape and return to
Zarahemla--End of Zeniff's record.
 
Mosiah 22:1 And now it came to pass that Ammon and king Limhi
began to consult with the people how they should deliver
themselves out of bondage; and even they did cause that all the
people should gather themselves together; and this they did that
they might have the voice of the people concerning the matter.
 
Mosiah 22:2 And it came to pass that they could find no way to
deliver themselves out of bondage, except it were to take their
women and children, and their flocks, and their herds, and their
tents, and depart into the wilderness; for the Lamanites being so
numerous, it was impossible for the people of Limhi to contend
with them, thinking to deliver themselves out of bondage by the
sword.
 
Mosiah 22:3 Now it came to pass that Gideon went forth and stood
before the king, and said unto him: Now O king, thou hast
hitherto hearkened unto my words many times when we have been
contending with our brethren, the Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 22:4 And now O king, if thou hast not found me to be an
unprofitable servant, or if thou hast hitherto listened to my
words in any degree, and they have been of service to thee, even
so I desire that thou wouldst listen to my words at this time,
and I will be thy servant and deliver this people out of bondage.
 
Mosiah 22:5 And the king granted unto him that he might speak.
And Gideon said unto him:
 
Mosiah 22:6 Behold the back pass, through the back wall, on the
back side of the city. The Lamanites, or the guards of the
Lamanites, by night are drunken; therefore let us send a
proclamation among all this people that they gather together
their flocks and herds, that they may drive them into the
wilderness by night.
 
Mosiah 22:7 And I will go according to thy command and pay the
last tribute of wine to the Lamanites, and they will be drunken;
and we will pass through the secret pass on the left of their
camp when they are drunken and asleep.
 
Mosiah 22:8 Thus we will depart with our women and our children,
our flocks, and our herds into the wilderness; and we will travel
around the land of Shilom.
 
Mosiah 22:9 And it came to pass that the king hearkened unto the
words of Gideon.
 
Mosiah 22:10 And king Limhi caused that his people should gather
their flocks together; and he sent the tribute of wine to the
Lamanites; and he also sent more wine, as a present unto them;
and they did drink freely of the wine which king Limhi did send
unto them.
 
Mosiah 22:11 And it came to pass that the people of king Limhi
did depart by night into the wilderness with their flocks and
their herds, and they went round about the land of Shilom in the
wilderness, and bent their course towards the land of Zarahemla,
being led by Ammon and his brethren.
 
Mosiah 22:12 And they had taken all their gold, and silver, and
their precious things, which they could carry, and also their
provisions with them, into the wilderness; and they pursued their
journey.
 
Mosiah 22:13 And after being many days in the wilderness they
arrived in the land of Zarahemla, and joined Mosiah's people, and
became his subjects.
 
Mosiah 22:14 And it came to pass that Mosiah received them with
joy; and he also received their records, and also the records
which had been found by the people of Limhi.
 
Mosiah 22:15 And now it came to pass when the Lamanites had found
that the people of Limhi had departed out of the land by night,
that they sent an army into the wilderness to pursue them;
 
Mosiah 22:16 And after they had pursued them two days, they could
no longer follow their tracks; therefore they were lost in the
wilderness.
 
Mosiah 23:00 An account of Alma and the people of the Lord, who
were driven into the wilderness by the people of king Noah.
Comprising chapters 23 and 24.
 
Mosiah 23:0 Alma refuses to be king--Land of Helam captured by
Lamanites--Amulon, leader of king Noah's wicked priests, rules
subject to the Lamanite monarch.
 
Mosiah 23:1 Now Alma, having been warned of the Lord that the
armies of king Noah would come upon them, and having made it
known to his people, therefore they gathered together their
flocks, and took of their grain, and departed into the wilderness
before the armies of king Noah.
 
Mosiah 23:2 And the Lord did strengthen them, that the people of
king Noah could not overtake them to destroy them.
 
Mosiah 23:3 And they fled eight days' journey into the
wilderness.
 
Mosiah 23:4 And they came to a land, yea, even a very beautiful
and pleasant land, a land of pure water.
 
Mosiah 23:5 And they pitched their tents, and began to till the
ground, and began to build buildings; yea, they were industrious,
and did labor exceedingly.
 
Mosiah 23:6 And the people were desirous that Alma should be
their king, for he was beloved by his people.
 
Mosiah 23:7 But he said unto them: Behold, it is not expedient
that we should have a king; for thus saith the Lord: Ye shall not
esteem one flesh above another, or one man shall not think
himself above another; therefore I say unto you it is not
expedient that ye should have a king.
 
Mosiah 23:8 Nevertheless, if it were possible that ye could
always have just men to be your kings it would be well for you to
have a king.
 
Mosiah 23:9 But remember the iniquity of king Noah and his
priests; and I myself was caught in a snare, and did many things
which were abominable in the sight of the Lord, which caused me
sore repentance;
 
Mosiah 23:10 Nevertheless, after much tribulation, the Lord did
hear my cries, and did answer my prayers, and has made me an
instrument in his hands in bringing so many of you to a knowledge
of his truth.
 
Mosiah 23:11 Nevertheless, in this I do not glory, for I am
unworthy to glory of myself.
 
Mosiah 23:12 And now I say unto you, ye have been oppressed by
king Noah, and have been in bondage to him and his priests, and
have been brought into iniquity by them; therefore ye were bound
with the bands of iniquity.
 
Mosiah 23:13 And now as ye have been delivered by the power of
God out of these bonds; yea, even out of the hands of king Noah
and his people, and also from the bonds of iniquity, even so I
desire that ye should stand fast in this liberty wherewith ye
have been made free, and that ye trust no man to be a king over
you.
 
Mosiah 23:14 And also trust no one to be your teacher nor your
minister, except he be a man of God, walking in his ways and
keeping his commandments.
 
Mosiah 23:15 Thus did Alma teach his people, that every man
should love his neighbor as himself, that there should be no
contention among them.
 
Mosiah 23:16 And now, Alma was their high priest, he being the
founder of their church.
 
Mosiah 23:17 And it came to pass that none received authority to
preach or to teach except it were by him from God. Therefore he
consecrated all their priests and all their teachers; and none
were consecrated except they were just men.
 
Mosiah 23:18 Therefore they did watch over their people, and did
nourish them with things pertaining to righteousness.
 
Mosiah 23:19 And it came to pass that they began to prosper
exceedingly in the land; and they called the land Helam.
 
Mosiah 23:20 And it came to pass that they did multiply and
prosper exceedingly in the land of Helam; and they built a city,
which they called the city of Helam.
 
Mosiah 23:21 Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his
people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith.
 
Mosiah 23:22 Nevertheless--whosoever putteth his trust in him the
same shall be lifted up at the last day. Yea, and thus it was
with this people.
 
Mosiah 23:23 For behold, I will show unto you that they were
brought into bondage, and none could deliver them but the Lord
their God, yea, even the God of Abraham and Isaac and of Jacob.
 
Mosiah 23:24 And it came to pass that he did deliver them, and he
did show forth his mighty power unto them, and great were their
rejoicings.
 
Mosiah 23:25 For behold, it came to pass that while they were in
the land of Helam, yea, in the city of Helam, while tilling the
land round about, behold an army of the Lamanites was in the
borders of the land.
 
Mosiah 23:26 Now it came to pass that the brethren of Alma fled
from their fields, and gathered themselves together in the city
of Helam; and they were much frightened because of the appearance
of the Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 23:27 But Alma went forth and stood among them, and
exhorted them that they should not be frightened, but that they
should remember the Lord their God and he would deliver them.
 
Mosiah 23:28 Therefore they hushed their fears, and began to cry
unto the Lord that he would soften the hearts of the Lamanites,
that they would spare them, and their wives, and their children.
 
Mosiah 23:29 And it came to pass that the Lord did soften the
hearts of the Lamanites. And Alma and his brethren went forth and
delivered themselves up into their hands; and the Lamanites took
possession of the land of Helam.
 
Mosiah 23:30 Now the armies of the Lamanites, which had followed
after the people of king Limhi, had been lost in the wilderness
for many days.
 
Mosiah 23:31 And behold, they had found those priests of king
Noah, in a place which they called Amulon; and they had begun to
possess the land of Amulon and had begun to till the ground.
 
Mosiah 23:32 Now the name of the leader of those priests was
Amulon.
 
Mosiah 23:33 And it came to pass that Amulon did plead with the
Lamanites; and he also sent forth their wives, who were the
daughters of the Lamanites, to plead with their brethren, that
they should not destroy their husbands.
 
Mosiah 23:34 And the Lamanites had compassion on Amulon and his
brethren, and did not destroy them, because of their wives.
 
Mosiah 23:35 And Amulon and his brethren did join the Lamanites,
and they were traveling in the wilderness in search of the land
of Nephi when they discovered the land of Helam, which was
possessed by Alma and his brethren.
 
Mosiah 23:36 And it came to pass that the Lamanites promised unto
Alma and his brethren, that if they would show them the way which
led to the land of Nephi that they would grant unto them their
lives and their liberty.
 
Mosiah 23:37 But after Alma had shown them the way that led to
the land of Nephi the Lamanites would not keep their promise; but
they set guards round about the land of Helam, over Alma and his
brethren.
 
Mosiah 23:38 And the remainder of them went to the land of Nephi;
and a part of them returned to the land of Helam, and also
brought with them the wives and the children of the guards who
had been left in the land.
 
Mosiah 23:39 And the king of the Lamanites had granted unto
Amulon that he should be a king and a ruler over his people, who
were in the land of Helam; nevertheless he should have no power
to do anything contrary to the will of the king of the Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 24:0 Amulon persecutes Alma and his followers--The Lord
makes their burdens light and delivers them from bondage--They
return to Zarahemla.
 
Mosiah 24:1 And it came to pass that Amulon did gain favor in the
eyes of the king of the Lamanites; therefore, the king of the
Lamanites granted unto him and his brethren that they should be
appointed teachers over his people, yea, even over the people who
were in the land of Shemlon, and in the land of Shilom, and in
the land of Amulon.
 
Mosiah 24:2 For the Lamanites had taken possession of all these
lands; therefore, the king of the Lamanites had appointed kings
over all these lands.
 
Mosiah 24:3 And now the name of the king of the Lamanites was
Laman, being called after the name of his father; and therefore
he was called king Laman. And he was king over a numerous people.
 
Mosiah 24:4 And he appointed teachers of the brethren of Amulon
in every land which was possessed by his people; and thus the
language of Nephi began to be taught among all the people of the
Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 24:5 And they were a people friendly one with another;
nevertheless they knew not God; neither did the brethren of
Amulon teach them anything concerning the Lord their God, neither
the law of Moses; nor did they teach them the words of Abinadi;
 
Mosiah 24:6 But they taught them that they should keep their
record, and that they might write one to another.
 
Mosiah 24:7 And thus the Lamanites began to increase in riches,
and began to trade one with another and wax great, and began to
be a cunning and a wise people, as to the wisdom of the world,
yea, a very cunning people, delighting in all manner of
wickedness and plunder, except it were among their own brethren.
 
Mosiah 24:8 And now it came to pass that Amulon began to exercise
authority over Alma and his brethren, and began to persecute him,
and cause that his children should persecute their children.
 
Mosiah 24:9 For Amulon knew Alma, that he had been one of the
king's priests, and that it was he that believed the words of
Abinadi and was driven out before the king, and therefore he was
wroth with him; for he was subject to king Laman, yet he
exercised authority over them, and put tasks upon them, and put
task-masters over them.
 
Mosiah 24:10 And it came to pass that so great were their
afflictions that they began to cry mightily to God.
 
Mosiah 24:11 And Amulon commanded them that they should stop
their cries; and he put guards over them to watch them, that
whosoever should be found calling upon God should be put to
death.
 
Mosiah 24:12 And Alma and his people did not raise their voices
to the Lord their God, but did pour out their hearts to him; and
he did know the thoughts of their hearts.
 
Mosiah 24:13 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came
to them in their afflictions, saying: Lift up your heads and be
of good comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made
unto me; and I will covenant with my people and deliver them out
of bondage.
 
Mosiah 24:14 And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon
your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs,
even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may
stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a
surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their
afflictions.
 
Mosiah 24:15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were
laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord
did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with
ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the
will of the Lord.
 
Mosiah 24:16 And it came to pass that so great was their faith
and their patience that the voice of the Lord came unto them
again, saying: Be of good comfort, for on the morrow I will
deliver you out of bondage.
 
Mosiah 24:17 And he said unto Alma: Thou shalt go before this
people, and I will go with thee and deliver this people out of
bondage.
 
Mosiah 24:18 Now it came to pass that Alma and his people in the
night-time gathered their flocks together, and also of their
grain; yea, even all the night-time were they gathering their
flocks together.
 
Mosiah 24:19 And in the morning the Lord caused a deep sleep to
come upon the Lamanites, yea, and all their task-masters were in
a profound sleep.
 
Mosiah 24:20 And Alma and his people departed into the
wilderness; and when they had traveled all day they pitched their
tents in a valley, and they called the valley Alma, because he
led their way in the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 24:21 Yea, and in the valley of Alma they poured out their
thanks to God because he had been merciful unto them, and eased
their burdens, and had delivered them out of bondage; for they
were in bondage, and none could deliver them except it were the
Lord their God.
 
Mosiah 24:22 And they gave thanks to God, yea, all their men and
all their women and all their children that could speak lifted
their voices in the praises of their God.
 
Mosiah 24:23 And now the Lord said unto Alma: Haste thee and get
thou and this people out of this land, for the Lamanites have
awakened and do pursue thee; therefore get thee out of this land,
and I will stop the Lamanites in this valley that they come no
further in pursuit of this people.
 
Mosiah 24:24 And it came to pass that they departed out of the
valley, and took their journey into the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 24:25 And after they had been in the wilderness twelve
days they arrived in the land of Zarahemla; and king Mosiah did
also receive them with joy.
 
Mosiah 25:0 Zarahemla, a descendent of Mulek--The record of
Zeniff and the account of Alma read to the people--Alma
authorized to establish the church of Christ throughout the land.
 
Mosiah 25:1 And now king Mosiah caused that all the people should
be gathered together.
 
Mosiah 25:2 Now there were not so many of the children of Nephi,
or so many of those who were descendants of Nephi, as there were
of the people of Zarahemla, who was a descendant of Mulek, and
those who came with him into the wilderness.
 
Mosiah 25:3 And there were not so many of the people of Nephi and
of the people of Zarahemla as there were of the Lamanites; yea,
they were not half so numerous.
 
Mosiah 25:4 And now all the people of Nephi were assembled
together, and also all the people of Zarahemla, and they were
gathered together in two bodies.
 
Mosiah 25:5 And it came to pass that Mosiah did read, and caused
to be read, the records of Zeniff to his people; yea, he read the
records of the people of Zeniff, from the time they left the land
of Zarahemla until they returned again.
 
Mosiah 25:6 And he also read the account of Alma and his
brethren, and all their afflictions, from the time they left the
land of Zarahemla until the time they returned again.
 
Mosiah 25:7 And now, when Mosiah had made an end of reading the
records, his people who tarried in the land were struck with
wonder and amazement.
 
Mosiah 25:8 For they knew not what to think; for when they beheld
those that had been delivered out of bondage they were filled
with exceedingly great joy.
 
Mosiah 25:9 And again, when they thought of their brethren who
had been slain by the Lamanites they were filled with sorrow, and
even shed many tears of sorrow.
 
Mosiah 25:10 And again, when they thought of the immediate
goodness of God, and his power in delivering Alma and his
brethren out of the hands of the Lamanites and of bondage, they
did raise their voices and give thanks to God.
 
Mosiah 25:11 And again, when they thought upon the Lamanites, who
were their brethren, of their sinful and polluted state, they
were filled with pain and anguish for the welfare of their souls.
 
Mosiah 25:12 And it came to pass that those who were the children
of Amulon and his brethren, who had taken to wife the daughters
of the Lamanites, were displeased with the conduct of their
fathers, and they would no longer be called by the names of their
fathers, therefore they took upon themselves the name of Nephi,
that they might be called the children of Nephi and be numbered
among those who were called Nephites.
 
Mosiah 25:13 And now all the people of Zarahemla were numbered
with the Nephites, and this because the kingdom had been
conferred upon none but those who were descendants of Nephi.
 
Mosiah 25:14 And now it came to pass that when Mosiah had made an
end of speaking and reading to the people, he desired that Alma
should also speak to the people.
 
Mosiah 25:15 And Alma did speak unto them, when they were
assembled together in large bodies, and he went from one body to
another, preaching unto the people repentance and faith on the
Lord.
 
Mosiah 25:16 And he did exhort the people of Limhi and his
brethren, all those that had been delivered out of bondage, that
they should remember that it was the Lord that did deliver them.
 
Mosiah 25:17 And it came to pass that after Alma had taught the
people many things, and had made an end of speaking to them, that
king Limhi was desirous that he might be baptized; and all his
people were desirous that they might be baptized also.
 
Mosiah 25:18 Therefore, Alma did go forth into the water and did
baptize them; yea, he did baptize them after the manner he did
his brethren in the waters of Mormon; yea, and as many as he did
baptize did belong to the church of God; and this because of
their belief on the words of Alma.
 
Mosiah 25:19 And it came to pass that king Mosiah granted unto
Alma that he might establish churches throughout all the land of
Zarahemla; and gave him power to ordain priests and teachers over
every church.
 
Mosiah 25:20 Now this was done because there were so many people
that they could not all be governed by one teacher; neither could
they all hear the word of God in one assembly;
 
Mosiah 25:21 Therefore they did assemble themselves together in
different bodies, being called churches; every church having
their priests and their teachers, and every priest preaching the
word according as it was delivered to him by the mouth of Alma.
 
Mosiah 25:22 And thus, notwithstanding there being many churches
they were all one church, yea, even the church of God; for there
was nothing preached in all the churches except it were
repentance and faith in God.
 
Mosiah 25:23 And now there were seven churches in the land of
Zarahemla. And it came to pass that whosoever were desirous to
take upon them the name of Christ, or of God, they did join the
churches of God;
 
Mosiah 25:24 And they were called the people of God. And the Lord
did pour out his Spirit upon them, and they were blessed, and
prospered in the land.
 
Mosiah 26:0 Concerning unbelievers and evil-doers--The Lord
instructs Alma how to deal with them.
 
Mosiah 26:1 Now it came to pass that there were many of the
rising generation that could not understand the words of king
Benjamin, being little children at the time he spake unto his
people; and they did not believe the tradition of their fathers.
 
Mosiah 26:2 They did not believe what had been said concerning
the resurrection of the dead, neither did they believe concerning
the coming of Christ.
 
Mosiah 26:3 And now because of their unbelief they could not
understand the word of God; and their hearts were hardened.
 
Mosiah 26:4 And they would not be baptized; neither would they
join the church. And they were a separate people as to their
faith, and remained so ever after, even in their carnal and
sinful state; for they would not call upon the Lord their God.
 
Mosiah 26:5 And now in the reign of Mosiah they were not half so
numerous as the people of God; but because of the dissensions
among the brethren they became more numerous.
 
Mosiah 26:6 For it came to pass that they did deceive many with
their flattering words, who were in the church, and did cause
them to commit many sins; therefore it became expedient that
those who committed sin, that were in the church, should be
admonished by the church.
 
Mosiah 26:7 And it came to pass that they were brought before the
priests, and delivered up unto the priests by the teachers; and
the priests brought them before Alma, who was the high priest.
 
Mosiah 26:8 Now king Mosiah had given Alma the authority over the
church.
 
Mosiah 26:9 And it came to pass that Alma did not know concerning
them; but there were many witnesses against them; yea, the people
stood and testified of their iniquity in abundance.
 
Mosiah 26:10 Now there had not any such thing happened before in
the church; therefore Alma was troubled in his spirit, and he
caused that they should be brought before the king.
 
Mosiah 26:11 And he said unto the king: Behold, here are many
whom we have brought before thee, who are accused of their
brethren; yea, and they have been taken in divers iniquities. And
they do not repent of their iniquities; therefore we have brought
them before thee, that thou mayest judge them according to their
crimes.
 
Mosiah 26:12 But king Mosiah said unto Alma: Behold, I judge them
not; therefore I deliver them into thy hands to be judged.
 
Mosiah 26:13 And now the spirit of Alma was again troubled; and
he went and inquired of the Lord what he should do concerning
this matter, for he feared that he should do wrong in the sight
of God.
 
Mosiah 26:14 And it came to pass that after he had poured out his
whole soul to God, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying:
 
Mosiah 26:15 Blessed art thou, Alma, and blessed are they who
were baptized in the waters of Mormon. Thou art blessed because
of thy exceeding faith in the words alone of my servant Abinadi.
 
Mosiah 26:16 And blessed are they because of their exceeding
faith in the words alone which thou hast spoken unto them.
 
Mosiah 26:17 And blessed art thou because thou hast established a
church among this people; and they shall be established, and they
shall be my people.
 
Mosiah 26:18 Yea, blessed is this people who are willing to bear
my name; for in my name shall they be called; and they are mine.
 
Mosiah 26:19 And because thou hast inquired of me concerning the
transgressor, thou art blessed.
 
Mosiah 26:20 Thou art my servant; and I covenant with thee that
thou shalt have eternal life; and thou shalt serve me and go
forth in my name, and shalt gather together my sheep.
 
Mosiah 26:21 And he that will hear my voice shall be my sheep;
and him shall ye receive into the church, and him will I also
receive.
 
Mosiah 26:22 For behold, this is my church; whosoever is baptized
shall be baptized unto repentance. And whomsoever ye receive
shall believe in my name; and him will I freely forgive.
 
Mosiah 26:23 For it is I that taketh upon me the sins of the
world; for it is I that hath created them; and it is I that
granteth unto him that believeth unto the end a place at my right
hand.
 
Mosiah 26:24 For behold, in my name are they called; and if they
know me they shall come forth, and shall have a place eternally
at my right hand.
 
Mosiah 26:25 And it shall come to pass that when the second trump
shall sound then shall they that never knew me come forth and
shall stand before me.
 
Mosiah 26:26 And then shall they know that I am the Lord their
God, that I am their Redeemer; but they would not be redeemed.
 
Mosiah 26:27 And then I will confess unto them that I never knew
them; and they shall depart into everlasting fire prepared for
the devil and his angels.
 
Mosiah 26:28 Therefore I say unto you, that he that will not hear
my voice, the same shall ye not receive into my church, for him I
will not receive at the last day.
 
Mosiah 26:29 Therefore I say unto you, Go; and whosoever
transgresseth against me, him shall ye judge according to the
sins which he has committed; and if he confess his sins before
thee and me, and repenteth in the sincerity of his heart, him
shall ye forgive, and I will forgive him also.
 
Mosiah 26:30 Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive
them their trespasses against me.
 
Mosiah 26:31 And ye shall also forgive one another your
trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his
neighbor's trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath
brought himself under condemnation.
 
Mosiah 26:32 Now I say unto you, Go; and whosoever will not
repent of his sins the same shall not be numbered among my
people; and this shall be observed from this time forward.
 
Mosiah 26:33 And it came to pass when Alma had heard these words
he wrote them down that he might have them, and that he might
judge the people of that church according to the commandments of
God.
 
Mosiah 26:34 And it came to pass that Alma went and judged those
that had been taken in iniquity, according to the word of the
Lord.
 
Mosiah 26:35 And whosoever repented of their sins and did confess
them, them he did number among the people of the church;
 
Mosiah 26:36 And those that would not confess their sins and
repent of their iniquity, the same were not numbered among the
people of the church, and their names were blotted out.
 
Mosiah 26:37 And it came to pass that Alma did regulate all the
affairs of the church; and they began again to have peace and to
prosper exceedingly in the affairs of the church, walking
circumspectly before God, receiving many, and baptizing many.
 
Mosiah 26:38 And now all these things did Alma and his fellow
laborers do who were over the church, walking in all diligence,
teaching the word of God in all things, suffering all manner of
afflictions, being persecuted by all those who did not belong to
the church of God.
 
Mosiah 26:39 And they did admonish their brethren; and they were
also admonished, every one by the word of God, according to his
sins, or to the sins which he had committed, being commanded of
God to pray without ceasing, and to give thanks in all things.
 
Mosiah 27:0 Persecution forbidden and equality enjoined--Alma,
the younger, and the four sons of Mosiah, among the unbelievers--
Their miraculous conversion--They become preachers of
righteousness.
 
Mosiah 27:1 And now it came to pass that the persecutions which
were inflicted on the church by the unbelievers became so great
that the church began to murmur, and complain to their leaders
concerning the matter; and they did complain to Alma. And Alma
laid the case before their king, Mosiah. And Mosiah consulted
with his priests.
 
Mosiah 27:2 And it came to pass that king Mosiah sent a
proclamation throughout the land round about that there should
not any unbeliever persecute any of those who belonged to the
church of God.
 
Mosiah 27:3 And there was a strict command throughout all the
churches that there should be no persecutions among them, that
there should be an equality among all men;
 
Mosiah 27:4 That they should let no pride nor haughtiness disturb
their peace; that every man should esteem his neighbor as
himself, laboring with their own hands for their support.
 
Mosiah 27:5 Yea, and all their priests and teachers should labor
with their own hands for their support, in all cases save it were
in sickness, or in much want; and doing these things, they did
abound in the grace of God.
 
Mosiah 27:6 And there began to be much peace again in the land;
and the people began to be very numerous, and began to scatter
abroad upon the face of the earth, yea, on the north and on the
south, on the east and on the west, building large cities and
villages in all quarters of the land.
 
Mosiah 27:7 And the Lord did visit them and prosper them, and
they became a large and wealthy people.
 
Mosiah 27:8 Now the sons of Mosiah were numbered among the
unbelievers; and also one of the sons of Alma was numbered among
them, he being called Alma, after his father; nevertheless, he
became a very wicked and an idolatrous man. And he was a man of
many words, and did speak much flattery to the people; therefore
he led many of the people to do after the manner of his
iniquities.
 
Mosiah 27:9 And he became a great hinderment to the prosperity of
the church of God; stealing away the hearts of the people;
causing much dissension among the people; giving a chance for the
enemy of God to exercise his power over them.
 
Mosiah 27:10 And now it came to pass that while he was going
about to destroy the church of God, for he did go about secretly
with the sons of Mosiah seeking to destroy the church, and to
lead astray the people of the Lord, contrary to the commandments
of God, or even the king--
 
Mosiah 27:11 And as I said unto you, as they were going about
rebelling against God, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared
unto them; and he descended as it were in a cloud; and he spake
as it were with a voice of thunder, which caused the earth to
shake upon which they stood;
 
Mosiah 27:12 And so great was their astonishment, that they fell
to the earth, and understood not the words which he spake unto
them.
 
Mosiah 27:13 Nevertheless he cried again, saying: Alma, arise and
stand forth, for why persecutest thou the church of God? For the
Lord hath said: This is my church, and I will establish it; and
nothing shall overthrow it, save it is the transgression of my
people.
 
Mosiah 27:14 And again, the angel said: Behold, the Lord hath
heard the prayers of his people, and also the prayers of his
servant, Alma, who is thy father; for he has prayed with much
faith concerning thee that thou mightest be brought to the
knowledge of the truth; therefore, for this purpose have I come
to convince thee of the power and authority of God, that the
prayers of his servants might be answered according to their
faith.
 
Mosiah 27:15 And now behold, can ye dispute the power of God? For
behold, doth not my voice shake the earth? And can ye not also
behold me before you? And I am sent from God.
 
Mosiah 27:16 Now I say unto thee: Go, and remember the captivity
of thy fathers in the land of Helam, and in the land of Nephi;
and remember how great things he has done for them; for they were
in bondage, and he has delivered them. And now I say unto thee,
Alma, go thy way, and seek to destroy the church no more, that
their prayers may be answered, and this even if thou wilt of
thyself be cast off.
 
Mosiah 27:17 And now it came to pass that these were the last
words which the angel spake unto Alma, and he departed.
 
Mosiah 27:18 And now Alma and those that were with him fell again
to the earth, for great was their astonishment; for with their
own eyes they had beheld an angel of the Lord; and his voice was
as thunder, which shook the earth; and they knew that there was
nothing save the power of God that could shake the earth and
cause it to tremble as though it would part asunder.
 
Mosiah 27:19 And now the astonishment of Alma was so great that
he became dumb, that he could not open his mouth; yea, and he
became weak, even that he could not move his hands; therefore he
was taken by those that were with him, and carried helpless, even
until he was laid before his father.
 
Mosiah 27:20 And they rehearsed unto his father all that had
happened unto them; and his father rejoiced, for he knew that it
was the power of God.
 
Mosiah 27:21 And he caused that a multitude should be gathered
together that they might witness what the Lord had done for his
son, and also for those that were with him.
 
Mosiah 27:22 And he caused that the priests should assemble
themselves together; and they began to fast, and to pray to the
Lord their God that he would open the mouth of Alma, that he
might speak, and also that his limbs might receive their
strength--that the eyes of the people might be opened to see and
know of the goodness and glory of God.
 
Mosiah 27:23 And it came to pass after they had fasted and prayed
for the space of two days and two nights, the limbs of Alma
received their strength, and he stood up and began to speak unto
them, bidding them to be of good comfort:
 
Mosiah 27:24 For, said he, I have repented of my sins, and have
been redeemed of the Lord; behold I am born of the Spirit.
 
Mosiah 27:25 And the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all
mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and
people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their
carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being
redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters;
 
Mosiah 27:26 And thus they become new creatures; and unless they
do this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.
 
Mosiah 27:27 I say unto you, unless this be the case, they must
be cast off; and this I know, because I was like to be cast off.
 
Mosiah 27:28 Nevertheless, after wading through much tribulation,
repenting nigh unto death, the Lord in mercy hath seen fit to
snatch me out of an everlasting burning, and I am born of God.
 
Mosiah 27:29 My soul hath been redeemed from the gall of
bitterness and bonds of iniquity. I was in the darkest abyss; but
now I behold the marvelous light of God. My soul was racked with
eternal torment; but I am snatched, and my soul is pained no
more.
 
Mosiah 27:30 I rejected my Redeemer, and denied that which had
been spoken of by our fathers; but now that they may foresee that
he will come, and that he remembereth every creature of his
creating, he will make himself manifest unto all.
 
Mosiah 27:31 Yea, every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess
before him. Yea, even at the last day, when all men shall stand
to be judged of him, then shall they confess that he is God; then
shall they confess, who live without God in the world, that the
judgment of an everlasting punishment is just upon them; and they
shall quake, and tremble, and shrink beneath the glance of his
all-searching eye.
 
Mosiah 27:32 And now it came to pass that Alma began from this
time forward to teach the people, and those who were with Alma at
the time the angel appeared unto them, traveling round about
through all the land, publishing to all the people the things
which they had heard and seen, and preaching the word of God in
much tribulation, being greatly persecuted by those who were
unbelievers, being smitten by many of them.
 
Mosiah 27:33 But notwithstanding all this, they did impart much
consolation to the church, confirming their faith, and exhorting
them with long-suffering and much travail to keep the
commandments of God.
 
Mosiah 27:34 And four of them were the sons of Mosiah; and their
names were Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and Himni; these were the
names of the sons of Mosiah.
 
Mosiah 27:35 And they traveled throughout all the land of
Zarahemla, and among all the people who were under the reign of
king Mosiah, zealously striving to repair all the injuries which
they had done to the church, confessing all their sins, and
publishing all the things which they had seen, and explaining the
prophecies and the scriptures to all who desired to hear them.
 
Mosiah 27:36 And thus they were instruments in the hands of God
in bringing many to the knowledge of the truth, yea, to the
knowledge of their Redeemer.
 
Mosiah 27:37 And how blessed are they! For they did publish
peace; they did publish good tidings of good; and they did
declare unto the people that the Lord reigneth.
 
Mosiah 28:0 Mosiah permits his sons to preach to the Lamanites--
The twenty-four plates translated--Alma, the younger, made the
custodian of the records.
 
Mosiah 28:1 Now it came to pass that after the sons of Mosiah had
done all these things, they took a small number with them and
returned to their father, the king, and desired of him that he
would grant unto them that they might, with these whom they had
selected, go up to the land of Nephi that they might preach the
things which they had heard, and that they might impart the word
of God to their brethren, the Lamanites--
 
Mosiah 28:2 That perhaps they might bring them to the knowledge
of the Lord their God, and convince them of the iniquity of their
fathers; and that perhaps they might cure them of their hatred
towards the Nephites, that they might also be brought to rejoice
in the Lord their God, that they might become friendly to one
another, and that there should be no more contentions in all the
land which the Lord their God had given them.
 
Mosiah 28:3 Now they were desirous that salvation should be
declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any
human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any
soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and
tremble.
 
Mosiah 28:4 And thus did the Spirit of the Lord work upon them,
for they were the very vilest of sinners. And the Lord saw fit in
his infinite mercy to spare them; nevertheless they suffered much
anguish of soul because of their iniquities, suffering much and
fearing that they should be cast off forever.
 
Mosiah 28:5 And it came to pass that they did plead with their
father many days that they might go up to the land of Nephi.
 
Mosiah 28:6 And king Mosiah went and inquired of the Lord if he
should let his sons go up among the Lamanites to preach the word.
 
Mosiah 28:7 And the Lord said unto Mosiah: Let them go up, for
many shall believe on their words, and they shall have eternal
life; and I will deliver thy sons out of the hands of the
Lamanites.
 
Mosiah 28:8 And it came to pass that Mosiah granted that they
might go and do according to their request.
 
Mosiah 28:9 And they took their journey into the wilderness to go
up to preach the word among the Lamanites; and I shall give an
account of their proceedings hereafter.
 
Mosiah 28:10 Now king Mosiah had no one to confer the kingdom
upon, for there was not any of his sons who would accept of the
kingdom.
 
Mosiah 28:11 Therefore he took the records which were engraven on
the plates of brass, and also the plates of Nephi, and all the
things which he had kept and preserved according to the
commandments of God, after having translated and caused to be
written the records which were on the plates of gold which had
been found by the people of Limhi, which were delivered to him by
the hand of Limhi;
 
Mosiah 28:12 And this he did because of the great anxiety of his
people; for they were desirous beyond measure to know concerning
those people who had been destroyed.
 
Mosiah 28:13 And now he translated them by the means of those two
stones which were fastened into the two rims of a bow.
 
Mosiah 28:14 Now these things were prepared from the beginning,
and were handed down from generation to generation, for the
purpose of interpreting languages;
 
Mosiah 28:15 And they have been kept and preserved by the hand of
the Lord, that he should discover to every creature who should
possess the land the iniquities and abominations of his people;
 
Mosiah 28:16 And whosoever has these things is called seer, after
the manner of old times.
 
Mosiah 28:17 Now after Mosiah had finished translating these
records, behold, it gave an account of the people who were
destroyed, from the time that they were destroyed back to the
building of the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the
language of the people and they were scattered abroad upon the
face of all the earth, yea, and even from that time back until
the creation of Adam.
 
Mosiah 28:18 Now this account did cause the people of Mosiah to
mourn exceedingly, yea, they were filled with sorrow;
nevertheless it gave them much knowledge, in the which they did
rejoice.
 
Mosiah 28:19 And this account shall be written hereafter; for
behold, it is expedient that all people should know the things
which are written in this account.
 
Mosiah 28:20 And now, as I said unto you, that after king Mosiah
had done these things, he took the plates of brass, and all the
things which he had kept, and conferred them upon Alma, who was
the son of Alma; yea, all the records, and also the interpreters,
and conferred them upon him, and commanded him that he should
keep and preserve them, and also keep a record of the people,
handing them down from one generation to another, even as they
had been handed down from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem.
 
Mosiah 29:0 King Mosiah discourses upon kingcraft--Recommends
representative form of government--Judges elected--Death of Alma,
the elder--Mosiah's death ends the reign of the Nephite kings.
 
Mosiah 29:1 Now when Mosiah had done this he sent out throughout
all the land, among all the people, desiring to know their will
concerning who should be their king.
 
Mosiah 29:2 And it came to pass that the voice of the people
came, saying: We are desirous that Aaron thy son should be our
king and our ruler.
 
Mosiah 29:3 Now Aaron had gone up to the land of Nephi, therefore
the king could not confer the kingdom upon him; neither would
Aaron take upon him the kingdom; neither were any of the sons of
Mosiah willing to take upon them the kingdom.
 
Mosiah 29:4 Therefore king Mosiah sent again among the people;
yea, even a written word sent he among the people. And these were
the words that were written, saying:
 
Mosiah 29:5 Behold, O ye my people, or my brethren, for I esteem
you as such, I desire that ye should consider the cause which ye
are called to consider--for ye are desirous to have a king.
 
Mosiah 29:6 Now I declare unto you that he to whom the kingdom
doth rightly belong has declined, and will not take upon him the
kingdom.
 
Mosiah 29:7 And now if there should be another appointed in his
stead, behold I fear there would rise contentions among you. And
who knoweth but what my son, to whom the kingdom doth belong,
should turn to be angry and draw away a part of this people after
him, which would cause wars and contentions among you, which
would be the cause of shedding much blood and perverting the way
of the Lord, yea, and destroy the souls of many people.
 
Mosiah 29:8 Now I say unto you let us be wise and consider these
things, for we have no right to destroy my son, neither should we
have any right to destroy another if he should be appointed in
his stead.
 
Mosiah 29:9 And if my son should turn again to his pride and vain
things he would recall the things which he had said, and claim
his right to the kingdom, which would cause him and also this
people to commit much sin.
 
Mosiah 29:10 And now let us be wise and look forward to these
things, and do that which will make for the peace of this people.
 
Mosiah 29:11 Therefore I will be your king the remainder of my
days; nevertheless, let us appoint judges, to judge this people
according to our law; and we will newly arrange the affairs of
this people, for we will appoint wise men to be judges, that will
judge this people according to the commandments of God.
 
Mosiah 29:12 Now it is better that a man should be judged of God
than of man, for the judgments of God are always just, but the
judgments of man are not always just.
 
Mosiah 29:13 Therefore, if it were possible that you could have
just men to be your kings, who would establish the laws of God,
and judge this people according to his commandments, yea, if ye
could have men for your kings who would do even as my father
Benjamin did for this people--I say unto you, if this could
always be the case then it would be expedient that ye should
always have kings to rule over you.
 
Mosiah 29:14 And even I myself have labored with all the power
and faculties which I have possessed, to teach you the
commandments of God, and to establish peace throughout the land,
that there should be no wars nor contentions, no stealing, nor
plundering, nor murdering, nor any manner of iniquity;
 
Mosiah 29:15 And whosoever has committed iniquity, him have I
punished according to the crime which he has committed, according
to the law which has been given to us by our fathers.
 
Mosiah 29:16 Now I say unto you, that because all men are not
just it is not expedient that ye should have a king or kings to
rule over you.
 
Mosiah 29:17 For behold, how much iniquity doth one wicked king
cause to be committed, yea, and what great destruction!
 
Mosiah 29:18 Yea, remember king Noah, his wickedness and his
abominations, and also the wickedness and abominations of his
people. Behold what great destruction did come upon them; and
also because of their iniquities they were brought into bondage.
 
Mosiah 29:19 And were it not for the interposition of their all-
wise Creator, and this because of their sincere repentance, they
must unavoidably remain in bondage until now.
 
Mosiah 29:20 But behold, he did deliver them because they did
humble themselves before him; and because they cried mightily
unto him he did deliver them out of bondage; and thus doth the
Lord work with his power in all cases among the children of men,
extending the arm of mercy towards them that put their trust in
him.
 
Mosiah 29:21 And behold, now I say unto you, ye cannot dethrone
an iniquitous king save it be through much contention, and the
shedding of much blood.
 
Mosiah 29:22 For behold, he has his friends in iniquity, and he
keepeth his guards about him; and he teareth up the laws of those
who have reigned in righteousness before him; and he trampleth
under his feet the commandments of God;
 
Mosiah 29:23 And he enacteth laws, and sendeth them forth among
his people, yea, laws after the manner of his own wickedness; and
whosoever doth not obey his laws he causeth to be destroyed; and
whosoever doth rebel against him he will send his armies against
them to war, and if he can he will destroy them; and thus an
unrighteous king doth pervert the ways of all righteousness.
 
Mosiah 29:24 And now behold I say unto you, it is not expedient
that such abominations should come upon you.
 
Mosiah 29:25 Therefore, choose you by the voice of this people,
judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws which have
been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were
given them by the hand of the Lord.
 
Mosiah 29:26 Now it is not common that the voice of the people
desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is
common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is
not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law--
to do your business by the voice of the people.
 
Mosiah 29:27 And if the time comes that the voice of the people
doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God
will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with
great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.
 
Mosiah 29:28 And now if ye have judges, and they do not judge you
according to the law which has been given, ye can cause that they
may be judged of a higher judge.
 
Mosiah 29:29 If your higher judges do not judge righteous
judgments, ye shall cause that a small number of your lower
judges should be gathered together, and they shall judge your
higher judges, according to the voice of the people.
 
Mosiah 29:30 And I command you to do these things in the fear of
the Lord; and I command you to do these things, and that ye have
no king; that if these people commit sins and iniquities they
shall be answered upon their own heads.
 
Mosiah 29:31 For behold I say unto you, the sins of many people
have been caused by the iniquities of their kings; therefore
their iniquities are answered upon the heads of their kings.
 
Mosiah 29:32 And now I desire that this inequality should be no
more in this land, especially among this my people; but I desire
that this land be a land of liberty, and every man may enjoy his
rights and privileges alike, so long as the Lord sees fit that we
may live and inherit the land, yea, even as long as any of our
posterity remains upon the face of the land.
 
Mosiah 29:33 And many more things did king Mosiah write unto
them, unfolding unto them all the trials and troubles of a
righteous king, yea, all the travails of soul for their people,
and also all the murmurings of the people to their king; and he
explained it all unto them.
 
Mosiah 29:34 And he told them that these things ought not to be;
but that the burden should come upon all the people, that every
man might bear his part.
 
Mosiah 29:35 And he also unfolded unto them all the disadvantages
they labored under, by having an unrighteous king to rule over
them;
 
Mosiah 29:36 Yea, all his iniquities and abominations, and all
the wars, and contentions, and bloodshed, and the stealing, and
the plundering, and the committing of whoredoms, and all manner
of iniquities which cannot be enumerated--telling them that these
things ought not to be, that they were expressly repugnant to the
commandments of God.
 
Mosiah 29:37 And now it came to pass, after king Mosiah had sent
these things forth among the people they were convinced of the
truth of his words.
 
Mosiah 29:38 Therefore they relinquished their desires for a
king, and became exceedingly anxious that every man should have
an equal chance throughout all the land; yea, and every man
expressed a willingness to answer for his own sins.
 
Mosiah 29:39 Therefore, it came to pass that they assembled
themselves together in bodies throughout the land, to cast in
their voices concerning who should be their judges, to judge them
according to the law which had been given them; and they were
exceedingly rejoiced because of the liberty which had been
granted unto them.
 
Mosiah 29:40 And they did wax strong in love towards Mosiah; yea,
they did esteem him more than any other man; for they did not
look upon him as a tyrant who was seeking for gain, yea, for that
lucre which doth corrupt the soul; for he had not exacted riches
of them, neither had he delighted in the shedding of blood; but
he had established peace in the land, and he had granted unto his
people that they should be delivered from all manner of bondage;
therefore they did esteem him, yea, exceedingly, beyond measure.
 
Mosiah 29:41 And it came to pass that they did appoint judges to
rule over them, or to judge them according to the law; and this
they did throughout all the land.
 
Mosiah 29:42 And it came to pass that Alma was appointed to be
the first chief judge, he being also the high priest, his father
having conferred the office upon him, and having given him the
charge concerning all the affairs of the church.
 
Mosiah 29:43 And now it came to pass that Alma did walk in the
ways of the Lord, and he did keep his commandments, and he did
judge righteous judgments; and there was continual peace through
the land.
 
Mosiah 29:44 And thus commenced the reign of the judges
throughout all the land of Zarahemla, among all the people who
were called the Nephites; and Alma was the first and chief judge.
 
Mosiah 29:45 And now it came to pass that his father died, being
eighty and two years old, having lived to fulfil the commandments
of God.
 
Mosiah 29:46 And it came to pass that Mosiah died also, in the
thirty and third year of his reign, being sixty and three years
old; making in the whole, five hundred and nine years from the
time Lehi left Jerusalem.
 
Mosiah 29:47 And thus ended the reign of the kings over the
people of Nephi; and thus ended the days of Alma, who was the
founder of their church. 
 
THE BOOK OF ALMA, The Son of Alma
 
Alma 0:0 The account of Alma, who was the son of Alma the first,
and Chief Judge over the people of Nephi, and also the High
Priest over the Church. An account of the reign of the Judges,
and the wars and contentions among the people. And also an
account of a war between the Nephites and the Lamanites,
according to the record of Alma, the first and chief Judge.
 
Alma 1:0 Nehor, an enemy of the church, slays Gideon, and is
brought to judgment and executed--Priestcraft and persecution--
Improved conditions--Priests and people equal.
 
Alma 1:1 Now it came to pass that in the first year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi, from this time forward,
king Mosiah having gone the way of all the earth, having warred a
good warfare, walking uprightly before God, leaving none to reign
in his stead; nevertheless he had established laws, and they were
acknowledged by the people; therefore they were obliged to abide
by the laws which he had made.
 
Alma 1:2 And it came to pass that in the first year of the reign
of Alma in the judgment-seat, there was a man brought before him
to be judged, a man who was large, and was noted for his much
strength.
 
Alma 1:3 And he had gone about among the people, preaching to
them that which he termed to be the word of God, bearing down
against the church; declaring unto the people that every priest
and teacher ought to become popular; and they ought not to labor
with their hands, but that they ought to be supported by the
people.
 
Alma 1:4 And he also testified unto the people that all mankind
should be saved at the last day, and that they need not fear nor
tremble, but that they might lift up their heads and rejoice; for
the Lord had created all men, and had also redeemed all men; and,
in the end, all men should have eternal life.
 
Alma 1:5 And it came to pass that he did teach these things so
much that many did believe on his words, even so many that they
began to support him and give him money.
 
Alma 1:6 And he began to be lifted up in the pride of his heart,
and to wear very costly apparel, yea, and even began to establish
a church after the manner of his preaching.
 
Alma 1:7 And it came to pass as he was going, to preach to those
who believed on his word, he met a man who belonged to the church
of God, yea, even one of their teachers; and he began to contend
with him sharply, that he might lead away the people of the
church; but the man withstood him, admonishing him with the words
of God.
 
Alma 1:8 Now the name of the man was Gideon; and it was he who
was an instrument in the hands of God in delivering the people of
Limhi out of bondage.
 
Alma 1:9 Now, because Gideon withstood him with the words of God
he was wroth with Gideon, and drew his sword and began to smite
him. Now Gideon being stricken with many years, therefore he was
not able to withstand his blows, therefore he was slain by the
sword.
 
Alma 1:10 And the man who slew him was taken by the people of the
church, and was brought before Alma, to be judged according to
the crimes which he had committed.
 
Alma 1:11 And it came to pass that he stood before Alma and
pleaded for himself with much boldness.
 
Alma 1:12 But Alma said unto him: Behold, this is the first time
that priestcraft has been introduced among this people. And
behold, thou art not only guilty of priestcraft, but hast
endeavored to enforce it by the sword; and were priestcraft to be
enforced among this people it would prove their entire
destruction.
 
Alma 1:13 And thou hast shed the blood of a righteous man, yea, a
man who has done much good among this people; and were we to
spare thee his blood would come upon us for vengeance.
 
Alma 1:14 Therefore thou art condemned to die, according to the
law which has been given us by Mosiah, our last king; and it has
been acknowledged by this people; therefore this people must
abide by the law.
 
Alma 1:15 And it came to pass that they took him; and his name
was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti,
and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the
heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was
contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious
death.
 
Alma 1:16 Nevertheless, this did not put an end to the spreading
of priestcraft through the land; for there were many who loved
the vain things of the world, and they went forth preaching false
doctrines; and this they did for the sake of riches and honor.
 
Alma 1:17 Nevertheless, they durst not lie, if it were known, for
fear of the law, for liars were punished; therefore they
pretended to preach according to their belief; and now the law
could have no power on any man for his belief.
 
Alma 1:18 And they durst not steal, for fear of the law, for such
were punished; neither durst they rob, nor murder, for he that
murdered was punished unto death.
 
Alma 1:19 But it came to pass that whosoever did not belong to
the church of God began to persecute those that did belong to the
church of God, and had taken upon them the name of Christ.
 
Alma 1:20 Yea, they did persecute them, and afflict them with all
manner of words, and this because of their humility; because they
were not proud in their own eyes, and because they did impart the
word of God, one with another, without money and without price.
 
Alma 1:21 Now there was a strict law among the people of the
church, that there should not any man, belonging to the church,
arise and persecute those that did not belong to the church, and
that there should be no persecution among themselves.
 
Alma 1:22 Nevertheless, there were many among them who began to
be proud, and began to contend warmly with their adversaries,
even unto blows; yea, they would smite one another with their
fists.
 
Alma 1:23 Now this was in the second year of the reign of Alma,
and it was a cause of much affliction to the church; yea, it was
the cause of much trial with the church.
 
Alma 1:24 For the hearts of many were hardened, and their names
were blotted out, that they were remembered no more among the
people of God. And also many withdrew themselves from among them.
 
Alma 1:25 Now this was a great trial to those that did stand fast
in the faith; nevertheless, they were steadfast and immovable in
keeping the commandments of God, and they bore with patience the
persecution which was heaped upon them.
 
Alma 1:26 And when the priests left their labor to impart the
word of God unto the people, the people also left their labors to
hear the word of God. And when the priest had imparted unto them
the word of God they all returned again diligently unto their
labors; and the priest, not esteeming himself above his hearers,
for the preacher was no better than the hearer, neither was the
teacher any better than the learner; and thus they were all
equal, and they did all labor, every man according to his
strength.
 
Alma 1:27 And they did impart of their substance, every man
according to that which he had, to the poor, and the needy, and
the sick, and the afflicted; and they did not wear costly
apparel, yet they were neat and comely.
 
Alma 1:28 And thus they did establish the affairs of the church;
and thus they began to have continual peace again,
notwithstanding all their persecutions.
 
Alma 1:29 And now, because of the steadiness of the church they
began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things
whatsoever they stood in need--an abundance of flocks and herds,
and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of
gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of
silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth.
 
Alma 1:30 And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did
not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that
were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished;
and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they
were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both
male and female, whether out of the church or in the church,
having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need.
 
Alma 1:31 And thus they did prosper and become far more wealthy
than those who did not belong to their church.
 
Alma 1:32 For those who did not belong to their church did
indulge themselves in sorceries, and in idolatry or idleness, and
in babblings, and in envyings and strife; wearing costly apparel;
being lifted up in the pride of their own eyes; persecuting,
lying, thieving, robbing, committing whoredoms, and murdering,
and all manner of wickedness; nevertheless, the law was put in
force upon all those who did transgress it, inasmuch as it was
possible.
 
Alma 1:33 And it came to pass that by thus exercising the law
upon them, every man suffering according to that which he had
done, they became more still, and durst not commit any wickedness
if it were known; therefore, there was much peace among the
people of Nephi until the fifth year of the reign of the judges.
 
Alma 2:0 Amlici seeks to become king--Rejected by the majority,
but is made king--He is defeated in battle--He joins the
Lamanites--Alma slays Amlici and routs his forces.
 
Alma 2:1 And it came to pass in the commencement of the fifth
year of their reign there began to be a contention among the
people; for a certain man, being called Amlici, he being a very
cunning man, yea, a wise man as to the wisdom of the world, he
being after the order of the man that slew Gideon by the sword,
who was executed according to the law--
 
Alma 2:2 Now this Amlici had, by his cunning, drawn away much
people after him; even so much that they began to be very
powerful; and they began to endeavor to establish Amlici to be a
king over the people.
 
Alma 2:3 Now this was alarming to the people of the church, and
also to all those who had not been drawn away after the
persuasions of Amlici; for they knew that according to their law
that such things must be established by the voice of the people.
 
Alma 2:4 Therefore, if it were possible that Amlici should gain
the voice of the people, he, being a wicked man, would deprive
them of their rights and privileges of the church; for it was his
intent to destroy the church of God.
 
Alma 2:5 And it came to pass that the people assembled themselves
together throughout all the land, every man according to his
mind, whether it were for or against Amlici, in separate bodies,
having much dispute and wonderful contentions one with another.
 
Alma 2:6 And thus they did assemble themselves together to cast
in their voices concerning the matter; and they were laid before
the judges.
 
Alma 2:7 And it came to pass that the voice of the people came
against Amlici, that he was not made king over the people.
 
Alma 2:8 Now this did cause much joy in the hearts of those who
were against him; but Amlici did stir up those who were in his
favor to anger against those who were not in his favor.
 
Alma 2:9 And it came to pass that they gathered themselves
together, and did consecrate Amlici to be their king.
 
Alma 2:10 Now when Amlici was made king over them he commanded
them that they should take up arms against their brethren; and
this he did that he might subject them to him.
 
Alma 2:11 Now the people of Amlici were distinguished by the name
of Amlici, being called Amlicites; and the remainder were called
Nephites, or the people of God.
 
Alma 2:12 Therefore the people of the Nephites were aware of the
intent of the Amlicites, and therefore they did prepare to meet
them; yea, they did arm themselves with swords, and with
cimeters, and with bows, and with arrows, and with stones, and
with slings, and with all manner of weapons of war, of every
kind.
 
Alma 2:13 And thus they were prepared to meet the Amlicites at
the time of their coming. And there were appointed captains, and
higher captains, and chief captains, according to their numbers.
 
Alma 2:14 And it came to pass that Amlici did arm his men with
all manner of weapons of war of every kind; and he also appointed
rulers and leaders over his people, to lead them to war against
their brethren.
 
Alma 2:15 And it came to pass that the Amlicites came upon the
hill Amnihu, which was east of the river Sidon, which ran by the
land of Zarahemla, and there they began to make war with the
Nephites.
 
Alma 2:16 Now Alma, being the chief judge and the governor of the
people of Nephi, therefore he went up with his people, yea, with
his captains, and chief captains, yea, at the head of his armies,
against the Amlicites to battle.
 
Alma 2:17 And they began to slay the Amlicites upon the hill east
of Sidon. And the Amlicites did contend with the Nephites with
great strength, insomuch that many of the Nephites did fall
before the Amlicites.
 
Alma 2:18 Nevertheless the Lord did strengthen the hand of the
Nephites, that they slew the Amlicites with great slaughter, that
they began to flee before them.
 
Alma 2:19 And it came to pass that the Nephites did pursue the
Amlicites all that day, and did slay them with much slaughter,
insomuch that there were slain of the Amlicites twelve thousand
five hundred thirty and two souls; and there were slain of the
Nephites six thousand five hundred sixty and two souls.
 
Alma 2:20 And it came to pass that when Alma could pursue the
Amlicites no longer he caused that his people should pitch their
tents in the valley of Gideon, the valley being called after that
Gideon who was slain by the hand of Nehor with the sword; and in
this valley the Nephites did pitch their tents for the night.
 
Alma 2:21 And Alma sent spies to follow the remnant of the
Amlicites, that he might know of their plans and their plots,
whereby he might guard himself against them, that he might
preserve his people from being destroyed.
 
Alma 2:22 Now those whom he had sent out to watch the camp of the
Amlicites were called Zeram, and Amnor, and Manti, and Limher;
these were they who went out with their men to watch the camp of
the Amlicites.
 
Alma 2:23 And it came to pass that on the morrow they returned
into the camp of the Nephites in great haste, being greatly
astonished, and struck with much fear, saying:
 
Alma 2:24 Behold, we followed the camp of the Amlicites, and to
our great astonishment, in the land of Minon, above the land of
Zarahemla, in the course of the land of Nephi, we saw a numerous
host of the Lamanites; and behold, the Amlicites have joined
them;
 
Alma 2:25 And they are upon our brethren in that land; and they
are fleeing before them with their flocks, and their wives, and
their children, towards our city; and except we make haste they
obtain possession of our city, and our fathers, and our wives,
and our children be slain.
 
Alma 2:26 And it came to pass that the people of Nephi took their
tents, and departed out of the valley of Gideon towards their
city, which was the city of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 2:27 And behold, as they were crossing the river Sidon, the
Lamanites and the Amlicites, being as numerous almost, as it
were, as the sands of the sea, came upon them to destroy them.
 
Alma 2:28 Nevertheless, the Nephites being strengthened by the
hand of the Lord, having prayed mightily to him that he would
deliver them out of the hands of their enemies, therefore the
Lord did hear their cries, and did strengthen them, and the
Lamanites and the Amlicites did fall before them.
 
Alma 2:29 And it came to pass that Alma fought with Amlici with
the sword, face to face; and they did contend mightily, one with
another.
 
Alma 2:30 And it came to pass that Alma, being a man of God,
being exercised with much faith, cried, saying: O Lord, have
mercy and spare my life, that I may be an instrument in thy hands
to save and preserve this people.
 
Alma 2:31 Now when Alma had said these words he contended again
with Amlici; and he was strengthened, insomuch that he slew
Amlici with the sword.
 
Alma 2:32 And he also contended with the king of the Lamanites;
but the king of the Lamanites fled back from before Alma and sent
his guards to contend with Alma.
 
Alma 2:33 But Alma, with his guards, contended with the guards of
the king of the Lamanites until he slew and drove them back.
 
Alma 2:34 And thus he cleared the ground, or rather the bank,
which was on the west of the river Sidon, throwing the bodies of
the Lamanites who had been slain into the waters of Sidon, that
thereby his people might have room to cross and contend with the
Lamanites and the Amlicites on the west side of the river Sidon.
 
Alma 2:35 And it came to pass that when they had all crossed the
river Sidon that the Lamanites and the Amlicites began to flee
before them, notwithstanding they were so numerous that they
could not be numbered.
 
Alma 2:36 And they fled before the Nephites towards the
wilderness which was west and north, away beyond the borders of
the land; and the Nephites did pursue them with their might, and
did slay them.
 
Alma 2:37 Yea, they were met on every hand, and slain and driven,
until they were scattered on the west, and on the north, until
they had reached the wilderness, which was called Hermounts; and
it was that part of the wilderness which was infested by wild and
ravenous beasts.
 
Alma 2:38 And it came to pass that many died in the wilderness of
their wounds, and were devoured by those beasts and also the
vultures of the air; and their bones have been found, and have
been heaped up on the earth.
 
Alma 3:0 The mark of the Amlicites, and the curse upon the
Lamanites--Another Nephite victory.
 
Alma 3:1 And it came to pass that the Nephites who were not slain
by the weapons of war, after having buried those who had been
slain--now the number of the slain were not numbered, because of
the greatness of their number--after they had finished burying
their dead they all returned to their lands, and to their houses,
and their wives, and their children.
 
Alma 3:2 Now many women and children had been slain with the
sword, and also many of their flocks and their herds; and also
many of their fields of grain were destroyed, for they were
trodden down by the hosts of men.
 
Alma 3:3 And now as many of the Lamanites and the Amlicites who
had been slain upon the bank of the river Sidon were cast into
the waters of Sidon; and behold their bones are in the depths of
the sea, and they are many.
 
Alma 3:4 And the Amlicites were distinguished from the Nephites,
for they had marked themselves with red in their foreheads after
the manner of the Lamanites; nevertheless they had not shorn
their heads like unto the Lamanites.
 
Alma 3:5 Now the heads of the Lamanites were shorn; and they were
naked, save it were skin which was girded about their loins, and
also their armor, which was girded about them, and their bows,
and their arrows, and their stones, and their slings, and so
forth.
 
Alma 3:6 And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to
the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon
them because of their transgression and their rebellion against
their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph, and
Sam, who were just and holy men.
 
Alma 3:7 And their brethren sought to destroy them, therefore
they were cursed; and the Lord God set a mark upon them, yea,
upon Laman and Lemuel, and also the sons of Ishmael, and
Ishmaelitish women.
 
Alma 3:8 And this was done that their seed might be distinguished
from the seed of their brethren, that thereby the Lord God might
preserve his people, that they might not mix and believe in
incorrect traditions which would prove their destruction.
 
Alma 3:9 And it came to pass that whosoever did mingle his seed
with that of the Lamanites did bring the same curse upon his
seed.
 
Alma 3:10 Therefore, whosoever suffered himself to be led away by
the Lamanites was called under that head, and there was a mark
set upon him.
 
Alma 3:11 And it came to pass that whosoever would not believe in
the tradition of the Lamanites, but believed those records which
were brought out of the land of Jerusalem, and also in the
tradition of their fathers, which were correct, who believed in
the commandments of God and kept them, were called the Nephites,
or the people of Nephi, from that time forth--
 
Alma 3:12 And it is they who have kept the records which are true
of their people, and also of the people of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 3:13 Now we will return again to the Amlicites, for they
also had a mark set upon them; yea, they set the mark upon
themselves, yea, even a mark of red upon their foreheads.
 
Alma 3:14 Thus the word of God is fulfilled, for these are the
words which he said to Nephi: Behold, the Lamanites have I
cursed, and I will set a mark on them that they and their seed
may be separated from thee and thy seed, from this time
henceforth and forever, except they repent of their wickedness
and turn to me that I may have mercy upon them.
 
Alma 3:15 And again: I will set a mark upon him that mingleth his
seed with thy brethren, that they may be cursed also.
 
Alma 3:16 And again: I will set a mark upon him that fighteth
against thee and thy seed.
 
Alma 3:17 And again, I say he that departeth from thee shall no
more be called thy seed; and I will bless thee, and whomsoever
shall be called thy seed, henceforth and forever; and these were
the promises of the Lord unto Nephi and to his seed.
 
Alma 3:18 Now the Amlicites knew not that they were fulfilling
the words of God when they began to mark themselves in their
foreheads; nevertheless they had come out in open rebellion
against God; therefore it was expedient that the curse should
fall upon them.
 
Alma 3:19 Now I would that ye should see that they brought upon
themselves the curse; and even so doth every man that is cursed
bring upon himself his own condemnation.
 
Alma 3:20 Now it came to pass that not many days after the battle
which was fought in the land of Zarahemla, by the Lamanites and
the Amlicites, that there was another army of the Lamanites came
in upon the people of Nephi, in the same place where the first
army met the Amlicites.
 
Alma 3:21 And it came to pass that there was an army sent to
drive them out of their land.
 
Alma 3:22 Now Alma himself being afflicted with a wound did not
go up to battle at this time against the Lamanites;
 
Alma 3:23 But he sent up a numerous army against them; and they
went up and slew many of the Lamanites, and drove the remainder
of them out of the borders of their land.
 
Alma 3:24 And then they returned again and began to establish
peace in the land, being troubled no more for a time with their
enemies.
 
Alma 3:25 Now all these things were done, yea, all these wars and
contentions were commenced and ended in the fifth year of the
reign of the judges.
 
Alma 3:26 And in one year were thousands and tens of thousands of
souls sent to the eternal world, that they might reap their
rewards according to their works, whether they were good or
whether they were bad, to reap eternal happiness or eternal
misery, according to the spirit which they listed to obey,
whether it be a good spirit or a bad one.
 
Alma 3:27 For every man receiveth wages of him whom he listeth to
obey, and this according to the words of the spirit of prophecy;
therefore let it be according to the truth. And thus endeth the
fifth year of the reign of the judges.
 
Alma 4:0 Growth of the church--Prosperity, pride, and iniquity--
Nephihah made chief judge.
 
Alma 4:1 Now it came to pass in the sixth year of the reign of
the judges over the people of Nephi, there were no contentions
nor wars in the land of Zarahemla;
 
Alma 4:2 But the people were afflicted, yea, greatly afflicted
for the loss of their brethren, and also for the loss of their
flocks and herds, and also for the loss of their fields of grain,
which were trodden under foot and destroyed by the Lamanites.
 
Alma 4:3 And so great were their afflictions that every soul had
cause to mourn; and they believed that it was the judgments of
God sent upon them because of their wickedness and their
abominations; therefore they were awakened to a remembrance of
their duty.
 
Alma 4:4 And they began to establish the church more fully; yea,
and many were baptized in the waters of Sidon and were joined to
the church of God; yea, they were baptized by the hand of Alma,
who had been consecrated the high priest over the people of the
church, by the hand of his father Alma.
 
Alma 4:5 And it came to pass in the seventh year of the reign of
the judges there were about three thousand five hundred souls
that united themselves to the church of God and were baptized.
And thus ended the seventh year of the reign of the judges over
the people of Nephi; and there was continual peace in all that
time.
 
Alma 4:6 And it came to pass in the eighth year of the reign of
the judges, that the people of the church began to wax proud,
because of their exceeding riches, and their fine silks, and
their fine-twined linen, and because of their many flocks and
herds, and their gold and their silver, and all manner of
precious things, which they had obtained by their industry; and
in all these things were they lifted up in the pride of their
eyes, for they began to wear very costly apparel.
 
Alma 4:7 Now this was the cause of much affliction to Alma, yea,
and to many of the people whom Alma had consecrated to be
teachers, and priests, and elders over the church; yea, many of
them were sorely grieved for the wickedness which they saw had
begun to be among their people.
 
Alma 4:8 For they saw and beheld with great sorrow that the
people of the church began to be lifted up in the pride of their
eyes, and to set their hearts upon riches and upon the vain
things of the world, that they began to be scornful, one towards
another, and they began to persecute those that did not believe
according to their own will and pleasure.
 
Alma 4:9 And thus, in this eighth year of the reign of the
judges, there began to be great contentions among the people of
the church; yea, there were envyings, and strife, and malice, and
persecutions, and pride, even to exceed the pride of those who
did not belong to the church of God.
 
Alma 4:10 And thus ended the eighth year of the reign of the
judges; and the wickedness of the church was a great stumbling-
block to those who did not belong to the church; and thus the
church began to fail in its progress.
 
Alma 4:11 And it came to pass in the commencement of the ninth
year, Alma saw the wickedness of the church, and he saw also that
the example of the church began to lead those who were
unbelievers on from one piece of iniquity to another, thus
bringing on the destruction of the people.
 
Alma 4:12 Yea, he saw great inequality among the people, some
lifting themselves up with their pride, despising others, turning
their backs upon the needy and the naked and those who were
hungry, and those who were athirst, and those who were sick and
afflicted.
 
Alma 4:13 Now this was a great cause for lamentations among the
people, while others were abasing themselves, succoring those who
stood in need of their succor, such as imparting their substance
to the poor and the needy, feeding the hungry, and suffering all
manner of afflictions, for Christ's sake, who should come
according to the spirit of prophecy;
 
Alma 4:14 Looking forward to that day, thus retaining a remission
of their sins; being filled with great joy because of the
resurrection of the dead, according to the will and power and
deliverance of Jesus Christ from the bands of death.
 
Alma 4:15 And now it came to pass that Alma, having seen the
afflictions of the humble followers of God, and the persecutions
which were heaped upon them by the remainder of his people, and
seeing all their inequality, began to be very sorrowful;
nevertheless the Spirit of the Lord did not fail him.
 
Alma 4:16 And he selected a wise man who was among the elders of
the church, and gave him power according to the voice of the
people, that he might have power to enact laws according to the
laws which had been given, and to put them in force according to
the wickedness and the crimes of the people.
 
Alma 4:17 Now this man's name was Nephihah, and he was appointed
chief judge; and he sat in the judgment-seat to judge and to
govern the people.
 
Alma 4:18 Now Alma did not grant unto him the office of being
high priest over the church, but he retained the office of high
priest unto himself; but he delivered the judgment-seat unto
Nephihah.
 
Alma 4:19 And this he did that he himself might go forth among
his people, or among the people of Nephi, that he might preach
the word of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of
their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all
the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among
his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were
in bearing down in pure testimony against them.
 
Alma 4:20 And thus in the commencement of the ninth year of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, Alma delivered up
the judgment-seat to Nephihah, and confined himself wholly to the
high priesthood of the holy order of God, to the testimony of the
word, according to the spirit of revelation and prophecy.
 
Alma 5:0 The words which Alma, the High Priest according to the
holy order of God, delivered to the people in their cities and
villages throughout the land--He recounts the experience of the
church--Denounces iniquity--Calls upon the people to repent.
 
Alma 5:1 Now it came to pass that Alma began to deliver the word
of God unto the people, first in the land of Zarahemla, and from
thence throughout all the land.
 
Alma 5:2 And these are the words which he spake to the people in
the church which was established in the city of Zarahemla,
according to his own record, saying:
 
Alma 5:3 I, Alma, having been consecrated by my father, Alma, to
be a high priest over the church of God, he having power and
authority from God to do these things, behold, I say unto you
that he began to establish a church in the land which was in the
borders of Nephi; yea, the land which was called the land of
Mormon; yea, and he did baptize his brethren in the waters of
Mormon.
 
Alma 5:4 And behold, I say unto you, they were delivered out of
the hands of the people of king Noah, by the mercy and power of
God.
 
Alma 5:5 And behold, after that, they were brought into bondage
by the hands of the Lamanites in the wilderness; yea, I say unto
you, they were in captivity, and again the Lord did deliver them
out of bondage by the power of his word; and we were brought into
this land, and here we began to establish the church of God
throughout this land also.
 
Alma 5:6 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, you that
belong to this church, have you sufficiently retained in
remembrance the captivity of your fathers? Yea, and have you
sufficiently retained in remembrance his mercy and long-suffering
towards them? And moreover, have ye sufficiently retained in
remembrance that he has delivered their souls from hell?
 
Alma 5:7 Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them
out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were
in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were
illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were
encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell,
and an everlasting destruction did await them.
 
Alma 5:8 And now I ask of you, my brethren, were they destroyed?
Behold, I say unto you, Nay, they were not.
 
Alma 5:9 And again I ask, were the bands of death broken, and the
chains of hell which encircled them about, were they loosed? I
say unto you, Yea, they were loosed, and their souls did expand,
and they did sing redeeming love. And I say unto you that they
are saved.
 
Alma 5:10 And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved?
Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the
cause of their being loosed from the bands of death, yea, and
also the chains of hell?
 
Alma 5:11 Behold, I can tell you--did not my father Alma believe
in the words which were delivered by the mouth of Abinadi? And
was he not a holy prophet? Did he not speak the words of God, and
my father Alma believe them?
 
Alma 5:12 And according to his faith there was a mighty change
wrought in his heart. Behold I say unto you that this is all
true.
 
Alma 5:13 And behold, he preached the word unto your fathers, and
a mighty change was also wrought in their hearts, and they
humbled themselves and put their trust in the true and living
God. And behold, they were faithful until the end; therefore they
were saved.
 
Alma 5:14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the
church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received
his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty
change in your hearts?
 
Alma 5:15 Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who
created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view
this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption
raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged
according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?
 
Alma 5:16 I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye
hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come
unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of
righteousness upon the face of the earth?
 
Alma 5:17 Or do ye imagine to yourselves that ye can lie unto the
Lord in that day, and say--Lord, our works have been righteous
works upon the face of the earth--and that he will save you?
 
Alma 5:18 Or otherwise, can ye imagine yourselves brought before
the tribunal of God with your souls filled with guilt and
remorse, having a remembrance of all your guilt, yea, a perfect
remembrance of all your wickedness, yea, a remembrance that ye
have set at defiance the commandments of God?
 
Alma 5:19 I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with
a pure heart and clean hands? I say unto you, can you look up,
having the image of God engraven upon your countenances?
 
Alma 5:20 I say unto you, can ye think of being saved when you
have yielded yourselves to become subjects to the devil?
 
Alma 5:21 I say unto you, ye will know at that day that ye cannot
be saved; for there can no man be saved except his garments are
washed white; yea, his garments must be purified until they are
cleansed from all stain, through the blood of him of whom it has
been spoken by our fathers, who should come to redeem his people
from their sins.
 
Alma 5:22 And now I ask of you, my brethren, how will any of you
feel, if ye shall stand before the bar of God, having your
garments stained with blood and all manner of filthiness? Behold,
what will these things testify against you?
 
Alma 5:23 Behold will they not testify that ye are murderers,
yea, and also that ye are guilty of all manner of wickedness?
 
Alma 5:24 Behold, my brethren, do ye suppose that such an one can
have a place to sit down in the kingdom of God, with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob, and also all the holy prophets, whose
garments are cleansed and are spotless, pure and white?
 
Alma 5:25 I say unto you, Nay; except ye make our Creator a liar
from the beginning, or suppose that he is a liar from the
beginning, ye cannot suppose that such can have place in the
kingdom of heaven; but they shall be cast out for they are the
children of the kingdom of the devil.
 
Alma 5:26 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have
experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the
song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?
 
Alma 5:27 Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before
God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within
yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your
garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of
Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?
 
Alma 5:28 Behold, are ye stripped of pride? I say unto you, if ye
are not ye are not prepared to meet God. Behold ye must prepare
quickly; for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand, and such an
one hath not eternal life.
 
Alma 5:29 Behold, I say, is there one among you who is not
stripped of envy? I say unto you that such an one is not
prepared; and I would that he should prepare quickly, for the
hour is close at hand, and he knoweth not when the time shall
come; for such an one is not found guiltless.
 
Alma 5:30 And again I say unto you, is there one among you that
doth make a mock of his brother, or that heapeth upon him
persecutions?
 
Alma 5:31 Wo unto such an one, for he is not prepared, and the
time is at hand that he must repent or he cannot be saved!
 
Alma 5:32 Yea, even wo unto all ye workers of iniquity; repent,
repent, for the Lord God hath spoken it!
 
Alma 5:33 Behold, he sendeth an invitation unto all men, for the
arms of mercy are extended towards them, and he saith: Repent,
and I will receive you.
 
Alma 5:34 Yea, he saith: Come unto me and ye shall partake of the
fruit of the tree of life; yea, ye shall eat and drink of the
bread and the waters of life freely;
 
Alma 5:35 Yea, come unto me and bring forth works of
righteousness, and ye shall not be hewn down and cast into the
fire--
 
Alma 5:36 For behold, the time is at hand that whosoever bringeth
forth not good fruit, or whosoever doeth not the works of
righteousness, the same have cause to wail and mourn.
 
Alma 5:37 O ye workers of iniquity; ye that are puffed up in the
vain things of the world, ye that have professed to have known
the ways of righteousness nevertheless have gone astray, as sheep
having no shepherd, notwithstanding a shepherd hath called after
you and is still calling after you, but ye will not hearken unto
his voice!
 
Alma 5:38 Behold, I say unto you, that the good shepherd doth
call you; yea, and in his own name he doth call you, which is the
name of Christ; and if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the
good shepherd, to the name by which ye are called, behold, ye are
not the sheep of the good shepherd.
 
Alma 5:39 And now if ye are not the sheep of the good shepherd,
of what fold are ye? Behold, I say unto you, that the devil is
your shepherd, and ye are of his fold; and now, who can deny
this? Behold, I say unto you, whosoever denieth this is a liar
and a child of the devil.
 
Alma 5:40 For I say unto you that whatsoever is good cometh from
God, and whatsoever is evil cometh from the devil.
 
Alma 5:41 Therefore, if a man bringeth forth good works he
hearkeneth unto the voice of the good shepherd, and he doth
follow him; but whosoever bringeth forth evil works, the same
becometh a child of the devil, for he hearkeneth unto his voice,
and doth follow him.
 
Alma 5:42 And whosoever doeth this must receive his wages of him;
therefore, for his wages he receiveth death, as to things
pertaining unto righteousness, being dead unto all good works.
 
Alma 5:43 And now, my brethren, I would that ye should hear me,
for I speak in the energy of my soul; for behold, I have spoken
unto you plainly that ye cannot err, or have spoken according to
the commandments of God.
 
Alma 5:44 For I am called to speak after this manner, according
to the holy order of God, which is in Christ Jesus; yea, I am
commanded to stand and testify unto this people the things which
have been spoken by our fathers concerning the things which are
to come.
 
Alma 5:45 And this is not all. Do ye not suppose that I know of
these things myself? Behold, I testify unto you that I do know
that these things whereof I have spoken are true. And how do ye
suppose that I know of their surety?
 
Alma 5:46 Behold, I say unto you they are made known unto me by
the Holy Spirit of God. Behold, I have fasted and prayed many
days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know
of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them
manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit of
revelation which is in me.
 
Alma 5:47 And moreover, I say unto you that it has thus been
revealed unto me, that the words which have been spoken by our
fathers are true, even so according to the spirit of prophecy
which is in me, which is also by the manifestation of the Spirit
of God.
 
Alma 5:48 I say unto you, that I know of myself that whatsoever I
shall say unto you, concerning that which is to come, is true;
and I say unto you, that I know that Jesus Christ shall come,
yea, the Son, the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, and
mercy, and truth. And behold, it is he that cometh to take away
the sins of the world, yea, the sins of every man who steadfastly
believeth on his name.
 
Alma 5:49 And now I say unto you that this is the order after
which I am called, yea, to preach unto my beloved brethren, yea,
and every one that dwelleth in the land; yea, to preach unto all,
both old and young, both bond and free; yea, I say unto you the
aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation; yea,
to cry unto them that they must repent and be born again.
 
Alma 5:50 Yea, thus saith the Spirit: Repent, all ye ends of the
earth, for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand; yea, the Son of
God cometh in his glory, in his might, majesty, power, and
dominion. Yea, my beloved brethren, I say unto you, that the
Spirit saith: Behold the glory of the King of all the earth; and
also the King of heaven shall very soon shine forth among all the
children of men.
 
Alma 5:51 And also the Spirit saith unto me, yea, crieth unto me
with a mighty voice, saying: Go forth and say unto this people--
Repent, for except ye repent ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom
of heaven.
 
Alma 5:52 And again I say unto you, the Spirit saith: Behold, the
ax is laid at the root of the tree; therefore every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into
the fire, yea, a fire which cannot be consumed, even an
unquenchable fire. Behold, and remember, the Holy One hath spoken
it.
 
Alma 5:53 And now my beloved brethren, I say unto you, can ye
withstand these sayings; yea, can ye lay aside these things, and
trample the Holy One under your feet; yea, can ye be puffed up in
the pride of your hearts; yea, will ye still persist in the
wearing of costly apparel and setting your hearts upon the vain
things of the world, upon your riches?
 
Alma 5:54 Yea, will ye persist in supposing that ye are better
one than another; yea, will ye persist in the persecution of your
brethren, who humble themselves and do walk after the holy order
of God, wherewith they have been brought into this church, having
been sanctified by the Holy Spirit, and they do bring forth works
which are meet for repentance--
 
Alma 5:55 Yea, and will you persist in turning your backs upon
the poor, and the needy, and in withholding your substance from
them?
 
Alma 5:56 And finally, all ye that will persist in your
wickedness, I say unto you that these are they who shall be hewn
down and cast into the fire except they speedily repent.
 
Alma 5:57 And now I say unto you, all you that are desirous to
follow the voice of the good shepherd, come ye out from the
wicked, and be ye separate, and touch not their unclean things;
and behold, their names shall be blotted out, that the names of
the wicked shall not be numbered among the names of the
righteous, that the word of God may be fulfilled, which saith:
The names of the wicked shall not be mingled with the names of my
people;
 
Alma 5:58 For the names of the righteous shall be written in the
book of life, and unto them will I grant an inheritance at my
right hand. And now, my brethren, what have ye to say against
this? I say unto you, if ye speak against it, it matters not, for
the word of God must be fulfilled.
 
Alma 5:59 For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep
doth not watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour
his flock? And behold, if a wolf enter his flock doth he not
drive him out? Yea, and at the last, if he can, he will destroy
him.
 
Alma 5:60 And now I say unto you that the good shepherd doth call
after you; and if you will hearken unto his voice he will bring
you into his fold, and ye are his sheep; and he commandeth you
that ye suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among you, that ye may
not be destroyed.
 
Alma 5:61 And now I, Alma, do command you in the language of him
who hath commanded me, that ye observe to do the words which I
have spoken unto you.
 
Alma 5:62 I speak by way of command unto you that belong to the
church; and unto those who do not belong to the church I speak by
way of invitation, saying: Come and be baptized unto repentance,
that ye also may be partakers of the fruit of the tree of life.
 
Alma 6:0 The reform movement, begun in Zarahemla, is carried to
the city of Gideon.
 
Alma 6:1 And now it came to pass that after Alma had made an end
of speaking unto the people of the church, which was established
in the city of Zarahemla, he ordained priests and elders, by
laying on his hands according to the order of God, to preside and
watch over the church.
 
Alma 6:2 And it came to pass that whosoever did not belong to the
church who repented of their sins were baptized unto repentance,
and were received into the church.
 
Alma 6:3 And it also came to pass that whosoever did belong to
the church that did not repent of their wickedness and humble
themselves before God--I mean those who were lifted up in the
pride of their hearts--the same were rejected, and their names
were blotted out, that their names were not numbered among those
of the righteous.
 
Alma 6:4 And thus they began to establish the order of the church
in the city of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 6:5 Now I would that ye should understand that the word of
God was liberal unto all, that none were deprived of the
privilege of assembling themselves together to hear the word of
God.
 
Alma 6:6 Nevertheless the children of God were commanded that
they should gather themselves together oft, and join in fasting
and mighty prayer in behalf of the welfare of the souls of those
who knew not God.
 
Alma 6:7 And now it came to pass that when Alma had made these
regulations he departed from them, yea, from the church which was
in the city of Zarahemla, and went over upon the east of the
river Sidon, into the valley of Gideon, there having been a city
built, which was called the city of Gideon, which was in the
valley that was called Gideon, being called after the man who was
slain by the hand of Nehor with the sword.
 
Alma 6:8 And Alma went and began to declare the word of God unto
the church which was established in the valley of Gideon,
according to the revelation of the truth of the word which had
been spoken by his fathers, and according to the spirit of
prophecy which was in him, according to the testimony of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, who should come to redeem his people from
their sins, and the holy order by which he was called. And thus
it is written. Amen.
 
Alma 7:0 The words of Alma which he delivered to the people in
Gideon, according to his own record--His testimony of the
Redeemer--he commends the people for their righteousness.
 
Alma 7:1 Behold my beloved brethren, seeing that I have been
permitted to come unto you, therefore I attempt to address you in
my language; yea, by my own mouth, seeing that it is the first
time that I have spoken unto you by the words of my mouth, I
having been wholly confined to the judgment-seat, having had much
business that I could not come unto you.
 
Alma 7:2 And even I could not have come now at this time were it
not that the judgment-seat hath been given to another, to reign
in my stead; and the Lord in much mercy hath granted that I
should come unto you.
 
Alma 7:3 And behold, I have come having great hopes and much
desire that I should find that ye had humbled yourselves before
God, and that ye had continued in the supplicating of his grace,
that I should find that ye were blameless before him, that I
should find that ye were not in the awful dilemma that our
brethren were in at Zarahemla.
 
Alma 7:4 But blessed be the name of God, that he hath given me to
know, yea, hath given unto me the exceedingly great joy of
knowing that they are established again in the way of his
righteousness.
 
Alma 7:5 And I trust, according to the Spirit of God which is in
me, that I shall also have joy over you; nevertheless I do not
desire that my joy over you should come by the cause of so much
afflictions and sorrow which I have had for the brethren at
Zarahemla, for behold, my joy cometh over them after wading
through much affliction and sorrow.
 
Alma 7:6 But behold, I trust that ye are not in a state of so
much unbelief as were your brethren; I trust that ye are not
lifted up in the pride of your hearts; yea, I trust that ye have
not set your hearts upon riches and the vain things of the world;
yea, I trust that you do not worship idols, but that ye do
worship the true and the living God, and that ye look forward for
the remission of your sins, with an everlasting faith, which is
to come.
 
Alma 7:7 For behold, I say unto you there be many things to come;
and behold, there is one thing which is of more importance than
they all--for behold, the time is not far distant that the
Redeemer liveth and cometh among his people.
 
Alma 7:8 Behold, I do not say that he will come among us at the
time of his dwelling in his mortal tabernacle; for behold, the
Spirit hath not said unto me that this should be the case. Now as
to this thing I do not know; but this much I do know, that the
Lord God hath power to do all things which are according to his
word.
 
Alma 7:9 But behold, the Spirit hath said this much unto me,
saying: Cry unto this people, saying--Repent ye, and prepare the
way of the Lord, and walk in his paths, which are straight; for
behold, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and the Son of God
cometh upon the face of the earth.
 
Alma 7:10 And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem
which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a
precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and
conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son,
yea, even the Son of God.
 
Alma 7:11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions
and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be
fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the
sicknesses of his people.
 
Alma 7:12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the
bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him
their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy,
according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh
how to succor his people according to their infirmities.
 
Alma 7:13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son
of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon
him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their
transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now
behold, this is the testimony which is in me.
 
Alma 7:14 Now I say unto you that ye must repent, and be born
again; for the Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye cannot
inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore come and be baptized
unto repentance, that ye may be washed from your sins, that ye
may have faith on the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of
the world, who is mighty to save and to cleanse from all
unrighteousness.
 
Alma 7:15 Yea, I say unto you come and fear not, and lay aside
every sin, which easily doth beset you, which doth bind you down
to destruction, yea, come and go forth, and show unto your God
that ye are willing to repent of your sins and enter into a
covenant with him to keep his commandments, and witness it unto
him this day by going into the waters of baptism.
 
Alma 7:16 And whosoever doeth this, and keepeth the commandments
of God from thenceforth, the same will remember that I say unto
him, yea, he will remember that I have said unto him, he shall
have eternal life, according to the testimony of the Holy Spirit,
which testifieth in me.
 
Alma 7:17 And now my beloved brethren, do you believe these
things? Behold, I say unto you, yea, I know that ye believe them;
and the way that I know that ye believe them is by the
manifestation of the Spirit which is in me. And now because your
faith is strong concerning that, yea, concerning the things which
I have spoken, great is my joy.
 
Alma 7:18 For as I said unto you from the beginning, that I had
much desire that ye were not in the state of dilemma like your
brethren, even so I have found that my desires have been
gratified.
 
Alma 7:19 For I perceive that ye are in the paths of
righteousness; I perceive that ye are in the path which leads to
the kingdom of God; yea, I perceive that ye are making his paths
straight.
 
Alma 7:20 I perceive that it has been made known unto you, by the
testimony of his word, that he cannot walk in crooked paths;
neither doth he vary from that which he hath said; neither hath
he a shadow of turning from the right to the left, or from that
which is right to that which is wrong; therefore, his course is
one eternal round.
 
Alma 7:21 And he doth not dwell in unholy temples; neither can
filthiness or anything which is unclean be received into the
kingdom of God; therefore I say unto you the time shall come,
yea, and it shall be at the last day, that he who is filthy shall
remain in his filthiness.
 
Alma 7:22 And now my beloved brethren, I have said these things
unto you that I might awaken you to a sense of your duty to God,
that ye may walk blameless before him, that ye may walk after the
holy order of God, after which ye have been received.
 
Alma 7:23 And now I would that ye should be humble, and be
submissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and
long-suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in
keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for
whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal;
always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do
receive.
 
Alma 7:24 And see that ye have faith, hope, and charity, and then
ye will always abound in good works.
 
Alma 7:25 And may the Lord bless you, and keep your garments
spotless, that ye may at last be brought to sit down with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the holy prophets who have been
ever since the world began, having your garments spotless even as
their garments are spotless, in the kingdom of heaven to go no
more out.
 
Alma 7:26 And now my beloved brethren, I have spoken these words
unto you according to the Spirit which testifieth in me; and my
soul doth exceedingly rejoice, because of the exceeding diligence
and heed which ye have given unto my word.
 
Alma 7:27 And now, may the peace of God rest upon you, and upon
your houses and lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and all
that you possess, your women and your children, according to your
faith and good works, from this time forth and forever. And thus
I have spoken. Amen.
 
Alma 8:0 Alma's success in Melek--The people of Ammonihah cast
him out--Comforted by an angel, he returns--Amulek joins him in
the ministry--Great power given.
 
Alma 8:1 And now it came to pass that Alma returned from the land
of Gideon, after having taught the people of Gideon many things
which cannot be written, having established the order of the
church, according as he had before done in the land of Zarahemla,
yea, he returned to his own house at Zarahemla to rest himself
from the labors which he had performed.
 
Alma 8:2 And thus ended the ninth year of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 8:3 And it came to pass in the commencement of the tenth
year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, that
Alma departed from thence and took his journey over into the land
of Melek, on the west of the river Sidon, on the west by the
borders of the wilderness.
 
Alma 8:4 And he began to teach the people in the land of Melek
according to the holy order of God, by which he had been called;
and he began to teach the people throughout all the land of
Melek.
 
Alma 8:5 And it came to pass that the people came to him
throughout all the borders of the land which was by the
wilderness side. And they were baptized throughout all the land;
 
Alma 8:6 So that when he had finished his work at Melek he
departed thence, and traveled three days' journey on the north of
the land of Melek; and he came to a city which was called
Ammonihah.
 
Alma 8:7 Now it was the custom of the people of Nephi to call
their lands, and their cities, and their villages, yea, even all
their small villages, after the name of him who first possessed
them; and thus it was with the land of Ammonihah.
 
Alma 8:8 And it came to pass that when Alma had come to the city
of Ammonihah he began to preach the word of God unto them.
 
Alma 8:9 Now Satan had gotten great hold upon the hearts of the
people of the city of Ammonihah; therefore they would not hearken
unto the words of Alma.
 
Alma 8:10 Nevertheless Alma labored much in the spirit, wrestling
with God in mighty prayer, that he would pour out his Spirit upon
the people who were in the city; that he would also grant that he
might baptize them unto repentance.
 
Alma 8:11 Nevertheless, they hardened their hearts, saying unto
him: Behold, we know that thou art Alma; and we know that thou
art high priest over the church which thou hast established in
many parts of the land, according to your tradition; and we are
not of thy church, and we do not believe in such foolish
traditions.
 
Alma 8:12 And now we know that because we are not of thy church
we know that thou hast no power over us; and thou hast delivered
up the judgment-seat unto Nephihah; therefore thou art not the
chief judge over us.
 
Alma 8:13 Now when the people had said this, and withstood all
his words, and reviled him, and spit upon him, and caused that he
should be cast out of their city, he departed thence and took his
journey towards the city which was called Aaron.
 
Alma 8:14 And it came to pass that while he was journeying
thither, being weighed down with sorrow, wading through much
tribulation and anguish of soul, because of the wickedness of the
people who were in the city of Ammonihah, it came to pass while
Alma was thus weighed down with sorrow, behold an angel of the
Lord appeared unto him, saying:
 
Alma 8:15 Blessed art thou, Alma; therefore, lift up thy head and
rejoice, for thou hast great cause to rejoice; for thou hast been
faithful in keeping the commandments of God from the time which
thou receivedst thy first message from him. Behold, I am he that
delivered it unto you.
 
Alma 8:16 And behold, I am sent to command thee that thou return
to the city of Ammonihah, and preach again unto the people of the
city; yea, preach unto them. Yea, say unto them, except they
repent the Lord God will destroy them.
 
Alma 8:17 For behold, they do study at this time that they may
destroy the liberty of thy people, (for thus saith the Lord)
which is contrary to the statutes, and judgments, and
commandments which he has given unto his people.
 
Alma 8:18 Now it came to pass that after Alma had received his
message from the angel of the Lord he returned speedily to the
land of Ammonihah. And he entered the city by another way, yea,
by the way which is on the south of the city of Ammonihah.
 
Alma 8:19 And as he entered the city he was an hungered, and he
said to a man: Will ye give to an humble servant of God something
to eat?
 
Alma 8:20 And the man said unto him: I am a Nephite, and I know
that thou art a holy prophet of God, for thou art the man whom an
angel said in a vision: Thou shalt receive. Therefore, go with me
into my house and I will impart unto thee of my food; and I know
that thou wilt be a blessing unto me and my house.
 
Alma 8:21 And it came to pass that the man received him into his
house; and the man was called Amulek; and he brought forth bread
and meat and set before Alma.
 
Alma 8:22 And it came to pass that Alma ate bread and was filled;
and he blessed Amulek and his house, and he gave thanks unto God.
 
Alma 8:23 And after he had eaten and was filled he said unto
Amulek: I am Alma, and am the high priest over the church of God
throughout the land.
 
Alma 8:24 And behold, I have been called to preach the word of
God among all this people, according to the spirit of revelation
and prophecy; and I was in this land and they would not receive
me, but they cast me out and I was about to set my back towards
this land forever.
 
Alma 8:25 But behold, I have been commanded that I should turn
again and prophesy unto this people, yea, and to testify against
them concerning their iniquities.
 
Alma 8:26 And now, Amulek, because thou hast fed me and taken me
in, thou art blessed; for I was an hungered, for I had fasted
many days.
 
Alma 8:27 And Alma tarried many days with Amulek before he began
to preach unto the people.
 
Alma 8:28 And it came to pass that the people did wax more gross
in their iniquities.
 
Alma 8:29 And the word came to Alma, saying: Go; and also say
unto my servant Amulek, go forth and prophesy unto this people,
saying--Repent ye, for thus saith the Lord, except ye repent I
will visit this people in mine anger; yea, and I will not turn my
fierce anger away.
 
Alma 8:30 And Alma went forth, and also Amulek, among the people,
to declare the words of God unto them; and they were filled with
the Holy Ghost.
 
Alma 8:31 And they had power given unto them, insomuch that they
could not be confined in dungeons; neither was it possible that
any man could slay them; nevertheless they did not exercise their
power until they were bound in bands and cast into prison. Now,
this was done that the Lord might show forth his power in them.
 
Alma 8:32 And it came to pass that they went forth and began to
preach and to prophesy unto the people, according to the spirit
and power which the Lord had given them.
 
Alma 9:00 The words of Alma, and also the words of Amulek, which
were declared unto the people who were in the land of Ammonihah.
And also they are cast into prison, and delivered by the
miraculous power of God which was in them, according to the
record of Alma. Comprising chapters 9 to 14 inclusive.
 
Alma 9:0 Alma preaches to the people of Ammonihah and calls them
to repentance--His testimony rejected.
 
Alma 9:1 And again, I, Alma, having been commanded of God that I
should take Amulek and go forth and preach again unto this
people, or the people who were in the city of Ammonihah, it came
to pass as I began to preach unto them, they began to contend
with me, saying:
 
Alma 9:2 Who art thou? Suppose ye that we shall believe the
testimony of one man, although he should preach unto us that the
earth should pass away?
 
Alma 9:3 Now they understood not the words which they spake; for
they knew not that the earth should pass away.
 
Alma 9:4 And they said also: We will not believe thy words if
thou shouldst prophesy that this great city should be destroyed
in one day.
 
Alma 9:5 Now they knew not that God could do such marvelous
works, for they were a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.
 
Alma 9:6 And they said: Who is God, that sendeth no more
authority than one man among this people, to declare unto them
the truth of such great and marvelous things?
 
Alma 9:7 And they stood forth to lay their hands on me; but
behold, they did not. And I stood with boldness to declare unto
them, yea, I did boldly testify unto them, saying:
 
Alma 9:8 Behold, O ye wicked and perverse generation, how have ye
forgotten the tradition of your fathers; yea, how soon ye have
forgotten the commandments of God.
 
Alma 9:9 Do ye not remember that our father, Lehi, was brought
out of Jerusalem by the hand of God? Do ye not remember that they
were all led by him through the wilderness?
 
Alma 9:10 And have ye forgotten so soon how many times he
delivered our fathers out of the hands of their enemies, and
preserved them from being destroyed, even by the hands of their
own brethren?
 
Alma 9:11 Yea, and if it had not been for his matchless power,
and his mercy, and his long-suffering towards us, we should
unavoidably have been cut off from the face of the earth long
before this period of time, and perhaps been consigned to a state
of endless misery and woe.
 
Alma 9:12 Behold, now I say unto you that he commandeth you to
repent; and except ye repent, ye can in nowise inherit the
kingdom of God. But behold, this is not all--he has commanded you
to repent, or he will utterly destroy you from off the face of
the earth; yea, he will visit you in his anger, and in his fierce
anger he will not turn away.
 
Alma 9:13 Behold, do ye not remember the words which he spake
unto Lehi, saying that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my
commandments, ye shall prosper in the land? And again it is said
that: Inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be
cut off from the presence of the Lord.
 
Alma 9:14 Now I would that ye should remember, that inasmuch as
the Lamanites have not kept the commandments of God, they have
been cut off from the presence of the Lord. Now we see that the
word of the Lord has been verified in this thing, and the
Lamanites have been cut off from his presence, from the beginning
of their transgressions in the land.
 
Alma 9:15 Nevertheless I say unto you, that it shall be more
tolerable for them in the day of judgment than for you, if ye
remain in your sins, yea, and even more tolerable for them in
this life than for you, except ye repent.
 
Alma 9:16 For there are many promises which are extended to the
Lamanites; for it is because of the traditions of their fathers
that caused them to remain in their state of ignorance; therefore
the Lord will be merciful unto them and prolong their existence
in the land.
 
Alma 9:17 And at some period of time they will be brought to
believe in his word, and to know of the incorrectness of the
traditions of their fathers; and many of them will be saved, for
the Lord will be merciful unto all who call on his name.
 
Alma 9:18 But behold, I say unto you that if ye persist in your
wickedness that your days shall not be prolonged in the land, for
the Lamanites shall be sent upon you; and if ye repent not they
shall come in a time when you know not, and ye shall be visited
with utter destruction; and it shall be according to the fierce
anger of the Lord.
 
Alma 9:19 For he will not suffer you that ye shall live in your
iniquities, to destroy his people. I say unto you, Nay; he would
rather suffer that the Lamanites might destroy all his people who
are called the people of Nephi, if it were possible that they
could fall into sins and transgressions, after having had so much
light and so much knowledge given unto them of the Lord their
God;
 
Alma 9:20 Yea, after having been such a highly favored people of
the Lord; yea, after having been favored above every other
nation, kindred, tongue, or people; after having had all things
made known unto them, according to their desires, and their
faith, and prayers, of that which has been, and which is, and
which is to come;
 
Alma 9:21 Having been visited by the Spirit of God; having
conversed with angels, and having been spoken unto by the voice
of the Lord; and having the spirit of prophecy, and the spirit of
revelation, and also many gifts, the gift of speaking with
tongues, and the gift of preaching, and the gift of the Holy
Ghost, and the gift of translation;
 
Alma 9:22 Yea, and after having been delivered of God out of the
land of Jerusalem, by the hand of the Lord; having been saved
from famine, and from sickness, and all manner of diseases of
every kind; and they having waxed strong in battle, that they
might not be destroyed; having been brought out of bondage time
after time, and having been kept and preserved until now; and
they have been prospered until they are rich in all manner of
things--
 
Alma 9:23 And now behold I say unto you, that if this people, who
have received so many blessings from the hand of the Lord, should
transgress contrary to the light and knowledge which they do
have, I say unto you that if this be the case, that if they
should fall into transgression, it would be far more tolerable
for the Lamanites than for them.
 
Alma 9:24 For behold, the promises of the Lord are extended to
the Lamanites, but they are not unto you if ye transgress; for
has not the Lord expressly promised and firmly decreed, that if
ye will rebel against him that ye shall utterly be destroyed from
off the face of the earth?
 
Alma 9:25 And now for this cause, that ye may not be destroyed,
the Lord has sent his angel to visit many of his people,
declaring unto them that they must go forth and cry mightily unto
this people, saying: Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is nigh
at hand;
 
Alma 9:26 And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in
his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten
of the Father, full of grace, equity, and truth, full of
patience, mercy, and long-suffering, quick to hear the cries of
his people and to answer their prayers.
 
Alma 9:27 And behold, he cometh to redeem those who will be
baptized unto repentance, through faith on his name.
 
Alma 9:28 Therefore, prepare ye the way of the Lord, for the time
is at hand that all men shall reap a reward of their works,
according to that which they have been--if they have been
righteous they shall reap the salvation of their souls, according
to the power and deliverance of Jesus Christ; and if they have
been evil they shall reap the damnation of their souls, according
to the power and captivation of the devil.
 
Alma 9:29 Now behold, this is the voice of the angel, crying unto
the people.
 
Alma 9:30 And now, my beloved brethren, for ye are my brethren,
and ye ought to be beloved, and ye ought to bring forth works
which are meet for repentance, seeing that your hearts have been
grossly hardened against the word of God, and seeing that ye are
a lost and a fallen people.
 
Alma 9:31 Now it came to pass that when I, Alma, had spoken these
words, behold, the people were wroth with me because I said unto
them that they were a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.
 
Alma 9:32 And also because I said unto them that they were a lost
and a fallen people they were angry with me, and sought to lay
their hands upon me, that they might cast me into prison.
 
Alma 9:33 But it came to pass that the Lord did not suffer them
that they should take me at that time and cast me into prison.
 
Alma 9:34 And it came to pass that Amulek went and stood forth,
and began to preach unto them also. And now the words of Amulek
are not all written, nevertheless a part of his words are written
in this book.
 
Alma 10:0 Amulek's lineage--Lehi a descendant of Joseph through
Manasseh--Amulek tells of his conversion--His testimony--He
denounces designing lawyers and judges--Zeezrom.
 
Alma 10:1 Now these are the words which Amulek preached unto the
people who were in the land of Ammonihah, saying:
 
Alma 10:2 I am Amulek; I am the son of Giddonah, who was the son
of Ishmael, who was a descendant of Aminadi; and it was that same
Aminadi who interpreted the writing which was upon the wall of
the temple, which was written by the finger of God.
 
Alma 10:3 And Aminadi was a descendant of Nephi, who was the son
of Lehi, who came out of the land of Jerusalem, who was a
descendant of Manasseh, who was the son of Joseph who was sold
into Egypt by the hands of his brethren.
 
Alma 10:4 And behold, I am also a man of no small reputation
among all those who know me; yea, and behold, I have many
kindreds and friends, and I have also acquired much riches by the
hand of my industry.
 
Alma 10:5 Nevertheless, after all this, I never have known much
of the ways of the Lord, and his mysteries and marvelous power. I
said I never had known much of these things; but behold, I
mistake, for I have seen much of his mysteries and his marvelous
power; yea, even in the preservation of the lives of this people.
 
Alma 10:6 Nevertheless, I did harden my heart, for I was called
many times and I would not hear; therefore I knew concerning
these things, yet I would not know; therefore I went on rebelling
against God, in the wickedness of my heart, even until the fourth
day of this seventh month, which is in the tenth year of the
reign of the judges.
 
Alma 10:7 As I was journeying to see a very near kindred, behold
an angel of the Lord appeared unto me and said: Amulek, return to
thine own house, for thou shalt feed a prophet of the Lord; yea,
a holy man, who is a chosen man of God; for he has fasted many
days because of the sins of this people, and he is an hungered,
and thou shalt receive him into thy house and feed him, and he
shall bless thee and thy house; and the blessing of the Lord
shall rest upon thee and thy house.
 
Alma 10:8 And it came to pass that I obeyed the voice of the
angel, and returned towards my house. And as I was going thither
I found the man whom the angel said unto me: Thou shalt receive
into thy house--and behold it was this same man who has been
speaking unto you concerning the things of God.
 
Alma 10:9 And the angel said unto me he is a holy man; wherefore
I know he is a holy man because it was said by an angel of God.
 
Alma 10:10 And again, I know that the things whereof he hath
testified are true; for behold I say unto you, that as the Lord
liveth, even so has he sent his angel to make these things
manifest unto me; and this he has done while this Alma hath dwelt
at my house.
 
Alma 10:11 For behold, he hath blessed mine house, he hath
blessed me, and my women, and my children, and my father and my
kinsfolk; yea, even all my kindred hath he blessed, and the
blessing of the Lord hath rested upon us according to the words
which he spake.
 
Alma 10:12 And now, when Amulek had spoken these words the people
began to be astonished, seeing there was more than one witness
who testified of the things whereof they were accused, and also
of the things which were to come, according to the spirit of
prophecy which was in them.
 
Alma 10:13 Nevertheless, there were some among them who thought
to question them, that by their cunning devices they might catch
them in their words, that they might find witness against them,
that they might deliver them to their judges that they might be
judged according to the law, and that they might be slain or cast
into prison, according to the crime which they could make appear
or witness against them.
 
Alma 10:14 Now it was those men who sought to destroy them, who
were lawyers, who were hired or appointed by the people to
administer the law at their times of trials, or at the trials of
the crimes of the people before the judges.
 
Alma 10:15 Now these lawyers were learned in all the arts and
cunning of the people; and this was to enable them that they
might be skilful in their profession.
 
Alma 10:16 And it came to pass that they began to question
Amulek, that thereby they might make him cross his words, or
contradict the words which he should speak.
 
Alma 10:17 Now they knew not that Amulek could know of their
designs. But it came to pass as they began to question him, he
perceived their thoughts, and he said unto them: O ye wicked and
perverse generation, ye lawyers and hypocrites, for ye are laying
the foundations of the devil; for ye are laying traps and snares
to catch the holy ones of God.
 
Alma 10:18 Ye are laying plans to pervert the ways of the
righteous, and to bring down the wrath of God upon your heads,
even to the utter destruction of this people.
 
Alma 10:19 Yea, well did Mosiah say, who was our last king, when
he was about to deliver up the kingdom, having no one to confer
it upon, causing that this people should be governed by their own
voices--yea, well did he say that if the time should come that
the voice of this people should choose iniquity, that is, if the
time should come that this people should fall into transgression,
they would be ripe for destruction.
 
Alma 10:20 And now I say unto you that well doth the Lord judge
of your iniquities; well doth he cry unto this people, by the
voice of his angels: Repent ye, repent, for the kingdom of heaven
is at hand.
 
Alma 10:21 Yea, well doth he cry, by the voice of his angels
that: I will come down among my people, with equity and justice
in my hands.
 
Alma 10:22 Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the
prayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would
even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be
by flood, as were the people in the days of Noah, but it would be
by famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.
 
Alma 10:23 But it is by the prayers of the righteous that ye are
spared; now therefore, if ye will cast out the righteous from
among you then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce
anger he will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by
famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the time is soon
at hand except ye repent.
 
Alma 10:24 And now it came to pass that the people were more
angry with Amulek, and they cried out, saying: This man doth
revile against our laws which are just, and our wise lawyers whom
we have selected.
 
Alma 10:25 But Amulek stretched forth his hand, and cried the
mightier unto them, saying: O ye wicked and perverse generation,
why hath Satan got such great hold upon your hearts? Why will ye
yield yourselves unto him that he may have power over you, to
blind your eyes, that ye will not understand the words which are
spoken, according to their truth?
 
Alma 10:26 For behold, have I testified against your law? Ye do
not understand; ye say that I have spoken against your law; but I
have not, but I have spoken in favor of your law, to your
condemnation.
 
Alma 10:27 And now behold, I say unto you, that the foundation of
the destruction of this people is beginning to be laid by the
unrighteousness of your lawyers and your judges.
 
Alma 10:28 And now it came to pass that when Amulek had spoken
these words the people cried out against him, saying: Now we know
that this man is a child of the devil, for he hath lied unto us;
for he hath spoken against our law. And now he says that he has
not spoken against it.
 
Alma 10:29 And again, he has reviled against our lawyers, and our
judges.
 
Alma 10:30 And it came to pass that the lawyers put it into their
hearts that they should remember these things against him.
 
Alma 10:31 And there was one among them whose name was Zeezrom.
Now he was the foremost to accuse Amulek and Alma, he being one
of the most expert among them, having much business to do among
the people.
 
Alma 10:32 Now the object of these lawyers was to get gain; and
they got gain according to their employ.
 
Alma 11:0 Judges and their compensation--Nephite coins and
measures--Zeezrom confounded by Amulek.
 
Alma 11:1 Now it was in the law of Mosiah that every man who was
a judge of the law, or those who were appointed to be judges,
should receive wages according to the time which they labored to
judge those who were brought before them to be judged.
 
Alma 11:2 Now if a man owed another, and he would not pay that
which he did owe, he was complained of to the judge; and the
judge executed authority, and sent forth officers that the man
should be brought before him; and he judged the man according to
the law and the evidences which were brought against him, and
thus the man was compelled to pay that which he owed, or be
stripped, or be cast out from among the people as a thief and a
robber.
 
Alma 11:3 And the judge received for his wages according to his
time--a senine of gold for a day, or a senum of silver, which is
equal to a senine of gold; and this is according to the law which
was given.
 
Alma 11:4 Now these are the names of the different pieces of
their gold, and of their silver, according to their value. And
the names are given by the Nephites, for they did not reckon
after the manner of the Jews who were at Jerusalem; neither did
they measure after the manner of the Jews; but they altered their
reckoning and their measure, according to the minds and the
circumstances of the people, in every generation, until the reign
of the judges, they having been established by king Mosiah.
 
Alma 11:5 Now the reckoning is thus--a senine of gold, a seon of
gold, a shum of gold, and a limnah of gold.
 
Alma 11:6 A senum of silver, an amnor of silver, an ezrom of
silver, and an onti of silver.
 
Alma 11:7 A senum of silver was equal to a senine of gold, and
either for a measure of barley, and also for a measure of every
kind of grain.
 
Alma 11:8 Now the amount of a seon of gold was twice the value of
a senine.
 
Alma 11:9 And a shum of gold was twice the value of a seon.
 
Alma 11:10 And a limnah of gold was the value of them all.
 
Alma 11:11 And an amnor of silver was as great as two senums.
 
Alma 11:12 And an ezrom of silver was as great as four senums.
 
Alma 11:13 And an onti was as great as them all.
 
Alma 11:14 Now this is the value of the lesser numbers of their
reckoning--
 
Alma 11:15 A shiblon is half of a senum; therefore, a shiblon for
half a measure of barley.
 
Alma 11:16 And a shiblum is a half of a shiblon.
 
Alma 11:17 And a leah is the half of a shiblum.
 
Alma 11:18 Now this is their number, according to their
reckoning.
 
Alma 11:19 Now an antion of gold is equal to three shiblons.
 
Alma 11:20 Now, it was for the sole purpose to get gain, because
they received their wages according to their employ, therefore,
they did stir up the people to riotings, and all manner of
disturbances and wickedness, that they might have more employ,
that they might get money according to the suits which were
brought before them; therefore they did stir up the people
against Alma and Amulek.
 
Alma 11:21 And this Zeezrom began to question Amulek, saying:
Will ye answer me a few questions which I shall ask you? Now
Zeezrom was a man who was expert in the devices of the devil,
that he might destroy that which was good; therefore, he said
unto Amulek: Will ye answer the questions which I shall put unto
you?
 
Alma 11:22 And Amulek said unto him: Yea, if it be according to
the Spirit of the Lord, which is in me; for I shall say nothing
which is contrary to the Spirit of the Lord. And Zeezrom said
unto him: Behold, here are six onties of silver, and all these
will I give thee if thou wilt deny the existence of a Supreme
Being.
 
Alma 11:23 Now Amulek said: O thou child of hell, why tempt ye
me? Knowest thou that the righteous yieldeth to no such
temptations?
 
Alma 11:24 Believest thou that there is no God? I say unto you,
Nay, thou knowest that there is a God, but thou lovest that lucre
more than him.
 
Alma 11:25 And now thou hast lied before God unto me. Thou saidst
unto me--Behold these six onties, which are of great worth, I
will give unto thee--when thou hadst it in thy heart to retain
them from me; and it was only thy desire that I should deny the
true and living God, that thou mightest have cause to destroy me.
And now behold, for this great evil thou shalt have thy reward.
 
Alma 11:26 And Zeezrom said unto him: Thou sayest there is a true
and living God?
 
Alma 11:27 And Amulek said: Yea, there is a true and living God.
 
Alma 11:28 Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God?
 
Alma 11:29 And he answered, No.
 
Alma 11:30 Now Zeezrom said unto him again: How knowest thou
these things?
 
Alma 11:31 And he said: An angel hath made them known unto me.
 
Alma 11:32 And Zeezrom said again: Who is he that shall come? Is
it the Son of God?
 
Alma 11:33 And he said unto him, Yea.
 
Alma 11:34 And Zeezrom said again: Shall he save his people in
their sins? And Amulek answered and said unto him: I say unto you
he shall not, for it is impossible for him to deny his word.
 
Alma 11:35 Now Zeezrom said unto the people: See that ye remember
these things; for he said there is but one God; yet he saith that
the Son of God shall come, but he shall not save his people--as
though he had authority to command God.
 
Alma 11:36 Now Amulek saith again unto him: Behold thou hast
lied, for thou sayest that I spake as though I had authority to
command God because I said he shall not save his people in their
sins.
 
Alma 11:37 And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in
their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no
unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how
can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven?
Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins.
 
Alma 11:38 Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son of God
the very Eternal Father?
 
Alma 11:39 And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal
Father of heaven and of earth, and all things which in them are;
he is the beginning and the end, the first and the last;
 
Alma 11:40 And he shall come into the world to redeem his people;
and he shall take upon him the transgressions of those who
believe on his name; and these are they that shall have eternal
life, and salvation cometh to none else.
 
Alma 11:41 Therefore the wicked remain as though there had been
no redemption made, except it be the loosing of the bands of
death; for behold, the day cometh that all shall rise from the
dead and stand before God, and be judged according to their
works.
 
Alma 11:42 Now, there is a death which is called a temporal
death; and the death of Christ shall loose the bands of this
temporal death, that all shall be raised from this temporal
death.
 
Alma 11:43 The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its
perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper
frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought
to stand before God, knowing even as we know now, and have a
bright recollection of all our guilt.
 
Alma 11:44 Now, this restoration shall come to all, both old and
young, both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked
and the righteous; and even there shall not so much as a hair of
their heads be lost; but every thing shall be restored to its
perfect frame, as it is now, or in the body, and shall be brought
and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the
Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God, to be
judged according to their works, whether they be good or whether
they be evil.
 
Alma 11:45 Now, behold, I have spoken unto you concerning the
death of the mortal body, and also concerning the resurrection of
the mortal body. I say unto you that this mortal body is raised
to an immortal body, that is from death, even from the first
death unto life, that they can die no more; their spirits uniting
with their bodies, never to be divided; thus the whole becoming
spiritual and immortal, that they can no more see corruption.
 
Alma 11:46 Now, when Amulek had finished these words the people
began again to be astonished, and also Zeezrom began to tremble.
And thus ended the words of Amulek, or this is all that I have
written.
 
Alma 12:0 Amulek's testimony confirmed by Alma--Doctrine of the
tree of life--The plan of redemption expounded.
 
Alma 12:1 Now Alma, seeing that the words of Amulek had silenced
Zeezrom, for he beheld that Amulek had caught him in his lying
and deceiving to destroy him, and seeing that he began to tremble
under a consciousness of his guilt, he opened his mouth and began
to speak unto him, and to establish the words of Amulek, and to
explain things beyond, or to unfold the scriptures beyond that
which Amulek had done.
 
Alma 12:2 Now the words that Alma spake unto Zeezrom were heard
by the people round about; for the multitude was great, and he
spake on this wise:
 
Alma 12:3 Now Zeezrom, seeing that thou hast been taken in thy
lying and craftiness, for thou hast not lied unto men only but
thou hast lied unto God; for behold, he knows all thy thoughts,
and thou seest that thy thoughts are made known unto us by his
Spirit;
 
Alma 12:4 And thou seest that we know that thy plan was a very
subtle plan, as to the subtlety of the devil, for to lie and to
deceive this people that thou mightest set them against us, to
revile us and to cast us out--
 
Alma 12:5 Now this was a plan of thine adversary, and he hath
exercised his power in thee. Now I would that ye should remember
that what I say unto thee I say unto all.
 
Alma 12:6 And behold I say unto you all that this was a snare of
the adversary, which he has laid to catch this people, that he
might bring you into subjection unto him, that he might encircle
you about with his chains, that he might chain you down to
everlasting destruction, according to the power of his captivity.
 
Alma 12:7 Now when Alma had spoken these words, Zeezrom began to
tremble more exceedingly, for he was convinced more and more of
the power of God; and he was also convinced that Alma and Amulek
had a knowledge of him, for he was convinced that they knew the
thoughts and intents of his heart; for power was given unto them
that they might know of these things according to the spirit of
prophecy.
 
Alma 12:8 And Zeezrom began to inquire of them diligently, that
he might know more concerning the kingdom of God. And he said
unto Alma: What does this mean which Amulek hath spoken
concerning the resurrection of the dead, that all shall rise from
the dead, both the just and the unjust, and are brought to stand
before God to be judged according to their works?
 
Alma 12:9 And now Alma began to expound these things unto him,
saying: It is given unto many to know the mysteries of God;
nevertheless they are laid under a strict command that they shall
not impart only according to the portion of his word which he
doth grant unto the children of men, according to the heed and
diligence which they give unto him.
 
Alma 12:10 And therefore, he that will harden his heart, the same
receiveth the lesser portion of the word; and he that will not
harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the
word, until it is given unto him to know the mysteries of God
until he know them in full.
 
Alma 12:11 And they that will harden their hearts, to them is
given the lesser portion of the word until they know nothing
concerning his mysteries; and then they are taken captive by the
devil, and led by his will down to destruction. Now this is what
is meant by the chains of hell.
 
Alma 12:12 And Amulek hath spoken plainly concerning death, and
being raised from this mortality to a state of immortality, and
being brought before the bar of God, to be judged according to
our works.
 
Alma 12:13 Then if our hearts have been hardened, yea, if we have
hardened our hearts against the word, insomuch that it has not
been found in us, then will our state be awful, for then we shall
be condemned.
 
Alma 12:14 For our words will condemn us, yea, all our works will
condemn us; we shall not be found spotless; and our thoughts will
also condemn us; and in this awful state we shall not dare to
look up to our God; and we would fain be glad if we could command
the rocks and the mountains to fall upon us to hide us from his
presence.
 
Alma 12:15 But this cannot be; we must come forth and stand
before him in his glory, and in his power, and in his might,
majesty, and dominion, and acknowledge to our everlasting shame
that all his judgments are just; that he is just in all his
works, and that he is merciful unto the children of men, and that
he has all power to save every man that believeth on his name and
bringeth forth fruit meet for repentance.
 
Alma 12:16 And now behold, I say unto you then cometh a death,
even a second death, which is a spiritual death; then is a time
that whosoever dieth in his sins, as to a temporal death, shall
also die a spiritual death; yea, he shall die as to things
pertaining unto righteousness.
 
Alma 12:17 Then is the time when their torments shall be as a
lake of fire and brimstone, whose flame ascendeth up forever and
ever; and then is the time that they shall be chained down to an
everlasting destruction, according to the power and captivity of
Satan, he having subjected them according to his will.
 
Alma 12:18 Then, I say unto you, they shall be as though there
had been no redemption made; for they cannot be redeemed
according to God's justice; and they cannot die, seeing there is
no more corruption.
 
Alma 12:19 Now it came to pass that when Alma had made an end of
speaking these words, the people began to be more astonished;
 
Alma 12:20 But there was one Antionah, who was a chief ruler
among them, came forth and said unto him: What is this that thou
hast said, that man should rise from the dead and be changed from
this mortal to an immortal state, that the soul can never die?
 
Alma 12:21 What does the scripture mean, which saith that God
placed cherubim and a flaming sword on the east of the garden of
Eden, lest our first parents should enter and partake of the
fruit of the tree of life, and live forever? And thus we see that
there was no possible chance that they should live forever.
 
Alma 12:22 Now Alma said unto him: This is the thing which I was
about to explain. Now we see that Adam did fall by the partaking
of the forbidden fruit, according to the word of God; and thus we
see, that by his fall, all mankind became a lost and fallen
people.
 
Alma 12:23 And now behold, I say unto you that if it had been
possible for Adam to have partaken of the fruit of the tree of
life at that time, there would have been no death, and the word
would have been void, making God a liar, for he said: If thou eat
thou shalt surely die.
 
Alma 12:24 And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the
death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal
death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which
he might repent; therefore this life became a probationary state;
a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless
state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the
resurrection of the dead.
 
Alma 12:25 Now, if it had not been for the plan of redemption,
which was laid from the foundation of the world, there could have
been no resurrection of the dead; but there was a plan of
redemption laid, which shall bring to pass the resurrection of
the dead, of which has been spoken.
 
Alma 12:26 And now behold, if it were possible that our first
parents could have gone forth and partaken of the tree of life
they would have been forever miserable, having no preparatory
state; and thus the plan of redemption would have been
frustrated, and the word of God would have been void, taking none
effect.
 
Alma 12:27 But behold, it was not so; but it was appointed unto
men that they must die; and after death, they must come to
judgment, even that same judgment of which we have spoken, which
is the end.
 
Alma 12:28 And after God had appointed that these things should
come unto man, behold, then he saw that it was expedient that man
should know concerning the things whereof he had appointed unto
them;
 
Alma 12:29 Therefore he sent angels to converse with them, who
caused men to behold of his glory.
 
Alma 12:30 And they began from that time forth to call on his
name; therefore God conversed with men, and made known unto them
the plan of redemption, which had been prepared from the
foundation of the world; and this he made known unto them
according to their faith and repentance and their holy works.
 
Alma 12:31 Wherefore, he gave commandments unto men, they having
first transgressed the first commandments as to things which were
temporal, and becoming as Gods, knowing good from evil, placing
themselves in a state to act, or being placed in a state to act
according to their wills and pleasures, whether to do evil or to
do good--
 
Alma 12:32 Therefore God gave unto them commandments, after
having made known unto them the plan of redemption, that they
should not do evil, the penalty thereof being a second death,
which was an everlasting death as to things pertaining unto
righteousness; for on such the plan of redemption could have no
power, for the works of justice could not be destroyed, according
to the supreme goodness of God.
 
Alma 12:33 But God did call on men, in the name of his Son, (this
being the plan of redemption which was laid) saying: If ye will
repent, and harden not your hearts, then will I have mercy upon
you, through mine Only Begotten Son;
 
Alma 12:34 Therefore, whosoever repenteth, and hardeneth not his
heart, he shall have claim on mercy through mine Only Begotten
Son, unto a remission of his sins; and these shall enter into my
rest.
 
Alma 12:35 And whosoever will harden his heart and will do
iniquity, behold, I swear in my wrath that he shall not enter
into my rest.
 
Alma 12:36 And now, my brethren, behold I say unto you, that if
ye will harden your hearts ye shall not enter into the rest of
the Lord; therefore your iniquity provoketh him that he sendeth
down his wrath upon you as in the first provocation, yea,
according to his word in the last provocation as well as the
first, to the everlasting destruction of your souls; therefore,
according to his word, unto the last death, as well as the first.
 
Alma 12:37 And now, my brethren, seeing we know these things, and
they are true, let us repent, and harden not our hearts, that we
provoke not the Lord our God to pull down his wrath upon us in
these his second commandments which he has given unto us; but let
us enter into the rest of God, which is prepared according to his
word.
 
Alma 13:0 Alma's discourse continued--The holy order of the Son
of God--High Priests--Why ordained--Melchizedek and Abraham.
 
Alma 13:1 And again, my brethren, I would cite your minds forward
to the time when the Lord God gave these commandments unto his
children; and I would that ye should remember that the Lord God
ordained priests, after his holy order, which was after the order
of his Son, to teach these things unto the people.
 
Alma 13:2 And those priests were ordained after the order of his
Son, in a manner that thereby the people might know in what
manner to look forward to his Son for redemption.
 
Alma 13:3 And this is the manner after which they were ordained--
being called and prepared from the foundation of the world
according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their
exceeding faith and good works; in the first place being left to
choose good or evil; therefore they having chosen good, and
exercising exceedingly great faith, are called with a holy
calling, yea, with that holy calling which was prepared with, and
according to, a preparatory redemption for such.
 
Alma 13:4 And thus they have been called to this holy calling on
account of their faith, while others would reject the Spirit of
God on account of the hardness of their hearts and blindness of
their minds, while, if it had not been for this they might have
had as great privilege as their brethren.
 
Alma 13:5 Or in fine, in the first place they were on the same
standing with their brethren; thus this holy calling being
prepared from the foundation of the world for such as would not
harden their hearts, being in and through the atonement of the
Only Begotten Son, who was prepared--
 
Alma 13:6 And thus being called by this holy calling, and
ordained unto the high priesthood of the holy order of God, to
teach his commandments unto the children of men, that they also
might enter into his rest--
 
Alma 13:7 This high priesthood being after the order of his Son,
which order was from the foundation of the world; or in other
words, being without beginning of days or end of years, being
prepared from eternity to all eternity, according to his
foreknowledge of all things--
 
Alma 13:8 Now they were ordained after this manner--being called
with a holy calling, and ordained with a holy ordinance, and
taking upon them the high priesthood of the holy order, which
calling, and ordinance, and high priesthood, is without beginning
or end--
 
Alma 13:9 Thus they become high priests forever, after the order
of the Son, the Only Begotten of the Father, who is without
beginning of days or end of years, who is full of grace, equity,
and truth. And thus it is. Amen.
 
Alma 13:10 Now, as I said concerning the holy order, or this high
priesthood, there were many who were ordained and became high
priests of God; and it was on account of their exceeding faith
and repentance, and their righteousness before God, they choosing
to repent and work righteousness rather than to perish;
 
Alma 13:11 Therefore they were called after this holy order, and
were sanctified, and their garments were washed white through the
blood of the Lamb.
 
Alma 13:12 Now they, after being sanctified by the Holy Ghost,
having their garments made white, being pure and spotless before
God, could not look upon sin save it were with abhorrence; and
there were many, exceedingly great many, who were made pure and
entered into the rest of the Lord their God.
 
Alma 13:13 And now, my brethren, I would that ye should humble
yourselves before God, and bring forth fruit meet for repentance,
that ye may also enter into that rest.
 
Alma 13:14 Yea, humble yourselves even as the people in the days
of Melchizedek, who was also a high priest after this same order
which I have spoken, who also took upon him the high priesthood
forever.
 
Alma 13:15 And it was this same Melchizedek to whom Abraham paid
tithes; yea, even our father Abraham paid tithes of one-tenth
part of all he possessed.
 
Alma 13:16 Now these ordinances were given after this manner,
that thereby the people might look forward on the Son of God, it
being a type of his order, or it being his order, and this that
they might look forward to him for a remission of their sins,
that they might enter into the rest of the Lord.
 
Alma 13:17 Now this Melchizedek was a king over the land of
Salem; and his people had waxed strong in iniquity and
abomination; yea, they had all gone astray; they were full of all
manner of wickedness;
 
Alma 13:18 But Melchizedek having exercised mighty faith, and
received the office of the high priesthood according to the holy
order of God, did preach repentance unto his people. And behold,
they did repent; and Melchizedek did establish peace in the land
in his days; therefore he was called the prince of peace, for he
was the king of Salem; and he did reign under his father.
 
Alma 13:19 Now, there were many before him, and also there were
many afterwards, but none were greater; therefore, of him they
have more particularly made mention.
 
Alma 13:20 Now I need not rehearse the matter; what I have said
may suffice. Behold, the scriptures are before you; if ye will
wrest them it shall be to your own destruction.
 
Alma 13:21 And now it came to pass that when Alma had said these
words unto them, he stretched forth his hand unto them and cried
with a mighty voice, saying: Now is the time to repent, for the
day of salvation draweth nigh;
 
Alma 13:22 Yea, and the voice of the Lord, by the mouth of
angels, doth declare it unto all nations; yea, doth declare it,
that they may have glad tidings of great joy; yea, and he doth
sound these glad tidings among all his people, yea, even to them
that are scattered abroad upon the face of the earth; wherefore
they have come unto us.
 
Alma 13:23 And they are made known unto us in plain terms, that
we may understand, that we cannot err; and this because of our
being wanderers in a strange land; therefore, we are thus highly
favored, for we have these glad tidings declared unto us in all
parts of our vineyard.
 
Alma 13:24 For behold, angels are declaring it unto many at this
time in our land; and this is for the purpose of preparing the
hearts of the children of men to receive his word at the time of
his coming in his glory.
 
Alma 13:25 And now we only wait to hear the joyful news declared
unto us by the mouth of angels, of his coming; for the time
cometh, we know not how soon. Would to God that it might be in my
day; but let it be sooner or later, in it I will rejoice.
 
Alma 13:26 And it shall be made known unto just and holy men, by
the mouth of angels, at the time of his coming, that the words of
our fathers may be fulfilled, according to that which they have
spoken concerning him, which was according to the spirit of
prophecy which was in them.
 
Alma 13:27 And now, my brethren, I wish from the inmost part of
my heart, yea, with great anxiety even unto pain, that ye would
hearken unto my words, and cast off your sins, and not
procrastinate the day of your repentance;
 
Alma 13:28 But that ye would humble yourselves before the Lord,
and call on his holy name, and watch and pray continually, that
ye may not be tempted above that which ye can bear, and thus be
led by the Holy Spirit, becoming humble, meek, submissive,
patient, full of love and all long-suffering;
 
Alma 13:29 Having faith on the Lord; having a hope that ye shall
receive eternal life; having the love of God always in your
hearts, that ye may be lifted up at the last day and enter into
his rest.
 
Alma 13:30 And may the Lord grant unto you repentance, that ye
may not bring down his wrath upon you, that ye may not be bound
down by the chains of hell, that ye may not suffer the second
death.
 
Alma 13:31 And Alma spake many more words unto the people, which
are not written in this book.
 
Alma 14:0 Alma and Amulek imprisoned--their adherents persecuted-
-Deaths by fire--Zeezrom, now repentant, pleads their cause and
is cast out--The prophets delivered and their enemies slain.
 
Alma 14:1 And it came to pass after he had made an end of
speaking unto the people many of them did believe on his words,
and began to repent, and to search the scriptures.
 
Alma 14:2 But the more part of them were desirous that they might
destroy Alma and Amulek; for they were angry with Alma, because
of the plainness of his words unto Zeezrom; and they also said
that Amulek had lied unto them, and had reviled against their law
and also against their lawyers and judges.
 
Alma 14:3 And they were also angry with Alma and Amulek; and
because they had testified so plainly against their wickedness,
they sought to put them away privily.
 
Alma 14:4 But it came to pass that they did not; but they took
them and bound them with strong cords, and took them before the
chief judge of the land.
 
Alma 14:5 And the people went forth and witnessed against them--
testifying that they had reviled against the law, and their
lawyers and judges of the land, and also of all the people that
were in the land; and also testified that there was but one God,
and that he should send his Son among the people, but he should
not save them; and many such things did the people testify
against Alma and Amulek. Now this was done before the chief judge
of the land.
 
Alma 14:6 And it came to pass that Zeezrom was astonished at the
words which had been spoken; and he also knew concerning the
blindness of the minds, which he had caused among the people by
his lying words; and his soul began to be harrowed up under a
consciousness of his own guilt; yea, he began to be encircled
about by the pains of hell.
 
Alma 14:7 And it came to pass that he began to cry unto the
people, saying: Behold, I am guilty, and these men are spotless
before God. And he began to plead for them from that time forth;
but they reviled him, saying: Art thou also possessed with the
devil? And they spit upon him, and cast him out from among them,
and also all those who believed in the words which had been
spoken by Alma and Amulek; and they cast them out, and sent men
to cast stones at them.
 
Alma 14:8 And they brought their wives and children together, and
whosoever believed or had been taught to believe in the word of
God they caused that they should be cast into the fire; and they
also brought forth their records which contained the holy
scriptures, and cast them into the fire also, that they might be
burned and destroyed by fire.
 
Alma 14:9 And it came to pass that they took Alma and Amulek, and
carried them forth to the place of martyrdom, that they might
witness the destruction of those who were consumed by fire.
 
Alma 14:10 And when Amulek saw the pains of the women and
children who were consuming in the fire, he also was pained; and
he said unto Alma: How can we witness this awful scene? Therefore
let us stretch forth our hands, and exercise the power of God
which is in us, and save them from the flames.
 
Alma 14:11 But Alma said unto him: The Spirit constraineth me
that I must not stretch forth mine hand; for behold the Lord
receiveth them up unto himself, in glory; and he doth suffer that
they may do this thing, or that the people may do this thing unto
them, according to the hardness of their hearts, that the
judgments which he shall exercise upon them in his wrath may be
just; and the blood of the innocent shall stand as a witness
against them, yea, and cry mightily against them at the last day.
 
Alma 14:12 Now Amulek said unto Alma: Behold, perhaps they will
burn us also.
 
Alma 14:13 And Alma said: Be it according to the will of the
Lord. But, behold, our work is not finished; therefore they burn
us not.
 
Alma 14:14 Now it came to pass that when the bodies of those who
had been cast into the fire were consumed, and also the records
which were cast in with them, the chief judge of the land came
and stood before Alma and Amulek, as they were bound; and he
smote them with his hand upon their cheeks, and said unto them:
After what ye have seen, will ye preach again unto this people,
that they shall be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone?
 
Alma 14:15 Behold, ye see that ye had not power to save those who
had been cast into the fire; neither has God saved them because
they were of thy faith. And the judge smote them again upon their
cheeks, and asked: What say ye for yourselves?
 
Alma 14:16 Now this judge was after the order and faith of Nehor,
who slew Gideon.
 
Alma 14:17 And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek answered him
nothing; and he smote them again, and delivered them to the
officers to be cast into prison.
 
Alma 14:18 And when they had been cast into prison three days,
there came many lawyers, and judges, and priests, and teachers,
who were of the profession of Nehor; and they came in unto the
prison to see them, and they questioned them about many words;
but they answered them nothing.
 
Alma 14:19 And it came to pass that the judge stood before them,
and said: Why do ye not answer the words of this people? Know ye
not that I have power to deliver you up unto the flames? And he
commanded them to speak; but they answered nothing.
 
Alma 14:20 And it came to pass that they departed and went their
ways, but came again on the morrow; and the judge also smote them
again on their cheeks. And many came forth also, and smote them,
saying: Will ye stand again and judge this people, and condemn
our law? If ye have such great power why do ye not deliver
yourselves?
 
Alma 14:21 And many such things did they say unto them, gnashing
their teeth upon them, and spitting upon them, and saying: How
shall we look when we are damned?
 
Alma 14:22 And many such things, yea, all manner of such things
did they say unto them; and thus they did mock them for many
days. And they did withhold food from them that they might
hunger, and water that they might thirst; and they also did take
from them their clothes that they were naked; and thus they were
bound with strong cords, and confined in prison.
 
Alma 14:23 And it came to pass after they had thus suffered for
many days, (and it was on the twelfth day, in the tenth month, in
the tenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi) that the chief judge over the land of Ammonihah and many
of their teachers and their lawyers went in unto the prison where
Alma and Amulek were bound with cords.
 
Alma 14:24 And the chief judge stood before them, and smote them
again, and said unto them: If ye have the power of God deliver
yourselves from these bands, and then we will believe that the
Lord will destroy this people according to your words.
 
Alma 14:25 And it came to pass that they all went forth and smote
them, saying the same words, even until the last; and when the
last had spoken unto them the power of God was upon Alma and
Amulek, and they rose and stood upon their feet.
 
Alma 14:26 And Alma cried, saying: How long shall we suffer these
great afflictions, O Lord? O Lord, give us strength according to
our faith which is in Christ, even unto deliverance. And they
broke the cords with which they were bound; and when the people
saw this, they began to flee, for the fear of destruction had
come upon them.
 
Alma 14:27 And it came to pass that so great was their fear that
they fell to the earth, and did not obtain the outer door of the
prison; and the earth shook mightily, and the walls of the prison
were rent in twain, so that they fell to the earth; and the chief
judge, and the lawyers, and priests, and teachers, who smote upon
Alma and Amulek, were slain by the fall thereof.
 
Alma 14:28 And Alma and Amulek came forth out of the prison, and
they were not hurt; for the Lord had granted unto them power,
according to their faith which was in Christ. And they
straightway came forth out of the prison; and they were loosed
from their bands; and the prison had fallen to the earth, and
every soul within the walls thereof, save it were Alma and
Amulek, was slain; and they straightway came forth into the city.
 
Alma 14:29 Now the people having heard a great noise came running
together by multitudes to know the cause of it; and when they saw
Alma and Amulek coming forth out of the prison, and the walls
thereof had fallen to the earth, they were struck with great
fear, and fled from the presence of Alma and Amulek even as a
goat fleeth with her young from two lions; and thus they did flee
from the presence of Alma and Amulek.
 
Alma 15:0 Zeezrom, miraculously healed, joins the church and
preaches--Many baptized--Alma and Amulek return to Zarahemla.
 
Alma 15:1 And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek were commanded
to depart out of that city; and they departed, and came out even
into the land of Sidom; and behold, there they found all the
people who had departed out of the land of Ammonihah, who had
been cast out and stoned, because they believed in the words of
Alma.
 
Alma 15:2 And they related unto them all that had happened unto
their wives and children, and also concerning themselves, and of
their power of deliverance.
 
Alma 15:3 And also Zeezrom lay sick at Sidom, with a burning
fever, which was caused by the great tribulations of his mind on
account of his wickedness, for he supposed that Alma and Amulek
were no more; and he supposed that they had been slain because of
his iniquity. And this great sin, and his many other sins, did
harrow up his mind until it did become exceedingly sore, having
no deliverance; therefore he began to be scorched with a burning
heat.
 
Alma 15:4 Now, when he heard that Alma and Amulek were in the
land of Sidom, his heart began to take courage; and he sent a
message immediately unto them, desiring them to come unto him.
 
Alma 15:5 And it came to pass that they went immediately, obeying
the message which he had sent unto them; and they went in unto
the house unto Zeezrom; and they found him upon his bed, sick,
being very low with a burning fever; and his mind also was
exceedingly sore because of his iniquities; and when he saw them
he stretched forth his hand, and besought them that they would
heal him.
 
Alma 15:6 And it came to pass that Alma said unto him, taking him
by the hand: Believest thou in the power of Christ unto
salvation?
 
Alma 15:7 And he answered and said: Yea, I believe all the words
that thou hast taught.
 
Alma 15:8 And Alma said: If thou believest in the redemption of
Christ thou canst be healed.
 
Alma 15:9 And he said: Yea, I believe according to thy words.
 
Alma 15:10 And then Alma cried unto the Lord, saying: O Lord our
God, have mercy on this man, and heal him according to his faith
which is in Christ.
 
Alma 15:11 And when Alma had said these words, Zeezrom leaped
upon his feet, and began to walk; and this was done to the great
astonishment of all the people; and the knowledge of this went
forth throughout all the land of Sidom.
 
Alma 15:12 And Alma baptized Zeezrom unto the Lord; and he began
from that time forth to preach unto the people.
 
Alma 15:13 And Alma established a church in the land of Sidom,
and consecrated priests and teachers in the land, to baptize unto
the Lord whosoever were desirous to be baptized.
 
Alma 15:14 And it came to pass that they were many; for they did
flock in from all the region round about Sidom, and were
baptized.
 
Alma 15:15 But as to the people that were in the land of
Ammonihah, they yet remained a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked
people; and they repented not of their sins, ascribing all the
power of Alma and Amulek to the devil; for they were of the
profession of Nehor, and did not believe in the repentance of
their sins.
 
Alma 15:16 And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek, Amulek
having forsaken all his gold, and silver, and his precious
things, which were in the land of Ammonihah, for the word of God,
he being rejected by those who were once his friends and also by
his father and his kindred;
 
Alma 15:17 Therefore, after Alma having established the church at
Sidom, seeing a great check, yea, seeing that the people were
checked as to the pride of their hearts, and began to humble
themselves before God, and began to assemble themselves together
at their sanctuaries to worship God before the altar, watching
and praying continually, that they might be delivered from Satan,
and from death, and from destruction--
 
Alma 15:18 Now as I said, Alma having seen all these things,
therefore he took Amulek and came over to the land of Zarahemla,
and took him to his own house, and did administer unto him in his
tribulations, and strengthened him in the Lord.
 
Alma 15:19 And thus ended the tenth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 16:0 A cry of war--The wicked city Ammonihah destroyed by
Lamanites--Zoram and his sons rout the enemy--Desolation of
Nehors--The church widely established.
 
Alma 16:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi, on the fifth day of the
second month, there having been much peace in the land of
Zarahemla, there having been no wars nor contentions for a
certain number of years, even until the fifth day of the second
month in the eleventh year, there was a cry of war heard
throughout the land.
 
Alma 16:2 For behold, the armies of the Lamanites had come in
upon the wilderness side, into the borders of the land, even into
the city of Ammonihah, and began to slay the people and destroy
the city.
 
Alma 16:3 And now it came to pass, before the Nephites could
raise a sufficient army to drive them out of the land, they had
destroyed the people who were in the city of Ammonihah, and also
some around the borders of Noah, and taken others captive into
the wilderness.
 
Alma 16:4 Now it came to pass that the Nephites were desirous to
obtain those who had been carried away captive into the
wilderness.
 
Alma 16:5 Therefore, he that had been appointed chief captain
over the armies of the Nephites, (and his name was Zoram, and he
had two sons, Lehi and Aha)--now Zoram and his two sons, knowing
that Alma was high priest over the church, and having heard that
he had the spirit of prophecy, therefore they went unto him and
desired of him to know whither the Lord would that they should go
into the wilderness in search of their brethren, who had been
taken captive by the Lamanites.
 
Alma 16:6 And it came to pass that Alma inquired of the Lord
concerning the matter. And Alma returned and said unto them:
Behold, the Lamanites will cross the river Sidon in the south
wilderness, away up beyond the borders of the land of Manti. And
behold there shall ye meet them, on the east of the river Sidon,
and there the Lord will deliver unto thee thy brethren who have
been taken captive by the Lamanites.
 
Alma 16:7 And it came to pass that Zoram and his sons crossed
over the river Sidon, with their armies, and marched away beyond
the borders of Manti into the south wilderness, which was on the
east side of the river Sidon.
 
Alma 16:8 And they came upon the armies of the Lamanites, and the
Lamanites were scattered and driven into the wilderness; and they
took their brethren who had been taken captive by the Lamanites,
and there was not one soul of them had been lost that were taken
captive. And they were brought by their brethren to possess their
own lands.
 
Alma 16:9 And thus ended the eleventh year of the judges, the
Lamanites having been driven out of the land, and the people of
Ammonihah were destroyed; yea, every living soul of the
Ammonihahites was destroyed, and also their great city, which
they said God could not destroy, because of its greatness.
 
Alma 16:10 But behold, in one day it was left desolate; and the
carcasses were mangled by dogs and wild beasts of the wilderness.
 
Alma 16:11 Nevertheless, after many days their dead bodies were
heaped up upon the face of the earth, and they were covered with
a shallow covering. And now so great was the scent thereof that
the people did not go in to possess the land of Ammonihah for
many years. And it was called Desolation of Nehors; for they were
of the profession of Nehor, who were slain; and their lands
remained desolate.
 
Alma 16:12 And the Lamanites did not come again to war against
the Nephites until the fourteenth year of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi. And thus for three years did the people
of Nephi have continual peace in all the land.
 
Alma 16:13 And Alma and Amulek went forth preaching repentance to
the people in their temples, and in their sanctuaries, and also
in their synagogues, which were built after the manner of the
Jews.
 
Alma 16:14 And as many as would hear their words, unto them they
did impart the word of God, without any respect of persons,
continually.
 
Alma 16:15 And thus did Alma and Amulek go forth, and also many
more who had been chosen for the work, to preach the word
throughout all the land. And the establishment of the church
became general throughout the land, in all the region round
about, among all the people of the Nephites.
 
Alma 16:16 And there was no inequality among them; the Lord did
pour out his Spirit on all the face of the land to prepare the
minds of the children of men, or to prepare their hearts to
receive the word which should be taught among them at the time of
his coming--
 
Alma 16:17 That they might not be hardened against the word, that
they might not be unbelieving, and go on to destruction, but that
they might receive the word with joy, and as a branch be grafted
into the true vine, that they might enter into the rest of the
Lord their God.
 
Alma 16:18 Now those priests who did go forth among the people
did preach against all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and
strifes, and malice, and revilings, and stealing, robbing,
plundering, murdering, committing adultery, and all manner of
lasciviousness, crying that these things ought not so to be--
 
Alma 16:19 Holding forth things which must shortly come; yea,
holding forth the coming of the Son of God, his sufferings and
death, and also the resurrection of the dead.
 
Alma 16:20 And many of the people did inquire concerning the
place where the Son of God should come; and they were taught that
he would appear unto them after his resurrection; and this the
people did hear with great joy and gladness.
 
Alma 16:21 And now after the church had been established
throughout all the land--having got the victory over the devil,
and the word of God being preached in its purity in all the land,
and the Lord pouring out his blessings upon the people--thus
ended the fourteenth year of the reign of the judges over the
people of Nephi.
 
Alma 17:00 An account of the sons of Mosiah, who rejected their
rights to the kingdom for the word of God, and went up to the
land of Nephi to preach to the Lamanites; their sufferings and
deliverance--according to the record of Alma. Comprising chapters
17 to 26 inclusive.
 
Alma 17:0 Ammon in the land of Ishmael--he becomes a servant to
king Lamoni--His heroic defense of the king's flocks.
 
Alma 17:1 And now it came to pass that as Alma was journeying
from the land of Gideon southward, away to the land of Manti,
behold, to his astonishment, he met with the sons of Mosiah
journeying towards the land of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 17:2 Now these sons of Mosiah were with Alma at the time the
angel first appeared unto him; therefore Alma did rejoice
exceedingly to see his brethren; and what added more to his joy,
they were still his brethren in the Lord; yea, and they had waxed
strong in the knowledge of the truth; for they were men of a
sound understanding and they had searched the scriptures
diligently, that they might know the word of God.
 
Alma 17:3 But this is not all; they had given themselves to much
prayer, and fasting; therefore they had the spirit of prophecy,
and the spirit of revelation, and when they taught, they taught
with power and authority of God.
 
Alma 17:4 And they had been teaching the word of God for the
space of fourteen years among the Lamanites, having had much
success in bringing many to the knowledge of the truth; yea, by
the power of their words many were brought before the altar of
God, to call on his name and confess their sins before him.
 
Alma 17:5 Now these are the circumstances which attended them in
their journeyings, for they had many afflictions; they did suffer
much, both in body and in mind, such as hunger, thirst and
fatigue, and also much labor in the spirit.
 
Alma 17:6 Now these were their journeyings: Having taken leave of
their father, Mosiah, in the first year of the judges; having
refused the kingdom which their father was desirous to confer
upon them, and also this was the minds of the people;
 
Alma 17:7 Nevertheless they departed out of the land of
Zarahemla, and took their swords, and their spears, and their
bows, and their arrows, and their slings; and this they did that
they might provide food for themselves while in the wilderness.
 
Alma 17:8 And thus they departed into the wilderness with their
numbers which they had selected, to go up to the land of Nephi,
to preach the word of God unto the Lamanites.
 
Alma 17:9 And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in
the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the
Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with
them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in
the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren,
the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of
the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not
correct.
 
Alma 17:10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with
his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And they were
comforted.
 
Alma 17:11 And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the
Lamanites, thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be
patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth
good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of
thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls.
 
Alma 17:12 And it came to pass that the hearts of the sons of
Mosiah, and also those who were with them, took courage to go
forth unto the Lamanites to declare unto them the word of God.
 
Alma 17:13 And it came to pass when they had arrived in the
borders of the land of the Lamanites, that they separated
themselves and departed one from another, trusting in the Lord
that they should meet again at the close of their harvest; for
they supposed that great was the work which they had undertaken.
 
Alma 17:14 And assuredly it was great, for they had undertaken to
preach the word of God to a wild and a hardened and a ferocious
people; a people who delighted in murdering the Nephites, and
robbing and plundering them; and their hearts were set upon
riches, or upon gold and silver, and precious stones; yet they
sought to obtain these things by murdering and plundering, that
they might not labor for them with their own hands.
 
Alma 17:15 Thus they were a very indolent people, many of whom
did worship idols, and the curse of God had fallen upon them
because of the traditions of their fathers; notwithstanding the
promises of the Lord were extended unto them on the conditions of
repentance.
 
Alma 17:16 Therefore, this was the cause for which the sons of
Mosiah had undertaken the work, that perhaps they might bring
them unto repentance; that perhaps they might bring them to know
of the plan of redemption.
 
Alma 17:17 Therefore they separated themselves one from another,
and went forth among them, every man alone, according to the word
and power of God which was given unto him.
 
Alma 17:18 Now Ammon being the chief among them, or rather he did
administer unto them, and he departed from them, after having
blessed them according to their several stations, having imparted
the word of God unto them, or administered unto them before his
departure; and thus they took their several journeys throughout
the land.
 
Alma 17:19 And Ammon went to the land of Ishmael, the land being
called after the sons of Ishmael, who also became Lamanites.
 
Alma 17:20 And as Ammon entered the land of Ishmael, the
Lamanites took him and bound him, as was their custom to bind all
the Nephites who fell into their hands, and carry them before the
king; and thus it was left to the pleasure of the king to slay
them, or to retain them in captivity, or to cast them into
prison, or to cast them out of his land, according to his will
and pleasure.
 
Alma 17:21 And thus Ammon was carried before the king who was
over the land of Ishmael; and his name was Lamoni; and he was a
descendant of Ishmael.
 
Alma 17:22 And the king inquired of Ammon if it were his desire
to dwell in the land among the Lamanites, or among his people.
 
Alma 17:23 And Ammon said unto him: Yea, I desire to dwell among
this people for a time; yea, and perhaps until the day I die.
 
Alma 17:24 And it came to pass that king Lamoni was much pleased
with Ammon, and caused that his bands should be loosed; and he
would that Ammon should take one of his daughters to wife.
 
Alma 17:25 But Ammon said unto him: Nay, but I will be thy
servant. Therefore Ammon became a servant to king Lamoni. And it
came to pass that he was set among other servants to watch the
flocks of Lamoni, according to the custom of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 17:26 And after he had been in the service of the king three
days, as he was with the Lamanitish servants going forth with
their flocks to the place of water, which was called the water of
Sebus, and all the Lamanites drive their flocks hither, that they
may have water--
 
Alma 17:27 Therefore, as Ammon and the servants of the king were
driving forth their flocks to this place of water, behold, a
certain number of the Lamanites, who had been with their flocks
to water, stood and scattered the flocks of Ammon and the
servants of the king, and they scattered them insomuch that they
fled many ways.
 
Alma 17:28 Now the servants of the king began to murmur, saying:
Now the king will slay us, as he has our brethren because their
flocks were scattered by the wickedness of these men. And they
began to weep exceedingly, saying: Behold, our flocks are
scattered already.
 
Alma 17:29 Now they wept because of the fear of being slain. Now
when Ammon saw this his heart was swollen within him with joy;
for, said he, I will show forth my power unto these my fellow-
servants, or the power which is in me, in restoring these flocks
unto the king, that I may win the hearts of these my fellow-
servants, that I may lead them to believe in my words.
 
Alma 17:30 And now, these were the thoughts of Ammon, when he saw
the afflictions of those whom he termed to be his brethren.
 
Alma 17:31 And it came to pass that he flattered them by his
words, saying: My brethren, be of good cheer and let us go in
search of the flocks, and we will gather them together and bring
them back unto the place of water; and thus we will preserve the
flocks unto the king and he will not slay us.
 
Alma 17:32 And it came to pass that they went in search of the
flocks, and they did follow Ammon, and they rushed forth with
much swiftness and did head the flocks of the king, and did
gather them together again to the place of water.
 
Alma 17:33 And those men again stood to scatter their flocks; but
Ammon said unto his brethren: Encircle the flocks round about
that they flee not; and I go and contend with these men who do
scatter our flocks.
 
Alma 17:34 Therefore, they did as Ammon commanded them, and he
went forth and stood to contend with those who stood by the
waters of Sebus; and they were in number not a few.
 
Alma 17:35 Therefore they did not fear Ammon, for they supposed
that one of their men could slay him according to their pleasure,
for they knew not that the Lord had promised Mosiah that he would
deliver his sons out of their hands; neither did they know
anything concerning the Lord; therefore they delighted in the
destruction of their brethren; and for this cause they stood to
scatter the flocks of the king.
 
Alma 17:36 But Ammon stood forth and began to cast stones at them
with his sling; yea, with mighty power he did sling stones
amongst them; and thus he slew a certain number of them insomuch
that they began to be astonished at his power; nevertheless they
were angry because of the slain of their brethren, and they were
determined that he should fall; therefore, seeing that they could
not hit him with their stones, they came forth with clubs to slay
him.
 
Alma 17:37 But behold, every man that lifted his club to smite
Ammon, he smote off their arms with his sword; for he did
withstand their blows by smiting their arms with the edge of his
sword, insomuch that they began to be astonished, and began to
flee before him; yea, and they were not few in number; and he
caused them to flee by the strength of his arm.
 
Alma 17:38 Now six of them had fallen by the sling, but he slew
none save it were their leader with his sword; and he smote off
as many of their arms as were lifted against him, and they were
not a few.
 
Alma 17:39 And when he had driven them afar off, he returned and
they watered their flocks and returned them to the pasture of the
king, and then went in unto the king, bearing the arms which had
been smitten off by the sword of Ammon, of those who sought to
slay him; and they were carried in unto the king for a testimony
of the things which they had done.
 
Alma 18:0 King Lamoni mistakes Ammon for the Great Spirit--He is
taught concerning the true God--Is overcome by the Spirit of the
Lord.
 
Alma 18:1 And it came to pass that king Lamoni caused that his
servants should stand forth and testify to all the things which
they had seen concerning the matter.
 
Alma 18:2 And when they had all testified to the things which
they had seen, and he had learned of the faithfulness of Ammon in
preserving his flocks, and also of his great power in contending
against those who sought to slay him, he was astonished
exceedingly, and said: Surely, this is more than a man. Behold,
is not this the Great Spirit who doth send such great punishments
upon this people, because of their murders?
 
Alma 18:3 And they answered the king, and said: Whether he be the
Great Spirit or a man, we know not; but this much we do know,
that he cannot be slain by the enemies of the king; neither can
they scatter the king's flocks when he is with us, because of his
expertness and great strength; therefore, we know that he is a
friend to the king. And now, O king, we do not believe that a man
has such great power, for we know he cannot be slain.
 
Alma 18:4 And now, when the king heard these words, he said unto
them: Now I know that it is the Great Spirit; and he has come
down at this time to preserve your lives, that I might not slay
you as I did your brethren. Now this is the Great Spirit of whom
our fathers have spoken.
 
Alma 18:5 Now this was the tradition of Lamoni, which he had
received from his father, that there was a Great Spirit.
Notwithstanding they believed in a Great Spirit, they supposed
that whatsoever they did was right; nevertheless, Lamoni began to
fear exceedingly, with fear lest he had done wrong in slaying his
servants;
 
Alma 18:6 For he had slain many of them because their brethren
had scattered their flocks at the place of water; and thus,
because they had had their flocks scattered they were slain.
 
Alma 18:7 Now it was the practice of these Lamanites to stand by
the waters of Sebus to scatter the flocks of the people, that
thereby they might drive away many that were scattered unto their
own land, it being a practice of plunder among them.
 
Alma 18:8 And it came to pass that king Lamoni inquired of his
servants, saying: Where is this man that has such great power?
 
Alma 18:9 And they said unto him: Behold, he is feeding thy
horses. Now the king had commanded his servants, previous to the
time of the watering of their flocks, that they should prepare
his horses and chariots, and conduct him forth to the land of
Nephi; for there had been a great feast appointed at the land of
Nephi, by the father of Lamoni, who was king over all the land.
 
Alma 18:10 Now when king Lamoni heard that Ammon was preparing
his horses and his chariots he was more astonished, because of
the faithfulness of Ammon, saying: Surely there has not been any
servant among all my servants that has been so faithful as this
man; for even he doth remember all my commandments to execute
them.
 
Alma 18:11 Now I surely know that this is the Great Spirit, and I
would desire him that he come in unto me, but I durst not.
 
Alma 18:12 And it came to pass that when Ammon had made ready the
horses and the chariots for the king and his servants, he went in
unto the king, and he saw that the countenance of the king was
changed; therefore he was about to return out of his presence.
 
Alma 18:13 And one of the king's servants said unto him,
Rabbanah, which is, being interpreted, powerful or great king,
considering their kings to be powerful; and thus he said unto
him: Rabbanah, the king desireth thee to stay.
 
Alma 18:14 Therefore Ammon turned himself unto the king, and said
unto him: What wilt thou that I should do for thee, O king? And
the king answered him not for the space of an hour, according to
their time, for he knew not what he should say unto him.
 
Alma 18:15 And it came to pass that Ammon said unto him again:
What desirest thou of me? But the king answered him not.
 
Alma 18:16 And it came to pass that Ammon, being filled with the
Spirit of God, therefore he perceived the thoughts of the king.
And he said unto him: Is it because thou hast heard that I
defended thy servants and thy flocks, and slew seven of their
brethren with the sling and with the sword, and smote off the
arms of others, in order to defend thy flocks and thy servants;
behold, is it this that causeth thy marvelings?
 
Alma 18:17 I say unto you, what is it, that thy marvelings are so
great? Behold, I am a man, and am thy servant; therefore,
whatsoever thou desirest which is right, that will I do.
 
Alma 18:18 Now when the king had heard these words, he marveled
again, for he beheld that Ammon could discern his thoughts; but
notwithstanding this, king Lamoni did open his mouth, and said
unto him: Who art thou? Art thou that Great Spirit, who knows all
things?
 
Alma 18:19 Ammon answered and said unto him: I am not.
 
Alma 18:20 And the king said: How knowest thou the thoughts of my
heart? Thou mayest speak boldly, and tell me concerning these
things; and also tell me by what power ye slew and smote off the
arms of my brethren that scattered my flocks--
 
Alma 18:21 And now, if thou wilt tell me concerning these things,
whatsoever thou desirest I will give unto thee; and if it were
needed, I would guard thee with my armies; but I know that thou
art more powerful than all they; nevertheless, whatsoever thou
desirest of me I will grant it unto thee.
 
Alma 18:22 Now Ammon being wise, yet harmless, he said unto
Lamoni: Wilt thou hearken unto my words, if I tell thee by what
power I do these things? And this is the thing that I desire of
thee.
 
Alma 18:23 And the king answered him, and said: Yea, I will
believe all thy words. And thus he was caught with guile.
 
Alma 18:24 And Ammon began to speak unto him with boldness, and
said unto him: Believest thou that there is a God?
 
Alma 18:25 And he answered, and said unto him: I do not know what
that meaneth.
 
Alma 18:26 And then Ammon said: Believest thou that there is a
Great Spirit?
 
Alma 18:27 And he said, Yea.
 
Alma 18:28 And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him
again: Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created
all things which are in heaven and in the earth?
 
Alma 18:29 And he said: Yea, I believe that he created all things
which are in the earth; but I do not know the heavens.
 
Alma 18:30 And Ammon said unto him: The heavens is a place where
God dwells and all his holy angels.
 
Alma 18:31 And king Lamoni said: Is it above the earth?
 
Alma 18:32 And Ammon said: Yea, and he looketh down upon all the
children of men; and he knows all the thoughts and intents of the
heart; for by his hand were they all created from the beginning.
 
Alma 18:33 And king Lamoni said: I believe all these things which
thou hast spoken. Art thou sent from God?
 
Alma 18:34 Ammon said unto him: I am a man; and man in the
beginning was created after the image of God, and I am called by
his Holy Spirit to teach these things unto this people, that they
may be brought to a knowledge of that which is just and true;
 
Alma 18:35 And a portion of that Spirit dwelleth in me, which
giveth me knowledge, and also power according to my faith and
desires which are in God.
 
Alma 18:36 Now when Ammon had said these words, he began at the
creation of the world, and also the creation of Adam, and told
him all the things concerning the fall of man, and rehearsed and
laid before him the records and the holy scriptures of the
people, which had been spoken by the prophets, even down to the
time that their father, Lehi, left Jerusalem.
 
Alma 18:37 And he also rehearsed unto them (for it was unto the
king and to his servants) all the journeyings of their fathers in
the wilderness, and all their sufferings with hunger and thirst,
and their travail, and so forth.
 
Alma 18:38 And he also rehearsed unto them concerning the
rebellions of Laman and Lemuel, and the sons of Ishmael, yea, all
their rebellions did he relate unto them; and he expounded unto
them all the records and scriptures from the time that Lehi left
Jerusalem down to the present time.
 
Alma 18:39 But this is not all; for he expounded unto them the
plan of redemption, which was prepared from the foundation of the
world; and he also made known unto them concerning the coming of
Christ, and all the works of the Lord did he make known unto
them.
 
Alma 18:40 And it came to pass that after he had said all these
things, and expounded them to the king, that the king believed
all his words.
 
Alma 18:41 And he began to cry unto the Lord, saying: O Lord,
have mercy; according to thy abundant mercy which thou hast had
upon the people of Nephi, have upon me, and my people.
 
Alma 18:42 And now, when he had said this, he fell unto the
earth, as if he were dead.
 
Alma 18:43 And it came to pass that his servants took him and
carried him in unto his wife, and laid him upon a bed; and he lay
as if he were dead for the space of two days and two nights; and
his wife, and his sons, and his daughters mourned over him, after
the manner of the Lamanites, greatly lamenting his loss.
 
Alma 19:0 A wonderful conversion--Abish the Lamanite woman--
Lamanite king and queen espouse the faith--Ammon establishes the
church in Ishmael.
 
Alma 19:1 And it came to pass that after two days and two nights
they were about to take his body and lay it in a sepulchre, which
they had made for the purpose of burying their dead.
 
Alma 19:2 Now the queen having heard of the fame of Ammon,
therefore she sent and desired that he should come in unto her.
 
Alma 19:3 And it came to pass that Ammon did as he was commanded,
and went in unto the queen, and desired to know what she would
that he should do.
 
Alma 19:4 And she said unto him: The servants of my husband have
made it known unto me that thou art a prophet of a holy God, and
that thou hast power to do many mighty works in his name;
 
Alma 19:5 Therefore, if this is the case, I would that ye should
go in and see my husband, for he has been laid upon his bed for
the space of two days and two nights; and some say that he is not
dead, but others say that he is dead and that he stinketh, and
that he ought to be placed in the sepulchre; but as for myself,
to me he doth not stink.
 
Alma 19:6 Now, this was what Ammon desired, for he knew that king
Lamoni was under the power of God; he knew that the dark veil of
unbelief was being cast away from his mind, and the light which
did light up his mind, which was the light of the glory of God,
which was a marvelous light of his goodness--yea, this light had
infused such joy into his soul, the cloud of darkness having been
dispelled, and that the light of everlasting life was lit up in
his soul, yea, he knew that this had overcome his natural frame,
and he was carried away in God--
 
Alma 19:7 Therefore, what the queen desired of him was his only
desire. Therefore, he went in to see the king according as the
queen had desired him; and he saw the king, and he knew that he
was not dead.
 
Alma 19:8 And he said unto the queen: He is not dead, but he
sleepeth in God, and on the morrow he shall rise again; therefore
bury him not.
 
Alma 19:9 And Ammon said unto her: Believest thou this? And she
said unto him: I have had no witness save thy word, and the word
of our servants; nevertheless I believe that it shall be
according as thou hast said.
 
Alma 19:10 And Ammon said unto her: Blessed art thou because of
thy exceeding faith; I say unto thee, woman, there has not been
such great faith among all the people of the Nephites.
 
Alma 19:11 And it came to pass that she watched over the bed of
her husband, from that time even until that time on the morrow
which Ammon had appointed that he should rise.
 
Alma 19:12 And it came to pass that he arose, according to the
words of Ammon; and as he arose, he stretched forth his hand unto
the woman, and said: Blessed be the name of God, and blessed art
thou.
 
Alma 19:13 For as sure as thou livest, behold, I have seen my
Redeemer; and he shall come forth, and be born of a woman, and he
shall redeem all mankind who believe on his name. Now, when he
had said these words, his heart was swollen within him, and he
sunk again with joy; and the queen also sunk down, being
overpowered by the Spirit.
 
Alma 19:14 Now Ammon seeing the Spirit of the Lord poured out
according to his prayers upon the Lamanites, his brethren, who
had been the cause of so much mourning among the Nephites, or
among all the people of God because of their iniquities and their
traditions, he fell upon his knees, and began to pour out his
soul in prayer and thanksgiving to God for what he had done for
his brethren; and he was also overpowered with joy; and thus they
all three had sunk to the earth.
 
Alma 19:15 Now, when the servants of the king had seen that they
had fallen, they also began to cry unto God, for the fear of the
Lord had come upon them also, for it was they who had stood
before the king and testified unto him concerning the great power
of Ammon.
 
Alma 19:16 And it came to pass that they did call on the name of
the Lord, in their might, even until they had all fallen to the
earth, save it were one of the Lamanitish women, whose name was
Abish, she having been converted unto the Lord for many years, on
account of a remarkable vision of her father--
 
Alma 19:17 Thus, having been converted to the Lord, and never
having made it known, therefore, when she saw that all the
servants of Lamoni had fallen to the earth, and also her
mistress, the queen, and the king, and Ammon lay prostrate upon
the earth, she knew that it was the power of God; and supposing
that this opportunity, by making known unto the people what had
happened among them, that by beholding this scene it would cause
them to believe in the power of God, therefore she ran forth from
house to house, making it known unto the people.
 
Alma 19:18 And they began to assemble themselves together unto
the house of the king. And there came a multitude, and to their
astonishment, they beheld the king, and the queen, and their
servants prostrate upon the earth, and they all lay there as
though they were dead; and they also saw Ammon, and behold, he
was a Nephite.
 
Alma 19:19 And now the people began to murmur among themselves;
some saying that it was a great evil that had come upon them, or
upon the king and his house, because he had suffered that the
Nephite should remain in the land.
 
Alma 19:20 But others rebuked them, saying: The king hath brought
this evil upon his house, because he slew his servants who had
had their flocks scattered at the waters of Sebus.
 
Alma 19:21 And they were also rebuked by those men who had stood
at the waters of Sebus and scattered the flocks which belonged to
the king, for they were angry with Ammon because of the number
which he had slain of their brethren at the waters of Sebus,
while defending the flocks of the king.
 
Alma 19:22 Now, one of them, whose brother had been slain with
the sword of Ammon, being exceedingly angry with Ammon, drew his
sword and went forth that he might let it fall upon Ammon, to
slay him; and as he lifted the sword to smite him, behold, he
fell dead.
 
Alma 19:23 Now we see that Ammon could not be slain, for the Lord
had said unto Mosiah, his father: I will spare him, and it shall
be unto him according to thy faith--therefore, Mosiah trusted him
unto the Lord.
 
Alma 19:24 And it came to pass that when the multitude beheld
that the man had fallen dead, who lifted the sword to slay Ammon,
fear came upon them all, and they durst not put forth their hands
to touch him or any of those who had fallen; and they began to
marvel again among themselves what could be the cause of this
great power, or what all these things could mean.
 
Alma 19:25 And it came to pass that there were many among them
who said that Ammon was the Great Spirit, and others said he was
sent by the Great Spirit;
 
Alma 19:26 But others rebuked them all, saying that he was a
monster, who had been sent from the Nephites to torment them.
 
Alma 19:27 And there were some who said that Ammon was sent by
the Great Spirit to afflict them because of their iniquities; and
that it was the Great Spirit that had always attended the
Nephites, who had ever delivered them out of their hands; and
they said that it was this Great Spirit who had destroyed so many
of their brethren, the Lamanites.
 
Alma 19:28 And thus the contention began to be exceedingly sharp
among them. And while they were thus contending, the woman
servant who had caused the multitude to be gathered together
came, and when she saw the contention which was among the
multitude she was exceedingly sorrowful, even unto tears.
 
Alma 19:29 And it came to pass that she went and took the queen
by the hand, that perhaps she might raise her from the ground;
and as soon as she touched her hand she arose and stood upon her
feet, and cried with a loud voice, saying: O blessed Jesus, who
has saved me from an awful hell! O blessed God, have mercy on
this people!
 
Alma 19:30 And when she had said this, she clasped her hands,
being filled with joy, speaking many words which were not
understood; and when she had done this, she took the king,
Lamoni, by the hand, and behold he arose and stood upon his feet.
 
Alma 19:31 And he, immediately, seeing the contention among his
people, went forth and began to rebuke them, and to teach them
the words which he had heard from the mouth of Ammon; and as many
as heard his words believed, and were converted unto the Lord.
 
Alma 19:32 But there were many among them who would not hear his
words; therefore they went their way.
 
Alma 19:33 And it came to pass that when Ammon arose he also
administered unto them, and also did all the servants of Lamoni;
and they did all declare unto the people the selfsame thing--that
their hearts had been changed; that they had no more desire to do
evil.
 
Alma 19:34 And behold, many did declare unto the people that they
had seen angels and had conversed with them; and thus they had
told them things of God, and of his righteousness.
 
Alma 19:35 And it came to pass that there were many that did
believe in their words; and as many as did believe were baptized;
and they became a righteous people, and they did establish a
church among them.
 
Alma 19:36 And thus the work of the Lord did commence among the
Lamanites; thus the Lord did begin to pour out his Spirit upon
them; and we see that his arm is extended to all people who will
repent and believe on his name.
 
Alma 20:0 Ammon and king Lamoni journey to Middoni--the meet
Lamoni's father who is king over all the land--Hostile at first,
he relents, and grants great favors.
 
Alma 20:1 And it came to pass that when they had established a
church in that land, that king Lamoni desired that Ammon should
go with him to the land of Nephi, that he might show him unto his
father.
 
Alma 20:2 And the voice of the Lord came to Ammon, saying: Thou
shalt not go up to the land of Nephi, for behold, the king will
seek thy life; but thou shalt go to the land of Middoni; for
behold, thy brother Aaron, and also Muloki and Ammah are in
prison.
 
Alma 20:3 Now it came to pass that when Ammon had heard this, he
said unto Lamoni: Behold, my brother and brethren are in prison
at Middoni, and I go that I may deliver them.
 
Alma 20:4 Now Lamoni said unto Ammon: I know, in the strength of
the Lord thou canst do all things. But behold, I will go with
thee to the land of Middoni; for the king of the land of Middoni,
whose name is Antiomno, is a friend unto me; therefore I go to
the land of Middoni, that I may flatter the king of the land, and
he will cast thy brethren out of prison. Now Lamoni said unto
him: Who told thee that thy brethren were in prison?
 
Alma 20:5 And Ammon said unto him: No one hath told me, save it
be God; and he said unto me--Go and deliver thy brethren, for
they are in prison in the land of Middoni.
 
Alma 20:6 Now when Lamoni had heard this he caused that his
servants should make ready his horses and his chariots.
 
Alma 20:7 And he said unto Ammon: Come, I will go with thee down
to the land of Middoni, and there I will plead with the king that
he will cast thy brethren out of prison.
 
Alma 20:8 And it came to pass that as Ammon and Lamoni were
journeying thither, they met the father of Lamoni, who was king
over all the land.
 
Alma 20:9 And behold, the father of Lamoni said unto him: Why did
ye not come to the feast on that great day when I made a feast
unto my sons, and unto my people?
 
Alma 20:10 And he also said: Whither art thou going with this
Nephite, who is one of the children of a liar?
 
Alma 20:11 And it came to pass that Lamoni rehearsed unto him
whither he was going, for he feared to offend him.
 
Alma 20:12 And he also told him all the cause of his tarrying in
his own kingdom, that he did not go unto his father to the feast
which he had prepared.
 
Alma 20:13 And now when Lamoni had rehearsed unto him all these
things, behold, to his astonishment, his father was angry with
him, and said: Lamoni, thou art going to deliver these Nephites,
who are sons of a liar. Behold, he robbed our fathers; and now
his children are also come amongst us that they may, by their
cunning and their lyings, deceive us, that they again may rob us
of our property.
 
Alma 20:14 Now the father of Lamoni commanded him that he should
slay Ammon with the sword. And he also commanded him that he
should not go to the land of Middoni, but that he should return
with him to the land of Ishmael.
 
Alma 20:15 But Lamoni said unto him: I will not slay Ammon,
neither will I return to the land of Ishmael, but I go to the
land of Middoni that I may release the brethren of Ammon, for I
know that they are just men and holy prophets of the true God.
 
Alma 20:16 Now when his father had heard these words, he was
angry with him, and he drew his sword that he might smite him to
the earth.
 
Alma 20:17 But Ammon stood forth and said unto him: Behold, thou
shalt not slay thy son; nevertheless, it were better that he
should fall than thee, for behold, he has repented of his sins;
but if thou shouldst fall at this time, in thine anger, thy soul
could not be saved.
 
Alma 20:18 And again, it is expedient that thou shouldst forbear;
for if thou shouldst slay thy son, he being an innocent man, his
blood would cry from the ground to the Lord his God, for
vengeance to come upon thee; and perhaps thou wouldst lose thy
soul.
 
Alma 20:19 Now when Ammon had said these words unto him, he
answered him, saying: I know that if I should slay my son, that I
should shed innocent blood; for it is thou that hast sought to
destroy him.
 
Alma 20:20 And he stretched forth his hand to slay Ammon. But
Ammon withstood his blows, and also smote his arm that he could
not use it.
 
Alma 20:21 Now when the king saw that Ammon could slay him, he
began to plead with Ammon that he would spare his life.
 
Alma 20:22 But Ammon raised his sword, and said unto him: Behold,
I will smite thee except thou wilt grant unto me that my brethren
may be cast out of prison.
 
Alma 20:23 Now the king, fearing he should lose his life, said:
If thou wilt spare me I will grant unto thee whatsoever thou wilt
ask, even to half of the kingdom.
 
Alma 20:24 Now when Ammon saw that he had wrought upon the old
king according to his desire, he said unto him: If thou wilt
grant that my brethren may be cast out of prison, and also that
Lamoni may retain his kingdom, and that ye be not displeased with
him, but grant that he may do according to his own desires in
whatsoever thing he thinketh, then will I spare thee; otherwise I
will smite thee to the earth.
 
Alma 20:25 Now when Ammon had said these words, the king began to
rejoice because of his life.
 
Alma 20:26 And when he saw that Ammon had no desire to destroy
him, and when he also saw the great love he had for his son
Lamoni, he was astonished exceedingly, and said: Because this is
all that thou hast desired, that I would release thy brethren,
and suffer that my son Lamoni should retain his kingdom, behold,
I will grant unto you that my son may retain his kingdom from
this time and forever; and I will govern him no more--
 
Alma 20:27 And I will also grant unto thee that thy brethren may
be cast out of prison, and thou and thy brethren may come unto
me, in my kingdom; for I shall greatly desire to see thee. For
the king was greatly astonished at the words which he had spoken,
and also at the words which had been spoken by his son Lamoni,
therefore he was desirous to learn them.
 
Alma 20:28 And it came to pass that Ammon and Lamoni proceeded on
their journey towards the land of Middoni. And Lamoni found favor
in the eyes of the king of the land; therefore the brethren of
Ammon were brought forth out of prison.
 
Alma 20:29 And when Ammon did meet them he was exceedingly
sorrowful, for behold they were naked, and their skins were worn
exceedingly because of being bound with strong cords. And they
also had suffered hunger, thirst, and all kinds of afflictions;
nevertheless they were patient in all their sufferings.
 
Alma 20:30 And, as it happened, it was their lot to have fallen
into the hands of a more hardened and a more stiffnecked people;
therefore they would not hearken unto their words, and they had
cast them out, and had smitten them, and had driven them from
house to house, and from place to place, even until they had
arrived in the land of Middoni; and there they were taken and
cast into prison, and bound with strong cords, and kept in prison
for many days, and were delivered by Lamoni and Ammon.
 
Alma 21:00 An account of the preaching of Aaron, and Muloki, and
their brethren, to the Lamanites. Comprising chapters 21 to 26
inclusive.
 
Alma 21:0 Rejected by the Amalekites, Aaron and Muloki go to
Middoni--They are imprisoned--Their release and missionary
labors--Ammon's further success--Synagogues built.
 
Alma 21:1 Now when Ammon and his brethren separated themselves in
the borders of the land of the Lamanites, behold Aaron took his
journey towards the land which was called by the Lamanites,
Jerusalem, calling it after the land of their fathers' nativity;
and it was away joining the borders of Mormon.
 
Alma 21:2 Now the Lamanites and the Amalekites and the people of
Amulon had built a great city, which was called Jerusalem.
 
Alma 21:3 Now the Lamanites of themselves were sufficiently
hardened, but the Amalekites and the Amulonites were still
harder; therefore they did cause the Lamanites that they should
harden their hearts, that they should wax strong in wickedness
and their abominations.
 
Alma 21:4 And it came to pass that Aaron came to the city of
Jerusalem, and first began to preach to the Amalekites. And he
began to preach to them in their synagogues, for they had built
synagogues after the order of the Nehors; for many of the
Amalekites and the Amulonites were after the order of the Nehors.
 
Alma 21:5 Therefore, as Aaron entered into one of their
synagogues to preach unto the people, and as he was speaking unto
them, behold there arose an Amalekite and began to contend with
him, saying: What is that thou hast testified? Hast thou seen an
angel? Why do not angels appear unto us? Behold are not this
people as good as thy people?
 
Alma 21:6 Thou also sayest, except we repent we shall perish. How
knowest thou the thought and intent of our hearts? How knowest
thou that we have cause to repent? How knowest thou that we are
not a righteous people? Behold, we have built sanctuaries, and we
do assemble ourselves together to worship God. We do believe that
God will save all men.
 
Alma 21:7 Now Aaron said unto him: Believest thou that the Son of
God shall come to redeem mankind from their sins?
 
Alma 21:8 And the man said unto him: We do not believe that thou
knowest any such thing. We do not believe in these foolish
traditions. We do not believe that thou knowest of things to
come, neither do we believe that thy fathers and also that our
fathers did know concerning the things which they spake, of that
which is to come.
 
Alma 21:9 Now Aaron began to open the scriptures unto them
concerning the coming of Christ, and also concerning the
resurrection of the dead, and that there could be no redemption
for mankind save it were through the death and sufferings of
Christ, and the atonement of his blood.
 
Alma 21:10 And it came to pass as he began to expound these
things unto them they were angry with him, and began to mock him;
and they would not hear the words which he spake.
 
Alma 21:11 Therefore, when he saw that they would not hear his
words, he departed out of their synagogue, and came over to a
village which was called Ani-Anti, and there he found Muloki
preaching the word unto them; and also Ammah and his brethren.
And they contended with many about the word.
 
Alma 21:12 And it came to pass that they saw that the people
would harden their hearts, therefore they departed and came over
into the land of Middoni. And they did preach the word unto many,
and few believed on the words which they taught.
 
Alma 21:13 Nevertheless, Aaron and a certain number of his
brethren were taken and cast into prison, and the remainder of
them fled out of the land of Middoni unto the regions round
about.
 
Alma 21:14 And those who were cast into prison suffered many
things, and they were delivered by the hand of Lamoni and Ammon,
and they were fed and clothed.
 
Alma 21:15 And they went forth again to declare the word, and
thus they were delivered for the first time out of prison; and
thus they had suffered.
 
Alma 21:16 And they went forth whithersoever they were led by the
Spirit of the Lord, preaching the word of God in every synagogue
of the Amalekites, or in every assembly of the Lamanites where
they could be admitted.
 
Alma 21:17 And it came to pass that the Lord began to bless them,
insomuch that they brought many to the knowledge of the truth;
yea, they did convince many of their sins, and of the traditions
of their fathers, which were not correct.
 
Alma 21:18 And it came to pass that Ammon and Lamoni returned
from the land of Middoni to the land of Ishmael, which was the
land of their inheritance.
 
Alma 21:19 And king Lamoni would not suffer that Ammon should
serve him, or be his servant.
 
Alma 21:20 But he caused that there should be synagogues built in
the land of Ishmael; and he caused that his people, or the people
who were under his reign, should assemble themselves together.
 
Alma 21:21 And he did rejoice over them, and he did teach them
many things. And he did also declare unto them that they were a
people who were under him, and that they were a free people, that
they were free from the oppressions of the king, his father; for
that his father had granted unto him that he might reign over the
people who were in the land of Ishmael, and in all the land round
about.
 
Alma 21:22 And he also declared unto them that they might have
the liberty of worshiping the Lord their God according to their
desires, in whatsoever place they were in, if it were in the land
which was under the reign of king Lamoni.
 
Alma 21:23 And Ammon did preach unto the people of king Lamoni;
and it came to pass that he did teach them all things concerning
things pertaining to righteousness. And he did exhort them daily,
with all diligence; and they gave heed unto his word, and they
were zealous for keeping the commandments of God.
 
Alma 22:0 Aaron in the land of Nephi--The king and all his
household converted--Country divided between Nephites and
Lamanites.
 
Alma 22:1 Now, as Ammon was thus teaching the people of Lamoni
continually, we will return to the account of Aaron and his
brethren; for after he departed from the land of Middoni he was
led by the Spirit to the land of Nephi, even to the house of the
king which was over all the land save it were the land of
Ishmael; and he was the father of Lamoni.
 
Alma 22:2 And it came to pass that he went in unto him into the
king's palace, with his brethren, and bowed himself before the
king, and said unto him: Behold, O king, we are the brethren of
Ammon, whom thou hast delivered out of prison.
 
Alma 22:3 And now, O king, if thou wilt spare our lives, we will
be thy servants. And the king said unto them: Arise, for I will
grant unto you your lives, and I will not suffer that ye shall be
my servants; but I will insist that ye shall administer unto me;
for I have been somewhat troubled in mind because of the
generosity and the greatness of the words of thy brother Ammon;
and I desire to know the cause why he has not come up out of
Middoni with thee.
 
Alma 22:4 And Aaron said unto the king: Behold, the Spirit of the
Lord has called him another way; he has gone to the land of
Ishmael, to teach the people of Lamoni.
 
Alma 22:5 Now the king said unto them: What is this that ye have
said concerning the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, this is the thing
which doth trouble me.
 
Alma 22:6 And also, what is this that Ammon said--If ye will
repent ye shall be saved, and if ye will not repent, ye shall be
cast off at the last day?
 
Alma 22:7 And Aaron answered him and said unto him: Believest
thou that there is a God? And the king said: I know that the
Amalekites say that there is a God, and I have granted unto them
that they should build sanctuaries, that they may assemble
themselves together to worship him. And if now thou sayest there
is a God, behold I will believe.
 
Alma 22:8 And now when Aaron heard this, his heart began to
rejoice, and he said: Behold, assuredly as thou livest, O king,
there is a God.
 
Alma 22:9 And the king said: Is God that Great Spirit that
brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem?
 
Alma 22:10 And Aaron said unto him: Yea, he is that Great Spirit,
and he created all things both in heaven and in earth. Believest
thou this?
 
Alma 22:11 And he said: Yea, I believe that the Great Spirit
created all things, and I desire that ye should tell me
concerning all these things, and I will believe thy words.
 
Alma 22:12 And it came to pass that when Aaron saw that the king
would believe his words, he began from the creation of Adam,
reading the scriptures unto the king--how God created man after
his own image, and that God gave him commandments, and that
because of transgression, man had fallen.
 
Alma 22:13 And Aaron did expound unto him the scriptures from the
creation of Adam, laying the fall of man before him, and their
carnal state and also the plan of redemption, which was prepared
from the foundation of the world, through Christ, for all
whosoever would believe on his name.
 
Alma 22:14 And since man had fallen he could not merit anything
of himself; but the sufferings and death of Christ atone for
their sins, through faith and repentance, and so forth; and that
he breaketh the bands of death, that the grave shall have no
victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up in
the hopes of glory; and Aaron did expound all these things unto
the king.
 
Alma 22:15 And it came to pass that after Aaron had expounded
these things unto him, the king said: What shall I do that I may
have this eternal life of which thou hast spoken? Yea, what shall
I do that I may be born of God, having this wicked spirit rooted
out of my breast, and receive his Spirit, that I may be filled
with joy, that I may not be cast off at the last day? Behold,
said he, I will give up all that I possess, yea, I will forsake
my kingdom, that I may receive this great joy.
 
Alma 22:16 But Aaron said unto him: If thou desirest this thing,
if thou wilt bow down before God, yea, if thou wilt repent of all
thy sins, and will bow down before God, and call on his name in
faith, believing that ye shall receive, then shalt thou receive
the hope which thou desirest.
 
Alma 22:17 And it came to pass that when Aaron had said these
words, the king did bow down before the Lord, upon his knees;
yea, even he did prostrate himself upon the earth, and cried
mightily, saying:
 
Alma 22:18 O God, Aaron hath told me that there is a God; and if
there is a God, and if thou art God, wilt thou make thyself known
unto me, and I will give away all my sins to know thee, and that
I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last day. And
now when the king had said these words, he was struck as if he
were dead.
 
Alma 22:19 And it came to pass that his servants ran and told the
queen all that had happened unto the king. And she came in unto
the king; and when she saw him lay as if he were dead, and also
Aaron and his brethren standing as though they had been the cause
of his fall, she was angry with them, and commanded that her
servants, or the servants of the king, should take them and slay
them.
 
Alma 22:20 Now the servants had seen the cause of the king's
fall, therefore they durst not lay their hands on Aaron and his
brethren; and they pled with the queen saying: Why commandest
thou that we should slay these men, when behold one of them is
mightier than us all? Therefore we shall fall before them.
 
Alma 22:21 Now when the queen saw the fear of the servants she
also began to fear exceedingly, lest there should some evil come
upon her. And she commanded her servants that they should go and
call the people, that they might slay Aaron and his brethren.
 
Alma 22:22 Now when Aaron saw the determination of the queen, he,
also knowing the hardness of the hearts of the people, feared
lest that a multitude should assemble themselves together, and
there should be a great contention and a disturbance among them;
therefore he put forth his hand and raised the king from the
earth, and said unto him: Stand. And he stood upon his feet,
receiving his strength.
 
Alma 22:23 Now this was done in the presence of the queen and
many of the servants. And when they saw it they greatly marveled,
and began to fear. And the king stood forth, and began to
minister unto them. And he did minister unto them, insomuch that
his whole household were converted unto the Lord.
 
Alma 22:24 Now there was a multitude gathered together because of
the commandment of the queen, and there began to be great
murmurings among them because of Aaron and his brethren.
 
Alma 22:25 But the king stood forth among them and administered
unto them. And they were pacified towards Aaron and those who
were with him.
 
Alma 22:26 And it came to pass that when the king saw that the
people were pacified, he caused that Aaron and his brethren
should stand forth in the midst of the multitude, and that they
should preach the word unto them.
 
Alma 22:27 And it came to pass that the king sent a proclamation
throughout all the land, amongst all his people who were in all
his land, who were in all the regions round about, which was
bordering even to the sea, on the east and on the west, and which
was divided from the land of Zarahemla by a narrow strip of
wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west, and
round about on the borders of the seashore, and the borders of
the wilderness which was on the north by the land of Zarahemla,
through the borders of Manti, by the head of the river Sidon,
running from the east towards the west--and thus were the
Lamanites and the Nephites divided.
 
Alma 22:28 Now, the more idle part of the Lamanites lived in the
wilderness, and dwelt in tents; and they were spread through the
wilderness on the west, in the land of Nephi; yea, and also on
the west of the land of Zarahemla, in the borders by the
seashore, and on the west in the land of Nephi, in the place of
their fathers' first inheritance, and thus bordering along by the
seashore.
 
Alma 22:29 And also there were many Lamanites on the east by the
seashore, whither the Nephites had driven them. And thus the
Nephites were nearly surrounded by the Lamanites; nevertheless
the Nephites had taken possession of all the northern parts of
the land bordering on the wilderness, at the head of the river
Sidon, from the east to the west, round about on the wilderness
side; on the north, even until they came to the land which they
called Bountiful.
 
Alma 22:30 And it bordered upon the land which they called
Desolation, it being so far northward that it came into the land
which had been peopled and been destroyed, of whose bones we have
spoken, which was discovered by the people of Zarahemla, it being
the place of their first landing.
 
Alma 22:31 And they came from there up into the south wilderness.
Thus the land on the northward was called Desolation, and the
land on the southward was called Bountiful, it being the
wilderness which is filled with all manner of wild animals of
every kind, a part of which had come from the land northward for
food.
 
Alma 22:32 And now, it was only the distance of a day and a
half's journey for a Nephite, on the line Bountiful and the land
Desolation, from the east to the west sea; and thus the land of
Nephi and the land of Zarahemla were nearly surrounded by water,
there being a small neck of land between the land northward and
the land southward.
 
Alma 22:33 And it came to pass that the Nephites had inhabited
the land Bountiful, even from the east unto the west sea, and
thus the Nephites in their wisdom, with their guards and their
armies, had hemmed in the Lamanites on the south, that thereby
they should have no more possession on the north, that they might
not overrun the land northward.
 
Alma 22:34 Therefore the Lamanites could have no more possessions
only in the land of Nephi, and the wilderness round about. Now
this was wisdom in the Nephites--as the Lamanites were an enemy
to them, they would not suffer their afflictions on every hand,
and also that they might have a country whither they might flee,
according to their desires.
 
Alma 22:35 And now I, after having said this, return again to the
account of Ammon and Aaron, Omner and Himni, and their brethren.
 
Alma 23:0 Religious freedom is proclaimed--Many Lamanites
converted--Amalekites and Amulonites reject the truth--The Anti-
Nephi-Lehies.
 
Alma 23:1 Behold, now it came to pass that the king of the
Lamanites sent a proclamation among all his people, that they
should not lay their hands on Ammon, or Aaron, or Omner, or
Himni, nor either of their brethren who should go forth preaching
the word of God, in whatsoever place they should be, in any part
of their land.
 
Alma 23:2 Yea, he sent a decree among them, that they should not
lay their hands on them to bind them, or to cast them into
prison; neither should they spit upon them, nor smite them, nor
cast them out of their synagogues, nor scourge them; neither
should they cast stones at them, but that they should have free
access to their houses, and also their temples, and their
sanctuaries.
 
Alma 23:3 And thus they might go forth and preach the word
according to their desires, for the king had been converted unto
the Lord, and all his household; therefore he sent his
proclamation throughout the land unto his people, that the word
of God might have no obstruction, but that it might go forth
throughout all the land, that his people might be convinced
concerning the wicked traditions of their fathers, and that they
might be convinced that they were all brethren, and that they
ought not to murder, nor to plunder, nor to steal, nor to commit
adultery, nor to commit any manner of wickedness.
 
Alma 23:4 And now it came to pass that when the king had sent
forth this proclamation, that Aaron and his brethren went forth
from city to city, and from one house of worship to another,
establishing churches, and consecrating priests and teachers
throughout the land among the Lamanites, to preach and to teach
the word of God among them; and thus they began to have great
success.
 
Alma 23:5 And thousands were brought to the knowledge of the
Lord, yea, thousands were brought to believe in the traditions of
the Nephites; and they were taught the records and prophecies
which were handed down even to the present time.
 
Alma 23:6 And as sure as the Lord liveth, so sure as many as
believed, or as many as were brought to the knowledge of the
truth, through the preaching of Ammon and his brethren, according
to the spirit of revelation and of prophecy, and the power of God
working miracles in them--yea, I say unto you, as the Lord
liveth, as many of the Lamanites as believed in their preaching,
and were converted unto the Lord, never did fall away.
 
Alma 23:7 For they became a righteous people; they did lay down
the weapons of their rebellion, that they did not fight against
God any more, neither against any of their brethren.
 
Alma 23:8 Now, these are they who were converted unto the Lord:
 
Alma 23:9 The people of the Lamanites who were in the land of
Ishmael;
 
Alma 23:10 And also of the people of the Lamanites who were in
the land of Middoni;
 
Alma 23:11 And also of the people of the Lamanites who were in
the city of Nephi;
 
Alma 23:12 And also of the people of the Lamanites who were in
the land of Shilom, and who were in the land of Shemlon, and in
the city of Lemuel, and in the city of Shimnilom.
 
Alma 23:13 And these are the names of the cities of the Lamanites
which were converted unto the Lord; and these are they that laid
down the weapons of their rebellion, yea, all their weapons of
war; and they were all Lamanites.
 
Alma 23:14 And the Amalekites were not converted, save only one;
neither were any of the Amulonites; but they did harden their
hearts, and also the hearts of the Lamanites in that part of the
land wheresoever they dwelt, yea, and all their villages and all
their cities.
 
Alma 23:15 Therefore, we have named all the cities of the
Lamanites in which they did repent and come to the knowledge of
the truth, and were converted.
 
Alma 23:16 And now it came to pass that the king and those who
were converted were desirous that they might have a name, that
thereby they might be distinguished from their brethren;
therefore the king consulted with Aaron and many of their
priests, concerning the name that they should take upon them,
that they might be distinguished.
 
Alma 23:17 And it came to pass that they called their names Anti-
Nephi-Lehies; and they were called by this name and were no more
called Lamanites.
 
Alma 23:18 And they began to be a very industrious people; yea,
and they were friendly with the Nephites; therefore, they did
open a correspondence with them, and the curse of God did no more
follow them.
 
Alma 24:0 Lamanites come against the people of God--Converted
Lamanites refuse to take up arms--More conversions.
 
Alma 24:1 And it came to pass that the Amalekites and the
Amulonites and the Lamanites who were in the land of Amulon, and
also in the land of Helam, and who were in the land of Jerusalem,
and in fine, in all the land round about, who had not been
converted and had not taken upon them the name of Anti-Nephi-
Lehi, were stirred up by the Amalekites and by the Amulonites to
anger against their brethren.
 
Alma 24:2 And their hatred became exceedingly sore against them,
even insomuch that they began to rebel against their king,
insomuch that they would not that he should be their king;
therefore, they took up arms against the people of Anti-Nephi-
Lehi.
 
Alma 24:3 Now the king conferred the kingdom upon his son, and he
called his name Anti-Nephi-Lehi.
 
Alma 24:4 And the king died in that selfsame year that the
Lamanites began to make preparations for war against the people
of God.
 
Alma 24:5 Now when Ammon and his brethren and all those who had
come up with him saw the preparations of the Lamanites to destroy
their brethren, they came forth to the land of Midian, and there
Ammon met all his brethren; and from thence they came to the land
of Ishmael that they might hold a council with Lamoni and also
with his brother Anti-Nephi-Lehi, what they should do to defend
themselves against the Lamanites.
 
Alma 24:6 Now there was not one soul among all the people who had
been converted unto the Lord that would take up arms against
their brethren; nay, they would not even make any preparations
for war; yea, and also their king commanded them that they should
not.
 
Alma 24:7 Now, these are the words which he said unto the people
concerning the matter: I thank my God, my beloved people, that
our great God has in goodness sent these our brethren, the
Nephites, unto us to preach unto us, and to convince us of the
traditions of our wicked fathers.
 
Alma 24:8 And behold, I thank my great God that he has given us a
portion of his Spirit to soften our hearts, that we have opened a
correspondence with these brethren, the Nephites.
 
Alma 24:9 And behold, I also thank my God, that by opening this
correspondence we have been convinced of our sins, and of the
many murders which we have committed.
 
Alma 24:10 And I also thank my God, yea, my great God, that he
hath granted unto us that we might repent of these things, and
also that he hath forgiven us of those our many sins and murders
which we have committed, and taken away the guilt from our
hearts, through the merits of his Son.
 
Alma 24:11 And now behold, my brethren, since it has been all
that we could do, (as we were the most lost of all mankind) to
repent of all our sins and the many murders which we have
committed, and to get God to take them away from our hearts, for
it was all we could do to repent sufficiently before God that he
would take away our stain--
 
Alma 24:12 Now, my best beloved brethren, since God hath taken
away our stains, and our swords have become bright, then let us
stain our swords no more with the blood of our brethren.
 
Alma 24:13 Behold, I say unto you, Nay, let us retain our swords
that they be not stained with the blood of our brethren; for
perhaps, if we should stain our swords again they can no more be
washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God,
which shall be shed for the atonement of our sins.
 
Alma 24:14 And the great God has had mercy on us, and made these
things known unto us that we might not perish; yea, and he has
made these things known unto us beforehand, because he loveth our
souls as well as he loveth our children; therefore, in his mercy
he doth visit us by his angels, that the plan of salvation might
be made known unto us as well as unto future generations.
 
Alma 24:15 Oh, how merciful is our God! And now behold, since it
has been as much as we could do to get our stains taken away from
us, and our swords are made bright, let us hide them away that
they may be kept bright, as a testimony to our God at the last
day, or at the day that we shall be brought to stand before him
to be judged, that we have not stained our swords in the blood of
our brethren since he imparted his word unto us and has made us
clean thereby.
 
Alma 24:16 And now, my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy
us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury
them deep in the earth, that they may be kept bright, as a
testimony that we have never used them, at the last day; and if
our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and shall
be saved.
 
Alma 24:17 And now it came to pass that when the king had made an
end of these sayings, and all the people were assembled together,
they took their swords, and all the weapons which were used for
the shedding of man's blood, and they did bury them up deep in
the earth.
 
Alma 24:18 And this they did, it being in their view a testimony
to God, and also to men, that they never would use weapons again
for the shedding of man's blood; and this they did, vouching and
covenanting with God, that rather than shed the blood of their
brethren they would give up their own lives; and rather than take
away from a brother they would give unto him; and rather than
spend their days in idleness they would labor abundantly with
their hands.
 
Alma 24:19 And thus we see that, when these Lamanites were
brought to believe and to know the truth, they were firm, and
would suffer even unto death rather than commit sin; and thus we
see that they buried their weapons of peace, or they buried the
weapons of war, for peace.
 
Alma 24:20 And it came to pass that their brethren, the
Lamanites, made preparations for war, and came up to the land of
Nephi for the purpose of destroying the king, and to place
another in his stead, and also of destroying the people of Anti-
Nephi-Lehi out of the land.
 
Alma 24:21 Now when the people saw that they were coming against
them they went out to meet them, and prostrated themselves before
them to the earth, and began to call on the name of the Lord; and
thus they were in this attitude when the Lamanites began to fall
upon them, and began to slay them with the sword.
 
Alma 24:22 And thus without meeting any resistance, they did slay
a thousand and five of them; and we know that they are blessed,
for they have gone to dwell with their God.
 
Alma 24:23 Now when the Lamanites saw that their brethren would
not flee from the sword, neither would they turn aside to the
right hand or to the left, but that they would lie down and
perish, and praised God even in the very act of perishing under
the sword--
 
Alma 24:24 Now when the Lamanites saw this they did forbear from
slaying them; and there were many whose hearts had swollen in
them for those of their brethren who had fallen under the sword,
for they repented of the things which they had done.
 
Alma 24:25 And it came to pass that they threw down their weapons
of war, and they would not take them again, for they were stung
for the murders which they had committed; and they came down even
as their brethren, relying upon the mercies of those whose arms
were lifted to slay them.
 
Alma 24:26 And it came to pass that the people of God were joined
that day by more than the number who had been slain; and those
who had been slain were righteous people, therefore we have no
reason to doubt but what they were saved.
 
Alma 24:27 And there was not a wicked man slain among them; but
there were more than a thousand brought to the knowledge of the
truth; thus we see that the Lord worketh in many ways to the
salvation of his people.
 
Alma 24:28 Now the greatest number of those of the Lamanites who
slew so many of their brethren were Amalekites and Amulonites,
the greatest number of whom were after the order of the Nehors.
 
Alma 24:29 Now, among those who joined the people of the Lord,
there were none who were Amalekites or Amulonites, or who were of
the order of Nehor, but they were actual descendants of Laman and
Lemuel.
 
Alma 24:30 And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people
have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had
great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then
have fallen away into sin and transgression, they become more
hardened, and thus their state becomes worse than though they had
never known these things.
 
Alma 25:0 Lamanite aggressions--Vengeance by Amulonites--
Martyrdoms--Further fulfillment of Abinadi's prophecy.
 
Alma 25:1 And behold, now it came to pass that those Lamanites
were more angry because they had slain their brethren; therefore
they swore vengeance upon the Nephites; and they did no more
attempt to slay the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi at that time.
 
Alma 25:2 But they took their armies and went over into the
borders of the land of Zarahemla, and fell upon the people who
were in the land of Ammonihah and destroyed them.
 
Alma 25:3 And after that, they had many battles with the
Nephites, in the which they were driven and slain.
 
Alma 25:4 And among the Lamanites who were slain were almost all
the seed of Amulon and his brethren, who were the priests of
Noah, and they were slain by the hands of the Nephites;
 
Alma 25:5 And the remainder, having fled into the east
wilderness, and having usurped the power and authority over the
Lamanites, caused that many of the Lamanites should perish by
fire because of their belief--
 
Alma 25:6 For many of them, after having suffered much loss and
so many afflictions, began to be stirred up in remembrance of the
words which Aaron and his brethren had preached to them in their
land; therefore they began to disbelieve the traditions of their
fathers, and to believe in the Lord, and that he gave great power
unto the Nephites; and thus there were many of them converted in
the wilderness.
 
Alma 25:7 And it came to pass that those rulers who were the
remnant of the children of Amulon caused that they should be put
to death, yea, all those that believed in these things.
 
Alma 25:8 Now this martyrdom caused that many of their brethren
should be stirred up to anger; and there began to be contention
in the wilderness; and the Lamanites began to hunt the seed of
Amulon and his brethren and began to slay them; and they fled
into the east wilderness.
 
Alma 25:9 And behold they are hunted at this day by the
Lamanites. Thus the words of Abinadi were brought to pass, which
he said concerning the seed of the priests who caused that he
should suffer death by fire.
 
Alma 25:10 For he said unto them: What ye shall do unto me shall
be a type of things to come.
 
Alma 25:11 And now Abinadi was the first that suffered death by
fire because of his belief in God; now this is what he meant,
that many should suffer death by fire, according as he had
suffered.
 
Alma 25:12 And he said unto the priests of Noah that their seed
should cause many to be put to death, in the like manner as he
was, and that they should be scattered abroad and slain, even as
a sheep having no shepherd is driven and slain by wild beasts;
and now behold, these words were verified, for they were driven
by the Lamanites, and they were hunted, and they were smitten.
 
Alma 25:13 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites saw that
they could not overpower the Nephites they returned again to
their own land; and many of them came over to dwell in the land
of Ishmael and the land of Nephi, and did join themselves to the
people of God, who were the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi.
 
Alma 25:14 And they did also bury their weapons of war, according
as their brethren had, and they began to be a righteous people;
and they did walk in the ways of the Lord, and did observe to
keep his commandments and his statutes.
 
Alma 25:15 Yea, and they did keep the law of Moses; for it was
expedient that they should keep the law of Moses as yet, for it
was not all fulfilled. But notwithstanding the law of Moses, they
did look forward to the coming of Christ, considering that the
law of Moses was a type of his coming, and believing that they
must keep those outward performances until the time that he
should be revealed unto them.
 
Alma 25:16 Now they did not suppose that salvation came by the
law of Moses; but the law of Moses did serve to strengthen their
faith in Christ; and thus they did retain a hope through faith,
unto eternal salvation, relying upon the spirit of prophecy,
which spake of those things to come.
 
Alma 25:17 And now behold, Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and
Himni, and their brethren did rejoice exceedingly, for the
success which they had had among the Lamanites, seeing that the
Lord had granted unto them according to their prayers, and that
he had also verified his word unto them in every particular.
 
Alma 26:0 Ammon glories in the Lord--Boasting in righteousness--
he recounts blessings to him and his brethren.
 
Alma 26:1 And now, these are the words of Ammon to his brethren,
which say thus: My brothers and my brethren, behold I say unto
you, how great reason have we to rejoice; for could we have
supposed when we started from the land of Zarahemla that God
would have granted unto us such great blessings?
 
Alma 26:2 And now, I ask, what great blessings has he bestowed
upon us? Can ye tell?
 
Alma 26:3 Behold, I answer for you; for our brethren, the
Lamanites, were in darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but
behold, how many of them are brought to behold the marvelous
light of God! And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed
upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God
to bring about this great work.
 
Alma 26:4 Behold, thousands of them do rejoice, and have been
brought into the fold of God.
 
Alma 26:5 Behold, the field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye
did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all
the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves!
And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not
wasted.
 
Alma 26:6 Yea, they shall not be beaten down by the storm at the
last day; yea, neither shall they be harrowed up by the
whirlwinds; but when the storm cometh they shall be gathered
together in their place, that the storm cannot penetrate to them;
yea, neither shall they be driven with fierce winds whithersoever
the enemy listeth to carry them.
 
Alma 26:7 But behold, they are in the hands of the Lord of the
harvest, and they are his; and he will raise them up at the last
day.
 
Alma 26:8 Blessed be the name of our God; let us sing to his
praise, yea, let us give thanks to his holy name, for he doth
work righteousness forever.
 
Alma 26:9 For if we had not come up out of the land of Zarahemla,
these our dearly beloved brethren, who have so dearly beloved us,
would still have been racked with hatred against us, yea, and
they would also have been strangers to God.
 
Alma 26:10 And it came to pass that when Ammon had said these
words, his brother Aaron rebuked him, saying: Ammon, I fear that
thy joy doth carry thee away unto boasting.
 
Alma 26:11 But Ammon said unto him: I do not boast in my own
strength, nor in my own wisdom; but behold, my joy is full, yea,
my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God.
 
Alma 26:12 Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am
weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of
my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold,
many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we
will praise his name forever.
 
Alma 26:13 Behold, how many thousands of our brethren has he
loosed from the pains of hell; and they are brought to sing
redeeming love, and this because of the power of his word which
is in us, therefore have we not great reason to rejoice?
 
Alma 26:14 Yea, we have reason to praise him forever, for he is
the Most High God, and has loosed our brethren from the chains of
hell.
 
Alma 26:15 Yea, they were encircled about with everlasting
darkness and destruction; but behold, he has brought them into
his everlasting light, yea, into everlasting salvation; and they
are encircled about with the matchless bounty of his love; yea,
and we have been instruments in his hands of doing this great and
marvelous work.
 
Alma 26:16 Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the
Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will
praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the
Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his
mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men?
Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I
feel.
 
Alma 26:17 Who could have supposed that our God would have been
so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and
polluted state?
 
Alma 26:18 Behold, we went forth even in wrath, with mighty
threatenings to destroy his church.
 
Alma 26:19 Oh then, why did he not consign us to an awful
destruction, yea, why did he not let the sword of his justice
fall upon us, and doom us to eternal despair?
 
Alma 26:20 Oh, my soul, almost as it were, fleeth at the thought.
Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon us, but in his great
mercy hath brought us over that everlasting gulf of death and
misery, even to the salvation of our souls.
 
Alma 26:21 And now behold, my brethren, what natural man is there
that knoweth these things? I say unto you, there is none that
knoweth these things, save it be the penitent.
 
Alma 26:22 Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and
bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without
ceasing--unto such it is given to know the mysteries of God; yea,
unto such it shall be given to reveal things which never have
been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring
thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto
us to bring these our brethren to repentance.
 
Alma 26:23 Now do ye remember, my brethren, that we said unto our
brethren in the land of Zarahemla, we go up to the land of Nephi,
to preach unto our brethren, the Lamanites, and they laughed us
to scorn?
 
Alma 26:24 For they said unto us: Do ye suppose that ye can bring
the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth? Do ye suppose that
ye can convince the Lamanites of the incorrectness of the
traditions of their fathers, as stiffnecked a people as they are;
whose hearts delight in the shedding of blood; whose days have
been spent in the grossest iniquity; whose ways have been the
ways of a transgressor from the beginning? Now my brethren, ye
remember that this was their language.
 
Alma 26:25 And moreover they did say: Let us take up arms against
them, that we destroy them and their iniquity out of the land,
lest they overrun us and destroy us.
 
Alma 26:26 But behold, my beloved brethren, we came into the
wilderness not with the intent to destroy our brethren, but with
the intent that perhaps we might save some few of their souls.
 
Alma 26:27 Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about
to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst
thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine
afflictions, and I will give unto you success.
 
Alma 26:28 And now behold, we have come, and been forth amongst
them; and we have been patient in our sufferings, and we have
suffered every privation; yea, we have traveled from house to
house, relying upon the mercies of the world--not upon the
mercies of the world alone but upon the mercies of God.
 
Alma 26:29 And we have entered into their houses and taught them,
and we have taught them in their streets; yea, and we have taught
them upon their hills; and we have also entered into their
temples and their synagogues and taught them; and we have been
cast out, and mocked, and spit upon, and smote upon our cheeks;
and we have been stoned, and taken and bound with strong cords,
and cast into prison; and through the power and wisdom of God we
have been delivered again.
 
Alma 26:30 And we have suffered all manner of afflictions, and
all this, that perhaps we might be the means of saving some soul;
and we supposed that our joy would be full if perhaps we could be
the means of saving some.
 
Alma 26:31 Now behold, we can look forth and see the fruits of
our labors; and are they few? I say unto you, Nay, they are many;
yea, and we can witness of their sincerity, because of their love
towards their brethren and also towards us.
 
Alma 26:32 For behold, they had rather sacrifice their lives than
even to take the life of their enemy; and they have buried their
weapons of war deep in the earth, because of their love towards
their brethren.
 
Alma 26:33 And now behold I say unto you, has there been so great
love in all the land? Behold, I say unto you, Nay, there has not,
even among the Nephites.
 
Alma 26:34 For behold, they would take up arms against their
brethren; they would not suffer themselves to be slain. But
behold how many of these have laid down their lives; and we know
that they have gone to their God, because of their love and of
their hatred to sin.
 
Alma 26:35 Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto
you, there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as
we, since the world began; yea, and my joy is carried away, even
unto boasting in my God; for he has all power, all wisdom, and
all understanding; he comprehendeth all things, and he is a
merciful Being, even unto salvation, to those who will repent and
believe on his name.
 
Alma 26:36 Now if this is boasting, even so will I boast; for
this is my life and my light, my joy and my salvation, and my
redemption from everlasting wo. Yea, blessed is the name of my
God, who has been mindful of this people, who are a branch of the
tree of Israel, and has been lost from its body in a strange
land; yea, I say, blessed be the name of my God, who has been
mindful of us, wanderers in a strange land.
 
Alma 26:37 Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every
people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his
people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this
is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks
unto my God forever. Amen.
 
Alma 27:0 People of Anti-Nephi-Lehi seek safety in Zarahemla--
they are called the people of Ammon--Land of Jershon given to
them.
 
Alma 27:1 Now it came to pass that when those Lamanites who had
gone to war against the Nephites had found, after their many
struggles to destroy them, that it was in vain to seek their
destruction, they returned again to the land of Nephi.
 
Alma 27:2 And it came to pass that the Amalekites, because of
their loss, were exceedingly angry. And when they saw that they
could not seek revenge from the Nephites, they began to stir up
the people in anger against their brethren, the people of Anti-
Nephi-Lehi; therefore they began again to destroy them.
 
Alma 27:3 Now this people again refused to take their arms, and
they suffered themselves to be slain according to the desires of
their enemies.
 
Alma 27:4 Now when Ammon and his brethren saw this work of
destruction among those whom they so dearly beloved, and among
those who had so dearly beloved them--for they were treated as
though they were angels sent from God to save them from
everlasting destruction--therefore, when Ammon and his brethren
saw this great work of destruction, they were moved with
compassion, and they said unto the king:
 
Alma 27:5 Let us gather together this people of the Lord, and let
us go down to the land of Zarahemla to our brethren the Nephites,
and flee out of the hands of our enemies, that we be not
destroyed.
 
Alma 27:6 But the king said unto them: Behold, the Nephites will
destroy us, because of the many murders and sins we have
committed against them.
 
Alma 27:7 And Ammon said: I will go and inquire of the Lord, and
if he say unto us, go down unto our brethren, will ye go?
 
Alma 27:8 And the king said unto him: Yea, if the Lord saith unto
us go, we will go down unto our brethren, and we will be their
slaves until we repair unto them the many murders and sins which
we have committed against them.
 
Alma 27:9 But Ammon said unto him: It is against the law of our
brethren, which was established by my father, that there should
be any slaves among them; therefore let us go down and rely upon
the mercies of our brethren.
 
Alma 27:10 But the king said unto him: Inquire of the Lord, and
if he saith unto us go, we will go; otherwise we will perish in
the land.
 
Alma 27:11 And it came to pass that Ammon went and inquired of
the Lord, and the Lord said unto him:
 
Alma 27:12 Get this people out of this land, that they perish
not; for Satan has great hold on the hearts of the Amalekites,
who do stir up the Lamanites to anger against their brethren to
slay them; therefore get thee out of this land; and blessed are
this people in this generation, for I will preserve them.
 
Alma 27:13 And now it came to pass that Ammon went and told the
king all the words which the Lord had said unto him.
 
Alma 27:14 And they gathered together all their people, yea, all
the people of the Lord, and did gather together all their flocks
and herds, and departed out of the land, and came into the
wilderness which divided the land of Nephi from the land of
Zarahemla, and came over near the borders of the land.
 
Alma 27:15 And it came to pass that Ammon said unto them: Behold,
I and my brethren will go forth into the land of Zarahemla, and
ye shall remain here until we return; and we will try the hearts
of our brethren, whether they will that ye shall come into their
land.
 
Alma 27:16 And it came to pass that as Ammon was going forth into
the land, that he and his brethren met Alma, over in the place of
which has been spoken; and behold, this was a joyful meeting.
 
Alma 27:17 Now the joy of Ammon was so great even that he was
full; yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his God, even to the
exhausting of his strength; and he fell again to the earth.
 
Alma 27:18 Now was not this exceeding joy? Behold, this is joy
which none receiveth save it be the truly penitent and humble
seeker of happiness.
 
Alma 27:19 Now the joy of Alma in meeting his brethren was truly
great, and also the joy of Aaron, of Omner, and Himni; but behold
their joy was not that to exceed their strength.
 
Alma 27:20 And now it came to pass that Alma conducted his
brethren back to the land of Zarahemla; even to his own house.
And they went and told the chief judge all the things that had
happened unto them in the land of Nephi, among their brethren,
the Lamanites.
 
Alma 27:21 And it came to pass that the chief judge sent a
proclamation throughout all the land, desiring the voice of the
people concerning the admitting their brethren, who were the
people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi.
 
Alma 27:22 And it came to pass that the voice of the people came,
saying: Behold, we will give up the land of Jershon, which is on
the east by the sea, which joins the land Bountiful, which is on
the south of the land Bountiful; and this land Jershon is the
land which we will give unto our brethren for an inheritance.
 
Alma 27:23 And behold, we will set our armies between the land
Jershon and the land Nephi, that we may protect our brethren in
the land Jershon; and this we do for our brethren, on account of
their fear to take up arms against their brethren lest they
should commit sin; and this their great fear came because of
their sore repentance which they had, on account of their many
murders and their awful wickedness.
 
Alma 27:24 And now behold, this will we do unto our brethren,
that they may inherit the land Jershon; and we will guard them
from their enemies with our armies, on condition that they will
give us a portion of their substance to assist us that we may
maintain our armies.
 
Alma 27:25 Now, it came to pass that when Ammon had heard this,
he returned to the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, and also Alma with
him, into the wilderness, where they had pitched their tents, and
made known unto them all these things. And Alma also related unto
them his conversion, with Ammon and Aaron, and his brethren.
 
Alma 27:26 And it came to pass that it did cause great joy among
them. And they went down into the land of Jershon, and took
possession of the land of Jershon; and they were called by the
Nephites the people of Ammon; therefore they were distinguished
by that name ever after.
 
Alma 27:27 And they were among the people of Nephi, and also
numbered among the people who were of the church of God. And they
were also distinguished for their zeal towards God, and also
towards men; for they were perfectly honest and upright in all
things; and they were firm in the faith of Christ, even unto the
end.
 
Alma 27:28 And they did look upon shedding the blood of their
brethren with the greatest abhorrence; and they never could be
prevailed upon to take up arms against their brethren; and they
never did look upon death with any degree of terror, for their
hope and views of Christ and the resurrection; therefore, death
was swallowed up to them by the victory of Christ over it.
 
Alma 27:29 Therefore, they would suffer death in the most
aggravating and distressing manner which could be inflicted by
their brethren, before they would take the sword or cimeter to
smite them.
 
Alma 27:30 And thus they were a zealous and beloved people, a
highly favored people of the Lord.
 
Alma 28:0 Lamanites make war upon Nephites--A tremendous battle--
Lamanites defeated--Deep mourning.
 
Alma 28:1 And now it came to pass that after the people of Ammon
were established in the land of Jershon, and a church also
established in the land of Jershon, and the armies of the
Nephites were set round about the land of Jershon, yea, in all
the borders round about the land of Zarahemla; behold the armies
of the Lamanites had followed their brethren into the wilderness.
 
Alma 28:2 And thus there was a tremendous battle; yea, even such
an one as never had been known among all the people in the land
from the time Lehi left Jerusalem; yea, and tens of thousands of
the Lamanites were slain and scattered abroad.
 
Alma 28:3 Yea, and also there was a tremendous slaughter among
the people of Nephi; nevertheless, the Lamanites were driven and
scattered, and the people of Nephi returned again to their land.
 
Alma 28:4 And now this was a time that there was a great mourning
and lamentation heard throughout all the land, among all the
people of Nephi--
 
Alma 28:5 Yea, the cry of widows mourning for their husbands, and
also of fathers mourning for their sons, and the daughter for the
brother, yea, the brother for the father; and thus the cry of
mourning was heard among all of them, mourning for their kindred
who had been slain.
 
Alma 28:6 And now surely this was a sorrowful day; yea, a time of
solemnity, and a time of much fasting and prayer.
 
Alma 28:7 And thus endeth the fifteenth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi;
 
Alma 28:8 And this is the account of Ammon and his brethren,
their journeyings in the land of Nephi, their sufferings in the
land, their sorrows, and their afflictions, and their
incomprehensible joy, and the reception and safety of the
brethren in the land of Jershon. And now may the Lord, the
Redeemer of all men, bless their souls forever.
 
Alma 28:9 And this is the account of the wars and contentions
among the Nephites, and also the wars between the Nephites and
the Lamanites; and the fifteenth year of the reign of the judges
is ended.
 
Alma 28:10 And from the first year to the fifteenth has brought
to pass the destruction of many thousand lives; yea, it has
brought to pass an awful scene of bloodshed.
 
Alma 28:11 And the bodies of many thousands are laid low in the
earth, while the bodies of many thousands are moldering in heaps
upon the face of the earth; yea, and many thousands are mourning
for the loss of their kindred, because they have reason to fear,
according to the promises of the Lord, that they are consigned to
a state of endless wo.
 
Alma 28:12 While many thousands of others truly mourn for the
loss of their kindred, yet they rejoice and exult in the hope,
and even know, according to the promises of the Lord, that they
are raised to dwell at the right hand of God, in a state of
never-ending happiness.
 
Alma 28:13 And thus we see how great the inequality of man is
because of sin and transgression, and the power of the devil,
which comes by the cunning plans which he hath devised to ensnare
the hearts of men.
 
Alma 28:14 And thus we see the great call of diligence of men to
labor in the vineyards of the Lord; and thus we see the great
reason of sorrow, and also of rejoicing--sorrow because of death
and destruction among men, and joy because of the light of Christ
unto life.
 
Alma 29:0 Alma's yearning desire to cry repentance to all--God's
word apportioned in wisdom--Alma rejoices over success of his
brethren.
 
Alma 29:1 O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine
heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God,
with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every
people!
 
Alma 29:2 Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice
of thunder, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they
should repent and come unto our God, that there might not be more
sorrow upon all the face of the earth.
 
Alma 29:3 But behold, I am a man, and do sin in my wish; for I
ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted
unto me.
 
Alma 29:4 I ought not to harrow up in my desires, the firm decree
of a just God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to
their desire, whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know
that he allotteth unto men, yea, decreeth unto them decrees which
are unalterable, according to their wills, whether they be unto
salvation or unto destruction.
 
Alma 29:5 Yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all
men; he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that
knoweth good and evil, to him it is given according to his
desires, whether he desireth good or evil, life or death, joy or
remorse of conscience.
 
Alma 29:6 Now, seeing that I know these things, why should I
desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?
 
Alma 29:7 Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could
speak unto all the ends of the earth?
 
Alma 29:8 For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of
their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom,
all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see
that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is
just and true.
 
Alma 29:9 I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I
glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which
the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that
perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some
soul to repentance; and this is my joy.
 
Alma 29:10 And behold, when I see many of my brethren truly
penitent, and coming to the Lord their God, then is my soul
filled with joy; then do I remember what the Lord has done for
me, yea, even that he hath heard my prayer; yea, then do I
remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.
 
Alma 29:11 Yea, and I also remember the captivity of my fathers;
for I surely do know that the Lord did deliver them out of
bondage, and by this did establish his church; yea, the Lord God,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, did
deliver them out of bondage.
 
Alma 29:12 Yea, I have always remembered the captivity of my
fathers; and that same God who delivered them out of the hands of
the Egyptians did deliver them out of bondage.
 
Alma 29:13 Yea, and that same God did establish his church among
them; yea, and that same God hath called me by a holy calling, to
preach the word unto this people, and hath given me much success,
in the which my joy is full.
 
Alma 29:14 But I do not joy in my own success alone, but my joy
is more full because of the success of my brethren, who have been
up to the land of Nephi.
 
Alma 29:15 Behold, they have labored exceedingly, and have
brought forth much fruit; and how great shall be their reward!
 
Alma 29:16 Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren
my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the
body, as it were, so great is my joy.
 
Alma 29:17 And now may God grant unto these, my brethren, that
they may sit down in the kingdom of God; yea, and also all those
who are the fruit of their labors that they may go no more out,
but that they may praise him forever. And may God grant that it
may be done according to my words, even as I have spoken. Amen.
 
Alma 30:0 Korihor the Anti-Christ--Expelled from Jershon and
arrested at Gideon--Arraigned in Zarahemla--he demands a sign and
is stricken dumb--His miserable death.
 
Alma 30:1 Behold, now it came to pass that after the people of
Ammon were established in the land of Jershon, yea, and also
after the Lamanites were driven out of the land, and their dead
were buried by the people of the land--
 
Alma 30:2 Now their dead were not numbered because of the
greatness of their numbers; neither were the dead of the Nephites
numbered--but it came to pass after they had buried their dead,
and also after the days of fasting, and mourning, and prayer,
(and it was in the sixteenth year of the reign of the judges over
the people of Nephi) there began to be continual peace throughout
all the land.
 
Alma 30:3 Yea, and the people did observe to keep the
commandments of the Lord; and they were strict in observing the
ordinances of God, according to the law of Moses; for they were
taught to keep the law of Moses until it should be fulfilled.
 
Alma 30:4 And thus the people did have no disturbance in all the
sixteenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi.
 
Alma 30:5 And it came to pass that in the commencement of the
seventeenth year of the reign of the judges, there was continual
peace.
 
Alma 30:6 But it came to pass in the latter end of the
seventeenth year, there came a man into the land of Zarahemla,
and he was Anti-Christ, for he began to preach unto the people
against the prophecies which had been spoken by the prophets,
concerning the coming of Christ.
 
Alma 30:7 Now there was no law against a man's belief; for it was
strictly contrary to the commands of God that there should be a
law which should bring men on to unequal grounds.
 
Alma 30:8 For thus saith the scripture: Choose ye this day, whom
ye will serve.
 
Alma 30:9 Now if a man desired to serve God, it was his
privilege; or rather, if he believed in God it was his privilege
to serve him; but if he did not believe in him there was no law
to punish him.
 
Alma 30:10 But if he murdered he was punished unto death; and if
he robbed he was also punished; and if he stole he was also
punished; and if he committed adultery he was also punished; yea,
for all this wickedness they were punished.
 
Alma 30:11 For there was a law that men should be judged
according to their crimes. Nevertheless, there was no law against
a man's belief; therefore, a man was punished only for the crimes
which he had done; therefore all men were on equal grounds.
 
Alma 30:12 And this Anti-Christ, whose name was Korihor, (and the
law could have no hold upon him) began to preach unto the people
that there should be no Christ. And after this manner did he
preach, saying:
 
Alma 30:13 O ye that are bound down under a foolish and a vain
hope, why do ye yoke yourselves with such foolish things? Why do
ye look for a Christ? For no man can know of anything which is to
come.
 
Alma 30:14 Behold, these things which ye call prophecies, which
ye say are handed down by holy prophets, behold, they are foolish
traditions of your fathers.
 
Alma 30:15 How do ye know of their surety? Behold, ye cannot know
of things which ye do not see; therefore ye cannot know that
there shall be a Christ.
 
Alma 30:16 Ye look forward and say that ye see a remission of
your sins. But behold, it is the effect of a frenzied mind; and
this derangement of your minds comes because of the traditions of
your fathers, which lead you away into a belief of things which
are not so.
 
Alma 30:17 And many more such things did he say unto them,
telling them that there could be no atonement made for the sins
of men, but every man fared in this life according to the
management of the creature; therefore every man prospered
according to his genius, and that every man conquered according
to his strength; and whatsoever a man did was no crime.
 
Alma 30:18 And thus he did preach unto them, leading away the
hearts of many, causing them to lift up their heads in their
wickedness, yea, leading away many women, and also men, to commit
whoredoms--telling them that when a man was dead, that was the
end thereof.
 
Alma 30:19 Now this man went over to the land of Jershon also, to
preach these things among the people of Ammon, who were once the
people of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 30:20 But behold they were more wise than many of the
Nephites; for they took him, and bound him, and carried him
before Ammon, who was a high priest over that people.
 
Alma 30:21 And it came to pass that he caused that he should be
carried out of the land. And he came over into the land of
Gideon, and began to preach unto them also; and here he did not
have much success, for he was taken and bound and carried before
the high priest, and also the chief judge over the land.
 
Alma 30:22 And it came to pass that the high priest said unto
him: Why do ye go about perverting the ways of the Lord? Why do
ye teach this people that there shall be no Christ, to interrupt
their rejoicings? Why do ye speak against all the prophecies of
the holy prophets?
 
Alma 30:23 Now the high priest's name was Giddonah. And Korihor
said unto him: Because I do not teach the foolish traditions of
your fathers, and because I do not teach this people to bind
themselves down under the foolish ordinances and performances
which are laid down by ancient priests, to usurp power and
authority over them, to keep them in ignorance, that they may not
lift up their heads, but be brought down according to thy words.
 
Alma 30:24 Ye say that this people is a free people. Behold, I
say they are in bondage. Ye say that those ancient prophecies are
true. Behold, I say that ye do not know that they are true.
 
Alma 30:25 Ye say that this people is a guilty and a fallen
people, because of the transgression of a parent. Behold, I say
that a child is not guilty because of its parents.
 
Alma 30:26 And ye also say that Christ shall come. But behold, I
say that ye do not know that there shall be a Christ. And ye say
also that he shall be slain for the sins of the world--
 
Alma 30:27 And thus ye lead away this people after the foolish
traditions of your fathers, and according to your own desires;
and ye keep them down, even as it were in bondage, that ye may
glut yourselves with the labors of their hands, that they durst
not look up with boldness, and that they durst not enjoy their
rights and privileges.
 
Alma 30:28 Yea, they durst not make use of that which is their
own lest they should offend their priests, who do yoke them
according to their desires, and have brought them to believe, by
their traditions and their dreams and their whims and their
visions and their pretended mysteries, that they should, if they
did not do according to their words, offend some unknown being,
who they say is God--a being who never has been seen or known,
who never was nor ever will be.
 
Alma 30:29 Now when the high priest and the chief judge saw the
hardness of his heart, yea, when they saw that he would revile
even against God, they would not make any reply to his words; but
they caused that he should be bound; and they delivered him up
into the hands of the officers, and sent him to the land of
Zarahemla, that he might be brought before Alma, and the chief
judge who was governor over all the land.
 
Alma 30:30 And it came to pass that when he was brought before
Alma and the chief judge, he did go on in the same manner as he
did in the land of Gideon; yea, he went on to blaspheme.
 
Alma 30:31 And he did rise up in great swelling words before
Alma, and did revile against the priests and teachers, accusing
them of leading away the people after the silly traditions of
their fathers, for the sake of glutting on the labors of the
people.
 
Alma 30:32 Now Alma said unto him: Thou knowest that we do not
glut ourselves upon the labors of this people; for behold I have
labored even from the commencement of the reign of the judges
until now, with mine own hands for my support, notwithstanding my
many travels round about the land to declare the word of God unto
my people.
 
Alma 30:33 And notwithstanding the many labors which I have
performed in the church, I have never received so much as even
one senine for my labor; neither has any of my brethren, save it
were in the judgment-seat; and then we have received only
according to law for our time.
 
Alma 30:34 And now, if we do not receive anything for our labors
in the church, what doth it profit us to labor in the church save
it were to declare the truth, that we may have rejoicings in the
joy of our brethren?
 
Alma 30:35 Then why sayest thou that we preach unto this people
to get gain, when thou, of thyself, knowest that we receive no
gain? And now, believest thou that we deceive this people, that
causes such joy in their hearts?
 
Alma 30:36 And Korihor answered him, Yea.
 
Alma 30:37 And then Alma said unto him: Believest thou that there
is a God?
 
Alma 30:38 And he answered, Nay.
 
Alma 30:39 Now Alma said unto him: Will ye deny again that there
is a God, and also deny the Christ? For behold, I say unto you, I
know there is a God, and also that Christ shall come.
 
Alma 30:40 And now what evidence have ye that there is no God, or
that Christ cometh not? I say unto you that ye have none, save it
be your word only.
 
Alma 30:41 But, behold, I have all things as a testimony that
these things are true; and ye also have all things as a testimony
unto you that they are true; and will ye deny them? Believest
thou that these things are true?
 
Alma 30:42 Behold, I know that thou believest, but thou art
possessed with a lying spirit, and ye have put off the Spirit of
God that it may have no place in you; but the devil has power
over you, and he doth carry you about, working devices that he
may destroy the children of God.
 
Alma 30:43 And now Korihor said unto Alma: If thou wilt show me a
sign, that I may be convinced that there is a God, yea, show unto
me that he hath power, and then will I be convinced of the truth
of thy words.
 
Alma 30:44 But Alma said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough;
will ye tempt your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye
have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and also all the
holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all
things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things
that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also
all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that
there is a Supreme Creator.
 
Alma 30:45 And yet do ye go about, leading away the hearts of
this people, testifying unto them there is no God? And yet will
ye deny against all these witnesses? And he said: Yea, I will
deny, except ye shall show me a sign.
 
Alma 30:46 And now it came to pass that Alma said unto him:
Behold, I am grieved because of the hardness of your heart, yea,
that ye will still resist the spirit of the truth, that thy soul
may be destroyed.
 
Alma 30:47 But behold, it is better that thy soul should be lost
than that thou shouldst be the means of bringing many souls down
to destruction, by thy lying and by thy flattering words;
therefore if thou shalt deny again, behold God shall smite thee,
that thou shalt become dumb, that thou shalt never open thy mouth
any more, that thou shalt not deceive this people any more.
 
Alma 30:48 Now Korihor said unto him: I do not deny the existence
of a God, but I do not believe that there is a God; and I say
also, that ye do not know that there is a God; and except ye show
me a sign, I will not believe.
 
Alma 30:49 Now Alma said unto him: This will I give unto thee for
a sign, that thou shalt be struck dumb, according to my words;
and I say, that in the name of God, ye shall be struck dumb, that
ye shall no more have utterance.
 
Alma 30:50 Now when Alma had said these words, Korihor was struck
dumb, that he could not have utterance, according to the words of
Alma.
 
Alma 30:51 And now when the chief judge saw this, he put forth
his hand and wrote unto Korihor, saying: Art thou convinced of
the power of God? In whom did ye desire that Alma should show
forth his sign? Would ye that he should afflict others, to show
unto thee a sign? Behold, he has showed unto you a sign; and now
will ye dispute more?
 
Alma 30:52 And Korihor put forth his hand and wrote, saying: I
know that I am dumb, for I cannot speak; and I know that nothing
save it were the power of God could bring this upon me; yea, and
I always knew that there was a God.
 
Alma 30:53 But behold, the devil hath deceived me; for he
appeared unto me in the form of an angel, and said unto me: Go
and reclaim this people, for they have all gone astray after an
unknown God. And he said unto me: There is no God; yea, and he
taught me that which I should say. And I have taught his words;
and I taught them because they were pleasing unto the carnal
mind; and I taught them, even until I had much success, insomuch
that I verily believed that they were true; and for this cause I
withstood the truth, even until I have brought this great curse
upon me.
 
Alma 30:54 Now when he had said this, he besought that Alma
should pray unto God, that the curse might be taken from him.
 
Alma 30:55 But Alma said unto him: If this curse should be taken
from thee thou wouldst again lead away the hearts of this people;
therefore, it shall be unto thee even as the Lord will.
 
Alma 30:56 And it came to pass that the curse was not taken off
of Korihor; but he was cast out, and went about from house to
house begging for his food.
 
Alma 30:57 Now the knowledge of what had happened unto Korihor
was immediately published throughout all the land; yea, the
proclamation was sent forth by the chief judge to all the people
in the land, declaring unto those who had believed in the words
of Korihor that they must speedily repent, lest the same
judgments would come unto them.
 
Alma 30:58 And it came to pass that they were all convinced of
the wickedness of Korihor; therefore they were all converted
again unto the Lord; and this put an end to the iniquity after
the manner of Korihor. And Korihor did go about from house to
house, begging food for his support.
 
Alma 30:59 And it came to pass that as he went forth among the
people, yea, among a people who had separated themselves from the
Nephites and called themselves Zoramites, being led by a man
whose name was Zoram--and as he went forth amongst them, behold,
he was run upon and trodden down, even until he was dead.
 
Alma 30:60 And thus we see the end of him who perverteth the ways
of the Lord; and thus we see that the devil will not support his
children at the last day, but doth speedily drag them down to
hell.
 
Alma 31:0 Alma heads a mission to reclaim the apostate Zoramites-
-The Rameumptom or holy stand--The Zoramite form of worship.
 
Alma 31:1 Now it came to pass that after the end of Korihor, Alma
having received tidings that the Zoramites were perverting the
ways of the Lord, and that Zoram, who was their leader, was
leading the hearts of the people to bow down to dumb idols, his
heart again began to sicken because of the iniquity of the
people.
 
Alma 31:2 For it was the cause of great sorrow to Alma to know of
iniquity among his people; therefore his heart was exceedingly
sorrowful because of the separation of the Zoramites from the
Nephites.
 
Alma 31:3 Now the Zoramites had gathered themselves together in a
land which they called Antionum, which was east of the land of
Zarahemla, which lay nearly bordering upon the seashore, which
was south of the land of Jershon, which also bordered upon the
wilderness south, which wilderness was full of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 31:4 Now the Nephites greatly feared that the Zoramites
would enter into a correspondence with the Lamanites, and that it
would be the means of great loss on the part of the Nephites.
 
Alma 31:5 And now, as the preaching of the word had a great
tendency to lead the people to do that which was just--yea, it
had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than
the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them--
therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the
virtue of the word of God.
 
Alma 31:6 Therefore he took Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner; and
Himni he did leave in the church in Zarahemla; but the former
three he took with him, and also Amulek and Zeezrom, who were at
Melek; and he also took two of his sons.
 
Alma 31:7 Now the eldest of his sons he took not with him, and
his name was Helaman; but the names of those whom he took with
him were Shiblon and Corianton; and these are the names of those
who went with him among the Zoramites, to preach unto them the
word.
 
Alma 31:8 Now the Zoramites were dissenters from the Nephites;
therefore they had had the word of God preached unto them.
 
Alma 31:9 But they had fallen into great errors, for they would
not observe to keep the commandments of God, and his statutes,
according to the law of Moses.
 
Alma 31:10 Neither would they observe the performances of the
church, to continue in prayer and supplication to God daily, that
they might not enter into temptation.
 
Alma 31:11 Yea, in fine, they did pervert the ways of the Lord in
very many instances; therefore, for this cause, Alma and his
brethren went into the land to preach the word unto them.
 
Alma 31:12 Now, when they had come into the land, behold, to
their astonishment they found that the Zoramites had built
synagogues, and that they did gather themselves together on one
day of the week, which day they did call the day of the Lord; and
they did worship after a manner which Alma and his brethren had
never beheld;
 
Alma 31:13 For they had a place built up in the center of their
synagogue, a place for standing, which was high above the head,
and the top thereof would only admit one person.
 
Alma 31:14 Therefore, whosoever desired to worship must go forth
and stand upon the top thereof, and stretch forth his hands
towards heaven, and cry with a loud voice, saying:
 
Alma 31:15 Holy, holy God; we believe that thou art God, and we
believe that thou art holy, and that thou wast a spirit, and that
thou art a spirit, and that thou wilt be a spirit forever.
 
Alma 31:16 Holy God, we believe that thou hast separated us from
our brethren; and we do not believe in the tradition of our
brethren, which was handed down to them by the childishness of
their fathers; but we believe that thou hast elected us to be thy
holy children; and also thou hast made it known unto us that
there shall be no Christ.
 
Alma 31:17 But thou art the same yesterday, today, and forever;
and thou hast elected us that we shall be saved, whilst all
around us are elected to be cast by thy wrath down to hell; for
the which holiness, O God, we thank thee; and we also thank thee
that thou hast elected us, that we may not be led away after the
foolish traditions of our brethren, which doth bind them down to
a belief of Christ, which doth lead their hearts to wander far
from thee, our God.
 
Alma 31:18 And again we thank thee, O God, that we are a chosen
and a holy people. Amen.
 
Alma 31:19 Now it came to pass that after Alma and his brethren
and his sons had heard these prayers, they were astonished beyond
all measure.
 
Alma 31:20 For behold, every man did go forth and offer up these
same prayers.
 
Alma 31:21 Now the place was called by them Rameumptom, which,
being interpreted, is the holy stand.
 
Alma 31:22 Now, from this stand they did offer up, every man, the
selfsame prayer unto God, thanking their God that they were
chosen of him, and that he did not lead them away after the
tradition of their brethren, and that their hearts were not
stolen away to believe in things to come, which they knew nothing
about.
 
Alma 31:23 Now, after the people had all offered up thanks after
this manner, they returned to their homes, never speaking of
their God again until they had assembled themselves together
again to the holy stand, to offer up thanks after their manner.
 
Alma 31:24 Now when Alma saw this his heart was grieved; for he
saw that they were a wicked and a perverse people; yea, he saw
that their hearts were set upon gold, and upon silver, and upon
all manner of fine goods.
 
Alma 31:25 Yea, and he also saw that their hearts were lifted up
unto great boasting, in their pride.
 
Alma 31:26 And he lifted up his voice to heaven, and cried,
saying: O, how long, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that thy servants
shall dwell here below in the flesh, to behold such gross
wickedness among the children of men?
 
Alma 31:27 Behold, O God, they cry unto thee, and yet their
hearts are swallowed up in their pride. Behold, O God, they cry
unto thee with their mouths, while they are puffed up, even to
greatness, with the vain things of the world.
 
Alma 31:28 Behold, O my God, their costly apparel, and their
ringlets, and their bracelets, and their ornaments of gold, and
all their precious things which they are ornamented with; and
behold, their hearts are set upon them, and yet they cry unto
thee and say--We thank thee, O God, for we are a chosen people
unto thee, while others shall perish.
 
Alma 31:29 Yea, and they say that thou hast made it known unto
them that there shall be no Christ.
 
Alma 31:30 O Lord God, how long wilt thou suffer that such
wickedness and infidelity shall be among this people? O Lord,
wilt thou give me strength, that I may bear with mine
infirmities. For I am infirm, and such wickedness among this
people doth pain my soul.
 
Alma 31:31 O Lord, my heart is exceedingly sorrowful; wilt thou
comfort my soul in Christ. O Lord, wilt thou grant unto me that I
may have strength, that I may suffer with patience these
afflictions which shall come upon me, because of the iniquity of
this people.
 
Alma 31:32 O Lord, wilt thou comfort my soul, and give unto me
success, and also my fellow laborers who are with me--yea, Ammon,
and Aaron, and Omner, and also Amulek and Zeezrom and also my two
sons--yea, even all these wilt thou comfort, O Lord. Yea, wilt
thou comfort their souls in Christ.
 
Alma 31:33 Wilt thou grant unto them that they may have strength,
that they may bear their afflictions which shall come upon them
because of the iniquities of this people.
 
Alma 31:34 O Lord, wilt thou grant unto us that we may have
success in bringing them again unto thee in Christ.
 
Alma 31:35 Behold, O Lord, their souls are precious, and many of
them are our brethren; therefore, give unto us, O Lord, power and
wisdom that we may bring these, our brethren, again unto thee.
 
Alma 31:36 Now it came to pass that when Alma had said these
words, that he clapped his hands upon all them who were with him.
And behold, as he clapped his hands upon them, they were filled
with the Holy Spirit.
 
Alma 31:37 And after that they did separate themselves one from
another, taking no thought for themselves what they should eat,
or what they should drink, or what they should put on.
 
Alma 31:38 And the Lord provided for them that they should hunger
not, neither should they thirst; yea, and he also gave them
strength, that they should suffer no manner of afflictions, save
it were swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Now this was according
to the prayer of Alma; and this because he prayed in faith.
 
Alma 32:0 The poor hearken to message of salvation--Alma's
commendation and discourse--Faith developed by desire to believe.
 
Alma 32:1 And it came to pass that they did go forth, and began
to preach the word of God unto the people, entering into their
synagogues, and into their houses; yea, and even they did preach
the word in their streets.
 
Alma 32:2 And it came to pass that after much labor among them,
they began to have success among the poor class of people; for
behold, they were cast out of the synagogues because of the
coarseness of their apparel--
 
Alma 32:3 Therefore they were not permitted to enter into their
synagogues to worship God, being esteemed as filthiness;
therefore they were poor; yea, they were esteemed by their
brethren as dross; therefore they were poor as to things of the
world; and also they were poor in heart.
 
Alma 32:4 Now, as Alma was teaching and speaking unto the people
upon the hill Onidah, there came a great multitude unto him, who
were those of whom we have been speaking, of whom were poor in
heart, because of their poverty as to the things of the world.
 
Alma 32:5 And they came unto Alma; and the one who was the
foremost among them said unto him: Behold, what shall these my
brethren do, for they are despised of all men because of their
poverty, yea, and more especially by our priests; for they have
cast us out of our synagogues which we have labored abundantly to
build with our own hands; and they have cast us out because of
our exceeding poverty; and we have no place to worship our God;
and behold, what shall we do?
 
Alma 32:6 And now when Alma heard this, he turned him about, his
face immediately towards him, and he beheld with great joy; for
he beheld that their afflictions had truly humbled them and that
they were in a preparation to hear the word.
 
Alma 32:7 Therefore he did say no more to the other multitude;
but he stretched forth his hand, and cried unto those whom he
beheld, who were truly penitent, and said unto them:
 
Alma 32:8 I behold that ye are lowly in heart; and if so, blessed
are ye.
 
Alma 32:9 Behold thy brother hath said, What shall we do? --for
we are cast out of our synagogues, that we cannot worship our
God.
 
Alma 32:10 Behold I say unto you, do ye suppose that ye cannot
worship God save it be in your synagogues only?
 
Alma 32:11 And moreover, I would ask, do ye suppose that ye must
not worship God only once in a week?
 
Alma 32:12 I say unto you, it is well that ye are cast out of
your synagogues, that ye may be humble, and that ye may learn
wisdom; for it is necessary that ye should learn wisdom; for it
is because that ye are cast out, that ye are despised of your
brethren because of your exceeding poverty, that ye are brought
to a lowliness of heart; for ye are necessarily brought to be
humble.
 
Alma 32:13 And now, because ye are compelled to be humble blessed
are ye; for a man sometimes, if he is compelled to be humble,
seeketh repentance; and now surely, whosoever repenteth shall
find mercy; and he that findeth mercy and endureth to the end the
same shall be saved.
 
Alma 32:14 And now, as I said unto you, that because ye were
compelled to be humble ye were blessed, do ye not suppose that
they are more blessed who truly humble themselves because of the
word?
 
Alma 32:15 Yea, he that truly humbleth himself, and repenteth of
his sins, and endureth to the end, the same shall be blessed--
yea, much more blessed than they who are compelled to be humble
because of their exceeding poverty.
 
Alma 32:16 Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves
without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words,
blessed is he that believeth in the word of God, and is baptized
without stubbornness of heart, yea, without being brought to know
the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe.
 
Alma 32:17 Yea, there are many who do say: If thou wilt show unto
us a sign from heaven, then we shall know of a surety; then we
shall believe.
 
Alma 32:18 Now I ask, is this faith? Behold, I say unto you, Nay;
for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he
knoweth it.
 
Alma 32:19 And now, how much more cursed is he that knoweth the
will of God and doeth it not, than he that only believeth, or
only hath cause to believe, and falleth into transgression?
 
Alma 32:20 Now of this thing ye must judge. Behold, I say unto
you, that it is on the one hand even as it is on the other; and
it shall be unto every man according to his work.
 
Alma 32:21 And now as I said concerning faith--faith is not to
have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye
hope for things which are not seen, which are true.
 
Alma 32:22 And now, behold, I say unto you, and I would that ye
should remember, that God is merciful unto all who believe on his
name; therefore he desireth, in the first place, that ye should
believe, yea, even on his word.
 
Alma 32:23 And now, he imparteth his word by angels unto men,
yea, not only men but women also. Now this is not all; little
children do have words given unto them many times which confound
the wise and the learned.
 
Alma 32:24 And now, my beloved brethren, as ye have desired to
know of me what ye shall do because ye are afflicted and cast
out--now I do not desire that ye should suppose that I mean to
judge you only according to that which is true--
 
Alma 32:25 For I do not mean that ye all of you have been
compelled to humble yourselves; for I verily believe that there
are some among you who would humble themselves, let them be in
whatsoever circumstances they might.
 
Alma 32:26 Now, as I said concerning faith--that it was not a
perfect knowledge--even so it is with my words. Ye cannot know of
their surety at first, unto perfection, any more than faith is a
perfect knowledge.
 
Alma 32:27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your
faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a
particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to
believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a
manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.
 
Alma 32:28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye
give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if
it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by
your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord,
behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you
feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within
yourselves--It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that
the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it
beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be
delicious to me.
 
Alma 32:29 Now behold, would not this increase your faith? I say
unto you, Yea; nevertheless it hath not grown up to a perfect
knowledge.
 
Alma 32:30 But behold, as the seed swelleth, and sprouteth, and
beginneth to grow, then you must needs say that the seed is good;
for behold it swelleth, and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow. And
now, behold, will not this strengthen your faith? Yea, it will
strengthen your faith: for ye will say I know that this is a good
seed; for behold it sprouteth and beginneth to grow.
 
Alma 32:31 And now, behold, are ye sure that this is a good seed?
I say unto you, Yea; for every seed bringeth forth unto its own
likeness.
 
Alma 32:32 Therefore, if a seed groweth it is good, but if it
groweth not, behold it is not good, therefore it is cast away.
 
Alma 32:33 And now, behold, because ye have tried the experiment,
and planted the seed, and it swelleth and sprouteth, and
beginneth to grow, ye must needs know that the seed is good.
 
Alma 32:34 And now, behold, is your knowledge perfect? Yea, your
knowledge is perfect in that thing, and your faith is dormant;
and this because you know, for ye know that the word hath swelled
your souls, and ye also know that it hath sprouted up, that your
understanding doth begin to be enlightened, and your mind doth
begin to expand.
 
Alma 32:35 O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because
it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is
discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now
behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge
perfect?
 
Alma 32:36 Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither must ye lay aside
your faith, for ye have only exercised your faith to plant the
seed that ye might try the experiment to know if the seed was
good.
 
Alma 32:37 And behold, as the tree beginneth to grow, ye will
say: Let us nourish it with great care, that it may get root,
that it may grow up, and bring forth fruit unto us. And now
behold, if ye nourish it with much care it will get root, and
grow up, and bring forth fruit.
 
Alma 32:38 But if ye neglect the tree, and take no thought for
its nourishment, behold it will not get any root; and when the
heat of the sun cometh and scorcheth it, because it hath no root
it withers away, and ye pluck it up and cast it out.
 
Alma 32:39 Now, this is not because the seed was not good,
neither is it because the fruit thereof would not be desirable;
but it is because your ground is barren, and ye will not nourish
the tree, therefore ye cannot have the fruit thereof.
 
Alma 32:40 And thus, if ye will not nourish the word, looking
forward with an eye of faith to the fruit thereof, ye can never
pluck of the fruit of the tree of life.
 
Alma 32:41 But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree
as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and
with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall
take root; and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto
everlasting life.
 
Alma 32:42 And because of your diligence and your faith and your
patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in
you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is
most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which
is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is
pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are
filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst.
 
Alma 32:43 Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your
faith, and your diligence, and patience, and long-suffering,
waiting for the tree to bring forth fruit unto you.
 
Alma 33:0 Alma's discourse continued--True worship not confined
to sanctuaries--The prophets Zenos and Zenock again cited.
 
Alma 33:1 Now after Alma had spoken these words, they sent forth
unto him desiring to know whether they should believe in one God,
that they might obtain this fruit of which he had spoken, or how
they should plant the seed, or the word of which he had spoken,
which he said must be planted in their hearts; or in what manner
they should begin to exercise their faith.
 
Alma 33:2 And Alma said unto them: Behold, ye have said that ye
could not worship your God because ye are cast out of your
synagogues. But behold, I say unto you, if ye suppose that ye
cannot worship God, ye do greatly err, and ye ought to search the
scriptures; if ye suppose that they have taught you this, ye do
not understand them.
 
Alma 33:3 Do ye remember to have read what Zenos, the prophet of
old, has said concerning prayer or worship?
 
Alma 33:4 For he said: Thou art merciful, O God, for thou hast
heard my prayer, even when I was in the wilderness; yea, thou
wast merciful when I prayed concerning those who were mine
enemies, and thou didst turn them to me.
 
Alma 33:5 Yea, O God, and thou wast merciful unto me when I did
cry unto thee in my field; when I did cry unto thee in my prayer,
and thou didst hear me.
 
Alma 33:6 And again, O God, when I did turn to my house thou
didst hear me in my prayer.
 
Alma 33:7 And when I did turn unto my closet, O Lord, and prayed
unto thee, thou didst hear me.
 
Alma 33:8 Yea, thou art merciful unto thy children when they cry
unto thee, to be heard of thee and not of men, and thou wilt hear
them.
 
Alma 33:9 Yea, O God, thou hast been merciful unto me, and heard
my cries in the midst of thy congregations.
 
Alma 33:10 Yea, and thou hast also heard me when I have been cast
out and have been despised by mine enemies; yea, thou didst hear
my cries, and wast angry with mine enemies, and thou didst visit
them in thine anger with speedy destruction.
 
Alma 33:11 And thou didst hear me because of mine afflictions and
my sincerity; and it is because of thy Son that thou hast been
thus merciful unto me, therefore I will cry unto thee in all mine
afflictions, for in thee is my joy; for thou hast turned thy
judgments away from me, because of thy Son.
 
Alma 33:12 And now Alma said unto them: Do ye believe those
scriptures which have been written by them of old?
 
Alma 33:13 Behold, if ye do, ye must believe what Zenos said;
for, behold he said: Thou hast turned away thy judgments because
of thy Son.
 
Alma 33:14 Now behold, my brethren, I would ask if ye have read
the scriptures? If ye have, how can ye disbelieve on the Son of
God?
 
Alma 33:15 For it is not written that Zenos alone spake of these
things, but Zenock also spake of these things--
 
Alma 33:16 For behold, he said: Thou art angry, O Lord, with this
people, because they will not understand thy mercies which thou
hast bestowed upon them because of thy Son.
 
Alma 33:17 And now, my brethren, ye see that a second prophet of
old has testified of the Son of God, and because the people would
not understand his words they stoned him to death.
 
Alma 33:18 But behold, this is not all; these are not the only
ones who have spoken concerning the Son of God.
 
Alma 33:19 Behold, he was spoken of by Moses; yea, and behold a
type was raised up in the wilderness, that whosoever would look
upon it might live. And many did look and live.
 
Alma 33:20 But few understood the meaning of those things, and
this because of the hardness of their hearts. But there were many
who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they
perished. Now the reason they would not look is because they did
not believe that it would heal them.
 
Alma 33:21 O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting
about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold
quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and
be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye
might perish?
 
Alma 33:22 If so, wo shall come upon you; but if not so, then
cast about your eyes and begin to believe in the Son of God, that
he will come to redeem his people, and that he shall suffer and
die to atone for their sins; and that he shall rise again from
the dead, which shall bring to pass the resurrection, that all
men shall stand before him, to be judged at the last and judgment
day, according to their works.
 
Alma 33:23 And now, my brethren, I desire that ye shall plant
this word in your hearts, and as it beginneth to swell even so
nourish it by your faith. And behold, it will become a tree,
springing up in you unto everlasting life. And then may God grant
unto you that your burdens may be light, through the joy of his
Son. And even all this can ye do if ye will. Amen.
 
Alma 34:0 Amulek's testimony--The great and last sacrifice--how
mercy satisfies justice--Repentance not to be procrastinated.
 
Alma 34:1 And now it came to pass that after Alma had spoken
these words unto them he sat down upon the ground, and Amulek
arose and began to teach them, saying:
 
Alma 34:2 My brethren, I think that it is impossible that ye
should be ignorant of the things which have been spoken
concerning the coming of Christ, who is taught by us to be the
Son of God; yea, I know that these things were taught unto you
bountifully before your dissension from among us.
 
Alma 34:3 And as ye have desired of my beloved brother that he
should make known unto you what ye should do, because of your
afflictions; and he hath spoken somewhat unto you to prepare your
minds; yea, and he hath exhorted you unto faith and to patience--
Alma 34:4 Yea, even that ye would have so much faith as even to
plant the word in your hearts, that ye may try the experiment of
its goodness.
 
Alma 34:5 And we have beheld that the great question which is in
your minds is whether the word be in the Son of God, or whether
there shall be no Christ.
 
Alma 34:6 And ye also beheld that my brother has proved unto you,
in many instances, that the word is in Christ unto salvation.
 
Alma 34:7 My brother has called upon the words of Zenos, that
redemption cometh through the Son of God, and also upon the words
of Zenock; and also he has appealed unto Moses, to prove that
these things are true.
 
Alma 34:8 And now, behold, I will testify unto you of myself that
these things are true. Behold, I say unto you, that I do know
that Christ shall come among the children of men, to take upon
him the transgressions of his people, and that he shall atone for
the sins of the world; for the Lord God hath spoken it.
 
Alma 34:9 For it is expedient that an atonement should be made;
for according to the great plan of the Eternal God there must be
an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish;
yea, all are hardened; yea, all are fallen and are lost, and must
perish except it be through the atonement which it is expedient
should be made.
 
Alma 34:10 For it is expedient that there should be a great and
last sacrifice; yea, not a sacrifice of man, neither of beast,
neither of any manner of fowl; for it shall not be a human
sacrifice; but it must be an infinite and eternal sacrifice.
 
Alma 34:11 Now there is not any man that can sacrifice his own
blood which will atone for the sins of another. Now, if a man
murdereth, behold will our law, which is just, take the life of
his brother? I say unto you, Nay.
 
Alma 34:12 But the law requireth the life of him who hath
murdered; therefore there can be nothing which is short of an
infinite atonement which will suffice for the sins of the world.
 
Alma 34:13 Therefore, it is expedient that there should be a
great and last sacrifice, and then shall there be, or it is
expedient there should be, a stop to the shedding of blood; then
shall the law of Moses be fulfilled; yea, it shall be all
fulfilled, every jot and tittle, and none shall have passed away.
 
Alma 34:14 And behold, this is the whole meaning of the law,
every whit pointing to that great and last sacrifice; and that
great and last sacrifice will be the Son of God, yea, infinite
and eternal.
 
Alma 34:15 And thus he shall bring salvation to all those who
shall believe on his name; this being the intent of this last
sacrifice, to bring about the bowels of mercy, which overpowereth
justice, and bringeth about means unto men that they may have
faith unto repentance.
 
Alma 34:16 And thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and
encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no
faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands
of justice; therefore only unto him that has faith unto
repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of
redemption.
 
Alma 34:17 Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye
may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin
to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you;
 
Alma 34:18 Yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is mighty to save.
 
Alma 34:19 Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in prayer unto
him.
 
Alma 34:20 Cry unto him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all
your flocks.
 
Alma 34:21 Cry unto him in your houses, yea, over all your
household, both morning, mid-day, and evening.
 
Alma 34:22 Yea, cry unto him against the power of your enemies.
 
Alma 34:23 Yea, cry unto him against the devil, who is an enemy
to all righteousness.
 
Alma 34:24 Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye
may prosper in them.
 
Alma 34:25 Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they may
increase.
 
Alma 34:26 But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in
your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness.
 
Alma 34:27 Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your
hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your
welfare, and also for the welfare of those who are around you.
 
Alma 34:28 And now behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you,
do not suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these
things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not
the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have,
to those who stand in need--I say unto you, if ye do not any of
these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you
nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith.
 
Alma 34:29 Therefore, if ye do not remember to be charitable, ye
are as dross, which the refiners do cast out, (it being of no
worth) and is trodden under foot of men.
 
Alma 34:30 And now, my brethren, I would that, after ye have
received so many witnesses, seeing that the holy scriptures
testify of these things, ye come forth and bring fruit unto
repentance.
 
Alma 34:31 Yea, I would that ye would come forth and harden not
your hearts any longer; for behold, now is the time and the day
of your salvation; and therefore, if ye will repent and harden
not your hearts, immediately shall the great plan of redemption
be brought about unto you.
 
Alma 34:32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare
to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men
to perform their labors.
 
Alma 34:33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so
many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not
procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after
this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity,
behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then
cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor
performed.
 
Alma 34:34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful
crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye
cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your
bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit
will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.
 
Alma 34:35 For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your
repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to
the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the
Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in
you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final
state of the wicked.
 
Alma 34:36 And this I know, because the Lord hath said he
dwelleth not in unholy temples, but in the hearts of the
righteous doth he dwell; yea, and he has also said that the
righteous shall sit down in his kingdom, to go no more out; but
their garments should be made white through the blood of the
Lamb.
 
Alma 34:37 And now, my beloved brethren, I desire that ye should
remember these things, and that ye should work out your salvation
with fear before God, and that ye should no more deny the coming
of Christ;
 
Alma 34:38 That ye contend no more against the Holy Ghost, but
that ye receive it, and take upon you the name of Christ; that ye
humble yourselves even to the dust, and worship God, in
whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that
ye live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings
which he doth bestow upon you.
 
Alma 34:39 Yea, and I also exhort you, my brethren, that ye be
watchful unto prayer continually, that ye may not be led away by
the temptations of the devil, that he may not overpower you, that
ye may not become his subjects at the last day; for behold, he
rewardeth you no good thing.
 
Alma 34:40 And now my beloved brethren, I would exhort you to
have patience, and that ye bear with all manner of afflictions;
that ye do not revile against those who do cast you out because
of your exceeding poverty, lest ye become sinners like unto them;
 
Alma 34:41 But that ye have patience, and bear with those
afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all
your afflictions.
 
Alma 35:0 Nephite missionaries retire to land of Jershon--Their
Zoramite converts, expelled from their own country, rejoin them--
Preparations for war.
 
Alma 35:1 Now it came to pass that after Amulek had made an end
of these words, they withdrew themselves from the multitude and
came over into the land of Jershon.
 
Alma 35:2 Yea, and the rest of the brethren, after they had
preached the word unto the Zoramites, also came over into the
land of Jershon.
 
Alma 35:3 And it came to pass that after the more popular part of
the Zoramites had consulted together concerning the words which
had been preached unto them, they were angry because of the word,
for it did destroy their craft; therefore they would not hearken
unto the words.
 
Alma 35:4 And they sent and gathered together throughout all the
land all the people, and consulted with them concerning the words
which had been spoken.
 
Alma 35:5 Now their rulers and their priests and their teachers
did not let the people know concerning their desires; therefore
they found out privily the minds of all the people.
 
Alma 35:6 And it came to pass that after they had found out the
minds of all the people, those who were in favor of the words
which had been spoken by Alma and his brethren were cast out of
the land; and they were many; and they came over also into the
land of Jershon.
 
Alma 35:7 And it came to pass that Alma and his brethren did
minister unto them.
 
Alma 35:8 Now the people of the Zoramites were angry with the
people of Ammon who were in Jershon, and the chief ruler of the
Zoramites, being a very wicked man, sent over unto the people of
Ammon desiring them that they should cast out of their land all
those who came over from them into their land.
 
Alma 35:9 And he breathed out many threatenings against them. And
now the people of Ammon did not fear their words; therefore they
did not cast them out, but they did receive all the poor of the
Zoramites that came over unto them; and they did nourish them,
and did clothe them, and did give unto them lands for their
inheritance; and they did administer unto them according to their
wants.
 
Alma 35:10 Now this did stir up the Zoramites to anger against
the people of Ammon, and they began to mix with the Lamanites and
to stir them up also to anger against them.
 
Alma 35:11 And thus the Zoramites and the Lamanites began to make
preparations for war against the people of Ammon, and also
against the Nephites.
 
Alma 35:12 And thus ended the seventeenth year of the reign of
the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 35:13 And the people of Ammon departed out of the land of
Jershon, and came over into the land of Melek, and gave place in
the land of Jershon for the armies of the Nephites, that they
might contend with the armies of the Lamanites and the armies of
the Zoramites; and thus commenced a war betwixt the Lamanites and
the Nephites, in the eighteenth year of the reign of the judges;
and an account shall be given of their wars hereafter.
 
Alma 35:14 And Alma, and Ammon, and their brethren, and also the
two sons of Alma returned to the land of Zarahemla, after having
been instruments in the hands of God of bringing many of the
Zoramites to repentance; and as many as were brought to
repentance were driven out of their land; but they have lands for
their inheritance in the land of Jershon, and they have taken up
arms to defend themselves, and their wives, and children, and
their lands.
 
Alma 35:15 Now Alma, being grieved for the iniquity of his
people, yea for the wars, and the bloodsheds, and the contentions
which were among them; and having been to declare the word, or
sent to declare the word, among all the people in every city; and
seeing that the hearts of the people began to wax hard, and that
they began to be offended because of the strictness of the word,
his heart was exceedingly sorrowful.
 
Alma 35:16 Therefore, he caused that his sons should be gathered
together, that he might give unto them every one his charge,
separately, concerning the things pertaining unto righteousness.
And we have an account of his commandments, which he gave unto
them according to his own record.
 
Alma 36:00 The commandments of Alma to his son, Helaman.
Comprising chapters 36 and 37.
 
Alma 36:0 Alma recounts his sinful past, his miraculous
conversion, and his subsequent zeal in the ministry.
 
Alma 36:1 My son, give ear to my words; for I swear unto you,
that inasmuch as ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall
prosper in the land.
 
Alma 36:2 I would that ye should do as I have done, in
remembering the captivity of our fathers; for they were in
bondage, and none could deliver them except it was the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he
surely did deliver them in their afflictions.
 
Alma 36:3 And now, O my son Helaman, behold, thou art in thy
youth, and therefore, I beseech of thee that thou wilt hear my
words and learn of me; for I do know that whosoever shall put
their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their
troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the
last day.
 
Alma 36:4 And I would not that ye think that I know of myself--
not of the temporal but of the spiritual, not of the carnal mind
but of God.
 
Alma 36:5 Now, behold, I say unto you, if I had not been born of
God I should not have known these things; but God has, by the
mouth of his holy angel, made these things known unto me, not of
any worthiness of myself;
 
Alma 36:6 For I went about with the sons of Mosiah, seeking to
destroy the church of God; but behold, God sent his holy angel to
stop us by the way.
 
Alma 36:7 And behold, he spake unto us, as it were the voice of
thunder, and the whole earth did tremble beneath our feet; and we
all fell to the earth, for the fear of the Lord came upon us.
 
Alma 36:8 But behold, the voice said unto me: Arise. And I arose
and stood up, and beheld the angel.
 
Alma 36:9 And he said unto me: If thou wilt of thyself be
destroyed, seek no more to destroy the church of God.
 
Alma 36:10 And it came to pass that I fell to the earth; and it
was for the space of three days and three nights that I could not
open my mouth, neither had I the use of my limbs.
 
Alma 36:11 And the angel spake more things unto me, which were
heard by my brethren, but I did not hear them; for when I heard
the words--If thou wilt be destroyed of thyself, seek no more to
destroy the church of God--I was struck with such great fear and
amazement lest perhaps I should be destroyed, that I fell to the
earth and I did hear no more.
 
Alma 36:12 But I was racked with eternal torment, for my soul was
harrowed up to the greatest degree and racked with all my sins.
 
Alma 36:13 Yea, I did remember all my sins and iniquities, for
which I was tormented with the pains of hell; yea, I saw that I
had rebelled against my God, and that I had not kept his holy
commandments.
 
Alma 36:14 Yea, and I had murdered many of his children, or
rather led them away unto destruction; yea, and in fine so great
had been my iniquities, that the very thought of coming into the
presence of my God did rack my soul with inexpressible horror.
 
Alma 36:15 Oh, thought I, that I could be banished and become
extinct both soul and body, that I might not be brought to stand
in the presence of my God, to be judged of my deeds.
 
Alma 36:16 And now, for three days and for three nights was I
racked, even with the pains of a damned soul.
 
Alma 36:17 And it came to pass that as I was thus racked with
torment, while I was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins,
behold, I remembered also to have heard my father prophesy unto
the people concerning the coming of one Jesus Christ, a Son of
God, to atone for the sins of the world.
 
Alma 36:18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried
within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who
am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the
everlasting chains of death.
 
Alma 36:19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember
my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins
no more.
 
Alma 36:20 And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did
behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my
pain!
 
Alma 36:21 Yea, I say unto you, my son, that there could be
nothing so exquisite and so bitter as were my pains. Yea, and
again I say unto you, my son, that on the other hand, there can
be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my joy.
 
Alma 36:22 Yea, methought I saw, even as our father Lehi saw, God
sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of
angels, in the attitude of singing and praising their God; yea,
and my soul did long to be there.
 
Alma 36:23 But behold, my limbs did receive their strength again,
and I stood upon my feet, and did manifest unto the people that I
had been born of God.
 
Alma 36:24 Yea, and from that time even until now, I have labored
without ceasing, that I might bring souls unto repentance; that I
might bring them to taste of the exceeding joy of which I did
taste; that they might also be born of God, and be filled with
the Holy Ghost.
 
Alma 36:25 Yea, and now behold, O my son, the Lord doth give me
exceedingly great joy in the fruit of my labors;
 
Alma 36:26 For because of the word which he has imparted unto me,
behold, many have been born of God, and have tasted as I have
tasted, and have seen eye to eye as I have seen; therefore they
do know of these things of which I have spoken, as I do know; and
the knowledge which I have is of God.
 
Alma 36:27 And I have been supported under trials and troubles of
every kind, yea, and in all manner of afflictions; yea, God has
delivered me from prison, and from bonds, and from death; yea,
and I do put my trust in him, and he will still deliver me.
 
Alma 36:28 And I know that he will raise me up at the last day,
to dwell with him in glory; yea, and I will praise him forever,
for he has brought our fathers out of Egypt, and he has swallowed
up the Egyptians in the Red Sea; and he led them by his power
into the promised land; yea, and he has delivered them out of
bondage and captivity from time to time.
 
Alma 36:29 Yea, and he has also brought our fathers out of the
land of Jerusalem; and he has also, by his everlasting power,
delivered them out of bondage and captivity, from time to time
even down to the present day; and I have always retained in
remembrance their captivity; yea, and ye also ought to retain in
remembrance, as I have done, their captivity.
 
Alma 36:30 But behold, my son, this is not all; for ye ought to
know as I do know, that inasmuch as ye shall keep the
commandments of God ye shall prosper in the land; and ye ought to
know also, that inasmuch as ye will not keep the commandments of
God ye shall be cut off from his presence. Now this is according
to his word.
 
Alma 37:0 Helaman entrusted with the records and other sacred
relics--Gazelem--The Liahona a type of the word of Christ.
 
Alma 37:1 And now, my son Helaman, I command you that ye take the
records which have been entrusted with me;
 
Alma 37:2 And I also command you that ye keep a record of this
people, according as I have done, upon the plates of Nephi, and
keep all these things sacred which I have kept, even as I have
kept them; for it is for a wise purpose that they are kept.
 
Alma 37:3 And these plates of brass, which contain these
engravings, which have the records of the holy scriptures upon
them, which have the genealogy of our forefathers, even from the
beginning--
 
Alma 37:4 Behold, it has been prophesied by our fathers, that
they should be kept and handed down from one generation to
another, and be kept and preserved by the hand of the Lord until
they should go forth unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and
people, that they shall know of the mysteries contained thereon.
 
Alma 37:5 And now behold, if they are kept they must retain their
brightness; yea, and they will retain their brightness; yea, and
also shall all the plates which do contain that which is holy
writ.
 
Alma 37:6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but
behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great
things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth
confound the wise.
 
Alma 37:7 And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his
great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth
confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.
 
Alma 37:8 And now, it has hitherto been wisdom in God that these
things should be preserved; for behold, they have enlarged the
memory of this people, yea, and convinced many of the error of
their ways, and brought them to the knowledge of their God unto
the salvation of their souls.
 
Alma 37:9 Yea, I say unto you, were it not for these things that
these records do contain, which are on these plates, Ammon and
his brethren could not have convinced so many thousands of the
Lamanites of the incorrect tradition of their fathers; yea, these
records and their words brought them unto repentance; that is,
they brought them to the knowledge of the Lord their God, and to
rejoice in Jesus Christ their Redeemer.
 
Alma 37:10 And who knoweth but what they will be the means of
bringing many thousands of them, yea, and also many thousands of
our stiff-necked brethren, the Nephites, who are now hardening
their hearts in sin and iniquities, to the knowledge of their
Redeemer?
 
Alma 37:11 Now these mysteries are not yet fully made known unto
me; therefore I shall forbear.
 
Alma 37:12 And it may suffice if I only say they are preserved
for a wise purpose, which purpose is known unto God; for he doth
counsel in wisdom over all his works, and his paths are straight,
and his course is one eternal round.
 
Alma 37:13 O remember, remember, my son Helaman, how strict are
the commandments of God. And he said: If ye will keep my
commandments ye shall prosper in the land--but if ye keep not his
commandments ye shall be cut off from his presence.
 
Alma 37:14 And now remember, my son, that God has entrusted you
with these things, which are sacred, which he has kept sacred,
and also which he will keep and preserve for a wise purpose in
him, that he may show forth his power unto future generations.
 
Alma 37:15 And now behold, I tell you by the spirit of prophecy,
that if ye transgress the commandments of God, behold, these
things which are sacred shall be taken away from you by the power
of God, and ye shall be delivered up unto Satan, that he may sift
you as chaff before the wind.
 
Alma 37:16 But if ye keep the commandments of God, and do with
these things which are sacred according to that which the Lord
doth command you, (for you must appeal unto the Lord for all
things whatsoever ye must do with them) behold, no power of earth
or hell can take them from you, for God is powerful to the
fulfilling of all his words.
 
Alma 37:17 For he will fulfil all his promises which he shall
make unto you, for he has fulfilled his promises which he has
made unto our fathers.
 
Alma 37:18 For he promised unto them that he would preserve these
things for a wise purpose in him, that he might show forth his
power unto future generations.
 
Alma 37:19 And now behold, one purpose hath he fulfilled, even to
the restoration of many thousands of the Lamanites to the
knowledge of the truth; and he hath shown forth his power in
them, and he will also still show forth his power in them unto
future generations; therefore they shall be preserved.
 
Alma 37:20 Therefore I command you, my son Helaman, that ye be
diligent in fulfilling all my words, and that ye be diligent in
keeping the commandments of God as they are written.
 
Alma 37:21 And now, I will speak unto you concerning those
twenty-four plates, that ye keep them, that the mysteries and the
works of darkness, and their secret works, or the secret works of
those people who have been destroyed, may be made manifest unto
this people; yea, all their murders, and robbings, and their
plunderings, and all their wickedness and abominations, may be
made manifest unto this people; yea, and that ye preserve these
interpreters.
 
Alma 37:22 For behold, the Lord saw that his people began to work
in darkness, yea, work secret murders and abominations; therefore
the Lord said, if they did not repent they should be destroyed
from off the face of the earth.
 
Alma 37:23 And the Lord said: I will prepare unto my servant
Gazelem, a stone, which shall shine forth in darkness unto light,
that I may discover unto my people who serve me, that I may
discover unto them the works of their brethren, yea, their secret
works, their works of darkness, and their wickedness and
abominations.
 
Alma 37:24 And now, my son, these interpreters were prepared that
the word of God might be fulfilled, which he spake, saying:
 
Alma 37:25 I will bring forth out of darkness unto light all
their secret works and their abominations; and except they repent
I will destroy them from off the face of the earth; and I will
bring to light all their secrets and abominations, unto every
nation that shall hereafter possess the land.
 
Alma 37:26 And now, my son, we see that they did not repent;
therefore they have been destroyed, and thus far the word of God
has been fulfilled; yea, their secret abominations have been
brought out of darkness and made known unto us.
 
Alma 37:27 And now, my son, I command you that ye retain all
their oaths, and their covenants, and their agreements in their
secret abominations; yea, and all their signs and their wonders
ye shall keep from this people, that they know them not, lest
peradventure they should fall into darkness also and be
destroyed.
 
Alma 37:28 For behold, there is a curse upon all this land, that
destruction shall come upon all those workers of darkness,
according to the power of God, when they are fully ripe;
therefore I desire that this people might not be destroyed.
 
Alma 37:29 Therefore ye shall keep these secret plans of their
oaths and their covenants from this people, and only their
wickedness and their murders and their abominations shall ye make
known unto them; and ye shall teach them to abhor such wickedness
and abominations and murders; and ye shall also teach them that
these people were destroyed on account of their wickedness and
abominations and their murders.
 
Alma 37:30 For behold, they murdered all the prophets of the Lord
who came among them to declare unto them concerning their
iniquities; and the blood of those whom they murdered did cry
unto the Lord their God for vengeance upon those who were their
murderers; and thus the judgments of God did come upon these
workers of darkness and secret combinations.
 
Alma 37:31 Yea, and cursed be the land forever and ever unto
those workers of darkness and secret combinations, even unto
destruction, except they repent before they are fully ripe.
 
Alma 37:32 And now, my son, remember the words which I have
spoken unto you; trust not those secret plans unto this people,
but teach them an everlasting hatred against sin and iniquity.
 
Alma 37:33 Preach unto them repentance, and faith on the Lord
Jesus Christ; teach them to humble themselves and to be meek and
lowly in heart; teach them to withstand every temptation of the
devil, with their faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Alma 37:34 Teach them to never be weary of good works, but to be
meek and lowly in heart; for such shall find rest to their souls.
 
Alma 37:35 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth;
yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God.
 
Alma 37:36 Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let
all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let
it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the
Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the
Lord forever.
 
Alma 37:37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will
direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down
unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when
thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto
God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last
day.
 
Alma 37:38 And now, my son, I have somewhat to say concerning the
thing which our fathers call a ball, or director--or our fathers
called it Liahona, which is, being interpreted, a compass; and
the Lord prepared it.
 
Alma 37:39 And behold, there cannot any man work after the manner
of so curious a workmanship. And behold, it was prepared to show
unto our fathers the course which they should travel in the
wilderness.
 
Alma 37:40 And it did work for them according to their faith in
God; therefore, if they had faith to believe that God could cause
that those spindles should point the way they should go, behold,
it was done; therefore they had this miracle, and also many other
miracles wrought by the power of God, day by day.
 
Alma 37:41 Nevertheless, because those miracles were worked by
small means it did show unto them marvelous works. They were
slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence and
then those marvelous works ceased, and they did not progress in
their journey;
 
Alma 37:42 Therefore, they tarried in the wilderness, or did not
travel a direct course, and were afflicted with hunger and
thirst, because of their transgressions.
 
Alma 37:43 And now, my son, I would that ye should understand
that these things are not without a shadow; for as our fathers
were slothful to give heed to this compass (now these things were
temporal) they did not prosper; even so it is with things which
are spiritual.
 
Alma 37:44 For behold, it is as easy to give heed to the word of
Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal
bliss, as it was for our fathers to give heed to this compass,
which would point unto them a straight course to the promised
land.
 
Alma 37:45 And now I say, is there not a type in this thing? For
just as surely as this director did bring our fathers, by
following its course, to the promised land, shall the words of
Christ, if we follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of
sorrow into a far better land of promise.
 
Alma 37:46 O my son, do not let us be slothful because of the
easiness of the way; for so was it with our fathers; for so was
it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live;
even so it is with us. The way is prepared, and if we will look
we may live forever.
 
Alma 37:47 And now, my son, see that ye take care of these sacred
things, yea, see that ye look to God and live. Go unto this
people and declare the word, and be sober. My son, farewell.
 
Alma 38:00 The commandments of Alma to his son, Shiblon.
 
Alma 38:0 Commended for faithfulness, and counseled to observe
meekness and self-control.
 
Alma 38:1 My son, give ear to my words, for I say unto you, even
as I said unto Helaman, that inasmuch as ye shall keep the
commandments of God ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch as
ye will not keep the commandments of God ye shall be cut off from
his presence.
 
Alma 38:2 And now, my son, I trust that I shall have great joy in
you, because of your steadiness and your faithfulness unto God;
for as you have commenced in your youth to look to the Lord your
God, even so I hope that you will continue in keeping his
commandments; for blessed is he that endureth to the end.
 
Alma 38:3 I say unto you, my son, that I have had great joy in
thee already, because of thy faithfulness and thy diligence, and
thy patience and thy long-suffering among the people of the
Zoramites.
 
Alma 38:4 For I know that thou wast in bonds; yea, and I also
know that thou wast stoned for the word's sake; and thou didst
bear all these things with patience because the Lord was with
thee; and now thou knowest that the Lord did deliver thee.
 
Alma 38:5 And now my son, Shiblon, I would that ye should
remember, that as much as ye shall put your trust in God even so
much ye shall be delivered out of your trials, and your troubles,
and your afflictions, and ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
 
Alma 38:6 Now, my son, I would not that ye should think that I
know these things of myself, but it is the Spirit of God which is
in me which maketh these things known unto me; for if I had not
been born of God I should not have known these things.
 
Alma 38:7 But behold, the Lord in his great mercy sent his angel
to declare unto me that I must stop the work of destruction among
his people; yea, and I have seen an angel face to face, and he
spake with me, and his voice was as thunder, and it shook the
whole earth.
 
Alma 38:8 And it came to pass that I was three days and three
nights in the most bitter pain and anguish of soul; and never,
until I did cry out unto the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy, did I
receive a remission of my sins. But behold, I did cry unto him
and I did find peace to my soul.
 
Alma 38:9 And now, my son, I have told you this that ye may learn
wisdom, that ye may learn of me that there is no other way or
means whereby man can be saved, only in and through Christ.
Behold, he is the life and the light of the world. Behold, he is
the word of truth and righteousness.
 
Alma 38:10 And now, as ye have begun to teach the word even so I
would that ye should continue to teach; and I would that ye would
be diligent and temperate in all things.
 
Alma 38:11 See that ye are not lifted up unto pride; yea, see
that ye do not boast in your own wisdom, nor of your much
strength.
 
Alma 38:12 Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that
ye bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love; see
that ye refrain from idleness.
 
Alma 38:13 Do not pray as the Zoramites do, for ye have seen that
they pray to be heard of men, and to be praised for their wisdom.
 
Alma 38:14 Do not say: O God, I thank thee that we are better
than our brethren; but rather say: O Lord, forgive my
unworthiness, and remember my brethren in mercy--yea, acknowledge
your unworthiness before God at all times.
 
Alma 38:15 And may the Lord bless your soul, and receive you at
the last day into his kingdom, to sit down in peace. Now go, my
son, and teach the word unto this people. Be sober. My son,
farewell.
 
Alma 39:00 The commandments of Alma to his son, Corianton.
Comprising chapters 39 to 42 inclusive.
 
Alma 39:0 Corianton reproved for harlotry--His sinful conduct had
affected faith of the Zoramites--Christ's redemption retroactive.
 
Alma 39:1 And now, my son, I have somewhat more to say unto thee
than what I said unto thy brother; for behold, have ye not
observed the steadiness of thy brother, his faithfulness, and his
diligence in keeping the commandments of God? Behold, has he not
set a good example for thee?
 
Alma 39:2 For thou didst not give so much heed unto my words as
did thy brother, among the people of the Zoramites. Now this is
what I have against thee; thou didst go on unto boasting in thy
strength and thy wisdom.
 
Alma 39:3 And this is not all, my son. Thou didst do that which
was grievous unto me; for thou didst forsake the ministry, and
did go over into the land of Siron among the borders of the
Lamanites, after the harlot Isabel.
 
Alma 39:4 Yea, she did steal away the hearts of many; but this
was no excuse for thee, my son. Thou shouldst have tended to the
ministry wherewith thou wast entrusted.
 
Alma 39:5 Know ye not, my son, that these things are an
abomination in the sight of the Lord; yea, most abominable above
all sins save it be the shedding of innocent blood or denying the
Holy Ghost?
 
Alma 39:6 For behold, if ye deny the Holy Ghost when it once has
had place in you, and ye know that ye deny it, behold, this is a
sin which is unpardonable; yea, and whosoever murdereth against
the light and knowledge of God, it is not easy for him to obtain
forgiveness; yea, I say unto you, my son, that it is not easy for
him to obtain a forgiveness.
 
Alma 39:7 And now, my son, I would to God that ye had not been
guilty of so great a crime. I would not dwell upon your crimes,
to harrow up your soul, if it were not for your good.
 
Alma 39:8 But behold, ye cannot hide your crimes from God; and
except ye repent they will stand as a testimony against you at
the last day.
 
Alma 39:9 Now my son, I would that ye should repent and forsake
your sins, and go no more after the lusts of your eyes, but cross
yourself in all these things; for except ye do this ye can in
nowise inherit the kingdom of God. Oh, remember, and take it upon
you, and cross yourself in these things.
 
Alma 39:10 And I command you to take it upon you to counsel with
your elder brothers in your undertakings; for behold, thou art in
thy youth, and ye stand in need to be nourished by your brothers.
And give heed to their counsel.
 
Alma 39:11 Suffer not yourself to be led away by any vain or
foolish thing; suffer not the devil to lead away your heart again
after those wicked harlots. Behold, O my son, how great iniquity
ye brought upon the Zoramites; for when they saw your conduct
they would not believe in my words.
 
Alma 39:12 And now the Spirit of the Lord doth say unto me:
Command thy children to do good, lest they lead away the hearts
of many people to destruction; therefore I command you, my son,
in the fear of God, that ye refrain from your iniquities;
 
Alma 39:13 That ye turn to the Lord with all your mind, might,
and strength; that ye lead away the hearts of no more to do
wickedly; but rather return unto them, and acknowledge your
faults and that wrong which ye have done.
 
Alma 39:14 Seek not after riches nor the vain things of this
world; for behold, you cannot carry them with you.
 
Alma 39:15 And now, my son, I would say somewhat unto you
concerning the coming of Christ. Behold, I say unto you, that it
is he that surely shall come to take away the sins of the world;
yea, he cometh to declare glad tidings of salvation unto his
people.
 
Alma 39:16 And now, my son, this was the ministry unto which ye
were called, to declare these glad tidings unto this people, to
prepare their minds; or rather that salvation might come unto
them, that they may prepare the minds of their children to hear
the word at the time of his coming.
 
Alma 39:17 And now I will ease your mind somewhat on this
subject. Behold, you marvel why these things should be known so
long beforehand. Behold, I say unto you, is not a soul at this
time as precious unto God as a soul will be at the time of his
coming?
 
Alma 39:18 Is it not as necessary that the plan of redemption
should be made known unto this people as well as unto their
children?
 
Alma 39:19 Is it not as easy at this time for the Lord to send
his angel to declare these glad tidings unto us as unto our
children, or as after the time of his coming?
 
Alma 40:0 Alma to Corianton continued--Resurrection universal--
Separate states of righteous and wicked between death and
resurrection--A literal restoration.
 
Alma 40:1 Now my son, here is somewhat more I would say unto
thee; for I perceive that thy mind is worried concerning the
resurrection of the dead.
 
Alma 40:2 Behold, I say unto you, that there is no resurrection--
or, I would say, in other words, that this mortal does not put on
immortality, this corruption does not put on incorruption--until
after the coming of Christ.
 
Alma 40:3 Behold, he bringeth to pass the resurrection of the
dead. But behold, my son, the resurrection is not yet. Now, I
unfold unto you a mystery; nevertheless, there are many mysteries
which are kept, that no one knoweth them save God himself. But I
show unto you one thing which I have inquired diligently of God
that I might know--that is concerning the resurrection.
 
Alma 40:4 Behold, there is a time appointed that all shall come
forth from the dead. Now when this time cometh no one knows; but
God knoweth the time which is appointed.
 
Alma 40:5 Now, whether there shall be one time, or a second time,
or a third time, that men shall come forth from the dead, it
mattereth not; for God knoweth all these things; and it sufficeth
me to know that this is the case--that there is a time appointed
that all shall rise from the dead.
 
Alma 40:6 Now there must needs be a space betwixt the time of
death and the time of the resurrection.
 
Alma 40:7 And now I would inquire what becometh of the souls of
men from this time of death to the time appointed for the
resurrection?
 
Alma 40:8 Now whether there is more than one time appointed for
men to rise it mattereth not; for all do not die at once, and
this mattereth not; all is as one day with God, and time only is
measured unto men.
 
Alma 40:9 Therefore, there is a time appointed unto men that they
shall rise from the dead; and there is a space between the time
of death and the resurrection. And now, concerning this space of
time, what becometh of the souls of men is the thing which I have
inquired diligently of the Lord to know; and this is the thing of
which I do know.
 
Alma 40:10 And when the time cometh when all shall rise, then
shall they know that God knoweth all the times which are
appointed unto man.
 
Alma 40:11 Now, concerning the state of the soul between death
and the resurrection--Behold, it has been made known unto me by
an angel, that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are
departed from this mortal body, yea, the spirits of all men,
whether they be good or evil, are taken home to that God who gave
them life.
 
Alma 40:12 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of
those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness,
which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace,
where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care,
and sorrow.
 
Alma 40:13 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of
the wicked, yea, who are evil--for behold, they have no part nor
portion of the Spirit of the Lord; for behold, they chose evil
works rather than good; therefore the spirit of the devil did
enter into them, and take possession of their house--and these
shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping,
and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and this because of their own
iniquity, being led captive by the will of the devil.
 
Alma 40:14 Now this is the state of the souls of the wicked, yea,
in darkness, and a state of awful, fearful looking for the fiery
indignation of the wrath of God upon them; thus they remain in
this state, as well as the righteous in paradise, until the time
of their resurrection.
 
Alma 40:15 Now, there are some that have understood that this
state of happiness and this state of misery of the soul, before
the resurrection, was a first resurrection. Yea, I admit it may
be termed a resurrection, the raising of the spirit or the soul
and their consignation to happiness or misery, according to the
words which have been spoken.
 
Alma 40:16 And behold, again it hath been spoken, that there is a
first resurrection, a resurrection of all those who have been, or
who are, or who shall be, down to the resurrection of Christ from
the dead.
 
Alma 40:17 Now, we do not suppose that this first resurrection,
which is spoken of in this manner, can be the resurrection of the
souls and their consignation to happiness or misery. Ye cannot
suppose that this is what it meaneth.
 
Alma 40:18 Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but it meaneth the
reuniting of the soul with the body, of those from the days of
Adam down to the resurrection of Christ.
 
Alma 40:19 Now, whether the souls and the bodies of those of whom
has been spoken shall all be reunited at once, the wicked as well
as the righteous, I do not say; let it suffice, that I say that
they all come forth; or in other words, their resurrection cometh
to pass before the resurrection of those who die after the
resurrection of Christ.
 
Alma 40:20 Now, my son, I do not say that their resurrection
cometh at the resurrection of Christ; but behold, I give it as my
opinion, that the souls and the bodies are reunited, of the
righteous, at the resurrection of Christ, and his ascension into
heaven.
 
Alma 40:21 But whether it be at his resurrection or after, I do
not say; but this much I say, that there is a space between death
and the resurrection of the body, and a state of the soul in
happiness or in misery until the time which is appointed of God
that the dead shall come forth, and be reunited, both soul and
body, and be brought to stand before God, and be judged according
to their works.
 
Alma 40:22 Yea, this bringeth about the restoration of those
things of which has been spoken by the mouths of the prophets.
 
Alma 40:23 The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body
to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to
its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all
things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame.
 
Alma 40:24 And now, my son, this is the restoration of which has
been spoken by the mouths of the prophets--
 
Alma 40:25 And then shall the righteous shine forth in the
kingdom of God.
 
Alma 40:26 But behold, an awful death cometh upon the wicked; for
they die as to things pertaining to things of righteousness; for
they are unclean, and no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of
God; but they are cast out, and consigned to partake of the
fruits of their labors or their works, which have been evil; and
they drink the dregs of a bitter cup.
 
Alma 41:0 Alma to Corianton continued--What restoration
signifies--men to be judged according to their deeds and desires-
-Self-judgment.
 
Alma 41:1 And now, my son, I have somewhat to say concerning the
restoration of which has been spoken; for behold, some have
wrested the scriptures, and have gone far astray because of this
thing. And I perceive that thy mind has been worried also
concerning this thing. But behold, I will explain it unto thee.
 
Alma 41:2 I say unto thee, my son, that the plan of restoration
is requisite with the justice of God; for it is requisite that
all things should be restored to their proper order. Behold, it
is requisite and just, according to the power and resurrection of
Christ, that the soul of man should be restored to its body, and
that every part of the body should be restored to itself.
 
Alma 41:3 And it is requisite with the justice of God that men
should be judged according to their works; and if their works
were good in this life, and the desires of their hearts were
good, that they should also, at the last day, be restored unto
that which is good.
 
Alma 41:4 And if their works are evil they shall be restored unto
them for evil. Therefore, all things shall be restored to their
proper order, every thing to its natural frame--mortality raised
to immortality, corruption to incorruption--raised to endless
happiness to inherit the kingdom of God, or to endless misery to
inherit the kingdom of the devil, the one on one hand, the other
on the other--
 
Alma 41:5 The one raised to happiness according to his desires of
happiness, or good according to his desires of good; and the
other to evil according to his desires of evil; for as he has
desired to do evil all the day long even so shall he have his
reward of evil when the night cometh.
 
Alma 41:6 And so it is on the other hand. If he hath repented of
his sins, and desired righteousness until the end of his days,
even so he shall be rewarded unto righteousness.
 
Alma 41:7 These are they that are redeemed of the Lord; yea,
these are they that are taken out, that are delivered from that
endless night of darkness; and thus they stand or fall; for
behold, they are their own judges, whether to do good or do evil.
 
Alma 41:8 Now, the decrees of God are unalterable; therefore, the
way is prepared that whosoever will may walk therein and be
saved.
 
Alma 41:9 And now behold, my son, do not risk one more offense
against your God upon those points of doctrine, which ye have
hitherto risked to commit sin.
 
Alma 41:10 Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning
restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness.
Behold, I say unto you, wickedness never was happiness.
 
Alma 41:11 And now, my son, all men that are in a state of
nature, or I would say, in a carnal state, are in the gall of
bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; they are without God in
the world, and they have gone contrary to the nature of God;
therefore, they are in a state contrary to the nature of
happiness.
 
Alma 41:12 And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration
to take a thing of a natural state and place it in an unnatural
state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature?
 
Alma 41:13 O, my son, this is not the case; but the meaning of
the word restoration is to bring back again evil for evil, or
carnal for carnal, or devilish for devilish--good for that which
is good; righteous for that which is righteous; just for that
which is just; merciful for that which is merciful.
 
Alma 41:14 Therefore, my son, see that you are merciful unto your
brethren; deal justly, judge righteously, and do good
continually; and if ye do all these things then shall ye receive
your reward; yea, ye shall have mercy restored unto you again; ye
shall have justice restored unto you again; ye shall have a
righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have
good rewarded unto you again.
 
Alma 41:15 For that which ye do send out shall return unto you
again, and be restored; therefore, the word restoration more
fully condemneth the sinner, and justifieth him not at all.
 
Alma 42:0 Alma to Corianton continued--Justice and mercy
expounded--The tree of life--Mortality a period of probation--
Spiritual and temporal death--Repentance, atonement, law,
punishment, all necessary.
 
Alma 42:1 And now, my son, I perceive there is somewhat more
which doth worry your mind, which ye cannot understand--which is
concerning the justice of God in the punishment of the sinner;
for ye do try to suppose that it is injustice that the sinner
should be consigned to a state of misery.
 
Alma 42:2 Now behold, my son, I will explain this thing unto
thee. For behold, after the Lord God sent our first parents forth
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground, from whence they
were taken--yea, he drew out the man, and he placed at the east
end of the garden of Eden, cherubim, and a flaming sword which
turned every way, to keep the tree of life--
 
Alma 42:3 Now, we see that the man had become as God, knowing
good and evil; and lest he should put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, the Lord God
placed cherubim and the flaming sword, that he should not partake
of the fruit--
 
Alma 42:4 And thus we see, that there was a time granted unto man
to repent, yea, a probationary time, a time to repent and serve
God.
 
Alma 42:5 For behold, if Adam had put forth his hand immediately,
and partaken of the tree of life, he would have lived forever,
according to the word of God, having no space for repentance;
yea, and also the word of God would have been void, and the great
plan of salvation would have been frustrated.
 
Alma 42:6 But behold, it was appointed unto man to die--
therefore, as they were cut off from the tree of life they should
be cut off from the face of the earth--and man became lost
forever, yea, they became fallen man.
 
Alma 42:7 And now, ye see by this that our first parents were cut
off both temporally and spiritually from the presence of the
Lord; and thus we see they became subjects to follow after their
own will.
 
Alma 42:8 Now behold, it was not expedient that man should be
reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the
great plan of happiness.
 
Alma 42:9 Therefore, as the soul could never die, and the fall
had brought upon all mankind a spiritual death as well as a
temporal, that is, they were cut off from the presence of the
Lord, it was expedient that mankind should be reclaimed from this
spiritual death.
 
Alma 42:10 Therefore, as they had become carnal, sensual, and
devilish, by nature, this probationary state became a state for
them to prepare; it became a preparatory state.
 
Alma 42:11 And now remember, my son, if it were not for the plan
of redemption, (laying it aside) as soon as they were dead their
souls were miserable, being cut off from the presence of the
Lord.
 
Alma 42:12 And now, there was no means to reclaim men from this
fallen state, which man had brought upon himself because of his
own disobedience;
 
Alma 42:13 Therefore, according to justice, the plan of
redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of
repentance of men in this probationary state, yea, this
preparatory state; for except it were for these conditions, mercy
could not take effect except it should destroy the work of
justice. Now the work of justice could not be destroyed; if so,
God would cease to be God.
 
Alma 42:14 And thus we see that all mankind were fallen, and they
were in the grasp of justice; yea, the justice of God, which
consigned them forever to be cut off from his presence.
 
Alma 42:15 And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about
except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth
for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to
appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just
God, and a merciful God also.
 
Alma 42:16 Now, repentance could not come unto men except there
were a punishment, which also was eternal as the life of the soul
should be, affixed opposite to the plan of happiness, which was
as eternal also as the life of the soul.
 
Alma 42:17 Now, how could a man repent except he should sin? How
could he sin if there was no law? How could there be a law save
there was a punishment?
 
Alma 42:18 Now, there was a punishment affixed, and a just law
given, which brought remorse of conscience unto man.
 
Alma 42:19 Now, if there was no law given--if a man murdered he
should die--would he be afraid he would die if he should murder?
 
Alma 42:20 And also, if there was no law given against sin men
would not be afraid to sin.
 
Alma 42:21 And if there was no law given, if men sinned what
could justice do, or mercy either, for they would have no claim
upon the creature?
 
Alma 42:22 But there is a law given, and a punishment affixed,
and a repentance granted; which repentance, mercy claimeth;
otherwise, justice claimeth the creature and executeth the law,
and the law inflicteth the punishment; if not so, the works of
justice would be destroyed, and God would cease to be God.
 
Alma 42:23 But God ceaseth not to be God, and mercy claimeth the
penitent, and mercy cometh because of the atonement; and the
atonement bringeth to pass the resurrection of the dead; and the
resurrection of the dead bringeth back men into the presence of
God; and thus they are restored into his presence, to be judged
according to their works, according to the law and justice.
 
Alma 42:24 For behold, justice exerciseth all his demands, and
also mercy claimeth all which is her own; and thus, none but the
truly penitent are saved.
 
Alma 42:25 What, do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say
unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God.
 
Alma 42:26 And thus God bringeth about his great and eternal
purposes, which were prepared from the foundation of the world.
And thus cometh about the salvation and the redemption of men,
and also their destruction and misery.
 
Alma 42:27 Therefore, O my son, whosoever will come may come and
partake of the waters of life freely; and whosoever will not come
the same is not compelled to come; but in the last day it shall
be restored unto him according to his deeds.
 
Alma 42:28 If he has desired to do evil, and has not repented in
his days, behold, evil shall be done unto him, according to the
restoration of God.
 
Alma 42:29 And now, my son, I desire that ye should let these
things trouble you no more, and only let your sins trouble you,
with that trouble which shall bring you down unto repentance.
 
Alma 42:30 O my son, I desire that ye should deny the justice of
God no more. Do not endeavor to excuse yourself in the least
point because of your sins, by denying the justice of God; but do
you let the justice of God, and his mercy, and his long-suffering
have full sway in your heart; and let it bring you down to the
dust in humility.
 
Alma 42:31 And now, O my son, ye are called of God to preach the
word unto this people. And now, my son, go thy way, declare the
word with truth and soberness, that thou mayest bring souls unto
repentance, that the great plan of mercy may have claim upon
them. And may God grant unto you even according to my words.
Amen.
 
Alma 43:0 Another Lamanite invasion--Armies of Moroni and Lehi
surround and overpower the enemy.
 
Alma 43:1 And now it came to pass that the sons of Alma did go
forth among the people, to declare the word unto them. And Alma,
also, himself, could not rest, and he also went forth.
 
Alma 43:2 Now we shall say no more concerning their preaching,
except that they preached the word, and the truth, according to
the spirit of prophecy and revelation; and they preached after
the holy order of God by which they were called.
 
Alma 43:3 And now I return to an account of the wars between the
Nephites and the Lamanites, in the eighteenth year of the reign
of the judges.
 
Alma 43:4 For behold, it came to pass that the Zoramites became
Lamanites; therefore, in the commencement of the eighteenth year
the people of the Nephites saw that the Lamanites were coming
upon them; therefore they made preparations for war; yea, they
gathered together their armies in the land of Jershon.
 
Alma 43:5 And it came to pass that the Lamanites came with their
thousands; and they came into the land of Antionum, which is the
land of the Zoramites; and a man by the name of Zerahemnah was
their leader.
 
Alma 43:6 And now, as the Amalekites were of a more wicked and
murderous disposition than the Lamanites were, in and of
themselves, therefore, Zerahemnah appointed chief captains over
the Lamanites, and they were all Amalekites and Zoramites.
 
Alma 43:7 Now this he did that he might preserve their hatred
towards the Nephites, that he might bring them into subjection to
the accomplishment of his designs.
 
Alma 43:8 For behold, his designs were to stir up the Lamanites
to anger against the Nephites; this he did that he might usurp
great power over them, and also that he might gain power over the
Nephites by bringing them into bondage.
 
Alma 43:9 And now the design of the Nephites was to support their
lands, and their houses, and their wives, and their children,
that they might preserve them from the hands of their enemies;
and also that they might preserve their rights and their
privileges, yea, and also their liberty, that they might worship
God according to their desires.
 
Alma 43:10 For they knew that if they should fall into the hands
of the Lamanites, that whosoever should worship God in spirit and
in truth, the true and the living God, the Lamanites would
destroy.
 
Alma 43:11 Yea, and they also knew the extreme hatred of the
Lamanites towards their brethren, who were the people of Anti-
Nephi-Lehi, who were called the people of Ammon--and they would
not take up arms, yea, they had entered into a covenant and they
would not break it--therefore, if they should fall into the hands
of the Lamanites they would be destroyed.
 
Alma 43:12 And the Nephites would not suffer that they should be
destroyed; therefore they gave them lands for their inheritance.
 
Alma 43:13 And the people of Ammon did give unto the Nephites a
large portion of their substance to support their armies; and
thus the Nephites were compelled, alone, to withstand against the
Lamanites, who were a compound of Laman and Lemuel, and the sons
of Ishmael, and all those who had dissented from the Nephites,
who were Amalekites and Zoramites, and the descendants of the
priests of Noah.
 
Alma 43:14 Now those descendants were as numerous, nearly, as
were the Nephites; and thus the Nephites were obliged to contend
with their brethren, even unto bloodshed.
 
Alma 43:15 And it came to pass as the armies of the Lamanites had
gathered together in the land of Antionum, behold, the armies of
the Nephites were prepared to meet them in the land of Jershon.
 
Alma 43:16 Now, the leader of the Nephites, or the man who had
been appointed to be the chief captain over the Nephites--now the
chief captain took the command of all the armies of the Nephites-
-and his name was Moroni;
 
Alma 43:17 And Moroni took all the command, and the government of
their wars. And he was only twenty and five years old when he was
appointed chief captain over the armies of the Nephites.
 
Alma 43:18 And it came to pass that he met the Lamanites in the
borders of Jershon, and his people were armed with swords, and
with cimeters, and all manner of weapons of war.
 
Alma 43:19 And when the armies of the Lamanites saw that the
people of Nephi, or that Moroni, had prepared his people with
breastplates and with arm-shields, yea, and also shields to
defend their heads, and also they were dressed with thick
clothing--
 
Alma 43:20 Now the army of Zerahemnah was not prepared with any
such thing; they had only their swords and their cimeters, their
bows and their arrows, their stones and their slings; and they
were naked, save it were a skin which was girded about their
loins; yea, all were naked, save it were the Zoramites and the
Amalekites;
 
Alma 43:21 But they were not armed with breastplates, nor
shields--therefore, they were exceedingly afraid of the armies of
the Nephites because of their armor, notwithstanding their number
being so much greater than the Nephites.
 
Alma 43:22 Behold, now it came to pass that they durst not come
against the Nephites in the borders of Jershon; therefore they
departed out of the land of Antionum into the wilderness, and
took their journey round about in the wilderness, away by the
head of the river Sidon, that they might come into the land of
Manti and take possession of the land; for they did not suppose
that the armies of Moroni would know whither they had gone.
 
Alma 43:23 But it came to pass, as soon as they had departed into
the wilderness Moroni sent spies into the wilderness to watch
their camp; and Moroni, also, knowing of the prophecies of Alma,
sent certain men unto him, desiring him that he should inquire of
the Lord whither the armies of the Nephites should go to defend
themselves against the Lamanites.
 
Alma 43:24 And it came to pass that the word of the Lord came
unto Alma, and Alma informed the messengers of Moroni, that the
armies of the Lamanites were marching round about in the
wilderness, that they might come over into the land of Manti,
that they might commence an attack upon the weaker part of the
people. And those messengers went and delivered the message unto
Moroni.
 
Alma 43:25 Now Moroni, leaving a part of his army in the land of
Jershon, lest by any means a part of the Lamanites should come
into that land and take possession of the city, took the
remaining part of his army and marched over into the land of
Manti.
 
Alma 43:26 And he caused that all the people in that quarter of
the land should gather themselves together to battle against the
Lamanites, to defend their lands and their country, their rights
and their liberties; therefore they were prepared against the
time of the coming of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 43:27 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that his army
should be secreted in the valley which was near the bank of the
river Sidon, which was on the west of the river Sidon in the
wilderness.
 
Alma 43:28 And Moroni placed spies round about, that he might
know when the camp of the Lamanites should come.
 
Alma 43:29 And now, as Moroni knew the intention of the
Lamanites, that it was their intention to destroy their brethren,
or to subject them and bring them into bondage that they might
establish a kingdom unto themselves over all the land;
 
Alma 43:30 And he also knowing that it was the only desire of the
Nephites to preserve their lands, and their liberty, and their
church, therefore he thought it no sin that he should defend them
by stratagem; therefore, he found by his spies which course the
Lamanites were to take.
 
Alma 43:31 Therefore, he divided his army and brought a part over
into the valley, and concealed them on the east, and on the south
of the hill Riplah;
 
Alma 43:32 And the remainder he concealed in the west valley, on
the west of the river Sidon, and so down into the borders of the
land Manti.
 
Alma 43:33 And thus having placed his army according to his
desire, he was prepared to meet them.
 
Alma 43:34 And it came to pass that the Lamanites came up on the
north of the hill, where a part of the army of Moroni was
concealed.
 
Alma 43:35 And as the Lamanites had passed the hill Riplah, and
came into the valley, and began to cross the river Sidon, the
army which was concealed on the south of the hill, which was led
by a man whose name was Lehi, and he led his army forth and
encircled the Lamanites about on the east in their rear.
 
Alma 43:36 And it came to pass that the Lamanites, when they saw
the Nephites coming upon them in their rear, turned them about
and began to contend with the army of Lehi.
 
Alma 43:37 And the work of death commenced on both sides, but it
was more dreadful on the part of the Lamanites, for their
nakedness was exposed to the heavy blows of the Nephites with
their swords and their cimeters, which brought death almost at
every stroke.
 
Alma 43:38 While on the other hand, there was now and then a man
fell among the Nephites, by their swords and the loss of blood,
they being shielded from the more vital parts of the body, or the
more vital parts of the body being shielded from the strokes of
the Lamanites, by their breastplates, and their armshields, and
their head-plates; and thus the Nephites did carry on the work of
death among the Lamanites.
 
Alma 43:39 And it came to pass that the Lamanites became
frightened, because of the great destruction among them, even
until they began to flee towards the river Sidon.
 
Alma 43:40 And they were pursued by Lehi and his men; and they
were driven by Lehi into the waters of Sidon, and they crossed
the waters of Sidon. And Lehi retained his armies upon the bank
of the river Sidon that they should not cross.
 
Alma 43:41 And it came to pass that Moroni and his army met the
Lamanites in the valley, on the other side of the river Sidon,
and began to fall upon them and to slay them.
 
Alma 43:42 And the Lamanites did flee again before them, towards
the land of Manti; and they were met again by the armies of
Moroni.
 
Alma 43:43 Now in this case the Lamanites did fight exceedingly;
yea, never had the Lamanites been known to fight with such
exceedingly great strength and courage, no, not even from the
beginning.
 
Alma 43:44 And they were inspired by the Zoramites and the
Amalekites, who were their chief captains and leaders, and by
Zerahemnah, who was their chief captain, or their chief leader
and commander; yea, they did fight like dragons, and many of the
Nephites were slain by their hands, yea, for they did smite in
two many of their head-plates, and they did pierce many of their
breastplates, and they did smite off many of their arms; and thus
the Lamanites did smite in their fierce anger.
 
Alma 43:45 Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better
cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they
were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives
and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of
worship and their church.
 
Alma 43:46 And they were doing that which they felt was the duty
which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them,
and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty
of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer
yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.
 
Alma 43:47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend
your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were
the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves,
and their families, and their lands, their country, and their
rights, and their religion.
 
Alma 43:48 And it came to pass that when the men of Moroni saw
the fierceness and the anger of the Lamanites, they were about to
shrink and flee from them. And Moroni, perceiving their intent,
sent forth and inspired their hearts with these thoughts--yea,
the thoughts of their lands, their liberty, yea, their freedom
from bondage.
 
Alma 43:49 And it came to pass that they turned upon the
Lamanites, and they cried with one voice unto the Lord their God,
for their liberty and their freedom from bondage.
 
Alma 43:50 And they began to stand against the Lamanites with
power; and in that selfsame hour that they cried unto the Lord
for their freedom, the Lamanites began to flee before them; and
they fled even to the waters of Sidon.
 
Alma 43:51 Now, the Lamanites were more numerous, yea, by more
than double the number of the Nephites; nevertheless, they were
driven insomuch that they were gathered together in one body in
the valley, upon the bank by the river Sidon.
 
Alma 43:52 Therefore the armies of Moroni encircled them about,
yea, even on both sides of the river, for behold, on the east
were the men of Lehi.
 
Alma 43:53 Therefore when Zerahemnah saw the men of Lehi on the
east of the river Sidon, and the armies of Moroni on the west of
the river Sidon, that they were encircled about by the Nephites,
they were struck with terror.
 
Alma 43:54 Now Moroni, when he saw their terror, commanded his
men that they should stop shedding their blood.
 
Alma 44:0 Moroni's magnanimity--Zerahemnah rejects his peace
offer, but is compelled to accept terms--Lamanites make covenant
of peach--End of Alma's record.
 
Alma 44:1 And it came to pass that they did stop and withdrew a
pace from them. And Moroni said unto Zerahemnah: Behold,
Zerahemnah, that we do not desire to be men of blood. Ye know
that ye are in our hands, yet we do not desire to slay you.
 
Alma 44:2 Behold, we have not come out to battle against you that
we might shed your blood for power; neither do we desire to bring
any one to the yoke of bondage. But this is the very cause for
which ye have come against us; yea, and ye are angry with us
because of our religion.
 
Alma 44:3 But now, ye behold that the Lord is with us; and ye
behold that he has delivered you into our hands. And now I would
that ye should understand that this is done unto us because of
our religion and our faith in Christ. And now ye see that ye
cannot destroy this our faith.
 
Alma 44:4 Now ye see that this is the true faith of God; yea, ye
see that God will support, and keep, and preserve us, so long as
we are faithful unto him, and unto our faith, and our religion;
and never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed except
we should fall into transgression and deny our faith.
 
Alma 44:5 And now, Zerahemnah, I command you, in the name of that
all-powerful God, who has strengthened our arms that we have
gained power over you, by our faith, by our religion, and by our
rites of worship, and by our church, and by the sacred support
which we owe to our wives and our children, by that liberty which
binds us to our lands and our country; yea, and also by the
maintenance of the sacred word of God, to which we owe all our
happiness; and by all that is most dear unto us--
 
Alma 44:6 Yea, and this is not all; I command you by all the
desires which ye have for life, that ye deliver up your weapons
of war unto us, and we will seek not your blood, but we will
spare your lives, if ye will go your way and come not again to
war against us.
 
Alma 44:7 And now, if ye do not this, behold, ye are in our
hands, and I will command my men that they shall fall upon you,
and inflict the wounds of death in your bodies, that ye may
become extinct; and then we will see who shall have power over
this people; yea, we will see who shall be brought into bondage.
 
Alma 44:8 And now it came to pass that when Zerahemnah had heard
these sayings he came forth and delivered up his sword and his
cimeter, and his bow into the hands of Moroni, and said unto him:
Behold, here are our weapons of war; we will deliver them up unto
you, but we will not suffer ourselves to take an oath unto you,
which we know that we shall break, and also our children; but
take our weapons of war, and suffer that we may depart into the
wilderness; otherwise we will retain our swords, and we will
perish or conquer.
 
Alma 44:9 Behold, we are not of your faith; we do not believe
that it is God that has delivered us into your hands; but we
believe that it is your cunning that has preserved you from our
swords. Behold, it is your breastplates and your shields that
have preserved you.
 
Alma 44:10 And now when Zerahemnah had made an end of speaking
these words, Moroni returned the sword and the weapons of war,
which he had received, unto Zerahemnah, saying: Behold, we will
end the conflict.
 
Alma 44:11 Now I cannot recall the words which I have spoken,
therefore as the Lord liveth, ye shall not depart except ye
depart with an oath that ye will not return again against us to
war. Now as ye are in our hands we will spill your blood upon the
ground, or ye shall submit to the conditions which I have
proposed.
 
Alma 44:12 And now when Moroni had said these words, Zerahemnah
retained his sword, and he was angry with Moroni, and he rushed
forward that he might slay Moroni; but as he raised his sword,
behold, one of Moroni's soldiers smote it even to the earth, and
it broke by the hilt; and he also smote Zerahemnah that he took
off his scalp and it fell to the earth. And Zerahemnah withdrew
from before them into the midst of his soldiers.
 
Alma 44:13 And it came to pass that the soldier who stood by, who
smote off the scalp of Zerahemnah, took up the scalp from off the
ground by the hair, and laid it upon the point of his sword, and
stretched it forth unto them, saying unto them with a loud voice:
 
Alma 44:14 Even as this scalp has fallen to the earth, which is
the scalp of your chief, so shall ye fall to the earth except ye
will deliver up your weapons of war and depart with a covenant of
peace.
 
Alma 44:15 Now there were many, when they heard these words and
saw the scalp which was upon the sword, that were struck with
fear; and many came forth and threw down their weapons of war at
the feet of Moroni, and entered into a covenant of peace. And as
many as entered into a covenant they suffered to depart into the
wilderness.
 
Alma 44:16 Now it came to pass that Zerahemnah was exceedingly
wroth, and he did stir up the remainder of his soldiers to anger,
to contend more powerfully against the Nephites.
 
Alma 44:17 And now Moroni was angry, because of the stubbornness
of the Lamanites; therefore he commanded his people that they
should fall upon them and slay them. And it came to pass that
they began to slay them; yea, and the Lamanites did contend with
their swords and their might.
 
Alma 44:18 But behold, their naked skins and their bare heads
were exposed to the sharp swords of the Nephites; yea, behold
they were pierced and smitten, yea, and did fall exceedingly fast
before the swords of the Nephites; and they began to be swept
down, even as the soldier of Moroni had prophesied.
 
Alma 44:19 Now Zerahemnah, when he saw that they were all about
to be destroyed, cried mightily unto Moroni, promising that he
would covenant and also his people with them, if they would spare
the remainder of their lives, that they never would come to war
again against them.
 
Alma 44:20 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that the work
of death should cease again among the people. And he took the
weapons of war from the Lamanites; and after they had entered
into a covenant with him of peace they were suffered to depart
into the wilderness.
 
Alma 44:21 Now the number of their dead was not numbered because
of the greatness of the number; yea, the number of their dead was
exceedingly great, both on the Nephites and on the Lamanites.
 
Alma 44:22 And it came to pass that they did cast their dead into
the waters of Sidon, and they have gone forth and are buried in
the depths of the sea.
 
Alma 44:23 And the armies of the Nephites, or of Moroni, returned
and came to their houses and their lands.
 
Alma 44:24 And thus ended the eighteenth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi. And thus ended the record of
Alma, which was written upon the plates of Nephi.
 
Alma 45:00 The account of the people of Nephi, and their wars and
dissensions, in the days of Helaman, according to the record of
Helaman, which he kept in his days. Comprising chapters 45 to 62
inclusive.
 
Alma 45:0 Nephite extinction again foretold--Alma's departure
compared to that of Moses--Dissension in the church.
 
Alma 45:1 Behold, now it came to pass that the people of Nephi
were exceedingly rejoiced, because the Lord had again delivered
them out of the hands of their enemies; therefore they gave
thanks unto the Lord their God; yea, and they did fast much and
pray much, and they did worship God with exceedingly great joy.
 
Alma 45:2 And it came to pass in the nineteenth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi, that Alma came unto his
son Helaman and said unto him: Believest thou the words which I
spake unto thee concerning those records which have been kept?
 
Alma 45:3 And Helaman said unto him: Yea, I believe.
 
Alma 45:4 And Alma said again: Believest thou in Jesus Christ,
who shall come?
 
Alma 45:5 And he said: Yea, I believe all the words which thou
hast spoken.
 
Alma 45:6 And Alma said unto him again: Will ye keep my
commandments?
 
Alma 45:7 And he said: Yea, I will keep thy commandments with all
my heart.
 
Alma 45:8 Then Alma said unto him: Blessed art thou; and the Lord
shall prosper thee in this land.
 
Alma 45:9 But behold, I have somewhat to prophesy unto thee; but
what I prophesy unto thee ye shall not make known; yea, what I
prophesy unto thee shall not be made known, even until the
prophecy is fulfilled; therefore write the words which I shall
say.
 
Alma 45:10 And these are the words: Behold, I perceive that this
very people, the Nephites, according to the spirit of revelation
which is in me, in four hundred years from the time that Jesus
Christ shall manifest himself unto them, shall dwindle in
unbelief.
 
Alma 45:11 Yea, and then shall they see wars and pestilences,
yea, famines and bloodshed, even until the people of Nephi shall
become extinct--
 
Alma 45:12 Yea, and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief
and fall into the works of darkness, and lasciviousness, and all
manner of iniquities; yea, I say unto you, that because they
shall sin against so great light and knowledge, yea, I say unto
you, that from that day, even the fourth generation shall not all
pass away before this great iniquity shall come.
 
Alma 45:13 And when that great day cometh, behold, the time very
soon cometh that those who are now, or the seed of those who are
now numbered among the people of Nephi, shall no more be numbered
among the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 45:14 But whosoever remaineth, and is not destroyed in that
great and dreadful day, shall be numbered among the Lamanites,
and shall become like unto them, all, save it be a few who shall
be called the disciples of the Lord; and them shall the Lamanites
pursue even until they shall become extinct. And now, because of
iniquity, this prophecy shall be fulfilled.
 
Alma 45:15 And now it came to pass that after Alma had said these
things to Helaman, he blessed him, and also his other sons; and
he also blessed the earth for the righteous' sake.
 
Alma 45:16 And he said: Thus saith the Lord God--Cursed shall be
the land, yea, this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and
people, unto destruction, which do wickedly, when they are fully
ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing
and the blessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look
upon sin with the least degree of allowance.
 
Alma 45:17 And now, when Alma had said these words he blessed the
church, yea, all those who should stand fast in the faith from
that time henceforth.
 
Alma 45:18 And when Alma had done this he departed out of the
land of Zarahemla, as if to go into the land of Melek. And it
came to pass that he was never heard of more; as to his death or
burial we know not of.
 
Alma 45:19 Behold, this we know, that he was a righteous man; and
the saying went abroad in the church that he was taken up by the
Spirit, or buried by the hand of the Lord, even as Moses. But
behold, the scriptures saith the Lord took Moses unto himself;
and we suppose that he has also received Alma in the spirit, unto
himself; therefore, for this cause we know nothing concerning his
death and burial.
 
Alma 45:20 And now it came to pass in the commencement of the
nineteenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi, that Helaman went forth among the people to declare the
word unto them.
 
Alma 45:21 For behold, because of their wars with the Lamanites
and the many little dissensions and disturbances which had been
among the people, it became expedient that the word of God should
be declared among them, yea, and that a regulation should be made
throughout the church.
 
Alma 45:22 Therefore, Helaman and his brethren went forth to
establish the church again in all the land, yea, in every city
throughout all the land which was possessed by the people of
Nephi. And it came to pass that they did appoint priests and
teachers throughout all the land, over all the churches.
 
Alma 45:23 And now it came to pass that after Helaman and his
brethren had appointed priests and teachers over the churches
that there arose a dissension among them, and they would not give
heed to the words of Helaman and his brethren;
 
Alma 45:24 But they grew proud, being lifted up in their hearts,
because of their exceedingly great riches; therefore they grew
rich in their own eyes, and would not give heed to their words,
to walk uprightly before God.
 
Alma 46:0 Amalickiah conspires to be king--Moroni and the title
of liberty--The people covenant to maintain freedom--flight of
Amalickiah.
 
Alma 46:1 And it came to pass that as many as would not hearken
to the words of Helaman and his brethren were gathered together
against their brethren.
 
Alma 46:2 And now behold, they were exceedingly wroth, insomuch
that they were determined to slay them.
 
Alma 46:3 Now the leader of those who were wroth against their
brethren was a large and a strong man; and his name was
Amalickiah.
 
Alma 46:4 And Amalickiah was desirous to be a king; and those
people who were wroth were also desirous that he should be their
king; and they were the greater part of them the lower judges of
the land, and they were seeking for power.
 
Alma 46:5 And they had been led by the flatteries of Amalickiah,
that if they would support him and establish him to be their king
that he would make them rulers over the people.
 
Alma 46:6 Thus they were led away by Amalickiah to dissensions,
notwithstanding the preaching of Helaman and his brethren, yea,
notwithstanding their exceedingly great care over the church, for
they were high priests over the church.
 
Alma 46:7 And there were many in the church who believed in the
flattering words of Amalickiah, therefore they dissented even
from the church; and thus were the affairs of the people of Nephi
exceedingly precarious and dangerous, notwithstanding their great
victory which they had had over the Lamanites, and their great
rejoicings which they had had because of their deliverance by the
hand of the Lord.
 
Alma 46:8 Thus we see how quick the children of men do forget the
Lord their God, yea, how quick to do iniquity, and to be led away
by the evil one.
 
Alma 46:9 Yea, and we also see the great wickedness one very
wicked man can cause to take place among the children of men.
 
Alma 46:10 Yea, we see that Amalickiah, because he was a man of
cunning device and a man of many flattering words, that he led
away the hearts of many people to do wickedly; yea, and to seek
to destroy the church of God, and to destroy the foundation of
liberty which God had granted unto them, or which blessing God
had sent upon the face of the land for the righteous' sake.
 
Alma 46:11 And now it came to pass that when Moroni, who was the
chief commander of the armies of the Nephites, had heard of these
dissensions, he was angry with Amalickiah.
 
Alma 46:12 And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took
a piece thereof, and wrote upon it--In memory of our God, our
religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our
children--and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
 
Alma 46:13 And he fastened on his head-plate, and his
breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his
loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his
rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed
himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the
blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there
should a band of Christians remain to possess the land--
 
Alma 46:14 For thus were all the true believers of Christ, who
belonged to the church of God, called by those who did not belong
to the church.
 
Alma 46:15 And those who did belong to the church were faithful;
yea, all those who were true believers in Christ took upon them,
gladly, the name of Christ, or Christians as they were called,
because of their belief in Christ who should come.
 
Alma 46:16 And therefore, at this time, Moroni prayed that the
cause of the Christians, and the freedom of the land might be
favored.
 
Alma 46:17 And it came to pass that when he had poured out his
soul to God, he named all the land which was south of the land
Desolation, yea, and in fine, all the land, both on the north and
on the south--A chosen land, and the land of liberty.
 
Alma 46:18 And he said: Surely God shall not suffer that we, who
are despised because we take upon us the name of Christ, shall be
trodden down and destroyed, until we bring it upon us by our own
transgressions.
 
Alma 46:19 And when Moroni had said these words, he went forth
among the people, waving the rent part of his garment in the air,
that all might see the writing which he had written upon the rent
part, and crying with a loud voice, saying:
 
Alma 46:20 Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the
land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter
into a covenant that they will maintain their rights, and their
religion, that the Lord God may bless them.
 
Alma 46:21 And it came to pass that when Moroni had proclaimed
these words, behold, the people came running together with their
armor girded about their loins, rending their garments in token,
or as a covenant, that they would not forsake the Lord their God;
or, in other words, if they should transgress the commandments of
God, or fall into transgression, and be ashamed to take upon them
the name of Christ, the Lord should rend them even as they had
rent their garments.
 
Alma 46:22 Now this was the covenant which they made, and they
cast their garments at the feet of Moroni, saying: We covenant
with our God, that we shall be destroyed, even as our brethren in
the land northward, if we shall fall into transgression; yea, he
may cast us at the feet of our enemies, even as we have cast our
garments at thy feet to be trodden under foot, if we shall fall
into transgression.
 
Alma 46:23 Moroni said unto them: Behold, we are a remnant of the
seed of Jacob; yea, we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, whose
coat was rent by his brethren into many pieces; yea, and now
behold, let us remember to keep the commandments of God, or our
garments shall be rent by our brethren, and we be cast into
prison, or be sold, or be slain.
 
Alma 46:24 Yea, let us preserve our liberty as a remnant of
Joseph; yea, let us remember the words of Jacob, before his
death, for behold, he saw that a part of the remnant of the coat
of Joseph was preserved and had not decayed. And he said--Even as
this remnant of garment of my son hath been preserved, so shall a
remnant of the seed of my son be preserved by the hand of God,
and be taken unto himself, while the remainder of the seed of
Joseph shall perish, even as the remnant of his garment.
 
Alma 46:25 Now behold, this giveth my soul sorrow; nevertheless,
my soul hath joy in my son, because of that part of his seed
which shall be taken unto God.
 
Alma 46:26 Now behold, this was the language of Jacob.
 
Alma 46:27 And now who knoweth but what the remnant of the seed
of Joseph, which shall perish as his garment, are those who have
dissented from us? Yea, and even it shall be ourselves if we do
not stand fast in the faith of Christ.
 
Alma 46:28 And now it came to pass that when Moroni had said
these words he went forth, and also sent forth in all the parts
of the land where there were dissensions, and gathered together
all the people who were desirous to maintain their liberty, to
stand against Amalickiah and those who had dissented, who were
called Amalickiahites.
 
Alma 46:29 And it came to pass that when Amalickiah saw that the
people of Moroni were more numerous than the Amalickiahites--and
he also saw that his people were doubtful concerning the justice
of the cause in which they had undertaken--therefore, fearing
that he should not gain the point, he took those of his people
who would and departed into the land of Nephi.
 
Alma 46:30 Now Moroni thought it was not expedient that the
Lamanites should have any more strength; therefore he thought to
cut off the people of Amalickiah, or to take them and bring them
back, and put Amalickiah to death; yea, for he knew that he would
stir up the Lamanites to anger against them, and cause them to
come to battle against them; and this he knew that Amalickiah
would do that he might obtain his purposes.
 
Alma 46:31 Therefore Moroni thought it was expedient that he
should take his armies, who had gathered themselves together, and
armed themselves, and entered into a covenant to keep the peace--
and it came to pass that he took his army and marched out with
his tents into the wilderness, to cut off the course of
Amalickiah in the wilderness.
 
Alma 46:32 And it came to pass that he did according to his
desires, and marched forth into the wilderness, and headed the
armies of Amalickiah.
 
Alma 46:33 And it came to pass that Amalickiah fled with a small
number of his men, and the remainder were delivered up into the
hands of Moroni and were taken back into the land of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 46:34 Now, Moroni being a man who was appointed by the chief
judges and the voice of the people, therefore he had power
according to his will with the armies of the Nephites, to
establish and to exercise authority over them.
 
Alma 46:35 And it came to pass that whomsoever of the
Amalickiahites that would not enter into a covenant to support
the cause of freedom, that they might maintain a free government,
he caused to be put to death; and there were but few who denied
the covenant of freedom.
 
Alma 46:36 And it came to pass also, that he caused the title of
liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land,
which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the
standard of liberty among the Nephites.
 
Alma 46:37 And they began to have peace again in the land; and
thus they did maintain peace in the land until nearly the end of
the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges.
 
Alma 46:38 And Helaman and the high priests did also maintain
order in the church; yea, even for the space of four years did
they have much peace and rejoicing in the church.
 
Alma 46:39 And it came to pass that there were many who died,
firmly believing that their souls were redeemed by the Lord Jesus
Christ; thus they went out of the world rejoicing.
 
Alma 46:40 And there were some who died with fevers, which at
some seasons of the year were very frequent in the land--but not
so much so with fevers, because of the excellent qualities of the
many plants and roots which God had prepared to remove the cause
of diseases, to which men were subject by the nature of the
climate--
 
Alma 46:41 But there were many who died with old age; and those
who died in the faith of Christ are happy in him, as we must
needs suppose.
 
Alma 47:0 Amalickiah, by treachery, becomes king of the
Lamanites--His awful wickedness.
 
Alma 47:1 Now we will return in our record to Amalickiah and
those who had fled with him into the wilderness; for, behold, he
had taken those who went with him, and went up in the land of
Nephi among the Lamanites, and did stir up the Lamanites to anger
against the people of Nephi, insomuch that the king of the
Lamanites sent a proclamation throughout all his land, among all
his people, that they should gather themselves together again to
go to battle against the Nephites.
 
Alma 47:2 And it came to pass that when the proclamation had gone
forth among them they were exceedingly afraid; yea, they feared
to displease the king, and they also feared to go to battle
against the Nephites lest they should lose their lives. And it
came to pass that they would not, or the more part of them would
not, obey the commandments of the king.
 
Alma 47:3 And now it came to pass that the king was wroth because
of their disobedience; therefore he gave Amalickiah the command
of that part of his army which was obedient unto his commands,
and commanded him that he should go forth and compel them to
arms.
 
Alma 47:4 Now behold, this was the desire of Amalickiah; for he
being a very subtle man to do evil therefore he laid the plan in
his heart to dethrone the king of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 47:5 And now he had got the command of those parts of the
Lamanites who were in favor of the king; and he sought to gain
favor of those who were not obedient; therefore he went forward
to the place which was called Onidah, for thither had all the
Lamanites fled; for they discovered the army coming, and,
supposing that they were coming to destroy them, therefore they
fled to Onidah, to the place of arms.
 
Alma 47:6 And they had appointed a man to be a king and a leader
over them, being fixed in their minds with a determined
resolution that they would not be subjected to go against the
Nephites.
 
Alma 47:7 And it came to pass that they had gathered themselves
together upon the top of the mount which was called Antipas, in
preparation to battle.
 
Alma 47:8 Now it was not Amalickiah's intention to give them
battle according to the commandments of the king; but behold, it
was his intention to gain favor with the armies of the Lamanites,
that he might place himself at their head and dethrone the king
and take possession of the kingdom.
 
Alma 47:9 And behold, it came to pass that he caused his army to
pitch their tents in the valley which was near the mount Antipas.
 
Alma 47:10 And it came to pass that when it was night he sent a
secret embassy into the mount Antipas, desiring that the leader
of those who were upon the mount, whose name was Lehonti, that he
should come down to the foot of the mount, for he desired to
speak with him.
 
Alma 47:11 And it came to pass that when Lehonti received the
message he durst not go down to the foot of the mount. And it
came to pass that Amalickiah sent again the second time, desiring
him to come down. And it came to pass that Lehonti would not; and
he sent again the third time.
 
Alma 47:12 And it came to pass that when Amalickiah found that he
could not get Lehonti to come down off from the mount, he went up
into the mount, nearly to Lehonti's camp; and he sent again the
fourth time his message unto Lehonti, desiring that he would come
down, and that he would bring his guards with him.
 
Alma 47:13 And it came to pass that when Lehonti had come down
with his guards to Amalickiah, that Amalickiah desired him to
come down with his army in the night-time, and surround those men
in their camps over whom the king had given him command, and that
he would deliver them up into Lehonti's hands, if he would make
him (Amalickiah) a second leader over the whole army.
 
Alma 47:14 And it came to pass that Lehonti came down with his
men and surrounded the men of Amalickiah, so that before they
awoke at the dawn of day they were surrounded by the armies of
Lehonti.
 
Alma 47:15 And it came to pass that when they saw that they were
surrounded, they plead with Amalickiah that he would suffer them
to fall in with their brethren, that they might not be destroyed.
Now this was the very thing which Amalickiah desired.
 
Alma 47:16 And it came to pass that he delivered his men,
contrary to the commands of the king. Now this was the thing that
Amalickiah desired, that he might accomplish his designs in
dethroning the king.
 
Alma 47:17 Now it was the custom among the Lamanites, if their
chief leader was killed, to appoint the second leader to be their
chief leader.
 
Alma 47:18 And it came to pass that Amalickiah caused that one of
his servants should administer poison by degrees to Lehonti, that
he died.
 
Alma 47:19 Now, when Lehonti was dead, the Lamanites appointed
Amalickiah to be their leader and their chief commander.
 
Alma 47:20 And it came to pass that Amalickiah marched with his
armies (for he had gained his desires) to the land of Nephi, to
the city of Nephi, which was the chief city.
 
Alma 47:21 And the king came out to meet him with his guards, for
he supposed that Amalickiah had fulfilled his commands, and that
Amalickiah had gathered together so great an army to go against
the Nephites to battle.
 
Alma 47:22 But behold, as the king came out to meet him
Amalickiah caused that his servants should go forth to meet the
king. And they went and bowed themselves before the king, as if
to reverence him because of his greatness.
 
Alma 47:23 And it came to pass that the king put forth his hand
to raise them, as was the custom with the Lamanites, as a token
of peace, which custom they had taken from the Nephites.
 
Alma 47:24 And it came to pass that when he had raised the first
from the ground, behold he stabbed the king to the heart; and he
fell to the earth.
 
Alma 47:25 Now the servants of the king fled; and the servants of
Amalickiah raised a cry, saying:
 
Alma 47:26 Behold, the servants of the king have stabbed him to
the heart, and he has fallen and they have fled; behold, come and
see.
 
Alma 47:27 And it came to pass that Amalickiah commanded that his
armies should march forth and see what had happened to the king;
and when they had come to the spot, and found the king lying in
his gore, Amalickiah pretended to be wroth, and said: Whosoever
loved the king, let him go forth, and pursue his servants that
they may be slain.
 
Alma 47:28 And it came to pass that all they who loved the king,
when they heard these words, came forth and pursued after the
servants of the king.
 
Alma 47:29 Now when the servants of the king saw an army pursuing
after them, they were frightened again, and fled into the
wilderness, and came over into the land of Zarahemla and joined
the people of Ammon.
 
Alma 47:30 And the army which pursued after them returned, having
pursued after them in vain; and thus Amalickiah, by his fraud,
gained the hearts of the people.
 
Alma 47:31 And it came to pass on the morrow he entered the city
Nephi with his armies, and took possession of the city.
 
Alma 47:32 And now it came to pass that the queen, when she had
heard that the king was slain--for Amalickiah had sent an embassy
to the queen informing her that the king had been slain by his
servants, that he had pursued them with his army, but it was in
vain, and they had made their escape--
 
Alma 47:33 Therefore, when the queen had received this message
she sent unto Amalickiah, desiring him that he would spare the
people of the city; and she also desired him that he should come
in unto her; and she also desired him that he should bring
witnesses with him to testify concerning the death of the king.
 
Alma 47:34 And it came to pass that Amalickiah took the same
servant that slew the king, and all them who were with him, and
went in unto the queen, unto the place where she sat; and they
all testified unto her that the king was slain by his own
servants; and they said also: They have fled; does not this
testify against them? And thus they satisfied the queen
concerning the death of the king.
 
Alma 47:35 And it came to pass that Amalickiah sought the favor
of the queen, and took her unto him to wife; and thus by his
fraud, and by the assistance of his cunning servants, he obtained
the kingdom; yea, he was acknowledged king throughout all the
land, among all the people of the Lamanites, who were composed of
the Lamanites and the Lemuelites and the Ishmaelites, and all the
dissenters of the Nephites, from the reign of Nephi down to the
present time.
 
Alma 47:36 Now these dissenters, having the same instruction and
the same information of the Nephites, yea, having been instructed
in the same knowledge of the Lord, nevertheless, it is strange to
relate, not long after their dissensions they became more
hardened and impenitent, and more wild, wicked and ferocious than
the Lamanites--drinking in with the traditions of the Lamanites;
giving way to indolence, and all manner of lasciviousness; yea,
entirely forgetting the Lord their God.
 
Alma 48:0 Amalickiah incites the Lamanites against Nephites--
Moroni prepares for the conflict--A true patriot and a mighty man
of God.
 
Alma 48:1 And now it came to pass that, as soon as Amalickiah had
obtained the kingdom he began to inspire the hearts of the
Lamanites against the people of Nephi; yea, he did appoint men to
speak unto the Lamanites from their towers, against the Nephites.
 
Alma 48:2 And thus he did inspire their hearts against the
Nephites, insomuch that in the latter end of the nineteenth year
of the reign of the judges, he having accomplished his designs
thus far, yea, having been made king over the Lamanites, he
sought also to reign over all the land, yea, and all the people
who were in the land, the Nephites as well as the Lamanites.
 
Alma 48:3 Therefore he had accomplished his design, for he had
hardened the hearts of the Lamanites and blinded their minds, and
stirred them up to anger, insomuch that he had gathered together
a numerous host to go to battle against the Nephites.
 
Alma 48:4 For he was determined, because of the greatness of the
number of his people, to overpower the Nephites and to bring them
into bondage.
 
Alma 48:5 And thus he did appoint chief captains of the
Zoramites, they being the most acquainted with the strength of
the Nephites, and their places of resort, and the weakest parts
of their cities; therefore he appointed them to be chief captains
over his armies.
 
Alma 48:6 And it came to pass that they took their camp, and
moved forth toward the land of Zarahemla in the wilderness.
 
Alma 48:7 Now it came to pass that while Amalickiah had thus been
obtaining power by fraud and deceit, Moroni, on the other hand,
had been preparing the minds of the people to be faithful unto
the Lord their God.
 
Alma 48:8 Yea, he had been strengthening the armies of the
Nephites, and erecting small forts, or places of resort; throwing
up banks of earth round about to enclose his armies, and also
building walls of stone to encircle them about, round about their
cities and the borders of their lands; yea, all round about the
land.
 
Alma 48:9 And in their weakest fortifications he did place the
greater number of men; and thus he did fortify and strengthen the
land which was possessed by the Nephites.
 
Alma 48:10 And thus he was preparing to support their liberty,
their lands, their wives, and their children, and their peace,
and that they might live unto the Lord their God, and that they
might maintain that which was called by their enemies the cause
of Christians.
 
Alma 48:11 And Moroni was a strong and a mighty man; he was a man
of a perfect understanding; yea, a man that did not delight in
bloodshed; a man whose soul did joy in the liberty and the
freedom of his country, and his brethren from bondage and
slavery;
 
Alma 48:12 Yea, a man whose heart did swell with thanksgiving to
his God, for the many privileges and blessings which he bestowed
upon his people; a man who did labor exceedingly for the welfare
and safety of his people.
 
Alma 48:13 Yea, and he was a man who was firm in the faith of
Christ, and he had sworn with an oath to defend his people, his
rights, and his country, and his religion, even to the loss of
his blood.
 
Alma 48:14 Now the Nephites were taught to defend themselves
against their enemies, even to the shedding of blood if it were
necessary; yea, and they were also taught never to give an
offense, yea, and never to raise the sword except it were against
an enemy, except it were to preserve their lives.
 
Alma 48:15 And this was their faith, that by so doing God would
prosper them in the land, or in other words, if they were
faithful in keeping the commandments of God that he would prosper
them in the land; yea, warn them to flee, or to prepare for war,
according to their danger;
 
Alma 48:16 And also, that God would make it known unto them
whither they should go to defend themselves against their
enemies, and by so doing, the Lord would deliver them; and this
was the faith of Moroni, and his heart did glory in it; not in
the shedding of blood but in doing good, in preserving his
people, yea, in keeping the commandments of God, yea, and
resisting iniquity.
 
Alma 48:17 Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had
been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the
very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the
devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of
men.
 
Alma 48:18 Behold, he was a man like unto Ammon, the son of
Mosiah, yea, and even the other sons of Mosiah, yea, and also
Alma and his sons, for they were all men of God.
 
Alma 48:19 Now behold, Helaman and his brethren were no less
serviceable unto the people than was Moroni; for they did preach
the word of God, and they did baptize unto repentance all men
whosoever would hearken unto their words.
 
Alma 48:20 And thus they went forth, and the people did humble
themselves because of their words, insomuch that they were highly
favored of the Lord, and thus they were free from wars and
contentions among themselves, yea, even for the space of four
years.
 
Alma 48:21 But, as I have said, in the latter end of the
nineteenth year, yea, notwithstanding their peace amongst
themselves, they were compelled reluctantly to contend with their
brethren, the Lamanites.
 
Alma 48:22 Yea, and in fine, their wars never did cease for the
space of many years with the Lamanites, notwithstanding their
much reluctance.
 
Alma 48:23 Now, they were sorry to take up arms against the
Lamanites, because they did not delight in the shedding of blood;
yea, and this was not all--they were sorry to be the means of
sending so many of their brethren out of this world into an
eternal world, unprepared to meet their God.
 
Alma 48:24 Nevertheless, they could not suffer to lay down their
lives, that their wives and their children should be massacred by
the barbarous cruelty of those who were once their brethren, yea,
and had dissented from their church, and had left them and had
gone to destroy them by joining the Lamanites.
 
Alma 48:25 Yea, they could not bear that their brethren should
rejoice over the blood of the Nephites, so long as there were any
who should keep the commandments of God, for the promise of the
Lord was, if they should keep his commandments they should
prosper in the land.
 
Alma 49:0 The invading Lamanites baffled and repulsed--
Amalickiah's wrath over his failure--Prosperity of the church.
 
Alma 49:1 And now it came to pass in the eleventh month of the
nineteenth year, on the tenth day of the month, the armies of the
Lamanites were seen approaching towards the land of Ammonihah.
 
Alma 49:2 And behold, the city had been rebuilt, and Moroni had
stationed an army by the borders of the city, and they had cast
up dirt round about to shield them from the arrows and the stones
of the Lamanites; for behold, they fought with stones and with
arrows.
 
Alma 49:3 Behold, I said that the city of Ammonihah had been
rebuilt. I say unto you, yea, that it was in part rebuilt; and
because the Lamanites had destroyed it once because of the
iniquity of the people, they supposed that it would again become
an easy prey for them.
 
Alma 49:4 But behold, how great was their disappointment; for
behold, the Nephites had dug up a ridge of earth round about
them, which was so high that the Lamanites could not cast their
stones and their arrows at them that they might take effect,
neither could they come upon them save it was by their place of
entrance.
 
Alma 49:5 Now at this time the chief captains of the Lamanites
were astonished exceedingly, because of the wisdom of the
Nephites in preparing their places of security.
 
Alma 49:6 Now the leaders of the Lamanites had supposed, because
of the greatness of their numbers, yea, they supposed that they
should be privileged to come upon them as they had hitherto done;
yea, and they had also prepared themselves with shields, and with
breastplates; and they had also prepared themselves with garments
of skins, yea, very thick garments to cover their nakedness.
 
Alma 49:7 And being thus prepared they supposed that they should
easily overpower and subject their brethren to the yoke of
bondage, or slay and massacre them according to their pleasure.
 
Alma 49:8 But behold, to their uttermost astonishment, they were
prepared for them, in a manner which never had been known among
the children of Lehi. Now they were prepared for the Lamanites,
to battle after the manner of the instructions of Moroni.
 
Alma 49:9 And it came to pass that the Lamanites, or the
Amalickiahites, were exceedingly astonished at their manner of
preparation for war.
 
Alma 49:10 Now, if king Amalickiah had come down out of the land
of Nephi, at the head of his army, perhaps he would have caused
the Lamanites to have attacked the Nephites at the city of
Ammonihah; for behold, he did care not for the blood of his
people.
 
Alma 49:11 But behold, Amalickiah did not come down himself to
battle. And behold, his chief captains durst not attack the
Nephites at the city of Ammonihah, for Moroni had altered the
management of affairs among the Nephites, insomuch that the
Lamanites were disappointed in their places of retreat and they
could not come upon them.
 
Alma 49:12 Therefore they retreated into the wilderness, and took
their camp and marched towards the land of Noah, supposing that
to be the next best place for them to come against the Nephites.
 
Alma 49:13 For they knew not that Moroni had fortified, or had
built forts of security, for every city in all the land round
about; therefore, they marched forward to the land of Noah with a
firm determination; yea, their chief captains came forward and
took an oath that they would destroy the people of that city.
 
Alma 49:14 But behold, to their astonishment, the city of Noah,
which had hitherto been a weak place, had now, by the means of
Moroni, become strong, yea, even to exceed the strength of the
city Ammonihah.
 
Alma 49:15 And now, behold, this was wisdom in Moroni; for he had
supposed that they would be frightened at the city Ammonihah; and
as the city of Noah had hitherto been the weakest part of the
land, therefore they would march thither to battle; and thus it
was according to his desires.
 
Alma 49:16 And behold, Moroni had appointed Lehi to be chief
captain over the men of that city; and it was that same Lehi who
fought with the Lamanites in the valley on the east of the river
Sidon.
 
Alma 49:17 And now behold it came to pass, that when the
Lamanites had found that Lehi commanded the city they were again
disappointed, for they feared Lehi exceedingly; nevertheless
their chief captains had sworn with an oath to attack the city;
therefore, they brought up their armies.
 
Alma 49:18 Now behold, the Lamanites could not get into their
forts of security by any other way save by the entrance, because
of the highness of the bank which had been thrown up, and the
depth of the ditch which had been dug round about, save it were
by the entrance.
 
Alma 49:19 And thus were the Nephites prepared to destroy all
such as should attempt to climb up to enter the fort by any other
way, by casting over stones and arrows at them.
 
Alma 49:20 Thus they were prepared, yea, a body of their
strongest men, with their swords and their slings, to smite down
all who should attempt to come into their place of security by
the place of entrance; and thus were they prepared to defend
themselves against the Lamanites.
 
Alma 49:21 And it came to pass that the captains of the Lamanites
brought up their armies before the place of entrance, and began
to contend with the Nephites, to get into their place of
security; but behold, they were driven back from time to time,
insomuch that they were slain with an immense slaughter.
 
Alma 49:22 Now when they found that they could not obtain power
over the Nephites by the pass, they began to dig down their banks
of earth that they might obtain a pass to their armies, that they
might have an equal chance to fight; but behold, in these
attempts they were swept off by the stones and arrows which were
thrown at them; and instead of filling up their ditches by
pulling down the banks of earth, they were filled up in a measure
with their dead and wounded bodies.
 
Alma 49:23 Thus the Nephites had all power over their enemies;
and thus the Lamanites did attempt to destroy the Nephites until
their chief captains were all slain; yea, and more than a
thousand of the Lamanites were slain; while, on the other hand,
there was not a single soul of the Nephites which was slain.
 
Alma 49:24 There were about fifty who were wounded, who had been
exposed to the arrows of the Lamanites through the pass, but they
were shielded by their shields, and their breastplates, and their
head-plates, insomuch that their wounds were upon their legs,
many of which were very severe.
 
Alma 49:25 And it came to pass, that when the Lamanites saw that
their chief captains were all slain they fled into the
wilderness. And it came to pass that they returned to the land of
Nephi, to inform their king, Amalickiah, who was a Nephite by
birth, concerning their great loss.
 
Alma 49:26 And it came to pass that he was exceedingly angry with
his people, because he had not obtained his desire over the
Nephites; he had not subjected them to the yoke of bondage.
 
Alma 49:27 Yea, he was exceedingly wroth, and he did curse God,
and also Moroni, swearing with an oath that he would drink his
blood; and this because Moroni had kept the commandments of God
in preparing for the safety of his people.
 
Alma 49:28 And it came to pass, that on the other hand, the
people of Nephi did thank the Lord their God, because of his
matchless power in delivering them from the hands of their
enemies.
 
Alma 49:29 And thus ended the nineteenth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 49:30 Yea, and there was continual peace among them, and
exceedingly great prosperity in the church because of their heed
and diligence which they gave unto the word of God, which was
declared unto them by Helaman, and Shiblon, and Corianton, and
Ammon and his brethren, yea, and by all those who had been
ordained by the holy order of God, being baptized unto
repentance, and sent forth to preach among the people.
 
Alma 50:0 Moroni fortifies the lime between land of Zarahemla and
land of Nephi--Morianton plans to occupy the land northward--he
is killed by Teancum--Pahoran succeeds Nephihah.
 
Alma 50:1 And now it came to pass that Moroni did not stop making
preparations for war, or to defend his people against the
Lamanites; for he caused that his armies should commence in the
commencement of the twentieth year of the reign of the judges,
that they should commence in digging up heaps of earth round
about all the cities, throughout all the land which was possessed
by the Nephites.
 
Alma 50:2 And upon the top of these ridges of earth he caused
that there should be timbers, yea, works of timbers built up to
the height of a man, round about the cities.
 
Alma 50:3 And he caused that upon those works of timbers there
should be a frame of pickets built upon the timbers round about;
and they were strong and high.
 
Alma 50:4 And he caused towers to be erected that overlooked
those works of pickets, and he caused places of security to be
built upon those towers, that the stones and the arrows of the
Lamanites could not hurt them.
 
Alma 50:5 And they were prepared that they could cast stones from
the top thereof, according to their pleasure and their strength,
and slay him who should attempt to approach near the walls of the
city.
 
Alma 50:6 Thus Moroni did prepare strongholds against the coming
of their enemies, round about every city in all the land.
 
Alma 50:7 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that his armies
should go forth into the east wilderness; yea, and they went
forth and drove all the Lamanites who were in the east wilderness
into their own lands, which were south of the land of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 50:8 And the land of Nephi did run in a straight course from
the east sea to the west.
 
Alma 50:9 And it came to pass that when Moroni had driven all the
Lamanites out of the east wilderness, which was north of the
lands of their own possessions, he caused that the inhabitants
who were in the land of Zarahemla and in the land round about
should go forth into the east wilderness, even to the borders by
the seashore, and possess the land.
 
Alma 50:10 And he also placed armies on the south, in the borders
of their possessions, and caused them to erect fortifications
that they might secure their armies and their people from the
hands of their enemies.
 
Alma 50:11 And thus he cut off all the strongholds of the
Lamanites in the east wilderness, yea, and also on the west,
fortifying the line between the Nephites and the Lamanites,
between the land of Zarahemla and the land of Nephi, from the
west sea, running by the head of the river Sidon--the Nephites
possessing all the land northward, yea, even all the land which
was northward of the land Bountiful, according to their pleasure.
 
Alma 50:12 Thus Moroni, with his armies, which did increase daily
because of the assurance of protection which his works did bring
forth unto them, did seek to cut off the strength and the power
of the Lamanites from off the lands of their possessions, that
they should have no power upon the lands of their possession.
 
Alma 50:13 And it came to pass that the Nephites began the
foundation of a city, and they called the name of the city
Moroni; and it was by the east sea; and it was on the south by
the line of the possessions of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 50:14 And they also began a foundation for a city between
the city of Moroni and the city of Aaron, joining the borders of
Aaron and Moroni; and they called the name of the city, or the
land, Nephihah.
 
Alma 50:15 And they also began in that same year to build many
cities on the north, one in a particular manner which they called
Lehi, which was in the north by the borders of the seashore.
 
Alma 50:16 And thus ended the twentieth year.
 
Alma 50:17 And in these prosperous circumstances were the people
of Nephi in the commencement of the twenty and first year of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 50:18 And they did prosper exceedingly, and they became
exceedingly rich; yea, and they did multiply and wax strong in
the land.
 
Alma 50:19 And thus we see how merciful and just are all the
dealings of the Lord, to the fulfilling of all his words unto the
children of men; yea, we can behold that his words are verified,
even at this time, which he spake unto Lehi, saying:
 
Alma 50:20 Blessed art thou and thy children; and they shall be
blessed, inasmuch as they shall keep my commandments they shall
prosper in the land. But remember, inasmuch as they will not keep
my commandments they shall be cut off from the presence of the
Lord.
 
Alma 50:21 And we see that these promises have been verified to
the people of Nephi; for it has been their quarrelings and their
contentions, yea, their murderings, and their plunderings, their
idolatry, their whoredoms, and their abominations, which were
among themselves, which brought upon them their wars and their
destructions.
 
Alma 50:22 And those who were faithful in keeping the
commandments of the Lord were delivered at all times, whilst
thousands of their wicked brethren have been consigned to
bondage, or to perish by the sword, or to dwindle in unbelief,
and mingle with the Lamanites.
 
Alma 50:23 But behold there never was a happier time among the
people of Nephi, since the days of Nephi, than in the days of
Moroni, yea, even at this time, in the twenty and first year of
the reign of the judges.
 
Alma 50:24 And it came to pass that the twenty and second year of
the reign of the judges also ended in peace; yea, and also the
twenty and third year.
 
Alma 50:25 And it came to pass that in the commencement of the
twenty and fourth year of the reign of the judges, there would
also have been peace among the people of Nephi had it not been
for a contention which took place among them concerning the land
of Lehi, and the land of Morianton, which joined upon the borders
of Lehi; both of which were on the borders by the seashore.
 
Alma 50:26 For behold, the people who possessed the land of
Morianton did claim a part of the land of Lehi; therefore there
began to be a warm contention between them, insomuch that the
people of Morianton took up arms against their brethren, and they
were determined by the sword to slay them.
 
Alma 50:27 But behold, the people who possessed the land of Lehi
fled to the camp of Moroni, and appealed unto him for assistance;
for behold they were not in the wrong.
 
Alma 50:28 And it came to pass that when the people of Morianton,
who were led by a man whose name was Morianton, found that the
people of Lehi had fled to the camp of Moroni, they were
exceedingly fearful lest the army of Moroni should come upon them
and destroy them.
 
Alma 50:29 Therefore, Morianton put it into their hearts that
they should flee to the land which was northward, which was
covered with large bodies of water, and take possession of the
land which was northward.
 
Alma 50:30 And behold, they would have carried this plan into
effect, (which would have been a cause to have been lamented) but
behold, Morianton being a man of much passion, therefore he was
angry with one of his maid servants, and he fell upon her and
beat her much.
 
Alma 50:31 And it came to pass that she fled, and came over to
the camp of Moroni, and told Moroni all things concerning the
matter, and also concerning their intentions to flee into the
land northward.
 
Alma 50:32 Now behold, the people who were in the land Bountiful,
or rather Moroni, feared that they would hearken to the words of
Morianton and unite with his people, and thus he would obtain
possession of those parts of the land, which would lay a
foundation for serious consequences among the people of Nephi,
yea, which consequences would lead to the overthrow of their
liberty.
 
Alma 50:33 Therefore Moroni sent an army, with their camp, to
head the people of Morianton, to stop their flight into the land
northward.
 
Alma 50:34 And it came to pass that they did not head them until
they had come to the borders of the land Desolation; and there
they did head them, by the narrow pass which led by the sea into
the land northward, yea, by the sea, on the west and on the east.
 
Alma 50:35 And it came to pass that the army which was sent by
Moroni, which was led by a man whose name was Teancum, did meet
the people of Morianton; and so stubborn were the people of
Morianton, (being inspired by his wickedness and his flattering
words) that a battle commenced between them, in the which Teancum
did slay Morianton and defeat his army, and took them prisoners,
and returned to the camp of Moroni. And thus ended the twenty and
fourth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 50:36 And thus were the people of Morianton brought back.
And upon their covenanting to keep the peace they were restored
to the land of Morianton, and a union took place between them and
the people of Lehi; and they were also restored to their lands.
 
Alma 50:37 And it came to pass that in the same year that the
people of Nephi had peace restored unto them, that Nephihah, the
second chief judge, died, having filled the judgment seat with
perfect uprightness before God.
 
Alma 50:38 Nevertheless, he had refused Alma to take possession
of those records and those things which were esteemed by Alma and
his fathers to be most sacred; therefore Alma had conferred them
upon his son, Helaman.
 
Alma 50:39 Behold, it came to pass that the son of Nephihah was
appointed to fill the judgment-seat, in the stead of his father;
yea, he was appointed chief judge and governor over the people,
with an oath and sacred ordinance to judge righteously, and to
keep the peace and the freedom of the people, and to grant unto
them their sacred privileges to worship the Lord their God, yea,
to support and maintain the cause of God all his days, and to
bring the wicked to justice according to their crime.
 
Alma 50:40 Now behold, his name was Pahoran. And Pahoran did fill
the seat of his father, and did commence his reign in the end of
the twenty and fourth year, over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 51:0 King-men and freemen--Pahoran, chief judge, is
sustained by the freemen--King-men suppressed--Amalickiah's
invasion, defeat, and death.
 
Alma 51:1 And now it came to pass in the commencement of the
twenty and fifth year of the reign of the judges over the people
of Nephi, they having established peace between the people of
Lehi and the people of Morianton concerning their lands, and
having commenced the twenty and fifth year in peace;
 
Alma 51:2 Nevertheless, they did not long maintain an entire
peace in the land, for there began to be a contention among the
people concerning the chief judge Pahoran; for behold, there were
a part of the people who desired that a few particular points of
the law should be altered.
 
Alma 51:3 But behold, Pahoran would not alter nor suffer the law
to be altered; therefore, he did not hearken to those who had
sent in their voices with their petitions concerning the altering
of the law.
 
Alma 51:4 Therefore, those who were desirous that the law should
be altered were angry with him, and desired that he should no
longer be chief judge over the land; therefore there arose a warm
dispute concerning the matter, but not unto bloodshed.
 
Alma 51:5 And it came to pass that those who were desirous that
Pahoran should be dethroned from the judgment-seat were called
king-men, for they were desirous that the law should be altered
in a manner to overthrow the free government and to establish a
king over the land.
 
Alma 51:6 And those who were desirous that Pahoran should remain
chief judge over the land took upon them the name of freemen; and
thus was the division among them, for the freemen had sworn or
covenanted to maintain their rights and the privileges of their
religion by a free government.
 
Alma 51:7 And it came to pass that this matter of their
contention was settled by the voice of the people. And it came to
pass that the voice of the people came in favor of the freemen,
and Pahoran retained the judgment-seat, which caused much
rejoicing among the brethren of Pahoran and also many of the
people of liberty, who also put the king-men to silence, that
they durst not oppose but were obliged to maintain the cause of
freedom.
 
Alma 51:8 Now those who were in favor of kings were those of high
birth, and they sought to be kings; and they were supported by
those who sought power and authority over the people.
 
Alma 51:9 But behold, this was a critical time for such
contentions to be among the people of Nephi; for behold,
Amalickiah had again stirred up the hearts of the people of the
Lamanites against the people of the Nephites, and he was
gathering together soldiers from all parts of his land, and
arming them, and preparing for war with all diligence; for he had
sworn to drink the blood of Moroni.
 
Alma 51:10 But behold, we shall see that his promise which he
made was rash; nevertheless, he did prepare himself and his
armies to come to battle against the Nephites.
 
Alma 51:11 Now his armies were not so great as they had hitherto
been, because of the many thousands who had been slain by the
hand of the Nephites; but notwithstanding their great loss,
Amalickiah had gathered together a wonderfully great army,
insomuch that he feared not to come down to the land of
Zarahemla.
 
Alma 51:12 Yea, even Amalickiah did himself come down, at the
head of the Lamanites. And it was in the twenty and fifth year of
the reign of the judges; and it was at the same time that they
had begun to settle the affairs of their contentions concerning
the chief judge, Pahoran.
 
Alma 51:13 And it came to pass that when the men who were called
king-men had heard that the Lamanites were coming down to battle
against them, they were glad in their hearts; and they refused to
take up arms, for they were so wroth with the chief judge, and
also with the people of liberty, that they would not take up arms
to defend their country.
 
Alma 51:14 And it came to pass that when Moroni saw this, and
also saw that the Lamanites were coming into the borders of the
land, he was exceedingly wroth because of the stubbornness of
those people whom he had labored with so much diligence to
preserve; yea, he was exceedingly wroth; his soul was filled with
anger against them.
 
Alma 51:15 And it came to pass that he sent a petition, with the
voice of the people, unto the governor of the land, desiring that
he should read it, and give him (Moroni) power to compel those
dissenters to defend their country or to put them to death.
 
Alma 51:16 For it was his first care to put an end to such
contentions and dissensions among the people; for behold, this
had been hitherto a cause of all their destruction. And it came
to pass that it was granted according to the voice of the people.
 
Alma 51:17 And it came to pass that Moroni commanded that his
army should go against those king-men, to pull down their pride
and their nobility and level them with the earth, or they should
take up arms and support the cause of liberty.
 
Alma 51:18 And it came to pass that the armies did march forth
against them; and they did pull down their pride and their
nobility, insomuch that as they did lift their weapons of war to
fight against the men of Moroni they were hewn down and leveled
to the earth.
 
Alma 51:19 And it came to pass that there were four thousand of
those dissenters who were hewn down by the sword; and those of
their leaders who were not slain in battle were taken and cast
into prison, for there was no time for their trials at this
period.
 
Alma 51:20 And the remainder of those dissenters, rather than be
smitten down to the earth by the sword, yielded to the standard
of liberty, and were compelled to hoist the title of liberty upon
their towers, and in their cities, and to take up arms in defence
of their country.
 
Alma 51:21 And thus Moroni put an end to those king-men, that
there were not any known by the appellation of king-men; and thus
he put an end to the stubbornness and the pride of those people
who professed the blood of nobility; but they were brought down
to humble themselves like unto their brethren, and to fight
valiantly for their freedom from bondage.
 
Alma 51:22 Behold, it came to pass that while Moroni was thus
breaking down the wars and contentions among his own people, and
subjecting them to peace and civilization, and making regulations
to prepare for war against the Lamanites, behold, the Lamanites
had come into the land of Moroni, which was in the borders by the
seashore.
 
Alma 51:23 And it came to pass that the Nephites were not
sufficiently strong in the city of Moroni; therefore Amalickiah
did drive them, slaying many. And it came to pass that Amalickiah
took possession of the city, yea, possession of all their
fortifications.
 
Alma 51:24 And those who fled out of the city of Moroni came to
the city of Nephihah; and also the people of the city of Lehi
gathered themselves together, and made preparations and were
ready to receive the Lamanites to battle.
 
Alma 51:25 But it came to pass that Amalickiah would not suffer
the Lamanites to go against the city of Nephihah to battle, but
kept them down by the seashore, leaving men in every city to
maintain and defend it.
 
Alma 51:26 And thus he went on, taking possession of many cities,
the city of Nephihah, and the city of Lehi, and the city of
Morianton, and the city of Omner, and the city of Gid, and the
city of Mulek, all of which were on the east borders by the
seashore.
 
Alma 51:27 And thus had the Lamanites obtained, by the cunning of
Amalickiah, so many cities, by their numberless hosts, all of
which were strongly fortified after the manner of the
fortifications of Moroni; all of which afforded strongholds for
the Lamanites.
 
Alma 51:28 And it came to pass that they marched to the borders
of the land Bountiful, driving the Nephites before them and
slaying many.
 
Alma 51:29 But it came to pass that they were met by Teancum, who
had slain Morianton and had headed his people in his flight.
 
Alma 51:30 And it came to pass that he headed Amalickiah also, as
he was marching forth with his numerous army that he might take
possession of the land Bountiful, and also the land northward.
 
Alma 51:31 But behold he met with a disappointment by being
repulsed by Teancum and his men, for they were great warriors;
for every man of Teancum did exceed the Lamanites in their
strength and in their skill of war, insomuch that they did gain
advantage over the Lamanites.
 
Alma 51:32 And it came to pass that they did harass them,
insomuch that they did slay them even until it was dark. And it
came to pass that Teancum and his men did pitch their tents in
the borders of the land Bountiful; and Amalickiah did pitch his
tents in the borders on the beach by the seashore, and after this
manner were they driven.
 
Alma 51:33 And it came to pass that when the night had come,
Teancum and his servant stole forth and went out by night, and
went into the camp of Amalickiah; and behold, sleep had
overpowered them because of their much fatigue, which was caused
by the labors and heat of the day.
 
Alma 51:34 And it came to pass that Teancum stole privily into
the tent of the king, and put a javelin to his heart; and he did
cause the death of the king immediately that he did not awake his
servants.
 
Alma 51:35 And he returned again privily to his own camp, and
behold, his men were asleep, and he awoke them and told them all
the things that he had done.
 
Alma 51:36 And he caused that his armies should stand in
readiness, lest the Lamanites had awakened and should come upon
them.
 
Alma 51:37 And thus endeth the twenty and fifth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi; and thus endeth the days
of Amalickiah.
 
Alma 52:0 Ammoron succeeds Amalickiah--Moroni, with Teancum and
Lehi, retakes city of Mulek and wins great victory--Death of
Jacob, the Lamanite general.
 
Alma 52:1 And now, it came to pass in the twenty and sixth year
of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, behold, when
the Lamanites awoke on the first morning of the first month,
behold, they found Amalickiah was dead in his own tent; and they
also saw that Teancum was ready to give them battle on that day.
 
Alma 52:2 And now, when the Lamanites saw this they were
affrighted; and they abandoned their design in marching into the
land northward, and retreated with all their army into the city
of Mulek, and sought protection in their fortifications.
 
Alma 52:3 And it came to pass that the brother of Amalickiah was
appointed king over the people; and his name was Ammoron; thus
king Ammoron, the brother of king Amalickiah, was appointed to
reign in his stead.
 
Alma 52:4 And it came to pass that he did command that his people
should maintain those cities, which they had taken by the
shedding of blood; for they had not taken any cities save they
had lost much blood.
 
Alma 52:5 And now, Teancum saw that the Lamanites were determined
to maintain those cities which they had taken, and those parts of
the land which they had obtained possession of; and also seeing
the enormity of their number, Teancum thought it was not
expedient that he should attempt to attack them in their forts.
 
Alma 52:6 But he kept his men round about, as if making
preparations for war; yea, and truly he was preparing to defend
himself against them, by casting up walls round about and
preparing places of resort.
 
Alma 52:7 And it came to pass that he kept thus preparing for war
until Moroni had sent a large number of men to strengthen his
army.
 
Alma 52:8 And Moroni also sent orders unto him that he should
retain all the prisoners who fell into his hands; for as the
Lamanites had taken many prisoners, that he should retain all the
prisoners of the Lamanites as a ransom for those whom the
Lamanites had taken.
 
Alma 52:9 And he also sent orders unto him that he should fortify
the land Bountiful, and secure the narrow pass which led into the
land northward, lest the Lamanites should obtain that point and
should have power to harass them on every side.
 
Alma 52:10 And Moroni also sent unto him, desiring him that he
would be faithful in maintaining that quarter of the land, and
that he would seek every opportunity to scourge the Lamanites in
that quarter, as much as was in his power, that perhaps he might
take again by stratagem or some other way those cities which had
been taken out of their hands; and that he also would fortify and
strengthen the cities round about, which had not fallen into the
hands of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 52:11 And he also said unto him, I would come unto you, but
behold, the Lamanites are upon us in the borders of the land by
the west sea; and behold, I go against them, therefore I cannot
come unto you.
 
Alma 52:12 Now, the king (Ammoron) had departed out of the land
of Zarahemla, and had made known unto the queen concerning the
death of his brother, and had gathered together a large number of
men, and had marched forth against the Nephites on the borders by
the west sea.
 
Alma 52:13 And thus he was endeavoring to harass the Nephites,
and to draw away a part of their forces to that part of the land,
while he had commanded those whom he had left to possess the
cities which he had taken, that they should also harass the
Nephites on the borders by the east sea, and should take
possession of their lands as much as it was in their power,
according to the power of their armies.
 
Alma 52:14 And thus were the Nephites in those dangerous
circumstances in the ending of the twenty and sixth year of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 52:15 But behold, it came to pass in the twenty and seventh
year of the reign of the judges, that Teancum, by the command of
Moroni--who had established armies to protect the south and the
west borders of the land, and had begun his march towards the
land Bountiful, that he might assist Teancum with his men in
retaking the cities which they had lost--
 
Alma 52:16 And it came to pass that Teancum had received orders
to make an attack upon the city of Mulek, and retake it if it
were possible.
 
Alma 52:17 And it came to pass that Teancum made preparations to
make an attack upon the city of Mulek, and march forth with his
army against the Lamanites; but he saw that it was impossible
that he could overpower them while they were in their
fortifications; therefore he abandoned his designs and returned
again to the city Bountiful, to wait for the coming of Moroni,
that he might receive strength to his army.
 
Alma 52:18 And it came to pass that Moroni did arrive with his
army at the land of Bountiful, in the latter end of the twenty
and seventh year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi.
 
Alma 52:19 And in the commencement of the twenty and eighth year,
Moroni and Teancum and many of the chief captains held a council
of war--what they should do to cause the Lamanites to come out
against them to battle; or that they might by some means flatter
them out of their strongholds, that they might gain advantage
over them and take again the city of Mulek.
 
Alma 52:20 And it came to pass they sent embassies to the army of
the Lamanites, which protected the city of Mulek, to their
leader, whose name was Jacob, desiring him that he would come out
with his armies to meet them upon the plains between the two
cities. But behold, Jacob, who was a Zoramite, would not come out
with his army to meet them upon the plains.
 
Alma 52:21 And it came to pass that Moroni, having no hopes of
meeting them upon fair grounds, therefore, he resolved upon a
plan that he might decoy the Lamanites out of their strongholds.
 
Alma 52:22 Therefore he caused that Teancum should take a small
number of men and march down near the seashore; and Moroni and
his army, by night, marched in the wilderness, on the west of the
city Mulek; and thus, on the morrow, when the guards of the
Lamanites had discovered Teancum, they ran and told it unto
Jacob, their leader.
 
Alma 52:23 And it came to pass that the armies of the Lamanites
did march forth against Teancum, supposing by their numbers to
overpower Teancum because of the smallness of his numbers. And as
Teancum saw the armies of the Lamanites coming out against him he
began to retreat down by the seashore, northward.
 
Alma 52:24 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites saw that
he began to flee, they took courage and pursued them with vigor.
And while Teancum was thus leading away the Lamanites who were
pursuing them in vain, behold, Moroni commanded that a part of
his army who were with him should march forth into the city, and
take possession of it.
 
Alma 52:25 And thus they did, and slew all those who had been
left to protect the city, yea, all those who would not yield up
their weapons of war.
 
Alma 52:26 And thus Moroni had obtained possession of the city
Mulek with a part of his army, while he marched with the
remainder to meet the Lamanites when they should return from the
pursuit of Teancum.
 
Alma 52:27 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did pursue
Teancum until they came near the city Bountiful, and then they
were met by Lehi and a small army, which had been left to protect
the city Bountiful.
 
Alma 52:28 And now behold, when the chief captains of the
Lamanites had beheld Lehi with his army coming against them, they
fled in much confusion, lest perhaps they should not obtain the
city Mulek before Lehi should overtake them; for they were
wearied because of their march, and the men of Lehi were fresh.
 
Alma 52:29 Now the Lamanites did not know that Moroni had been in
their rear with his army; and all they feared was Lehi and his
men.
 
Alma 52:30 Now Lehi was not desirous to overtake them till they
should meet Moroni and his army.
 
Alma 52:31 And it came to pass that before the Lamanites had
retreated far they were surrounded by the Nephites, by the men of
Moroni on one hand, and the men of Lehi on the other, all of whom
were fresh and full of strength; but the Lamanites were wearied
because of their long march.
 
Alma 52:32 And Moroni commanded his men that they should fall
upon them until they had given up their weapons of war.
 
Alma 52:33 And it came to pass that Jacob, being their leader,
being also a Zoramite, and having an unconquerable spirit, he led
the Lamanites forth to battle with exceeding fury against Moroni.
 
Alma 52:34 Moroni being in their course of march, therefore Jacob
was determined to slay them and cut his way through to the city
of Mulek. But behold, Moroni and his men were more powerful;
therefore they did not give way before the Lamanites.
 
Alma 52:35 And it came to pass that they fought on both hands
with exceeding fury; and there were many slain on both sides;
yea, and Moroni was wounded and Jacob was killed.
 
Alma 52:36 And Lehi pressed upon their rear with such fury with
his strong men, that the Lamanites in the rear delivered up their
weapons of war; and the remainder of them, being much confused,
knew not whither to go or to strike.
 
Alma 52:37 Now Moroni seeing their confusion, he said unto them:
If ye will bring forth your weapons of war and deliver them up,
behold we will forbear shedding your blood.
 
Alma 52:38 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites had heard
these words, their chief captains, all those who were not slain,
came forth and threw down their weapons of war at the feet of
Moroni, and also commanded their men that they should do the
same.
 
Alma 52:39 But behold, there were many that would not; and those
who would not deliver up their swords were taken and bound, and
their weapons of war were taken from them, and they were
compelled to march with their brethren forth into the land
Bountiful.
 
Alma 52:40 And now the number of prisoners who were taken
exceeded more than the number of those who had been slain, yea,
more than those who had been slain on both sides.
 
Alma 53:0 City Bountiful fortified--Nephite dissension gives
advantage to enemy--Helaman and his two thousand stripling
warriors.
 
Alma 53:1 And it came to pass that they did set guards over the
prisoners of the Lamanites, and did compel them to go forth and
bury their dead, yea, and also the dead of the Nephites who were
slain; and Moroni placed men over them to guard them while they
should perform their labors.
 
Alma 53:2 And Moroni went to the city of Mulek with Lehi, and
took command of the city and gave it unto Lehi. Now behold, this
Lehi was a man who had been with Moroni in the more part of all
his battles; and he was a man like unto Moroni, and they rejoiced
in each other's safety; yea, they were beloved by each other, and
also beloved by all the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 53:3 And it came to pass that after the Lamanites had
finished burying their dead and also the dead of the Nephites,
they were marched back into the land Bountiful; and Teancum, by
the orders of Moroni, caused that they should commence laboring
in digging a ditch round about the land, or the city, Bountiful.
 
Alma 53:4 And he caused that they should build a breastwork of
timbers upon the inner bank of the ditch; and they cast up dirt
out of the ditch against the breastwork of timbers; and thus they
did cause the Lamanites to labor until they had encircled the
city of Bountiful round about with a strong wall of timbers and
earth, to an exceeding height.
 
Alma 53:5 And this city became an exceeding stronghold ever
after; and in this city they did guard the prisoners of the
Lamanites; yea, even within a wall which they had caused them to
build with their own hands. Now Moroni was compelled to cause the
Lamanites to labor, because it was easy to guard them while at
their labor; and he desired all his forces when he should make an
attack upon the Lamanites.
 
Alma 53:6 And it came to pass that Moroni had thus gained a
victory over one of the greatest of the armies of the Lamanites,
and had obtained possession of the city of Mulek, which was one
of the strongest holds of the Lamanites in the land of Nephi; and
thus he had also built a stronghold to retain his prisoners.
 
Alma 53:7 And it came to pass that he did no more attempt a
battle with the Lamanites in that year, but he did employ his men
in preparing for war, yea, and in making fortifications to guard
against the Lamanites, yea, and also delivering their women and
their children from famine and affliction, and providing food for
their armies.
 
Alma 53:8 And now it came to pass that the armies of the
Lamanites, on the west sea, south, while in the absence of Moroni
on account of some intrigue amongst the Nephites, which caused
dissensions amongst them, had gained some ground over the
Nephites, yea, insomuch that they had obtained possession of a
number of their cities in that part of the land.
 
Alma 53:9 And thus because of iniquity amongst themselves, yea,
because of dissensions and intrigue among themselves they were
placed in the most dangerous circumstances.
 
Alma 53:10 And now behold, I have somewhat to say concerning the
people of Ammon, who, in the beginning, were Lamanites; but by
Ammon and his brethren, or rather by the power and word of God,
they had been converted unto the Lord; and they had been brought
down into the land of Zarahemla, and had ever since been
protected by the Nephites.
 
Alma 53:11 And because of their oath they had been kept from
taking up arms against their brethren; for they had taken an oath
that they never would shed blood more; and according to their
oath they would have perished; yea, they would have suffered
themselves to have fallen into the hands of their brethren, had
it not been for the pity and the exceeding love which Ammon and
his brethren had had for them.
 
Alma 53:12 And for this cause they were brought down into the
land of Zarahemla; and they ever had been protected by the
Nephites.
 
Alma 53:13 But it came to pass that when they saw the danger, and
the many afflictions and tribulations which the Nephites bore for
them, they were moved with compassion and were desirous to take
up arms in the defence of their country.
 
Alma 53:14 But behold, as they were about to take their weapons
of war, they were overpowered by the persuasions of Helaman and
his brethren, for they were about to break the oath which they
had made.
 
Alma 53:15 And Helaman feared lest by so doing they should lose
their souls; therefore all those who had entered into this
covenant were compelled to behold their brethren wade through
their afflictions, in their dangerous circumstances at this time.
 
Alma 53:16 But behold, it came to pass they had many sons, who
had not entered into a covenant that they would not take their
weapons of war to defend themselves against their enemies;
therefore they did assemble themselves together at this time, as
many as were able to take up arms, and they called themselves
Nephites.
 
Alma 53:17 And they entered into a covenant to fight for the
liberty of the Nephites, yea, to protect the land unto the laying
down of their lives; yea, even they covenanted that they never
would give up their liberty, but they would fight in all cases to
protect the Nephites and themselves from bondage.
 
Alma 53:18 Now behold, there were two thousand of those young
men, who entered into this covenant and took their weapons of war
to defend their country.
 
Alma 53:19 And now behold, as they never had hitherto been a
disadvantage to the Nephites, they became now at this period of
time also a great support; for they took their weapons of war,
and they would that Helaman should be their leader.
 
Alma 53:20 And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly
valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but
behold, this was not all--they were men who were true at all
times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted.
 
Alma 53:21 Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they
had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk
uprightly before him.
 
Alma 53:22 And now it came to pass that Helaman did march at the
head of his two thousand stripling soldiers, to the support of
the people in the borders of the land on the south by the west
sea.
 
Alma 53:23 And thus ended the twenty and eighth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 54:0 Ammoron asks for exchange of prisoners--Moroni grants
request upon conditions--The Lamanite king's angry reply.
 
Alma 54:1 And now it came to pass in the commencement of the
twenty and ninth year of the judges, that Ammoron sent unto
Moroni desiring that he would exchange prisoners.
 
Alma 54:2 And it came to pass that Moroni felt to rejoice
exceedingly at this request, for he desired the provisions which
were imparted for the support of the Lamanite prisoners for the
support of his own people; and he also desired his own people for
the strengthening of his army.
 
Alma 54:3 Now the Lamanites had taken many women and children,
and there was not a woman nor a child among all the prisoners of
Moroni, or the prisoners whom Moroni had taken; therefore Moroni
resolved upon a stratagem to obtain as many prisoners of the
Nephites from the Lamanites as it were possible.
 
Alma 54:4 Therefore he wrote an epistle, and sent it by the
servant of Ammoron, the same who had brought an epistle to
Moroni. Now these are the words which he wrote unto Ammoron,
saying:
 
Alma 54:5 Behold, Ammoron, I have written unto you somewhat
concerning this war which ye have waged against my people, or
rather which thy brother hath waged against them, and which ye
are still determined to carry on after his death.
 
Alma 54:6 Behold, I would tell you somewhat concerning the
justice of God, and the sword of his almighty wrath, which doth
hang over you except ye repent and withdraw your armies into your
own lands, or the land of your possessions, which is the land of
Nephi.
 
Alma 54:7 Yea, I would tell you these things if ye were capable
of hearkening unto them; yea, I would tell you concerning that
awful hell that awaits to receive such murderers as thou and thy
brother have been, except ye repent and withdraw your murderous
purposes, and return with your armies to your own lands.
 
Alma 54:8 But as ye have once rejected these things, and have
fought against the people of the Lord, even so I may expect you
will do it again.
 
Alma 54:9 And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea,
and except you withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down
the wrath of that God whom you have rejected upon you, even to
your utter destruction.
 
Alma 54:10 But, as the Lord liveth, our armies shall come upon
you except ye withdraw, and ye shall soon be visited with death,
for we will retain our cities and our lands; yea, and we will
maintain our religion and the cause of our God.
 
Alma 54:11 But behold, it supposeth me that I talk to you
concerning these things in vain; or it supposeth me that thou art
a child of hell; therefore I will close my epistle by telling you
that I will not exchange prisoners, save it be on conditions that
ye will deliver up a man and his wife and his children, for one
prisoner; if this be the case that ye will do it, I will
exchange.
 
Alma 54:12 And behold, if ye do not this, I will come against you
with my armies; yea, even I will arm my women and my children,
and I will come against you, and I will follow you even into your
own land, which is the land of our first inheritance; yea, and it
shall be blood for blood, yea, life for life; and I will give you
battle even until you are destroyed from off the face of the
earth.
 
Alma 54:13 Behold, I am in my anger, and also my people; ye have
sought to murder us, and we have only sought to defend ourselves.
But behold, if ye seek to destroy us more we will seek to destroy
you; yea, and we will seek our land, the land of our first
inheritance.
 
Alma 54:14 Now I close my epistle. I am Moroni; I am a leader of
the people of the Nephites.
 
Alma 54:15 Now it came to pass that Ammoron, when he had received
this epistle, was angry; and he wrote another epistle unto
Moroni, and these are the words which he wrote, saying:
 
Alma 54:16 I am Ammoron, the king of the Lamanites; I am the
brother of Amalickiah whom ye have murdered. Behold, I will
avenge his blood upon you, yea, and I will come upon you with my
armies for I fear not your threatenings.
 
Alma 54:17 For behold, your fathers did wrong their brethren,
insomuch that they did rob them of their right to the government
when it rightly belonged unto them.
 
Alma 54:18 And now behold, if ye will lay down your arms, and
subject yourselves to be governed by those to whom the government
doth rightly belong, then will I cause that my people shall lay
down their weapons and shall be at war no more.
 
Alma 54:19 Behold, ye have breathed out many threatenings against
me and my people; but behold, we fear not your threatenings.
 
Alma 54:20 Nevertheless, I will grant to exchange prisoners
according to your request, gladly, that I may preserve my food
for my men of war; and we will wage a war which shall be eternal,
either to the subjecting the Nephites to our authority or to
their eternal extinction.
 
Alma 54:21 And as concerning that God whom ye say we have
rejected, behold, we know not such a being; neither do ye; but if
it so be that there is such a being, we know not but that he hath
made us as well as you.
 
Alma 54:22 And if it so be that there is a devil and a hell,
behold will he not send you there to dwell with my brother whom
ye have murdered, whom ye have hinted that he hath gone to such a
place? But behold these things matter not.
 
Alma 54:23 I am Ammoron, and a descendant of Zoram, whom your
fathers pressed and brought out of Jerusalem.
 
Alma 54:24 And behold now, I am a bold Lamanite; behold, this war
hath been waged to avenge their wrongs, and to maintain and to
obtain their rights to the government; and I close my epistle to
Moroni.
 
Alma 55:0 Moroni, incensed at Ammoron's false assertions, refuses
to exchange prisoners--Strategy secures release of captured
Nephites--City of Gid taken without bloodshed.
 
Alma 55:1 Now it came to pass that when Moroni had received this
epistle he was more angry, because he knew that Ammoron had a
perfect knowledge of his fraud; yea, he knew that Ammoron knew
that it was not a just cause that had caused him to wage a war
against the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 55:2 And he said: Behold, I will not exchange prisoners with
Ammoron save he will withdraw his purpose, as I have stated in my
epistle; for I will not grant unto him that he shall have any
more power than what he hath got.
 
Alma 55:3 Behold, I know the place where the Lamanites do guard
my people whom they have taken prisoners; and as Ammoron would
not grant unto me mine epistle, behold, I will give unto him
according to my words; yea, I will seek death among them until
they shall sue for peace.
 
Alma 55:4 And now it came to pass that when Moroni had said these
words, he caused that a search should be made among his men, that
perhaps he might find a man who was a descendant of Laman among
them.
 
Alma 55:5 And it came to pass that they found one, whose name was
Laman; and he was one of the servants of the king who was
murdered by Amalickiah.
 
Alma 55:6 Now Moroni caused that Laman and a small number of his
men should go forth unto the guards who were over the Nephites.
 
Alma 55:7 Now the Nephites were guarded in the city of Gid;
therefore Moroni appointed Laman and caused that a small number
of men should go with him.
 
Alma 55:8 And when it was evening Laman went to the guards who
were over the Nephites, and behold, they saw him coming and they
hailed him; but he saith unto them: Fear not; behold, I am a
Lamanite. Behold, we have escaped from the Nephites, and they
sleep; and behold we have taken of their wine and brought with
us.
 
Alma 55:9 Now when the Lamanites heard these words they received
him with joy; and they said unto him: Give us of your wine, that
we may drink; we are glad that ye have thus taken wine with you
for we are weary.
 
Alma 55:10 But Laman said unto them: Let us keep of our wine till
we go against the Nephites to battle. But this saying only made
them more desirous to drink of the wine;
 
Alma 55:11 For, said they: We are weary, therefore let us take of
the wine, and by and by we shall receive wine for our rations,
which will strengthen us to go against the Nephites.
 
Alma 55:12 And Laman said unto them: You may do according to your
desires.
 
Alma 55:13 And it came to pass that they did take of the wine
freely; and it was pleasant to their taste, therefore they took
of it more freely; and it was strong, having been prepared in its
strength.
 
Alma 55:14 And it came to pass they did drink and were merry, and
by and by they were all drunken.
 
Alma 55:15 And now when Laman and his men saw that they were all
drunken, and were in a deep sleep, they returned to Moroni and
told him all the things that had happened.
 
Alma 55:16 And now this was according to the design of Moroni.
And Moroni had prepared his men with weapons of war; and he went
to the city Gid, while the Lamanites were in a deep sleep and
drunken, and cast in weapons of war unto the prisoners, insomuch
that they were all armed;
 
Alma 55:17 Yea, even to their women, and all those of their
children, as many as were able to use a weapon of war, when
Moroni had armed all those prisoners; and all those things were
done in a profound silence.
 
Alma 55:18 But had they awakened the Lamanites, behold they were
drunken and the Nephites could have slain them.
 
Alma 55:19 But behold, this was not the desire of Moroni; he did
not delight in murder or bloodshed, but he delighted in the
saving of his people from destruction; and for this cause he
might not bring upon him injustice, he would not fall upon the
Lamanites and destroy them in their drunkenness.
 
Alma 55:20 But he had obtained his desires; for he had armed
those prisoners of the Nephites who were within the wall of the
city, and had given them power to gain possession of those parts
which were within the walls.
 
Alma 55:21 And then he caused the men who were with him to
withdraw a pace from them, and surround the armies of the
Lamanites.
 
Alma 55:22 Now behold this was done in the night-time, so that
when the Lamanites awoke in the morning they beheld that they
were surrounded by the Nephites without, and that their prisoners
were armed within.
 
Alma 55:23 And thus they saw that the Nephites had power over
them; and in these circumstances they found that it was not
expedient that they should fight with the Nephites; therefore
their chief captains demanded their weapons of war, and they
brought them forth and cast them at the feet of the Nephites,
pleading for mercy.
 
Alma 55:24 Now behold, this was the desire of Moroni. He took
them prisoners of war, and took possession of the city, and
caused that all the prisoners should be liberated, who were
Nephites; and they did join the army of Moroni, and were a great
strength to his army.
 
Alma 55:25 And it came to pass that he did cause the Lamanites,
whom he had taken prisoners, that they should commence a labor in
strengthening the fortifications round about the city Gid.
 
Alma 55:26 And it came to pass that when he had fortified the
city Gid, according to his desires, he caused that his prisoners
should be taken to the city Bountiful; and he also guarded that
city with an exceedingly strong force.
 
Alma 55:27 And it came to pass that they did, notwithstanding all
the intrigues of the Lamanites, keep and protect all the
prisoners whom they had taken, and also maintain all the ground
and the advantage which they had retaken.
 
Alma 55:28 And it came to pass that the Nephites began again to
be victorious, and to reclaim their rights and their privileges.
 
Alma 55:29 Many times did the Lamanites attempt to encircle them
about by night, but in these attempts they did lose many
prisoners.
 
Alma 55:30 And many times did they attempt to administer of their
wine to the Nephites, that they might destroy them with poison or
with drunkenness.
 
Alma 55:31 But behold, the Nephites were not slow to remember the
Lord their God in this their time of affliction. They could not
be taken in their snares; yea, they would not partake of their
wine, save they had first given to some of the Lamanite
prisoners.
 
Alma 55:32 And they were thus cautious that no poison should be
administered among them; for if their wine would poison a
Lamanite it would also poison a Nephite; and thus they did try
all their liquors.
 
Alma 55:33 And now it came to pass that it was expedient for
Moroni to make preparations to attack the city Morianton; for
behold, the Lamanites had, by their labors, fortified the city
Morianton until it had become an exceeding stronghold.
 
Alma 55:34 And they were continually bringing new forces into
that city, and also new supplies of provisions.
 
Alma 55:35 And thus ended the twenty and ninth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 56:0 Helaman's epistle to Moroni--Wonderful faith and valor
of the stripling Ammonites--Another great battle--Nephites
victorious.
 
Alma 56:1 And now it came to pass in the commencement of the
thirtieth year of the reign of the judges, on the second day in
the first month, Moroni received an epistle from Helaman, stating
the affairs of the people in that quarter of the land.
 
Alma 56:2 And these are the words which he wrote, saying: My
dearly beloved brother, Moroni, as well in the Lord as in the
tribulations of our warfare; behold, my beloved brother, I have
somewhat to tell you concerning our warfare in this part of the
land.
 
Alma 56:3 Behold, two thousand of the sons of those men whom
Ammon brought down out of the land of Nephi--now ye have known
that these were descendants of Laman, who was the eldest son of
our father Lehi;
 
Alma 56:4 Now I need not rehearse unto you concerning their
traditions or their unbelief, for thou knowest concerning all
these things--
 
Alma 56:5 Therefore it sufficeth me that I tell you that two
thousand of these young men have taken their weapons of war, and
would that I should be their leader; and we have come forth to
defend our country.
 
Alma 56:6 And now ye also know concerning the covenant which
their fathers made, that they would not take up their weapons of
war against their brethren to shed blood.
 
Alma 56:7 But in the twenty and sixth year, when they saw our
afflictions and our tribulations for them, they were about to
break the covenant which they had made and take up their weapons
of war in our defence.
 
Alma 56:8 But I would not suffer them that they should break this
covenant which they had made, supposing that God would strengthen
us, insomuch that we should not suffer more because of the
fulfilling the oath which they had taken.
 
Alma 56:9 But behold, here is one thing in which we may have
great joy. For behold, in the twenty and sixth year, I, Helaman,
did march at the head of these two thousand young men to the city
of Judea, to assist Antipus, whom ye had appointed a leader over
the people of that part of the land.
 
Alma 56:10 And I did join my two thousand sons, (for they are
worthy to be called sons) to the army of Antipus, in which
strength Antipus did rejoice exceedingly; for behold, his army
had been reduced by the Lamanites because their forces had slain
a vast number of our men, for which cause we have to mourn.
 
Alma 56:11 Nevertheless, we may console ourselves in this point,
that they have died in the cause of their country and of their
God, yea, and they are happy.
 
Alma 56:12 And the Lamanites had also retained many prisoners,
all of whom are chief captains, for none other have they spared
alive. And we suppose that they are now at this time in the land
of Nephi; it is so if they are not slain.
 
Alma 56:13 And now these are the cities of which the Lamanites
have obtained possession by the shedding of the blood of so many
of our valiant men;
 
Alma 56:14 The land of Manti, or the city of Manti, and the city
of Zeezrom, and the city of Cumeni, and the city of Antiparah.
 
Alma 56:15 And these are the cities which they possessed when I
arrived at the city of Judea; and I found Antipus and his men
toiling with their might to fortify the city.
 
Alma 56:16 Yea, and they were depressed in body as well as in
spirit, for they had fought valiantly by day and toiled by night
to maintain their cities; and thus they had suffered great
afflictions of every kind.
 
Alma 56:17 And now they were determined to conquer in this place
or die; therefore you may well suppose that this little force
which I brought with me, yea, those sons of mine, gave them great
hopes and much joy.
 
Alma 56:18 And now it came to pass that when the Lamanites saw
that Antipus had received a greater strength to his army, they
were compelled by the orders of Ammoron to not come against the
city of Judea, or against us, to battle.
 
Alma 56:19 And thus were we favored of the Lord; for had they
come upon us in this our weakness they might have perhaps
destroyed our little army; but thus were we preserved.
 
Alma 56:20 They were commanded by Ammoron to maintain those
cities which they had taken. And thus ended the twenty and sixth
year. And in the commencement of the twenty and seventh year we
had prepared our city and ourselves for defence.
 
Alma 56:21 Now we were desirous that the Lamanites should come
upon us; for we were not desirous to make an attack upon them in
their strongholds.
 
Alma 56:22 And it came to pass that we kept spies out round
about, to watch the movements of the Lamanites, that they might
not pass us by night nor by day to make an attack upon our other
cities which were on the northward.
 
Alma 56:23 For we knew in those cities they were not sufficiently
strong to meet them; therefore we were desirous, if they should
pass by us, to fall upon them in their rear, and thus bring them
up in the rear at the same time they were met in the front. We
supposed that we could overpower them; but behold, we were
disappointed in this our desire.
 
Alma 56:24 They durst not pass by us with their whole army,
neither durst they with a part, lest they should not be
sufficiently strong and they should fall.
 
Alma 56:25 Neither durst they march down against the city of
Zarahemla; neither durst they cross the head of Sidon, over to
the city of Nephihah.
 
Alma 56:26 And thus, with their forces, they were determined to
maintain those cities which they had taken.
 
Alma 56:27 And now it came to pass in the second month of this
year, there was brought unto us many provisions from the fathers
of those my two thousand sons.
 
Alma 56:28 And also there were sent two thousand men unto us from
the land of Zarahemla. And thus we were prepared with ten
thousand men, and provisions for them, and also for their wives
and their children.
 
Alma 56:29 And the Lamanites, thus seeing our forces increase
daily, and provisions arrive for our support, they began to be
fearful, and began to sally forth, if it were possible to put an
end to our receiving provisions and strength.
 
Alma 56:30 Now when we saw that the Lamanites began to grow
uneasy on this wise, we were desirous to bring a stratagem into
effect upon them; therefore Antipus ordered that I should march
forth with my little sons to a neighboring city, as if we were
carrying provisions to a neighboring city.
 
Alma 56:31 And we were to march near the city of Antiparah, as if
we were going to the city beyond, in the borders by the seashore.
 
Alma 56:32 And it came to pass that we did march forth, as if
with our provisions, to go to that city.
 
Alma 56:33 And it came to pass that Antipus did march forth with
a part of his army, leaving the remainder to maintain the city.
But he did not march forth until I had gone forth with my little
army, and came near the city Antiparah.
 
Alma 56:34 And now, in the city Antiparah were stationed the
strongest army of the Lamanites; yea, the most numerous.
 
Alma 56:35 And it came to pass that when they had been informed
by their spies, they came forth with their army and marched
against us.
 
Alma 56:36 And it came to pass that we did flee before them,
northward. And thus we did lead away the most powerful army of
the Lamanites;
 
Alma 56:37 Yea, even to a considerable distance, insomuch that
when they saw the army of Antipus pursuing them, with their
might, they did not turn to the right nor to the left, but
pursued their march in a straight course after us; and, as we
suppose, it was their intent to slay us before Antipus should
overtake them, and this that they might not be surrounded by our
people.
 
Alma 56:38 And now Antipus, beholding our danger, did speed the
march of his army. But behold, it was night; therefore they did
not overtake us, neither did Antipus overtake them; therefore we
did camp for the night.
 
Alma 56:39 And it came to pass that before the dawn of the
morning, behold, the Lamanites were pursuing us. Now we were not
sufficiently strong to contend with them; yea, I would not suffer
that my little sons should fall into their hands; therefore we
did continue our march, and we took our march into the
wilderness.
 
Alma 56:40 Now they durst not turn to the right nor to the left
lest they should be surrounded; neither would I turn to the right
nor to the left lest they should overtake me, and we could not
stand against them, but be slain, and they would make their
escape; and thus we did flee all that day into the wilderness,
even until it was dark.
 
Alma 56:41 And it came to pass that again, when the light of the
morning came we saw the Lamanites upon us, and we did flee before
them.
 
Alma 56:42 But it came to pass that they did not pursue us far
before they halted; and it was in the morning of the third day of
the seventh month.
 
Alma 56:43 And now, whether they were overtaken by Antipus we
knew not, but I said unto my men: Behold, we know not but they
have halted for the purpose that we should come against them,
that they might catch us in their snare;
 
Alma 56:44 Therefore what say ye, my sons, will ye go against
them to battle?
 
Alma 56:45 And now I say unto you, my beloved brother Moroni,
that never had I seen so great courage, nay, not amongst all the
Nephites.
 
Alma 56:46 For as I had ever called them my sons (for they were
all of them very young) even so they said unto me: Father, behold
our God is with us, and he will not suffer that we should fall;
then let us go forth; we would not slay our brethren if they
would let us alone; therefore let us go, lest they should
overpower the army of Antipus.
 
Alma 56:47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear
death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers
than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by
their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver
them.
 
Alma 56:48 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers,
saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.
 
Alma 56:49 And it came to pass that I did return with my two
thousand against these Lamanites who had pursued us. And now
behold, the armies of Antipus had overtaken them, and a terrible
battle had commenced.
 
Alma 56:50 The army of Antipus being weary, because of their long
march in so short a space of time, were about to fall into the
hands of the Lamanites; and had I not returned with my two
thousand they would have obtained their purpose.
 
Alma 56:51 For Antipus had fallen by the sword, and many of his
leaders, because of their weariness, which was occasioned by the
speed of their march--therefore the men of Antipus, being
confused because of the fall of their leaders, began to give way
before the Lamanites.
 
Alma 56:52 And it came to pass that the Lamanites took courage,
and began to pursue them; and thus were the Lamanites pursuing
them with great vigor when Helaman came upon their rear with his
two thousand, and began to slay them exceedingly, insomuch that
the whole army of the Lamanites halted and turned upon Helaman.
 
Alma 56:53 Now when the people of Antipus saw that the Lamanites
had turned them about, they gathered together their men and came
again upon the rear of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 56:54 And now it came to pass that we, the people of Nephi,
the people of Antipus, and I with my two thousand, did surround
the Lamanites, and did slay them; yea, insomuch that they were
compelled to deliver up their weapons of war and also themselves
as prisoners of war.
 
Alma 56:55 And now it came to pass that when they had surrendered
themselves up unto us, behold, I numbered those young men who had
fought with me, fearing lest there were many of them slain.
 
Alma 56:56 But behold, to my great joy, there had not one soul of
them fallen to the earth; yea, and they had fought as if with the
strength of God; yea, never were men known to have fought with
such miraculous strength; and with such mighty power did they
fall upon the Lamanites, that they did frighten them; and for
this cause did the Lamanites deliver themselves up as prisoners
of war.
 
Alma 56:57 And as we had no place for our prisoners, that we
could guard them to keep them from the armies of the Lamanites,
therefore we sent them to the land of Zarahemla, and a part of
those men who were not slain of Antipus, with them; and the
remainder I took and joined them to my stripling Ammonites, and
took our march back to the city of Judea.
 
Alma 57:0 Helaman's epistle continued--Antiparah retaken--City of
Cumeni surrenders--Lamanites driven to Manti--A miraculous
preservation--Escape of Lamanite prisoners.
 
Alma 57:1 And now it came to pass that I received an epistle from
Ammoron, the king, stating that if I would deliver up those
prisoners of war whom we had taken that he would deliver up the
city of Antiparah unto us.
 
Alma 57:2 But I sent an epistle unto the king, that we were sure
our forces were sufficient to take the city of Antiparah by our
force; and by delivering up the prisoners for that city we should
suppose ourselves unwise, and that we would only deliver up our
prisoners on exchange.
 
Alma 57:3 And Ammoron refused mine epistle, for he would not
exchange prisoners; therefore we began to make preparations to go
against the city of Antiparah.
 
Alma 57:4 But the people of Antiparah did leave the city, and
fled to their other cities, which they had possession of, to
fortify them; and thus the city of Antiparah fell into our hands.
 
Alma 57:5 And thus ended the twenty and eighth year of the reign
of the judges.
 
Alma 57:6 And it came to pass that in the commencement of the
twenty and ninth year, we received a supply of provisions, and
also an addition to our army, from the land of Zarahemla, and
from the land round about, to the number of six thousand men,
besides sixty of the sons of the Ammonites who had come to join
their brethren, my little band of two thousand. And now behold,
we were strong, yea, and we had also plenty of provisions brought
unto us.
 
Alma 57:7 And it came to pass that it was our desire to wage a
battle with the army which was placed to protect the city Cumeni.
 
Alma 57:8 And now behold, I will show unto you that we soon
accomplished our desire; yea, with our strong force, or with a
part of our strong force, we did surround, by night, the city
Cumeni, a little before they were to receive a supply of
provisions.
 
Alma 57:9 And it came to pass that we did camp round about the
city for many nights; but we did sleep upon our swords, and keep
guards, that the Lamanites could not come upon us by night and
slay us, which they attempted many times; but as many times as
they attempted this their blood was spilt.
 
Alma 57:10 At length their provisions did arrive, and they were
about to enter the city by night. And we, instead of being
Lamanites, were Nephites; therefore, we did take them and their
provisions.
 
Alma 57:11 And notwithstanding the Lamanites being cut off from
their support after this manner, they were still determined to
maintain the city; therefore it became expedient that we should
take those provisions and send them to Judea, and our prisoners
to the land of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 57:12 And it came to pass that not many days had passed away
before the Lamanites began to lose all hopes of succor; therefore
they yielded up the city unto our hands; and thus we had
accomplished our designs in obtaining the city Cumeni.
 
Alma 57:13 But it came to pass that our prisoners were so
numerous that, notwithstanding the enormity of our numbers, we
were obliged to employ all our force to keep them, or to put them
to death.
 
Alma 57:14 For behold, they would break out in great numbers, and
would fight with stones, and with clubs, or whatsoever thing they
could get into their hands, insomuch that we did slay upwards of
two thousand of them after they had surrendered themselves
prisoners of war.
 
Alma 57:15 Therefore it became expedient for us, that we should
put an end to their lives, or guard them, sword in hand, down to
the land of Zarahemla; and also our provisions were not any more
than sufficient for our own people, notwithstanding that which we
had taken from the Lamanites.
 
Alma 57:16 And now, in those critical circumstances, it became a
very serious matter to determine concerning these prisoners of
war; nevertheless, we did resolve to send them down to the land
of Zarahemla; therefore we selected a part of our men, and gave
them charge over our prisoners to go down to the land of
Zarahemla.
 
Alma 57:17 But it came to pass that on the morrow they did
return. And now behold, we did not inquire of them concerning the
prisoners; for behold, the Lamanites were upon us, and they
returned in season to save us from falling into their hands. For
behold, Ammoron had sent to their support a new supply of
provisions and also a numerous army of men.
 
Alma 57:18 And it came to pass that those men whom we sent with
the prisoners did arrive in season to check them, as they were
about to overpower us.
 
Alma 57:19 But behold, my little band of two thousand and sixty
fought most desperately; yea, they were firm before the
Lamanites, and did administer death unto all those who opposed
them.
 
Alma 57:20 And as the remainder of our army were about to give
way before the Lamanites, behold, those two thousand and sixty
were firm and undaunted.
 
Alma 57:21 Yea, and they did obey and observe to perform every
word of command with exactness; yea, and even according to their
faith it was done unto them; and I did remember the words which
they said unto me that their mothers had taught them.
 
Alma 57:22 And now behold, it was these my sons, and those men
who had been selected to convey the prisoners, to whom we owe
this great victory; for it was they who did beat the Lamanites;
therefore they were driven back to the city of Manti.
 
Alma 57:23 And we retained our city Cumeni, and were not all
destroyed by the sword; nevertheless, we had suffered great loss.
 
Alma 57:24 And it came to pass that after the Lamanites had fled,
I immediately gave orders that my men who had been wounded should
be taken from among the dead, and caused that their wounds should
be dressed.
 
Alma 57:25 And it came to pass that there were two hundred, out
of my two thousand and sixty, who had fainted because of the loss
of blood; nevertheless, according to the goodness of God, and to
our great astonishment, and also the joy of our whole army, there
was not one soul of them who did perish; yea, and neither was
there one soul among them who had not received many wounds.
 
Alma 57:26 And now, their preservation was astonishing to our
whole army, yea, that they should be spared while there was a
thousand of our brethren who were slain. And we do justly ascribe
it to the miraculous power of God, because of their exceeding
faith in that which they had been taught to believe--that there
was a just God, and whosoever did not doubt, that they should be
preserved by his marvelous power.
 
Alma 57:27 Now this was the faith of these of whom I have spoken;
they are young, and their minds are firm, and they do put their
trust in God continually.
 
Alma 57:28 And now it came to pass that after we had thus taken
care of our wounded men, and had buried our dead and also the
dead of the Lamanites, who were many, behold, we did inquire of
Gid concerning the prisoners whom they had started to go down to
the land of Zarahemla with.
 
Alma 57:29 Now Gid was the chief captain over the band who was
appointed to guard them down to the land.
 
Alma 57:30 And now, these are the words which Gid said unto me:
Behold, we did start to go down to the land of Zarahemla with our
prisoners. And it came to pass that we did meet the spies of our
armies, who had been sent out to watch the camp of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 57:31 And they cried unto us, saying--Behold, the armies of
the Lamanites are marching towards the city of Cumeni; and
behold, they will fall upon them, yea, and will destroy our
people.
 
Alma 57:32 And it came to pass that our prisoners did hear their
cries, which caused them to take courage; and they did rise up in
rebellion against us.
 
Alma 57:33 And it came to pass because of their rebellion we did
cause that our swords should come upon them. And it came to pass
that they did in a body run upon our swords, in the which, the
greater number of them were slain; and the remainder of them
broke through and fled from us.
 
Alma 57:34 And behold, when they had fled and we could not
overtake them, we took our march with speed towards the city
Cumeni; and behold, we did arrive in time that we might assist
our brethren in preserving the city.
 
Alma 57:35 And behold, we are again delivered out of the hands of
our enemies. And blessed is the name of our God; for behold, it
is he that has delivered us; yea, that has done this great thing
for us.
 
Alma 57:36 Now it came to pass that when I, Helaman, had heard
these words of Gid, I was filled with exceeding joy because of
the goodness of God in preserving us, that we might not all
perish; yea, and I trust that the souls of them who have been
slain have entered into the rest of their God.
 
Alma 58:0 Helaman's epistle concluded--Nephite operations before
Manti--A Lamanite sortie--Gid and Teomner capture the city--Enemy
withdraws.
 
Alma 58:1 And behold, now it came to pass that our next object
was to obtain the city of Manti; but behold, there was no way
that we could lead them out of the city by our small bands. For
behold, they remembered that which we had hitherto done;
therefore we could not decoy them away from their strongholds.
 
Alma 58:2 And they were so much more numerous than was our army
that we durst not go forth and attack them in their strongholds.
 
Alma 58:3 Yea, and it became expedient that we should employ our
men to the maintaining those parts of the land which we had
regained of our possessions; therefore it became expedient that
we should wait, that we might receive more strength from the land
of Zarahemla and also a new supply of provisions.
 
Alma 58:4 And it came to pass that I thus did send an embassy to
the governor of our land, to acquaint him concerning the affairs
of our people. And it came to pass that we did wait to receive
provisions and strength from the land of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 58:5 But behold, this did profit us but little; for the
Lamanites were also receiving great strength from day to day, and
also many provisions; and thus were our circumstances at this
period of time.
 
Alma 58:6 And the Lamanites were sallying forth against us from
time to time, resolving by stratagem to destroy us; nevertheless
we could not come to battle with them, because of their retreats
and their strongholds.
 
Alma 58:7 And it came to pass that we did wait in these difficult
circumstances for the space of many months, even until we were
about to perish for the want of food.
 
Alma 58:8 But it came to pass that we did receive food, which was
guarded to us by an army of two thousand men to our assistance;
and this is all the assistance which we did receive, to defend
ourselves and our country from falling into the hands of our
enemies, yea, to contend with an enemy which was innumerable.
 
Alma 58:9 And now the cause of these our embarrassments, or the
cause why they did not send more strength unto us, we knew not;
therefore we were grieved and also filled with fear, lest by any
means the judgments of God should come upon our land, to our
overthrow and utter destruction.
 
Alma 58:10 Therefore we did pour out our souls in prayer to God,
that he would strengthen us and deliver us out of the hands of
our enemies, yea, and also give us strength that we might retain
our cities, and our lands, and our possessions, for the support
of our people.
 
Alma 58:11 Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did
visit us with assurances that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch
that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great
faith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance
in him.
 
Alma 58:12 And we did take courage with our small force which we
had received, and were fixed with a determination to conquer our
enemies, and to maintain our lands, and our possessions, and our
wives, and our children, and the cause of our liberty.
 
Alma 58:13 And thus we did go forth with all our might against
the Lamanites, who were in the city of Manti; and we did pitch
our tents by the wilderness side, which was near to the city.
 
Alma 58:14 And it came to pass that on the morrow, that when the
Lamanites saw that we were in the borders by the wilderness which
was near the city, that they sent out their spies round about us
that they might discover the number and the strength of our army.
 
Alma 58:15 And it came to pass that when they saw that we were
not strong, according to our numbers, and fearing that we should
cut them off from their support except they should come out to
battle against us and kill us, and also supposing that they could
easily destroy us with their numerous hosts, therefore they began
to make preparations to come out against us to battle.
 
Alma 58:16 And when we saw that they were making preparations to
come out against us, behold, I caused that Gid, with a small
number of men, should secrete himself in the wilderness, and also
that Teomner and a small number of men should secrete themselves
also in the wilderness.
 
Alma 58:17 Now Gid and his men were on the right and the others
on the left; and when they had thus secreted themselves, behold,
I remained, with the remainder of my army, in that same place
where we had first pitched our tents against the time that the
Lamanites should come out to battle.
 
Alma 58:18 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did come out
with their numerous army against us. And when they had come and
were about to fall upon us with the sword, I caused that my men,
those who were with me, should retreat into the wilderness.
 
Alma 58:19 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did follow
after us with great speed, for they were exceedingly desirous to
overtake us that they might slay us; therefore they did follow us
into the wilderness; and we did pass by in the midst of Gid and
Teomner, insomuch that they were not discovered by the Lamanites.
 
Alma 58:20 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites had passed
by, or when the army had passed by, Gid and Teomner did rise up
from their secret places, and did cut off the spies of the
Lamanites that they should not return to the city.
 
Alma 58:21 And it came to pass that when they had cut them off,
they ran to the city and fell upon the guards who were left to
guard the city, insomuch that they did destroy them and did take
possession of the city.
 
Alma 58:22 Now this was done because the Lamanites did suffer
their whole army, save a few guards only, to be led away into the
wilderness.
 
Alma 58:23 And it came to pass that Gid and Teomner by this means
had obtained possession of their strongholds. And it came to pass
that we took our course, after having traveled much in the
wilderness towards the land of Zarahemla.
 
Alma 58:24 And when the Lamanites saw that they were marching
towards the land of Zarahemla, they were exceedingly afraid, lest
there was a plan laid to lead them on to destruction; therefore
they began to retreat into the wilderness again, yea, even back
by the same way which they had come.
 
Alma 58:25 And behold, it was night and they did pitch their
tents, for the chief captains of the Lamanites had supposed that
the Nephites were weary because of their march; and supposing
that they had driven their whole army therefore they took no
thought concerning the city of Manti.
 
Alma 58:26 Now it came to pass that when it was night, I caused
that my men should not sleep, but that they should march forward
by another way towards the land of Manti.
 
Alma 58:27 And because of this our march in the night-time,
behold, on the morrow we were beyond the Lamanites, insomuch that
we did arrive before them at the city of Manti.
 
Alma 58:28 And thus it came to pass, that by this stratagem we
did take possession of the city of Manti without the shedding of
blood.
 
Alma 58:29 And it came to pass that when the armies of the
Lamanites did arrive near the city, and saw that we were prepared
to meet them, they were astonished exceedingly and struck with
great fear, insomuch that they did flee into the wilderness.
 
Alma 58:30 Yea, and it came to pass that the armies of the
Lamanites did flee out of all this quarter of the land. But
behold, they have carried with them many women and children out
of the land.
 
Alma 58:31 And those cities which had been taken by the
Lamanites, all of them are at this period of time in our
possession; and our fathers and our women and our children are
returning to their homes, all save it be those who have been
taken prisoners and carried off by the Lamanites.
 
Alma 58:32 But behold, our armies are small to maintain so great
a number of cities and so great possessions.
 
Alma 58:33 But behold, we trust in our God who has given us
victory over those lands, insomuch that we have obtained those
cities and those lands, which were our own.
 
Alma 58:34 Now we do not know the cause that the government does
not grant us more strength; neither do those men who came up unto
us know why we have not received greater strength.
 
Alma 58:35 Behold, we do not know but what ye are unsuccessful,
and ye have drawn away the forces into that quarter of the land;
if so, we do not desire to murmur.
 
Alma 58:36 And if it is not so, behold, we fear that there is
some faction in the government, that they do not send more men to
our assistance; for we know that they are more numerous than that
which they have sent.
 
Alma 58:37 But, behold, it mattereth not--we trust God will
deliver us, not-withstanding the weakness of our armies, yea, and
deliver us out of the hands of our enemies.
 
Alma 58:38 Behold, this is the twenty and ninth year, in the
latter end, and we are in the possession of our lands; and the
Lamanites have fled to the land of Nephi.
 
Alma 58:39 And those sons of the people of Ammon, of whom I have
so highly spoken, are with me in the city of Manti; and the Lord
has supported them, yea, and kept them from falling by the sword,
insomuch that even one soul has not been slain.
 
Alma 58:40 But behold, they have received many wounds;
nevertheless they stand fast in that liberty where-with God has
made them free; and they are strict to remember the Lord their
God from day to day; yea, they do observe to keep his statutes,
and his judgments, and his commandments continually; and their
faith is strong in the prophecies concerning that which is to
come.
 
Alma 58:41 And now, my beloved brother, Moroni, may the Lord our
God, who has redeemed us and made us free, keep you continually
in his presence; yea, and may he favor this people, even that ye
may have success in obtaining the possession of all that which
the Lamanites have taken from us, which was for our support. And
now, behold, I close mine epistle. I am Helaman, the son of Alma.
 
Alma 59:0 Moroni writes to Pahoran, asking reenforcements to
Helaman--City of Nephihah taken by Lamanites--Moroni's anger at
seeming indifference of the government.
 
Alma 59:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi, after Moroni had received
and had read Helaman's epistle, he was exceedingly rejoiced
because of the welfare, yea, the exceeding success which Helaman
had had, in obtaining those lands which were lost.
 
Alma 59:2 Yea, and he did make it known unto all his people, in
all the land round about in that part where he was, that they
might rejoice also.
 
Alma 59:3 And it came to pass that he immediately sent an epistle
to Pahoran, desiring that he should cause men to be gathered
together to strengthen Helaman, or the armies of Helaman,
insomuch that he might with ease maintain that part of the land
which he had been so miraculously prospered in regaining.
 
Alma 59:4 And it came to pass when Moroni had sent this epistle
to the land of Zarahemla, he began again to lay a plan that he
might obtain the remainder of those possessions and cities which
the Lamanites had taken from them.
 
Alma 59:5 And it came to pass that while Moroni was thus making
preparations to go against the Lamanites to battle, behold, the
people of Nephihah, who were gathered together from the city of
Moroni and the city of Lehi and the city of Morianton, were
attacked by the Lamanites.
 
Alma 59:6 Yea, even those who had been compelled to flee from the
land of Manti, and from the land round about, had come over and
joined the Lamanites in this part of the land.
 
Alma 59:7 And thus being exceedingly numerous, yea, and receiving
strength from day to day, by the command of Ammoron they came
forth against the people of Nephihah, and they did begin to slay
them with an exceedingly great slaughter.
 
Alma 59:8 And their armies were so numerous that the remainder of
the people of Nephihah were obliged to flee before them; and they
came even and joined the army of Moroni.
 
Alma 59:9 And now as Moroni had supposed that there should be men
sent to the city of Nephihah, to the assistance of the people to
maintain that city, and knowing that it was easier to keep the
city from falling into the hands of the Lamanites than to retake
it from them, he supposed that they would easily maintain that
city.
 
Alma 59:10 Therefore he retained all his force to maintain those
places which he had recovered.
 
Alma 59:11 And now, when Moroni saw that the city of Nephihah was
lost he was exceedingly sorrowful, and began to doubt, because of
the wickedness of the people, whether they should not fall into
the hands of their brethren.
 
Alma 59:12 Now this was the case with all his chief captains.
They doubted and marveled also because of the wickedness of the
people, and this because of the success of the Lamanites over
them.
 
Alma 59:13 And it came to pass that Moroni was angry with the
government, because of their indifference concerning the freedom
of their country.
 
Alma 60:0 Moroni's second epistle to Pahoran--Complains of
neglect--Demands immediate help on peril of reprisal.
 
Alma 60:1 And it came to pass that he wrote again to the governor
of the land, who was Pahoran, and these are the words which he
wrote, saying: Behold, I direct mine epistle to Pahoran, in the
city of Zarahemla, who is the chief judge and the governor over
the land, and also to all those who have been chosen by this
people to govern and manage the affairs of this war.
 
Alma 60:2 For behold, I have somewhat to say unto them by the way
of condemnation; for behold, ye yourselves know that ye have been
appointed to gather together men, and arm them with swords, and
with cimeters, and all manner of weapons of war of every kind,
and send forth against the Lamanites, in whatsoever parts they
should come into our land.
 
Alma 60:3 And now behold, I say unto you that myself, and also my
men, and also Helaman and his men, have suffered exceedingly
great sufferings; yea, even hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and all
manner of afflictions of every kind.
 
Alma 60:4 But behold, were this all we had suffered we would not
murmur nor complain.
 
Alma 60:5 But behold, great has been the slaughter among our
people; yea, thousands have fallen by the sword, while it might
have otherwise been if ye had rendered unto our armies sufficient
strength and succor for them. Yea, great has been your neglect
towards us.
 
Alma 60:6 And now behold, we desire to know the cause of this
exceedingly great neglect; yea, we desire to know the cause of
your thoughtless state.
 
Alma 60:7 Can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of
thoughtless stupor, while your enemies are spreading the work of
death around you? Yea, while they are murdering thousands of your
brethren--
 
Alma 60:8 Yea, even they who have looked up to you for
protection, yea, have placed you in a situation that ye might
have succored them, yea, ye might have sent armies unto them, to
have strengthened them, and have saved thousands of them from
falling by the sword.
 
Alma 60:9 But behold, this is not all--ye have withheld your
provisions from them, insomuch that many have fought and bled out
their lives because of their great desires which they had for the
welfare of this people; yea, and this they have done when they
were about to perish with hunger, because of your exceedingly
great neglect towards them.
 
Alma 60:10 And now, my beloved brethren--for ye ought to be
beloved; yea, and ye ought to have stirred yourselves more
diligently for the welfare and the freedom of this people; but
behold, ye have neglected them insomuch that the blood of
thousands shall come upon your heads for vengeance; yea, for
known unto God were all their cries, and all their sufferings--
 
Alma 60:11 Behold, could ye suppose that ye could sit upon your
thrones, and because of the exceeding goodness of God ye could do
nothing and he would deliver you? Behold, if ye have supposed
this ye have supposed in vain.
 
Alma 60:12 Do ye suppose that, because so many of your brethren
have been killed it is because of their wickedness? I say unto
you, if ye have supposed this ye have supposed in vain; for I say
unto you, there are many who have fallen by the sword; and behold
it is to your condemnation;
 
Alma 60:13 For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that
his justice and judgment may come upon the wicked; therefore ye
need not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are
slain; but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord their
God.
 
Alma 60:14 And now behold, I say unto you, I fear exceedingly
that the judgments of God will come upon this people, because of
their exceeding slothfulness, yea, even the slothfulness of our
government, and their exceedingly great neglect towards their
brethren, yea, towards those who have been slain.
 
Alma 60:15 For were it not for the wickedness which first
commenced at our head, we could have withstood our enemies that
they could have gained no power over us.
 
Alma 60:16 Yea, had it not been for the war which broke out among
ourselves; yea, were it not for these king-men, who caused so
much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, at the time we were
contending among ourselves, if we had united our strength as we
hitherto have done; yea, had it not been for the desire of power
and authority which those king-men had over us; had they been
true to the cause of our freedom, and united with us, and gone
forth against our enemies, instead of taking up their swords
against us, which was the cause of so much bloodshed among
ourselves; yea, if we had gone forth against them in the strength
of the Lord, we should have dispersed our enemies, for it would
have been done, according to the fulfilling of his word.
 
Alma 60:17 But behold, now the Lamanites are coming upon us,
taking possession of our lands, and they are murdering our people
with the sword, yea, our women and our children, and also
carrying them away captive, causing them that they should suffer
all manner of afflictions, and this because of the great
wickedness of those who are seeking for power and authority, yea,
even those king-men.
 
Alma 60:18 But why should I say much concerning this matter? For
we know not but what ye yourselves are seeking for authority. We
know not but what ye are also traitors to your country.
 
Alma 60:19 Or is it that ye have neglected us because ye are in
the heart of our country and ye are surrounded by security, that
ye do not cause food to be sent unto us, and also men to
strengthen our armies?
 
Alma 60:20 Have ye forgotten the commandments of the Lord your
God? Yea, have ye forgotten the captivity of our fathers? Have ye
forgotten the many times we have been delivered out of the hands
of our enemies?
 
Alma 60:21 Or do ye suppose that the Lord will still deliver us,
while we sit upon our thrones and do not make use of the means
which the Lord has provided for us?
 
Alma 60:22 Yea, will ye sit in idleness while ye are surrounded
with thousands of those, yea, and tens of thousands, who do also
sit in idleness, while there are thousands round about in the
borders of the land who are falling by the sword, yea, wounded
and bleeding?
 
Alma 60:23 Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless
while ye sit still and behold these things? Behold I say unto
you, Nay. Now I would that ye should remember that God has said
that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall
the outer vessel be cleansed also.
 
Alma 60:24 And now, except ye do repent of that which ye have
done, and begin to be up and doing, and send forth food and men
unto us, and also unto Helaman, that he may support those parts
of our country which he has regained, and that we may also
recover the remainder of our possessions in these parts, behold
it will be expedient that we contend no more with the Lamanites
until we have first cleansed our inward vessel, yea, even the
great head of our government.
 
Alma 60:25 And except ye grant mine epistle, and come out and
show unto me a true spirit of freedom, and strive to strengthen
and fortify our armies, and grant unto them food for their
support, behold I will leave a part of my freemen to maintain
this part of our land, and I will leave the strength and the
blessings of God upon them, that none other power can operate
against them--
 
Alma 60:26 And this because of their exceeding faith, and their
patience in their tribulations--
 
Alma 60:27 And I will come unto you, and if there be any among
you that has a desire for freedom, yea, if there be even a spark
of freedom remaining, behold I will stir up insurrections among
you, even until those who have desires to usurp power and
authority shall become extinct.
 
Alma 60:28 Yea, behold I do not fear your power nor your
authority, but it is my God whom I fear; and it is according to
his commandments that I do take my sword to defend the cause of
my country, and it is because of your iniquity that we have
suffered so much loss.
 
Alma 60:29 Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that
except ye do bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and
your little ones, the sword of justice doth hang over you; yea,
and it shall fall upon you and visit you even to your utter
destruction.
 
Alma 60:30 Behold, I wait for assistance from you; and, except ye
do administer unto our relief, behold, I come unto you, even in
the land of Zarahemla, and smite you with the sword, insomuch
that ye can have no more power to impede the progress of this
people in the cause of our freedom.
 
Alma 60:31 For behold, the Lord will not suffer that ye shall
live and wax strong in your iniquities to destroy his righteous
people.
 
Alma 60:32 Behold, can you suppose that the Lord will spare you
and come out in judgment against the Lamanites, when it is the
tradition of their fathers that has caused their hatred, yea, and
it has been redoubled by those who have dissented from us, while
your iniquity is for the cause of your love of glory and the vain
things of the world?
 
Alma 60:33 Ye know that ye do transgress the laws of God, and ye
do know that ye do trample them under your feet. Behold, the Lord
saith unto me: If those whom ye have appointed your governors do
not repent of their sins and iniquities, ye shall go up to battle
against them.
 
Alma 60:34 And now behold, I, Moroni, am constrained, according
to the covenant which I have made to keep the commandments of my
God; therefore I would that ye should adhere to the word of God,
and send speedily unto me of your provisions and of your men, and
also to Helaman.
 
Alma 60:35 And behold, if ye will not do this I come unto you
speedily; for behold, God will not suffer that we should perish
with hunger; therefore he will give unto us of your food, even if
it must be by the sword. Now see that ye fulfil the word of God.
 
Alma 60:36 Behold, I am Moroni, your chief captain. I seek not
for power, but to pull it down. I seek not for honor of the
world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare
of my country. And thus I close mine epistle.
 
Alma 61:0 Pahoran's patriotic reply--He exonerates himself and
the freemen--Nephite state tottering--Governor appeals for
military aid against rebels.
 
Alma 61:1 Behold, now it came to pass that soon after Moroni had
sent his epistle unto the chief governor, he received an epistle
from Pahoran, the chief governor. And these are the words which
he received:
 
Alma 61:2 I, Pahoran, who am the chief governor of this land, do
send these words unto Moroni, the chief captain over the army.
Behold, I say unto you, Moroni, that I do not joy in your great
afflictions, yea, it grieves my soul.
 
Alma 61:3 But behold, there are those who do joy in your
afflictions, yea, insomuch that they have risen up in rebellion
against me, and also those of my people who are freemen, yea, and
those who have risen up are exceedingly numerous.
 
Alma 61:4 And it is those who have sought to take away the
judgment-seat from me that have been the cause of this great
iniquity; for they have used great flattery, and they have led
away the hearts of many people, which will be the cause of sore
affliction among us; they have withheld our provisions, and have
daunted our freemen that they have not come unto you.
 
Alma 61:5 And behold, they have driven me out before them, and I
have fled to the land of Gideon, with as many men as it were
possible that I could get.
 
Alma 61:6 And behold, I have sent a proclamation throughout this
part of the land; and behold, they are flocking to us daily, to
their arms, in the defence of their country and their freedom,
and to avenge our wrongs.
 
Alma 61:7 And they have come unto us, insomuch that those who
have risen up in rebellion against us are set at defiance, yea,
insomuch that they do fear us and durst not come out against us
to battle.
 
Alma 61:8 They have got possession of the land, or the city, of
Zarahemla; they have appointed a king over them, and he hath
written unto the king of the Lamanites, in the which he hath
joined an alliance with him; in the which alliance he hath agreed
to maintain the city of Zarahemla, which maintenance he supposeth
will enable the Lamanites to conquer the remainder of the land,
and he shall be placed king over this people when they shall be
conquered under the Lamanites.
 
Alma 61:9 And now, in your epistle you have censured me, but it
mattereth not; I am not angry, but do rejoice in the greatness of
your heart. I, Pahoran, do not seek for power, save only to
retain my judgment-seat that I may preserve the rights and the
liberty of my people. My soul standeth fast in that liberty in
the which God hath made us free.
 
Alma 61:10 And now, behold, we will resist wickedness even unto
bloodshed. We would not shed the blood of the Lamanites if they
would stay in their own land.
 
Alma 61:11 We would not shed the blood of our brethren if they
would not rise up in rebellion and take the sword against us.
 
Alma 61:12 We would subject ourselves to the yoke of bondage if
it were requisite with the justice of God, or if he should
command us so to do.
 
Alma 61:13 But behold he doth not command us that we shall
subject ourselves to our enemies, but that we should put our
trust in him, and he will deliver us.
 
Alma 61:14 Therefore, my beloved brother, Moroni, let us resist
evil, and whatsoever evil we cannot resist with our words, yea,
such as rebellions and dissensions, let us resist them with our
swords, that we may retain our freedom, that we may rejoice in
the great privilege of our church, and in the cause of our
Redeemer and our God.
 
Alma 61:15 Therefore, come unto me speedily with a few of your
men, and leave the remainder in the charge of Lehi and Teancum;
give unto them power to conduct the war in that part of the land,
according to the Spirit of God, which is also the spirit of
freedom which is in them.
 
Alma 61:16 Behold I have sent a few provisions unto them, that
they may not perish until ye can come unto me.
 
Alma 61:17 Gather together whatsoever force ye can upon your
march hither, and we will go speedily against those dissenters,
in the strength of our God according to the faith which is in us.
 
Alma 61:18 And we will take possession of the city of Zarahemla,
that we may obtain more food to send forth unto Lehi and Teancum;
yea, we will go forth against them in the strength of the Lord,
and we will put an end to this great iniquity.
 
Alma 61:19 And now, Moroni, I do joy in receiving your epistle,
for I was somewhat worried concerning what we should do, whether
it should be just in us to go against our brethren.
 
Alma 61:20 But ye have said, except they repent the Lord hath
commanded you that ye should go against them.
 
Alma 61:21 See that ye strengthen Lehi and Teancum in the Lord;
tell them to fear not, for God will deliver them, yea, and also
all those who stand fast in that liberty wherewith God hath made
them free. And now I close mine epistle to my beloved brother,
Moroni.
 
Alma 62:0 Moroni marches to relief of Pahoran--Zarahemla
recaptured from the rebels--Help sent to Helaman, Lehi, and
Teancum--Lamanites concentrate in the land of Moroni--Teancum
slays Ammoron, at cost of his own life--Lamanites driven out of
the land.
 
Alma 62:1 And now it came to pass that when Moroni had received
this epistle his heart did take courage, and was filled with
exceedingly great joy because of the faithfulness of Pahoran,
that he was not also a traitor to the freedom and cause of his
country.
 
Alma 62:2 But he did also mourn exceedingly because of the
iniquity of those who had driven Pahoran from the judgment-seat,
yea, in fine because of those who had rebelled against their
country and also their God.
 
Alma 62:3 And it came to pass that Moroni took a small number of
men, according to the desire of Pahoran, and gave Lehi and
Teancum command over the remainder of his army, and took his
march towards the land of Gideon.
 
Alma 62:4 And he did raise the standard of liberty in whatsoever
place he did enter, and gained whatsoever force he could in all
his march towards the land of Gideon.
 
Alma 62:5 And it came to pass that thousands did flock unto his
standard, and did take up their swords in the defence of their
freedom, that they might not come into bondage.
 
Alma 62:6 And thus, when Moroni had gathered together whatsoever
men he could in all his march, he came to the land of Gideon; and
uniting his forces with those of Pahoran they became exceedingly
strong, even stronger than the men of Pachus, who was the king of
those dissenters who had driven the freemen out of the land of
Zarahemla and had taken possession of the land.
 
Alma 62:7 And it came to pass that Moroni and Pahoran went down
with their armies into the land of Zarahemla, and went forth
against the city, and did meet the men of Pachus, insomuch that
they did come to battle.
 
Alma 62:8 And behold, Pachus was slain and his men were taken
prisoners, and Pahoran was restored to his judgment-seat.
 
Alma 62:9 And the men of Pachus received their trial, according
to the law, and also those king-men who had been taken and cast
into prison; and they were executed according to the law; yea,
those men of Pachus and those king-men, whosoever would not take
up arms in the defence of their country, but would fight against
it, were put to death.
 
Alma 62:10 And thus it became expedient that this law should be
strictly observed for the safety of their country; yea, and
whosoever was found denying their freedom was speedily executed
according to the law.
 
Alma 62:11 And thus ended the thirtieth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi; Moroni and Pahoran having
restored peace to the land of Zarahemla, among their own people,
having inflicted death upon all those who were not true to the
cause of freedom.
 
Alma 62:12 And it came to pass in the commencement of the thirty
and first year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi, Moroni immediately caused that provisions should be sent,
and also an army of six thousand men should be sent unto Helaman,
to assist him in preserving that part of the land.
 
Alma 62:13 And he also caused that an army of six thousand men,
with a sufficient quantity of food, should be sent to the armies
of Lehi and Teancum. And it came to pass that this was done to
fortify the land against the Lamanites.
 
Alma 62:14 And it came to pass that Moroni and Pahoran, leaving a
large body of men in the land of Zarahemla, took their march with
a large body of men towards the land of Nephihah, being
determined to overthrow the Lamanites in that city.
 
Alma 62:15 And it came to pass that as they were marching towards
the land, they took a large body of men of the Lamanites, and
slew many of them, and took their provisions and their weapons of
war.
 
Alma 62:16 And it came to pass after they had taken them, they
caused them to enter into a covenant that they would no more take
up their weapons of war against the Nephites.
 
Alma 62:17 And when they had entered into this covenant they sent
them to dwell with the people of Ammon, and they were in number
about four thousand who had not been slain.
 
Alma 62:18 And it came to pass that when they had sent them away
they pursued their march towards the land of Nephihah. And it
came to pass that when they had come to the city of Nephihah,
they did pitch their tents in the plains of Nephihah, which is
near the city of Nephihah.
 
Alma 62:19 Now Moroni was desirous that the Lamanites should come
out to battle against them, upon the plains; but the Lamanites,
knowing of their exceedingly great courage, and beholding the
greatness of their numbers, therefore they durst not come out
against them; therefore they did not come to battle in that day.
 
Alma 62:20 And when the night came, Moroni went forth in the
darkness of the night, and came upon the top of the wall to spy
out in what part of the city the Lamanites did camp with their
army.
 
Alma 62:21 And it came to pass that they were on the east, by the
entrance; and they were all asleep. And now Moroni returned to
his army, and caused that they should prepare in haste strong
cords and ladders, to be let down from the top of the wall into
the inner part of the wall.
 
Alma 62:22 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that his men
should march forth and come upon the top of the wall, and let
themselves down into that part of the city, yea, even on the
west, where the Lamanites did not camp with their armies.
 
Alma 62:23 And it came to pass that they were all let down into
the city by night, by the means of their strong cords and their
ladders; thus when the morning came they were all within the
walls of the city.
 
Alma 62:24 And now, when the Lamanites awoke and saw that the
armies of Moroni were within the walls, they were affrighted
exceedingly, insomuch that they did flee out by the pass.
 
Alma 62:25 And now when Moroni saw that they were fleeing before
him, he did cause that his men should march forth against them,
and slew many, and surrounded many others, and took them
prisoners; and the remainder of them fled into the land of
Moroni, which was in the borders by the seashore.
 
Alma 62:26 Thus had Moroni and Pahoran obtained the possession of
the city of Nephihah without the loss of one soul; and there were
many of the Lamanites who were slain.
 
Alma 62:27 Now it came to pass that many of the Lamanites that
were prisoners were desirous to join the people of Ammon and
become a free people.
 
Alma 62:28 And it came to pass that as many as were desirous,
unto them it was granted according to their desires.
 
Alma 62:29 Therefore, all the prisoners of the Lamanites did join
the people of Ammon, and did begin to labor exceedingly, tilling
the ground, raising all manner of grain, and flocks and herds of
every kind; and thus were the Nephites relieved from a great
burden; yea, insomuch that they were relieved from all the
prisoners of the Lamanites.
 
Alma 62:30 Now it came to pass that Moroni, after he had obtained
possession of the city of Nephihah, having taken many prisoners,
which did reduce the armies of the Lamanites exceedingly, and
having regained many of the Nephites who had been taken
prisoners, which did strengthen the army of Moroni exceedingly;
therefore Moroni went forth from the land of Nephihah to the land
of Lehi.
 
Alma 62:31 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites saw that
Moroni was coming against them, they were again frightened and
fled before the army of Moroni.
 
Alma 62:32 And it came to pass that Moroni and his army did
pursue them from city to city, until they were met by Lehi and
Teancum; and the Lamanites fled from Lehi and Teancum, even down
upon the borders by the seashore, until they came to the land of
Moroni.
 
Alma 62:33 And the armies of the Lamanites were all gathered
together, insomuch that they were all in one body in the land of
Moroni. Now Ammoron, the king of the Lamanites, was also with
them.
 
Alma 62:34 And it came to pass that Moroni and Lehi and Teancum
did encamp with their armies round about in the borders of the
land of Moroni, insomuch that the Lamanites were encircled about
in the borders by the wilderness on the south, and in the borders
by the wilderness on the east.
 
Alma 62:35 And thus they did encamp for the night. For behold,
the Nephites and the Lamanites also were weary because of the
greatness of the march; therefore they did not resolve upon any
stratagem in the night-time, save it were Teancum; for he was
exceedingly angry with Ammoron, insomuch that he considered that
Ammoron, and Amalickiah his brother, had been the cause of this
great and lasting war between them and the Lamanites, which had
been the cause of so much war and bloodshed, yea, and so much
famine.
 
Alma 62:36 And it came to pass that Teancum in his anger did go
forth into the camp of the Lamanites, and did let himself down
over the walls of the city. And he went forth with a cord, from
place to place, insomuch that he did find the king; and he did
cast a javelin at him, which did pierce him near the heart. But
behold, the king did awaken his servants before he died, insomuch
that they did pursue Teancum, and slew him.
 
Alma 62:37 Now it came to pass that when Lehi and Moroni knew
that Teancum was dead they were exceedingly sorrowful; for
behold, he had been a man who had fought valiantly for his
country, yea, a true friend to liberty; and he had suffered very
many exceedingly sore afflictions. But behold, he was dead, and
had gone the way of all the earth.
 
Alma 62:38 Now it came to pass that Moroni marched forth on the
morrow, and came upon the Lamanites, insomuch that they did slay
them with a great slaughter; and they did drive them out of the
land; and they did flee, even that they did not return at that
time against the Nephites.
 
Alma 62:39 And thus ended the thirty and first year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi; and thus they had had
wars, and bloodsheds, and famine, and affliction, for the space
of many years.
 
Alma 62:40 And there had been murders, and contentions, and
dissensions, and all manner of iniquity among the people of
Nephi; nevertheless for the righteous' sake, yea, because of the
prayers of the righteous, they were spared.
 
Alma 62:41 But behold, because of the exceedingly great length of
the war between the Nephites and the Lamanites many had become
hardened, because of the exceedingly great length of the war; and
many were softened because of their afflictions, insomuch that
they did humble themselves before God, even in the depth of
humility.
 
Alma 62:42 And it came to pass that after Moroni had fortified
those parts of the land which were most exposed to the Lamanites,
until they were sufficiently strong, he returned to the city of
Zarahemla; and also Helaman returned to the place of his
inheritance; and there was once more peace established among the
people of Nephi.
 
Alma 62:43 And Moroni yielded up the command of his armies into
the hands of his son, whose name was Moronihah; and he retired to
his own house that he might spend the remainder of his days in
peace.
 
Alma 62:44 And Pahoran did return to his judgment-seat; and
Helaman did take upon him again to preach unto the people the
word of God; for because of so many wars and contentions it had
become expedient that a regulation should be made again in the
church.
 
Alma 62:45 Therefore, Helaman and his brethren went forth, and
did declare the word of God with much power unto the convincing
of many people of their wickedness, which did cause them to
repent of their sins and to be baptized unto the Lord their God.
 
Alma 62:46 And it came to pass that they did establish again the
church of God, throughout all the land.
 
Alma 62:47 Yea, and regulations were made concerning the law. And
their judges, and their chief judges were chosen.
 
Alma 62:48 And the people of Nephi began to prosper again in the
land, and began to multiply and to wax exceedingly strong again
in the land. And they began to grow exceedingly rich.
 
Alma 62:49 But notwithstanding their riches, or their strength,
or their prosperity, they were not lifted up in the pride of
their eyes; neither were they slow to remember the Lord their
God; but they did humble themselves exceedingly before him.
 
Alma 62:50 Yea, they did remember how great things the Lord had
done for them, that he had delivered them from death, and from
bonds, and from prisons, and from all manner of afflictions, and
he had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies.
 
Alma 62:51 And they did pray unto the Lord their God continually,
insomuch that the Lord did bless them, according to his word, so
that they did wax strong and prosper in the land.
 
Alma 62:52 And it came to pass that all these things were done.
And Helaman died, in the thirty and fifth year of the reign of
the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 63:0 Shiblon succeeds Helaman--Death of Moroni--Hagoth,
builder of ships--Nephite voyages to the land northward--Helaman,
son of Helaman, keeps the records--Moronihah defeats Lamanites--
End of Alma's account.
 
Alma 63:1 And it came to pass in the commencement of the thirty
and sixth year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi, that Shiblon took possession of those sacred things which
had been delivered unto Helaman by Alma.
 
Alma 63:2 And he was a just man, and he did walk uprightly before
God; and he did observe to do good continually, to keep the
commandments of the Lord his God; and also did his brother.
 
Alma 63:3 And it came to pass that Moroni died also. And thus
ended the thirty and sixth year of the reign of the judges.
 
Alma 63:4 And it came to pass that in the thirty and seventh year
of the reign of the judges, there was a large company of men,
even to the amount of five thousand and four hundred men, with
their wives and their children, departed out of the land of
Zarahemla into the land which was northward.
 
Alma 63:5 And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an
exceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an
exceedingly large ship, on the borders of the land Bountiful, by
the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by
the narrow neck which led into the land northward.
 
Alma 63:6 And behold, there were many of the Nephites who did
enter therein and did sail forth with much provisions, and also
many women and children; and they took their course northward.
And thus ended the thirty and seventh year.
 
Alma 63:7 And in the thirty and eighth year, this man built other
ships. And the first ship did also return, and many more people
did enter into it; and they also took much provisions, and set
out again to the land northward.
 
Alma 63:8 And it came to pass that they were never heard of more.
And we suppose that they were drowned in the depths of the sea.
And it came to pass that one other ship also did sail forth; and
whither she did go we know not.
 
Alma 63:9 And it came to pass that in this year there were many
people who went forth into the land northward. And thus ended the
thirty and eighth year.
 
Alma 63:10 And it came to pass in the thirty and ninth year of
the reign of the judges, Shiblon died also, and Corianton had
gone forth to the land northward in a ship, to carry forth
provisions unto the people who had gone forth into that land.
 
Alma 63:11 Therefore it became expedient for Shiblon to confer
those sacred things, before his death, upon the son of Helaman,
who was called Helaman, being called after the name of his
father.
 
Alma 63:12 Now behold, all those engravings which were in the
possession of Helaman were written and sent forth among the
children of men throughout all the land, save it were those parts
which had been commanded by Alma should not go forth.
 
Alma 63:13 Nevertheless, these things were to be kept sacred, and
handed down from one generation to another; therefore, in this
year, they had been conferred upon Helaman, before the death of
Shiblon.
 
Alma 63:14 And it came to pass also in this year that there were
some dissenters who had gone forth unto the Lamanites; and they
were stirred up again to anger against the Nephites.
 
Alma 63:15 And also in this same year they came down with a
numerous army to war against the people of Moronihah, or against
the army of Moronihah, in the which they were beaten and driven
back again to their own lands, suffering great loss.
 
Alma 63:16 And thus ended the thirty and ninth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Alma 63:17 And thus ended the account of Alma, and Helaman his
son, and also Shiblon, who was his son.
 
The Book of Helaman
 
Helaman 0:0 An account of the Nephites. Their wars and
contentions, and their dissensions. And also the prophecies of
many holy prophets, before the coming of Christ, according to the
records of Helaman, who was the son of Helaman, and also
according to the records of his sons, even down to the coming of
Christ. And also many of the Lamanites are converted. An account
of their conversion. An account of the righteousness of the
Lamanites, and the wickedness and abominations of the Nephites,
according to the record of Helaman and his sons, even down to the
coming of Christ, which is called the book of Helaman.
 
Helaman 1:0 Pahoran's sons contend for the judgment-seat--Pahoran
the second is murdered by Kishkumen--Coriantumr, Nephite
dissenter--Zarahemla captured and retaken.
 
Helaman 1:1 And now behold, it came to pass in the commencement
of the fortieth year of the reign of the judges over the people
of Nephi, there began to be a serious difficulty among the people
of the Nephites.
 
Helaman 1:2 For behold, Pahoran had died, and gone the way of all
the earth; therefore there began to be a serious contention
concerning who should have the judgment-seat among the brethren,
who were the sons of Pahoran.
 
Helaman 1:3 Now these are their names who did contend for the
judgment-seat, who did also cause the people to contend: Pahoran,
Paanchi, and Pacumeni.
 
Helaman 1:4 Now these are not all the sons of Pahoran (for he had
many), but these are they who did contend for the judgment-seat;
therefore, they did cause three divisions among the people.
 
Helaman 1:5 Nevertheless, it came to pass that Pahoran was
appointed by the voice of the people to be chief judge and a
governor over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 1:6 And it came to pass that Pacumeni, when he saw that
he could not obtain the judgment-seat, he did unite with the
voice of the people.
 
Helaman 1:7 But behold, Paanchi, and that part of the people that
were desirous that he should be their governor, was exceedingly
wroth; therefore, he was about to flatter away those people to
rise up in rebellion against their brethren.
 
Helaman 1:8 And it came to pass as he was about to do this,
behold, he was taken, and was tried according to the voice of the
people, and condemned unto death; for he had raised up in
rebellion and sought to destroy the liberty of the people.
 
Helaman 1:9 Now when those people who were desirous that he
should be their governor saw that he was condemned unto death,
therefore they were angry, and behold, they sent forth one
Kishkumen, even to the judgment-seat of Pahoran, and murdered
Pahoran as he sat upon the judgment-seat.
 
Helaman 1:10 And he was pursued by the servants of Pahoran; but
behold, so speedy was the flight of Kishkumen that no man could
overtake him.
 
Helaman 1:11 And he went unto those that sent him, and they all
entered into a covenant, yea, swearing by their everlasting
Maker, that they would tell no man that Kishkumen had murdered
Pahoran.
 
Helaman 1:12 Therefore, Kishkumen was not known among the people
of Nephi, for he was in disguise at the time that he murdered
Pahoran. And Kishkumen and his band, who had covenanted with him,
did mingle themselves among the people, in a manner that they all
could not be found; but as many as were found were condemned unto
death.
 
Helaman 1:13 And now behold, Pacumeni was appointed, according to
the voice of the people, to be a chief judge and a governor over
the people, to reign in the stead of his brother Pahoran; and it
was according to his right. And all this was done in the fortieth
year of the reign of the judges; and it had an end.
 
Helaman 1:14 And it came to pass in the forty and first year of
the reign of the judges, that the Lamanites had gathered together
an innumerable army of men, and armed them with swords, and with
cimeters and with bows, and with arrows, and with head-plates,
and with breastplates, and with all manner of shields of every
kind.
 
Helaman 1:15 And they came down again that they might pitch
battle against the Nephites. And they were led by a man whose
name was Coriantumr; and he was a descendant of Zarahemla; and he
was a dissenter from among the Nephites; and he was a large and a
mighty man.
 
Helaman 1:16 Therefore, the king of the Lamanites, whose name was
Tubaloth, who was the son of Ammoron, supposing that Coriantumr,
being a mighty man, could stand against the Nephites, with his
strength and also with his great wisdom, insomuch that by sending
him forth he should gain power over the Nephites--
 
Helaman 1:17 Therefore he did stir them up to anger, and he did
gather together his armies, and he did appoint Coriantumr to be
their leader, and did cause that they should march down to the
land of Zarahemla to battle against the Nephites.
 
Helaman 1:18 And it came to pass that because of so much
contention and so much difficulty in the government, that they
had not kept sufficient guards in the land of Zarahemla; for they
had supposed that the Lamanites durst not come into the heart of
their lands to attack that great city Zarahemla.
 
Helaman 1:19 But it came to pass that Coriantumr did march forth
at the head of his numerous host, and came upon the inhabitants
of the city, and their march was with such exceedingly great
speed that there was no time for the Nephites to gather together
their armies.
 
Helaman 1:20 Therefore Coriantumr did cut down the watch by the
entrance of the city, and did march forth with his whole army
into the city, and they did slay every one who did oppose them,
insomuch that they did take possession of the whole city.
 
Helaman 1:21 And it came to pass that Pacumeni, who was the chief
judge, did flee before Coriantumr, even to the walls of the city.
And it came to pass that Coriantumr did smite him against the
wall, insomuch that he died. And thus ended the days of Pacumeni.
 
Helaman 1:22 And now when Coriantumr saw that he was in
possession of the city of Zarahemla, and saw that the Nephites
had fled before them, and were slain, and were taken, and were
cast into prison, and that he had obtained the possession of the
strongest hold in all the land, his heart took courage insomuch
that he was about to go forth against all the land.
 
Helaman 1:23 And now he did not tarry in the land of Zarahemla,
but he did march forth with a large army, even towards the city
of Bountiful; for it was his determination to go forth and cut
his way through with the sword, that he might obtain the north
parts of the land.
 
Helaman 1:24 And, supposing that their greatest strength was in
the center of the land, therefore he did march forth, giving them
no time to assemble themselves together save it were in small
bodies; and in this manner they did fall upon them and cut them
down to the earth.
 
Helaman 1:25 But behold, this march of Coriantumr through the
center of the land gave Moronihah great advantage over them,
notwithstanding the greatness of the number of the Nephites who
were slain.
 
Helaman 1:26 For behold, Moronihah had supposed that the
Lamanites durst not come into the center of the land, but that
they would attack the cities round about in the borders as they
had hitherto done; therefore Moronihah had caused that their
strong armies should maintain those parts round about by the
borders.
 
Helaman 1:27 But behold, the Lamanites were not frightened
according to his desire, but they had come into the center of the
land, and had taken the capital city which was the city of
Zarahemla, and were marching through the most capital parts of
the land, slaying the people with a great slaughter, both men,
women, and children, taking possession of many cities and of many
strongholds.
 
Helaman 1:28 But when Moronihah had discovered this, he
immediately sent forth Lehi with an army round about to head them
before they should come to the land Bountiful.
 
Helaman 1:29 And thus he did; and he did head them before they
came to the land Bountiful, and gave unto them battle, insomuch
that they began to retreat back towards the land of Zarahemla.
 
Helaman 1:30 And it came to pass that Moronihah did head them in
their retreat, and did give unto them battle, insomuch that it
became an exceedingly bloody battle; yea, many were slain, and
among the number who were slain Coriantumr was also found.
 
Helaman 1:31 And now, behold, the Lamanites could not retreat
either way, neither on the north, nor on the south, nor on the
east, nor on the west, for they were surrounded on every hand by
the Nephites.
 
Helaman 1:32 And thus had Coriantumr plunged the Lamanites into
the midst of the Nephites, insomuch that they were in the power
of the Nephites, and he himself was slain, and the Lamanites did
yield themselves into the hands of the Nephites.
 
Helaman 1:33 And it came to pass that Moronihah took possession
of the city of Zarahemla again, and caused that the Lamanites who
had been taken prisoners should depart out of the land in peace.
 
Helaman 1:34 And thus ended the forty and first year of the reign
of the judges.
 
Helaman 2:0 Helaman the second is appointed chief judge--
Kishkumen killed--Secret combinations--The Gadianton robbers.
 
Helaman 2:1 And it came to pass in the forty and second year of
the reign of the judges, after Moronihah had established again
peace between the Nephites and the Lamanites, behold there was no
one to fill the judgment-seat; therefore there began to be a
contention again among the people concerning who should fill the
judgment-seat.
 
Helaman 2:2 And it came to pass that Helaman, who was the son of
Helaman, was appointed to fill the judgment-seat, by the voice of
the people.
 
Helaman 2:3 But behold, Kishkumen, who had murdered Pahoran, did
lay wait to destroy Helaman also; and he was upheld by his band,
who had entered into a covenant that no one should know his
wickedness.
 
Helaman 2:4 For there was one Gadianton, who was exceedingly
expert in many words, and also in his craft, to carry on the
secret work of murder and of robbery; therefore he became the
leader of the band of Kishkumen.
 
Helaman 2:5 Therefore he did flatter them, and also Kishkumen,
that if they would place him in the judgment-seat he would grant
unto those who belonged to his band that they should be placed in
power and authority among the people; therefore Kishkumen sought
to destroy Helaman.
 
Helaman 2:6 And it came to pass as he went forth towards the
judgment-seat to destroy Helaman, behold one of the servants of
Helaman, having been out by night, and having obtained, through
disguise, a knowledge of those plans which had been laid by this
band to destroy Helaman--
 
Helaman 2:7 And it came to pass that he met Kishkumen, and he
gave unto him a sign; therefore Kishkumen made known unto him the
object of his desire, desiring that he would conduct him to the
judgment-seat that he might murder Helaman.
 
Helaman 2:8 And when the servant of Helaman had known all the
heart of Kishkumen, and how that it was his object to murder, and
also that it was the object of all those who belonged to his band
to murder, and to rob, and to gain power, (and this was their
secret plan, and their combination) the servant of Helaman said
unto Kishkumen: Let us go forth unto the judgment-seat.
 
Helaman 2:9 Now this did please Kishkumen exceedingly, for he did
suppose that he should accomplish his design; but behold, the
servant of Helaman, as they were going forth unto the judgment-
seat, did stab Kishkumen even to the heart, that he fell dead
without a groan. And he ran and told Helaman all the things which
he had seen, and heard, and done.
 
Helaman 2:10 And it came to pass that Helaman did send forth to
take this band of robbers and secret murderers, that they might
be executed according to the law.
 
Helaman 2:11 But behold, when Gadianton had found that Kishkumen
did not return he feared lest that he should be destroyed;
therefore he caused that his band should follow him. And they
took their flight out of the land, by a secret way, into the
wilderness; and thus when Helaman sent forth to take them they
could nowhere be found.
 
Helaman 2:12 And more of this Gadianton shall be spoken
hereafter. And thus ended the forty and second year of the reign
of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 2:13 And behold, in the end of this book ye shall see
that this Gadianton did prove the overthrow, yea, almost the
entire destruction of the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 2:14 Behold I do not mean the end of the book of Helaman,
but I mean the end of the book of Nephi, from which I have taken
all the account which I have written.
 
Helaman 3:0 More migrations to the north--A land of large waters-
-Buildings of cement--Many records kept--Helaman's son, Nephi,
succeeds him.
 
Helaman 3:1 And now it came to pass in the forty and third year
of the reign of the judges, there was no contention among the
people of Nephi save it were a little pride which was in the
church, which did cause some little dissensions among the people,
which affairs were settled in the ending of the forty and third
year.
 
Helaman 3:2 And there was no contention among the people in the
forty and fourth year; neither was there much contention in the
forty and fifth year.
 
Helaman 3:3 And it came to pass in the forty and sixth, yea,
there was much contention and many dissensions; in the which
there were an exceedingly great many who departed out of the land
of Zarahemla, and went forth unto the land northward to inherit
the land.
 
Helaman 3:4 And they did travel to an exceedingly great distance,
insomuch that they came to large bodies of water and many rivers.
 
Helaman 3:5 Yea, and even they did spread forth into all parts of
the land, into whatever parts it had not been rendered desolate
and without timber, because of the many inhabitants who had
before inherited the land.
 
Helaman 3:6 And now no part of the land was desolate, save it
were for timber; but because of the greatness of the destruction
of the people who had before inhabited the land it was called
desolate.
 
Helaman 3:7 And there being but little timber upon the face of
the land, nevertheless the people who went forth became
exceedingly expert in the working of cement; therefore they did
build houses of cement, in the which they did dwell.
 
Helaman 3:8 And it came to pass that they did multiply and
spread, and did go forth from the land southward to the land
northward, and did spread insomuch that they began to cover the
face of the whole earth, from the sea south to the sea north,
from the sea west to the sea east.
 
Helaman 3:9 And the people who were in the land northward did
dwell in tents, and in houses of cement, and they did suffer
whatsoever tree should spring up upon the face of the land that
it should grow up, that in time they might have timber to build
their houses, yea, their cities, and their temples, and their
synagogues, and their sanctuaries, and all manner of their
buildings.
 
Helaman 3:10 And it came to pass as timber was exceedingly scarce
in the land northward, they did send forth much by the way of
shipping.
 
Helaman 3:11 And thus they did enable the people in the land
northward that they might build many cities, both of wood and of
cement.
 
Helaman 3:12 And it came to pass that there were many of the
people of Ammon, who were Lamanites by birth, did also go forth
into this land.
 
Helaman 3:13 And now there are many records kept of the
proceedings of this people, by many of this people, which are
particular and very large, concerning them.
 
Helaman 3:14 But behold, a hundredth part of the proceedings of
this people, yea, the account of the Lamanites and of the
Nephites, and their wars, and contentions, and dissensions, and
their preaching, and their prophecies, and their shipping and
their building of ships, and their building of temples, and of
synagogues and their sanctuaries, and their righteousness, and
their wickedness, and their murders, and their robbings, and
their plundering, and all manner of abominations and whoredoms,
cannot be contained in this work.
 
Helaman 3:15 But behold, there are many books and many records of
every kind, and they have been kept chiefly by the Nephites.
 
Helaman 3:16 And they have been handed down from one generation
to another by the Nephites, even until they have fallen into
transgression and have been murdered, plundered, and hunted, and
driven forth, and slain, and scattered upon the face of the
earth, and mixed with the Lamanites until they are no more called
the Nephites, becoming wicked, and wild, and ferocious, yea, even
becoming Lamanites.
 
Helaman 3:17 And now I return again to mine account; therefore,
what I have spoken had passed after there had been great
contentions, and disturbances, and wars, and dissensions, among
the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 3:18 The forty and sixth year of the reign of the judges
ended;
 
Helaman 3:19 And it came to pass that there was still great
contention in the land, yea, even in the forty and seventh year,
and also in the forty and eighth year.
 
Helaman 3:20 Nevertheless Helaman did fill the judgment-seat with
justice and equity; yea, he did observe to keep the statutes, and
the judgments, and the commandments of God; and he did do that
which was right in the sight of God continually; and he did walk
after the ways of his father, insomuch that he did prosper in the
land.
 
Helaman 3:21 And it came to pass that he had two sons. He gave
unto the eldest the name of Nephi, and unto the youngest, the
name of Lehi. And they began to grow up unto the Lord.
 
Helaman 3:22 And it came to pass that the wars and contentions
began to cease, in a small degree, among the people of the
Nephites, in the latter end of the forty and eighth year of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 3:23 And it came to pass in the forty and ninth year of
the reign of the judges, there was continual peace established in
the land, all save it were the secret combinations which
Gadianton the robber had established in the more settled parts of
the land, which at that time were not known unto those who were
at the head of government; therefore they were not destroyed out
of the land.
 
Helaman 3:24 And it came to pass that in this same year there was
exceedingly great prosperity in the church, insomuch that there
were thousands who did join themselves unto the church and were
baptized unto repentance.
 
Helaman 3:25 And so great was the prosperity of the church, and
so many the blessings which were poured out upon the people, that
even the high priests and the teachers were themselves astonished
beyond measure.
 
Helaman 3:26 And it came to pass that the work of the Lord did
prosper unto the baptizing and uniting to the church of God, many
souls, yea, even tens of thousands.
 
Helaman 3:27 Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all
who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy
name.
 
Helaman 3:28 Yea, thus we see that the gate of heaven is open
unto all, even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus
Christ, who is the Son of God.
 
Helaman 3:29 Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon
the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide
asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the
devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course
across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to
engulf the wicked--
 
Helaman 3:30 And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at
the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down with
Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy
fathers, to go no more out.
 
Helaman 3:31 And in this year there was continual rejoicing in
the land of Zarahemla, and in all the regions round about, even
in all the land which was possessed by the Nephites.
 
Helaman 3:32 And it came to pass that there was peace and
exceedingly great joy in the remainder of the forty and ninth
year; yea, and also there was continual peace and great joy in
the fiftieth year of the reign of the judges.
 
Helaman 3:33 And in the fifty and first year of the reign of the
judges there was peace also, save it were the pride which began
to enter into the church--not into the church of God, but into
the hearts of the people who professed to belong to the church of
God--
 
Helaman 3:34 And they were lifted up in pride, even to the
persecution of many of their brethren. Now this was a great evil,
which did cause the more humble part of the people to suffer
great persecutions, and to wade through much affliction.
 
Helaman 3:35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax
stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in
the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and
consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of
their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their
yielding their hearts unto God.
 
Helaman 3:36 And it came to pass that the fifty and second year
ended in peace also, save it were the exceedingly great pride
which had gotten into the hearts of the people; and it was
because of their exceedingly great riches and their prosperity in
the land; and it did grow upon them from day to day.
 
Helaman 3:37 And it came to pass in the fifty and third year of
the reign of the judges, Helaman died, and his eldest son Nephi
began to reign in his stead. And it came to pass that he did fill
the judgment-seat with justice and equity; yea, he did keep the
commandments of God, and did walk in the ways of his father.
 
Helaman 4:0 Lamanites again invade land of Zarahemla--The city
captured--Nephites driven into the land Bountiful--Moronihah
fortifies the way--Weakened by wickedness, the Nephites prevail
not.
 
Helaman 4:1 And it came to pass in the fifty and fourth year
there were many dissensions in the church, and there was also a
contention among the people, insomuch that there was much
bloodshed.
 
Helaman 4:2 And the rebellious part were slain and driven out of
the land, and they did go unto the king of the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 4:3 And it came to pass that they did endeavor to stir up
the Lamanites to war against the Nephites; but behold, the
Lamanites were exceedingly afraid, insomuch that they would not
hearken to the words of those dissenters.
 
Helaman 4:4 But it came to pass in the fifty and sixth year of
the reign of the judges, there were dissenters who went up from
the Nephites unto the Lamanites; and they succeeded with those
others in stirring them up to anger against the Nephites; and
they were all that year preparing for war.
 
Helaman 4:5 And in the fifty and seventh year they did come down
against the Nephites to battle, and they did commence the work of
death; yea, insomuch that in the fifty and eighth year of the
reign of the judges they succeeded in obtaining possession of the
land of Zarahemla; yea, and also all the lands, even unto the
land which was near the land Bountiful.
 
Helaman 4:6 And the Nephites and the armies of Moronihah were
driven even into the land of Bountiful;
 
Helaman 4:7 And there they did fortify against the Lamanites,
from the west sea, even unto the east; it being a day's journey
for a Nephite, on the line which they had fortified and stationed
their armies to defend their north country.
 
Helaman 4:8 And thus those dissenters of the Nephites, with the
help of a numerous army of the Lamanites, had obtained all the
possession of the Nephites which was in the land southward. And
all this was done in the fifty and eighth and ninth years of the
reign of the judges.
 
Helaman 4:9 And it came to pass in the sixtieth year of the reign
of the judges, Moronihah did succeed with his armies in obtaining
many parts of the land; yea, they regained many cities which had
fallen into the hands of the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 4:10 And it came to pass in the sixty and first year of
the reign of the judges they succeeded in regaining even the half
of all their possessions.
 
Helaman 4:11 Now this great loss of the Nephites, and the great
slaughter which was among them, would not have happened had it
not been for their wickedness and their abomination which was
among them; yea, and it was among those also who professed to
belong to the church of God.
 
Helaman 4:12 And it was because of the pride of their hearts,
because of their exceeding riches, yea, it was because of their
oppression to the poor, withholding their food from the hungry,
withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their
humble brethren upon the cheek, making a mock of that which was
sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation,
murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery,
rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land
of Nephi, among the Lamanites--
 
Helaman 4:13 And because of this their great wickedness, and
their boastings in their own strength, they were left in their
own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted
and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost
possession of almost all their lands.
 
Helaman 4:14 But behold, Moronihah did preach many things unto
the people because of their iniquity, and also Nephi and Lehi,
who were the sons of Helaman, did preach many things unto the
people, yea, and did prophesy many things unto them concerning
their iniquities, and what should come unto them if they did not
repent of their sins.
 
Helaman 4:15 And it came to pass that they did repent, and
inasmuch as they did repent they did begin to prosper.
 
Helaman 4:16 For when Moronihah saw that they did repent he did
venture to lead them forth from place to place, and from city to
city, even until they had regained the one-half of their property
and the one-half of all their lands.
 
Helaman 4:17 And thus ended the sixty and first year of the reign
of the judges.
 
Helaman 4:18 And it came to pass in the sixty and second year of
the reign of the judges, that Moronihah could obtain no more
possessions over the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 4:19 Therefore they did abandon their design to obtain
the remainder of their lands, for so numerous were the Lamanites
that it became impossible for the Nephites to obtain more power
over them; therefore Moronihah did employ all his armies in
maintaining those parts which he had taken.
 
Helaman 4:20 And it came to pass, because of the greatness of the
number of the Lamanites the Nephites were in great fear, lest
they should be overpowered, and trodden down, and slain, and
destroyed.
 
Helaman 4:21 Yea, they began to remember the prophecies of Alma,
and also the words of Mosiah; and they saw that they had been a
stiffnecked people, and that they had set at naught the
commandments of God.
 
Helaman 4:22 And that they had altered and trampled under their
feet the laws of Mosiah, or that which the Lord commanded him to
give unto the people; and they saw that their laws had become
corrupted, and that they had become a wicked people, insomuch
that they were wicked even like unto the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 4:23 And because of their iniquity the church had begun
to dwindle; and they began to disbelieve in the spirit of
prophecy and in the spirit of revelation; and the judgments of
God did stare them in the face.
 
Helaman 4:24 And they saw that they had become weak, like unto
their brethren, the Lamanites, and that the Spirit of the Lord
did no more preserve them; yea, it had withdrawn from them
because the Spirit of the Lord doth not dwell in unholy temples--
Helaman 4:25 Therefore the Lord did cease to preserve them by his
miraculous and matchless power, for they had fallen into a state
of unbelief and awful wickedness; and they saw that the Lamanites
were exceedingly more numerous than they, and except they should
cleave unto the Lord their God they must unavoidably perish.
 
Helaman 4:26 For behold, they saw that the strength of the
Lamanites was as great as their strength, even man for man. And
thus had they fallen into this great transgression; yea, thus had
they become weak, because of their transgression, in the space of
not many years.
 
Helaman 5:0 Nephi yields the judgment-seat to Cezoram--With his
brother Lehi he devotes himself to the ministry--Marvelous
Manifestations--Converted Lamanites restore conquered Nephite
lands.
 
Helaman 5:1 And it came to pass that in this same year, behold,
Nephi delivered up the judgment-seat to a man whose name was
Cezoram.
 
Helaman 5:2 For as their laws and their governments were
established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil
were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were
ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.
 
Helaman 5:3 Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked
people, insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor
justice, save it were to their destruction.
 
Helaman 5:4 And it came to pass that Nephi had become weary
because of their iniquity; and he yielded up the judgment-seat,
and took it upon him to preach the word of God all the remainder
of his days, and his brother Lehi also, all the remainder of his
days;
 
Helaman 5:5 For they remembered the words which their father
Helaman spake unto them. And these are the words which he spake:
 
Helaman 5:6 Behold, my sons, I desire that ye should remember to
keep the commandments of God; and I would that ye should declare
unto the people these words. Behold, I have given unto you the
names of our first parents who came out of the land of Jerusalem;
and this I have done that when you remember your names ye may
remember them; and when ye remember them ye may remember their
works; and when ye remember their works ye may know how that it
is said, and also written, that they were good.
 
Helaman 5:7 Therefore, my sons, I would that ye should do that
which is good, that it may be said of you, and also written, even
as it has been said and written of them.
 
Helaman 5:8 And now my sons, behold I have somewhat more to
desire of you, which desire is, that ye may not do these things
that ye may boast, but that ye may do these things to lay up for
yourselves a treasure in heaven, yea, which is eternal, and which
fadeth not away; yea, that ye may have that precious gift of
eternal life, which we have reason to suppose hath been given to
our fathers.
 
Helaman 5:9 O remember, remember, my sons, the words which king
Benjamin spake unto his people; yea, remember that there is no
other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the
atoning blood of Jesus Christ, who shall come; yea, remember that
he cometh to redeem the world.
 
Helaman 5:10 And remember also the words which Amulek spake unto
Zeezrom, in the city of Ammonihah; for he said unto him that the
Lord surely should come to redeem his people, but that he should
not come to redeem them in their sins, but to redeem them from
their sins.
 
Helaman 5:11 And he hath power given unto him from the Father to
redeem them from their sins because of repentance; therefore he
hath sent his angels to declare the tidings of the conditions of
repentance, which bringeth unto the power of the Redeemer, unto
the salvation of their souls.
 
Helaman 5:12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon
the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye
must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth
his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all
his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have
no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and
endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is
a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot
fall.
 
Helaman 5:13 And it came to pass that these were the words which
Helaman taught to his sons; yea, he did teach them many things
which are not written, and also many things which are written.
 
Helaman 5:14 And they did remember his words; and therefore they
went forth, keeping the commandments of God, to teach the word of
God among all the people of Nephi, beginning at the city
Bountiful;
 
Helaman 5:15 And from thenceforth to the city of Gid; and from
the city of Gid to the city of Mulek;
 
Helaman 5:16 And even from one city to another, until they had
gone forth among all the people of Nephi who were in the land
southward; and from thence into the land of Zarahemla, among the
Lamanites.
 
Helaman 5:17 And it came to pass that they did preach with great
power, insomuch that they did confound many of those dissenters
who had gone over from the Nephites, insomuch that they came
forth and did confess their sins and were baptized unto
repentance, and immediately returned to the Nephites to endeavor
to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.
 
Helaman 5:18 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did preach
unto the Lamanites with such great power and authority, for they
had power and authority given unto them that they might speak,
and they also had what they should speak given unto them--
 
Helaman 5:19 Therefore they did speak unto the great astonishment
of the Lamanites, to the convincing them, insomuch that there
were eight thousand of the Lamanites who were in the land of
Zarahemla and round about baptized unto repentance, and were
convinced of the wickedness of the traditions of their fathers.
 
Helaman 5:20 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did proceed
from thence to go to the land of Nephi.
 
Helaman 5:21 And it came to pass that they were taken by an army
of the Lamanites and cast into prison; yea, even in that same
prison in which Ammon and his brethren were cast by the servants
of Limhi.
 
Helaman 5:22 And after they had been cast into prison many days
without food, behold, they went forth into the prison to take
them that they might slay them.
 
Helaman 5:23 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi were
encircled about as if by fire, even insomuch that they durst not
lay their hands upon them for fear lest they should be burned.
Nevertheless, Nephi and Lehi were not burned; and they were as
standing in the midst of fire and were not burned.
 
Helaman 5:24 And when they saw that they were encircled about
with a pillar of fire, and that it burned them not, their hearts
did take courage.
 
Helaman 5:25 For they saw that the Lamanites durst not lay their
hands upon them; neither durst they come near unto them, but
stood as if they were struck dumb with amazement.
 
Helaman 5:26 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did stand
forth and began to speak unto them, saying: Fear not, for behold,
it is God that has shown unto you this marvelous thing, in the
which is shown unto you that ye cannot lay your hands on us to
slay us.
 
Helaman 5:27 And behold, when they had said these words, the
earth shook exceedingly, and the walls of the prison did shake as
if they were about to tumble to the earth; but behold, they did
not fall. And behold, they that were in the prison were Lamanites
and Nephites who were dissenters.
 
Helaman 5:28 And it came to pass that they were overshadowed with
a cloud of darkness, and an awful solemn fear came upon them.
 
Helaman 5:29 And it came to pass that there came a voice as if it
were above the cloud of darkness, saying: Repent ye, repent ye,
and seek no more to destroy my servants whom I have sent unto you
to declare good tidings.
 
Helaman 5:30 And it came to pass when they heard this voice, and
beheld that it was not a voice of thunder, neither was it a voice
of a great tumultuous noise, but behold, it was a still voice of
perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce
even to the very soul--
 
Helaman 5:31 And notwithstanding the mildness of the voice,
behold the earth shook exceedingly, and the walls of the prison
trembled again, as if it were about to tumble to the earth; and
behold the cloud of darkness, which had overshadowed them, did
not disperse--
 
Helaman 5:32 And behold the voice came again, saying: Repent ye,
repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand; and seek no more
to destroy my servants. And it came to pass that the earth shook
again, and the walls trembled.
 
Helaman 5:33 And also again the third time the voice came, and
did speak unto them marvelous words which cannot be uttered by
man; and the walls did tremble again, and the earth shook as if
it were about to divide asunder.
 
Helaman 5:34 And it came to pass that the Lamanites could not
flee because of the cloud of darkness which did overshadow them;
yea, and also they were immovable because of the fear which did
come upon them.
 
Helaman 5:35 Now there was one among them who was a Nephite by
birth, who had once belonged to the church of God but had
dissented from them.
 
Helaman 5:36 And it came to pass that he turned him about, and
behold, he saw through the cloud of darkness the faces of Nephi
and Lehi; and behold, they did shine exceedingly, even as the
faces of angels. And he beheld that they did lift their eyes to
heaven; and they were in the attitude as if talking or lifting
their voices to some being whom they beheld.
 
Helaman 5:37 And it came to pass that this man did cry unto the
multitude, that they might turn and look. And behold, there was
power given unto them that they did turn and look; and they did
behold the faces of Nephi and Lehi.
 
Helaman 5:38 And they said unto the man: Behold, what do all
these things mean, and who is it with whom these men do converse?
 
Helaman 5:39 Now the man's name was Aminadab. And Aminadab said
unto them: They do converse with the angels of God.
 
Helaman 5:40 And it came to pass that the Lamanites said unto
him: What shall we do, that this cloud of darkness may be removed
from overshadowing us?
 
Helaman 5:41 And Aminadab said unto them: You must repent, and
cry unto the voice, even until ye shall have faith in Christ, who
was taught unto you by Alma, and Amulek, and Zeezrom; and when ye
shall do this, the cloud of darkness shall be removed from
overshadowing you.
 
Helaman 5:42 And it came to pass that they all did begin to cry
unto the voice of him who had shaken the earth; yea, they did cry
even until the cloud of darkness was dispersed.
 
Helaman 5:43 And it came to pass that when they cast their eyes
about, and saw that the cloud of darkness was dispersed from
overshadowing them, behold, they saw that they were encircled
about, yea every soul, by a pillar of fire.
 
Helaman 5:44 And Nephi and Lehi were in the midst of them; yea,
they were encircled about; yea, they were as if in the midst of a
flaming fire, yet it did harm them not, neither did it take hold
upon the walls of the prison; and they were filled with that joy
which is unspeakable and full of glory.
 
Helaman 5:45 And behold, the Holy Spirit of God did come down
from heaven, and did enter into their hearts, and they were
filled as if with fire, and they could speak forth marvelous
words.
 
Helaman 5:46 And it came to pass that there came a voice unto
them, yea, a pleasant voice, as if it were a whisper, saying:
 
Helaman 5:47 Peace, peace be unto you, because of your faith in
my Well Beloved, who was from the foundation of the world.
 
Helaman 5:48 And now, when they heard this they cast up their
eyes as if to behold from whence the voice came; and behold, they
saw the heavens open; and angels came down out of heaven and
ministered unto them.
 
Helaman 5:49 And there were about three hundred souls who saw and
heard these things; and they were bidden to go forth and marvel
not, neither should they doubt.
 
Helaman 5:50 And it came to pass that they did go forth, and did
minister unto the people, declaring throughout all the regions
round about all the things which they had heard and seen,
insomuch that the more part of the Lamanites were convinced of
them, because of the greatness of the evidences which they had
received.
 
Helaman 5:51 And as many as were convinced did lay down their
weapons of war, and also their hatred and the tradition of their
fathers.
 
Helaman 5:52 And it came to pass that they did yield up unto the
Nephites the lands of their possession.
 
Helaman 6:0 Lamanites send missionaries to Nephites--Peace and
freedom abound--The land Lehi and the land Mulek--Cezoram and his
son murdered--Gadianton robbers seize government.
 
Helaman 6:1 And it came to pass that when the sixty and second
year of the reign of the judges had ended, all these things had
happened and the Lamanites had become, the more part of them, a
righteous people, insomuch that their righteousness did exceed
that of the Nephites, because of their firmness and their
steadiness in the faith.
 
Helaman 6:2 For behold, there were many of the Nephites who had
become hardened and impenitent and grossly wicked, insomuch that
they did reject the word of God and all the preaching and
prophesying which did come among them.
 
Helaman 6:3 Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great
joy because of the conversion of the Lamanites, yea, because of
the church of God, which had been established among them. And
they did fellowship one with another, and did rejoice one with
another, and did have great joy.
 
Helaman 6:4 And it came to pass that many of the Lamanites did
come down into the land of Zarahemla, and did declare unto the
people of the Nephites the manner of their conversion, and did
exhort them to faith and repentance.
 
Helaman 6:5 Yea, and many did preach with exceedingly great power
and authority, unto the bringing down many of them into the
depths of humility, to be the humble followers of God and the
Lamb.
 
Helaman 6:6 And it came to pass that many of the Lamanites did go
into the land northward; and also Nephi and Lehi went into the
land northward, to preach unto the people. And thus ended the
sixty and third year.
 
Helaman 6:7 And behold, there was peace in all the land, insomuch
that the Nephites did go into whatsoever part of the land they
would, whether among the Nephites or the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 6:8 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did also go
whithersoever they would, whether it were among the Lamanites or
among the Nephites; and thus they did have free intercourse one
with another, to buy and to sell, and to get gain, according to
their desire.
 
Helaman 6:9 And it came to pass that they became exceedingly
rich, both the Lamanites and the Nephites; and they did have an
exceeding plenty of gold, and of silver, and of all manner of
precious metals, both in the land south and in the land north.
 
Helaman 6:10 Now the land south was called Lehi, and the land
north was called Mulek, which was after the son of Zedekiah; for
the Lord did bring Mulek into the land north, and Lehi into the
land south.
 
Helaman 6:11 And behold, there was all manner of gold in both
these lands, and of silver, and of precious ore of every kind;
and there were also curious workmen, who did work all kinds of
ore and did refine it; and thus they did become rich.
 
Helaman 6:12 They did raise grain in abundance, both in the north
and in the south; and they did flourish exceedingly, both in the
north and in the south. And they did multiply and wax exceedingly
strong in the land. And they did raise many flocks and herds,
yea, many fatlings.
 
Helaman 6:13 Behold their women did toil and spin, and did make
all manner of cloth, of fine-twined linen and cloth of every
kind, to clothe their nakedness. And thus the sixty and fourth
year did pass away in peace.
 
Helaman 6:14 And in the sixty and fifth year they did also have
great joy and peace, yea, much preaching and many prophecies
concerning that which was to come. And thus passed away the sixty
and fifth year.
 
Helaman 6:15 And it came to pass that in the sixty and sixth year
of the reign of the judges, behold, Cezoram was murdered by an
unknown hand as he sat upon the judgment-seat. And it came to
pass that in the same year, that his son, who had been appointed
by the people in his stead, was also murdered. And thus ended the
sixty and sixth year.
 
Helaman 6:16 And in the commencement of the sixty and seventh
year the people began to grow exceedingly wicked again.
 
Helaman 6:17 For behold, the Lord had blessed them so long with
the riches of the world that they had not been stirred up to
anger, to wars, nor to bloodshed; therefore they began to set
their hearts upon their riches; yea, they began to seek to get
gain that they might be lifted up one above another; therefore
they began to commit secret murders, and to rob and to plunder,
that they might get gain.
 
Helaman 6:18 And now behold, those murderers and plunderers were
a band who had been formed by Kishkumen and Gadianton. And now it
had come to pass that there were many, even among the Nephites,
of Gadianton's band. But behold, they were more numerous among
the more wicked part of the Lamanites. And they were called
Gadianton's robbers and murderers.
 
Helaman 6:19 And it was they who did murder the chief judge
Cezoram, and his son, while in the judgment-seat; and behold,
they were not found.
 
Helaman 6:20 And now it came to pass that when the Lamanites
found that there were robbers among them they were exceedingly
sorrowful; and they did use every means in their power to destroy
them off the face of the earth.
 
Helaman 6:21 But behold, Satan did stir up the hearts of the more
part of the Nephites, insomuch that they did unite with those
bands of robbers, and did enter into their covenants and their
oaths, that they would protect and preserve one another in
whatsoever difficult circumstances they should be placed, that
they should not suffer for their murders, and their plunderings,
and their stealings.
 
Helaman 6:22 And it came to pass that they did have their signs,
yea, their secret signs, and their secret words; and this that
they might distinguish a brother who had entered into the
covenant, that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do he
should not be injured by his brother, nor by those who did belong
to his band, who had taken this covenant.
 
Helaman 6:23 And thus they might murder, and plunder, and steal,
and commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness, contrary to
the laws of their country and also the laws of their God.
 
Helaman 6:24 And whosoever of those who belonged to their band
should reveal unto the world of their wickedness and their
abominations, should be tried, not according to the laws of their
country, but according to the laws of their wickedness, which had
been given by Gadianton and Kishkumen.
 
Helaman 6:25 Now behold, it is these secret oaths and covenants
which Alma commanded his son should not go forth unto the world,
lest they should be a means of bringing down the people unto
destruction.
 
Helaman 6:26 Now behold, those secret oaths and covenants did not
come forth unto Gadianton from the records which were delivered
unto Helaman; but behold, they were put into the heart of
Gadianton by that same being who did entice our first parents to
partake of the forbidden fruit--
 
Helaman 6:27 Yea, that same being who did plot with Cain, that if
he would murder his brother Abel it should not be known unto the
world. And he did plot with Cain and his followers from that time
forth.
 
Helaman 6:28 And also it is that same being who put it into the
hearts of the people to build a tower sufficiently high that they
might get to heaven. And it was that same being who led on the
people who came from that tower into this land; who spread the
works of darkness and abominations over all the face of the land,
until he dragged the people down to an entire destruction, and to
an everlasting hell.
 
Helaman 6:29 Yea, it is that same being who put it into the heart
of Gadianton to still carry on the work of darkness, and of
secret murder; and he has brought it forth from the beginning of
man even down to this time.
 
Helaman 6:30 And behold, it is he who is the author of all sin.
And behold, he doth carry on his works of darkness and secret
murder, and doth hand down their plots, and their oaths, and
their covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness, from
generation to generation according as he can get hold upon the
hearts of the children of men.
 
Helaman 6:31 And now behold, he had got great hold upon the
hearts of the Nephites; yea, insomuch that they had become
exceedingly wicked; yea, the more part of them had turned out of
the way of righteousness, and did trample under their feet the
commandments of God, and did turn unto their own ways, and did
build up unto themselves idols of their gold and their silver.
 
Helaman 6:32 And it came to pass that all these iniquities did
come unto them in the space of not many years, insomuch that a
more part of it had come unto them in the sixty and seventh year
of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 6:33 And they did grow in their iniquities in the sixty
and eighth year also, to the great sorrow and lamentation of the
righteous.
 
Helaman 6:34 And thus we see that the Nephites did begin to
dwindle in unbelief, and grow in wickedness and abominations,
while the Lamanites began to grow exceedingly in the knowledge of
their God; yea, they did begin to keep his statutes and
commandments, and to walk in truth and uprightness before him.
 
Helaman 6:35 And thus we see that the Spirit of the Lord began to
withdraw from the Nephites, because of the wickedness and the
hardness of their hearts.
 
Helaman 6:36 And thus we see that the Lord began to pour out his
Spirit upon the Lamanites, because of their easiness and
willingness to believe in his words.
 
Helaman 6:37 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did hunt the
band of robbers of Gadianton; and they did preach the word of God
among the more wicked part of them, insomuch that this band of
robbers was utterly destroyed from among the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 6:38 And it came to pass on the other hand, that the
Nephites did build them up and support them, beginning at the
more wicked part of them, until they had overspread all the land
of the Nephites, and had seduced the more part of the righteous
until they had come down to believe in their works and partake of
their spoils, and to join with them in their secret murders and
combinations.
 
Helaman 6:39 And thus they did obtain the sole management of the
government, insomuch that they did trample under their feet and
smite and rend and turn their backs upon the poor and the meek,
and the humble followers of God.
 
Helaman 6:40 And thus we see that they were in an awful state,
and ripening for an everlasting destruction.
 
Helaman 6:41 And it came to pass that thus ended the sixty and
eighth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 7:00 The Prophecy of Nephi, the Son of Helaman. --God
threatens the people of Nephi that he will visit them in his
anger, to their utter destruction except they repent of their
wickedness. God smiteth the people of Nephi with pestilence; they
repent and turn unto him. Samuel, a Lamanite, prophesies unto the
Nephites. Comprising chapters 7 to 16 inclusive.
 
Helaman 7:0 Nephi, rejected by the people in the north, returns
to Zarahemla--From his garden tower he prays to God and addresses
the multitude.
 
Helaman 7:1 Behold, now it came to pass in the sixty and ninth
year of the reign of the judges over the people of the Nephites,
that Nephi, the son of Helaman, returned to the land of Zarahemla
from the land northward.
 
Helaman 7:2 For he had been forth among the people who were in
the land northward, and did preach the word of God unto them, and
did prophesy many things unto them;
 
Helaman 7:3 And they did reject all his words, insomuch that he
could not stay among them, but returned again unto the land of
his nativity.
 
Helaman 7:4 And seeing the people in a state of such awful
wickedness, and those Gadianton robbers filling the judgment-
seats--having usurped the power and authority of the land; laying
aside the commandments of God, and not in the least aright before
him; doing no justice unto the children of men;
 
Helaman 7:5 Condemning the righteous because of their
righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished
because of their money; and moreover to be held in office at the
head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that
they might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that
they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill,
and do according to their own wills--
 
Helaman 7:6 Now this great iniquity had come upon the Nephites,
in the space of not many years; and when Nephi saw it, his heart
was swollen with sorrow within his breast; and he did exclaim in
the agony of his soul:
 
Helaman 7:7 Oh, that I could have had my days in the days when my
father Nephi first came out of the land of Jerusalem, that I
could have joyed with him in the promised land; then were his
people easy to be entreated, firm to keep the commandments of
God, and slow to be led to do iniquity; and they were quick to
hearken unto the words of the Lord--
 
Helaman 7:8 Yea, if my days could have been in those days, then
would my soul have had joy in the righteousness of my brethren.
 
Helaman 7:9 But behold, I am consigned that these are my days,
and that my soul shall be filled with sorrow because of this the
wickedness of my brethren.
 
Helaman 7:10 And behold, now it came to pass that it was upon a
tower, which was in the garden of Nephi, which was by the highway
which led to the chief market, which was in the city of
Zarahemla; therefore, Nephi had bowed himself upon the tower
which was in his garden, which tower was also near unto the
garden gate by which led the highway.
 
Helaman 7:11 And it came to pass that there were certain men
passing by and saw Nephi as he was pouring out his soul unto God
upon the tower; and they ran and told the people what they had
seen, and the people came together in multitudes that they might
know the cause of so great mourning for the wickedness of the
people.
 
Helaman 7:12 And now, when Nephi arose he beheld the multitudes
of people who had gathered together.
 
Helaman 7:13 And it came to pass that he opened his mouth and
said unto them: Behold, why have ye gathered yourselves together?
That I may tell you of your iniquities?
 
Helaman 7:14 Yea, because I have got upon my tower that I might
pour out my soul unto my God, because of the exceeding sorrow of
my heart, which is because of your iniquities!
 
Helaman 7:15 And because of my mourning and lamentation ye have
gathered yourselves together, and do marvel; yea, and ye have
great need to marvel; yea, ye ought to marvel because ye are
given away that the devil has got so great hold upon your hearts.
 
Helaman 7:16 Yea, how could you have given way to the enticing of
him who is seeking to hurl away your souls down to everlasting
misery and endless wo?
 
Helaman 7:17 O repent ye, repent ye! Why will ye die? Turn ye,
turn ye unto the Lord your God. Why has he forsaken you?
 
Helaman 7:18 It is because you have hardened your hearts; yea, ye
will not hearken unto the voice of the good shepherd; yea, ye
have provoked him to anger against you.
 
Helaman 7:19 And behold, instead of gathering you, except ye will
repent, behold, he shall scatter you forth that ye shall become
meat for dogs and wild beasts.
 
Helaman 7:20 O, how could you have forgotten your God in the very
day that he has delivered you?
 
Helaman 7:21 But behold, it is to get gain, to be praised of men,
yea, and that ye might get gold and silver. And ye have set your
hearts upon the riches and the vain things of this world, for the
which ye do murder, and plunder, and steal, and bear false
witness against your neighbor, and do all manner of iniquity.
 
Helaman 7:22 And for this cause wo shall come unto you except ye
shall repent. For if ye will not repent, behold, this great city,
and also all those great cities which are round about, which are
in the land of our possession, shall be taken away that ye shall
have no place in them; for behold, the Lord will not grant unto
you strength, as he has hitherto done, to withstand against your
enemies.
 
Helaman 7:23 For behold, thus saith the Lord: I will not show
unto the wicked of my strength, to one more than the other, save
it be unto those who repent of their sins, and hearken unto my
words. Now therefore, I would that ye should behold, my brethren,
that it shall be better for the Lamanites than for you except ye
shall repent.
 
Helaman 7:24 For behold, they are more righteous than you, for
they have not sinned against that great knowledge which ye have
received; therefore the Lord will be merciful unto them; yea, he
will lengthen out their days and increase their seed, even when
thou shalt be utterly destroyed except thou shalt repent.
 
Helaman 7:25 Yea, wo be unto you because of that great
abomination which has come among you; and ye have united
yourselves unto it, yea, to that secret band which was
established by Gadianton!
 
Helaman 7:26 Yea, wo shall come unto you because of that pride
which ye have suffered to enter your hearts, which has lifted you
up beyond that which is good because of your exceedingly great
riches!
 
Helaman 7:27 Yea, wo be unto you because of your wickedness and
abominations!
 
Helaman 7:28 And except ye repent ye shall perish; yea, even your
lands shall be taken from you, and ye shall be destroyed from off
the face of the earth.
 
Helaman 7:29 Behold now, I do not say that these things shall be,
of myself, because it is not of myself that I know these things;
but behold, I know that these things are true because the Lord
God has made them known unto me, therefore I testify that they
shall be.
 
Helaman 8:0 Nephite's address continued--Corrupt judges vainly
endeavor to incite people against him--By inspiration he
announces the murder of the chief judge.
 
Helaman 8:1 And now it came to pass that when Nephi had said
these words, behold, there were men who were judges, who also
belonged to the secret band of Gadianton, and they were angry,
and they cried out against him, saying unto the people: Why do ye
not seize upon this man and bring him forth, that he may be
condemned according to the crime which he has done?
 
Helaman 8:2 Why seest thou this man, and hearest him revile
against this people and against our law?
 
Helaman 8:3 For behold, Nephi had spoken unto them concerning the
corruptness of their law; yea, many things did Nephi speak which
cannot be written; and nothing did he speak which was contrary to
the commandments of God.
 
Helaman 8:4 And those judges were angry with him because he spake
plainly unto them concerning their secret works of darkness;
nevertheless, they durst not lay their own hands upon him, for
they feared the people lest they should cry out against them.
 
Helaman 8:5 Therefore they did cry unto the people, saying: Why
do you suffer this man to revile against us? For behold he doth
condemn all this people, even unto destruction; yea, and also
that these our great cities shall be taken from us, that we shall
have no place in them.
 
Helaman 8:6 And now we know that this is impossible, for behold,
we are powerful, and our cities great, therefore our enemies can
have no power over us.
 
Helaman 8:7 And it came to pass that thus they did stir up the
people to anger against Nephi, and raised contentions among them;
for there were some who did cry out: Let this man alone, for he
is a good man, and those things which he saith will surely come
to pass except we repent;
 
Helaman 8:8 Yea, behold, all the judgments will come upon us
which he has testified unto us; for we know that he has testified
aright unto us concerning our iniquities. And behold they are
many, and he knoweth as well all things which shall befall us as
he knoweth of our iniquities;
 
Helaman 8:9 Yea, and behold, if he had not been a prophet he
could not have testified concerning those things.
 
Helaman 8:10 And it came to pass that those people who sought to
destroy Nephi were compelled because of their fear, that they did
not lay their hands on him; therefore he began again to speak
unto them, seeing that he had gained favor in the eyes of some,
insomuch that the remainder of them did fear.
 
Helaman 8:11 Therefore he was constrained to speak more unto them
saying: Behold, my brethren, have ye not read that God gave power
unto one man, even Moses, to smite upon the waters of the Red
Sea, and they parted hither and thither, insomuch that the
Israelites, who were our fathers, came through upon dry ground,
and the waters closed upon the armies of the Egyptians and
swallowed them up?
 
Helaman 8:12 And now behold, if God gave unto this man such
power, then why should ye dispute among yourselves, and say that
he hath given unto me no power whereby I may know concerning the
judgments that shall come upon you except ye repent?
 
Helaman 8:13 But, behold, ye not only deny my words, but ye also
deny all the words which have been spoken by our fathers, and
also the words which were spoken by this man, Moses, who had such
great power given unto him, yea, the words which he hath spoken
concerning the coming of the Messiah.
 
Helaman 8:14 Yea, did he not bear record that the Son of God
should come? And as he lifted up the brazen serpent in the
wilderness, even so shall he be lifted up who should come.
 
Helaman 8:15 And as many as should look upon that serpent should
live, even so as many as should look upon the Son of God with
faith, having a contrite spirit, might live, even unto that life
which is eternal.
 
Helaman 8:16 And now behold, Moses did not only testify of these
things, but also all the holy prophets, from his days even to the
days of Abraham.
 
Helaman 8:17 Yea, and behold, Abraham saw of his coming, and was
filled with gladness and did rejoice.
 
Helaman 8:18 Yea, and behold I say unto you, that Abraham not
only knew of these things, but there were many before the days of
Abraham who were called by the order of God; yea, even after the
order of his Son; and this that it should be shown unto the
people, a great many thousand years before his coming, that even
redemption should come unto them.
 
Helaman 8:19 And now I would that ye should know, that even since
the days of Abraham there have been many prophets that have
testified these things; yea, behold, the prophet Zenos did
testify boldly; for the which he was slain.
 
Helaman 8:20 And behold, also Zenock, and also Ezias, and also
Isaiah, and Jeremiah, (Jeremiah being that same prophet who
testified of the destruction of Jerusalem) and now we know that
Jerusalem was destroyed according to the words of Jeremiah. O
then why not the Son of God come, according to his prophecy?
 
Helaman 8:21 And now will you dispute that Jerusalem was
destroyed? Will ye say that the sons of Zedekiah were not slain,
all except it were Mulek? Yea, and do ye not behold that the seed
of Zedekiah are with us, and they were driven out of the land of
Jerusalem? But behold, this is not all--
 
Helaman 8:22 Our father Lehi was driven out of Jerusalem because
he testified of these things. Nephi also testified of these
things, and also almost all of our fathers, even down to this
time; yea, they have testified of the coming of Christ, and have
looked forward, and have rejoiced in his day which is to come.
 
Helaman 8:23 And behold, he is God, and he is with them, and he
did manifest himself unto them, that they were redeemed by him;
and they gave unto him glory, because of that which is to come.
 
Helaman 8:24 And now, seeing ye know these things and cannot deny
them except ye shall lie, therefore in this ye have sinned, for
ye have rejected all these things, notwithstanding so many
evidences which ye have received; yea, even ye have received all
things, both things in heaven, and all things which are in the
earth, as a witness that they are true.
 
Helaman 8:25 But behold, ye have rejected the truth, and rebelled
against your holy God; and even at this time, instead of laying
up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where nothing doth
corrupt, and where nothing can come which is unclean, ye are
heaping up for yourselves wrath against the day of judgment.
 
Helaman 8:26 Yea, even at this time ye are ripening, because of
your murders and your fornication and wickedness, for everlasting
destruction; yea, and except ye repent it will come unto you
soon.
 
Helaman 8:27 Yea, behold it is now even at your doors; yea, go ye
in unto the judgment-seat, and search; and behold, your judge is
murdered, and he lieth in his blood; and he hath been murdered by
his brother, who seeketh to sit in the judgment-seat.
 
Helaman 8:28 And behold, they both belong to your secret band,
whose author is Gadianton and the evil one who seeketh to destroy
the souls of men.
 
Helaman 9:0 Nephi's word verified--Chief judge found dead at the
judgment-seat--Nephi and five others accused--Their innocence
established--The murderer made known.
 
Helaman 9:1 Behold, now it came to pass that when Nephi had
spoken these words, certain men who were among them ran to the
judgment-seat; yea, even there were five who went, and they said
among themselves, as they went:
 
Helaman 9:2 Behold, now we will know of a surety whether this man
be a prophet and God hath commanded him to prophesy such
marvelous things unto us. Behold, we do not believe that he hath;
yea, we do not believe that he is a prophet; nevertheless, if
this thing which he has said concerning the chief judge be true,
that he be dead, then will we believe that the other words which
he has spoken are true.
 
Helaman 9:3 And it came to pass that they ran in their might, and
came in unto the judgment-seat; and behold, the chief judge had
fallen to the earth, and did lie in his blood.
 
Helaman 9:4 And now behold, when they saw this they were
astonished exceedingly, insomuch that they fell to the earth; for
they had not believed the words which Nephi had spoken concerning
the chief judge.
 
Helaman 9:5 But now, when they saw they believed, and fear came
upon them lest all the judgments which Nephi had spoken should
come upon the people; therefore they did quake, and had fallen to
the earth.
 
Helaman 9:6 Now, immediately when the judge had been murdered--he
being stabbed by his brother by a garb of secrecy, and he fled,
and the servants ran and told the people, raising the cry of
murder among them;
 
Helaman 9:7 And behold the people did gather themselves together
unto the place of the judgment-seat--and behold, to their
astonishment they saw those five men who had fallen to the earth.
 
Helaman 9:8 And now behold, the people knew nothing concerning
the multitude who had gathered together at the garden of Nephi;
therefore they said among themselves: These men are they who have
murdered the judge, and God has smitten them that they could not
flee from us.
 
Helaman 9:9 And it came to pass that they laid hold on them, and
bound them and cast them into prison. And there was a
proclamation sent abroad that the judge was slain, and that the
murderers had been taken and were cast into prison.
 
Helaman 9:10 And it came to pass that on the morrow the people
did assemble themselves together to mourn and to fast, at the
burial of the great chief judge who had been slain.
 
Helaman 9:11 And thus also those judges who were at the garden of
Nephi, and heard his words, were also gathered together at the
burial.
 
Helaman 9:12 And it came to pass that they inquired among the
people, saying: Where are the five who were sent to inquire
concerning the chief judge whether he was dead? And they answered
and said: Concerning this five whom ye say ye have sent, we know
not; but there are five who are the murderers, whom we have cast
into prison.
 
Helaman 9:13 And it came to pass that the judges desired that
they should be brought; and they were brought, and behold they
were the five who were sent; and behold the judges inquired of
them to know concerning the matter, and they told them all that
they had done, saying:
 
Helaman 9:14 We ran and came to the place of the judgment-seat,
and when we saw all things even as Nephi had testified, we were
astonished insomuch that we fell to the earth; and when we were
recovered from our astonishment, behold they cast us into prison.
 
Helaman 9:15 Now, as for the murder of this man, we know not who
has done it; and only this much we know, we ran and came
according as ye desired, and behold he was dead, according to the
words of Nephi.
 
Helaman 9:16 And now it came to pass that the judges did expound
the matter unto the people, and did cry out against Nephi,
saying: Behold, we know that this Nephi must have agreed with
some one to slay the judge, and then he might declare it unto us,
that he might convert us unto his faith, that he might raise
himself to be a great man, chosen of God, and a prophet.
 
Helaman 9:17 And now behold, we will detect this man, and he
shall confess his fault and make known unto us the true murderer
of this judge.
 
Helaman 9:18 And it came to pass that the five were liberated on
the day of the burial. Nevertheless, they did rebuke the judges
in the words which they had spoken against Nephi, and did contend
with them one by one, insomuch that they did confound them.
 
Helaman 9:19 Nevertheless, they caused that Nephi should be taken
and bound and brought before the multitude, and they began to
question him in divers ways that they might cross him, that they
might accuse him to death--
 
Helaman 9:20 Saying unto him: Thou art confederate; who is this
man that hath done this murder? Now tell us, and acknowledge thy
fault; saying, Behold here is money; and also we will grant unto
thee thy life if thou wilt tell us, and acknowledge the agreement
which thou hast made with him.
 
Helaman 9:21 But Nephi said unto them: O ye fools, ye
uncircumcised of heart, ye blind, and ye stiffnecked people, do
ye know how long the Lord your God will suffer you that ye shall
go on in this your way of sin?
 
Helaman 9:22 O ye ought to begin to howl and mourn, because of
the great destruction which at this time doth await you, except
ye shall repent.
 
Helaman 9:23 Behold ye say that I have agreed with a man that he
should murder Seezoram, our chief judge. But behold, I say unto
you, that this is because I have testified unto you that ye might
know concerning this thing; yea, even for a witness unto you,
that I did know of the wickedness and abominations which are
among you.
 
Helaman 9:24 And because I have done this, ye say that I have
agreed with a man that he should do this thing; yea, because I
showed unto you this sign ye are angry with me, and seek to
destroy my life.
 
Helaman 9:25 And now behold, I will show unto you another sign,
and see if ye will in this thing seek to destroy me.
 
Helaman 9:26 Behold I say unto you: Go to the house of Seantum,
who is the brother of Seezoram, and say unto him--
 
Helaman 9:27 Has Nephi, the pretended prophet, who doth prophesy
so much evil concerning this people, agreed with thee, in the
which ye have murdered Seezoram, who is your brother?
 
Helaman 9:28 And behold, he shall say unto you, Nay.
 
Helaman 9:29 And ye shall say unto him: Have ye murdered your
brother?
 
Helaman 9:30 And he shall stand with fear, and wist not what to
say. And behold, he shall deny unto you; and he shall make as if
he were astonished; nevertheless, he shall declare unto you that
he is innocent.
 
Helaman 9:31 But behold, ye shall examine him, and ye shall find
blood upon the skirts of his cloak.
 
Helaman 9:32 And when ye have seen this, ye shall say: From
whence cometh this blood? Do we not know that it is the blood of
your brother?
 
Helaman 9:33 And then shall he tremble, and shall look pale, even
as if death had come upon him.
 
Helaman 9:34 And then shall ye say: Because of this fear and this
paleness which has come upon your face, behold, we know that thou
art guilty.
 
Helaman 9:35 And then shall greater fear come upon him; and then
shall he confess unto you, and deny no more that he has done this
murder.
 
Helaman 9:36 And then shall he say unto you, that I, Nephi, know
nothing concerning the matter save it were given unto me by the
power of God. And then shall ye know that I am an honest man, and
that I am sent unto you from God.
 
Helaman 9:37 And it came to pass that they went and did, even
according as Nephi had said unto them. And behold, the words
which he had said were true; for according to the words he did
deny; and also according to the words he did confess.
 
Helaman 9:38 And he was brought to prove that he himself was the
very murderer, insomuch that the five were set at liberty, and
also was Nephi.
 
Helaman 9:39 And there were some of the Nephites who believed on
the words of Nephi; and there were some also, who believed
because of the testimony of the five, for they had been converted
while they were in prison.
 
Helaman 9:40 And now there were some among the people, who said
that Nephi was a prophet.
 
Helaman 9:41 And there were others who said: Behold, he is a god,
for except he was a god he could not know of all things. For
behold, he has told us the thoughts of our hearts, and also has
told us things; and even he has brought unto our knowledge the
true murderer of our chief judge.
 
Helaman 10:0 Nephi is comforted by the Lord with promise of great
power--He preaches repentance and warns the wicked of impending
judgments.
 
Helaman 10:1 And it came to pass that there arose a division
among the people, insomuch that they divided hither and thither
and went their ways, leaving Nephi alone, as he was standing in
the midst of them.
 
Helaman 10:2 And it came to pass that Nephi went his way towards
his own house, pondering upon the things which the Lord had shown
unto him.
 
Helaman 10:3 And it came to pass as he was thus pondering--being
much cast down because of the wickedness of the people of the
Nephites, their secret works of darkness, and their murderings,
and their plunderings, and all manner of iniquities--and it came
to pass as he was thus pondering in his heart, behold, a voice
came unto him saying:
 
Helaman 10:4 Blessed art thou, Nephi, for those things which thou
hast done; for I have beheld how thou hast with unwearyingness
declared the word, which I have given unto thee, unto this
people. And thou hast not feared them, and hast not sought thine
own life, but hast sought my will, and to keep my commandments.
 
Helaman 10:5 And now, because thou hast done this with such
unwearyingness, behold, I will bless thee forever; and I will
make thee mighty in word and in deed, in faith and in works; yea,
even that all things shall be done unto thee according to thy
word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will.
 
Helaman 10:6 Behold, thou art Nephi, and I am God. Behold, I
declare it unto thee in the presence of mine angels, that ye
shall have power over this people, and shall smite the earth with
famine, and with pestilence, and destruction, according to the
wickedness of this people.
 
Helaman 10:7 Behold, I give unto you power, that whatsoever ye
shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever ye
shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven; and thus shall ye
have power among this people.
 
Helaman 10:8 And thus, if ye shall say unto this temple it shall
be rent in twain, it shall be done.
 
Helaman 10:9 And if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou cast
down and become smooth, it shall be done.
 
Helaman 10:10 And behold, if ye shall say that God shall smite
this people, it shall come to pass.
 
Helaman 10:11 And now behold, I command you, that ye shall go and
declare unto this people, that thus saith the Lord God, who is
the Almighty: Except ye repent ye shall be smitten, even unto
destruction.
 
Helaman 10:12 And behold, now it came to pass that when the Lord
had spoken these words unto Nephi, he did stop and did not go
unto his own house, but did return unto the multitudes who were
scattered about upon the face of the land, and began to declare
unto them the word of the Lord which had been spoken unto him,
concerning their destruction if they did not repent.
 
Helaman 10:13 Now behold, notwithstanding that great miracle
which Nephi had done in telling them concerning the death of the
chief judge, they did harden their hearts and did not hearken
unto the words of the Lord.
 
Helaman 10:14 Therefore Nephi did declare unto them the word of
the Lord, saying: Except ye repent, thus saith the Lord, ye shall
be smitten even unto destruction.
 
Helaman 10:15 And it came to pass that when Nephi had declared
unto them the word, behold, they did still harden their hearts
and would not hearken unto his words; therefore they did revile
against him, and did seek to lay their hands upon him that they
might cast him into prison.
 
Helaman 10:16 But behold, the power of God was with him, and they
could not take him to cast him into prison, for he was taken by
the Spirit and conveyed away out of the midst of them.
 
Helaman 10:17 And it came to pass that thus he did go forth in
the Spirit, from multitude to multitude, declaring the word of
God, even until he had declared it unto them all, or sent it
forth among all the people.
 
Helaman 10:18 And it came to pass that they would not hearken
unto his words; and there began to be contentions, insomuch that
they were divided against themselves and began to slay one
another with the sword.
 
Helaman 10:19 And thus ended the seventy and first year of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 11:0 A great famine--The people turn to the Lord and are
again prospered--Dissension and strife follow--The Gadianton band
revived.
 
Helaman 11:1 And now it came to pass in the seventy and second
year of the reign of the judges that the contentions did
increase, insomuch that there were wars throughout all the land
among all the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 11:2 And it was this secret band of robbers who did carry
on this work of destruction and wickedness. And this war did last
all that year; and in the seventy and third year it did also
last.
 
Helaman 11:3 And it came to pass that in this year Nephi did cry
unto the Lord, saying:
 
Helaman 11:4 O Lord, do not suffer that this people shall be
destroyed by the sword; but O Lord, rather let there be a famine
in the land, to stir them up in remembrance of the Lord their
God, and perhaps they will repent and turn unto thee.
 
Helaman 11:5 And so it was done, according to the words of Nephi.
And there was a great famine upon the land, among all the people
of Nephi. And thus in the seventy and fourth year the famine did
continue, and the work of destruction did cease by the sword but
became sore by famine.
 
Helaman 11:6 And this work of destruction did also continue in
the seventy and fifth year. For the earth was smitten that it was
dry, and did not yield forth grain in the season of grain; and
the whole earth was smitten, even among the Lamanites as well as
among the Nephites, so that they were smitten that they did
perish by thousands in the more wicked parts of the land.
 
Helaman 11:7 And it came to pass that the people saw that they
were about to perish by famine, and they began to remember the
Lord their God; and they began to remember the words of Nephi.
 
Helaman 11:8 And the people began to plead with their chief
judges and their leaders, that they would say unto Nephi: Behold,
we know that thou art a man of God, and therefore cry unto the
Lord our God that he turn away from us this famine, lest all the
words which thou hast spoken concerning our destruction be
fulfilled.
 
Helaman 11:9 And it came to pass that the judges did say unto
Nephi, according to the words which had been desired. And it came
to pass that when Nephi saw that the people had repented and did
humble themselves in sackcloth, he cried again unto the Lord,
saying:
 
Helaman 11:10 O Lord, behold this people repenteth; and they have
swept away the band of Gadianton from amongst them insomuch that
they have become extinct, and they have concealed their secret
plans in the earth.
 
Helaman 11:11 Now, O Lord, because of this their humility wilt
thou turn away thine anger, and let thine anger be appeased in
the destruction of those wicked men whom thou hast already
destroyed.
 
Helaman 11:12 O Lord, wilt thou turn away thine anger, yea, thy
fierce anger, and cause that this famine may cease in this land.
 
Helaman 11:13 O Lord, wilt thou hearken unto me, and cause that
it may be done according to my words, and send forth rain upon
the face of the earth, that she may bring forth her fruit, and
her grain in the season of grain.
 
Helaman 11:14 O Lord, thou didst hearken unto my words when I
said, Let there be a famine, that the pestilence of the sword
might cease; and I know that thou wilt, even at this time,
hearken unto my words, for thou saidst that: If this people
repent I will spare them.
 
Helaman 11:15 Yea, O Lord, and thou seest that they have
repented, because of the famine and the pestilence and
destruction which has come unto them.
 
Helaman 11:16 And now, O Lord, wilt thou turn away thine anger,
and try again if they will serve thee? And if so, O Lord, thou
canst bless them according to thy words which thou hast said.
 
Helaman 11:17 And it came to pass that in the seventy and sixth
year the Lord did turn away his anger from the people, and caused
that rain should fall upon the earth, insomuch that it did bring
forth her fruit in the season of her fruit. And it came to pass
that it did bring forth her grain in the season of her grain.
 
Helaman 11:18 And behold, the people did rejoice and glorify God,
and the whole face of the land was filled with rejoicing; and
they did no more seek to destroy Nephi, but they did esteem him
as a great prophet, and a man of God, having great power and
authority given unto him from God.
 
Helaman 11:19 And behold, Lehi, his brother, was not a whit
behind him as to things pertaining to righteousness.
 
Helaman 11:20 And thus it did come to pass that the people of
Nephi began to prosper again in the land, and began to build up
their waste places, and began to multiply and spread, even until
they did cover the whole face of the land, both on the northward
and on the southward, from the sea west to the sea east.
 
Helaman 11:21 And it came to pass that the seventy and sixth year
did end in peace. And the seventy and seventh year began in
peace; and the church did spread throughout the face of all the
land; and the more part of the people, both the Nephites and the
Lamanites, did belong to the church; and they did have
exceedingly great peace in the land; and thus ended the seventy
and seventh year.
 
Helaman 11:22 And also they had peace in the seventy and eighth
year, save it were a few contentions concerning the points of
doctrine which had been laid down by the prophets.
 
Helaman 11:23 And in the seventy and ninth year there began to be
much strife. But it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi, and many of
their brethren who knew concerning the true points of doctrine,
having many revelations daily, therefore they did preach unto the
people, insomuch that they did put an end to their strife in that
same year.
 
Helaman 11:24 And it came to pass that in the eightieth year of
the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, there were a
certain number of the dissenters from the people of Nephi, who
had some years before gone over unto the Lamanites, and taken
upon themselves the name of Lamanites, and also a certain number
who were real descendants of the Lamanites, being stirred up to
anger by them, or by those dissenters, therefore they commenced a
war with their brethren.
 
Helaman 11:25 And they did commit murder and plunder; and then
they would retreat back into the mountains, and into the
wilderness and secret places, hiding themselves that they could
not be discovered, receiving daily an addition to their numbers,
inasmuch as there were dissenters that went forth unto them.
 
Helaman 11:26 And thus in time, yea, even in the space of not
many years, they became an exceedingly great band of robbers; and
they did search out all the secret plans of Gadianton; and thus
they became robbers of Gadianton.
 
Helaman 11:27 Now behold, these robbers did make great havoc,
yea, even great destruction among the people of Nephi, and also
among the people of the Lamanites.
 
Helaman 11:28 And it came to pass that it was expedient that
there should be a stop put to this work of destruction; therefore
they sent an army of strong men into the wilderness and upon the
mountains to search out this band of robbers, and to destroy
them.
 
Helaman 11:29 But behold, it came to pass that in that same year
they were driven back even into their own lands. And thus ended
the eightieth year of the reign of the judges over the people of
Nephi.
 
Helaman 11:30 And it came to pass in the commencement of the
eighty and first year they did go forth again against this band
of robbers, and did destroy many; and they were also visited with
much destruction.
 
Helaman 11:31 And they were again obliged to return out of the
wilderness and out of the mountains unto their own lands, because
of the exceeding greatness of the numbers of those robbers who
infested the mountains and the wilderness.
 
Helaman 11:32 And it came to pass that thus ended this year. And
the robbers did still increase and wax strong, insomuch that they
did defy the whole armies of the Nephites, and also of the
Lamanites; and they did cause great fear to come unto the people
upon all the face of the land.
 
Helaman 11:33 Yea, for they did visit many parts of the land, and
did do great destruction unto them; yea, did kill many, and did
carry away others captive into the wilderness, yea, and more
especially their women and their children.
 
Helaman 11:34 Now this great evil, which came unto the people
because of their iniquity, did stir them up again in remembrance
of the Lord their God.
 
Helaman 11:35 And thus ended the eighty and first year of the
reign of the judges.
 
Helaman 11:36 And in the eighty and second year they began again
to forget the Lord their God. And in the eighty and third year
they began to wax strong in iniquity. And in the eighty and
fourth year they did not mend their ways.
 
Helaman 11:37 And it came to pass in the eighty and fifth year
they did wax stronger and stronger in their pride, and in their
wickedness; and thus they were ripening again for destruction.
 
Helaman 11:38 And thus ended the eighty and fifth year.
 
Helaman 12:0 Human frailty and the goodness and power of God--
Blessed are the penitent--Men to be judge according to their
works.
 
Helaman 12:1 And thus we can behold how false, and also the
unsteadiness of the hearts of the children of men; yea, we can
see that the Lord in his great infinite goodness doth bless and
prosper those who put their trust in him.
 
Helaman 12:2 Yea, and we may see at the very time when he doth
prosper his people, yea, in the increase of their fields, their
flocks and their herds, and in gold, and in silver, and in all
manner of precious things of every kind and art; sparing their
lives, and delivering them out of the hands of their enemies;
softening the hearts of their enemies that they should not
declare wars against them; yea, and in fine, doing all things for
the welfare and happiness of his people; yea, then is the time
that they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their
God, and do trample under their feet the Holy One--yea, and this
because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity.
 
Helaman 12:3 And thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten
his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them
with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner
of pestilence, they will not remember him.
 
Helaman 12:4 O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and
devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good,
are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words
of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of
the world!
 
Helaman 12:5 Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how
quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and
how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear
unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths!
 
Helaman 12:6 Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God,
who hath created them, should rule and reign over them;
notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them,
they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he
should be their guide.
 
Helaman 12:7 O how great is the nothingness of the children of
men; yea, even they are less than the dust of the earth.
 
Helaman 12:8 For behold, the dust of the earth moveth hither and
thither, to the dividing asunder, at the command of our great and
everlasting God.
 
Helaman 12:9 Yea, behold at his voice do the hills and the
mountains tremble and quake.
 
Helaman 12:10 And by the power of his voice they are broken up,
and become smooth, yea, even like unto a valley.
 
Helaman 12:11 Yea, by the power of his voice doth the whole earth
shake;
 
Helaman 12:12 Yea, by the power of his voice, do the foundations
rock, even to the very center.
 
Helaman 12:13 Yea, and if he say unto the earth--Move--it is
moved.
 
Helaman 12:14 Yea, if he say unto the earth--Thou shalt go back,
that it lengthen out the day for many hours--it is done;
 
Helaman 12:15 And thus, according to his word the earth goeth
back, and it appeareth unto man that the sun standeth still; yea,
and behold, this is so; for surely it is the earth that moveth
and not the sun.
 
Helaman 12:16 And behold, also, if he say unto the waters of the
great deep--Be thou dried up--it is done.
 
Helaman 12:17 Behold, if he say unto this mountain--Be thou
raised up, and come over and fall upon that city, that it be
buried up--behold it is done.
 
Helaman 12:18 And behold, if a man hide up a treasure in the
earth, and the Lord shall say--Let it be accursed, because of the
iniquity of him who hath hid it up--behold, it shall be accursed.
 
Helaman 12:19 And if the Lord shall say--Be thou accursed, that
no man shall find thee from this time henceforth and forever--
behold, no man getteth it henceforth and forever.
 
Helaman 12:20 And behold, if the Lord shall say unto a man--
Because of thine iniquities, thou shalt be accursed forever--it
shall be done.
 
Helaman 12:21 And if the Lord shall say--Because of thine
iniquities thou shalt be cut off from my presence--he will cause
that it shall be so.
 
Helaman 12:22 And wo unto him to whom he shall say this, for it
shall be unto him that will do iniquity, and he cannot be saved;
therefore, for this cause, that men might be saved, hath
repentance been declared.
 
Helaman 12:23 Therefore, blessed are they who will repent and
hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God; for these are they
that shall be saved.
 
Helaman 12:24 And may God grant, in his great fulness, that men
might be brought unto repentance and good works, that they might
be restored unto grace for grace, according to their works.
 
Helaman 12:25 And I would that all men might be saved. But we
read that in the great and last day there are some who shall be
cast out, yea, who shall be cast off from the presence of the
Lord;
 
Helaman 12:26 Yea, who shall be consigned to a state of endless
misery, fulfilling the words which say: They that have done good
shall have everlasting life; and they that have done evil shall
have everlasting damnation. And thus it is. Amen.
 
Helaman 13:00 The prophecy of Samuel, the Lamanite, to the
Nephites. Comprising chapters 13 to 15 inclusive.
 
Helaman 13:0 Samuel proclaims his prophecies from the city wall--
Sword of justice to fall on fourth generation--Nephite cities
spared for the sake of the righteous--Land to be cursed--Slippery
treasures.
 
Helaman 13:1 And now it came to pass in the eighty and sixth
year, the Nephites did still remain in wickedness, yea, in great
wickedness, while the Lamanites did observe strictly to keep the
commandments of God, according to the law of Moses.
 
Helaman 13:2 And it came to pass that in this year there was one
Samuel, a Lamanite, came into the land of Zarahemla, and began to
preach unto the people. And it came to pass that he did preach,
many days, repentance unto the people, and they did cast him out,
and he was about to return to his own land.
 
Helaman 13:3 But behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
that he should return again, and prophesy unto the people
whatsoever things should come into his heart.
 
Helaman 13:4 And it came to pass that they would not suffer that
he should enter into the city; therefore he went and got upon the
wall thereof, and stretched forth his hand and cried with a loud
voice, and prophesied unto the people whatsoever things the Lord
put into his heart.
 
Helaman 13:5 And he said unto them: Behold, I, Samuel, a
Lamanite, do speak the words of the Lord which he doth put into
my heart; and behold he hath put it into my heart to say unto
this people that the sword of justice hangeth over this people;
and four hundred years pass not away save the sword of justice
falleth upon this people.
 
Helaman 13:6 Yea, heavy destruction awaiteth this people, and it
surely cometh unto this people, and nothing can save this people
save it be repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ, who
surely shall come into the world, and shall suffer many things
and shall be slain for his people.
 
Helaman 13:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord hath declared it
unto me, and he did bring glad tidings to my soul. And behold, I
was sent unto you to declare it unto you also, that ye might have
glad tidings; but behold ye would not receive me.
 
Helaman 13:8 Therefore, thus saith the Lord: Because of the
hardness of the hearts of the people of the Nephites, except they
repent I will take away my word from them, and I will withdraw my
Spirit from them, and I will suffer them no longer, and I will
turn the hearts of their brethren against them.
 
Helaman 13:9 And four hundred years shall not pass away before I
will cause that they shall be smitten; yea, I will visit them
with the sword and with famine and with pestilence.
 
Helaman 13:10 Yea, I will visit them in my fierce anger, and
there shall be those of the fourth generation who shall live, of
your enemies, to behold your utter destruction; and this shall
surely come except ye repent, saith the Lord; and those of the
fourth generation shall visit your destruction.
 
Helaman 13:11 But if ye will repent and return unto the Lord your
God I will turn away mine anger, saith the Lord; yea, thus saith
the Lord, blessed are they who will repent and turn unto me, but
wo unto him that repenteth not.
 
Helaman 13:12 Yea, wo unto this great city of Zarahemla; for
behold, it is because of those who are righteous that it is
saved; yea, wo unto this great city, for I perceive, saith the
Lord, that there are many, yea, even the more part of this great
city, that will harden their hearts against me, saith the Lord.
 
Helaman 13:13 But blessed are they who will repent, for them will
I spare. But behold, if it were not for the righteous who are in
this great city, behold, I would cause that fire should come down
out of heaven and destroy it.
 
Helaman 13:14 But behold, it is for the righteous' sake that it
is spared. But behold, the time cometh, saith the Lord, that when
ye shall cast out the righteous from among you, then shall ye be
ripe for destruction; yea, wo be unto this great city, because of
the wickedness and abominations which are in her.
 
Helaman 13:15 Yea, and wo be unto the city of Gideon, for the
wickedness and abominations which are in her.
 
Helaman 13:16 Yea, and wo be unto all the cities which are in the
land round about, which are possessed by the Nephites, because of
the wickedness and abominations which are in them.
 
Helaman 13:17 And behold, a curse shall come upon the land, saith
the Lord of Hosts, because of the peoples' sake who are upon the
land, yea, because of their wickedness and their abominations.
 
Helaman 13:18 And it shall come to pass, saith the Lord of Hosts,
yea, our great and true God, that whoso shall hide up treasures
in the earth shall find them again no more, because of the great
curse of the land, save he be a righteous man and shall hide it
up unto the Lord.
 
Helaman 13:19 For I will, saith the Lord, that they shall hide up
their treasures unto me; and cursed be they who hide not up their
treasures unto me; for none hideth up their treasures unto me
save it be the righteous; and he that hideth not up his treasures
unto me, cursed is he, and also the treasure, and none shall
redeem it because of the curse of the land.
 
Helaman 13:20 And the day shall come that they shall hide up
their treasures, because they have set their hearts upon riches;
and because they have set their hearts upon their riches, and
will hide up their treasures when they shall flee before their
enemies; because they will not hide them up unto me, cursed be
they and also their treasures; and in that day shall they be
smitten, saith the Lord.
 
Helaman 13:21 Behold ye, the people of this great city, and
hearken unto my words; yea, hearken unto the words which the Lord
saith; for behold, he saith that ye are cursed because of your
riches, and also are your riches cursed because ye have set your
hearts upon them, and have not hearkened unto the words of him
who gave them unto you.
 
Helaman 13:22 Ye do not remember the Lord your God in the things
with which he hath blessed you, but ye do always remember your
riches, not to thank the Lord your God for them; yea, your hearts
are not drawn out unto the Lord, but they do swell with great
pride, unto boasting, and unto great swelling, envyings, strifes,
malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities.
 
Helaman 13:23 For this cause hath the Lord God caused that a
curse should come upon the land, and also upon your riches, and
this because of your iniquities.
 
Helaman 13:24 Yea, wo unto this people, because of this time
which has arrived, that ye do cast out the prophets, and do mock
them, and cast stones at them, and do slay them, and do all
manner of iniquity unto them, even as they did of old time.
 
Helaman 13:25 And now when ye talk, ye say: If our days had been
in the days of our fathers of old, we would not have slain the
prophets; we would not have stoned them, and cast them out.
 
Helaman 13:26 Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord
liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the
word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities,
ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of
ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false
prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he
testifieth that your deeds are evil.
 
Helaman 13:27 But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall
say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not
suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own
hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever
your heart desireth--and if a man shall come among you and say
this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet.
 
Helaman 13:28 Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him
of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of
your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and
because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that
all is well, then ye will not find fault with him.
 
Helaman 13:29 O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened
and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord
will suffer you? Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be
led by foolish and blind guides? Yea, how long will ye choose
darkness rather than light?
 
Helaman 13:30 Yea, behold, the anger of the Lord is already
kindled against you; behold, he hath cursed the land because of
your iniquity.
 
Helaman 13:31 And behold, the time cometh that he curseth your
riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and
in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them.
 
Helaman 13:32 And in the days of your poverty ye shall cry unto
the Lord; and in vain shall ye cry, for your desolation is
already come upon you, and your destruction is made sure; and
then shall ye weep and howl in that day, saith the Lord of Hosts.
And then shall ye lament, and say:
 
Helaman 13:33 O that I had repented, and had not killed the
prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out. Yea, in that day ye
shall say: O that we had remembered the Lord our God in the day
that he gave us our riches, and then they would not have become
slippery that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are
gone from us.
 
Helaman 13:34 Behold, we lay a tool here and on the morrow it is
gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the day we have
sought them for battle.
 
Helaman 13:35 Yea, we have hid up our treasures and they have
slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land.
 
Helaman 13:36 O that we had repented in the day that the word of
the Lord came unto us; for behold the land is cursed, and all
things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them.
 
Helaman 13:37 Behold, we are surrounded by demons, yea, we are
encircled about by the angels of him who hath sought to destroy
our souls. Behold, our iniquities are great. O Lord, canst thou
not turn away thine anger from us? And this shall be your
language in those days.
 
Helaman 13:38 But behold, your days of probation are past; ye
have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is
everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea,
for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye
could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing
iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that
righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.
 
Helaman 13:39 O ye people of the land, that ye would hear my
words! And I pray that the anger of the Lord be turned away from
you, and that ye would repent and be saved.
 
Helaman 14:0 Samuel the Lamanite predicts the Christ--The sign of
Christ's birth to be given in five years--Sign of his death also
foretold.
 
Helaman 14:1 And now it came to pass that Samuel, the Lamanite,
did prophesy a great many more things which cannot be written.
 
Helaman 14:2 And behold, he said unto them: Behold, I give unto
you a sign; for five years more cometh, and behold, then cometh
the Son of God to redeem all those who shall believe on his name.
 
Helaman 14:3 And behold, this will I give unto you for a sign at
the time of his coming; for behold, there shall be great lights
in heaven, insomuch that in the night before he cometh there
shall be no darkness, insomuch that it shall appear unto man as
if it was day.
 
Helaman 14:4 Therefore, there shall be one day and a night and a
day, as if it were one day and there were no night; and this
shall be unto you for a sign; for ye shall know of the rising of
the sun and also of its setting; therefore they shall know of a
surety that there shall be two days and a night; nevertheless the
night shall not be darkened; and it shall be the night before he
is born.
 
Helaman 14:5 And behold, there shall a new star arise, such an
one as ye never have beheld; and this also shall be a sign unto
you.
 
Helaman 14:6 And behold this is not all, there shall be many
signs and wonders in heaven.
 
Helaman 14:7 And it shall come to pass that ye shall all be
amazed, and wonder, insomuch that ye shall fall to the earth.
 
Helaman 14:8 And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall
believe on the Son of God, the same shall have everlasting life.
 
Helaman 14:9 And behold, thus hath the Lord commanded me, by his
angel, that I should come and tell this thing unto you; yea, he
hath commanded that I should prophesy these things unto you; yea,
he hath said unto me: Cry unto this people, repent and prepare
the way of the Lord.
 
Helaman 14:10 And now, because I am a Lamanite, and have spoken
unto you the words which the Lord hath commanded me, and because
it was hard against you, ye are angry with me and do seek to
destroy me, and have cast me out from among you.
 
Helaman 14:11 And ye shall hear my words, for, for this intent
have I come up upon the walls of this city, that ye might hear
and know of the judgments of God which do await you because of
your iniquities, and also that ye might know the conditions of
repentance;
 
Helaman 14:12 And also that ye might know of the coming of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and of earth, the
Creator of all things from the beginning; and that ye might know
of the signs of his coming, to the intent that ye might believe
on his name.
 
Helaman 14:13 And if ye believe on his name ye will repent of all
your sins, that thereby ye may have a remission of them through
his merits.
 
Helaman 14:14 And behold, again, another sign I give unto you,
yea, a sign of his death.
 
Helaman 14:15 For behold, he surely must die that salvation may
come; yea, it behooveth him and becometh expedient that he dieth,
to bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, that thereby men
may be brought into the presence of the Lord.
 
Helaman 14:16 Yea, behold, this death bringeth to pass the
resurrection, and redeemeth all mankind from the first death--
that spiritual death; for all mankind, by the fall of Adam being
cut off from the presence of the Lord, are considered as dead,
both as to things temporal and to things spiritual.
 
Helaman 14:17 But behold, the resurrection of Christ redeemeth
mankind, yea, even all mankind, and bringeth them back into the
presence of the Lord.
 
Helaman 14:18 Yea, and it bringeth to pass the condition of
repentance, that whosoever repenteth the same is not hewn down
and cast into the fire; but whosoever repenteth not is hewn down
and cast into the fire; and there cometh upon them again a
spiritual death, yea, a second death, for they are cut off again
as to things pertaining to righteousness.
 
Helaman 14:19 Therefore repent ye, repent ye, lest by knowing
these things and not doing them ye shall suffer yourselves to
come under condemnation, and ye are brought down unto this second
death.
 
Helaman 14:20 But behold, as I said unto you concerning another
sign, a sign of his death, behold, in that day that he shall
suffer death the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his
light unto you; and also the moon and the stars; and there shall
be no light upon the face of this land, even from the time that
he shall suffer death, for the space of three days, to the time
that he shall rise again from the dead.
 
Helaman 14:21 Yea, at the time that he shall yield up the ghost
there shall be thunderings and lightnings for the space of many
hours, and the earth shall shake and tremble; and the rocks which
are upon the face of this earth, which are both above the earth
and beneath, which ye know at this time are solid, or the more
part of it is one solid mass, shall be broken up;
 
Helaman 14:22 Yea, they shall be rent in twain, and shall ever
after be found in seams and in cracks, and in broken fragments
upon the face of the whole earth, yea, both above the earth and
beneath.
 
Helaman 14:23 And behold, there shall be great tempests, and
there shall be many mountains laid low, like unto a valley, and
there shall be many places which are now called valleys which
shall become mountains, whose height is great.
 
Helaman 14:24 And many highways shall be broken up, and many
cities shall become desolate.
 
Helaman 14:25 And many graves shall be opened, and shall yield up
many of their dead; and many saints shall appear unto many.
 
Helaman 14:26 And behold, thus hath the angel spoken unto me; for
he said unto me that there should be thunderings and lightnings
for the space of many hours.
 
Helaman 14:27 And he said unto me that while the thunder and the
lightning lasted, and the tempest, that these things should be,
and that darkness should cover the face of the whole earth for
the space of three days.
 
Helaman 14:28 And the angel said unto me that many shall see
greater things than these, to the intent that they might believe
that these signs and these wonders should come to pass upon all
the face of this land, to the intent that there should be no
cause for unbelief among the children of men--
 
Helaman 14:29 And this to the intent that whosoever will believe
might be saved, and that whosoever will not believe, a righteous
judgment might come upon them; and also if they are condemned
they bring upon themselves their own condemnation.
 
Helaman 14:30 And now remember, remember, my brethren, that
whosoever perisheth, perisheth unto himself; and whosoever doeth
iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye are free; ye are
permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given unto
you a knowledge and he hath made you free.
 
Helaman 14:31 He hath given unto you that ye might know good from
evil, and he hath given unto you that ye might choose life or
death; and ye can do good and be restored unto that which is
good, or have that which is good restored unto you; or ye can do
evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you.
 
Helaman 15:0 Samuel the Lamanite continues his warning words--A
remnant of his people to be preserved--Nephites to be utterly
destroyed unless they repent.
 
Helaman 15:1 And now, my beloved brethren, behold, I declare unto
you that except ye shall repent your houses shall be left unto
you desolate.
 
Helaman 15:2 Yea, except ye repent, your women shall have great
cause to mourn in the day that they shall give suck; for ye shall
attempt to flee and there shall be no place for refuge; yea, and
wo unto them which are with child, for they shall be heavy and
cannot flee; therefore, they shall be trodden down and shall be
left to perish.
 
Helaman 15:3 Yea, wo unto this people who are called the people
of Nephi except they shall repent, when they shall see all these
signs and wonders which shall be showed unto them; for behold,
they have been a chosen people of the Lord; yea, the people of
Nephi hath he loved, and also hath he chastened them; yea, in the
days of their iniquities hath he chastened them because he loveth
them.
 
Helaman 15:4 But behold my brethren, the Lamanites hath he hated
because their deeds have been evil continually, and this because
of the iniquity of the tradition of their fathers. But behold,
salvation hath come unto them through the preaching of the
Nephites; and for this intent hath the Lord prolonged their days.
 
Helaman 15:5 And I would that ye should behold that the more part
of them are in the path of their duty, and they do walk
circumspectly before God, and they do observe to keep his
commandments and his statutes and his judgments according to the
law of Moses.
 
Helaman 15:6 Yea, I say unto you, that the more part of them are
doing this, and they are striving with unwearied diligence that
they may bring the remainder of their brethren to the knowledge
of the truth; therefore there are many who do add to their
numbers daily.
 
Helaman 15:7 And behold, ye do know of yourselves, for ye have
witnessed it, that as many of them as are brought to the
knowledge of the truth, and to know of the wicked and abominable
traditions of their fathers, and are led to believe the holy
scriptures, yea, the prophecies of the holy prophets, which are
written, which leadeth them to faith on the Lord, and unto
repentance, which faith and repentance bringeth a change of heart
unto them--
 
Helaman 15:8 Therefore, as many as have come to this, ye know of
yourselves are firm and steadfast in the faith, and in the thing
wherewith they have been made free.
 
Helaman 15:9 And ye know also that they have buried their weapons
of war, and they fear to take them up lest by any means they
should sin; yea, ye can see that they fear to sin--for behold
they will suffer themselves that they be trodden down and slain
by their enemies, and will not lift their swords against them,
and this because of their faith in Christ.
 
Helaman 15:10 And now, because of their steadfastness when they
do believe in that thing which they do believe, for because of
their firmness when they are once enlightened, behold, the Lord
shall bless them and prolong their days, notwithstanding their
iniquity--
 
Helaman 15:11 Yea, even if they should dwindle in unbelief the
Lord shall prolong their days, until the time shall come which
hath been spoken of by our fathers, and also by the prophet
Zenos, and many other prophets, concerning the restoration of our
brethren, the Lamanites, again to the knowledge of the truth--
 
Helaman 15:12 Yea, I say unto you, that in the latter times the
promises of the Lord have been extended to our brethren, the
Lamanites; and notwithstanding the many afflictions which they
shall have, and notwithstanding they shall be driven to and fro
upon the face of the earth, and be hunted, and shall be smitten
and scattered abroad, having no place for refuge, the Lord shall
be merciful unto them.
 
Helaman 15:13 And this is according to the prophecy, that they
shall again be brought to the true knowledge, which is the
knowledge of their Redeemer, and their great and true shepherd,
and be numbered among his sheep.
 
Helaman 15:14 Therefore I say unto you, it shall be better for
them than for you except ye repent.
 
Helaman 15:15 For behold, had the mighty works been shown unto
them which have been shown unto you, yea, unto them who have
dwindled in unbelief because of the traditions of their fathers,
ye can see of yourselves that they never would again have
dwindled in unbelief.
 
Helaman 15:16 Therefore, saith the Lord: I will not utterly
destroy them, but I will cause that in the day of my wisdom they
shall return again unto me, saith the Lord.
 
Helaman 15:17 And now behold, saith the Lord, concerning the
people of the Nephites: If they will not repent, and observe to
do my will, I will utterly destroy them, saith the Lord, because
of their unbelief notwithstanding the many mighty works which I
have done among them; and as surely as the Lord liveth shall
these things be, saith the Lord.
 
Helaman 16:0 Some of the Nephites join the church of Christ--The
majority reject Samuel's testimony--They attempt to assault and
bind him--He escapes and returns to his own country--Nephi's
further ministry--Skepticism abounds.
 
Helaman 16:1 And now, it came to pass that there were many who
heard the words of Samuel, the Lamanite, which he spake upon the
walls of the city. And as many as believed on his word went forth
and sought for Nephi; and when they had come forth and found him
they confessed unto him their sins and denied not, desiring that
they might be baptized unto the Lord.
 
Helaman 16:2 But as many as there were who did not believe in the
words of Samuel were angry with him; and they cast stones at him
upon the wall, and also many shot arrows at him as he stood upon
the wall; but the Spirit of the Lord was with him, insomuch that
they could not hit him with their stones neither with their
arrows.
 
Helaman 16:3 Now when they saw that they could not hit him, there
were many more who did believe on his words, insomuch that they
went away unto Nephi to be baptized.
 
Helaman 16:4 For behold, Nephi was baptizing, and prophesying,
and preaching, crying repentance unto the people, showing signs
and wonders, working miracles among the people, that they might
know that the Christ must shortly come--
 
Helaman 16:5 Telling them of things which must shortly come, that
they might know and remember at the time of their coming that
they had been made known unto them beforehand, to the intent that
they might believe; therefore as many as believed on the words of
Samuel went forth unto him to be baptized, for they came
repenting and confessing their sins.
 
Helaman 16:6 But the more part of them did not believe in the
words of Samuel; therefore when they saw that they could not hit
him with their stones and their arrows, they cried unto their
captains, saying: Take this fellow and bind him, for behold he
hath a devil; and because of the power of the devil which is in
him we cannot hit him with our stones and our arrows; therefore
take him and bind him, and away with him.
 
Helaman 16:7 And as they went forth to lay their hands on him,
behold, he did cast himself down from the wall, and did flee out
of their lands, yea, even unto his own country, and began to
preach and to prophesy among his own people.
 
Helaman 16:8 And behold, he was never heard of more among the
Nephites; and thus were the affairs of the people.
 
Helaman 16:9 And thus ended the eighty and sixth year of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 16:10 And thus ended also the eighty and seventh year of
the reign of the judges, the more part of the people remaining in
their pride and wickedness, and the lesser part walking more
circumspectly before God.
 
Helaman 16:11 And these were the conditions also, in the eighty
and eighth year of the reign of the judges.
 
Helaman 16:12 And there was but little alteration in the affairs
of the people, save it were the people began to be more hardened
in iniquity, and do more and more of that which was contrary to
the commandments of God, in the eighty and ninth year of the
reign of the judges.
 
Helaman 16:13 But it came to pass in the ninetieth year of the
reign of the judges, there were great signs given unto the
people, and wonders; and the words of the prophets began to be
fulfilled.
 
Helaman 16:14 And angels did appear unto men, wise men, and did
declare unto them glad tidings of great joy; thus in this year
the scriptures began to be fulfilled.
 
Helaman 16:15 Nevertheless, the people began to harden their
hearts, all save it were the most believing part of them, both of
the Nephites and also of the Lamanites, and began to depend upon
their own strength and upon their own wisdom, saying:
 
Helaman 16:16 Some things they may have guessed right, among so
many; but behold, we know that all these great and marvelous
works cannot come to pass, of which has been spoken.
 
Helaman 16:17 And they began to reason and to contend among
themselves, saying:
 
Helaman 16:18 That it is not reasonable that such a being as a
Christ shall come; if so, and he be the Son of God, the Father of
heaven and of earth, as it has been spoken, why will he not show
himself unto us as well as unto them who shall be at Jerusalem?
 
Helaman 16:19 Yea, why will he not show himself in this land as
well as in the land of Jerusalem?
 
Helaman 16:20 But behold, we know that this is a wicked
tradition, which has been handed down unto us by our fathers, to
cause us that we should believe in some great and marvelous thing
which should come to pass, but not among us, but in a land which
is far distant, a land which we know not; therefore they can keep
us in ignorance, for we cannot witness with our own eyes that
they are true.
 
Helaman 16:21 And they will, by the cunning and the mysterious
arts of the evil one, work some great mystery which we cannot
understand, which will keep us down to be servants to their
words, and also servants unto them, for we depend upon them to
teach us the word; and thus will they keep us in ignorance if we
will yield ourselves unto them, all the days of our lives.
 
Helaman 16:22 And many more things did the people imagine up in
their hearts, which were foolish and vain; and they were much
disturbed, for Satan did stir them up to do iniquity continually;
yea, he did go about spreading rumors and contentions upon all
the face of the land, that he might harden the hearts of the
people against that which was good and against that which should
come.
 
Helaman 16:23 And notwithstanding the signs and the wonders which
were wrought among the people of the Lord, and the many miracles
which they did, Satan did get great hold upon the hearts of the
people upon all the face of the land.
 
Helaman 16:24 And thus ended the ninetieth year of the reign of
the judges over the people of Nephi.
 
Helaman 16:25 And thus ended the book of Helaman, according to
the record of Helaman and his sons.
 
Third Nephi, the Book of Nephi, the son of Nephi, who was the son
of Helaman.
 
3 Nephi 0:0 And Helaman was the son of Helaman, who was the son
of Alma, who was the son of Alma, being a descendant of Nephi who
was the son of Lehi, who came out of Jerusalem in the first year
of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah.
 
3 Nephi 1:0 Nephi, son of Helaman, departs--Signs given of the
Savior's birth--Opposite effects manifest--Again, the Gadianton
band.
 
3 Nephi 1:1 Now it came to pass that the ninety and first year
had passed away and it was six hundred years from the time that
Lehi left Jerusalem; and it was in the year that Lachoneus was
the chief judge and the governor over the land.
 
3 Nephi 1:2 And Nephi, the son of Helaman, had departed out of
the land of Zarahemla, giving charge unto his son Nephi, who was
his eldest son, concerning the plates of brass, and all the
records which had been kept, and all those things which had been
kept sacred from the departure of Lehi out of Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 1:3 Then he departed out of the land, and whither he
went, no man knoweth; and his son Nephi did keep the records in
his stead, yea, the record of this people.
 
3 Nephi 1:4 And it came to pass that in the commencement of the
ninety and second year, behold, the prophecies of the prophets
began to be fulfilled more fully; for there began to be greater
signs and greater miracles wrought among the people.
 
3 Nephi 1:5 But there were some who began to say that the time
was past for the words to be fulfilled, which were spoken by
Samuel, the Lamanite.
 
3 Nephi 1:6 And they began to rejoice over their brethren,
saying: Behold the time is past, and the words of Samuel are not
fulfilled; therefore, your joy and your faith concerning this
thing hath been vain.
 
3 Nephi 1:7 And it came to pass that they did make a great uproar
throughout the land; and the people who believed began to be very
sorrowful, lest by any means those things which had been spoken
might not come to pass.
 
3 Nephi 1:8 But behold, they did watch steadfastly for that day
and that night and that day which should be as one day as if
there were no night, that they might know that their faith had
not been vain.
 
3 Nephi 1:9 Now it came to pass that there was a day set apart by
the unbelievers, that all those who believed in those traditions
should be put to death except the sign should come to pass, which
had been given by Samuel the prophet.
 
3 Nephi 1:10 Now it came to pass that when Nephi, the son of
Nephi, saw this wickedness of his people, his heart was
exceedingly sorrowful.
 
3 Nephi 1:11 And it came to pass that he went out and bowed
himself down upon the earth, and cried mightily to his God in
behalf of his people, yea, those who were about to be destroyed
because of their faith in the tradition of their fathers.
 
3 Nephi 1:12 And it came to pass that he cried mightily unto the
Lord all that day; and behold, the voice of the Lord came unto
him, saying:
 
3 Nephi 1:13 Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold,
the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given,
and on the morrow come I into the world, to show unto the world
that I will fulfil all that which I have caused to be spoken by
the mouth of my holy prophets.
 
3 Nephi 1:14 Behold, I come unto my own, to fulfil all things
which I have made known unto the children of men from the
foundation of the world, and to do the will, both of the Father
and of the Son--of the Father because of me, and of the Son
because of my flesh. And behold, the time is at hand, and this
night shall the sign be given.
 
3 Nephi 1:15 And it came to pass that the words which came unto
Nephi were fulfilled, according as they had been spoken; for
behold, at the going down of the sun there was no darkness; and
the people began to be astonished because there was no darkness
when the night came.
 
3 Nephi 1:16 And there were many, who had not believed the words
of the prophets, who fell to the earth and became as if they were
dead, for they knew that the great plan of destruction which they
had laid for those who believed in the words of the prophets had
been frustrated; for the sign which had been given was already at
hand.
 
3 Nephi 1:17 And they began to know that the Son of God must
shortly appear; yea, in fine, all the people upon the face of the
whole earth from the west to the east, both in the land north and
in the land south, were so exceedingly astonished that they fell
to the earth.
 
3 Nephi 1:18 For they knew that the prophets had testified of
these things for many years, and that the sign which had been
given was already at hand; and they began to fear because of
their iniquity and their unbelief.
 
3 Nephi 1:19 And it came to pass that there was no darkness in
all that night, but it was as light as though it was mid-day. And
it came to pass that the sun did rise in the morning again,
according to its proper order; and they knew that it was the day
that the Lord should be born, because of the sign which had been
given.
 
3 Nephi 1:20 And it had come to pass, yea, all things, every
whit, according to the words of the prophets.
 
3 Nephi 1:21 And it came to pass also that a new star did appear,
according to the word.
 
3 Nephi 1:22 And it came to pass that from this time forth there
began to be lyings sent forth among the people, by Satan, to
harden their hearts, to the intent that they might not believe in
those signs and wonders which they had seen; but notwithstanding
these lyings and deceivings the more part of the people did
believe, and were converted unto the Lord.
 
3 Nephi 1:23 And it came to pass that Nephi went forth among the
people, and also many others, baptizing unto repentance, in the
which there was a great remission of sins. And thus the people
began again to have peace in the land.
 
3 Nephi 1:24 And there were no contentions, save it were a few
that began to preach, endeavoring to prove by the scriptures that
it was no more expedient to observe the law of Moses. Now in this
thing they did err, having not understood the scriptures.
 
3 Nephi 1:25 But it came to pass that they soon became converted,
and were convinced of the error which they were in, for it was
made known unto them that the law was not yet fulfilled, and that
it must be fulfilled in every whit; yea, the word came unto them
that it must be fulfilled; yea, that one jot or tittle should not
pass away till it should all be fulfilled; therefore in this same
year were they brought to a knowledge of their error and did
confess their faults.
 
3 Nephi 1:26 And thus the ninety and second year did pass away,
bringing glad tidings unto the people because of the signs which
did come to pass, according to the words of the prophecy of all
the holy prophets.
 
3 Nephi 1:27 And it came to pass that the ninety and third year
did also pass away in peace, save it were for the Gadianton
robbers, who dwelt upon the mountains, who did infest the land;
for so strong were their holds and their secret places that the
people could not overpower them; therefore they did commit many
murders, and did do much slaughter among the people.
 
3 Nephi 1:28 And it came to pass that in the ninety and fourth
year they began to increase in a great degree, because there were
many dissenters of the Nephites who did flee unto them, which did
cause much sorrow unto those Nephites who did remain in the land.
 
3 Nephi 1:29 And there was also a cause of much sorrow among the
Lamanites; for behold, they had many children who did grow up and
began to wax strong in years, that they became for themselves,
and were led away by some who were Zoramites, by their lyings and
their flattering words, to join those Gadianton robbers.
 
3 Nephi 1:30 And thus were the Lamanites afflicted also, and
began to decrease as to their faith and righteousness, because of
the wickedness of the rising generation.
 
3 Nephi 2:0 Nephite degeneracy--White Lamanites--Both peoples
unite for defence against robbers and murderers.
 
3 Nephi 2:1 And it came to pass that thus passed away the ninety
and fifth year also, and the people began to forget those signs
and wonders which they had heard, and began to be less and less
astonished at a sign or a wonder from heaven, insomuch that they
began to be hard in their hearts, and blind in their minds, and
began to disbelieve all which they had heard and seen--
 
3 Nephi 2:2 Imagining up some vain thing in their hearts, that it
was wrought by men and by the power of the devil, to lead away
and deceive the hearts of the people; and thus did Satan get
possession of the hearts of the people again, insomuch that he
did blind their eyes and lead them away to believe that the
doctrine of Christ was a foolish and a vain thing.
 
3 Nephi 2:3 And it came to pass that the people began to wax
strong in wickedness and abominations; and they did not believe
that there should be any more signs or wonders given; and Satan
did go about, leading away the hearts of the people, tempting
them and causing them that they should do great wickedness in the
land.
 
3 Nephi 2:4 And thus did pass away the ninety and sixth year; and
also the ninety and seventh year; and also the ninety and eighth
year; and also the ninety and ninth year;
 
3 Nephi 2:5 And also an hundred years had passed away since the
days of Mosiah, who was king over the people of the Nephites.
 
3 Nephi 2:6 And six hundred and nine years had passed away since
Lehi left Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 2:7 And nine years had passed away from the time when the
sign was given, which was spoken of by the prophets, that Christ
should come into the world.
 
3 Nephi 2:8 Now the Nephites began to reckon their time from this
period when the sign was given, or from the coming of Christ;
therefore, nine years had passed away.
 
3 Nephi 2:9 And Nephi, who was the father of Nephi, who had the
charge of the records, did not return to the land of Zarahemla,
and could nowhere be found in all the land.
 
3 Nephi 2:10 And it came to pass that the people did still remain
in wickedness, notwithstanding the much preaching and prophesying
which was sent among them; and thus passed away the tenth year
also; and the eleventh year also passed away in iniquity.
 
3 Nephi 2:11 And it came to pass in the thirteenth year there
began to be wars and contentions throughout all the land; for the
Gadianton robbers had become so numerous, and did slay so many of
the people, and did lay waste so many cities, and did spread so
much death and carnage throughout the land, that it became
expedient that all the people, both the Nephites and the
Lamanites, should take up arms against them.
 
3 Nephi 2:12 Therefore, all the Lamanites who had become
converted unto the Lord did unite with their brethren, the
Nephites, and were compelled, for the safety of their lives and
their women and their children, to take up arms against those
Gadianton robbers, yea, and also to maintain their rights, and
the privileges of their church and of their worship, and their
freedom and their liberty.
 
3 Nephi 2:13 And it came to pass that before this thirteenth year
had passed away the Nephites were threatened with utter
destruction because of this war, which had become exceedingly
sore.
 
3 Nephi 2:14 And it came to pass that those Lamanites who had
united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites;
 
3 Nephi 2:15 And their curse was taken from them, and their skin
became white like unto the Nephites;
 
3 Nephi 2:16 And their young men and their daughters became
exceedingly fair, and they were numbered among the Nephites, and
were called Nephites. And thus ended the thirteenth year.
 
3 Nephi 2:17 And it came to pass in the commencement of the
fourteenth year, the war between the robbers and the people of
Nephi did continue and did become exceedingly sore; nevertheless,
the people of Nephi did gain some advantage of the robbers,
insomuch that they did drive them back out of their lands into
the mountains and into their secret places.
 
3 Nephi 2:18 And thus ended the fourteenth year. And in the
fifteenth year they did come forth against the people of Nephi;
and because of the wickedness of the people of Nephi, and their
many contentions and dissensions, the Gadianton robbers did gain
many advantages over them.
 
3 Nephi 2:19 And thus ended the fifteenth year, and thus were the
people in a state of many afflictions; and the sword of
destruction did hang over them, insomuch that they were about to
be smitten down by it, and this because of their iniquity.
 
3 Nephi 3:0 Lachoneus, governor of the land, receives epistle
from Giddianhi, the robber chieftain--Surrender demanded--
Lachoneus ignores demand and prepares for defence.
 
3 Nephi 3:1 And now it came to pass that in the sixteenth year
from the coming of Christ, Lachoneus, the governor of the land,
received an epistle from the leader and the governor of this band
of robbers; and these were the words which were written, saying:
 
3 Nephi 3:2 Lachoneus, most noble and chief governor of the land,
behold, I write this epistle unto you, and do give unto you
exceedingly great praise because of your firmness, and also the
firmness of your people, in maintaining that which ye suppose to
be your right and liberty; yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were
supported by the hand of a god, in the defence of your liberty,
and your property, and your country, or that which ye do call so.
 
3 Nephi 3:3 And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus,
that ye should be so foolish and vain as to suppose that ye can
stand against so many brave men who are at my command, who do now
at this time stand in their arms, and do await with great anxiety
for the word--Go down upon the Nephites and destroy them.
 
3 Nephi 3:4 And I, knowing of their unconquerable spirit, having
proved them in the field of battle, and knowing of their
everlasting hatred towards you because of the many wrongs which
ye have done unto them, therefore if they should come down
against you they would visit you with utter destruction.
 
3 Nephi 3:5 Therefore I have written this epistle, sealing it
with mine own hand, feeling for your welfare, because of your
firmness in that which ye believe to be right, and your noble
spirit in the field of battle.
 
3 Nephi 3:6 Therefore I write unto you, desiring that ye would
yield up unto this my people, your cities, your lands, and your
possessions, rather than that they should visit you with the
sword and that destruction should come upon you.
 
3 Nephi 3:7 Or in other words, yield yourselves up unto us, and
unite with us and become acquainted with our secret works, and
become our brethren that ye may be like unto us--not our slaves,
but our brethren and partners of all our substance.
 
3 Nephi 3:8 And behold, I swear unto you, if ye will do this,
with an oath, ye shall not be destroyed; but if ye will not do
this, I swear unto you with an oath, that on the morrow month I
will command that my armies shall come down against you, and they
shall not stay their hand and shall spare not, but shall slay
you, and shall let fall the sword upon you even until ye shall
become extinct.
 
3 Nephi 3:9 And behold, I am Giddianhi; and I am the governor of
this the secret society of Gadianton; which society and the works
thereof I know to be good; and they are of ancient date and they
have been handed down unto us.
 
3 Nephi 3:10 And I write this epistle unto you, Lachoneus, and I
hope that ye will deliver up your lands and your possessions,
without the shedding of blood, that this my people may recover
their rights and government, who have dissented away from you
because of your wickedness in retaining from them their rights of
government, and except ye do this, I will avenge their wrongs. I
am Giddianhi.
 
3 Nephi 3:11 And now it came to pass when Lachoneus received this
epistle he was exceedingly astonished, because of the boldness of
Giddianhi demanding the possession of the land of the Nephites,
and also of threatening the people and avenging the wrongs of
those that had received no wrong, save it were they had wronged
themselves by dissenting away unto those wicked and abominable
robbers.
 
3 Nephi 3:12 Now behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just
man, and could not be frightened by the demands and the
threatenings of a robber; therefore he did not hearken to the
epistle of Giddianhi, the governor of the robbers, but he did
cause that his people should cry unto the Lord for strength
against the time that the robbers should come down against them.
 
3 Nephi 3:13 Yea, he sent a proclamation among all the people,
that they should gather together their women, and their children,
their flocks and their herds, and all their substance, save it
were their land, unto one place.
 
3 Nephi 3:14 And he caused that fortifications should be built
round about them, and the strength thereof should be exceedingly
great. And he caused that armies, both of the Nephites and of the
Lamanites, or of all them who were numbered among the Nephites,
should be placed as guards round about to watch them, and to
guard them from the robbers day and night.
 
3 Nephi 3:15 Yea, he said unto them: As the Lord liveth, except
ye repent of all your iniquities, and cry unto the Lord, ye will
in nowise be delivered out of the hands of those Gadianton
robbers.
 
3 Nephi 3:16 And so great and marvelous were the words and
prophecies of Lachoneus that they did cause fear to come upon all
the people; and they did exert themselves in their might to do
according to the words of Lachoneus.
 
3 Nephi 3:17 And it came to pass that Lachoneus did appoint chief
captains over all the armies of the Nephites, to command them at
the time that the robbers should come down out of the wilderness
against them.
 
3 Nephi 3:18 Now the chiefest among all the chief captains and
the great commander of all the armies of the Nephites was
appointed, and his name was Gidgiddoni.
 
3 Nephi 3:19 Now it was the custom among all the Nephites to
appoint for their chief captains, (save it were in their times of
wickedness) some one that had the spirit of revelation and also
prophecy; therefore, this Gidgiddoni was a great prophet among
them, as also was the chief judge.
 
3 Nephi 3:20 Now the people said unto Gidgiddoni: Pray unto the
Lord, and let us go up upon the mountains and into the
wilderness, that we may fall upon the robbers and destroy them in
their own lands.
 
3 Nephi 3:21 But Gidgiddoni saith unto them: The Lord forbid; for
if we should go up against them the Lord would deliver us into
their hands; therefore we will prepare ourselves in the center of
our lands, and we will gather all our armies together, and we
will not go against them, but we will wait till they shall come
against us; therefore as the Lord liveth, if we do this he will
deliver them into our hands.
 
3 Nephi 3:22 And it came to pass in the seventeenth year, in the
latter end of the year, the proclamation of Lachoneus had gone
forth throughout all the face of the land, and they had taken
their horses, and their chariots, and their cattle, and all their
flocks, and their herds, and their grain, and all their
substance, and did march forth by thousands and by tens of
thousands, until they had all gone forth to the place which had
been appointed that they should gather themselves together, to
defend themselves against their enemies.
 
3 Nephi 3:23 And the land which was appointed was the land of
Zarahemla, and the land which was between the land Zarahemla and
the land Bountiful, yea, to the line which was between the land
Bountiful and the land Desolation.
 
3 Nephi 3:24 And there were a great many thousand people who were
called Nephites, who did gather themselves together in this land.
Now Lachoneus did cause that they should gather themselves
together in the land southward, because of the great curse which
was upon the land northward.
 
3 Nephi 3:25 And they did fortify themselves against their
enemies; and they did dwell in one land, and in one body, and
they did fear the words which had been spoken by Lachoneus,
insomuch that they did repent of all their sins; and they did put
up their prayers unto the Lord their God, that he would deliver
them in the time that their enemies should come down against them
to battle.
 
3 Nephi 3:26 And they were exceedingly sorrowful because of their
enemies. And Gidgiddoni did cause that they should make weapons
of war of every kind, and they should be strong with armor, and
with shields, and with bucklers, after the manner of his
instruction.
 
3 Nephi 4:0 The robbers beaten and their leader slain--His
successor, Zemnarihah hanged--Gidgiddoni's military prowess.
 
3 Nephi 4:1 And it came to pass that in the latter end of the
eighteenth year those armies of robbers had prepared for battle,
and began to come down and to sally forth from the hills, and out
of the mountains, and the wilderness, and their strongholds, and
their secret places, and began to take possession of the lands,
both which were in the land south and which were in the land
north, and began to take possession of all the lands which had
been deserted by the Nephites, and the cities which had been left
desolate.
 
3 Nephi 4:2 But behold, there were no wild beasts nor game in
those lands which had been deserted by the Nephites, and there
was no game for the robbers save it were in the wilderness.
 
3 Nephi 4:3 And the robbers could not exist save it were in the
wilderness, for the want of food; for the Nephites had left their
lands desolate, and had gathered their flocks and their herds and
all their substance, and they were in one body.
 
3 Nephi 4:4 Therefore, there was no chance for the robbers to
plunder and to obtain food, save it were to come up in open
battle against the Nephites; and the Nephites being in one body,
and having so great a number, and having reserved for themselves
provisions, and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind, that
they might subsist for the space of seven years, in the which
time they did hope to destroy the robbers from off the face of
the land; and thus the eighteenth year did pass away.
 
3 Nephi 4:5 And it came to pass that in the nineteenth year
Giddianhi found that it was expedient that he should go up to
battle against the Nephites, for there was no way that they could
subsist save it were to plunder and rob and murder.
 
3 Nephi 4:6 And they durst not spread themselves upon the face of
the land insomuch that they could raise grain, lest the Nephites
should come upon them and slay them; therefore Giddianhi gave
commandment unto his armies that in this year they should go up
to battle against the Nephites.
 
3 Nephi 4:7 And it came to pass that they did come up to battle;
and it was in the sixth month; and behold, great and terrible was
the day that they did come up to battle; and they were girded
about after the manner of robbers; and they had a lamb-skin about
their loins, and they were dyed in blood, and their heads were
shorn, and they had headplates upon them; and great and terrible
was the appearance of the armies of Giddianhi, because of their
armor, and because of their being dyed in blood.
 
3 Nephi 4:8 And it came to pass that the armies of the Nephites,
when they saw the appearance of the army of Giddianhi, had all
fallen to the earth, and did lift their cries to the Lord their
God, that he would spare them and deliver them out of the hands
of their enemies.
 
3 Nephi 4:9 And it came to pass that when the armies of Giddianhi
saw this they began to shout with a loud voice, because of their
joy, for they had supposed that the Nephites had fallen with fear
because of the terror of their armies.
 
3 Nephi 4:10 But in this thing they were disappointed, for the
Nephites did not fear them; but they did fear their God and did
supplicate him for protection; therefore, when the armies of
Giddianhi did rush upon them they were prepared to meet them;
yea, in the strength of the Lord they did receive them.
 
3 Nephi 4:11 And the battle commenced in this the sixth month;
and great and terrible was the battle thereof, yea, great and
terrible was the slaughter thereof, insomuch that there never was
known so great a slaughter among all the people of Lehi since he
left Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 4:12 And notwithstanding the threatenings and the oaths
which Giddianhi had made, behold, the Nephites did beat them,
insomuch that they did fall back from before them.
 
3 Nephi 4:13 And it came to pass that Gidgiddoni commanded that
his armies should pursue them as far as the borders of the
wilderness, and that they should not spare any that should fall
into their hands by the way; and thus they did pursue them and
did slay them, to the borders of the wilderness, even until they
had fulfilled the commandment of Gidgiddoni.
 
3 Nephi 4:14 And it came to pass that Giddianhi, who had stood
and fought with boldness, was pursued as he fled; and being weary
because of his much fighting he was overtaken and slain. And thus
was the end of Giddianhi the robber.
 
3 Nephi 4:15 And it came to pass that the armies of the Nephites
did return again to their place of security. And it came to pass
that this nineteenth year did pass away, and the robbers did not
come again to battle; neither did they come again in the
twentieth year.
 
3 Nephi 4:16 And in the twenty and first year they did not come
up to battle, but they came up on all sides to lay siege round
about the people of Nephi; for they did suppose that if they
should cut off the people of Nephi from their lands, and should
hem them in on every side, and if they should cut them off from
all their outward privileges, that they could cause them to yield
themselves up according to their wishes.
 
3 Nephi 4:17 Now they had appointed unto themselves another
leader, whose name was Zemnarihah; therefore it was Zemnarihah
that did cause that this siege should take place.
 
3 Nephi 4:18 But behold, this was an advantage to the Nephites;
for it was impossible for the robbers to lay siege sufficiently
long to have any effect upon the Nephites, because of their much
provision which they had laid up in store,
 
3 Nephi 4:19 And because of the scantiness of provisions among
the robbers; for behold, they had nothing save it were meat for
their subsistence, which meat they did obtain in the wilderness;
 
3 Nephi 4:20 And it came to pass that the wild game became scarce
in the wilderness insomuch that the robbers were about to perish
with hunger.
 
3 Nephi 4:21 And the Nephites were continually marching out by
day and by night, and falling upon their armies, and cutting them
off by thousands and by tens of thousands.
 
3 Nephi 4:22 And thus it became the desire of the people of
Zemnarihah to withdraw from their design, because of the great
destruction which came upon them by night and by day.
 
3 Nephi 4:23 And it came to pass that Zemnarihah did give command
unto his people that they should withdraw themselves from the
siege, and march into the furthermost parts of the land
northward.
 
3 Nephi 4:24 And now, Gidgiddoni being aware of their design, and
knowing of their weakness because of the want of food, and the
great slaughter which had been made among them, therefore he did
send out his armies in the night-time, and did cut off the way of
their retreat, and did place his armies in the way of their
retreat.
 
3 Nephi 4:25 And this did they do in the night-time, and got on
their march beyond the robbers, so that on the morrow, when the
robbers began their march, they were met by the armies of the
Nephites both in their front and in their rear.
 
3 Nephi 4:26 And the robbers who were on the south were also cut
off in their places of retreat. And all these things were done by
command of Gidgiddoni.
 
3 Nephi 4:27 And there were many thousands who did yield
themselves up prisoners unto the Nephites, and the remainder of
them were slain.
 
3 Nephi 4:28 And their leader, Zemnarihah, was taken and hanged
upon a tree, yea, even upon the top thereof until he was dead.
And when they had hanged him until he was dead they did fell the
tree to the earth, and did cry with a loud voice, saying:
 
3 Nephi 4:29 May the Lord preserve his people in righteousness
and in holiness of heart, that they may cause to be felled to the
earth all who shall seek to slay them because of power and secret
combinations, even as this man hath been felled to the earth.
 
3 Nephi 4:30 And they did rejoice and cry again with one voice,
saying: May the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, protect this people in righteousness, so long as they
shall call on the name of their God for protection.
 
3 Nephi 4:31 And it came to pass that they did break forth, all
as one, in singing, and praising their God for the great thing
which he had done for them, in preserving them from falling into
the hands of their enemies.
 
3 Nephi 4:32 Yea, they did cry: Hosanna to the Most High God. And
they did cry: Blessed be the name of the Lord God Almighty, the
Most High God.
 
3 Nephi 4:33 And their hearts were swollen with joy, unto the
gushing out of many tears, because of the great goodness of God
in delivering them out of the hands of their enemies; and they
knew it was because of their repentance and their humility that
they had been delivered from an everlasting destruction.
 
3 Nephi 5:0 Nephites repent and seek to end works of wickedness--
Mormon's account of himself and of the plates kept by him--
Another allusion to the gathering of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 5:1 And now behold, there was not a living soul among all
the people of the Nephites who did doubt in the least the words
of all the holy prophets who had spoken; for they knew that it
must needs be that they must be fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 5:2 And they knew that it must be expedient that Christ
had come, because of the many signs which had been given,
according to the words of the prophets; and because of the things
which had come to pass already they knew that it must needs be
that all things should come to pass according to that which had
been spoken.
 
3 Nephi 5:3 Therefore they did forsake all their sins, and their
abominations, and their whoredoms, and did serve God with all
diligence day and night.
 
3 Nephi 5:4 And now it came to pass that when they had taken all
the robbers prisoners, insomuch that none did escape who were not
slain, they did cast their prisoners into prison, and did cause
the word of God to be preached unto them; and as many as would
repent of their sins and enter into a covenant that they would
murder no more were set at liberty.
 
3 Nephi 5:5 But as many as there were who did not enter into a
covenant, and who did still continue to have those secret murders
in their hearts, yea, as many as were found breathing out
threatenings against their brethren were condemned and punished
according to the law.
 
3 Nephi 5:6 And thus they did put an end to all those wicked, and
secret, and abominable combinations, in the which there was so
much wickedness, and so many murders committed.
 
3 Nephi 5:7 And thus had the twenty and second year passed away,
and the twenty and third year also, and the twenty and fourth,
and the twenty and fifth; and thus had twenty and five years
passed away.
 
3 Nephi 5:8 And there had many things transpired which, in the
eyes of some, would be great and marvelous; nevertheless, they
cannot all be written in this book; yea, this book cannot contain
even a hundredth part of what was done among so many people in
the space of twenty and five years;
 
3 Nephi 5:9 But behold there are records which do contain all the
proceedings of this people; and a shorter but true account was
given by Nephi.
 
3 Nephi 5:10 Therefore I have made my record of these things
according to the record of Nephi, which was engraven on the
plates which were called the plates of Nephi.
 
3 Nephi 5:11 And behold, I do make the record on plates which I
have made with mine own hands.
 
3 Nephi 5:12 And behold, I am called Mormon, being called after
the land of Mormon, the land in which Alma did establish the
church among the people, yea, the first church which was
established among them after their transgression.
 
3 Nephi 5:13 Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his
people, that they might have everlasting life.
 
3 Nephi 5:14 And it hath become expedient that I, according to
the will of God, that the prayers of those who have gone hence,
who were the holy ones, should be fulfilled according to their
faith, should make a record of these things which have been done-
- 3 Nephi 5:15 Yea, a small record of that which hath taken place
from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem, even down until the
present time.
 
3 Nephi 5:16 Therefore I do make my record from the accounts
which have been given by those who were before me, until the
commencement of my day;
 
3 Nephi 5:17 And then I do make a record of the things which I
have seen with mine own eyes.
 
3 Nephi 5:18 And I know the record which I make to be a just and
a true record; nevertheless there are many things which,
according to our language, we are not able to write.
 
3 Nephi 5:19 And now I make an end of my saying, which is of
myself, and proceed to give my account of the things which have
been before me.
 
3 Nephi 5:20 I am Mormon, and a pure descendant of Lehi. I have
reason to bless my God and my Savior Jesus Christ, that he
brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem, (and no one
knew it save it were himself and those whom he brought out of
that land) and that he hath given me and my people so much
knowledge unto the salvation of our souls.
 
3 Nephi 5:21 Surely he hath blessed the house of Jacob, and hath
been merciful unto the seed of Joseph.
 
3 Nephi 5:22 And insomuch as the children of Lehi have kept his
commandments he hath blessed them and prospered them according to
his word.
 
3 Nephi 5:23 Yea, and surely shall he again bring a remnant of
the seed of Joseph to the knowledge of the Lord their God.
 
3 Nephi 5:24 And as surely as the Lord liveth, will he gather in
from the four quarters of the earth all the remnant of the seed
of Jacob, who are scattered abroad upon all the face of the
earth.
 
3 Nephi 5:25 And as he hath covenanted with all the house of
Jacob, even so shall the covenant wherewith he hath covenanted
with the house of Jacob be fulfilled in his own due time, unto
the restoring all the house of Jacob unto the knowledge of the
covenant that he hath covenanted with them.
 
3 Nephi 5:26 And then shall they know their Redeemer, who is
Jesus Christ, the Son of God; and then shall they be gathered in
from the four quarters of the earth unto their own lands, from
whence they have been dispersed; yea, as the Lord liveth so shall
it be. Amen.
 
3 Nephi 6:0 The people are prospered--Pride, wealth, and class
distinction follows--The church rent by dissension--Deeds of
darkness.
 
3 Nephi 6:1 And now it came to pass that the people of the
Nephites did all return to their own lands in the twenty and
sixth year, every man, with his family, his flocks and his herds,
his horses and his cattle, and all things whatsoever did belong
unto them.
 
3 Nephi 6:2 And it came to pass that they had not eaten up all
their provisions; therefore they did take with them all that they
had not devoured, of all their grain of every kind, and their
gold, and their silver, and all their precious things, and they
did return to their own lands and their possessions, both on the
north and on the south, both on the land northward and on the
land southward.
 
3 Nephi 6:3 And they granted unto those robbers who had entered
into a covenant to keep the peace of the land, who were desirous
to remain Lamanites, lands, according to their numbers, that they
might have, with their labors, wherewith to subsist upon; and
thus they did establish peace in all the land.
 
3 Nephi 6:4 And they began again to prosper and to wax great; and
the twenty and sixth and seventh years passed away, and there was
great order in the land; and they had formed their laws according
to equity and justice.
 
3 Nephi 6:5 And now there was nothing in all the land to hinder
the people from prospering continually, except they should fall
into transgression.
 
3 Nephi 6:6 And now it was Gidgiddoni, and the judge, Lachoneus,
and those who had been appointed leaders, who had established
this great peace in the land.
 
3 Nephi 6:7 And it came to pass that there were many cities built
anew, and there were many old cities repaired.
 
3 Nephi 6:8 And there were many highways cast up, and many roads
made, which led from city to city, and from land to land, and
from place to place.
 
3 Nephi 6:9 And thus passed away the twenty and eighth year, and
the people had continual peace.
 
3 Nephi 6:10 But it came to pass in the twenty and ninth year
there began to be some disputings among the people; and some were
lifted up unto pride and boastings because of their exceedingly
great riches, yea, even unto great persecutions;
 
3 Nephi 6:11 For there were many merchants in the land, and also
many lawyers, and many officers.
 
3 Nephi 6:12 And the people began to be distinguished by ranks,
according to their riches and their chances for learning, yea,
some were ignorant because of their poverty, and others did
receive great learning because of their riches.
 
3 Nephi 6:13 Some were lifted up in pride, and others were
exceedingly humble; some did return railing for railing, while
others would receive railing and persecution and all manner of
afflictions, and would not turn and revile again, but were humble
and penitent before God.
 
3 Nephi 6:14 And thus there became a great inequality in all the
land, insomuch that the church began to be broken up; yea,
insomuch that in the thirtieth year the church was broken up in
all the land save it were among a few of the Lamanites who were
converted unto the true faith; and they would not depart from it,
for they were firm, and steadfast, and immovable, willing with
all diligence to keep the commandments of the Lord.
 
3 Nephi 6:15 Now the cause of this iniquity of the people was
this--Satan had great power, unto the stirring up of the people
to do all manner of iniquity, and to the puffing them up with
pride, tempting them to seek for power, and authority, and
riches, and the vain things of the world.
 
3 Nephi 6:16 And thus Satan did lead away the hearts of the
people to do all manner of iniquity; therefore they had enjoyed
peace but a few years.
 
3 Nephi 6:17 And thus, in the commencement of the thirtieth year-
-the people having been delivered up for the space of a long time
to be carried about by the temptations of the devil whithersoever
he desired to carry them, and to do whatsoever iniquity he
desired they should--and thus in the commencement of this, the
thirtieth year, they were in a state of awful wickedness.
 
3 Nephi 6:18 Now they did not sin ignorantly, for they knew the
will of God concerning them, for it had been taught unto them;
therefore they did wilfully rebel against God.
 
3 Nephi 6:19 And now it was in the days of Lachoneus, the son of
Lachoneus, for Lachoneus did fill the seat of his father and did
govern the people that year.
 
3 Nephi 6:20 And there began to be men inspired from heaven and
sent forth, standing among the people in all the land, preaching
and testifying boldly of the sins and iniquities of the people,
and testifying unto them concerning the redemption which the Lord
would make for his people, or in other words, the resurrection of
Christ; and they did testify boldly of his death and sufferings.
 
3 Nephi 6:21 Now there were many of the people who were
exceedingly angry because of those who testified of these things;
and those who were angry were chiefly the chief judges, and they
who had been high priests and lawyers; yea, all those who were
lawyers were angry with those who testified of these things.
 
3 Nephi 6:22 Now there was no lawyer nor judge nor high priest
that could have power to condemn any one to death save their
condemnation was signed by the governor of the land.
 
3 Nephi 6:23 Now there were many of those who testified of the
things pertaining to Christ who testified boldly, who were taken
and put to death secretly by the judges, that the knowledge of
their death came not unto the governor of the land until after
their death.
 
3 Nephi 6:24 Now behold, this was contrary to the laws of the
land, that any man should be put to death except they had power
from the governor of the land--
 
3 Nephi 6:25 Therefore a complaint came up unto the land of
Zarahemla, to the governor of the land, against these judges who
had condemned the prophets of the Lord unto death, not according
to the law.
 
3 Nephi 6:26 Now it came to pass that they were taken and brought
up before the judge to be judged of the crime which they had
done, according to the law which had been given by the people.
 
3 Nephi 6:27 Now it came to pass that those judges had many
friends and kindreds; and the remainder, yea, even almost all the
lawyers and the high priests, did gather themselves together, and
unite with the kindreds of those judges who were to be tried
according to the law.
 
3 Nephi 6:28 And they did enter into a covenant one with another,
yea, even into that covenant which was given by them of old,
which covenant was given and administered by the devil, to
combine against all righteousness.
 
3 Nephi 6:29 Therefore they did combine against the people of the
Lord, and enter into a covenant to destroy them, and to deliver
those who were guilty of murder from the grasp of justice, which
was about to be administered according to the law.
 
3 Nephi 6:30 And they did set at defiance the law and the rights
of their country; and they did covenant one with another to
destroy the governor, and to establish a king over the land, that
the land should no more be at liberty but should be subject unto
kings.
 
3 Nephi 7:0 Chief judge murdered and government overthrown--
Division into tribes--King Jacob--Nephi's powerful ministry.
 
3 Nephi 7:1 Now behold, I will show unto you that they did not
establish a king over the land; but in this same year, yea, the
thirtieth year, they did destroy upon the judgment-seat, yea, did
murder the chief judge of the land.
 
3 Nephi 7:2 And the people were divided one against another; and
they did separate one from another into tribes, every man
according to his family and his kindred and friends; and thus
they did destroy the government of the land.
 
3 Nephi 7:3 And every tribe did appoint a chief or a leader over
them; and thus they became tribes and leaders of tribes.
 
3 Nephi 7:4 Now behold, there was no man among them save he had
much family and many kindreds and friends; therefore their tribes
became exceedingly great.
 
3 Nephi 7:5 Now all this was done, and there were no wars as yet
among them; and all this iniquity had come upon the people
because they did yield themselves unto the power of Satan.
 
3 Nephi 7:6 And the regulations of the government were destroyed,
because of the secret combination of the friends and kindreds of
those who murdered the prophets.
 
3 Nephi 7:7 And they did cause a great contention in the land,
insomuch that the more righteous part of the people had nearly
all become wicked; yea, there were but few righteous men among
them.
 
3 Nephi 7:8 And thus six years had not passed away since the more
part of the people had turned from their righteousness, like the
dog to his vomit, or like the sow to her wallowing in the mire.
 
3 Nephi 7:9 Now this secret combination, which had brought so
great iniquity upon the people, did gather themselves together,
and did place at their head a man whom they did call Jacob;
 
3 Nephi 7:10 And they did call him their king; therefore he
became a king over this wicked band; and he was one of the
chiefest who had given his voice against the prophets who
testified of Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 7:11 And it came to pass that they were not so strong in
number as the tribes of the people, who were united together save
it were their leaders did establish their laws, every one
according to his tribe; nevertheless they were enemies;
notwithstanding they were not a righteous people, yet they were
united in the hatred of those who had entered into a covenant to
destroy the government.
 
3 Nephi 7:12 Therefore, Jacob seeing that their enemies were more
numerous than they, he being the king of the band, therefore he
commanded his people that they should take their flight into the
northernmost part of the land, and there build up unto themselves
a kingdom, until they were joined by dissenters, (for he
flattered them that there would be many dissenters) and they
become sufficiently strong to contend with the tribes of the
people; and they did so.
 
3 Nephi 7:13 And so speedy was their march that it could not be
impeded until they had gone forth out of the reach of the people.
And thus ended the thirtieth year; and thus were the affairs of
the people of Nephi.
 
3 Nephi 7:14 And it came to pass in the thirty and first year
that they were divided into tribes, every man according to his
family, kindred and friends; nevertheless they had come to an
agreement that they would not go to war one with another; but
they were not united as to their laws, and their manner of
government, for they were established according to the minds of
those who were their chiefs and their leaders. But they did
establish very strict laws that one tribe should not trespass
against another, insomuch that in some degree they had peace in
the land; nevertheless, their hearts were turned from the Lord
their God, and they did stone the prophets and did cast them out
from among them.
 
3 Nephi 7:15 And it came to pass that Nephi--having been visited
by angels and also the voice of the Lord, therefore having seen
angels, and being eye-witness, and having had power given unto
him that he might know concerning the ministry of Christ, and
also being eye-witness to their quick return from righteousness
unto their wickedness and abominations;
 
3 Nephi 7:16 Therefore, being grieved for the hardness of their
hearts and the blindness of their minds--went forth among them in
that same year, and began to testify, boldly, repentance and
remission of sins through faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
3 Nephi 7:17 And he did minister many things unto them; and all
of them cannot be written, and a part of them would not suffice,
therefore they are not written in this book. And Nephi did
minister with power and with great authority.
 
3 Nephi 7:18 And it came to pass that they were angry with him,
even because he had greater power than they, for it were not
possible that they could disbelieve his words, for so great was
his faith on the Lord Jesus Christ that angels did minister unto
him daily.
 
3 Nephi 7:19 And in the name of Jesus did he cast out devils and
unclean spirits; and even his brother did he raise from the dead,
after he had been stoned and suffered death by the people.
 
3 Nephi 7:20 And the people saw it, and did witness of it, and
were angry with him because of his power; and he did also do many
more miracles, in the sight of the people, in the name of Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 7:21 And it came to pass that the thirty and first year
did pass away, and there were but few who were converted unto the
Lord; but as many as were converted did truly signify unto the
people that they had been visited by the power and Spirit of God,
which was in Jesus Christ, in whom they believed.
 
3 Nephi 7:22 And as many as had devils cast out from them, and
were healed of their sicknesses and their infirmities, did truly
manifest unto the people that they had been wrought upon by the
Spirit of God, and had been healed; and they did show forth signs
also and did do some miracles among the people.
 
3 Nephi 7:23 Thus passed away the thirty and second year also.
And Nephi did cry unto the people in the commencement of the
thirty and third year; and he did preach unto them repentance and
remission of sins.
 
3 Nephi 7:24 Now I would have you to remember also, that there
were none who were brought unto repentance who were not baptized
with water.
 
3 Nephi 7:25 Therefore, there were ordained of Nephi, men unto
this ministry, that all such as should come unto them should be
baptized with water, and this as a witness and a testimony before
God, and unto the people, that they had repented and received a
remission of their sins.
 
3 Nephi 7:26 And there were many in the commencement of this year
that were baptized unto repentance; and thus the more part of the
year did pass away.
 
3 Nephi 8:0 Christ's crucifixion attested by predicted signs--
Tempest and earthquake, whirlwind and fire--A great and terrible
destruction--Three days of darkness.
 
3 Nephi 8:1 And now it came to pass that according to our record,
and we know our record to be true, for behold, it was a just man
who did keep the record--for he truly did many miracles in the
name of Jesus; and there was not any man who could do a miracle
in the name of Jesus save he were cleansed every whit from his
iniquity--
 
3 Nephi 8:2 And now it came to pass, if there was no mistake made
by this man in the reckoning of our time, the thirty and third
year had passed away;
 
3 Nephi 8:3 And the people began to look with great earnestness
for the sign which had been given by the prophet Samuel, the
Lamanite, yea, for the time that there should be darkness for the
space of three days over the face of the land.
 
3 Nephi 8:4 And there began to be great doubtings and
disputations among the people, notwithstanding so many signs had
been given.
 
3 Nephi 8:5 And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year, in
the first month, on the fourth day of the month, there arose a
great storm, such an one as never had been known in all the land.
 
3 Nephi 8:6 And there was also a great and terrible tempest; and
there was terrible thunder, insomuch that it did shake the whole
earth as if it was about to divide asunder.
 
3 Nephi 8:7 And there were exceedingly sharp lightnings, such as
never had been known in all the land.
 
3 Nephi 8:8 And the city of Zarahemla did take fire.
 
3 Nephi 8:9 And the city of Moroni did sink into the depths of
the sea, and the inhabitants thereof were drowned.
 
3 Nephi 8:10 And the earth was carried up upon the city of
Moronihah that in the place of the city there became a great
mountain.
 
3 Nephi 8:11 And there was a great and terrible destruction in
the land southward.
 
3 Nephi 8:12 But behold, there was a more great and terrible
destruction in the land northward; for behold, the whole face of
the land was changed, because of the tempest and the whirlwinds
and the thunderings and the lightnings, and the exceedingly great
quaking of the whole earth;
 
3 Nephi 8:13 And the highways were broken up, and the level roads
were spoiled, and many smooth places became rough.
 
3 Nephi 8:14 And many great and notable cities were sunk, and
many were burned, and many were shaken till the buildings thereof
had fallen to the earth, and the inhabitants thereof were slain,
and the places were left desolate.
 
3 Nephi 8:15 And there were some cities which remained; but the
damage thereof was exceedingly great, and there were many of them
who were slain.
 
3 Nephi 8:16 And there were some who were carried away in the
whirlwind; and whither they went no man knoweth, save they know
that they were carried away.
 
3 Nephi 8:17 And thus the face of the whole earth became
deformed, because of the tempests, and the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the quaking of the earth.
 
3 Nephi 8:18 And behold, the rocks were rent in twain; they were
broken up upon the face of the whole earth, insomuch that they
were found in broken fragments, and in seams and in cracks, upon
all the face of the land.
 
3 Nephi 8:19 And it came to pass that when the thunderings, and
the lightnings, and the storm, and the tempest, and the quakings
of the earth did cease--for behold, they did last for about the
space of three hours; and it was said by some that the time was
greater; nevertheless, all these great and terrible things were
done in about the space of three hours--and then behold, there
was darkness upon the face of the land.
 
3 Nephi 8:20 And it came to pass that there was thick darkness
upon all the face of the land, insomuch that the inhabitants
thereof who had not fallen could feel the vapor of darkness;
 
3 Nephi 8:21 And there could be no light, because of the
darkness, neither candles, neither torches; neither could there
be fire kindled with their fine and exceedingly dry wood, so that
there could not be any light at all;
 
3 Nephi 8:22 And there was not any light seen, neither fire, nor
glimmer, neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars, for so
great were the mists of darkness which were upon the face of the
land.
 
3 Nephi 8:23 And it came to pass that it did last for the space
of three days that there was no light seen; and there was great
mourning and howling and weeping among all the people
continually; yea, great were the groanings of the people, because
of the darkness and the great destruction which had come upon
them.
 
3 Nephi 8:24 And in one place they were heard to cry, saying: O
that we had repented before this great and terrible day, and then
would our brethren have been spared, and they would not have been
burned in that great city Zarahemla.
 
3 Nephi 8:25 And in another place they were heard to cry and
mourn, saying: O that we had repented before this great and
terrible day, and had not killed and stoned the prophets, and
cast them out; then would our mothers and our fair daughters, and
our children have been spared, and not have been buried up in
that great city Moronihah. And thus were the howlings of the
people great and terrible.
 
3 Nephi 9:0 The voice of God proclaims the extent of the disaster
and declares the causes thereof--The Law of Moses fulfilled--the
acceptable sacrifice of a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
 
3 Nephi 9:1 And it came to pass that there was a voice heard
among all the inhabitants of the earth, upon all the face of this
land, crying:
 
3 Nephi 9:2 Wo, wo, wo unto this people; wo unto the inhabitants
of the whole earth except they shall repent; for the devil
laugheth, and his angels rejoice, because of the slain of the
fair sons and daughters of my people; and it is because of their
iniquity and abominations that they are fallen!
 
3 Nephi 9:3 Behold, that great city Zarahemla have I burned with
fire, and the inhabitants thereof.
 
3 Nephi 9:4 And behold, that great city Moroni have I caused to
be sunk in the depths of the sea, and the inhabitants thereof to
be drowned.
 
3 Nephi 9:5 And behold, that great city Moronihah have I covered
with earth, and the inhabitants thereof, to hide their iniquities
and their abominations from before my face, that the blood of the
prophets and the saints shall not come any more unto me against
them.
 
3 Nephi 9:6 And behold, the city of Gilgal have I caused to be
sunk, and the inhabitants thereof to be buried up in the depths
of the earth;
 
3 Nephi 9:7 Yea, and the city of Onihah and the inhabitants
thereof, and the city of Mocum and the inhabitants thereof, and
the city of Jerusalem and the inhabitants thereof; and waters
have I caused to come up in the stead thereof, to hide their
wickedness and abominations from before my face, that the blood
of the prophets and the saints shall not come up any more unto me
against them.
 
3 Nephi 9:8 And behold, the city of Gadiandi, and the city of
Gadiomnah, and the city of Jacob, and the city of Gimgimno, all
these have I caused to be sunk, and made hills and valleys in the
places thereof; and the inhabitants thereof have I buried up in
the depths of the earth, to hide their wickedness and
abominations from before my face, that the blood of the prophets
and the saints should not come up any more unto me against them.
 
3 Nephi 9:9 And behold, that great city Jacobugath, which was
inhabited by the people of king Jacob, have I caused to be burned
with fire because of their sins and their wickedness, which was
above all the wickedness of the whole earth, because of their
secret murders and combinations; for it was they that did destroy
the peace of my people and the government of the land; therefore
I did cause them to be burned, to destroy them from before my
face, that the blood of the prophets and the saints should not
come up unto me any more against them.
 
3 Nephi 9:10 And behold, the city of Laman, and the city of Josh,
and the city of Gad, and the city of Kishkumen, have I caused to
be burned with fire, and the inhabitants thereof, because of
their wickedness in casting out the prophets, and stoning those
whom I did send to declare unto them concerning their wickedness
and their abominations.
 
3 Nephi 9:11 And because they did cast them all out, that there
were none righteous among them, I did send down fire and destroy
them, that their wickedness and abominations might be hid from
before my face, that the blood of the prophets and the saints
whom I sent among them might not cry unto me from the ground
against them.
 
3 Nephi 9:12 And many great destructions have I caused to come
upon this land, and upon this people, because of their wickedness
and their abominations.
 
3 Nephi 9:13 O all ye that are spared because ye were more
righteous than they, will ye not now return unto me, and repent
of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?
 
3 Nephi 9:14 Yea, verily I say unto you, if ye will come unto me
ye shall have eternal life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended
towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and
blessed are those who come unto me.
 
3 Nephi 9:15 Behold, I am Jesus Christ the Son of God. I created
the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. I was
with the Father from the beginning. I am in the Father, and the
Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name.
 
3 Nephi 9:16 I came unto my own, and my own received me not. And
the scriptures concerning my coming are fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 9:17 And as many as have received me, to them have I
given to become the sons of God; and even so will I to as many as
shall believe on my name, for behold, by me redemption cometh,
and in me is the law of Moses fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 9:18 I am the light and the life of the world. I am Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end.
 
3 Nephi 9:19 And ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding
of blood; yea, your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be
done away, for I will accept none of your sacrifices and your
burnt offerings.
 
3 Nephi 9:20 And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken
heart and a contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a
broken heart and a contrite spirit, him will I baptize with fire
and with the Holy Ghost, even as the Lamanites, because of their
faith in me at the time of their conversion, were baptized with
fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not.
 
3 Nephi 9:21 Behold, I have come unto the world to bring
redemption unto the world, to save the world from sin.
 
3 Nephi 9:22 Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a
little child, him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of
God. Behold, for such I have laid down my life, and have taken it
up again; therefore repent, and come unto me ye ends of the
earth, and be saved.
 
3 Nephi 10:0 Silence in the land--Again the voice from heaven--
The darkness disperses--Only the more righteous of the people are
spared.
 
3 Nephi 10:1 And now behold, it came to pass that all the people
of the land did hear these sayings, and did witness of it. And
after these sayings there was silence in the land for the space
of many hours;
 
3 Nephi 10:2 For so great was the astonishment of the people that
they did cease lamenting and howling for the loss of their
kindred which had been slain; therefore there was silence in all
the land for the space of many hours.
 
3 Nephi 10:3 And it came to pass that there came a voice again
unto the people, and all the people did hear, and did witness of
it, saying:
 
3 Nephi 10:4 O ye people of these great cities which have fallen,
who are descendants of Jacob, yea, who are of the house of
Israel, how oft have I gathered you as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and have nourished you.
 
3 Nephi 10:5 And again, how oft would I have gathered you as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, yea, O ye people of
the house of Israel, who have fallen; yea, O ye people of the
house of Israel, ye that dwell at Jerusalem, as ye that have
fallen; yea, how oft would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth
her chickens, and ye would not.
 
3 Nephi 10:6 O ye house of Israel whom I have spared, how oft
will I gather you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings, if ye will repent and return unto me with full purpose of
heart.
 
3 Nephi 10:7 But if not, O house of Israel, the places of your
dwellings shall become desolate until the time of the fulfilling
of the covenant to your fathers.
 
3 Nephi 10:8 And now it came to pass that after the people had
heard these words, behold, they began to weep and howl again
because of the loss of their kindred and friends.
 
3 Nephi 10:9 And it came to pass that thus did the three days
pass away. And it was in the morning, and the darkness dispersed
from off the face of the land, and the earth did cease to
tremble, and the rocks did cease to rend, and the dreadful
groanings did cease, and all the tumultuous noises did pass away.
 
3 Nephi 10:10 And the earth did cleave together again, that it
stood; and the mourning, and the weeping, and the wailing of the
people who were spared alive did cease; and their mourning was
turned into joy, and their lamentations into the praise and
thanksgiving unto the Lord Jesus Christ, their Redeemer.
 
3 Nephi 10:11 And thus far were the scriptures fulfilled which
had been spoken by the prophets.
 
3 Nephi 10:12 And it was the more righteous part of the people
who were saved, and it was they who received the prophets and
stoned them not; and it was they who had not shed the blood of
the saints, who were spared--
 
3 Nephi 10:13 And they were spared and were not sunk and buried
up in the earth; and they were not drowned in the depths of the
sea; and they were not burned by fire, neither were they fallen
upon and crushed to death; and they were not carried away in the
whirlwind; neither were they overpowered by the vapor of smoke
and of darkness.
 
3 Nephi 10:14 And now, whoso readeth, let him understand; he that
hath the scriptures, let him search them, and see and behold if
all these deaths and destructions by fire, and by smoke, and by
tempests, and by whirlwinds, and by the opening of the earth to
receive them, and all these things are not unto the fulfilling of
the prophecies of many of the holy prophets.
 
3 Nephi 10:15 Behold, I say unto you, Yea, many have testified of
these things at the coming of Christ, and were slain because they
testified of these things.
 
3 Nephi 10:16 Yea, the prophet Zenos did testify of these things,
and also Zenock spake concerning these things, because they
testified particularly concerning us, who are the remnant of
their seed.
 
3 Nephi 10:17 Behold, our father Jacob also testified concerning
a remnant of the seed of Joseph. And behold, are not we a remnant
of the seed of Joseph? And these things which testify of us, are
they not written upon the plates of brass which our father Lehi
brought out of Jerusalem?
 
3 Nephi 10:18 And it came to pass that in the ending of the
thirty and fourth year, behold, I will show unto you that the
people of Nephi who were spared, and also those who had been
called Lamanites, who had been spared, did have great favors
shown unto them, and great blessings poured out upon their heads,
insomuch that soon after the ascension of Christ into heaven he
did truly manifest himself unto them--
 
3 Nephi 10:19 Showing his body unto them, and ministering unto
them; and an account of his ministry shall be given hereafter.
Therefore for this time I make an end of my sayings.
 
3 Nephi 11:00 Jesus Christ did show himself unto the people of
Nephi, as the multitude were gathered together in the land
Bountiful, and did minister unto them; and on this wise did he
show himself unto them. Comprising chapters 11 to 26 inclusive.
 
3 Nephi 11:0 The Eternal Father proclaims the Christ--the
Resurrected Christ appears--The multitude permitted to feel his
wounds--Mode of baptism prescribed--Contention and disputation
forbidden--Christ the rock.
 
3 Nephi 11:1 And now it came to pass that there were a great
multitude gathered together, of the people of Nephi, round about
the temple which was in the land Bountiful; and they were
marveling and wondering one with another, and were showing one to
another the great and marvelous change which had taken place.
 
3 Nephi 11:2 And they were also conversing about this Jesus
Christ, of whom the sign had been given concerning his death.
 
3 Nephi 11:3 And it came to pass that while they were thus
conversing one with another, they heard a voice as if it came out
of heaven; and they cast their eyes round about, for they
understood not the voice which they heard; and it was not a harsh
voice, neither was it a loud voice; nevertheless, and
notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that
did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their
frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to
the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn.
 
3 Nephi 11:4 And it came to pass that again they heard the voice,
and they understood it not.
 
3 Nephi 11:5 And again the third time they did hear the voice,
and did open their ears to hear it; and their eyes were towards
the sound thereof; and they did look steadfastly towards heaven,
from whence the sound came.
 
3 Nephi 11:6 And behold, the third time they did understand the
voice which they heard; and it said unto them:
 
3 Nephi 11:7 Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in
whom I have glorified my name--hear ye him.
 
3 Nephi 11:8 And it came to pass, as they understood they cast
their eyes up again towards heaven; and behold, they saw a Man
descending out of heaven; and he was clothed in a white robe; and
he came down and stood in the midst of them; and the eyes of the
whole multitude were turned upon him, and they durst not open
their mouths, even one to another, and wist not what it meant,
for they thought it was an angel that had appeared unto them.
 
3 Nephi 11:9 And it came to pass that he stretched forth his hand
and spake unto the people, saying:
 
3 Nephi 11:10 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets
testified shall come into the world.
 
3 Nephi 11:11 And behold, I am the light and the life of the
world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father
hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me
the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of
the Father in all things from the beginning.
 
3 Nephi 11:12 And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words the whole multitude fell to the earth; for they
remembered that it had been prophesied among them that Christ
should show himself unto them after his ascension into heaven.
 
3 Nephi 11:13 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto them
saying:
 
3 Nephi 11:14 Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust
your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of
the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am
the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been
slain for the sins of the world.
 
3 Nephi 11:15 And it came to pass that the multitude went forth,
and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of
the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do,
going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see
with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a
surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was
written by the prophets, that should come.
 
3 Nephi 11:16 And when they had all gone forth and had witnessed
for themselves, they did cry out with one accord, saying:
 
3 Nephi 11:17 Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God!
And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him.
 
3 Nephi 11:18 And it came to pass that he spake unto Nephi (for
Nephi was among the multitude) and he commanded him that he
should come forth.
 
3 Nephi 11:19 And Nephi arose and went forth, and bowed himself
before the Lord and did kiss his feet.
 
3 Nephi 11:20 And the Lord commanded him that he should arise.
And he arose and stood before him.
 
3 Nephi 11:21 And the Lord said unto him: I give unto you power
that ye shall baptize this people when I am again ascended into
heaven.
 
3 Nephi 11:22 And again the Lord called others, and said unto
them likewise; and he gave unto them power to baptize. And he
said unto them: On this wise shall ye baptize; and there shall be
no disputations among you.
 
3 Nephi 11:23 Verily I say unto you, that whoso repenteth of his
sins through your words and desireth to be baptized in my name,
on this wise shall ye baptize them--Behold, ye shall go down and
stand in the water, and in my name shall ye baptize them.
 
3 Nephi 11:24 And now behold, these are the words which ye shall
say, calling them by name, saying:
 
3 Nephi 11:25 Having authority given me of Jesus Christ, I
baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost. Amen.
 
3 Nephi 11:26 And then shall ye immerse them in the water, and
come forth again out of the water.
 
3 Nephi 11:27 And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name;
for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son,
and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the
Father in me, and the Father and I are one.
 
3 Nephi 11:28 And according as I have commanded you thus shall ye
baptize. And there shall be no disputations among you, as there
have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you
concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto
been.
 
3 Nephi 11:29 For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the
spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is
the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to
contend with anger, one with another.
 
3 Nephi 11:30 Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the
hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my
doctrine, that such things should be done away.
 
3 Nephi 11:31 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, I will
declare unto you my doctrine.
 
3 Nephi 11:32 And this is my doctrine, and it is the doctrine
which the Father hath given unto me; and I bear record of the
Father, and the Father beareth record of me, and the Holy Ghost
beareth record of the Father and me; and I bear record that the
Father commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent and believe in
me.
 
3 Nephi 11:33 And whoso believeth in me, and is baptized, the
same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the
kingdom of God.
 
3 Nephi 11:34 And whoso believeth not in me, and is not baptized,
shall be damned.
 
3 Nephi 11:35 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my
doctrine, and I bear record of it from the Father; and whoso
believeth in me believeth in the Father also; and unto him will
the Father bear record of me, for he will visit him with fire and
with the Holy Ghost.
 
3 Nephi 11:36 And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the
Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for
the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one.
 
3 Nephi 11:37 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and
become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can
in nowise receive these things.
 
3 Nephi 11:38 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and be
baptized in my name, and become as a little child, or ye can in
nowise inherit the kingdom of God.
 
3 Nephi 11:39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my
doctrine, and whoso buildeth upon this buildeth upon my rock, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.
 
3 Nephi 11:40 And whoso shall declare more or less than this, and
establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil, and is not
built upon my rock; but he buildeth upon a sandy foundation, and
the gates of hell stand open to receive such when the floods come
and the winds beat upon them.
 
3 Nephi 11:41 Therefore, go forth unto this people, and declare
the words which I have spoken, unto the ends of the earth.
 
3 Nephi 12:0 The Savior's teachings to the Nephites--He calls and
commissions the twelve disciples--His words to the multitude--The
Sermon on the Mount retold--Compare Matthew 5.
 
3 Nephi 12:1 And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these
words unto Nephi, and to those who had been called, (now the
number of them who had been called, and received power and
authority to baptize, was twelve) and behold, he stretched forth
his hand unto the multitude, and cried unto them, saying: Blessed
are ye if ye shall give heed unto the words of these twelve whom
I have chosen from among you to minister unto you, and to be your
servants; and unto them I have given power that they may baptize
you with water; and after that ye are baptized with water,
behold, I will baptize you with fire and with the Holy Ghost;
therefore blessed are ye if ye shall believe in me and be
baptized, after that ye have seen me and know that I am.
 
3 Nephi 12:2 And again, more blessed are they who shall believe
in your words because that ye shall testify that ye have seen me,
and that ye know that I am. Yea, blessed are they who shall
believe in your words, and come down into the depths of humility
and be baptized, for they shall be visited with fire and with the
Holy Ghost, and shall receive a remission of their sins.
 
3 Nephi 12:3 Yea, blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto
me, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
 
3 Nephi 12:4 And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they
shall be comforted.
 
3 Nephi 12:5 And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the
earth.
 
3 Nephi 12:6 And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy
Ghost.
 
3 Nephi 12:7 And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy.
 
3 Nephi 12:8 And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they
shall see God.
 
3 Nephi 12:9 And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall
be called the children of God.
 
3 Nephi 12:10 And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my
name's sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
 
3 Nephi 12:11 And blessed are ye when men shall revile you and
persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,
for my sake;
 
3 Nephi 12:12 For ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly
glad, for great shall be your reward in heaven; for so persecuted
they the prophets who were before you.
 
3 Nephi 12:13 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to
be the salt of the earth; but if the salt shall lose its savor
wherewith shall the earth be salted? The salt shall be
thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be
trodden under foot of men.
 
3 Nephi 12:14 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to
be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot
be hid.
 
3 Nephi 12:15 Behold, do men light a candle and put it under a
bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all
that are in the house;
 
3 Nephi 12:16 Therefore let your light so shine before this
people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father
who is in heaven.
 
3 Nephi 12:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the
prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfil;
 
3 Nephi 12:18 For verily I say unto you, one jot nor one tittle
hath not passed away from the law, but in me it hath all been
fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 12:19 And behold, I have given you the law and the
commandments of my Father, that ye shall believe in me, and that
ye shall repent of your sins, and come unto me with a broken
heart and a contrite spirit. Behold, ye have the commandments
before you, and the law is fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 12:20 Therefore come unto me and be ye saved; for verily
I say unto you, that except ye shall keep my commandments, which
I have commanded you at this time, ye shall in no case enter into
the kingdom of heaven.
 
3 Nephi 12:21 Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old
time, and it is also written before you, that thou shalt not
kill, and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment
of God;
 
3 Nephi 12:22 But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with
his brother shall be in danger of his judgment. And whosoever
shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the
council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger
of hell fire.
 
3 Nephi 12:23 Therefore, if ye shall come unto me, or shall
desire to come unto me, and rememberest that thy brother hath
aught against thee--
 
3 Nephi 12:24 Go thy way unto thy brother, and first be
reconciled to thy brother, and then come unto me with full
purpose of heart, and I will receive you.
 
3 Nephi 12:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art
in the way with him, lest at any time he shall get thee, and thou
shalt be cast into prison.
 
3 Nephi 12:26 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, thou shalt by no
means come out thence until thou hast paid the uttermost senine.
And while ye are in prison can ye pay even one senine? Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Nay.
 
3 Nephi 12:27 Behold, it is written by them of old time, that
thou shalt not commit adultery;
 
3 Nephi 12:28 But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a
woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery already in his
heart.
 
3 Nephi 12:29 Behold, I give unto you a commandment, that ye
suffer none of these things to enter into your heart;
 
3 Nephi 12:30 For it is better that ye should deny yourselves of
these things, wherein ye will take up your cross, than that ye
should be cast into hell.
 
3 Nephi 12:31 It hath been written, that whosoever shall put away
his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.
 
3 Nephi 12:32 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that whosoever
shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication,
causeth her to commit adultery; and whoso shall marry her who is
divorced committeth adultery.
 
3 Nephi 12:33 And again it is written, thou shalt not forswear
thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths;
 
3 Nephi 12:34 But verily, verily, I say unto you, swear not at
all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne;
 
3 Nephi 12:35 Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool;
 
3 Nephi 12:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou
canst not make one hair black or white;
 
3 Nephi 12:37 But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay;
for whatsoever cometh of more than these is evil.
 
3 Nephi 12:38 And behold, it is written, an eye for an eye, and a
tooth for a tooth;
 
3 Nephi 12:39 But I say unto you, that ye shall not resist evil,
but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him
the other also;
 
3 Nephi 12:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law and take
away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also;
 
3 Nephi 12:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go
with him twain.
 
3 Nephi 12:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that
would borrow of thee turn thou not away.
 
3 Nephi 12:43 And behold it is written also, that thou shalt love
thy neighbor and hate thine enemy;
 
3 Nephi 12:44 But behold I say unto you, love your enemies, bless
them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for
them who despitefully use you and persecute you;
 
3 Nephi 12:45 That ye may be the children of your Father who is
in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the
good.
 
3 Nephi 12:46 Therefore those things which were of old time,
which were under the law, in me are all fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 12:47 Old things are done away, and all things have
become new.
 
3 Nephi 12:48 Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as
I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
 
3 Nephi 13:0 The Savior's sermon on the Mount continued--His
commandments to the twelve--Compare Matthew 6.
 
3 Nephi 13:1 Verily, verily, I say that I would that ye should do
alms unto the poor; but take heed that ye do not your alms before
men to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward of your
Father who is in heaven.
 
3 Nephi 13:2 Therefore, when ye shall do your alms do not sound a
trumpet before you, as will hypocrites do in the synagogues and
in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say
unto you, they have their reward.
 
3 Nephi 13:3 But when thou doest alms let not thy left hand know
what thy right hand doeth;
 
3 Nephi 13:4 That thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father who
seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly.
 
3 Nephi 13:5 And when thou prayest thou shalt not do as the
hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
 
3 Nephi 13:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in
secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee
openly.
 
3 Nephi 13:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen, for they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking.
 
3 Nephi 13:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.
 
3 Nephi 13:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who
art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
 
3 Nephi 13:10 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
 
3 Nephi 13:11 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
debtors.
 
3 Nephi 13:12 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil.
 
3 Nephi 13:13 For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the
glory, forever. Amen.
 
3 Nephi 13:14 For, if ye forgive men their trespasses your
heavenly Father will also forgive you;
 
3 Nephi 13:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither
will your Father forgive your trespasses.
 
3 Nephi 13:16 Moreover, when ye fast be not as the hypocrites, of
a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may
appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their
reward.
 
3 Nephi 13:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and
wash thy face;
 
3 Nephi 13:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy
Father, who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret,
shall reward thee openly.
 
3 Nephi 13:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and
steal;
 
3 Nephi 13:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through nor steal.
 
3 Nephi 13:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.
 
3 Nephi 13:22 The light of the body is the eye; if, therefore,
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
 
3 Nephi 13:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be
full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be
darkness, how great is that darkness!
 
3 Nephi 13:24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will
hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one
and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
 
3 Nephi 13:25 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words he looked upon the twelve whom he had chosen, and
said unto them: Remember the words which I have spoken. For
behold, ye are they whom I have chosen to minister unto this
people. Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body,
what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the
body than raiment?
 
3 Nephi 13:26 Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not,
neither do they reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
 
3 Nephi 13:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit
unto his stature?
 
3 Nephi 13:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they
spin;
 
3 Nephi 13:29 And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, in all
his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.
 
3 Nephi 13:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,
which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, even so will
he clothe you, if ye are not of little faith.
 
3 Nephi 13:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we
eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed?
 
3 Nephi 13:32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need
of all these things.
 
3 Nephi 13:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
 
3 Nephi 13:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient is
the day unto the evil thereof.
 
3 Nephi 14:0 The Savior's sermon continued--Further instructions
to the multitude--Compare Matthew 7.
 
3 Nephi 14:1 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words he turned again to the multitude, and did open his
mouth unto them again, saying: Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
 
3 Nephi 14:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged;
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
 
3 Nephi 14:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own
eye?
 
3 Nephi 14:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me pull the
mote out of thine eye--and behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
 
3 Nephi 14:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own
eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy
brother's eye.
 
3 Nephi 14:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither
cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and rend you.
 
3 Nephi 14:7 Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
 
3 Nephi 14:8 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that
seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
 
3 Nephi 14:9 Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask
bread, will give him a stone?
 
3 Nephi 14:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
 
3 Nephi 14:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in
heaven give good things to them that ask him?
 
3 Nephi 14:12 Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and
the prophets.
 
3 Nephi 14:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, which leadeth to destruction, and
many there be who go in thereat;
 
3 Nephi 14:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
 
3 Nephi 14:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
 
3 Nephi 14:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
 
3 Nephi 14:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
 
3 Nephi 14:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither
a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
 
3 Nephi 14:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down, and cast into the fire.
 
3 Nephi 14:20 Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.
 
3 Nephi 14:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of
my Father who is in heaven.
 
3 Nephi 14:22 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out
devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?
 
3 Nephi 14:23 And then will I profess unto them: I never knew
you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
 
3 Nephi 14:24 Therefore, whoso heareth these sayings of mine and
doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house
upon a rock--
 
3 Nephi 14:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not, for it
was founded upon a rock.
 
3 Nephi 14:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine
and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built
his house upon the sand--
 
3 Nephi 14:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell, and great
was the fall of it.
 
3 Nephi 15:0 The Law of Moses superseded--The Giver of the Law
fulfills the Law--The sheep of another fold.
 
3 Nephi 15:1 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had ended
these sayings he cast his eyes round about on the multitude, and
said unto them: Behold, ye have heard the things which I taught
before I ascended to my Father; therefore, whoso remembereth
these sayings of mine and doeth them, him will I raise up at the
last day.
 
3 Nephi 15:2 And it came to pass that when Jesus had said these
words he perceived that there were some among them who marveled,
and wondered what he would concerning the law of Moses; for they
understood not the saying that old things had passed away, and
that all things had become new.
 
3 Nephi 15:3 And he said unto them: Marvel not that I said unto
you that old things had passed away, and that all things had
become new.
 
3 Nephi 15:4 Behold, I say unto you that the law is fulfilled
that was given unto Moses.
 
3 Nephi 15:5 Behold, I am he that gave the law, and I am he who
covenanted with my people Israel; therefore, the law in me is
fulfilled, for I have come to fulfil the law; therefore it hath
an end.
 
3 Nephi 15:6 Behold, I do not destroy the prophets, for as many
as have not been fulfilled in me, verily I say unto you, shall
all be fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 15:7 And because I said unto you that old things have
passed away, I do not destroy that which hath been spoken
concerning things which are to come.
 
3 Nephi 15:8 For behold, the covenant which I have made with my
people is not all fulfilled; but the law which was given unto
Moses hath an end in me.
 
3 Nephi 15:9 Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me,
and endure to the end, and ye shall live; for unto him that
endureth to the end will I give eternal life.
 
3 Nephi 15:10 Behold, I have given unto you the commandments;
therefore keep my commandments. And this is the law and the
prophets, for they truly testified of me.
 
3 Nephi 15:11 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words, he said unto those twelve whom he had chosen:
 
3 Nephi 15:12 Ye are my disciples; and ye are a light unto this
people, who are a remnant of the house of Joseph.
 
3 Nephi 15:13 And behold, this is the land of your inheritance;
and the Father hath given it unto you.
 
3 Nephi 15:14 And not at any time hath the Father given me
commandment that I should tell it unto your brethren at
Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 15:15 Neither at any time hath the Father given me
commandment that I should tell unto them concerning the other
tribes of the house of Israel, whom the Father hath led away out
of the land.
 
3 Nephi 15:16 This much did the Father command me, that I should
tell unto them:
 
3 Nephi 15:17 That other sheep I have which are not of this fold;
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there
shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
 
3 Nephi 15:18 And now, because of stiff-neckedness and unbelief
they understood not my word; therefore I was commanded to say no
more of the Father concerning this thing unto them.
 
3 Nephi 15:19 But, verily, I say unto you that the Father hath
commanded me, and I tell it unto you, that ye were separated from
among them because of their iniquity; therefore it is because of
their iniquity that they know not of you.
 
3 Nephi 15:20 And verily, I say unto you again that the other
tribes hath the Father separated from them; and it is because of
their iniquity that they know not of them.
 
3 Nephi 15:21 And verily I say unto you, that ye are they of whom
I said: Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also
I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be
one fold, and one shepherd.
 
3 Nephi 15:22 And they understood me not, for they supposed it
had been the Gentiles; for they understood not that the Gentiles
should be converted through their preaching.
 
3 Nephi 15:23 And they understood me not that I said they shall
hear my voice; and they understood me not that the Gentiles
should not at any time hear my voice--that I should not manifest
myself unto them save it were by the Holy Ghost.
 
3 Nephi 15:24 But behold, ye have both heard my voice, and seen
me; and ye are my sheep, and ye are numbered among those whom the
Father hath given me.
 
3 Nephi 16:0 Yet another fold to hear the Savior--blessings upon
the believing Gentiles--The state of those who reject the Gospel-
-The prophet Isaiah cited.
 
3 Nephi 16:1 And verily, verily, I say unto you that I have other
sheep which are not of this land, neither of the land of
Jerusalem, neither in any parts of that land round about whither
I have been to minister.
 
3 Nephi 16:2 For they of whom I speak are they who have not as
yet heard my voice; neither have I at any time manifested myself
unto them.
 
3 Nephi 16:3 But I have received a commandment of the Father that
I shall go unto them, and that they shall hear my voice, and
shall be numbered among my sheep, that there may be one fold and
one shepherd; therefore I go to show myself unto them.
 
3 Nephi 16:4 And I command you that ye shall write these sayings
after I am gone, that if it so be that my people at Jerusalem,
they who have seen me and been with me in my ministry, do not ask
the Father in my name, that they may receive a knowledge of you
by the Holy Ghost, and also of the other tribes whom they know
not of, that these sayings which ye shall write shall be kept and
shall be manifested unto the Gentiles, that through the fulness
of the Gentiles, the remnant of their seed, who shall be
scattered forth upon the face of the earth because of their
unbelief, may be brought in, or may be brought to a knowledge of
me, their Redeemer.
 
3 Nephi 16:5 And then will I gather them in from the four
quarters of the earth; and then will I fulfill the covenant which
the Father hath made unto all the people of the house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 16:6 And blessed are the Gentiles, because of their
belief in me, in and of the Holy Ghost, which witnesses unto them
of me and of the Father.
 
3 Nephi 16:7 Behold, because of their belief in me, saith the
Father, and because of the unbelief of you, O house of Israel, in
the latter day shall the truth come unto the Gentiles, that the
fulness of these things shall be made known unto them.
 
3 Nephi 16:8 But wo, saith the Father, unto the unbelieving of
the Gentiles--for notwithstanding they have come forth upon the
face of this land, and have scattered my people who are of the
house of Israel; and my people who are of the house of Israel
have been cast out from among them, and have been trodden under
feet by them;
 
3 Nephi 16:9 And because of the mercies of the Father unto the
Gentiles, and also the judgments of the Father upon my people who
are of the house of Israel, verily, verily, I say unto you, that
after all this, and I have caused my people who are of the house
of Israel to be smitten, and to be afflicted, and to be slain,
and to be cast out from among them, and to become hated by them,
and to become a hiss and a byword among them--
 
3 Nephi 16:10 And thus commandeth the Father that I should say
unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my
gospel, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, and shall be
lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and
above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with
all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all
manner of hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and
whoredoms, and of secret abominations; and if they shall do all
those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold,
saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from
among them.
 
3 Nephi 16:11 And then will I remember my covenant which I have
made unto my people, O house of Israel, and I will bring my
gospel unto them.
 
3 Nephi 16:12 And I will show unto thee, O house of Israel, that
the Gentiles shall not have power over you; but I will remember
my covenant unto you, O house of Israel, and ye shall come unto
the knowledge of the fulness of my gospel.
 
3 Nephi 16:13 But if the Gentiles will repent and return unto me,
saith the Father, behold they shall be numbered among my people,
O house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 16:14 And I will not suffer my people, who are of the
house of Israel, to go through among them, and tread them down,
saith the Father.
 
3 Nephi 16:15 But if they will not turn unto me, and hearken unto
my voice, I will suffer them, yea, I will suffer my people, O
house of Israel, that they shall go through among them, and shall
tread them down, and they shall be as salt that hath lost its
savor, which is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out,
and to be trodden under foot of my people, O house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 16:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, thus hath the
Father commanded me--that I should give unto this people this
land for their inheritance.
 
3 Nephi 16:17 And then the words of the prophet Isaiah shall be
fulfilled, which say:
 
3 Nephi 16:18 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye
when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
 
3 Nephi 16:19 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste
places of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he
hath redeemed Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 16:20 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eye of
all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of God.
 
3 Nephi 17:0 The Savior's instructions continued--The lost
tribes--The Savior heals the sick and blesses little children--A
marvelous and touching scene.
 
3 Nephi 17:1 Behold, now it came to pass that when Jesus had
spoken these words he looked round about again on the multitude,
and he said unto them: Behold, my time is at hand.
 
3 Nephi 17:2 I perceive that ye are weak, that ye cannot
understand all my words which I am commanded of the Father to
speak unto you at this time.
 
3 Nephi 17:3 Therefore, go ye unto your homes, and ponder upon
the things which I have said, and ask of the Father, in my name,
that ye may understand, and prepare your minds for the morrow,
and I come unto you again.
 
3 Nephi 17:4 But now I go unto the Father, and also to show
myself unto the lost tribes of Israel, for they are not lost unto
the Father, for he knoweth whither he hath taken them.
 
3 Nephi 17:5 And it came to pass that when Jesus had thus spoken,
he cast his eyes round about again on the multitude, and beheld
they were in tears, and did look steadfastly upon him as if they
would ask him to tarry a little longer with them.
 
3 Nephi 17:6 And he said unto them: Behold, my bowels are filled
with compassion towards you.
 
3 Nephi 17:7 Have ye any that are sick among you? Bring them
hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed,
or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are
afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them,
for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy.
 
3 Nephi 17:8 For I perceive that ye desire that I should show
unto you what I have done unto your brethren at Jerusalem, for I
see that your faith is sufficient that I should heal you.
 
3 Nephi 17:9 And it came to pass that when he had thus spoken,
all the multitude, with one accord, did go forth with their sick
and their afflicted, and their lame, and with their blind, and
with their dumb, and with all them that were afflicted in any
manner; and he did heal them every one as they were brought forth
unto him.
 
3 Nephi 17:10 And they did all, both they who had been healed and
they who were whole, bow down at his feet, and did worship him;
and as many as could come for the multitude did kiss his feet,
insomuch that they did bathe his feet with their tears.
 
3 Nephi 17:11 And it came to pass that he commanded that their
little children should be brought.
 
3 Nephi 17:12 So they brought their little children and set them
down upon the ground round about him, and Jesus stood in the
midst; and the multitude gave way till they had all been brought
unto him.
 
3 Nephi 17:13 And it came to pass that when they had all been
brought, and Jesus stood in the midst, he commanded the multitude
that they should kneel down upon the ground.
 
3 Nephi 17:14 And it came to pass that when they had knelt upon
the ground, Jesus groaned within himself, and said: Father, I am
troubled because of the wickedness of the people of the house of
Israel.
 
3 Nephi 17:15 And when he had said these words, he himself also
knelt upon the earth; and behold he prayed unto the Father, and
the things which he prayed cannot be written, and the multitude
did bear record who heard him.
 
3 Nephi 17:16 And after this manner do they bear record: The eye
hath never seen, neither hath the ear heard, before, so great and
marvelous things as we saw and heard Jesus speak unto the Father;
 
3 Nephi 17:17 And no tongue can speak, neither can there be
written by any man, neither can the hearts of men conceive so
great and marvelous things as we both saw and heard Jesus speak;
and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the
time we heard him pray for us unto the Father.
 
3 Nephi 17:18 And it came to pass that when Jesus had made an end
of praying unto the Father, he arose; but so great was the joy of
the multitude that they were overcome.
 
3 Nephi 17:19 And it came to pass that Jesus spake unto them, and
bade them arise.
 
3 Nephi 17:20 And they arose from the earth, and he said unto
them: Blessed are ye because of your faith. And now behold, my
joy is full.
 
3 Nephi 17:21 And when he had said these words, he wept, and the
multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children,
one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for
them.
 
3 Nephi 17:22 And when he had done this he wept again;
 
3 Nephi 17:23 And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto
them: Behold your little ones.
 
3 Nephi 17:24 And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes
towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw
angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire;
and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and
they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister
unto them.
 
3 Nephi 17:25 And the multitude did see and hear and bear record;
and they know that their record is true for they all of them did
see and hear, every man for himself; and they were in number
about two thousand and five hundred souls; and they did consist
of men, women, and children.
 
3 Nephi 18:0 Sacrament of bread and wine instituted among the
Nephites--Necessity of prayer emphasized--Authority given to
confer the Holy Ghost.
 
3 Nephi 18:1 And it came to pass that Jesus commanded his
disciples that they should bring forth some bread and wine unto
him.
 
3 Nephi 18:2 And while they were gone for bread and wine, he
commanded the multitude that they should sit themselves down upon
the earth.
 
3 Nephi 18:3 And when the disciples had come with bread and wine,
he took of the bread and brake and blessed it; and he gave unto
the disciples and commanded that they should eat.
 
3 Nephi 18:4 And when they had eaten and were filled, he
commanded that they should give unto the multitude.
 
3 Nephi 18:5 And when the multitude had eaten and were filled, he
said unto the disciples: Behold there shall one be ordained among
you, and to him will I give power that he shall break bread and
bless it and give it unto the people of my church, unto all those
who shall believe and be baptized in my name.
 
3 Nephi 18:6 And this shall ye always observe to do, even as I
have done, even as I have broken bread and blessed it and given
it unto you.
 
3 Nephi 18:7 And this shall ye do in remembrance of my body,
which I have shown unto you. And it shall be a testimony unto the
Father that ye do always remember me. And if ye do always
remember me ye shall have my Spirit to be with you.
 
3 Nephi 18:8 And it came to pass that when he said these words,
he commanded his disciples that they should take of the wine of
the cup and drink of it, and that they should also give unto the
multitude that they might drink of it.
 
3 Nephi 18:9 And it came to pass that they did so, and did drink
of it and were filled; and they gave unto the multitude, and they
did drink, and they were filled.
 
3 Nephi 18:10 And when the disciples had done this, Jesus said
unto them: Blessed are ye for this thing which ye have done, for
this is fulfilling my commandments, and this doth witness unto
the Father that ye are willing to do that which I have commanded
you.
 
3 Nephi 18:11 And this shall ye always do to those who repent and
are baptized in my name; and ye shall do it in remembrance of my
blood, which I have shed for you, that ye may witness unto the
Father that ye do always remember me. And if ye do always
remember me ye shall have my Spirit to be with you.
 
3 Nephi 18:12 And I give unto you a commandment that ye shall do
these things. And if ye shall always do these things blessed are
ye, for ye are built upon my rock.
 
3 Nephi 18:13 But whoso among you shall do more or less than
these are not built upon my rock, but are built upon a sandy
foundation; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and
the winds blow, and beat upon them, they shall fall, and the
gates of hell are ready open to receive them.
 
3 Nephi 18:14 Therefore blessed are ye if ye shall keep my
commandments, which the Father hath commanded me that I should
give unto you.
 
3 Nephi 18:15 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and
pray always, lest ye be tempted by the devil, and ye be led away
captive by him.
 
3 Nephi 18:16 And as I have prayed among you even so shall ye
pray in my church, among my people who do repent and are baptized
in my name. Behold I am the light; I have set an example for you.
 
3 Nephi 18:17 And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words unto his disciples, he turned again unto the
multitude and said unto them:
 
3 Nephi 18:18 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must
watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan
desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.
 
3 Nephi 18:19 Therefore ye must always pray unto the Father in my
name;
 
3 Nephi 18:20 And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name,
which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall
be given unto you.
 
3 Nephi 18:21 Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my
name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.
 
3 Nephi 18:22 And behold, ye shall meet together oft; and ye
shall not forbid any man from coming unto you when ye shall meet
together, but suffer them that they may come unto you and forbid
them not;
 
3 Nephi 18:23 But ye shall pray for them, and shall not cast them
out; and if it so be that they come unto you oft ye shall pray
for them unto the Father, in my name.
 
3 Nephi 18:24 Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine
unto the world. Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up--
that which ye have seen me do. Behold ye see that I have prayed
unto the Father, and ye all have witnessed.
 
3 Nephi 18:25 And ye see that I have commanded that none of you
should go away, but rather have commanded that ye should come
unto me, that ye might feel and see; even so shall ye do unto the
world; and whosoever breaketh this commandment suffereth himself
to be led into temptation.
 
3 Nephi 18:26 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words, he turned his eyes again upon the disciples whom he
had chosen, and said unto them:
 
3 Nephi 18:27 Behold verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto
you another commandment, and then I must go unto my Father that I
may fulfil other commandments which he hath given me.
 
3 Nephi 18:28 And now behold, this is the commandment which I
give unto you, that ye shall not suffer any one knowingly to
partake of my flesh and blood unworthily, when ye shall minister
it;
 
3 Nephi 18:29 For whoso eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood
unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul; therefore
if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat and drink of my flesh
and blood ye shall forbid him.
 
3 Nephi 18:30 Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out from among
you, but ye shall minister unto him and shall pray for him unto
the Father, in my name; and if it so be that he repenteth and is
baptized in my name, then shall ye receive him, and shall
minister unto him of my flesh and blood.
 
3 Nephi 18:31 But if he repent not he shall not be numbered among
my people, that he may not destroy my people, for behold I know
my sheep, and they are numbered.
 
3 Nephi 18:32 Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your
synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such shall ye
continue to minister; for ye know not but what they will return
and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I
shall heal them; and ye shall be the means of bringing salvation
unto them.
 
3 Nephi 18:33 Therefore, keep these sayings which I have
commanded you that ye come not under condemnation; for wo unto
him whom the Father condemneth.
 
3 Nephi 18:34 And I give you these commandments because of the
disputations which have been among you. And blessed are ye if ye
have no disputations among you.
 
3 Nephi 18:35 And now I go unto the Father, because it is
expedient that I should go unto the Father for your sakes.
 
3 Nephi 18:36 And it came to pass that when Jesus had made an end
of these sayings, he touched with his hand the disciples whom he
had chosen, one by one, even until he had touched them all, and
spake unto them as he touched them.
 
3 Nephi 18:37 And the multitude heard not the words which he
spake, therefore they did not bear record; but the disciples bare
record that he gave them power to give the Holy Ghost. And I will
show unto you hereafter that this record is true.
 
3 Nephi 18:38 And it came to pass that when Jesus had touched
them all, there came a cloud and overshadowed the multitude that
they could not see Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 18:39 And while they were overshadowed he departed from
them, and ascended into heaven. And the disciples saw and did
bear record that he ascended again into heaven.
 
3 Nephi 19:0 Names of the Nephite twelve--Their baptism--The Holy
Ghost given--The Savior's second visitation--An ineffable
outpouring of prayer.
 
3 Nephi 19:1 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had ascended
into heaven, the multitude did disperse, and every man did take
his wife and his children and did return to his own home.
 
3 Nephi 19:2 And it was noised abroad among the people
immediately, before it was yet dark, that the multitude had seen
Jesus, and that he had ministered unto them, and that he would
also show himself on the morrow unto the multitude.
 
3 Nephi 19:3 Yea, and even all the night it was noised abroad
concerning Jesus; and insomuch did they send forth unto the
people that there were many, yea, an exceedingly great number,
did labor exceedingly all that night, that they might be on the
morrow in the place where Jesus should show himself unto the
multitude.
 
3 Nephi 19:4 And it came to pass that on the morrow, when the
multitude was gathered together, behold, Nephi and his brother
whom he had raised from the dead, whose name was Timothy, and
also his son, whose name was Jonas, and also Mathoni, and
Mathonihah, his brother, and Kumen, and Kumenonhi, and Jeremiah,
and Shemnon, and Jonas, and Zedekiah, and Isaiah--now these were
the names of the disciples whom Jesus had chosen--and it came to
pass that they went forth and stood in the midst of the
multitude.
 
3 Nephi 19:5 And behold, the multitude was so great that they did
cause that they should be separated into twelve bodies.
 
3 Nephi 19:6 And the twelve did teach the multitude; and behold,
they did cause that the multitude should kneel down upon the face
of the earth, and should pray unto the Father in the name of
Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 19:7 And the disciples did pray unto the Father also in
the name of Jesus. And it came to pass that they arose and
ministered unto the people.
 
3 Nephi 19:8 And when they had ministered those same words which
Jesus had spoken--nothing varying from the words which Jesus had
spoken--behold, they knelt again and prayed to the Father in the
name of Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 19:9 And they did pray for that which they most desired;
and they desired that the Holy Ghost should be given unto them.
 
3 Nephi 19:10 And when they had thus prayed they went down unto
the water's edge, and the multitude followed them.
 
3 Nephi 19:11 And it came to pass that Nephi went down into the
water and was baptized.
 
3 Nephi 19:12 And he came up out of the water and began to
baptize. And he baptized all those whom Jesus had chosen.
 
3 Nephi 19:13 And it came to pass when they were all baptized and
had come up out of the water, the Holy Ghost did fall upon them,
and they were filled with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
 
3 Nephi 19:14 And behold, they were encircled about as if it were
by fire; and it came down from heaven, and the multitude did
witness it, and did bear record; and angels did come down out of
heaven and did minister unto them.
 
3 Nephi 19:15 And it came to pass that while the angels were
ministering unto the disciples, behold, Jesus came and stood in
the midst and ministered unto them.
 
3 Nephi 19:16 And it came to pass that he spake unto the
multitude, and commanded them that they should kneel down again
upon the earth, and also that his disciples should kneel down
upon the earth.
 
3 Nephi 19:17 And it came to pass that when they had all knelt
down upon the earth, he commanded his disciples that they should
pray.
 
3 Nephi 19:18 And behold, they began to pray; and they did pray
unto Jesus, calling him their Lord and their God.
 
3 Nephi 19:19 And it came to pass that Jesus departed out of the
midst of them, and went a little way off from them and bowed
himself to the earth, and he said:
 
3 Nephi 19:20 Father, I thank thee that thou hast given the Holy
Ghost unto these whom I have chosen; and it is because of their
belief in me that I have chosen them out of the world.
 
3 Nephi 19:21 Father, I pray thee that thou wilt give the Holy
Ghost unto all them that shall believe in their words.
 
3 Nephi 19:22 Father, thou hast given them the Holy Ghost because
they believe in me; and thou seest that they believe in me
because thou hearest them, and they pray unto me; and they pray
unto me because I am with them.
 
3 Nephi 19:23 And now Father, I pray unto thee for them, and also
for all those who shall believe on their words, that they may
believe in me, that I may be in them as thou, Father, art in me,
that we may be one.
 
3 Nephi 19:24 And it came to pass that when Jesus had thus prayed
unto the Father, he came unto his disciples, and behold, they did
still continue, without ceasing, to pray unto him; and they did
not multiply many words, for it was given unto them what they
should pray, and they were filled with desire.
 
3 Nephi 19:25 And it came to pass that Jesus blessed them as they
did pray unto him; and his countenance did smile upon them, and
the light of his countenance did shine upon them, and behold they
were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus;
and behold the whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness,
yea, even there could be nothing upon earth so white as the
whiteness thereof.
 
3 Nephi 19:26 And Jesus said unto them: Pray on; nevertheless
they did not cease to pray.
 
3 Nephi 19:27 And he turned from them again, and went a little
way off and bowed himself to the earth; and he prayed again unto
the Father, saying:
 
3 Nephi 19:28 Father, I thank thee that thou hast purified those
whom I have chosen, because of their faith, and I pray for them,
and also for them who shall believe on their words, that they may
be purified in me, through faith on their words, even as they are
purified in me.
 
3 Nephi 19:29 Father, I pray not for the world, but for those
whom thou hast given me out of the world, because of their faith,
that they may be purified in me, that I may be in them as thou,
Father, art in me, that we may be one, that I may be glorified in
them.
 
3 Nephi 19:30 And when Jesus had spoken these words he came again
unto his disciples; and behold they did pray steadfastly, without
ceasing, unto him; and he did smile upon them again; and behold
they were white, even as Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 19:31 And it came to pass that he went again a little way
off and prayed unto the Father;
 
3 Nephi 19:32 And tongue cannot speak the words which he prayed,
neither can be written by man the words which he prayed.
 
3 Nephi 19:33 And the multitude did hear and do bear record; and
their hearts were open and they did understand in their hearts
the words which he prayed.
 
3 Nephi 19:34 Nevertheless, so great and marvelous were the words
which he prayed that they cannot be written, neither can they be
uttered by man.
 
3 Nephi 19:35 And it came to pass that when Jesus had made an end
of praying he came again to the disciples, and said unto them: So
great faith have I never seen among all the Jews; wherefore I
could not show unto them so great miracles, because of their
unbelief.
 
3 Nephi 19:36 Verily I say unto you, there are none of them that
have seen so great things as ye have seen; neither have they
heard so great things as ye have heard.
 
3 Nephi 20:0 Bread and wine, miraculously provided, again
administered--the remnant of Jacob--the Savior proclaims himself
to be the prophet spoken of as like unto Moses--Many prophets
cited.
 
3 Nephi 20:1 And it came to pass that he commanded the multitude
that they should cease to pray, and also his disciples. And he
commanded them that they should not cease to pray in their
hearts.
 
3 Nephi 20:2 And he commanded them that they should arise and
stand up upon their feet. And they arose up and stood upon their
feet.
 
3 Nephi 20:3 And it came to pass that he brake bread again and
blessed it, and gave to the disciples to eat.
 
3 Nephi 20:4 And when they had eaten he commanded them that they
should break bread, and give unto the multitude.
 
3 Nephi 20:5 And when they had given unto the multitude he also
gave them wine to drink, and commanded them that they should give
unto the multitude.
 
3 Nephi 20:6 Now, there had been no bread, neither wine, brought
by the disciples, neither by the multitude;
 
3 Nephi 20:7 But he truly gave unto them bread to eat, and also
wine to drink.
 
3 Nephi 20:8 And he said unto them: He that eateth this bread
eateth of my body to his soul; and he that drinketh of this wine
drinketh of my blood to his soul; and his soul shall never hunger
nor thirst, but shall be filled.
 
3 Nephi 20:9 Now, when the multitude had all eaten and drunk,
behold, they were filled with the Spirit; and they did cry out
with one voice, and gave glory to Jesus, whom they both saw and
heard.
 
3 Nephi 20:10 And it came to pass that when they had all given
glory unto Jesus, he said unto them: Behold now I finish the
commandment which the Father hath commanded me concerning this
people, who are a remnant of the house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 20:11 Ye remember that I spake unto you, and said that
when the words of Isaiah should be fulfilled--behold they are
written, ye have them before you, therefore search them--
 
3 Nephi 20:12 And verily, verily, I say unto you, that when they
shall be fulfilled then is the fulfilling of the covenant which
the Father hath made unto his people, O house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 20:13 And then shall the remnants, which shall be
scattered abroad upon the face of the earth, be gathered in from
the east and from the west, and from the south and from the
north; and they shall be brought to the knowledge of the Lord
their God, who hath redeemed them.
 
3 Nephi 20:14 And the Father hath commanded me that I should give
unto you this land, for your inheritance.
 
3 Nephi 20:15 And I say unto you, that if the Gentiles do not
repent after the blessing which they shall receive, after they
have scattered my people--
 
3 Nephi 20:16 Then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of
Jacob, go forth among them; and ye shall be in the midst of them
who shall be many; and ye shall be among them as a lion among the
beasts of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of
sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in
pieces, and none can deliver.
 
3 Nephi 20:17 Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,
and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
 
3 Nephi 20:18 And I will gather my people together as a man
gathereth his sheaves into the floor.
 
3 Nephi 20:19 For I will make my people with whom the Father hath
covenanted, yea, I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy
hoofs brass. And thou shalt beat in pieces many people; and I
will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance
unto the Lord of the whole earth. And behold, I am he who doeth
it.
 
3 Nephi 20:20 And it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that
the sword of my justice shall hang over them at that day; and
except they repent it shall fall upon them, saith the Father,
yea, even upon all the nations of the Gentiles.
 
3 Nephi 20:21 And it shall come to pass that I will establish my
people, O house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 20:22 And behold, this people will I establish in this
land, unto the fulfilling of the covenant which I made with your
father Jacob; and it shall be a New Jerusalem. And the powers of
heaven shall be in the midst of this people; yea, even I will be
in the midst of you.
 
3 Nephi 20:23 Behold, I am he of whom Moses spake, saying: A
prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that
every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from
among the people.
 
3 Nephi 20:24 Verily I say unto you, yea, and all the prophets
from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken,
have testified of me.
 
3 Nephi 20:25 And behold, ye are the children of the prophets;
and ye are of the house of Israel; and ye are of the covenant
which the Father made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham: And
in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
 
3 Nephi 20:26 The Father having raised me up unto you first, and
sent me to bless you in turning away every one of you from his
iniquities; and this because ye are the children of the covenant-
- 3 Nephi 20:27 And after that ye were blessed then fulfilleth
the Father the covenant which he made with Abraham, saying: In
thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed--unto the
pouring out of the Holy Ghost through me upon the Gentiles, which
blessing upon the Gentiles shall make them mighty above all, unto
the scattering of my people, O house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 20:28 And they shall be a scourge unto the people of this
land. Nevertheless, when they shall have received the fulness of
my gospel, then if they shall harden their hearts against me I
will return their iniquities upon their own heads, saith the
Father.
 
3 Nephi 20:29 And I will remember the covenant which I have made
with my people; and I have covenanted with them that I would
gather them together in mine own due time, that I would give unto
them again the land of their fathers for their inheritance, which
is the land of Jerusalem, which is the promised land unto them
forever, saith the Father.
 
3 Nephi 20:30 And it shall come to pass that the time cometh,
when the fulness of my gospel shall be preached unto them;
 
3 Nephi 20:31 And they shall believe in me, that I am Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, and shall pray unto the Father in my
name.
 
3 Nephi 20:32 Then shall their watchmen lift up their voice, and
with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye
to eye.
 
3 Nephi 20:33 Then will the Father gather them together again,
and give unto them Jerusalem for the land of their inheritance.
 
3 Nephi 20:34 Then shall they break forth into joy--Sing
together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Father hath
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 20:35 The Father hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes
of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of the Father; and the Father and I are one.
 
3 Nephi 20:36 And then shall be brought to pass that which is
written: Awake, awake again, and put on thy strength, O Zion; put
on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised
and the unclean.
 
3 Nephi 20:37 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O
Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.
 
3 Nephi 20:38 For thus saith the Lord: Ye have sold yourselves
for naught, and ye shall be redeemed without money.
 
3 Nephi 20:39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that my people
shall know my name; yea, in that day they shall know that I am he
that doth speak.
 
3 Nephi 20:40 And then shall they say: How beautiful upon the
mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings unto
them, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion: Thy God
reigneth!
 
3 Nephi 20:41 And then shall a cry go forth: Depart ye, depart
ye, go ye out from thence, touch not that which is unclean; go ye
out of the midst of her; be ye clean that bear the vessels of the
Lord.
 
3 Nephi 20:42 For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by
flight; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel
shall be your rearward.
 
3 Nephi 20:43 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall
be exalted and extolled and be very high.
 
3 Nephi 20:44 As many were astonished at thee--his visage was so
marred, more than any man, and his form more than the sons of
men--
 
3 Nephi 20:45 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall
shut their mouths at him, for that which had not been told them
shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
consider.
 
3 Nephi 20:46 Verily, verily, I say unto you, all these things
shall surely come, even as the Father hath commanded me. Then
shall this covenant which the Father hath covenanted with his
people be fulfilled; and then shall Jerusalem be inhabited again
with my people, and it shall be the land of their inheritance.
 
3 Nephi 21:0 Sign of the Father's work--Glorious destiny of
repentant Gentiles--Condemnation predicted for the impenitent--
The New Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 21:1 And verily I say unto you, I give unto you a sign,
that ye may know the time when these things shall be about to
take place--that I shall gather in, from their long dispersion,
my people, O house of Israel, and shall establish again among
them my Zion;
 
3 Nephi 21:2 And behold, this is the thing which I will give unto
you for a sign--for verily I say unto you that when these things
which I declare unto you, and which I shall declare unto you
hereafter of myself, and by the power of the Holy Ghost which
shall be given unto you of the Father, shall be made known unto
the Gentiles that they may know concerning this people who are a
remnant of the house of Jacob, and concerning this my people who
shall be scattered by them;
 
3 Nephi 21:3 Verily, verily, I say unto you, when these things
shall be made known unto them of the Father, and shall come forth
of the Father, from them unto you;
 
3 Nephi 21:4 For it is wisdom in the Father that they should be
established in this land, and be set up as a free people by the
power of the Father, that these things might come forth from them
unto a remnant of your seed, that the covenant of the Father may
be fulfilled which he hath covenanted with his people, O house of
Israel;
 
3 Nephi 21:5 Therefore, when these works and the works which
shall be wrought among you hereafter shall come forth from the
Gentiles, unto your seed which shall dwindle in unbelief because
of iniquity;
 
3 Nephi 21:6 For thus it behooveth the Father that it should come
forth from the Gentiles, that he may show forth his power unto
the Gentiles, for this cause that the Gentiles, if they will not
harden their hearts, that they may repent and come unto me and be
baptized in my name and know of the true points of my doctrine,
that they may be numbered among my people, O house of Israel;
 
3 Nephi 21:7 And when these things come to pass that thy seed
shall begin to know these things--it shall be a sign unto them,
that they may know that the work of the Father hath already
commenced unto the fulfilling of the covenant which he hath made
unto the people who are of the house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 21:8 And when that day shall come, it shall come to pass
that kings shall shut their mouths; for that which had not been
told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall
they consider.
 
3 Nephi 21:9 For in that day, for my sake shall the Father work a
work, which shall be a great and a marvelous work among them; and
there shall be among them those who will not believe it, although
a man shall declare it unto them.
 
3 Nephi 21:10 But behold, the life of my servant shall be in my
hand; therefore they shall not hurt him, although he shall be
marred because of them. Yet I will heal him, for I will show unto
them that my wisdom is greater than the cunning of the devil.
 
3 Nephi 21:11 Therefore it shall come to pass that whosoever will
not believe in my words, who am Jesus Christ, which the Father
shall cause him to bring forth unto the Gentiles, and shall give
unto him power that he shall bring them forth unto the Gentiles,
(it shall be done even as Moses said) they shall be cut off from
among my people who are of the covenant.
 
3 Nephi 21:12 And my people who are a remnant of Jacob shall be
among the Gentiles, yea, in the midst of them as a lion among the
beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
who, if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces,
and none can deliver.
 
3 Nephi 21:13 Their hand shall be lifted up upon their
adversaries, and all their enemies shall be cut off.
 
3 Nephi 21:14 Yea, wo be unto the Gentiles except they repent;
for it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Father, that I
will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will
destroy thy chariots;
 
3 Nephi 21:15 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and
throw down all thy strongholds;
 
3 Nephi 21:16 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy land, and
thou shalt have no more soothsayers;
 
3 Nephi 21:17 Thy graven images I will also cut off, and thy
standing images out of the midst of thee, and thou shalt no more
worship the works of thy hands;
 
3 Nephi 21:18 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of
thee; so will I destroy thy cities.
 
3 Nephi 21:19 And it shall come to pass that all lyings, and
deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and priestcrafts, and
whoredoms, shall be done away.
 
3 Nephi 21:20 For it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that
at that day whosoever will not repent and come unto my Beloved
Son, them will I cut off from among my people, O house of Israel;
 
3 Nephi 21:21 And I will execute vengeance and fury upon them,
even as upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
 
3 Nephi 21:22 But if they will repent and hearken unto my words,
and harden not their hearts, I will establish my church among
them, and they shall come in unto the covenant and be numbered
among this the remnant of Jacob, unto whom I have given this land
for their inheritance;
 
3 Nephi 21:23 And they shall assist my people, the remnant of
Jacob, and also as many of the house of Israel as shall come,
that they may build a city, which shall be called the New
Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 21:24 And then shall they assist my people that they may
be gathered in, who are scattered upon all the face of the land,
in unto the New Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 21:25 And then shall the power of heaven come down among
them; and I also will be in the midst.
 
3 Nephi 21:26 And then shall the work of the Father commence at
that day, even when this gospel shall be preached among the
remnant of this people. Verily I say unto you, at that day shall
the work of the Father commence among all the dispersed of my
people, yea, even the tribes which have been lost, which the
Father hath led away out of Jerusalem.
 
3 Nephi 21:27 Yea, the work shall commence among all the
dispersed of my people, with the Father to prepare the way
whereby they may come unto me, that they may call on the Father
in my name.
 
3 Nephi 21:28 Yea, and then shall the work commence, with the
Father among all nations in preparing the way whereby his people
may be gathered home to the land of their inheritance.
 
3 Nephi 21:29 And they shall go out from all nations; and they
shall not go out in haste, nor go by flight, for I will go before
them, saith the Father, and I will be their rearward.
 
3 Nephi 22:0 The Savior further quotes the prophecies of Isaiah--
Compare Isaiah 54.
 
3 Nephi 22:1 And then shall that which is written come to pass:
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child;
for more are the children of the desolate than the children of
the married wife, saith the Lord.
 
3 Nephi 22:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch
forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not, lengthen thy
cords and strengthen thy stakes;
 
3 Nephi 22:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on
the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the
desolate cities to be inhabited.
 
3 Nephi 22:4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; neither be
thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame; for thou
shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy
widowhood any more.
 
3 Nephi 22:5 For thy maker, thy husband, the Lord of Hosts is his
name; and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel--the God of the
whole earth shall he be called.
 
3 Nephi 22:6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken
and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast
refused, saith thy God.
 
3 Nephi 22:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with
great mercies will I gather thee.
 
3 Nephi 22:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a
moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
 
3 Nephi 22:9 For this, the waters of Noah unto me, for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth,
so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee.
 
3 Nephi 22:10 For the mountains shall depart and the hills be
removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that
hath mercy on thee.
 
3 Nephi 22:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted! Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and
lay thy foundations with sapphires.
 
3 Nephi 22:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy
gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
 
3 Nephi 22:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord;
and great shall be the peace of thy children.
 
3 Nephi 22:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established; thou
shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear, and from
terror for it shall not come near thee.
 
3 Nephi 22:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together against
thee, not by me; whosoever shall gather together against thee
shall fall for thy sake.
 
3 Nephi 22:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the
coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his
work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
 
3 Nephi 22:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper; and every tongue that shall revile against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants
of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
 
3 Nephi 23:0 The Savior commands that omissions from Nephite
records be supplied--Prophecy of Samuel the Lamanite added.
 
3 Nephi 23:1 And now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to
search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye
search these things diligently; for great are the words of
Isaiah.
 
3 Nephi 23:2 For surely he spake as touching all things
concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore
it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles.
 
3 Nephi 23:3 And all things that he spake have been and shall be,
even according to the words which he spake.
 
3 Nephi 23:4 Therefore give heed to my words; write the things
which I have told you; and according to the time and the will of
the Father they shall go forth unto the Gentiles.
 
3 Nephi 23:5 And whosoever will hearken unto my words and
repenteth and is baptized, the same shall be saved. Search the
prophets, for many there be that testify of these things.
 
3 Nephi 23:6 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had said
these words he said unto them again, after he had expounded all
the scriptures unto them which they had received, he said unto
them: Behold, other scriptures I would that ye should write, that
ye have not.
 
3 Nephi 23:7 And it came to pass that he said unto Nephi: Bring
forth the record which ye have kept.
 
3 Nephi 23:8 And when Nephi had brought forth the records, and
laid them before him, he cast his eyes upon them and said:
 
3 Nephi 23:9 Verily I say unto you, I commanded my servant
Samuel, the Lamanite, that he should testify unto this people,
that at the day that the Father should glorify his name in me
that there were many saints who should arise from the dead, and
should appear unto many, and should minister unto them. And he
said unto them: Was it not so?
 
3 Nephi 23:10 And his disciples answered him and said: Yea, Lord,
Samuel did prophesy according to thy words, and they were all
fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 23:11 And Jesus said unto them: How be it that ye have
not written this thing, that many saints did arise and appear
unto many and did minister unto them?
 
3 Nephi 23:12 And it came to pass that Nephi remembered that this
thing had not been written.
 
3 Nephi 23:13 And it came to pass that Jesus commanded that it
should be written; therefore it was written according as he
commanded.
 
3 Nephi 23:14 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had
expounded all the scriptures in one, which they had written, he
commanded them that they should teach the things which he had
expounded unto them.
 
3 Nephi 24:0 Malachi's words given to the Nephites--The law of
tithes and offerings--Compare Malachi 3.
 
3 Nephi 24:1 And it came to pass that he commanded them that they
should write the words which the Father had given unto Malachi,
which he should tell unto them. And it came to pass that after
they were written he expounded them. And these are the words
which he did tell unto them, saying: Thus said the Father unto
Malachi--Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare
the way before me, and the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come
to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye
delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
3 Nephi 24:2 But who may abide the day of his coming, and who
shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire,
and like fuller's soap.
 
3 Nephi 24:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as
gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness.
 
3 Nephi 24:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former
years.
 
3 Nephi 24:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will
be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the
adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord
of Hosts.
 
3 Nephi 24:6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons
of Jacob are not consumed.
 
3 Nephi 24:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away
from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me and
I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts. But ye say:
Wherein shall we return?
 
3 Nephi 24:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye
say: Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
 
3 Nephi 24:9 Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye have robbed me,
even this whole nation.
 
3 Nephi 24:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in my house; and prove me now herewith, saith
the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven,
and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough
to receive it.
 
3 Nephi 24:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and
he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall
your vine cast her fruit before the time in the fields, saith the
Lord of Hosts.
 
3 Nephi 24:12 And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye
shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
3 Nephi 24:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the
Lord. Yet ye say: What have we spoken against thee?
 
3 Nephi 24:14 Ye have said: It is vain to serve God, and what
doth it profit that we have kept his ordinances and that we have
walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?
 
3 Nephi 24:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that
work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.
 
3 Nephi 24:16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to
another, and the Lord hearkened and heard; and a book of
remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord,
and that thought upon his name.
 
3 Nephi 24:17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in
that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man
spareth his own son that serveth him.
 
3 Nephi 24:18 Then shall ye return and discern between the
righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him
that serveth him not.
 
3 Nephi 25:0 Malachi's words continued--Elijah and his mission--
The great and dreadful day of the Lord--Compare Malachi 4.
 
3 Nephi 25:1 For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an
oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the
Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
 
3 Nephi 25:2 But unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of
Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go
forth and grow up as calves in the stall.
 
3 Nephi 25:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall
be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
this, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
3 Nephi 25:4 Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments.
 
3 Nephi 25:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord;
 
3 Nephi 25:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I
come and smite the earth with a curse.
 
3 Nephi 26:0 The Savior expounds all things from the beginning--
Marvels spoken by the mouths of babes--The work of the disciples.
 
3 Nephi 26:1 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had told
these things he expounded them unto the multitude; and he did
expound all things unto them, both great and small.
 
3 Nephi 26:2 And he saith: These scriptures, which ye had not
with you, the Father commanded that I should give unto you; for
it was wisdom in him that they should be given unto future
generations.
 
3 Nephi 26:3 And he did expound all things, even from the
beginning until the time that he should come in his glory--yea,
even all things which should come upon the face of the earth,
even until the elements should melt with fervent heat, and the
earth should be wrapt together as a scroll, and the heavens and
the earth should pass away;
 
3 Nephi 26:4 And even unto the great and last day, when all
people, and all kindreds, and all nations and tongues shall stand
before God, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or
whether they be evil--
 
3 Nephi 26:5 If they be good, to the resurrection of everlasting
life; and if they be evil, to the resurrection of damnation;
being on a parallel, the one on the one hand and the other on the
other hand, according to the mercy, and the justice, and the
holiness which is in Christ, who was before the world began.
 
3 Nephi 26:6 And now there cannot be written in this book even a
hundredth part of the things which Jesus did truly teach unto the
people;
 
3 Nephi 26:7 But behold the plates of Nephi do contain the more
part of the things which he taught the people.
 
3 Nephi 26:8 And these things have I written, which are a lesser
part of the things which he taught the people; and I have written
them to the intent that they may be brought again unto this
people, from the Gentiles, according to the words which Jesus
hath spoken.
 
3 Nephi 26:9 And when they shall have received this, which is
expedient that they should have first, to try their faith, and if
it shall so be that they shall believe these things then shall
the greater things be made manifest unto them.
 
3 Nephi 26:10 And if it so be that they will not believe these
things, then shall the greater things be withheld from them, unto
their condemnation.
 
3 Nephi 26:11 Behold, I was about to write them, all which were
engraven upon the plates of Nephi, but the Lord forbade it,
saying: I will try the faith of my people.
 
3 Nephi 26:12 Therefore I, Mormon, do write the things which have
been commanded me of the Lord. And now I, Mormon, make an end of
my sayings, and proceed to write the things which have been
commanded me.
 
3 Nephi 26:13 Therefore, I would that ye should behold that the
Lord truly did teach the people, for the space of three days; and
after that he did show himself unto them oft, and did break bread
oft, and bless it, and give it unto them.
 
3 Nephi 26:14 And it came to pass that he did teach and minister
unto the children of the multitude of whom hath been spoken, and
he did loose their tongues, and they did speak unto their fathers
great and marvelous things, even greater than he had revealed
unto the people; and he loosed their tongues that they could
utter.
 
3 Nephi 26:15 And it came to pass that after he had ascended into
heaven--the second time that he showed himself unto them, and had
gone unto the Father, after having healed all their sick, and
their lame, and opened the eyes of their blind and unstopped the
ears of the deaf, and even had done all manner of cures among
them, and raised a man from the dead, and had shown forth his
power unto them, and had ascended unto the Father--
 
3 Nephi 26:16 Behold, it came to pass on the morrow that the
multitude gathered themselves together, and they both saw and
heard these children; yea, even babes did open their mouths and
utter marvelous things; and the things which they did utter were
forbidden that there should not any man write them.
 
3 Nephi 26:17 And it came to pass that the disciples whom Jesus
had chosen began from that time forth to baptize and to teach as
many as did come unto them; and as many as were baptized in the
name of Jesus were filled with the Holy Ghost.
 
3 Nephi 26:18 And many of them saw and heard unspeakable things,
which are not lawful to be written.
 
3 Nephi 26:19 And they taught, and did minister one to another;
and they had all things common among them, every man dealing
justly, one with another.
 
3 Nephi 26:20 And it came to pass that they did do all things
even as Jesus had commanded them.
 
3 Nephi 26:21 And they who were baptized in the name of Jesus
were called the church of Christ.
 
3 Nephi 27:0 Jesus Christ names his church--All things are
written by the Father--Men to be judge by what is written in the
books.
 
3 Nephi 27:1 And it came to pass that as the disciples of Jesus
were journeying and were preaching the things which they had both
heard and seen, and were baptizing in the name of Jesus, it came
to pass that the disciples were gathered together and were united
in mighty prayer and fasting.
 
3 Nephi 27:2 And Jesus again showed himself unto them, for they
were praying unto the Father in his name; and Jesus came and
stood in the midst of them, and said unto them: What will ye that
I shall give unto you?
 
3 Nephi 27:3 And they said unto him: Lord, we will that thou
wouldst tell us the name whereby we shall call this church; for
there are disputations among the people concerning this matter.
 
3 Nephi 27:4 And the Lord said unto them: Verily, verily, I say
unto you, why is it that the people should murmur and dispute
because of this thing?
 
3 Nephi 27:5 Have they not read the scriptures, which say ye must
take upon you the name of Christ, which is my name? For by this
name shall ye be called at the last day;
 
3 Nephi 27:6 And whoso taketh upon him my name, and endureth to
the end, the same shall be saved at the last day.
 
3 Nephi 27:7 Therefore, whatsoever ye shall do, ye shall do it in
my name; therefore ye shall call the church in my name; and ye
shall call upon the Father in my name that he will bless the
church for my sake.
 
3 Nephi 27:8 And how be it my church save it be called in my
name? For if a church be called in Moses' name then it be Moses'
church; or if it be called in the name of a man then it be the
church of a man; but if it be called in my name then it is my
church, if it so be that they are built upon my gospel.
 
3 Nephi 27:9 Verily I say unto you, that ye are built upon my
gospel; therefore ye shall call whatsoever things ye do call, in
my name; therefore if ye call upon the Father, for the church, if
it be in my name the Father will hear you;
 
3 Nephi 27:10 And if it so be that the church is built upon my
gospel then will the Father show forth his own works in it.
 
3 Nephi 27:11 But if it be not built upon my gospel, and is built
upon the works of men, or upon the works of the devil, verily I
say unto you they have joy in their works for a season, and by
and by the end cometh, and they are hewn down and cast into the
fire, from whence there is no return.
 
3 Nephi 27:12 For their works do follow them, for it is because
of their works that they are hewn down; therefore remember the
things that I have told you.
 
3 Nephi 27:13 Behold I have given unto you my gospel, and this is
the gospel which I have given unto you--that I came into the
world to do the will of my Father, because my Father sent me.
 
3 Nephi 27:14 And my Father sent me that I might be lifted up
upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the
cross, that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been
lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father,
to stand before me, to be judged of their works, whether they be
good or whether they be evil--
 
3 Nephi 27:15 And for this cause have I been lifted up;
therefore, according to the power of the Father I will draw all
men unto me, that they may be judged according to their works.
 
3 Nephi 27:16 And it shall come to pass, that whoso repenteth and
is baptized in my name shall be filled; and if he endureth to the
end, behold, him will I hold guiltless before my Father at that
day when I shall stand to judge the world.
 
3 Nephi 27:17 And he that endureth not unto the end, the same is
he that is also hewn down and cast into the fire, from whence
they can no more return, because of the justice of the Father.
 
3 Nephi 27:18 And this is the word which he hath given unto the
children of men. And for this cause he fulfilleth the words which
he hath given, and he lieth not, but fulfilleth all his words.
 
3 Nephi 27:19 And no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom;
therefore nothing entereth into his rest save it be those who
have washed their garments in my blood, because of their faith,
and the repentance of all their sins, and their faithfulness unto
the end.
 
3 Nephi 27:20 Now this is the commandment: Repent, all ye ends of
the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye
may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may
stand spotless before me at the last day.
 
3 Nephi 27:21 Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is my gospel;
and ye know the things that ye must do in my church; for the
works which ye have seen me do that shall ye also do; for that
which ye have seen me do even that shall ye do;
 
3 Nephi 27:22 Therefore, if ye do these things blessed are ye,
for ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
 
3 Nephi 27:23 Write the things which ye have seen and heard, save
it be those which are forbidden.
 
3 Nephi 27:24 Write the works of this people, which shall be,
even as hath been written, of that which hath been.
 
3 Nephi 27:25 For behold, out of the books which have been
written, and which shall be written, shall this people be judged,
for by them shall their works be known unto men.
 
3 Nephi 27:26 And behold, all things are written by the Father;
therefore out of the books which shall be written shall the world
be judged.
 
3 Nephi 27:27 And know ye that ye shall be judges of this people,
according to the judgment which I shall give unto you, which
shall be just. Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be?
Verily I say unto you, even as I am.
 
3 Nephi 27:28 And now I go unto the Father. And verily I say unto
you, whatsoever things ye shall ask the Father in my name shall
be given unto you.
 
3 Nephi 27:29 Therefore, ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you; for he that asketh, receiveth; and unto
him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
 
3 Nephi 27:30 And now, behold, my joy is great, even unto
fulness, because of you, and also this generation; yea, and even
the Father rejoiceth, and also all the holy angels, because of
you and this generation; for none of them are lost.
 
3 Nephi 27:31 Behold, I would that ye should understand; for I
mean them who are now alive of this generation; and none of them
are lost; and in them I have fulness of joy.
 
3 Nephi 27:32 But behold, it sorroweth me because of the fourth
generation from this generation, for they are led away captive by
him even as was the son of perdition; for they will sell me for
silver and for gold, and for that which moth doth corrupt and
which thieves can break through and steal. And in that day will I
visit them, even in turning their works upon their own heads.
 
3 Nephi 27:33 And it came to pass that when Jesus had ended these
sayings he said unto his disciples: Enter ye in at the strait
gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to
life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and
broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel
therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
 
3 Nephi 28:0 Each of the twelve is granted his heart's desire--
Three elect to remain on earth until the Lord comes in his glory-
-Marvelous manifestations to the three--They are made immune to
death and disaster.
 
3 Nephi 28:1 And it came to pass when Jesus had said these words,
he spake unto his disciples, one by one, saying unto them: What
is it that ye desire of me, after that I am gone to the Father?
 
3 Nephi 28:2 And they all spake, save it were three, saying: We
desire that after we have lived unto the age of man, that our
ministry, wherein thou hast called us, may have an end, that we
may speedily come unto thee in thy kingdom.
 
3 Nephi 28:3 And he said unto them: Blessed are ye because ye
desired this thing of me; therefore, after that ye are seventy
and two years old ye shall come unto me in my kingdom; and with
me ye shall find rest.
 
3 Nephi 28:4 And when he had spoken unto them, he turned himself
unto the three, and said unto them: What will ye that I should do
unto you, when I am gone unto the Father?
 
3 Nephi 28:5 And they sorrowed in their hearts, for they durst
not speak unto him the thing which they desired.
 
3 Nephi 28:6 And he said unto them: Behold, I know your thoughts,
and ye have desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was
with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews,
desired of me.
 
3 Nephi 28:7 Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never
taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the
Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be
fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come
in my glory with the powers of heaven.
 
3 Nephi 28:8 And ye shall never endure the pains of death; but
when I shall come in my glory ye shall be changed in the
twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality; and then shall
ye be blessed in the kingdom of my Father.
 
3 Nephi 28:9 And again, ye shall not have pain while ye shall
dwell in the flesh, neither sorrow save it be for the sins of the
world; and all this will I do because of the thing which ye have
desired of me, for ye have desired that ye might bring the souls
of men unto me, while the world shall stand.
 
3 Nephi 28:10 And for this cause ye shall have fulness of joy;
and ye shall sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea, your joy
shall be full, even as the Father hath given me fulness of joy;
and ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father; and
the Father and I are one;
 
3 Nephi 28:11 And the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and
me; and the Father giveth the Holy Ghost unto the children of
men, because of me.
 
3 Nephi 28:12 And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken
these words, he touched every one of them with his finger save it
were the three who were to tarry, and then he departed.
 
3 Nephi 28:13 And behold, the heavens were opened, and they were
caught up into heaven, and saw and heard unspeakable things.
 
3 Nephi 28:14 And it was forbidden them that they should utter;
neither was it given unto them power that they could utter the
things which they saw and heard;
 
3 Nephi 28:15 And whether they were in the body or out of the
body, they could not tell; for it did seem unto them like a
transfiguration of them, that they were changed from this body of
flesh into an immortal state, that they could behold the things
of God.
 
3 Nephi 28:16 But it came to pass that they did again minister
upon the face of the earth; nevertheless they did not minister of
the things which they had heard and seen, because of the
commandment which was given them in heaven.
 
3 Nephi 28:17 And now, whether they were mortal or immortal, from
the day of their transfiguration, I know not;
 
3 Nephi 28:18 But this much I know, according to the record which
hath been given--they did go forth upon the face of the land, and
did minister unto all the people, uniting as many to the church
as would believe in their preaching; baptizing them, and as many
as were baptized did receive the Holy Ghost.
 
3 Nephi 28:19 And they were cast into prison by them who did not
belong to the church. And the prisons could not hold them, for
they were rent in twain.
 
3 Nephi 28:20 And they were cast down into the earth; but they
did smite the earth with the word of God, insomuch that by his
power they were delivered out of the depths of the earth; and
therefore they could not dig pits sufficient to hold them.
 
3 Nephi 28:21 And thrice they were cast into a furnace and
received no harm.
 
3 Nephi 28:22 And twice were they cast into a den of wild beasts;
and behold they did play with the beasts as a child with a
suckling lamb, and received no harm.
 
3 Nephi 28:23 And it came to pass that thus they did go forth
among all the people of Nephi, and did preach the gospel of
Christ unto all people upon the face of the land; and they were
converted unto the Lord, and were united unto the church of
Christ, and thus the people of that generation were blessed,
according to the word of Jesus.
 
3 Nephi 28:24 And now I, Mormon, make an end of speaking
concerning these things for a time.
 
3 Nephi 28:25 Behold, I was about to write the names of those who
were never to taste of death, but the Lord forbade; therefore I
write them not, for they are hid from the world.
 
3 Nephi 28:26 But behold, I have seen them, and they have
ministered unto me.
 
3 Nephi 28:27 And behold they will be among the Gentiles, and the
Gentiles shall know them not.
 
3 Nephi 28:28 They will also be among the Jews, and the Jews
shall know them not.
 
3 Nephi 28:29 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord seeth fit
in his wisdom that they shall minister unto all the scattered
tribes of Israel, and unto all nations, kindreds, tongues and
people, and shall bring out of them unto Jesus many souls, that
their desire may be fulfilled, and also because of the convincing
power of God which is in them.
 
3 Nephi 28:30 And they are as the angels of God, and if they
shall pray unto the Father in the name of Jesus they can show
themselves unto whatsoever man it seemeth them good.
 
3 Nephi 28:31 Therefore, great and marvelous works shall be
wrought by them, before the great and coming day when all people
must surely stand before the judgment-seat of Christ;
 
3 Nephi 28:32 Yea even among the Gentiles shall there be a great
and marvelous work wrought by them, before that judgment day.
 
3 Nephi 28:33 And if ye had all the scriptures which give an
account of all the marvelous works of Christ, ye would, according
to the words of Christ, know that these things must surely come.
 
3 Nephi 28:34 And wo be unto him that will not hearken unto the
words of Jesus, and also to them whom he hath chosen and sent
among them; for whoso receiveth not the words of Jesus and the
words of those whom he hath sent receiveth not him; and therefore
he will not receive them at the last day;
 
3 Nephi 28:35 And it would be better for them if they had not
been born. For do ye suppose that ye can get rid of the justice
of an offended God, who hath been trampled under feet of men,
that thereby salvation might come?
 
3 Nephi 28:36 And now behold, as I spake concerning those whom
the Lord hath chosen, yea, even three who were caught up into the
heavens, that I knew not whether they were cleansed from
mortality to immortality--
 
3 Nephi 28:37 But behold, since I wrote, I have inquired of the
Lord, and he hath made it manifest unto me that there must needs
be a change wrought upon their bodies, or else it needs be that
they must taste of death;
 
3 Nephi 28:38 Therefore, that they might not taste of death there
was a change wrought upon their bodies, that they might not
suffer pain nor sorrow save it were for the sins of the world.
 
3 Nephi 28:39 Now this change was not equal to that which shall
take place at the last day; but there was a change wrought upon
them, insomuch that Satan could have no power over them, that he
could not tempt them; and they were sanctified in the flesh, that
they were holy, and that the powers of the earth could not hold
them.
 
3 Nephi 28:40 And in this state they were to remain until the
judgment day of Christ; and at that day they were to receive a
greater change, and to be received into the kingdom of the Father
to go no more out, but to dwell with God eternally in the
heavens.
 
3 Nephi 29:0 Mormon's warning to those who spurn the words and
works of the Lord.
 
3 Nephi 29:1 And now behold, I say unto you that when the Lord
shall see fit, in his wisdom, that these sayings shall come unto
the Gentiles according to his word, then ye may know that the
covenant which the Father hath made with the children of Israel,
concerning their restoration to the lands of their inheritance,
is already beginning to be fulfilled.
 
3 Nephi 29:2 And ye may know that the words of the Lord, which
have been spoken by the holy prophets, shall all be fulfilled;
and ye need not say that the Lord delays his coming unto the
children of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 29:3 And ye need not imagine in your hearts that the
words which have been spoken are vain, for behold, the Lord will
remember his covenant which he hath made unto his people of the
house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 29:4 And when ye shall see these sayings coming forth
among you, then ye need not any longer spurn at the doings of the
Lord, for the sword of his justice is in his right hand; and
behold, at that day, if ye shall spurn at his doings he will
cause that it shall soon overtake you.
 
3 Nephi 29:5 Wo unto him that spurneth at the doings of the Lord;
yea, wo unto him that shall deny the Christ and his works!
 
3 Nephi 29:6 Yea, wo unto him that shall deny the revelations of
the Lord, and that shall say the Lord no longer worketh by
revelation, or by prophecy, or by gifts, or by tongues, or by
healings, or by the power of the Holy Ghost!
 
3 Nephi 29:7 Yea, and wo unto him that shall say at that day, to
get gain, that there can be no miracle wrought by Jesus Christ;
for he that doeth this shall become like unto the son of
perdition, for whom there was no mercy, according to the word of
Christ!
 
3 Nephi 29:8 Yea, and ye need not any longer hiss, nor spurn, nor
make game of the Jews, nor any of the remnant of the house of
Israel; for behold, the Lord remembereth his covenant unto them,
and he will do unto them according to that which he hath sworn.
 
3 Nephi 29:9 Therefore ye need not suppose that ye can turn the
right hand of the Lord unto the left, that he may not execute
judgment unto the fulfilling of the covenant which he hath made
unto the house of Israel.
 
3 Nephi 30:0 Mormon calls the Gentiles to repentance.
 
3 Nephi 30:1 Hearken, O ye Gentiles, and hear the words of Jesus
Christ, the Son of the living God, which he hath commanded me
that I should speak concerning you, for, behold he commandeth me
that I should write, saying:
 
3 Nephi 30:2 Turn, all ye Gentiles, from your wicked ways; and
repent of your evil doings, of your lyings and deceivings, and of
your whoredoms, and of your secret abominations, and your
idolatries, and of your murders, and your priestcrafts, and your
envyings, and your strifes, and from all your wickedness and
abominations, and come unto me, and be baptized in my name, that
ye may receive a remission of your sins, and be filled with the
Holy Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my people who are of the
house of Israel.
 
Fourth Nephi, the Book of Nephi; Who is the son of Nephi--One of
the disciples of Jesus Christ
 
4 Nephi 1:0 An account of the people of Nephi, according to his
record.  The Church of Christ flourishes--Nephites and Lamanites
converted--They have all things in common--Two centuries of
righteousness followed by division and degeneracy--Amos and
Ammaron in turn keep the records.
 
4 Nephi 1:1 And it came to pass that the thirty and fourth year
passed away, and also the thirty and fifth, and behold the
disciples of Jesus had formed a church of Christ in all the lands
round about. And as many as did come unto them, and did truly
repent of their sins, were baptized in the name of Jesus; and
they did also receive the Holy Ghost.
 
4 Nephi 1:2 And it came to pass in the thirty and sixth year, the
people were all converted unto the Lord, upon all the face of the
land, both Nephites and Lamanites, and there were no contentions
and disputations among them, and every man did deal justly one
with another.
 
4 Nephi 1:3 And they had all things common among them; therefore
there were not rich and poor, bond and free, but they were all
made free, and partakers of the heavenly gift.
 
4 Nephi 1:4 And it came to pass that the thirty and seventh year
passed away also, and there still continued to be peace in the
land.
 
4 Nephi 1:5 And there were great and marvelous works wrought by
the disciples of Jesus, insomuch that they did heal the sick, and
raise the dead, and cause the lame to walk, and the blind to
receive their sight, and the deaf to hear; and all manner of
miracles did they work among the children of men; and in nothing
did they work miracles save it were in the name of Jesus.
 
4 Nephi 1:6 And thus did the thirty and eighth year pass away,
and also the thirty and ninth, and forty and first, and the forty
and second, yea, even until forty and nine years had passed away,
and also the fifty and first, and the fifty and second; yea, and
even until fifty and nine years had passed away.
 
4 Nephi 1:7 And the Lord did prosper them exceedingly in the
land; yea, insomuch that they did build cities again where there
had been cities burned.
 
4 Nephi 1:8 Yea, even that great city Zarahemla did they cause to
be built again.
 
4 Nephi 1:9 But there were many cities which had been sunk, and
waters came up in the stead thereof; therefore these cities could
not be renewed.
 
4 Nephi 1:10 And now, behold, it came to pass that the people of
Nephi did wax strong, and did multiply exceedingly fast, and
became an exceedingly fair and delightsome people.
 
4 Nephi 1:11 And they were married, and given in marriage, and
were blessed according to the multitude of the promises which the
Lord had made unto them.
 
4 Nephi 1:12 And they did not walk any more after the
performances and ordinances of the law of Moses; but they did
walk after the commandments which they had received from their
Lord and their God, continuing in fasting and prayer, and in
meeting together oft both to pray and to hear the word of the
Lord.
 
4 Nephi 1:13 And it came to pass that there was no contention
among all the people, in all the land; but there were mighty
miracles wrought among the disciples of Jesus.
 
4 Nephi 1:14 And it came to pass that the seventy and first year
passed away, and also the seventy and second year, yea, and in
fine, till the seventy and ninth year had passed away; yea, even
an hundred years had passed away, and the disciples of Jesus,
whom he had chosen, had all gone to the paradise of God, save it
were the three who should tarry; and there were other disciples
ordained in their stead; and also many of that generation had
passed away.
 
4 Nephi 1:15 And it came to pass that there was no contention in
the land, because of the love of God which did dwell in the
hearts of the people.
 
4 Nephi 1:16 And there were no envyings, nor strifes, nor
tumults, nor whoredoms, nor lyings, nor murders, nor any manner
of lasciviousness; and surely there could not be a happier people
among all the people who had been created by the hand of God.
 
4 Nephi 1:17 There were no robbers, nor murderers, neither were
there Lamanites, nor any manner of -ites; but they were in one,
the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God.
 
4 Nephi 1:18 And how blessed were they! For the Lord did bless
them in all their doings; yea, even they were blessed and
prospered until an hundred and ten years had passed away; and the
first generation from Christ had passed away, and there was no
contention in all the land.
 
4 Nephi 1:19 And it came to pass that Nephi, he that kept this
last record, (and he kept it upon the plates of Nephi) died, and
his son Amos kept it in his stead; and he kept it upon the plates
of Nephi also.
 
4 Nephi 1:20 And he kept it eighty and four years, and there was
still peace in the land, save it were a small part of the people
who had revolted from the church and taken upon them the name of
Lamanites; therefore there began to be Lamanites again in the
land.
 
4 Nephi 1:21 And it came to pass that Amos died also, (and it was
an hundred and ninety and four years from the coming of Christ)
and his son Amos kept the record in his stead; and he also kept
it upon the plates of Nephi; and it was also written in the book
of Nephi, which is this book.
 
4 Nephi 1:22 And it came to pass that two hundred years had
passed away; and the second generation had all passed away save
it were a few.
 
4 Nephi 1:23 And now I, Mormon, would that ye should know that
the people had multiplied, insomuch that they were spread upon
all the face of the land, and that they had become exceedingly
rich, because of their prosperity in Christ.
 
4 Nephi 1:24 And now, in this two hundred and first year there
began to be among them those who were lifted up in pride, such as
the wearing of costly apparel, and all manner of fine pearls, and
of the fine things of the world.
 
4 Nephi 1:25 And from that time forth they did have their goods
and their substance no more common among them.
 
4 Nephi 1:26 And they began to be divided into classes; and they
began to build up churches unto themselves to get gain, and began
to deny the true church of Christ.
 
4 Nephi 1:27 And it came to pass that when two hundred and ten
years had passed away there were many churches in the land; yea,
there were many churches which professed to know the Christ, and
yet they did deny the more parts of his gospel, insomuch that
they did receive all manner of wickedness, and did administer
that which was sacred unto him to whom it had been forbidden
because of unworthiness.
 
4 Nephi 1:28 And this church did multiply exceedingly because of
iniquity, and because of the power of Satan who did get hold upon
their hearts.
 
4 Nephi 1:29 And again, there was another church which denied the
Christ; and they did persecute the true church of Christ, because
of their humility and their belief in Christ; and they did
despise them because of the many miracles which were wrought
among them.
 
4 Nephi 1:30 Therefore they did exercise power and authority over
the disciples of Jesus who did tarry with them, and they did cast
them into prison; but by the power of the word of God, which was
in them, the prisons were rent in twain, and they went forth
doing mighty miracles among them.
 
4 Nephi 1:31 Nevertheless, and notwithstanding all these
miracles, the people did harden their hearts, and did seek to
kill them, even as the Jews at Jerusalem sought to kill Jesus,
according to his word.
 
4 Nephi 1:32 And they did cast them into furnaces of fire, and
they came forth receiving no harm.
 
4 Nephi 1:33 And they also cast them into dens of wild beasts,
and they did play with the wild beasts even as a child with a
lamb; and they did come forth from among them, receiving no harm.
 
4 Nephi 1:34 Nevertheless, the people did harden their hearts,
for they were led by many priests and false prophets to build up
many churches, and to do all manner of iniquity. And they did
smite upon the people of Jesus; but the people of Jesus did not
smite again. And thus they did dwindle in unbelief and
wickedness, from year to year, even until two hundred and thirty
years had passed away.
 
4 Nephi 1:35 And now it came to pass in this year, yea, in the
two hundred and thirty and first year, there was a great division
among the people.
 
4 Nephi 1:36 And it came to pass that in this year there arose a
people who were called the Nephites, and they were true believers
in Christ; and among them there were those who were called by the
Lamanites--Jacobites, and Josephites, and Zoramites;
 
4 Nephi 1:37 Therefore the true believers in Christ, and the true
worshipers of Christ, (among whom were the three disciples of
Jesus who should tarry) were called Nephites, and Jacobites, and
Josephites, and Zoramites.
 
4 Nephi 1:38 And it came to pass that they who rejected the
gospel were called Lamanites, and Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites;
and they did not dwindle in unbelief, but they did wilfully rebel
against the gospel of Christ; and they did teach their children
that they should not believe, even as their fathers, from the
beginning, did dwindle.
 
4 Nephi 1:39 And it was because of the wickedness and abomination
of their fathers, even as it was in the beginning. And they were
taught to hate the children of God, even as the Lamanites were
taught to hate the children of Nephi from the beginning.
 
4 Nephi 1:40 And it came to pass that two hundred and forty and
four years had passed away, and thus were the affairs of the
people. And the more wicked part of the people did wax strong,
and became exceedingly more numerous than were the people of God.
 
4 Nephi 1:41 And they did still continue to build up churches
unto themselves, and adorn them with all manner of precious
things. And thus did two hundred and fifty years pass away, and
also two hundred and sixty years.
 
4 Nephi 1:42 And it came to pass that the wicked part of the
people began again to build up the secret oaths and combinations
of Gadianton.
 
4 Nephi 1:43 And also the people who were called the people of
Nephi began to be proud in their hearts, because of their
exceeding riches, and become vain like unto their brethren, the
Lamanites.
 
4 Nephi 1:44 And from this time the disciples began to sorrow for
the sins of the world.
 
4 Nephi 1:45 And it came to pass that when three hundred years
had passed away, both the people of Nephi and the Lamanites had
become exceedingly wicked one like unto another.
 
4 Nephi 1:46 And it came to pass that the robbers of Gadianton
did spread over all the face of the land; and there were none
that were righteous save it were the disciples of Jesus. And gold
and silver did they lay up in store in abundance, and did traffic
in all manner of traffic.
 
4 Nephi 1:47 And it came to pass that after three hundred and
five years had passed away, (and the people did still remain in
wickedness) Amos died; and his brother, Ammaron, did keep the
record in his stead.
 
4 Nephi 1:48 And it came to pass that when three hundred and
twenty years had passed away, Ammaron, being constrained by the
Holy Ghost, did hide up the records which were sacred--yea, even
all the sacred records which had been handed down from generation
to generation, which were sacred--even until the three hundred
and twentieth year from the coming of Christ.
 
4 Nephi 1:49 And he did hide them up unto the Lord, that they
might come again unto the remnant of the house of Jacob,
according to the prophecies and the promises of the Lord. And
thus is the end of the record of Ammaron.
 
The Book of Mormon
 
Mormon 1:0 Ammaron's charge to Mormon respecting the sacred
engravings--War and wickedness--The three Nephite disciples
depart--Mormon restrained from preaching--Predictions of Abinadi
and Samuel the Lamanite fulfilled.
 
Mormon 1:1 And now I, Mormon, make a record of the things which I
have both seen and heard, and call it the Book of Mormon.
 
Mormon 1:2 And about the time that Ammaron hid up the records
unto the Lord, he came unto me, (I being about ten years of age,
and I began to be learned somewhat after the manner of the
learning of my people) and Ammaron said unto me: I perceive that
thou art a sober child, and art quick to observe;
 
Mormon 1:3 Therefore, when ye are about twenty and four years old
I would that ye should remember the things that ye have observed
concerning this people; and when ye are of that age go to the
land Antum, unto a hill which shall be called Shim; and there
have I deposited unto the Lord all the sacred engravings
concerning this people.
 
Mormon 1:4 And behold, ye shall take the plates of Nephi unto
yourself, and the remainder shall ye leave in the place where
they are; and ye shall engrave on the plates of Nephi all the
things that ye have observed concerning this people.
 
Mormon 1:5 And I, Mormon, being a descendant of Nephi, (and my
father's name was Mormon) I remembered the things which Ammaron
commanded me.
 
Mormon 1:6 And it came to pass that I, being eleven years old,
was carried by my father into the land southward, even to the
land of Zarahemla.
 
Mormon 1:7 The whole face of the land had become covered with
buildings, and the people were as numerous almost, as it were the
sand of the sea.
 
Mormon 1:8 And it came to pass in this year there began to be a
war between the Nephites, who consisted of the Nephites and the
Jacobites and the Josephites and the Zoramites; and this war was
between the Nephites, and the Lamanites and the Lemuelites and
the Ishmaelites.
 
Mormon 1:9 Now the Lamanites and the Lemuelites and the
Ishmaelites were called Lamanites, and the two parties were
Nephites and Lamanites.
 
Mormon 1:10 And it came to pass that the war began to be among
them in the borders of Zarahemla, by the waters of Sidon.
 
Mormon 1:11 And it came to pass that the Nephites had gathered
together a great number of men, even to exceed the number of
thirty thousand. And it came to pass that they did have in this
same year a number of battles, in which the Nephites did beat the
Lamanites and did slay many of them.
 
Mormon 1:12 And it came to pass that the Lamanites withdrew their
design, and there was peace settled in the land; and peace did
remain for the space of about four years, that there was no
bloodshed.
 
Mormon 1:13 But wickedness did prevail upon the face of the whole
land, insomuch that the Lord did take away his beloved disciples,
and the work of miracles and of healing did cease because of the
iniquity of the people.
 
Mormon 1:14 And there were no gifts from the Lord, and the Holy
Ghost did not come upon any, because of their wickedness and
unbelief.
 
Mormon 1:15 And I, being fifteen years of age and being somewhat
of a sober mind, therefore I was visited of the Lord, and tasted
and knew of the goodness of Jesus.
 
Mormon 1:16 And I did endeavor to preach unto this people, but my
mouth was shut, and I was forbidden that I should preach unto
them; for behold they had wilfully rebelled against their God;
and the beloved disciples were taken away out of the land,
because of their iniquity.
 
Mormon 1:17 But I did remain among them, but I was forbidden to
preach unto them, because of the hardness of their hearts; and
because of the hardness of their hearts the land was cursed for
their sake.
 
Mormon 1:18 And these Gadianton robbers, who were among the
Lamanites, did infest the land, insomuch that the inhabitants
thereof began to hide up their treasures in the earth; and they
became slippery, because the Lord had cursed the land, that they
could not hold them, nor retain them again.
 
Mormon 1:19 And it came to pass that there were sorceries, and
witchcrafts, and magics; and the power of the evil one was
wrought upon all the face of the land, even unto the fulfilling
of all the words of Abinadi, and also Samuel the Lamanite.
 
Mormon 2:0 Mormon leads the Nephite armies--More of the Gadianton
robbers--By treaty the land northward is given to the Nephites,
and the land southward to the Lamanites.
 
Mormon 2:1 And it came to pass in that same year there began to
be a war again between the Nephites and the Lamanites. And
notwithstanding I being young, was large in stature; therefore
the people of Nephi appointed me that I should be their leader,
or the leader of their armies.
 
Mormon 2:2 Therefore it came to pass that in my sixteenth year I
did go forth at the head of an army of the Nephites, against the
Lamanites; therefore three hundred and twenty and six years had
passed away.
 
Mormon 2:3 And it came to pass that in the three hundred and
twenty and seventh year the Lamanites did come upon us with
exceedingly great power, insomuch that they did frighten my
armies; therefore they would not fight, and they began to retreat
towards the north countries.
 
Mormon 2:4 And it came to pass that we did come to the city of
Angola, and we did take possession of the city, and make
preparations to defend ourselves against the Lamanites. And it
came to pass that we did fortify the city with our might; but
notwithstanding all our fortifications the Lamanites did come
upon us and did drive us out of the city.
 
Mormon 2:5 And they did also drive us forth out of the land of
David.
 
Mormon 2:6 And we marched forth and came to the land of Joshua,
which was in the borders west by the seashore.
 
Mormon 2:7 And it came to pass that we did gather in our people
as fast as it were possible, that we might get them together in
one body.
 
Mormon 2:8 But behold, the land was filled with robbers and with
Lamanites; and notwithstanding the great destruction which hung
over my people, they did not repent of their evil doings;
therefore there was blood and carnage spread throughout all the
face of the land, both on the part of the Nephites and also on
the part of the Lamanites; and it was one complete revolution
throughout all the face of the land.
 
Mormon 2:9 And now, the Lamanites had a king, and his name was
Aaron; and he came against us with an army of forty and four
thousand. And behold, I withstood him with forty and two
thousand. And it came to pass that I beat him with my army that
he fled before me. And behold, all this was done, and three
hundred and thirty years had passed away.
 
Mormon 2:10 And it came to pass that the Nephites began to repent
of their iniquity, and began to cry even as had been prophesied
by Samuel the prophet; for behold no man could keep that which
was his own, for the thieves, and the robbers, and the murderers,
and the magic art, and the witchcraft which was in the land.
 
Mormon 2:11 Thus there began to be a mourning and a lamentation
in all the land because of these things, and more especially
among the people of Nephi.
 
Mormon 2:12 And it came to pass that when I, Mormon, saw their
lamentation and their mourning and their sorrow before the Lord,
my heart did begin to rejoice within me, knowing the mercies and
the long-suffering of the Lord, therefore supposing that he would
be merciful unto them that they would again become a righteous
people.
 
Mormon 2:13 But behold this my joy was vain, for their sorrowing
was not unto repentance, because of the goodness of God; but it
was rather the sorrowing of the damned, because the Lord would
not always suffer them to take happiness in sin.
 
Mormon 2:14 And they did not come unto Jesus with broken hearts
and contrite spirits, but they did curse God, and wish to die.
Nevertheless they would struggle with the sword for their lives.
 
Mormon 2:15 And it came to pass that my sorrow did return unto me
again, and I saw that the day of grace was passed with them, both
temporally and spiritually; for I saw thousands of them hewn down
in open rebellion against their God, and heaped up as dung upon
the face of the land. And thus three hundred and forty and four
years had passed away.
 
Mormon 2:16 And it came to pass that in the three hundred and
forty and fifth year the Nephites did begin to flee before the
Lamanites; and they were pursued until they came even to the land
of Jashon, before it was possible to stop them in their retreat.
 
Mormon 2:17 And now, the city of Jashon was near the land where
Ammaron had deposited the records unto the Lord, that they might
not be destroyed. And behold I had gone according to the word of
Ammaron, and taken the plates of Nephi, and did make a record
according to the words of Ammaron.
 
Mormon 2:18 And upon the plates of Nephi I did make a full
account of all the wickedness and abominations; but upon these
plates I did forbear to make a full account of their wickedness
and abominations, for behold, a continual scene of wickedness and
abominations has been before mine eyes ever since I have been
sufficient to behold the ways of man.
 
Mormon 2:19 And wo is me because of their wickedness; for my
heart has been filled with sorrow because of their wickedness,
all my days; nevertheless, I know that I shall be lifted up at
the last day.
 
Mormon 2:20 And it came to pass that in this year the people of
Nephi again were hunted and driven. And it came to pass that we
were driven forth until we had come northward to the land which
was called Shem.
 
Mormon 2:21 And it came to pass that we did fortify the city of
Shem, and we did gather in our people as much as it were
possible, that perhaps we might save them from destruction.
 
Mormon 2:22 And it came to pass in the three hundred and forty
and sixth year they began to come upon us again.
 
Mormon 2:23 And it came to pass that I did speak unto my people,
and did urge them with great energy, that they would stand boldly
before the Lamanites and fight for their wives, and their
children, and their houses, and their homes.
 
Mormon 2:24 And my words did arouse them somewhat to vigor,
insomuch that they did not flee from before the Lamanites, but
did stand with boldness against them.
 
Mormon 2:25 And it came to pass that we did contend with an army
of thirty thousand against an army of fifty thousand. And it came
to pass that we did stand before them with such firmness that
they did flee from before us.
 
Mormon 2:26 And it came to pass that when they had fled we did
pursue them with our armies, and did meet them again, and did
beat them; nevertheless the strength of the Lord was not with us;
yea, we were left to ourselves, that the Spirit of the Lord did
not abide in us; therefore we had become weak like unto our
brethren.
 
Mormon 2:27 And my heart did sorrow because of this the great
calamity of my people, because of their wickedness and their
abominations. But behold, we did go forth against the Lamanites
and the robbers of Gadianton, until we had again taken possession
of the lands of our inheritance.
 
Mormon 2:28 And the three hundred and forty and ninth year had
passed away. And in the three hundred and fiftieth year we made a
treaty with the Lamanites and the robbers of Gadianton, in which
we did get the lands of our inheritance divided.
 
Mormon 2:29 And the Lamanites did give unto us the land
northward, yea, even to the narrow passage which led into the
land southward. And we did give unto the Lamanites all the land
southward.
 
Mormon 3:0 Nephites continue in wickedness--Mormon refuses to be
their military leader--His address to future generations--The
twelve to judge the house of Israel.
 
Mormon 3:1 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did not come to
battle again until ten years more had passed away. And behold, I
had employed my people, the Nephites, in preparing their lands
and their arms against the time of battle.
 
Mormon 3:2 And it came to pass that the Lord did say unto me: Cry
unto this people--Repent ye, and come unto me, and be ye
baptized, and build up again my church, and ye shall be spared.
 
Mormon 3:3 And I did cry unto this people, but it was in vain;
and they did not realize that it was the Lord that had spared
them, and granted unto them a chance for repentance. And behold
they did harden their hearts against the Lord their God.
 
Mormon 3:4 And it came to pass that after this tenth year had
passed away, making, in the whole, three hundred and sixty years
from the coming of Christ, the king of the Lamanites sent an
epistle unto me, which gave unto me to know that they were
preparing to come again to battle against us.
 
Mormon 3:5 And it came to pass that I did cause my people that
they should gather themselves together at the land Desolation, to
a city which was in the borders, by the narrow pass which led
into the land southward.
 
Mormon 3:6 And there we did place our armies, that we might stop
the armies of the Lamanites, that they might not get possession
of any of our lands; therefore we did fortify against them with
all our force.
 
Mormon 3:7 And it came to pass that in the three hundred and
sixty and first year the Lamanites did come down to the city of
Desolation to battle against us; and it came to pass that in that
year we did beat them, insomuch that they did return to their own
lands again.
 
Mormon 3:8 And in the three hundred and sixty and second year
they did come down again to battle. And we did beat them again,
and did slay a great number of them, and their dead were cast
into the sea.
 
Mormon 3:9 And now, because of this great thing which my people,
the Nephites, had done, they began to boast in their own
strength, and began to swear before the heavens that they would
avenge themselves of the blood of their brethren who had been
slain by their enemies.
 
Mormon 3:10 And they did swear by the heavens, and also by the
throne of God, that they would go up to battle against their
enemies, and would cut them off from the face of the land.
 
Mormon 3:11 And it came to pass that I, Mormon, did utterly
refuse from this time forth to be a commander and a leader of
this people, because of their wickedness and abomination.
 
Mormon 3:12 Behold, I had led them, notwithstanding their
wickedness I had led them many times to battle, and had loved
them, according to the love of God which was in me, with all my
heart; and my soul had been poured out in prayer unto my God all
the day long for them; nevertheless, it was without faith,
because of the hardness of their hearts.
 
Mormon 3:13 And thrice have I delivered them out of the hands of
their enemies, and they have repented not of their sins.
 
Mormon 3:14 And when they had sworn by all that had been
forbidden them by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that they
would go up unto their enemies to battle, and avenge themselves
of the blood of their brethren, behold the voice of the Lord came
unto me, saying:
 
Mormon 3:15 Vengeance is mine, and I will repay; and because this
people repented not after I had delivered them, behold, they
shall be cut off from the face of the earth.
 
Mormon 3:16 And it came to pass that I utterly refused to go up
against mine enemies; and I did even as the Lord had commanded
me; and I did stand as an idle witness to manifest unto the world
the things which I saw and heard, according to the manifestations
of the Spirit which had testified of things to come.
 
Mormon 3:17 Therefore I write unto you, Gentiles, and also unto
you, house of Israel, when the work shall commence, that ye shall
be about to prepare to return to the land of your inheritance;
 
Mormon 3:18 Yea, behold, I write unto all the ends of the earth;
yea, unto you, twelve tribes of Israel, who shall be judged
according to your works by the twelve whom Jesus chose to be his
disciples in the land of Jerusalem.
 
Mormon 3:19 And I write also unto the remnant of this people, who
shall also be judged by the twelve whom Jesus chose in this land;
and they shall be judged by the other twelve whom Jesus chose in
the land of Jerusalem.
 
Mormon 3:20 And these things doth the Spirit manifest unto me;
therefore I write unto you all. And for this cause I write unto
you, that ye may know that ye must all stand before the judgment-
seat of Christ, yea, every soul who belongs to the whole human
family of Adam; and ye must stand to be judged of your works,
whether they be good or evil;
 
Mormon 3:21 And also that ye may believe the gospel of Jesus
Christ, which ye shall have among you; and also that the Jews,
the covenant people of the Lord, shall have other witness besides
him whom they saw and heard, that Jesus, whom they slew, was the
very Christ and the very God.
 
Mormon 3:22 And I would that I could persuade all ye ends of the
earth to repent and prepare to stand before the judgment-seat of
Christ.
 
Mormon 4:0 Nephites begin a war of revenge upon Lamanites--
Nephites no longer prevail--The sacred record taken from the hill
Shim.
 
Mormon 4:1 And now it came to pass that in the three hundred and
sixty and third year the Nephites did go up with their armies to
battle against the Lamanites, out of the land Desolation.
 
Mormon 4:2 And it came to pass that the armies of the Nephites
were driven back again to the land of Desolation. And while they
were yet weary, a fresh army of the Lamanites did come upon them;
and they had a sore battle, insomuch that the Lamanites did take
possession of the city Desolation, and did slay many of the
Nephites, and did take many prisoners.
 
Mormon 4:3 And the remainder did flee and join the inhabitants of
the city Teancum. Now the city Teancum lay in the borders by the
seashore; and it was also near the city Desolation.
 
Mormon 4:4 And it was because the armies of the Nephites went up
unto the Lamanites that they began to be smitten; for were it not
for that, the Lamanites could have had no power over them.
 
Mormon 4:5 But, behold, the judgments of God will overtake the
wicked; and it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished; for
it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the children of men
unto bloodshed.
 
Mormon 4:6 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did make
preparations to come against the city Teancum.
 
Mormon 4:7 And it came to pass in the three hundred and sixty and
fourth year the Lamanites did come against the city Teancum, that
they might take possession of the city Teancum also.
 
Mormon 4:8 And it came to pass that they were repulsed and driven
back by the Nephites. And when the Nephites saw that they had
driven the Lamanites they did again boast of their own strength;
and they went forth in their own might, and took possession again
of the city Desolation.
 
Mormon 4:9 And now all these things had been done, and there had
been thousands slain on both sides, both the Nephites and the
Lamanites.
 
Mormon 4:10 And it came to pass that the three hundred and sixty
and sixth year had passed away, and the Lamanites came again upon
the Nephites to battle; and yet the Nephites repented not of the
evil they had done, but persisted in their wickedness
continually.
 
Mormon 4:11 And it is impossible for the tongue to describe, or
for man to write a perfect description of the horrible scene of
the blood and carnage which was among the people, both of the
Nephites and of the Lamanites; and every heart was hardened, so
that they delighted in the shedding of blood continually.
 
Mormon 4:12 And there never had been so great wickedness among
all the children of Lehi, nor even among all the house of Israel,
according to the words of the Lord, as was among this people.
 
Mormon 4:13 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did take
possession of the city Desolation, and this because their number
did exceed the number of the Nephites.
 
Mormon 4:14 And they did also march forward against the city
Teancum, and did drive the inhabitants forth out of her, and did
take many prisoners both women and children, and did offer them
up as sacrifices unto their idol gods.
 
Mormon 4:15 And it came to pass that in the three hundred and
sixty and seventh year, the Nephites being angry because the
Lamanites had sacrificed their women and their children, that
they did go against the Lamanites with exceedingly great anger,
insomuch that they did beat again the Lamanites, and drive them
out of their lands.
 
Mormon 4:16 And the Lamanites did not come again against the
Nephites until the three hundred and seventy and fifth year.
 
Mormon 4:17 And in this year they did come down against the
Nephites with all their powers; and they were not numbered
because of the greatness of their number.
 
Mormon 4:18 And from this time forth did the Nephites gain no
power over the Lamanites, but began to be swept off by them even
as a dew before the sun.
 
Mormon 4:19 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did come down
against the city Desolation; and there was an exceedingly sore
battle fought in the land Desolation, in the which they did beat
the Nephites.
 
Mormon 4:20 And they fled again from before them, and they came
to the city Boaz; and there they did stand against the Lamanites
with exceeding boldness, insomuch that the Lamanites did not beat
them until they had come again the second time.
 
Mormon 4:21 And when they had come the second time, the Nephites
were driven and slaughtered with an exceedingly great slaughter;
their women and their children were again sacrificed unto idols.
 
Mormon 4:22 And it came to pass that the Nephites did again flee
from before them, taking all the inhabitants with them, both in
towns and villages.
 
Mormon 4:23 And now I, Mormon, seeing that the Lamanites were
about to overthrow the land, therefore I did go to the hill Shim,
and did take up all the records which Ammaron had hid up unto the
Lord.
 
Mormon 5:0 Mormon relents and again leads Nephites--Lamanites
outnumber Nephites--Crime and carnage--Mormon's abridgment of the
records.
 
Mormon 5:1 And it came to pass that I did go forth among the
Nephites, and did repent of the oath which I had made that I
would no more assist them; and they gave me command again of
their armies, for they looked upon me as though I could deliver
them from their afflictions.
 
Mormon 5:2 But behold, I was without hope, for I knew the
judgments of the Lord which should come upon them; for they
repented not of their iniquities, but did struggle for their
lives without calling upon that Being who created them.
 
Mormon 5:3 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did come
against us as we had fled to the city of Jordan; but behold, they
were driven back that they did not take the city at that time.
 
Mormon 5:4 And it came to pass that they came against us again,
and we did maintain the city. And there were also other cities
which were maintained by the Nephites, which strongholds did cut
them off that they could not get into the country which lay
before us, to destroy the inhabitants of our land.
 
Mormon 5:5 But it came to pass that whatsoever lands we had
passed by, and the inhabitants thereof were not gathered in, were
destroyed by the Lamanites, and their towns, and villages, and
cities were burned with fire; and thus three hundred and seventy
and nine years passed away.
 
Mormon 5:6 And it came to pass that in the three hundred and
eightieth year the Lamanites did come again against us to battle,
and we did stand against them boldly; but it was all in vain, for
so great were their numbers that they did tread the people of the
Nephites under their feet.
 
Mormon 5:7 And it came to pass that we did again take to flight,
and those whose flight was swifter than the Lamanites' did
escape, and those whose flight did not exceed the Lamanites' were
swept down and destroyed.
 
Mormon 5:8 And now behold, I, Mormon, do not desire to harrow up
the souls of men in casting before them such an awful scene of
blood and carnage as was laid before mine eyes; but I, knowing
that these things must surely be made known, and that all things
which are hid must be revealed upon the house-tops--
 
Mormon 5:9 And also that a knowledge of these things must come
unto the remnant of these people, and also unto the Gentiles, who
the Lord hath said should scatter this people, and this people
should be counted as naught among them--therefore I write a small
abridgment, daring not to give a full account of the things which
I have seen, because of the commandment which I have received,
and also that ye might not have too great sorrow because of the
wickedness of this people.
 
Mormon 5:10 And now behold, this I speak unto their seed, and
also to the Gentiles who have care for the house of Israel, that
realize and know from whence their blessings come.
 
Mormon 5:11 For I know that such will sorrow for the calamity of
the house of Israel; yea, they will sorrow for the destruction of
this people; they will sorrow that this people had not repented
that they might have been clasped in the arms of Jesus.
 
Mormon 5:12 Now these things are written unto the remnant of the
house of Jacob; and they are written after this manner, because
it is known of God that wickedness will not bring them forth unto
them; and they are to be hid up unto the Lord that they may come
forth in his own due time.
 
Mormon 5:13 And this is the commandment which I have received;
and behold, they shall come forth according to the commandment of
the Lord, when he shall see fit, in his wisdom.
 
Mormon 5:14 And behold, they shall go unto the unbelieving of the
Jews; and for this intent shall they go--that they may be
persuaded that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God;
that the Father may bring about, through his most Beloved, his
great and eternal purpose, in restoring the Jews, or all the
house of Israel, to the land of their inheritance, which the Lord
their God hath given them, unto the fulfilling of his covenant;
 
Mormon 5:15 And also that the seed of this people may more fully
believe his gospel, which shall go forth unto them from the
Gentiles; for this people shall be scattered, and shall become a
dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people, beyond the description of
that which ever hath been amongst us, yea, even that which hath
been among the Lamanites, and this because of their unbelief and
idolatry.
 
Mormon 5:16 For behold, the Spirit of the Lord hath already
ceased to strive with their fathers; and they are without Christ
and God in the world; and they are driven about as chaff before
the wind.
 
Mormon 5:17 They were once a delightsome people, and they had
Christ for their shepherd; yea, they were led even by God the
Father.
 
Mormon 5:18 But now, behold, they are led about by Satan, even as
chaff is driven before the wind, or as a vessel is tossed about
upon the waves, without sail or anchor, or without anything
wherewith to steer her; and even as she is, so are they.
 
Mormon 5:19 And behold, the Lord hath reserved their blessings,
which they might have received in the land, for the Gentiles who
shall possess the land.
 
Mormon 5:20 But behold, it shall come to pass that they shall be
driven and scattered by the Gentiles; and after they have been
driven and scattered by the Gentiles, behold, then will the Lord
remember the covenant which he made unto Abraham and unto all the
house of Israel.
 
Mormon 5:21 And also the Lord will remember the prayers of the
righteous, which have been put up unto him for them.
 
Mormon 5:22 And then, O ye Gentiles, how can ye stand before the
power of God, except ye shall repent and turn from your evil
ways?
 
Mormon 5:23 Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God? Know ye
not that he hath all power, and at his great command the earth
shall be rolled together as a scroll?
 
Mormon 5:24 Therefore, repent ye, and humble yourselves before
him, lest he shall come out in justice against you--lest a
remnant of the seed of Jacob shall go forth among you as a lion,
and tear you in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
 
Mormon 6:0 The hill Cumorah and its records--The final struggle
between the two nations--Lamanites victorious--Twenty-four
Nephites survive.
 
Mormon 6:1 And now I finish my record concerning the destruction
of my people, the Nephites. And it came to pass that we did march
forth before the Lamanites.
 
Mormon 6:2 And I, Mormon, wrote an epistle unto the king of the
Lamanites, and desired of him that he would grant unto us that we
might gather together our people unto the land of Cumorah, by a
hill which was called Cumorah, and there we could give them
battle.
 
Mormon 6:3 And it came to pass that the king of the Lamanites did
grant unto me the thing which I desired.
 
Mormon 6:4 And it came to pass that we did march forth to the
land of Cumorah, and we did pitch our tents around about the hill
Cumorah; and it was in a land of many waters, rivers, and
fountains; and here we had hope to gain advantage over the
Lamanites.
 
Mormon 6:5 And when three hundred and eighty and four years had
passed away, we had gathered in all the remainder of our people
unto the land of Cumorah.
 
Mormon 6:6 And it came to pass that when we had gathered in all
our people in one to the land of Cumorah, behold I, Mormon, began
to be old; and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people,
and having been commanded of the Lord that I should not suffer
the records which had been handed down by our fathers, which were
sacred, to fall into the hands of the Lamanites, (for the
Lamanites would destroy them) therefore I made this record out of
the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the
records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord,
save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni.
 
Mormon 6:7 And it came to pass that my people, with their wives
and their children, did now behold the armies of the Lamanites
marching towards them; and with that awful fear of death which
fills the breasts of all the wicked, did they await to receive
them.
 
Mormon 6:8 And it came to pass that they came to battle against
us, and every soul was filled with terror because of the
greatness of their numbers.
 
Mormon 6:9 And it came to pass that they did fall upon my people
with the sword, and with the bow, and with the arrow, and with
the ax, and with all manner of weapons of war.
 
Mormon 6:10 And it came to pass that my men were hewn down, yea,
even my ten thousand who were with me, and I fell wounded in the
midst; and they passed by me that they did not put an end to my
life.
 
Mormon 6:11 And when they had gone through and hewn down all my
people save it were twenty and four of us, (among whom was my son
Moroni) and we having survived the dead of our people, did behold
on the morrow, when the Lamanites had returned unto their camps,
from the top of the hill Cumorah, the ten thousand of my people
who were hewn down, being led in the front by me.
 
Mormon 6:12 And we also beheld the ten thousand of my people who
were led by my son Moroni.
 
Mormon 6:13 And behold, the ten thousand of Gidgiddonah had
fallen, and he also in the midst.
 
Mormon 6:14 And Lamah had fallen with his ten thousand; and
Gilgal had fallen with his ten thousand; and Limhah had fallen
with his ten thousand; and Jeneum had fallen with his ten
thousand; and Cumenihah, and Moronihah, and Antionum, and
Shiblom, and Shem, and Josh, had fallen with their ten thousand
each.
 
Mormon 6:15 And it came to pass that there were ten more who did
fall by the sword, with their ten thousand each; yea, even all my
people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and
also a few who had escaped into the south countries, and a few
who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their
flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon the face of the earth, being
left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land,
and to crumble and to return to their mother earth.
 
Mormon 6:16 And my soul was rent with anguish, because of the
slain of my people, and I cried:
 
Mormon 6:17 O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the
ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that
Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you!
 
Mormon 6:18 Behold, if ye had not done this, ye would not have
fallen. But behold, ye are fallen, and I mourn your loss.
 
Mormon 6:19 O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers,
ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have
fallen!
 
Mormon 6:20 But behold, ye are gone, and my sorrows cannot bring
your return.
 
Mormon 6:21 And the day soon cometh that your mortal must put on
immortality, and these bodies which are now moldering in
corruption must soon become incorruptible bodies; and then ye
must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, to be judged
according to your works; and if it so be that ye are righteous,
then are ye blessed with your fathers who have gone before you.
 
Mormon 6:22 O that ye had repented before this great destruction
had come upon you. But behold, ye are gone, and the Father, yea,
the Eternal Father of heaven, knoweth your state; and he doeth
with you according to his justice and mercy.
 
Mormon 7:0 Mormon affirms to Lamanites that they are of Israel--
Admonishes them for their salvation.
 
Mormon 7:1 And now, behold, I would speak somewhat unto the
remnant of this people who are spared, if it so be that God may
give unto them my words, that they may know of the things of
their fathers; yea, I speak unto you, ye remnant of the house of
Israel; and these are the words which I speak:
 
Mormon 7:2 Know ye that ye are of the house of Israel.
 
Mormon 7:3 Know ye that ye must come unto repentance, or ye
cannot be saved.
 
Mormon 7:4 Know ye that ye must lay down your weapons of war, and
delight no more in the shedding of blood, and take them not
again, save it be that God shall command you.
 
Mormon 7:5 Know ye that ye must come to the knowledge of your
fathers, and repent of all your sins and iniquities, and believe
in Jesus Christ, that he is the Son of God, and that he was slain
by the Jews, and by the power of the Father he hath risen again,
whereby he hath gained the victory over the grave; and also in
him is the sting of death swallowed up.
 
Mormon 7:6 And he bringeth to pass the resurrection of the dead,
whereby man must be raised to stand before his judgment-seat.
 
Mormon 7:7 And he hath brought to pass the redemption of the
world, whereby he that is found guiltless before him at the
judgment day hath it given unto him to dwell in the presence of
God in his kingdom, to sing ceaseless praises with the choirs
above, unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy
Ghost, which are one God, in a state of happiness which hath no
end.
 
Mormon 7:8 Therefore repent, and be baptized in the name of
Jesus, and lay hold upon the gospel of Christ, which shall be set
before you, not only in this record but also in the record which
shall come unto the Gentiles from the Jews, which record shall
come from the Gentiles unto you.
 
Mormon 7:9 For behold, this is written for the intent that ye may
believe that; and if ye believe that ye will believe this also;
and if ye believe this ye will know concerning your fathers, and
also the marvelous works which were wrought by the power of God
among them.
 
Mormon 7:10 And ye will also know that ye are a remnant of the
seed of Jacob; therefore ye are numbered among the people of the
first covenant; and if it so be that ye believe in Christ, and
are baptized, first with water, then with fire and with the Holy
Ghost, following the example of our Savior, according to that
which he hath commanded us, it shall be well with you in the day
of judgment. Amen.
 
Mormon 8:0 Moroni finishes his father's record--After the carnage
of Cumorah--Mormon among the slain--Lamanites and robbers possess
the land--Mormon's record to come out of the earth--Conditions
and calamities of latter days depicted.
 
Mormon 8:1 Behold I, Moroni, do finish the record of my father,
Mormon. Behold, I have but few things to write, which things I
have been commanded by my father.
 
Mormon 8:2 And now it came to pass that after the great and
tremendous battle at Cumorah, behold, the Nephites who had
escaped into the country southward were hunted by the Lamanites,
until they were all destroyed.
 
Mormon 8:3 And my father also was killed by them, and I even
remain alone to write the sad tale of the destruction of my
people. But behold, they are gone, and I fulfil the commandment
of my father. And whether they will slay me, I know not.
 
Mormon 8:4 Therefore I will write and hide up the records in the
earth; and whither I go it mattereth not.
 
Mormon 8:5 Behold, my father hath made this record, and he hath
written the intent thereof. And behold, I would write it also if
I had room upon the plates, but I have not; and ore I have none,
for I am alone. My father hath been slain in battle, and all my
kinsfolk, and I have not friends nor whither to go; and how long
the Lord will suffer that I may live I know not.
 
Mormon 8:6 Behold, four hundred years have passed away since the
coming of our Lord and Savior.
 
Mormon 8:7 And behold, the Lamanites have hunted my people, the
Nephites, down from city to city and from place to place, even
until they are no more; and great has been their fall; yea, great
and marvelous is the destruction of my people, the Nephites.
 
Mormon 8:8 And behold, it is the hand of the Lord which hath done
it. And behold also, the Lamanites are at war one with another;
and the whole face of this land is one continual round of murder
and bloodshed; and no one knoweth the end of the war.
 
Mormon 8:9 And now, behold, I say no more concerning them, for
there are none save it be the Lamanites and robbers that do exist
upon the face of the land.
 
Mormon 8:10 And there are none that do know the true God save it
be the disciples of Jesus, who did tarry in the land until the
wickedness of the people was so great that the Lord would not
suffer them to remain with the people; and whether they be upon
the face of the land no man knoweth.
 
Mormon 8:11 But behold, my father and I have seen them, and they
have ministered unto us.
 
Mormon 8:12 And whoso receiveth this record, and shall not
condemn it because of the imperfections which are in it, the same
shall know of greater things than these. Behold, I am Moroni; and
were it possible, I would make all things known unto you.
 
Mormon 8:13 Behold, I make an end of speaking concerning this
people. I am the son of Mormon, and my father was a descendant of
Nephi.
 
Mormon 8:14 And I am the same who hideth up this record unto the
Lord; the plates thereof are of no worth, because of the
commandment of the Lord. For he truly saith that no one shall
have them to get gain; but the record thereof is of great worth;
and whoso shall bring it to light, him will the Lord bless.
 
Mormon 8:15 For none can have power to bring it to light save it
be given him of God; for God wills that it shall be done with an
eye single to his glory, or the welfare of the ancient and long
dispersed covenant people of the Lord.
 
Mormon 8:16 And blessed be he that shall bring this thing to
light; for it shall be brought out of darkness unto light,
according to the word of God; yea, it shall be brought out of the
earth, and it shall shine forth out of darkness, and come unto
the knowledge of the people; and it shall be done by the power of
God.
 
Mormon 8:17 And if there be faults they be the faults of a man.
But behold, we know no fault; nevertheless God knoweth all
things; therefore, he that condemneth, let him be aware lest he
shall be in danger of hell fire.
 
Mormon 8:18 And he that saith: Show unto me, or ye shall be
smitten--let him beware lest he commandeth that which is
forbidden of the Lord.
 
Mormon 8:19 For behold, the same that judgeth rashly shall be
judged rashly again; for according to his works shall his wages
be; therefore, he that smiteth shall be smitten again, of the
Lord.
 
Mormon 8:20 Behold what the scripture says--man shall not smite,
neither shall he judge; for judgment is mine, saith the Lord, and
vengeance is mine also, and I will repay.
 
Mormon 8:21 And he that shall breathe out wrath and strifes
against the work of the Lord, and against the covenant people of
the Lord who are the house of Israel, and shall say: We will
destroy the work of the Lord, and the Lord will not remember his
covenant which he hath made unto the house of Israel--the same is
in danger to be hewn down and cast into the fire;
 
Mormon 8:22 For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on,
until all his promises shall be fulfilled.
 
Mormon 8:23 Search the prophecies of Isaiah. Behold, I cannot
write them. Yea, behold I say unto you, that those saints who
have gone before me, who have possessed this land, shall cry,
yea, even from the dust will they cry unto the Lord; and as the
Lord liveth he will remember the covenant which he hath made with
them.
 
Mormon 8:24 And he knoweth their prayers, that they were in
behalf of their brethren. And he knoweth their faith, for in his
name could they remove mountains; and in his name could they
cause the earth to shake; and by the power of his word did they
cause prisons to tumble to the earth; yea, even the fiery furnace
could not harm them, neither wild beasts nor poisonous serpents,
because of the power of his word.
 
Mormon 8:25 And behold, their prayers were also in behalf of him
that the Lord should suffer to bring these things forth.
 
Mormon 8:26 And no one need say they shall not come, for they
surely shall, for the Lord hath spoken it; for out of the earth
shall they come, by the hand of the Lord, and none can stay it;
and it shall come in a day when it shall be said that miracles
are done away; and it shall come even as if one should speak from
the dead.
 
Mormon 8:27 And it shall come in a day when the blood of saints
shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret combinations and the
works of darkness.
 
Mormon 8:28 Yea, it shall come in a day when the power of God
shall be denied, and churches become defiled and be lifted up in
the pride of their hearts; yea, even in a day when leaders of
churches and teachers shall rise in the pride of their hearts,
even to the envying of them who belong to their churches.
 
Mormon 8:29 Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be heard
of fires, and tempests, and vapors of smoke in foreign lands;
 
Mormon 8:30 And there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of
wars, and earthquakes in divers places.
 
Mormon 8:31 Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be great
pollutions upon the face of the earth; there shall be murders,
and robbing, and lying, and deceivings, and whoredoms, and all
manner of abominations; when there shall be many who will say, Do
this, or do that, and it mattereth not, for the Lord will uphold
such at the last day. But wo unto such for they are in the gall
of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity.
 
Mormon 8:32 Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be
churches built up that shall say: Come unto me, and for your
money you shall be forgiven of your sins.
 
Mormon 8:33 O ye wicked and perverse and stiffnecked people, why
have ye built up churches unto yourselves to get gain? Why have
ye transfigured the holy word of God, that ye might bring
damnation upon your souls? Behold, look ye unto the revelations
of God; for behold, the time cometh at that day when all these
things must be fulfilled.
 
Mormon 8:34 Behold, the Lord hath shown unto me great and
marvelous things concerning that which must shortly come, at that
day when these things shall come forth among you.
 
Mormon 8:35 Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and
yet ye are not. But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me,
and I know your doing.
 
Mormon 8:36 And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your
hearts; and there are none save a few only who do not lift
themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of
very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and
persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches,
yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of
your hearts.
 
Mormon 8:37 For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and
your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than
ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.
 
Mormon 8:38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell
yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the
holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name
of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an
endless happiness than that misery which never dies--because of
the praise of the world?
 
Mormon 8:39 Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no
life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked,
and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them
not?
 
Mormon 8:40 Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to
get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and
also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of
their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the
ground, for vengeance upon your heads?
 
Mormon 8:41 Behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you; and
the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints
upon you, for he will not suffer their cries any longer.
 
Mormon 9:0 Moroni's address to unbelievers--His testimony
concerning the Christ--The Nephite language known as reformed
Egyptian.
 
Mormon 9:1 And now, I speak also concerning those who do not
believe in Christ.
 
Mormon 9:2 Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation-
-behold, when the Lord shall come, yea, even that great day when
the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, yea, in that great day when ye
shall be brought to stand before the Lamb of God--then will ye
say that there is no God?
 
Mormon 9:3 Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold
the Lamb of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under
a consciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be
happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked
with a consciousness of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws?
 
Mormon 9:4 Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable
to dwell with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your
filthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with the damned
souls in hell.
 
Mormon 9:5 For behold, when ye shall be brought to see your
nakedness before God, and also the glory of God, and the holiness
of Jesus Christ, it will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon
you.
 
Mormon 9:6 O then ye unbelieving, turn ye unto the Lord; cry
mightily unto the Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye
may be found spotless, pure, fair, and white, having been
cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, at that great and last day.
 
Mormon 9:7 And again I speak unto you who deny the revelations of
God, and say that they are done away, that there are no
revelations, nor prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking
with tongues, and the interpretation of tongues;
 
Mormon 9:8 Behold I say unto you, he that denieth these things
knoweth not the gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the
scriptures; if so, he does not understand them.
 
Mormon 9:9 For do we not read that God is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither
shadow of changing?
 
Mormon 9:10 And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god
who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have
ye imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not a God of
miracles.
 
Mormon 9:11 But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles,
even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob; and it is that same God who created the heavens and the
earth, and all things that in them are.
 
Mormon 9:12 Behold, he created Adam, and by Adam came the fall of
man. And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ, even the
Father and the Son; and because of Jesus Christ came the
redemption of man.
 
Mormon 9:13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by
Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the
Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the
death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth
to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all
men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall
sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all
shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this
eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.
 
Mormon 9:14 And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon
them; and then cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be
filthy still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still;
he that is happy shall be happy still; and he that is unhappy
shall be unhappy still.
 
Mormon 9:15 And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto
yourselves a god who can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have
all these things passed, of which I have spoken? Has the end come
yet? Behold I say unto you, Nay; and God has not ceased to be a
God of miracles.
 
Mormon 9:16 Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought
marvelous in our eyes? Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous
works of God?
 
Mormon 9:17 Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by his
word the heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his
word man was created of the dust of the earth; and by the power
of his word have miracles been wrought?
 
Mormon 9:18 And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many
mighty miracles? And there were many mighty miracles wrought by
the hands of the apostles.
 
Mormon 9:19 And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God
ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being?
And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease
to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of
miracles.
 
Mormon 9:20 And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among
the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and
depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they
should trust.
 
Mormon 9:21 Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in
Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in
the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is
unto all, even unto the ends of the earth.
 
Mormon 9:22 For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his
disciples, in the hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature;
 
Mormon 9:23 And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved,
but he that believeth not shall be damned;
 
Mormon 9:24 And these signs shall follow them that believe--in my
name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new
tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick and they shall recover;
 
Mormon 9:25 And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting
nothing, unto him will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends
of the earth.
 
Mormon 9:26 And now, behold, who can stand against the works of
the Lord? Who can deny his sayings? Who will rise up against the
almighty power of the Lord? Who will despise the works of the
Lord? Who will despise the children of Christ? Behold, all ye who
are despisers of the works of the Lord, for ye shall wonder and
perish.
 
Mormon 9:27 O then despise not, and wonder not, but hearken unto
the words of the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of Jesus
for what things soever ye shall stand in need. Doubt not, but be
believing, and begin as in times of old, and come unto the Lord
with all your heart, and work out your own salvation with fear
and trembling before him.
 
Mormon 9:28 Be wise in the days of your probation; strip
yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on
your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield
to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.
 
Mormon 9:29 See that ye are not baptized unworthily; see that ye
partake not of the sacrament of Christ unworthily; but see that
ye do all things in worthiness, and do it in the name of Jesus
Christ, the Son of the living God; and if ye do this, and endure
to the end, ye will in nowise be cast out.
 
Mormon 9:30 Behold, I speak unto you as though I spake from the
dead; for I know that ye shall have my words.
 
Mormon 9:31 Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither
my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have
written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath
made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be
more wise than we have been.
 
Mormon 9:32 And now, behold, we have written this record
according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called
among us the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by
us, according to our manner of speech.
 
Mormon 9:33 And if our plates had been sufficiently large we
should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered
by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye
would have had no imperfection in our record.
 
Mormon 9:34 But the Lord knoweth the things which we have
written, and also that none other people knoweth our language;
and because that none other people knoweth our language,
therefore he hath prepared means for the interpretation thereof.
 
Mormon 9:35 And these things are written that we may rid our
garments of the blood of our brethren, who have dwindled in
unbelief.
 
Mormon 9:36 And behold, these things which we have desired
concerning our brethren, yea, even their restoration to the
knowledge of Christ, are according to the prayers of all the
saints who have dwelt in the land.
 
Mormon 9:37 And may the Lord Jesus Christ grant that their
prayers may be answered according to their faith; and may God the
Father remember the covenant which he hath made with the house of
Israel; and may he bless them forever, through faith on the name
of Jesus Christ. Amen.
 
The Book of Ether
 
Ether 0:0 The record of the Jaredites, taken from the twenty-four
plates found by the people of Limhi in the days of king Mosiah.
 
Ether 1:0 The prophet Ether's genealogy--The great tower--Jared
and his brother--Their language not confounded--Preparing for
migration as directed by the Lord.
 
Ether 1:1 And now I, Moroni, proceed to give an account of those
ancient inhabitants who were destroyed by the hand of the Lord
upon the face of this north country.
 
Ether 1:2 And I take mine account from the twenty and four plates
which were found by the people of Limhi, which is called the Book
of Ether.
 
Ether 1:3 And as I suppose that the first part of this record,
which speaks concerning the creation of the world, and also of
Adam, and an account from that time even to the great tower, and
whatsoever things transpired among the children of men until that
time, is had among the Jews--
 
Ether 1:4 Therefore I do not write those things which transpired
from the days of Adam until that time; but they are had upon the
plates; and whoso findeth them, the same will have power that he
may get the full account.
 
Ether 1:5 But behold, I give not the full account, but a part of
the account I give, from the tower down until they were
destroyed.
 
Ether 1:6 And on this wise do I give the account. He that wrote
this record was Ether, and he was a descendant of Coriantor.
 
Ether 1:7 Coriantor was the son of Moron.
 
Ether 1:8 And Moron was the son of Ethem.
 
Ether 1:9 And Ethem was the son of Ahah.
 
Ether 1:10 And Ahah was the son of Seth.
 
Ether 1:11 And Seth was the son of Shiblon.
 
Ether 1:12 And Shiblon was the son of Com.
 
Ether 1:13 And Com was the son of Coriantum.
 
Ether 1:14 And Coriantum was the son of Amnigaddah.
 
Ether 1:15 And Amnigaddah was the son of Aaron.
 
Ether 1:16 And Aaron was a descendant of Heth, who was the son of
Hearthom.
 
Ether 1:17 And Hearthom was the son of Lib.
 
Ether 1:18 And Lib was the son of Kish.
 
Ether 1:19 And Kish was the son of Corom.
 
Ether 1:20 And Corom was the son of Levi.
 
Ether 1:21 And Levi was the son of Kim.
 
Ether 1:22 And Kim was the son of Morianton.
 
Ether 1:23 And Morianton was a descendant of Riplakish.
 
Ether 1:24 And Riplakish was the son of Shez.
 
Ether 1:25 And Shez was the son of Heth.
 
Ether 1:26 And Heth was the son of Com.
 
Ether 1:27 And Com was the son of Coriantum.
 
Ether 1:28 And Coriantum was the son of Emer.
 
Ether 1:29 And Emer was the son of Omer.
 
Ether 1:30 And Omer was the son of Shule.
 
Ether 1:31 And Shule was the son of Kib.
 
Ether 1:32 And Kib was the son of Orihah, who was the son of
Jared;
 
Ether 1:33 Which Jared came forth with his brother and their
families, with some others and their families, from the great
tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the
people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon
all the face of the earth; and according to the word of the Lord
the people were scattered.
 
Ether 1:34 And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man,
and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said
unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we
may not understand our words.
 
Ether 1:35 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry
unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon Jared; therefore
he did not confound the language of Jared; and Jared and his
brother were not confounded.
 
Ether 1:36 Then Jared said unto his brother: Cry again unto the
Lord, and it may be that he will turn away his anger from them
who are our friends, that he confound not their language.
 
Ether 1:37 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry
unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon their friends and
their families also, that they were not confounded.
 
Ether 1:38 And it came to pass that Jared spake again unto his
brother, saying: Go and inquire of the Lord whether he will drive
us out of the land, and if he will drive us out of the land, cry
unto him whither we shall go. And who knoweth but the Lord will
carry us forth into a land which is choice above all the earth?
And if it so be, let us be faithful unto the Lord, that we may
receive it for our inheritance.
 
Ether 1:39 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry
unto the Lord according to that which had been spoken by the
mouth of Jared.
 
Ether 1:40 And it came to pass that the Lord did hear the brother
of Jared, and had compassion upon him, and said unto him:
 
Ether 1:41 Go to and gather together thy flocks, both male and
female, of every kind; and also of the seed of the earth of every
kind; and thy families; and also Jared thy brother and his
family; and also thy friends and their families, and the friends
of Jared and their families.
 
Ether 1:42 And when thou hast done this thou shalt go at the head
of them down into the valley which is northward. And there will I
meet thee, and I will go before thee into a land which is choice
above all the lands of the earth.
 
Ether 1:43 And there will I bless thee and thy seed, and raise up
unto me of thy seed, and of the seed of thy brother, and they who
shall go with thee, a great nation. And there shall be none
greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy
seed, upon all the face of the earth. And thus I will do unto
thee because this long time ye have cried unto me.
 
Ether 2:0 In the valley of Nimrod--Deseret, the honey bee--the
Lord again talks with the brother of Jared--Divine decree
concerning the land of promise--the place Moriancumer--Barges
built.
 
Ether 2:1 And it came to pass that Jared and his brother, and
their families, and also the friends of Jared and his brother and
their families, went down into the valley which was northward,
(and the name of the valley was Nimrod, being called after the
mighty hunter) with their flocks which they had gathered
together, male and female, of every kind.
 
Ether 2:2 And they did also lay snares and catch fowls of the
air; and they did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry
with them the fish of the waters.
 
Ether 2:3 And they did also carry with them deseret, which, by
interpretation, is a honey bee; and thus they did carry with them
swarms of bees, and all manner of that which was upon the face of
the land, seeds of every kind.
 
Ether 2:4 And it came to pass that when they had come down into
the valley of Nimrod the Lord came down and talked with the
brother of Jared; and he was in a cloud, and the brother of Jared
saw him not.
 
Ether 2:5 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded them that
they should go forth into the wilderness, yea, into that quarter
where there never had man been. And it came to pass that the Lord
did go before them, and did talk with them as he stood in a
cloud, and gave directions whither they should travel.
 
Ether 2:6 And it came to pass that they did travel in the
wilderness, and did build barges, in which they did cross many
waters, being directed continually by the hand of the Lord.
 
Ether 2:7 And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop
beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should
come forth even unto the land of promise, which was choice above
all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved for a righteous
people.
 
Ether 2:8 And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of
Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that
time henceforth and forever, should serve him, the true and only
God, or they should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath
should come upon them.
 
Ether 2:9 And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning
this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation
shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when
the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of
his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.
 
Ether 2:10 For behold, this is a land which is choice above all
other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or
shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And
it is not until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the
land, that they are swept off.
 
Ether 2:11 And this cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles, that ye may
know the decrees of God--that ye may repent, and not continue in
your iniquities until the fulness come, that ye may not bring
down the fulness of the wrath of God upon you as the inhabitants
of the land have hitherto done.
 
Ether 2:12 Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation
shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity,
and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve
the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been
manifested by the things which we have written.
 
Ether 2:13 And now I proceed with my record; for behold, it came
to pass that the Lord did bring Jared and his brethren forth even
to that great sea which divideth the lands. And as they came to
the sea they pitched their tents; and they called the name of the
place Moriancumer; and they dwelt in tents, and dwelt in tents
upon the seashore for the space of four years.
 
Ether 2:14 And it came to pass at the end of four years that the
Lord came again unto the brother of Jared, and stood in a cloud
and talked with him. And for the space of three hours did the
Lord talk with the brother of Jared, and chastened him because he
remembered not to call upon the name of the Lord.
 
Ether 2:15 And the brother of Jared repented of the evil which he
had done, and did call upon the name of the Lord for his brethren
who were with him. And the Lord said unto him: I will forgive
thee and thy brethren of their sins; but thou shalt not sin any
more, for ye shall remember that my Spirit will not always strive
with man; wherefore, if ye will sin until ye are fully ripe ye
shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord. And these are my
thoughts upon the land which I shall give you for your
inheritance; for it shall be a land choice above all other lands.
 
Ether 2:16 And the Lord said: Go to work and build, after the
manner of barges which ye have hitherto built. And it came to
pass that the brother of Jared did go to work, and also his
brethren, and built barges after the manner which they had built,
according to the instructions of the Lord. And they were small,
and they were light upon the water, even like unto the lightness
of a fowl upon the water.
 
Ether 2:17 And they were built after a manner that they were
exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a
dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the
sides thereof were tight like unto a dish; and the ends thereof
were peaked; and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and
the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door
thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish.
 
Ether 2:18 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared cried
unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, I have performed the work which
thou hast commanded me, and I have made the barges according as
thou hast directed me.
 
Ether 2:19 And behold, O Lord, in them there is no light; whither
shall we steer? And also we shall perish, for in them we cannot
breathe, save it is the air which is in them; therefore we shall
perish.
 
Ether 2:20 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold,
thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and
when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and
receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee,
behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the
flood.
 
Ether 2:21 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did so,
according as the Lord had commanded.
 
Ether 2:22 And he cried again unto the Lord saying: O Lord,
behold I have done even as thou hast commanded me; and I have
prepared the vessels for my people, and behold there is no light
in them. Behold, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that we shall cross
this great water in darkness?
 
Ether 2:23 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: What will
ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels? For
behold, ye cannot have windows, for they will be dashed in
pieces; neither shall ye take fire with you, for ye shall not go
by the light of fire.
 
Ether 2:24 For behold, ye shall be as a whale in the midst of the
sea; for the mountain waves shall dash upon you. Nevertheless, I
will bring you up again out of the depths of the sea; for the
winds have gone forth out of my mouth, and also the rains and the
floods have I sent forth.
 
Ether 2:25 And behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye
cannot cross this great deep save I prepare you against the waves
of the sea, and the winds which have gone forth, and the floods
which shall come. Therefore what will ye that I should prepare
for you that ye may have light when ye are swallowed up in the
depths of the sea?
 
Ether 3:0 The finger of the Lord--Jesus Christ shows himself in
the spirit to the brother of Jared--The luminous stones--The
interpreters--A record yet to come.
 
Ether 3:1 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared, (now the
number of the vessels which had been prepared was eight) went
forth unto the mount, which they called the mount Shelem, because
of its exceeding height, and did molten out of a rock sixteen
small stones; and they were white and clear, even as transparent
glass; and he did carry them in his hands upon the top of the
mount, and cried again unto the Lord, saying:
 
Ether 3:2 O Lord, thou hast said that we must be encompassed
about by the floods. Now behold, O Lord, and do not be angry with
thy servant because of his weakness before thee; for we know that
thou art holy and dwellest in the heavens, and that we are
unworthy before thee; because of the fall our natures have become
evil continually; nevertheless, O Lord, thou hast given us a
commandment that we must call upon thee, that from thee we may
receive according to our desires.
 
Ether 3:3 Behold, O Lord, thou hast smitten us because of our
iniquity, and hast driven us forth, and for these many years we
have been in the wilderness; nevertheless, thou hast been
merciful unto us. O Lord, look upon me in pity, and turn away
thine anger from this thy people, and suffer not that they shall
go forth across this raging deep in darkness; but behold these
things which I have molten out of the rock.
 
Ether 3:4 And I know, O Lord, that thou hast all power, and can
do whatsoever thou wilt for the benefit of man; therefore touch
these stones, O Lord, with thy finger, and prepare them that they
may shine forth in darkness; and they shall shine forth unto us
in the vessels which we have prepared, that we may have light
while we shall cross the sea.
 
Ether 3:5 Behold, O Lord, thou canst do this. We know that thou
art able to show forth great power, which looks small unto the
understanding of men.
 
Ether 3:6 And it came to pass that when the brother of Jared had
said these words, behold, the Lord stretched forth his hand and
touched the stones one by one with his finger. And the veil was
taken from off the eyes of the brother of Jared, and he saw the
finger of the Lord; and it was as the finger of a man, like unto
flesh and blood; and the brother of Jared fell down before the
Lord, for he was struck with fear.
 
Ether 3:7 And the Lord saw that the brother of Jared had fallen
to the earth; and the Lord said unto him: Arise, why hast thou
fallen?
 
Ether 3:8 And he saith unto the Lord: I saw the finger of the
Lord, and I feared lest he should smite me; for I knew not that
the Lord had flesh and blood.
 
Ether 3:9 And the Lord said unto him: Because of thy faith thou
hast seen that I shall take upon me flesh and blood; and never
has man come before me with such exceeding faith as thou hast;
for were it not so ye could not have seen my finger. Sawest thou
more than this?
 
Ether 3:10 And he answered: Nay; Lord, show thyself unto me.
 
Ether 3:11 And the Lord said unto him: Believest thou the words
which I shall speak?
 
Ether 3:12 And he answered: Yea, Lord, I know that thou speakest
the truth, for thou art a God of truth, and canst not lie.
 
Ether 3:13 And when he had said these words, behold, the Lord
showed himself unto him, and said: Because thou knowest these
things ye are redeemed from the fall; therefore ye are brought
back into my presence; therefore I show myself unto you.
 
Ether 3:14 Behold, I am he who was prepared from the foundation
of the world to redeem my people. Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I am
the Father and the Son. In me shall all mankind have life, and
that eternally, even they who shall believe on my name; and they
shall become my sons and my daughters.
 
Ether 3:15 And never have I showed myself unto man whom I have
created, for never has man believed in me as thou hast. Seest
thou that ye are created after mine own image? Yea, even all men
were created in the beginning after mine own image.
 
Ether 3:16 Behold, this body, which ye now behold, is the body of
my spirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit;
and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear
unto my people in the flesh.
 
Ether 3:17 And now, as I, Moroni, said I could not make a full
account of these things which are written therefore it sufficeth
me to say that Jesus showed himself unto this man in the spirit,
even after the manner and in the likeness of the same body even
as he showed himself unto the Nephites.
 
Ether 3:18 And he ministered unto him even as he ministered unto
the Nephites; and all this, that this man might know that he was
God, because of the many great works which the Lord had showed
unto him.
 
Ether 3:19 And because of the knowledge of this man he could not
be kept from beholding within the veil; and he saw the finger of
Jesus, which, when he saw, he fell with fear; for he knew that it
was the finger of the Lord; and he had faith no longer, for he
knew, nothing doubting.
 
Ether 3:20 Wherefore, having this perfect knowledge of God, he
could not be kept from within the veil; therefore he saw Jesus;
and he did minister unto him.
 
Ether 3:21 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto the
brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt not suffer these things
which ye have seen and heard to go forth unto the world, until
the time cometh that I shall glorify my name in the flesh;
wherefore, ye shall treasure up the things which ye have seen and
heard, and show it to no man.
 
Ether 3:22 And behold, when ye shall come unto me, ye shall write
them and shall seal them up, that no one can interpret them; for
ye shall write them in a language that they cannot be read.
 
Ether 3:23 And behold, these two stones will I give unto thee,
and ye shall seal them up also with the things which ye shall
write.
 
Ether 3:24 For behold, the language which ye shall write I have
confounded; wherefore I will cause in my own due time that these
stones shall magnify to the eyes of men these things which ye
shall write.
 
Ether 3:25 And when the Lord had said these words, he showed unto
the brother of Jared all the inhabitants of the earth which had
been, and also all that would be; and he withheld them not from
his sight, even unto the ends of the earth.
 
Ether 3:26 For he had said unto him in times before, that if he
would believe in him that he could show unto him all things--it
should be shown unto him; therefore the Lord could not withhold
anything from him, for he knew that the Lord could show him all
things.
 
Ether 3:27 And the Lord said unto him: Write these things and
seal them up; and I will show them in mine own due time unto the
children of men.
 
Ether 3:28 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded him that
he should seal up the two stones which he had received, and show
them not, until the Lord should show them unto the children of
men.
 
Ether 4:0 The brother of Jared commanded to write--Moroni's
solemn admonition--Cursed is he who contends against the word of
the Lord--Whatsoever persuades men to do good is of God.
 
Ether 4:1 And the Lord commanded the brother of Jared to go down
out of the mount from the presence of the Lord, and write the
things which he had seen; and they were forbidden to come unto
the children of men until after that he should be lifted up upon
the cross; and for this cause did king Mosiah keep them, that
they should not come unto the world until after Christ should
show himself unto his people.
 
Ether 4:2 And after Christ truly had showed himself unto his
people he commanded that they should be made manifest.
 
Ether 4:3 And now, after that, they have all dwindled in
unbelief; and there is none save it be the Lamanites, and they
have rejected the gospel of Christ; therefore I am commanded that
I should hide them up again in the earth.
 
Ether 4:4 Behold, I have written upon these plates the very
things which the brother of Jared saw; and there never were
greater things made manifest than those which were made manifest
unto the brother of Jared.
 
Ether 4:5 Wherefore the Lord hath commanded me to write them; and
I have written them. And he commanded me that I should seal them
up; and he also hath commanded that I should seal up the
interpretation thereof; wherefore I have sealed up the
interpreters, according to the commandment of the Lord.
 
Ether 4:6 For the Lord said unto me: They shall not go forth unto
the Gentiles until the day that they shall repent of their
iniquity, and become clean before the Lord.
 
Ether 4:7 And in that day that they shall exercise faith in me,
saith the Lord, even as the brother of Jared did, that they may
become sanctified in me, then will I manifest unto them the
things which the brother of Jared saw, even to the unfolding unto
them all my revelations, saith Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the
Father of the heavens and of the earth, and all things that in
them are.
 
Ether 4:8 And he that will contend against the word of the Lord,
let him be accursed; and he that shall deny these things, let him
be accursed; for unto them will I show no greater things, saith
Jesus Christ; for I am he who speaketh.
 
Ether 4:9 And at my command the heavens are opened and are shut;
and at my word the earth shall shake; and at my command the
inhabitants thereof shall pass away, even so as by fire.
 
Ether 4:10 And he that believeth not my words believeth not my
disciples; and if it so be that I do not speak, judge ye; for ye
shall know that it is I that speaketh, at the last day.
 
Ether 4:11 But he that believeth these things which I have
spoken, him will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit,
and he shall know and bear record. For because of my Spirit he
shall know that these things are true; for it persuadeth men to
do good.
 
Ether 4:12 And whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do good is of
me; for good cometh of none save it be of me. I am the same that
leadeth men to all good; he that will not believe my words will
not believe me--that I am; and he that will not believe me will
not believe the Father who sent me. For behold, I am the Father,
I am the light, and the life, and the truth of the world.
 
Ether 4:13 Come unto me, O ye Gentiles, and I will show unto you
the greater things, the knowledge which is hid up because of
unbelief.
 
Ether 4:14 Come unto me, O ye house of Israel, and it shall be
made manifest unto you how great things the Father hath laid up
for you, from the foundation of the world; and it hath not come
unto you, because of unbelief.
 
Ether 4:15 Behold, when ye shall rend that veil of unbelief which
doth cause you to remain in your awful state of wickedness, and
hardness of heart, and blindness of mind, then shall the great
and marvelous things which have been hid up from the foundation
of the world from you--yea, when ye shall call upon the Father in
my name, with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, then shall ye
know that the Father hath remembered the covenant which he made
unto your fathers, O house of Israel.
 
Ether 4:16 And then shall my revelations which I have caused to
be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the
people. Remember, when ye see these things, ye shall know that
the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very
deed.
 
Ether 4:17 Therefore, when ye shall receive this record ye may
know that the work of the Father has commenced upon all the face
of the land.
 
Ether 4:18 Therefore, repent all ye ends of the earth, and come
unto me, and believe in my gospel, and be baptized in my name;
for he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth not shall be damned; and signs shall follow them that
believe in my name.
 
Ether 4:19 And blessed is he that is found faithful unto my name
at the last day, for he shall be lifted up to dwell in the
kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world. And
behold it is I that hath spoken it. Amen.
 
Ether 5:0 Moroni to the future translator of his writings.
 
Ether 5:1 And now I, Moroni, have written the words which were
commanded me, according to my memory; and I have told you the
things which I have sealed up; therefore touch them not in order
that ye may translate; for that thing is forbidden you, except by
and by it shall be wisdom in God.
 
Ether 5:2 And behold, ye may be privileged that ye may show the
plates unto those who shall assist to bring forth this work;
 
Ether 5:3 And unto three shall they be shown by the power of God;
wherefore they shall know of a surety that these things are true.
 
Ether 5:4 And in the mouth of three witnesses shall these things
be established; and the testimony of three, and this work, in the
which shall be shown forth the power of God and also his word, of
which the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost bear record--
and all this shall stand as a testimony against the world at the
last day.
 
Ether 5:5 And if it so be that they repent and come unto the
Father in the name of Jesus, they shall be received into the
kingdom of God.
 
Ether 5:6 And now, if I have no authority for these things, judge
ye; for ye shall know that I have authority when ye shall see me,
and we shall stand before God at the last day. Amen.
 
Ether 6:0 The story of the Jaredites continued--Their vessels
lighted by miracle--Through the depths of the sea to the promised
land--The people desire a king--Their leaders foresee evil but
yield to the popular will--Death of Jared and his brother.
 
Ether 6:1 And now I, Moroni, proceed to give the record of Jared
and his brother.
 
Ether 6:2 For it came to pass after the Lord had prepared the
stones which the brother of Jared had carried up into the mount,
the brother of Jared came down out of the mount, and he did put
forth the stones into the vessels which were prepared, one in
each end thereof; and behold, they did give light unto the
vessels.
 
Ether 6:3 And thus the Lord caused stones to shine in darkness,
to give light unto men, women, and children, that they might not
cross the great waters in darkness.
 
Ether 6:4 And it came to pass that when they had prepared all
manner of food, that thereby they might subsist upon the water,
and also food for their flocks and herds, and whatsoever beast or
animal or fowl that they should carry with them--and it came to
pass that when they had done all these things they got aboard of
their vessels or barges, and set forth into the sea, commending
themselves unto the Lord their God.
 
Ether 6:5 And it came to pass that the Lord God caused that there
should be a furious wind blow upon the face of the waters,
towards the promised land; and thus they were tossed upon the
waves of the sea before the wind.
 
Ether 6:6 And it came to pass that they were many times buried in
the depths of the sea, because of the mountain waves which broke
upon them, and also the great and terrible tempests which were
caused by the fierceness of the wind.
 
Ether 6:7 And it came to pass that when they were buried in the
deep there was no water that could hurt them, their vessels being
tight like unto a dish, and also they were tight like unto the
ark of Noah; therefore when they were encompassed about by many
waters they did cry unto the Lord, and he did bring them forth
again upon the top of the waters.
 
Ether 6:8 And it came to pass that the wind did never cease to
blow towards the promised land while they were upon the waters;
and thus they were driven forth before the wind.
 
Ether 6:9 And they did sing praises unto the Lord; yea, the
brother of Jared did sing praises unto the Lord, and he did thank
and praise the Lord all the day long; and when the night came,
they did not cease to praise the Lord.
 
Ether 6:10 And thus they were driven forth; and no monster of the
sea could break them, neither whale that could mar them; and they
did have light continually, whether it was above the water or
under the water.
 
Ether 6:11 And thus they were driven forth, three hundred and
forty and four days upon the water.
 
Ether 6:12 And they did land upon the shore of the promised land.
And when they had set their feet upon the shores of the promised
land they bowed themselves down upon the face of the land, and
did humble themselves before the Lord, and did shed tears of joy
before the Lord, because of the multitude of his tender mercies
over them.
 
Ether 6:13 And it came to pass that they went forth upon the face
of the land, and began to till the earth.
 
Ether 6:14 And Jared had four sons; and they were called Jacom,
and Gilgah, and Mahah, and Orihah.
 
Ether 6:15 And the brother of Jared also begat sons and
daughters.
 
Ether 6:16 And the friends of Jared and his brother were in
number about twenty and two souls; and they also begat sons and
daughters before they came to the promised land; and therefore
they began to be many.
 
Ether 6:17 And they were taught to walk humbly before the Lord;
and they were also taught from on high.
 
Ether 6:18 And it came to pass that they began to spread upon the
face of the land, and to multiply and to till the earth; and they
did wax strong in the land.
 
Ether 6:19 And the brother of Jared began to be old, and saw that
he must soon go down to the grave; wherefore he said unto Jared:
Let us gather together our people that we may number them, that
we may know of them what they will desire of us before we go down
to our graves.
 
Ether 6:20 And accordingly the people were gathered together. Now
the number of the sons and the daughters of the brother of Jared
were twenty and two souls; and the number of sons and daughters
of Jared were twelve, he having four sons.
 
Ether 6:21 And it came to pass that they did number their people;
and after that they had numbered them, they did desire of them
the things which they would that they should do before they went
down to their graves.
 
Ether 6:22 And it came to pass that the people desired of them
that they should anoint one of their sons to be a king over them.
 
Ether 6:23 And now behold, this was grievous unto them. And the
brother of Jared said unto them: Surely this thing leadeth into
captivity.
 
Ether 6:24 But Jared said unto his brother: Suffer them that they
may have a king. And therefore he said unto them: Choose ye out
from among our sons a king, even whom ye will.
 
Ether 6:25 And it came to pass that they chose even the firstborn
of the brother of Jared; and his name was Pagag. And it came to
pass that he refused and would not be their king. And the people
would that his father should constrain him, but his father would
not; and he commanded them that they should constrain no man to
be their king.
 
Ether 6:26 And it came to pass that they chose all the brothers
of Pagag, and they would not.
 
Ether 6:27 And it came to pass that neither would the sons of
Jared, even all save it were one; and Orihah was anointed to be
king over the people.
 
Ether 6:28 And he began to reign, and the people began to
prosper; and they became exceedingly rich.
 
Ether 6:29 And it came to pass that Jared died, and his brother
also.
 
Ether 6:30 And it came to pass that Orihah did walk humbly before
the Lord, and did remember how great things the Lord had done for
his father, and also taught his people how great things the Lord
had done for their fathers.
 
Ether 7:0 Orihah's righteous reign, followed by rebellion,
usurpation and strife--The rival kingdoms of Shule and Cohor--
Wickedness and idolatry--Prophets appear and the people repent.
 
Ether 7:1 And it came to pass that Orihah did execute judgment
upon the land in righteousness all his days, whose days were
exceedingly many.
 
Ether 7:2 And he begat sons and daughters; yea, he begat thirty
and one, among whom were twenty and three sons.
 
Ether 7:3 And it came to pass that he also begat Kib in his old
age. And it came to pass that Kib reigned in his stead; and Kib
begat Corihor.
 
Ether 7:4 And when Corihor was thirty and two years old he
rebelled against his father, and went over and dwelt in the land
of Nehor; and he begat sons and daughters, and they became
exceedingly fair; wherefore Corihor drew away many people after
him.
 
Ether 7:5 And when he had gathered together an army he came up
unto the land of Moron where the king dwelt, and took him
captive, which brought to pass the saying of the brother of Jared
that they would be brought into captivity.
 
Ether 7:6 Now the land of Moron, where the king dwelt, was near
the land which is called Desolation by the Nephites.
 
Ether 7:7 And it came to pass that Kib dwelt in captivity, and
his people under Corihor his son, until he became exceedingly
old; nevertheless Kib begat Shule in his old age, while he was
yet in captivity.
 
Ether 7:8 And it came to pass that Shule was angry with his
brother; and Shule waxed strong, and became mighty as to the
strength of a man; and he was also mighty in judgment.
 
Ether 7:9 Wherefore, he came to the hill Ephraim, and he did
molten out of the hill, and made swords out of steel for those
whom he had drawn away with him; and after he had armed them with
swords he returned to the city Nehor, and gave battle unto his
brother Corihor, by which means he obtained the kingdom and
restored it unto his father Kib.
 
Ether 7:10 And now because of the thing which Shule had done, his
father bestowed upon him the kingdom; therefore he began to reign
in the stead of his father.
 
Ether 7:11 And it came to pass that he did execute judgment in
righteousness; and he did spread his kingdom upon all the face of
the land, for the people had become exceedingly numerous.
 
Ether 7:12 And it came to pass that Shule also begat many sons
and daughters.
 
Ether 7:13 And Corihor repented of the many evils which he had
done; wherefore Shule gave him power in his kingdom.
 
Ether 7:14 And it came to pass that Corihor had many sons and
daughters. And among the sons of Corihor there was one whose name
was Noah.
 
Ether 7:15 And it came to pass that Noah rebelled against Shule,
the king, and also his father Corihor, and drew away Cohor his
brother, and also all his brethren and many of the people.
 
Ether 7:16 And he gave battle unto Shule, the king, in which he
did obtain the land of their first inheritance; and he became a
king over that part of the land.
 
Ether 7:17 And it came to pass that he gave battle again unto
Shule, the king; and he took Shule, the king, and carried him
away captive into Moron.
 
Ether 7:18 And it came to pass as he was about to put him to
death, the sons of Shule crept into the house of Noah by night
and slew him, and broke down the door of the prison and brought
out their father, and placed him upon his throne in his own
kingdom.
 
Ether 7:19 Wherefore, the son of Noah did build up his kingdom in
his stead; nevertheless they did not gain power any more over
Shule the king, and the people who were under the reign of Shule
the king did prosper exceedingly and wax great.
 
Ether 7:20 And the country was divided; and there were two
kingdoms, the kingdom of Shule, and the kingdom of Cohor, the son
of Noah.
 
Ether 7:21 And Cohor, the son of Noah, caused that his people
should give battle unto Shule, in which Shule did beat them and
did slay Cohor.
 
Ether 7:22 And now Cohor had a son who was called Nimrod; and
Nimrod gave up the kingdom of Cohor unto Shule, and he did gain
favor in the eyes of Shule; wherefore Shule did bestow great
favors upon him, and he did do in the kingdom of Shule according
to his desires.
 
Ether 7:23 And also in the reign of Shule there came prophets
among the people, who were sent from the Lord, prophesying that
the wickedness and idolatry of the people was bringing a curse
upon the land, and they should be destroyed if they did not
repent.
 
Ether 7:24 And it came to pass that the people did revile against
the prophets, and did mock them. And it came to pass that king
Shule did execute judgment against all those who did revile
against the prophets.
 
Ether 7:25 And he did execute a law throughout all the land,
which gave power unto the prophets that they should go
whithersoever they would; and by this cause the people were
brought unto repentance.
 
Ether 7:26 And because the people did repent of their iniquities
and idolatries the Lord did spare them, and they began to prosper
again in the land. And it came to pass that Shule begat sons and
daughters in his old age.
 
Ether 7:27 And there were no more wars in the days of Shule; and
he remembered the great things that the Lord had done for his
fathers in bringing them across the great deep into the promised
land; wherefore he did execute judgment in righteousness all his
days.
 
Ether 8:0 The good king Omer--His son Jared conspires with Akish
to obtain the crown--Strife and bloodshed--Secret and murderous
combinations--Modern Gentiles warned against such.
 
Ether 8:1 And it came to pass that he begat Omer, and Omer
reigned in his stead. And Omer begat Jared; and Jared begat sons
and daughters.
 
Ether 8:2 And Jared rebelled against his father, and came and
dwelt in the land of Heth. And it came to pass that he did
flatter many people, because of his cunning words, until he had
gained the half of the kingdom.
 
Ether 8:3 And when he had gained the half of the kingdom he gave
battle unto his father, and he did carry away his father into
captivity, and did make him serve in captivity;
 
Ether 8:4 And now, in the days of the reigns of Omer he was in
captivity the half of his days. And it came to pass that he begat
sons and daughters, among whom were Esrom and Coriantumr;
 
Ether 8:5 And they were exceedingly angry because of the doings
of Jared their brother, insomuch that they did raise an army and
gave battle unto Jared. And it came to pass that they did give
battle unto him by night.
 
Ether 8:6 And it came to pass that when they had slain the army
of Jared they were about to slay him also; and he plead with them
that they would not slay him, and he would give up the kingdom
unto his father. And it came to pass that they did grant unto him
his life.
 
Ether 8:7 And now Jared became exceedingly sorrowful because of
the loss of the kingdom, for he had set his heart upon the
kingdom and upon the glory of the world.
 
Ether 8:8 Now the daughter of Jared being exceedingly expert, and
seeing the sorrows of her father, thought to devise a plan
whereby she could redeem the kingdom unto her father.
 
Ether 8:9 Now the daughter of Jared was exceedingly fair. And it
came to pass that she did talk with her father, and said unto
him: Whereby hath my father so much sorrow? Hath he not read the
record which our fathers brought across the great deep? Behold,
is there not an account concerning them of old, that they by
their secret plans did obtain kingdoms and great glory?
 
Ether 8:10 And now, therefore, let my father send for Akish, the
son of Kimnor; and behold, I am fair, and I will dance before
him, and I will please him, that he will desire me to wife;
wherefore if he shall desire of thee that ye shall give unto him
me to wife, then shall ye say: I will give her if ye will bring
unto me the head of my father, the king.
 
Ether 8:11 And now Omer was a friend to Akish; wherefore, when
Jared had sent for Akish, the daughter of Jared danced before him
that she pleased him, insomuch that he desired her to wife. And
it came to pass that he said unto Jared: Give her unto me to
wife.
 
Ether 8:12 And Jared said unto him: I will give her unto you, if
ye will bring unto me the head of my father, the king.
 
Ether 8:13 And it came to pass that Akish gathered in unto the
house of Jared all his kinsfolk, and said unto them: Will ye
swear unto me that ye will be faithful unto me in the thing which
I shall desire of you?
 
Ether 8:14 And it came to pass that they all sware unto him, by
the God of heaven, and also by the heavens, and also by the
earth, and by their heads, that whoso should vary from the
assistance which Akish desired should lose his head; and whoso
should divulge whatsoever thing Akish made known unto them, the
same should lose his life.
 
Ether 8:15 And it came to pass that thus they did agree with
Akish. And Akish did administer unto them the oaths which were
given by them of old who also sought power, which had been handed
down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning.
 
Ether 8:16 And they were kept up by the power of the devil to
administer these oaths unto the people, to keep them in darkness,
to help such as sought power to gain power, and to murder, and to
plunder, and to lie, and to commit all manner of wickedness and
whoredoms.
 
Ether 8:17 And it was the daughter of Jared who put it into his
heart to search up these things of old; and Jared put it into the
heart of Akish; wherefore, Akish administered it unto his kindred
and friends, leading them away by fair promises to do whatsoever
thing he desired.
 
Ether 8:18 And it came to pass that they formed a secret
combination, even as they of old; which combination is most
abominable and wicked above all, in the sight of God;
 
Ether 8:19 For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations,
neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all
things hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man.
 
Ether 8:20 And now I, Moroni, do not write the manner of their
oaths and combinations, for it hath been made known unto me that
they are had among all people, and they are had among the
Lamanites.
 
Ether 8:21 And they have caused the destruction of this people of
whom I am now speaking, and also the destruction of the people of
Nephi.
 
Ether 8:22 And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret
combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over
the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will
not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by
them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance
upon them and yet he avenge them not.
 
Ether 8:23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that
these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent
of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations
shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain--
and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you,
yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall
upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer
these things to be.
 
Ether 8:24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see
these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of
your awful situation, because of this secret combination which
shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of
them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for
vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
 
Ether 8:25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up
seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and
countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people,
for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies;
even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even
that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the
beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have
murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from
the beginning.
 
Ether 8:26 Wherefore, I, Moroni, am commanded to write these
things that evil may be done away, and that the time may come
that Satan may have no power upon the hearts of the children of
men, but that they may be persuaded to do good continually, that
they may come unto the fountain of all righteousness and be
saved.
 
Ether 9:0 Omer loses and regains his crown--Emer's prosperous
reign--Cureloms and cumoms, animals of that period--Sundry kings-
-Famine and poisonous serpents.
 
Ether 9:1 And now I, Moroni, proceed with my record. Therefore,
behold, it came to pass that because of the secret combinations
of Akish and his friends, behold, they did overthrow the kingdom
of Omer.
 
Ether 9:2 Nevertheless, the Lord was merciful unto Omer, and also
to his sons and to his daughters who did not seek his
destruction.
 
Ether 9:3 And the Lord warned Omer in a dream that he should
depart out of the land; wherefore Omer departed out of the land
with his family, and traveled many days, and came over and passed
by the hill of Shim, and came over by the place where the
Nephites were destroyed, and from thence eastward, and came to a
place which was called Ablom, by the seashore, and there he
pitched his tent, and also his sons and his daughters, and all
his household, save it were Jared and his family.
 
Ether 9:4 And it came to pass that Jared was anointed king over
the people, by the hand of wickedness; and he gave unto Akish his
daughter to wife.
 
Ether 9:5 And it came to pass that Akish sought the life of his
father-in-law; and he applied unto those whom he had sworn by the
oath of the ancients, and they obtained the head of his father-
in-law, as he sat upon his throne, giving audience to his people.
 
Ether 9:6 For so great had been the spreading of this wicked and
secret society that it had corrupted the hearts of all the
people; therefore Jared was murdered upon his throne, and Akish
reigned in his stead.
 
Ether 9:7 And it came to pass that Akish began to be jealous of
his son, therefore he shut him up in prison, and kept him upon
little or no food until he had suffered death.
 
Ether 9:8 And now the brother of him that suffered death, (and
his name was Nimrah) was angry with his father because of that
which his father had done unto his brother.
 
Ether 9:9 And it came to pass that Nimrah gathered together a
small number of men, and fled out of the land, and came over and
dwelt with Omer.
 
Ether 9:10 And it came to pass that Akish begat other sons, and
they won the hearts of the people, notwithstanding they had sworn
unto him to do all manner of iniquity according to that which he
desired.
 
Ether 9:11 Now the people of Akish were desirous for gain, even
as Akish was desirous for power; wherefore, the sons of Akish did
offer them money, by which means they drew away the more part of
the people after them.
 
Ether 9:12 And there began to be a war between the sons of Akish
and Akish, which lasted for the space of many years, yea, unto
the destruction of nearly all the people of the kingdom, yea,
even all, save it were thirty souls, and they who fled with the
house of Omer.
 
Ether 9:13 Wherefore, Omer was restored again to the land of his
inheritance.
 
Ether 9:14 And it came to pass that Omer began to be old;
nevertheless, in his old age he begat Emer; and he anointed Emer
to be king to reign in his stead.
 
Ether 9:15 And after that he had anointed Emer to be king he saw
peace in the land for the space of two years, and he died, having
seen exceedingly many days, which were full of sorrow. And it
came to pass that Emer did reign in his stead, and did fill the
steps of his father.
 
Ether 9:16 And the Lord began again to take the curse from off
the land, and the house of Emer did prosper exceedingly under the
reign of Emer; and in the space of sixty and two years they had
become exceedingly strong, insomuch that they became exceedingly
rich--
 
Ether 9:17 Having all manner of fruit, and of grain, and of
silks, and of fine linen, and of gold, and of silver, and of
precious things;
 
Ether 9:18 And also all manner of cattle, of oxen, and cows, and
of sheep, and of swine, and of goats, and also many other kinds
of animals which were useful for the food of man.
 
Ether 9:19 And they also had horses, and asses, and there were
elephants and cureloms and cumoms; all of which were useful unto
man, and more especially the elephants and cureloms and cumoms.
 
Ether 9:20 And thus the Lord did pour out his blessings upon this
land, which was choice above all other lands; and he commanded
that whoso should possess the land should possess it unto the
Lord, or they should be destroyed when they were ripened in
iniquity; for upon such, saith the Lord: I will pour out the
fulness of my wrath.
 
Ether 9:21 And Emer did execute judgment in righteousness all his
days, and he begat many sons and daughters; and he begat
Coriantum, and he anointed Coriantum to reign in his stead.
 
Ether 9:22 And after he had anointed Coriantum to reign in his
stead he lived four years, and he saw peace in the land; yea, and
he even saw the Son of Righteousness, and did rejoice and glory
in his day; and he died in peace.
 
Ether 9:23 And it came to pass that Coriantum did walk in the
steps of his father, and did build many mighty cities, and did
administer that which was good unto his people in all his days.
And it came to pass that he had no children even until he was
exceedingly old.
 
Ether 9:24 And it came to pass that his wife died, being an
hundred and two years old. And it came to pass that Coriantum
took to wife, in his old age, a young maid, and begat sons and
daughters; wherefore he lived until he was an hundred and forty
and two years old.
 
Ether 9:25 And it came to pass that he begat Com, and Com reigned
in his stead; and he reigned forty and nine years, and he begat
Heth; and he also begat other sons and daughters.
 
Ether 9:26 And the people had spread again over all the face of
the land, and there began again to be an exceedingly great
wickedness upon the face of the land, and Heth began to embrace
the secret plans again of old, to destroy his father.
 
Ether 9:27 And it came to pass that he did dethrone his father,
for he slew him with his own sword; and he did reign in his
stead.
 
Ether 9:28 And there came prophets in the land again, crying
repentance unto them--that they must prepare the way of the Lord
or there should come a curse upon the face of the land; yea, even
there should be a great famine, in which they should be destroyed
if they did not repent.
 
Ether 9:29 But the people believed not the words of the prophets,
but they cast them out; and some of them they cast into pits and
left them to perish. And it came to pass that they did all these
things according to the commandment of the king, Heth.
 
Ether 9:30 And it came to pass that there began to be a great
dearth upon the land, and the inhabitants began to be destroyed
exceedingly fast because of the dearth, for there was no rain
upon the face of the earth.
 
Ether 9:31 And there came forth poisonous serpents also upon the
face of the land, and did poison many people. And it came to pass
that their flocks began to flee before the poisonous serpents,
towards the land southward, which was called by the Nephites
Zarahemla.
 
Ether 9:32 And it came to pass that there were many of them which
did perish by the way; nevertheless, there were some which fled
into the land southward.
 
Ether 9:33 And it came to pass that the Lord did cause the
serpents that they should pursue them no more, but that they
should hedge up the way that the people could not pass, that
whoso should attempt to pass might fall by the poisonous
serpents.
 
Ether 9:34 And it came to pass that the people did follow the
course of the beasts, and did devour the carcasses of them which
fell by the way, until they had devoured them all. Now when the
people saw that they must perish they began to repent of their
iniquities and cry unto the Lord.
 
Ether 9:35 And it came to pass that when they had humbled
themselves sufficiently before the Lord he did send rain upon the
face of the earth; and the people began to revive again, and
there began to be fruit in the north countries, and in all the
countries round about. And the Lord did show forth his power unto
them in preserving them from famine.
 
Ether 10:0 Riplakish the wrong-doer--Morianton the reformer--
Other monarchs and their wars--The land southward a wilderness--
The land northward inhabited.
 
Ether 10:1 And it came to pass that Shez, who was a descendant of
Heth--for Heth had perished by the famine, and all his household
save it were Shez--wherefore, Shez began to build up again a
broken people.
 
Ether 10:2 And it came to pass that Shez did remember the
destruction of his fathers, and he did build up a righteous
kingdom; for he remembered what the Lord had done in bringing
Jared and his brother across the deep; and he did walk in the
ways of the Lord; and he begat sons and daughters.
 
Ether 10:3 And his eldest son, whose name was Shez, did rebel
against him; nevertheless, Shez was smitten by the hand of a
robber, because of his exceeding riches, which brought peace
again unto his father.
 
Ether 10:4 And it came to pass that his father did build up many
cities upon the face of the land, and the people began again to
spread over all the face of the land. And Shez did live to an
exceedingly old age; and he begat Riplakish. And he died, and
Riplakish reigned in his stead.
 
Ether 10:5 And it came to pass that Riplakish did not do that
which was right in the sight of the Lord, for he did have many
wives and concubines, and did lay that upon men's shoulders which
was grievous to be borne; yea, he did tax them with heavy taxes;
and with the taxes he did build many spacious buildings.
 
Ether 10:6 And he did erect him an exceedingly beautiful throne;
and he did build many prisons, and whoso would not be subject
unto taxes he did cast into prison; and whoso was not able to pay
taxes he did cast into prison; and he did cause that they should
labor continually for their support; and whoso refused to labor
he did cause to be put to death.
 
Ether 10:7 Wherefore he did obtain all his fine work, yea, even
his fine gold he did cause to be refined in prison; and all
manner of fine workmanship he did cause to be wrought in prison.
And it came to pass that he did afflict the people with his
whoredoms and abominations.
 
Ether 10:8 And when he had reigned for the space of forty and two
years the people did rise up in rebellion against him; and there
began to be war again in the land, insomuch that Riplakish was
killed, and his descendants were driven out of the land.
 
Ether 10:9 And it came to pass after the space of many years,
Morianton, (he being a descendant of Riplakish) gathered together
an army of outcasts, and went forth and gave battle unto the
people; and he gained power over many cities; and the war became
exceedingly sore, and did last for the space of many years; and
he did gain power over all the land, and did establish himself
king over all the land.
 
Ether 10:10 And after that he had established himself king he did
ease the burden of the people, by which he did gain favor in the
eyes of the people, and they did anoint him to be their king.
 
Ether 10:11 And he did do justice unto the people, but not unto
himself because of his many whoredoms; wherefore he was cut off
from the presence of the Lord.
 
Ether 10:12 And it came to pass that Morianton built up many
cities, and the people became exceedingly rich under his reign,
both in buildings, and in gold and silver, and in raising grain,
and in flocks, and herds, and such things which had been restored
unto them.
 
Ether 10:13 And Morianton did live to an exceedingly great age,
and then he begat Kim; and Kim did reign in the stead of his
father; and he did reign eight years, and his father died. And it
came to pass that Kim did not reign in righteousness, wherefore
he was not favored of the Lord.
 
Ether 10:14 And his brother did rise up in rebellion against him,
by which he did bring him into captivity; and he did remain in
captivity all his days; and he begat sons and daughters in
captivity, and in his old age he begat Levi; and he died.
 
Ether 10:15 And it came to pass that Levi did serve in captivity
after the death of his father, for the space of forty and two
years. And he did make war against the king of the land, by which
he did obtain unto himself the kingdom.
 
Ether 10:16 And after he had obtained unto himself the kingdom he
did that which was right in the sight of the Lord; and the people
did prosper in the land; and he did live to a good old age, and
begat sons and daughters; and he also begat Corom, whom he
anointed king in his stead.
 
Ether 10:17 And it came to pass that Corom did that which was
good in the sight of the Lord all his days; and he begat many
sons and daughters; and after he had seen many days he did pass
away, even like unto the rest of the earth; and Kish reigned in
his stead.
 
Ether 10:18 And it came to pass that Kish passed away also, and
Lib reigned in his stead.
 
Ether 10:19 And it came to pass that Lib also did that which was
good in the sight of the Lord. And in the days of Lib the
poisonous serpents were destroyed. Wherefore they did go into the
land southward, to hunt food for the people of the land, for the
land was covered with animals of the forest. And Lib also himself
became a great hunter.
 
Ether 10:20 And they built a great city by the narrow neck of
land, by the place where the sea divides the land.
 
Ether 10:21 And they did preserve the land southward for a
wilderness, to get game. And the whole face of the land northward
was covered with inhabitants.
 
Ether 10:22 And they were exceedingly industrious, and they did
buy and sell and traffic one with another, that they might get
gain.
 
Ether 10:23 And they did work in all manner of ore, and they did
make gold, and silver, and iron, and brass, and all manner of
metals; and they did dig it out of the earth; wherefore, they did
cast up mighty heaps of earth to get ore, of gold, and of silver,
and of iron, and of copper. And they did work all manner of fine
work.
 
Ether 10:24 And they did have silks, and fine-twined linen; and
they did work all manner of cloth, that they might clothe
themselves from their nakedness.
 
Ether 10:25 And they did make all manner of tools to till the
earth, both to plow and to sow, to reap and to hoe, and also to
thrash.
 
Ether 10:26 And they did make all manner of tools with which they
did work their beasts.
 
Ether 10:27 And they did make all manner of weapons of war. And
they did work all manner of work of exceedingly curious
workmanship.
 
Ether 10:28 And never could be a people more blessed than were
they, and more prospered by the hand of the Lord. And they were
in a land that was choice above all lands, for the Lord had
spoken it.
 
Ether 10:29 And it came to pass that Lib did live many years, and
begat sons and daughters; and he also begat Hearthom.
 
Ether 10:30 And it came to pass that Hearthom reigned in the
stead of his father. And when Hearthom had reigned twenty and
four years, behold, the kingdom was taken away from him. And he
served many years in captivity, yea, even all the remainder of
his days.
 
Ether 10:31 And he begat Heth, and Heth lived in captivity all
his days. And Heth begat Aaron, and Aaron dwelt in captivity all
his days; and he begat Amnigaddah, and Amnigaddah also dwelt in
captivity all his days; and he begat Coriantum, and Coriantum
dwelt in captivity all his days; and he begat Com.
 
Ether 10:32 And it came to pass that Com drew away the half of
the kingdom. And he reigned over the half of the kingdom forty
and two years; and he went to battle against the king, Amgid, and
they fought for the space of many years, during which time Com
gained power over Amgid, and obtained power over the remainder of
the kingdom.
 
Ether 10:33 And in the days of Com there began to be robbers in
the land; and they adopted the old plans, and administered oaths
after the manner of the ancients, and sought again to destroy the
kingdom.
 
Ether 10:34 Now Com did fight against them much; nevertheless, he
did not prevail against them.
 
Ether 11:0 Jaredite prophets predict utter destruction of their
people except they repent--The warning unheeded.
 
Ether 11:1 And there came also in the days of Com many prophets,
and prophesied of the destruction of that great people except
they should repent, and turn unto the Lord, and forsake their
murders and wickedness.
 
Ether 11:2 And it came to pass that the prophets were rejected by
the people, and they fled unto Com for protection, for the people
sought to destroy them.
 
Ether 11:3 And they prophesied unto Com many things; and he was
blessed in all the remainder of his days.
 
Ether 11:4 And he lived to a good old age, and begat Shiblom; and
Shiblom reigned in his stead. And the brother of Shiblom rebelled
against him, and there began to be an exceedingly great war in
all the land.
 
Ether 11:5 And it came to pass that the brother of Shiblom caused
that all the prophets who prophesied of the destruction of the
people should be put to death;
 
Ether 11:6 And there was great calamity in all the land, for they
had testified that a great curse should come upon the land, and
also upon the people, and that there should be a great
destruction among them, such an one as never had been upon the
face of the earth, and their bones should become as heaps of
earth upon the face of the land except they should repent of
their wickedness.
 
Ether 11:7 And they hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord,
because of their wicked combinations; wherefore, there began to
be wars and contentions in all the land, and also many famines
and pestilences, insomuch that there was a great destruction,
such an one as never had been known upon the face of the earth;
and all this came to pass in the days of Shiblom.
 
Ether 11:8 And the people began to repent of their iniquity; and
inasmuch as they did the Lord did have mercy on them.
 
Ether 11:9 And it came to pass that Shiblom was slain, and Seth
was brought into captivity, and did dwell in captivity all his
days.
 
Ether 11:10 And it came to pass that Ahah, his son, did obtain
the kingdom; and he did reign over the people all his days. And
he did do all manner of iniquity in his days, by which he did
cause the shedding of much blood; and few were his days.
 
Ether 11:11 And Ethem, being a descendant of Ahah, did obtain the
kingdom; and he also did do that which was wicked in his days.
 
Ether 11:12 And it came to pass that in the days of Ethem there
came many prophets, and prophesied again unto the people; yea,
they did prophesy that the Lord would utterly destroy them from
off the face of the earth except they repented of their
iniquities.
 
Ether 11:13 And it came to pass that the people hardened their
hearts, and would not hearken unto their words; and the prophets
mourned and withdrew from among the people.
 
Ether 11:14 And it came to pass that Ethem did execute judgment
in wickedness all his days; and he begat Moron. And it came to
pass that Moron did reign in his stead; and Moron did that which
was wicked before the Lord.
 
Ether 11:15 And it came to pass that there arose a rebellion
among the people, because of that secret combination which was
built up to get power and gain; and there arose a mighty man
among them in iniquity, and gave battle unto Moron, in which he
did overthrow the half of the kingdom; and he did maintain the
half of the kingdom for many years.
 
Ether 11:16 And it came to pass that Moron did overthrow him, and
did obtain the kingdom again.
 
Ether 11:17 And it came to pass that there arose another mighty
man; and he was a descendant of the brother of Jared.
 
Ether 11:18 And it came to pass that he did overthrow Moron and
obtain the kingdom; wherefore, Moron dwelt in captivity all the
remainder of his days; and he begat Coriantor.
 
Ether 11:19 And it came to pass that Coriantor dwelt in captivity
all his days.
 
Ether 11:20 And in the days of Coriantor there also came many
prophets, and prophesied of great and marvelous things, and cried
repentance unto the people, and except they should repent the
Lord God would execute judgment against them to their utter
destruction;
 
Ether 11:21 And that the Lord God would send or bring forth
another people to possess the land, by his power, after the
manner by which he brought their fathers.
 
Ether 11:22 And they did reject all the words of the prophets,
because of their secret society and wicked abominations.
 
Ether 11:23 And it came to pass that Coriantor begat Ether, and
he died, having dwelt in captivity all his days.
 
Ether 12:0 The prophet Ether and king Coriantumr--The Jaredite
and Nephite languages--God gives weaknesses that men may be
humble--Moroni's farewell to the Gentiles.
 
Ether 12:1 And it came to pass that the days of Ether were in the
days of Coriantumr; and Coriantumr was king over all the land.
 
Ether 12:2 And Ether was a prophet of the Lord; wherefore Ether
came forth in the days of Coriantumr, and began to prophesy unto
the people, for he could not be restrained because of the Spirit
of the Lord which was in him.
 
Ether 12:3 For he did cry from the morning, even until the going
down of the sun, exhorting the people to believe in God unto
repentance lest they should be destroyed, saying unto them that
by faith all things are fulfilled--
 
Ether 12:4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety
hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of
God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of
men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding
in good works, being led to glorify God.
 
Ether 12:5 And it came to pass that Ether did prophesy great and
marvelous things unto the people, which they did not believe,
because they saw them not.
 
Ether 12:6 And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning
these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things
which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because
ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of
your faith.
 
Ether 12:7 For it was by faith that Christ showed himself unto
our fathers, after he had risen from the dead; and he showed not
himself unto them until after they had faith in him; wherefore,
it must needs be that some had faith in him, for he showed
himself not unto the world.
 
Ether 12:8 But because of the faith of men he has shown himself
unto the world, and glorified the name of the Father, and
prepared a way that thereby others might be partakers of the
heavenly gift, that they might hope for those things which they
have not seen.
 
Ether 12:9 Wherefore, ye may also have hope, and be partakers of
the gift, if ye will but have faith.
 
Ether 12:10 Behold it was by faith that they of old were called
after the holy order of God.
 
Ether 12:11 Wherefore, by faith was the law of Moses given. But
in the gift of his Son hath God prepared a more excellent way;
and it is by faith that it hath been fulfilled.
 
Ether 12:12 For if there be no faith among the children of men
God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he showed not
himself until after their faith.
 
Ether 12:13 Behold, it was the faith of Alma and Amulek that
caused the prison to tumble to the earth.
 
Ether 12:14 Behold, it was the faith of Nephi and Lehi that
wrought the change upon the Lamanites, that they were baptized
with fire and with the Holy Ghost.
 
Ether 12:15 Behold, it was the faith of Ammon and his brethren
which wrought so great a miracle among the Lamanites.
 
Ether 12:16 Yea, and even all they who wrought miracles wrought
them by faith, even those who were before Christ and also those
who were after.
 
Ether 12:17 And it was by faith that the three disciples obtained
a promise that they should not taste of death; and they obtained
not the promise until after their faith.
 
Ether 12:18 And neither at any time hath any wrought miracles
until after their faith; wherefore they first believed in the Son
of God.
 
Ether 12:19 And there were many whose faith was so exceedingly
strong, even before Christ came, who could not be kept from
within the veil, but truly saw with their eyes the things which
they had beheld with an eye of faith, and they were glad.
 
Ether 12:20 And behold, we have seen in this record that one of
these was the brother of Jared; for so great was his faith in
God, that when God put forth his finger he could not hide it from
the sight of the brother of Jared, because of his word which he
had spoken unto him, which word he had obtained by faith.
 
Ether 12:21 And after the brother of Jared had beheld the finger
of the Lord, because of the promise which the brother of Jared
had obtained by faith, the Lord could not withhold anything from
his sight; wherefore he showed him all things, for he could no
longer be kept without the veil.
 
Ether 12:22 And it is by faith that my fathers have obtained the
promise that these things should come unto their brethren through
the Gentiles; therefore the Lord hath commanded me, yea, even
Jesus Christ.
 
Ether 12:23 And I said unto him: Lord, the Gentiles will mock at
these things, because of our weakness in writing; for Lord thou
hast made us mighty in word by faith, but thou hast not made us
mighty in writing; for thou hast made all this people that they
could speak much, because of the Holy Ghost which thou hast given
them;
 
Ether 12:24 And thou hast made us that we could write but little,
because of the awkwardness of our hands. Behold, thou hast not
made us mighty in writing like unto the brother of Jared, for
thou madest him that the things which he wrote were mighty even
as thou art, unto the overpowering of man to read them.
 
Ether 12:25 Thou hast also made our words powerful and great,
even that we cannot write them; wherefore, when we write we
behold our weakness, and stumble because of the placing of our
words; and I fear lest the Gentiles shall mock at our words.
 
Ether 12:26 And when I had said this, the Lord spake unto me,
saying: Fools mock, but they shall mourn; and my grace is
sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of
your weakness;
 
Ether 12:27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their
weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and
my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before
me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in
me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.
 
Ether 12:28 Behold, I will show unto the Gentiles their weakness
and I will show unto them that faith, hope and charity bringeth
unto me--the fountain of all righteousness.
 
Ether 12:29 And I, Moroni, having heard these words, was
comforted, and said: O Lord, thy righteous will be done, for I
know that thou workest unto the children of men according to
their faith;
 
Ether 12:30 For the brother of Jared said unto the mountain
Zerin, Remove--and it was removed. And if he had not had faith it
would not have moved; wherefore thou workest after men have
faith.
 
Ether 12:31 For thus didst thou manifest thyself unto thy
disciples; for after they had faith, and did speak in thy name,
thou didst show thyself unto them in great power.
 
Ether 12:32 And I also remember that thou hast said that thou
hast prepared a house for man, yea, even among the mansions of
thy Father, in which man might have a more excellent hope;
wherefore man must hope, or he cannot receive an inheritance in
the place which thou hast prepared.
 
Ether 12:33 And again, I remember that thou hast said that thou
hast loved the world, even unto the laying down of thy life for
the world, that thou mightest take it again to prepare a place
for the children of men.
 
Ether 12:34 And now I know that this love which thou hast had for
the children of men is charity; wherefore, except men shall have
charity they cannot inherit that place which thou hast prepared
in the mansions of thy Father.
 
Ether 12:35 Wherefore, I know by this thing which thou hast said,
that if the Gentiles have not charity, because of our weakness,
that thou wilt prove them, and take away their talent, yea, even
that which they have received, and give unto them who shall have
more abundantly.
 
Ether 12:36 And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord that
he would give unto the Gentiles grace, that they might have
charity.
 
Ether 12:37 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: If
they have not charity it mattereth not unto thee, thou hast been
faithful; wherefore, thy garments shall be made clean. And
because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong,
even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in
the mansions of my Father.
 
Ether 12:38 And now I, Moroni, bid farewell unto the Gentiles,
yea, and also unto my brethren whom I love, until we shall meet
before the judgment-seat of Christ, where all men shall know that
my garments are not spotted with your blood.
 
Ether 12:39 And then shall ye know that I have seen Jesus, and
that he hath talked with me face to face, and that he told me in
plain humility, even as a man telleth another in mine own
language, concerning these things;
 
Ether 12:40 And only a few have I written, because of my weakness
in writing.
 
Ether 12:41 And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of
whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of
God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy
Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you
forever. Amen.
 
Ether 13:0 Moroni continues the Jaredite history--Ether and his
predictions--His life sought--He dwells in the cavity of a rock--
Views by night the destruction falling upon his people.
 
Ether 13:1 And now I, Moroni, proceed to finish my record
concerning the destruction of the people of whom I have been
writing.
 
Ether 13:2 For behold, they rejected all the words of Ether; for
he truly told them of all things, from the beginning of man; and
that after the waters had receded from off the face of this land
it became a choice land above all other lands, a chosen land of
the Lord; wherefore the Lord would have that all men should serve
him who dwell upon the face thereof;
 
Ether 13:3 And that it was the place of the New Jerusalem, which
should come down out of heaven, and the holy sanctuary of the
Lord.
 
Ether 13:4 Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake
concerning a New Jerusalem upon this land.
 
Ether 13:5 And he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and
the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come--after it should be
destroyed it should be built up again, a holy city unto the Lord;
wherefore, it could not be a new Jerusalem for it had been in a
time of old; but it should be built up again, and become a holy
city of the Lord; and it should be built unto the house of
Israel.
 
Ether 13:6 And that a New Jerusalem should be built upon this
land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph, for which things
there has been a type.
 
Ether 13:7 For as Joseph brought his father down into the land of
Egypt, even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a
remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that
he might be merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should
perish not, even as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph
that he should perish not.
 
Ether 13:8 Wherefore, the remnant of the house of Joseph shall be
built upon this land; and it shall be a land of their
inheritance; and they shall build up a holy city unto the Lord,
like unto the Jerusalem of old; and they shall no more be
confounded, until the end come when the earth shall pass away.
 
Ether 13:9 And there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and
they shall be like unto the old save the old have passed away,
and all things have become new.
 
Ether 13:10 And then cometh the New Jerusalem; and blessed are
they who dwell therein, for it is they whose garments are white
through the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who are numbered
among the remnant of the seed of Joseph, who were of the house of
Israel.
 
Ether 13:11 And then also cometh the Jerusalem of old; and the
inhabitants thereof, blessed are they, for they have been washed
in the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who were scattered
and gathered in from the four quarters of the earth, and from the
north countries, and are partakers of the fulfilling of the
covenant which God made with their father, Abraham.
 
Ether 13:12 And when these things come, bringeth to pass the
scripture which saith, there are they who were first, who shall
be last; and there are they who were last, who shall be first.
 
Ether 13:13 And I was about to write more, but I am forbidden;
but great and marvelous were the prophecies of Ether; but they
esteemed him as naught, and cast him out; and he hid himself in
the cavity of a rock by day, and by night he went forth viewing
the things which should come upon the people.
 
Ether 13:14 And as he dwelt in the cavity of a rock he made the
remainder of this record, viewing the destructions which came
upon the people, by night.
 
Ether 13:15 And it came to pass that in that same year in which
he was cast out from among the people there began to be a great
war among the people, for there were many who rose up, who were
mighty men, and sought to destroy Coriantumr by their secret
plans of wickedness, of which hath been spoken.
 
Ether 13:16 And now Coriantumr, having studied, himself, in all
the arts of war and all the cunning of the world, wherefore he
gave battle unto them who sought to destroy him.
 
Ether 13:17 But he repented not, neither his fair sons nor
daughters; neither the fair sons and daughters of Cohor; neither
the fair sons and daughters of Corihor; and in fine, there were
none of the fair sons and daughters upon the face of the whole
earth who repented of their sins.
 
Ether 13:18 Wherefore, it came to pass that in the first year
that Ether dwelt in the cavity of a rock, there were many people
who were slain by the sword of those secret combinations,
fighting against Coriantumr that they might obtain the kingdom.
 
Ether 13:19 And it came to pass that the sons of Coriantumr
fought much and bled much.
 
Ether 13:20 And in the second year the word of the Lord came to
Ether, that he should go and prophesy unto Coriantumr that, if he
would repent, and all his household, the Lord would give unto him
his kingdom and spare the people--
 
Ether 13:21 Otherwise they should be destroyed, and all his
household save it were himself. And he should only live to see
the fulfilling of the prophecies which had been spoken concerning
another people receiving the land for their inheritance; and
Coriantumr should receive a burial by them; and every soul should
be destroyed save it were Coriantumr.
 
Ether 13:22 And it came to pass that Coriantumr repented not,
neither his household, neither the people; and the wars ceased
not; and they sought to kill Ether, but he fled from before them
and hid again in the cavity of the rock.
 
Ether 13:23 And it came to pass that there arose up Shared, and
he also gave battle unto Coriantumr; and he did beat him,
insomuch that in the third year he did bring him into captivity.
 
Ether 13:24 And the sons of Coriantumr, in the fourth year, did
beat Shared, and did obtain the kingdom again unto their father.
 
Ether 13:25 Now there began to be a war upon all the face of the
land, every man with his band fighting for that which he desired.
 
Ether 13:26 And there were robbers, and in fine, all manner of
wickedness upon all the face of the land.
 
Ether 13:27 And it came to pass that Coriantumr was exceedingly
angry with Shared, and he went against him with his armies to
battle; and they did meet in great anger, and they did meet in
the valley of Gilgal; and the battle became exceedingly sore.
 
Ether 13:28 And it came to pass that Shared fought against him
for the space of three days. And it came to pass that Coriantumr
beat him, and did pursue him until he came to the plains of
Heshlon.
 
Ether 13:29 And it came to pass that Shared gave him battle again
upon the plains; and behold, he did beat Coriantumr, and drove
him back again to the valley of Gilgal.
 
Ether 13:30 And Coriantumr gave Shared battle again in the valley
of Gilgal, in which he beat Shared and slew him.
 
Ether 13:31 And Shared wounded Coriantumr in his thigh, that he
did not go to battle again for the space of two years, in which
time all the people upon the face of the land were shedding
blood, and there was none to restrain them.
 
Ether 14:0 A curse upon the land--Continued strife and bloodshed-
-Coriantumr not to fall by the sword.
 
Ether 14:1 And now there began to be a great curse upon all the
land because of the iniquity of the people, in which, if a man
should lay his tool or his sword upon his shelf, or upon the
place whither he would keep it, behold, upon the morrow, he could
not find it, so great was the curse upon the land.
 
Ether 14:2 Wherefore every man did cleave unto that which was his
own, with his hands, and would not borrow neither would he lend;
and every man kept the hilt of his sword in his right hand, in
the defence of his property and his own life and of his wives and
children.
 
Ether 14:3 And now, after the space of two years, and after the
death of Shared, behold, there arose the brother of Shared and he
gave battle unto Coriantumr, in which Coriantumr did beat him and
did pursue him to the wilderness of Akish.
 
Ether 14:4 And it came to pass that the brother of Shared did
give battle unto him in the wilderness of Akish; and the battle
became exceedingly sore, and many thousands fell by the sword.
 
Ether 14:5 And it came to pass that Coriantumr did lay siege to
the wilderness; and the brother of Shared did march forth out of
the wilderness by night, and slew a part of the army of
Coriantumr, as they were drunken.
 
Ether 14:6 And he came forth to the land of Moron, and placed
himself upon the throne of Coriantumr.
 
Ether 14:7 And it came to pass that Coriantumr dwelt with his
army in the wilderness for the space of two years, in which he
did receive great strength to his army.
 
Ether 14:8 Now the brother of Shared, whose name was Gilead, also
received great strength to his army, because of secret
combinations.
 
Ether 14:9 And it came to pass that his high priest murdered him
as he sat upon his throne.
 
Ether 14:10 And it came to pass that one of the secret
combinations murdered him in a secret pass, and obtained unto
himself the kingdom; and his name was Lib; and Lib was a man of
great stature, more than any other man among all the people.
 
Ether 14:11 And it came to pass that in the first year of Lib,
Coriantumr came up unto the land of Moron, and gave battle unto
Lib.
 
Ether 14:12 And it came to pass that he fought with Lib, in which
Lib did smite upon his arm that he was wounded; nevertheless, the
army of Coriantumr did press forward upon Lib, that he fled to
the borders upon the seashore.
 
Ether 14:13 And it came to pass that Coriantumr pursued him; and
Lib gave battle unto him upon the seashore.
 
Ether 14:14 And it came to pass that Lib did smite the army of
Coriantumr, that they fled again to the wilderness of Akish.
 
Ether 14:15 And it came to pass that Lib did pursue him until he
came to the plains of Agosh. And Coriantumr had taken all the
people with him as he fled before Lib in that quarter of the land
whither he fled.
 
Ether 14:16 And when he had come to the plains of Agosh he gave
battle unto Lib, and he smote upon him until he died;
nevertheless, the brother of Lib did come against Coriantumr in
the stead thereof, and the battle became exceedingly sore, in the
which Coriantumr fled again before the army of the brother of
Lib.
 
Ether 14:17 Now the name of the brother of Lib was called Shiz.
And it came to pass that Shiz pursued after Coriantumr, and he
did overthrow many cities, and he did slay both women and
children, and he did burn the cities.
 
Ether 14:18 And there went a fear of Shiz throughout all the
land; yea, a cry went forth throughout the land--Who can stand
before the army of Shiz? Behold, he sweepeth the earth before
him!
 
Ether 14:19 And it came to pass that the people began to flock
together in armies, throughout all the face of the land.
 
Ether 14:20 And they were divided; and a part of them fled to the
army of Shiz, and a part of them fled to the army of Coriantumr.
 
Ether 14:21 And so great and lasting had been the war, and so
long had been the scene of bloodshed and carnage, that the whole
face of the land was covered with the bodies of the dead.
 
Ether 14:22 And so swift and speedy was the war that there was
none left to bury the dead, but they did march forth from the
shedding of blood to the shedding of blood, leaving the bodies of
both men, women, and children strewed upon the face of the land,
to become a prey to the worms of the flesh.
 
Ether 14:23 And the scent thereof went forth upon the face of the
land, even upon all the face of the land; wherefore the people
became troubled by day and by night, because of the scent
thereof.
 
Ether 14:24 Nevertheless, Shiz did not cease to pursue
Coriantumr; for he had sworn to avenge himself upon Coriantumr of
the blood of his brother, who had been slain, and the word of the
Lord which came to Ether that Coriantumr should not fall by the
sword.
 
Ether 14:25 And thus we see that the Lord did visit them in the
fulness of his wrath, and their wickedness and abominations had
prepared a way for their everlasting destruction.
 
Ether 14:26 And it came to pass that Shiz did pursue Coriantumr
eastward, even to the borders by the seashore, and there he gave
battle unto Shiz for the space of three days.
 
Ether 14:27 And so terrible was the destruction among the armies
of Shiz that the people began to be frightened, and began to flee
before the armies of Coriantumr; and they fled to the land of
Corihor, and swept off the inhabitants before them, all them that
would not join them.
 
Ether 14:28 And they pitched their tents in the valley of
Corihor; and Coriantumr pitched his tents in the valley of Shurr.
Now the valley of Shurr was near the hill Comnor; wherefore,
Coriantumr did gather his armies together upon the hill Comnor,
and did sound a trumpet unto the armies of Shiz to invite them
forth to battle.
 
Ether 14:29 And it came to pass that they came forth, but were
driven again; and they came the second time, and they were driven
again the second time. And it came to pass that they came again
the third time, and the battle became exceedingly sore.
 
Ether 14:30 And it came to pass that Shiz smote upon Coriantumr
that he gave him many deep wounds; and Coriantumr, having lost
his blood, fainted, and was carried away as though he were dead.
 
Ether 14:31 Now the loss of men, women and children on both sides
was so great that Shiz commanded his people that they should not
pursue the armies of Coriantumr; wherefore, they returned to
their camp.
 
Ether 15:0 The hill Ramah or Cumorah--Preparations for a mighty
struggle--Millions go down to death--Shiz slain by Coriantumr--
Ether's concluding words--End of Jaredite record.
 
Ether 15:1 And it came to pass when Coriantumr had recovered of
his wounds, he began to remember the words which Ether had spoken
unto him.
 
Ether 15:2 He saw that there had been slain by the sword already
nearly two millions of his people, and he began to sorrow in his
heart; yea, there had been slain two millions of mighty men, and
also their wives and their children.
 
Ether 15:3 He began to repent of the evil which he had done; he
began to remember the words which had been spoken by the mouth of
all the prophets, and he saw them that they were fulfilled thus
far, every whit; and his soul mourned and refused to be
comforted.
 
Ether 15:4 And it came to pass that he wrote an epistle unto
Shiz, desiring him that he would spare the people, and he would
give up the kingdom for the sake of the lives of the people.
 
Ether 15:5 And it came to pass that when Shiz had received his
epistle he wrote an epistle unto Coriantumr, that if he would
give himself up, that he might slay him with his own sword, that
he would spare the lives of the people.
 
Ether 15:6 And it came to pass that the people repented not of
their iniquity; and the people of Coriantumr were stirred up to
anger against the people of Shiz; and the people of Shiz were
stirred up to anger against the people of Coriantumr; wherefore,
the people of Shiz did give battle unto the people of Coriantumr.
 
Ether 15:7 And when Coriantumr saw that he was about to fall he
fled again before the people of Shiz.
 
Ether 15:8 And it came to pass that he came to the waters of
Ripliancum, which, by interpretation, is large, or to exceed all;
wherefore, when they came to these waters they pitched their
tents; and Shiz also pitched his tents near unto them; and
therefore on the morrow they did come to battle.
 
Ether 15:9 And it came to pass that they fought an exceedingly
sore battle, in which Coriantumr was wounded again, and he
fainted with the loss of blood.
 
Ether 15:10 And it came to pass that the armies of Coriantumr did
press upon the armies of Shiz that they beat them, that they
caused them to flee before them; and they did flee southward, and
did pitch their tents in a place which was called Ogath.
 
Ether 15:11 And it came to pass that the army of Coriantumr did
pitch their tents by the hill Ramah; and it was that same hill
where my father Mormon did hide up the records unto the Lord,
which were sacred.
 
Ether 15:12 And it came to pass that they did gather together all
the people upon all the face of the land, who had not been slain,
save it was Ether.
 
Ether 15:13 And it came to pass that Ether did behold all the
doings of the people; and he beheld that the people who were for
Coriantumr were gathered together to the army of Coriantumr; and
the people who were for Shiz were gathered together to the army
of Shiz.
 
Ether 15:14 Wherefore, they were for the space of four years
gathering together the people, that they might get all who were
upon the face of the land, and that they might receive all the
strength which it was possible that they could receive.
 
Ether 15:15 And it came to pass that when they were all gathered
together, every one to the army which he would, with their wives
and their children--both men, women and children being armed with
weapons of war, having shields, and breastplates, and head-
plates, and being clothed after the manner of war--they did march
forth one against another to battle; and they fought all that
day, and conquered not.
 
Ether 15:16 And it came to pass that when it was night they were
weary, and retired to their camps; and after they had retired to
their camps they took up a howling and a lamentation for the loss
of the slain of their people; and so great were their cries,
their howlings and lamentations, that they did rend the air
exceedingly.
 
Ether 15:17 And it came to pass that on the morrow they did go
again to battle, and great and terrible was that day;
nevertheless, they conquered not, and when the night came again
they did rend the air with their cries, and their howlings, and
their mournings, for the loss of the slain of their people.
 
Ether 15:18 And it came to pass that Coriantumr wrote again an
epistle unto Shiz, desiring that he would not come again to
battle, but that he would take the kingdom, and spare the lives
of the people.
 
Ether 15:19 But behold, the Spirit of the Lord had ceased
striving with them, and Satan had full power over the hearts of
the people; for they were given up unto the hardness of their
hearts, and the blindness of their minds that they might be
destroyed; wherefore they went again to battle.
 
Ether 15:20 And it came to pass that they fought all that day,
and when the night came they slept upon their swords.
 
Ether 15:21 And on the morrow they fought even until the night
came.
 
Ether 15:22 And when the night came they were drunken with anger,
even as a man who is drunken with wine; and they slept again upon
their swords.
 
Ether 15:23 And on the morrow they fought again; and when the
night came they had all fallen by the sword save it were fifty
and two of the people of Coriantumr, and sixty and nine of the
people of Shiz.
 
Ether 15:24 And it came to pass that they slept upon their swords
that night, and on the morrow they fought again, and they
contended in their might with their swords and with their
shields, all that day.
 
Ether 15:25 And when the night came there were thirty and two of
the people of Shiz, and twenty and seven of the people of
Coriantumr.
 
Ether 15:26 And it came to pass that they ate and slept, and
prepared for death on the morrow. And they were large and mighty
men as to the strength of men.
 
Ether 15:27 And it came to pass that they fought for the space of
three hours, and they fainted with the loss of blood.
 
Ether 15:28 And it came to pass that when the men of Coriantumr
had received sufficient strength that they could walk, they were
about to flee for their lives; but behold, Shiz arose, and also
his men, and he swore in his wrath that he would slay Coriantumr
or he would perish by the sword.
 
Ether 15:29 Wherefore, he did pursue them, and on the morrow he
did overtake them; and they fought again with the sword. And it
came to pass that when they had all fallen by the sword, save it
were Coriantumr and Shiz, behold Shiz had fainted with the loss
of blood.
 
Ether 15:30 And it came to pass that when Coriantumr had leaned
upon his sword, that he rested a little, he smote off the head of
Shiz.
 
Ether 15:31 And it came to pass that after he had smitten off the
head of Shiz, that Shiz raised up on his hands and fell; and
after that he had struggled for breath, he died.
 
Ether 15:32 And it came to pass that Coriantumr fell to the
earth, and became as if he had no life.
 
Ether 15:33 And the Lord spake unto Ether, and said unto him: Go
forth. And he went forth, and beheld that the words of the Lord
had all been fulfilled; and he finished his record; (and the
hundredth part I have not written) and he hid them in a manner
that the people of Limhi did find them.
 
Ether 15:34 Now the last words which are written by Ether are
these: Whether the Lord will that I be translated, or that I
suffer the will of the Lord in the flesh, it mattereth not, if it
so be that I am saved in the kingdom of God. Amen.
 
The Book of Moroni
 
Moroni 1:0 Moroni's desolate state--He writes, hoping for the
welfare of the Lamanites.
 
Moroni 1:1 Now I, Moroni, after having made an end of abridging
the account of the people of Jared, I had supposed not to have
written more, but I have not as yet perished; and I make not
myself known to the Lamanites lest they should destroy me.
 
Moroni 1:2 For behold, their wars are exceedingly fierce among
themselves; and because of their hatred they put to death every
Nephite that will not deny the Christ.
 
Moroni 1:3 And I, Moroni, will not deny the Christ; wherefore, I
wander whithersoever I can for the safety of mine own life.
 
Moroni 1:4 Wherefore, I write a few more things, contrary to that
which I had supposed; for I had supposed not to have written any
more; but I write a few more things, that perhaps they may be of
worth unto my brethren, the Lamanites, in some future day,
according to the will of the Lord.
 
Moroni 2:0 Concerning the bestowal of the Holy Ghost by the
Nephite twelve.
 
Moroni 2:1 The words of Christ, which he spake unto his
disciples, the twelve whom he had chosen, as he laid his hands
upon them--
 
Moroni 2:2 And he called them by name, saying: Ye shall call on
the Father in my name, in mighty prayer; and after ye have done
this ye shall have power that to him upon whom ye shall lay your
hands, ye shall give the Holy Ghost; and in my name shall ye give
it, for thus do mine apostles.
 
Moroni 2:3 Now Christ spake these words unto them at the time of
his first appearing; and the multitude heard it not, but the
disciples heard it; and on as many as they laid their hands, fell
the Holy Ghost.
 
Moroni 3:0 Concerning the ordination of priests and teachers.
 
Moroni 3:1 The manner which the disciples, who were called the
elders of the church, ordained priests and teachers--
 
Moroni 3:2 After they had prayed unto the Father in the name of
Christ, they laid their hands upon them, and said:
 
Moroni 3:3 In the name of Jesus Christ I ordain you to be a
priest, (or, if he be a teacher) I ordain you to be a teacher, to
preach repentance and remission of sins through Jesus Christ, by
the endurance of faith on his name to the end. Amen.
 
Moroni 3:4 And after this manner did they ordain priests and
teachers, according to the gifts and callings of God unto men;
and they ordained them by the power of the Holy Ghost, which was
in them.
 
Moroni 4:0 Mode of administering the sacramental bread.
 
Moroni 4:1 The manner of their elders and priests administering
the flesh and blood of Christ unto the church; and they
administered it according to the commandments of Christ;
wherefore we know the manner to be true; and the elder or priest
did minister it--
 
Moroni 4:2 And they did kneel down with the church, and pray to
the Father in the name of Christ, saying:
 
Moroni 4:3 O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of
thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the
souls of all those who partake of it; that they may eat in
remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God,
the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the
name of thy Son, and always remember him, and keep his
commandments which he hath given them, that they may always have
his Spirit to be with them. Amen.
 
Moroni 5:0 Mode of administering the sacramental wine.
 
Moroni 5:1 The manner of administering the wine--Behold, they
took the cup, and said:
 
Moroni 5:2 O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee, in the name of
thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this wine to the
souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in
remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them;
that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that
they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be
with them. Amen.
 
Moroni 6:0 Conditions and mode of baptism--Church discipline.
 
Moroni 6:1 And now I speak concerning baptism. Behold, elders,
priests, and teachers were baptized; and they were not baptized
save they brought forth fruit meet that they were worthy of it.
 
Moroni 6:2 Neither did they receive any unto baptism save they
came forth with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, and
witnessed unto the church that they truly repented of all their
sins.
 
Moroni 6:3 And none were received unto baptism save they took
upon them the name of Christ, having a determination to serve him
to the end.
 
Moroni 6:4 And after they had been received unto baptism, and
were wrought upon and cleansed by the power of the Holy Ghost,
they were numbered among the people of the church of Christ; and
their names were taken, that they might be remembered and
nourished by the good word of God, to keep them in the right way,
to keep them continually watchful unto prayer, relying alone upon
the merits of Christ, who was the author and the finisher of
their faith.
 
Moroni 6:5 And the church did meet together oft, to fast and to
pray, and to speak one with another concerning the welfare of
their souls.
 
Moroni 6:6 And they did meet together oft to partake of bread and
wine, in remembrance of the Lord Jesus.
 
Moroni 6:7 And they were strict to observe that there should be
no iniquity among them; and whoso was found to commit iniquity,
and three witnesses of the church did condemn them before the
elders, and if they repented not, and confessed not, their names
were blotted out, and they were not numbered among the people of
Christ.
 
Moroni 6:8 But as oft as they repented and sought forgiveness,
with real intent, they were forgiven.
 
Moroni 6:9 And their meetings were conducted by the church after
the manner of the workings of the Spirit, and by the power of the
Holy Ghost; for as the power of the Holy Ghost led them whether
to preach, or to exhort, or to pray, or to supplicate, or to
sing, even so it was done.
 
Moroni 7:0 Moroni presents Mormon's teachings on faith, hope, and
charity.
 
Moroni 7:1 And now I, Moroni, write a few of the words of my
father Mormon, which he spake concerning faith, hope, and
charity; for after this manner did he speak unto the people, as
he taught them in the synagogue which they had built for the
place of worship.
 
Moroni 7:2 And now I, Mormon, speak unto you, my beloved
brethren; and it is by the grace of God the Father, and our Lord
Jesus Christ, and his holy will, because of the gift of his
calling unto me, that I am permitted to speak unto you at this
time.
 
Moroni 7:3 Wherefore, I would speak unto you that are of the
church, that are the peaceable followers of Christ, and that have
obtained a sufficient hope by which ye can enter into the rest of
the Lord, from this time henceforth until ye shall rest with him
in heaven.
 
Moroni 7:4 And now my brethren, I judge these things of you
because of your peaceable walk with the children of men.
 
Moroni 7:5 For I remember the word of God which saith by their
works ye shall know them; for if their works be good, then they
are good also.
 
Moroni 7:6 For behold, God hath said a man being evil cannot do
that which is good; for if he offereth a gift, or prayeth unto
God, except he shall do it with real intent it profiteth him
nothing.
 
Moroni 7:7 For behold, it is not counted unto him for
righteousness.
 
Moroni 7:8 For behold, if a man being evil giveth a gift, he
doeth it grudgingly; wherefore it is counted unto him the same as
if he had retained the gift; wherefore he is counted evil before
God.
 
Moroni 7:9 And likewise also is it counted evil unto a man, if he
shall pray and not with real intent of heart; yea, and it
profiteth him nothing, for God receiveth none such.
 
Moroni 7:10 Wherefore, a man being evil cannot do that which is
good; neither will he give a good gift.
 
Moroni 7:11 For behold, a bitter fountain cannot bring forth good
water; neither can a good fountain bring forth bitter water;
wherefore, a man being a servant of the devil cannot follow
Christ; and if he follow Christ he cannot be a servant of the
devil.
 
Moroni 7:12 Wherefore, all things which are good cometh of God;
and that which is evil cometh of the devil; for the devil is an
enemy unto God, and fighteth against him continually, and
inviteth and enticeth to sin, and to do that which is evil
continually.
 
Moroni 7:13 But behold, that which is of God inviteth and
enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which
inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve
him, is inspired of God.
 
Moroni 7:14 Wherefore, take heed, my beloved brethren, that ye do
not judge that which is evil to be of God, or that which is good
and of God to be of the devil.
 
Moroni 7:15 For behold, my brethren, it is given unto you to
judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is
as plain, that ye may know with a perfect knowledge, as the
daylight is from the dark night.
 
Moroni 7:16 For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every
man, that he may know good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you
the way to judge; for every thing which inviteth to do good, and
to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and
gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it
is of God.
 
Moroni 7:17 But whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do evil, and
believe not in Christ, and deny him, and serve not God, then ye
may know with a perfect knowledge it is of the devil; for after
this manner doth the devil work, for he persuadeth no man to do
good, no, not one; neither do his angels; neither do they who
subject themselves unto him.
 
Moroni 7:18 And now, my brethren, seeing that ye know the light
by which ye may judge, which light is the light of Christ, see
that ye do not judge wrongfully; for with that same judgment
which ye judge ye shall also be judged.
 
Moroni 7:19 Wherefore, I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should
search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good
from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and
condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ.
 
Moroni 7:20 And now, my brethren, how is it possible that ye can
lay hold upon every good thing?
 
Moroni 7:21 And now I come to that faith, of which I said I would
speak; and I will tell you the way whereby ye may lay hold on
every good thing.
 
Moroni 7:22 For behold, God knowing all things, being from
everlasting to everlasting, behold, he sent angels to minister
unto the children of men, to make manifest concerning the coming
of Christ; and in Christ there should come every good thing.
 
Moroni 7:23 And God also declared unto prophets, by his own
mouth, that Christ should come.
 
Moroni 7:24 And behold, there were divers ways that he did
manifest things unto the children of men, which were good; and
all things which are good cometh of Christ; otherwise men were
fallen, and there could no good thing come unto them.
 
Moroni 7:25 Wherefore, by the ministering of angels, and by every
word which proceeded forth out of the mouth of God, men began to
exercise faith in Christ; and thus by faith, they did lay hold
upon every good thing; and thus it was until the coming of
Christ.
 
Moroni 7:26 And after that he came men also were saved by faith
in his name; and by faith, they become the sons of God. And as
surely as Christ liveth he spake these words unto our fathers,
saying: Whatsoever thing ye shall ask the Father in my name,
which is good, in faith believing that ye shall receive, behold,
it shall be done unto you.
 
Moroni 7:27 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased
because Christ hath ascended into heaven, and hath sat down on
the right hand of God, to claim of the Father his rights of mercy
which he hath upon the children of men?
 
Moroni 7:28 For he hath answered the ends of the law, and he
claimeth all those who have faith in him; and they who have faith
in him will cleave unto every good thing; wherefore he advocateth
the cause of the children of men; and he dwelleth eternally in
the heavens.
 
Moroni 7:29 And because he hath done this, my beloved brethren,
have miracles ceased? Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither have
angels ceased to minister unto the children of men.
 
Moroni 7:30 For behold, they are subject unto him, to minister
according to the word of his command, showing themselves unto
them of strong faith and a firm mind in every form of godliness.
 
Moroni 7:31 And the office of their ministry is to call men unto
repentance, and to fulfill and to do the work of the covenants of
the Father, which he hath made unto the children of men, to
prepare the way among the children of men, by declaring the word
of Christ unto the chosen vessels of the Lord, that they may bear
testimony of him.
 
Moroni 7:32 And by so doing, the Lord God prepareth the way that
the residue of men may have faith in Christ, that the Holy Ghost
may have place in their hearts, according to the power thereof;
and after this manner bringeth to pass the Father, the covenants
which he hath made unto the children of men.
 
Moroni 7:33 And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye
shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me.
 
Moroni 7:34 And he hath said: Repent all ye ends of the earth,
and come unto me, and be baptized in my name, and have faith in
me, that ye may be saved.
 
Moroni 7:35 And now, my beloved brethren, if this be the case
that these things are true which I have spoken unto you, and God
will show unto you, with power and great glory at the last day,
that they are true, and if they are true has the day of miracles
ceased?
 
Moroni 7:36 Or have angels ceased to appear unto the children of
men? Or has he withheld the power of the Holy Ghost from them? Or
will he, so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or
there shall be one man upon the face thereof to be saved?
 
Moroni 7:37 Behold I say unto you, Nay; for it is by faith that
miracles are wrought; and it is by faith that angels appear and
minister unto men; wherefore, if these things have ceased wo be
unto the children of men, for it is because of unbelief, and all
is vain.
 
Moroni 7:38 For no man can be saved, according to the words of
Christ, save they shall have faith in his name; wherefore, if
these things have ceased, then has faith ceased also; and awful
is the state of man, for they are as though there had been no
redemption made.
 
Moroni 7:39 But behold, my beloved brethren, I judge better
things of you, for I judge that ye have faith in Christ because
of your meekness; for if ye have not faith in him then ye are not
fit to be numbered among the people of his church.
 
Moroni 7:40 And again, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto
you concerning hope. How is it that ye can attain unto faith,
save ye shall have hope?
 
Moroni 7:41 And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say
unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ
and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life
eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the
promise.
 
Moroni 7:42 Wherefore, if a man have faith he must needs have
hope; for without faith there cannot be any hope.
 
Moroni 7:43 And again, behold I say unto you that he cannot have
faith and hope, save he shall be meek, and lowly of heart.
 
Moroni 7:44 If so, his faith and hope is vain, for none is
acceptable before God, save the meek and lowly in heart; and if a
man be meek and lowly in heart, and confesses by the power of the
Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity;
for if he have not charity he is nothing; wherefore he must needs
have charity.
 
Moroni 7:45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth
not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but
rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
 
Moroni 7:46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not
charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore,
cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things
must fail--
 
Moroni 7:47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it
endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last
day, it shall be well with him.
 
Moroni 7:48 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father
with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this
love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of
his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that
when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him
as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified
even as he is pure. Amen.
 
Moroni 8:0 Mormon's epistle to Moroni--Little children have no
need of repentance or baptism.
 
Moroni 8:1 An epistle of my father Mormon, written to me, Moroni;
and it was written unto me soon after my calling to the ministry.
And on this wise did he write unto me, saying:
 
Moroni 8:2 My beloved son, Moroni, I rejoice exceedingly that
your Lord Jesus Christ hath been mindful of you, and hath called
you to his ministry, and to his holy work.
 
Moroni 8:3 I am mindful of you always in my prayers, continually
praying unto God the Father in the name of his Holy Child, Jesus,
that he, through his infinite goodness and grace, will keep you
through the endurance of faith on his name to the end.
 
Moroni 8:4 And now, my son, I speak unto you concerning that
which grieveth me exceedingly; for it grieveth me that there
should disputations rise among you.
 
Moroni 8:5 For, if I have learned the truth, there have been
disputations among you concerning the baptism of your little
children.
 
Moroni 8:6 And now, my son, I desire that ye should labor
diligently, that this gross error should be removed from among
you; for, for this intent I have written this epistle.
 
Moroni 8:7 For immediately after I had learned these things of
you I inquired of the Lord concerning the matter. And the word of
the Lord came to me by the power of the Holy Ghost, saying:
 
Moroni 8:8 Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your
Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the
righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician,
but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for
they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of
Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them;
and the law of circumcision is done away in me.
 
Moroni 8:9 And after this manner did the Holy Ghost manifest the
word of God unto me; wherefore, my beloved son, I know that it is
solemn mockery before God, that ye should baptize little
children.
 
Moroni 8:10 Behold I say unto you that this thing shall ye teach-
-repentance and baptism unto those who are accountable and
capable of committing sin; yea, teach parents that they must
repent and be baptized, and humble themselves as their little
children, and they shall all be saved with their little children.
 
Moroni 8:11 And their little children need no repentance, neither
baptism. Behold, baptism is unto repentance to the fulfilling the
commandments unto the remission of sins.
 
Moroni 8:12 But little children are alive in Christ, even from
the foundation of the world; if not so, God is a partial God, and
also a changeable God, and a respecter to persons; for how many
little children have died without baptism!
 
Moroni 8:13 Wherefore, if little children could not be saved
without baptism, these must have gone to an endless hell.
 
Moroni 8:14 Behold I say unto you, that he that supposeth that
little children need baptism is in the gall of bitterness and in
the bonds of iniquity; for he hath neither faith, hope, nor
charity; wherefore, should he be cut off while in the thought, he
must go down to hell.
 
Moroni 8:15 For awful is the wickedness to suppose that God
saveth one child because of baptism, and the other must perish
because he hath no baptism.
 
Moroni 8:16 Wo be unto them that shall pervert the ways of the
Lord after this manner, for they shall perish except they repent.
Behold, I speak with boldness, having authority from God; and I
fear not what man can do; for perfect love casteth out all fear.
 
Moroni 8:17 And I am filled with charity, which is everlasting
love; wherefore, all children are alike unto me; wherefore, I
love little children with a perfect love; and they are all alike
and partakers of salvation.
 
Moroni 8:18 For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a
changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all
eternity.
 
Moroni 8:19 Little children cannot repent; wherefore, it is awful
wickedness to deny the pure mercies of God unto them, for they
are all alive in him because of his mercy.
 
Moroni 8:20 And he that saith that little children need baptism
denieth the mercies of Christ, and setteth at naught the
atonement of him and the power of his redemption.
 
Moroni 8:21 Wo unto such, for they are in danger of death, hell,
and an endless torment. I speak it boldly; God hath commanded me.
Listen unto them and give heed, or they stand against you at the
judgment-seat of Christ.
 
Moroni 8:22 For behold that all little children are alive in
Christ, and also all they that are without the law. For the power
of redemption cometh on all them that have no law; wherefore, he
that is not condemned, or he that is under no condemnation,
cannot repent; and unto such baptism availeth nothing--
 
Moroni 8:23 But it is mockery before God, denying the mercies of
Christ, and the power of his Holy Spirit, and putting trust in
dead works.
 
Moroni 8:24 Behold, my son, this thing ought not to be; for
repentance is unto them that are under condemnation and under the
curse of a broken law.
 
Moroni 8:25 And the first fruits of repentance is baptism; and
baptism cometh by faith unto the fulfilling the commandments; and
the fulfilling the commandments bringeth remission of sins;
 
Moroni 8:26 And the remission of sins bringeth meekness, and
lowliness of heart; and because of meekness and lowliness of
heart cometh the visitation of the Holy Ghost, which Comforter
filleth with hope and perfect love, which love endureth by
diligence unto prayer, until the end shall come, when all the
saints shall dwell with God.
 
Moroni 8:27 Behold, my son, I will write unto you again if I go
not out soon against the Lamanites. Behold, the pride of this
nation, or the people of the Nephites, hath proven their
destruction except they should repent.
 
Moroni 8:28 Pray for them, my son, that repentance may come unto
them. But behold, I fear lest the Spirit hath ceased striving
with them; and in this part of the land they are also seeking to
put down all power and authority which cometh from God; and they
are denying the Holy Ghost.
 
Moroni 8:29 And after rejecting so great a knowledge, my son,
they must perish soon, unto the fulfilling of the prophecies
which were spoken by the prophets, as well as the words of our
Savior himself.
 
Moroni 8:30 Farewell, my son, until I shall write unto you, or
shall meet you again. Amen.
 
Moroni 9:0 The second epistle of Mormon to his son, Moroni. --
Atrocities committed by Lamanites and Nephites--A Father's last
and affectionate admonition.
 
Moroni 9:1 My beloved son, I write unto you again that ye may
know that I am yet alive; but I write somewhat of that which is
grievous.
 
Moroni 9:2 For behold, I have had a sore battle with the
Lamanites, in which we did not conquer; and Archeantus has fallen
by the sword, and also Luram and Emron; yea, and we have lost a
great number of our choice men.
 
Moroni 9:3 And now behold, my son, I fear lest the Lamanites
shall destroy this people; for they do not repent, and Satan
stirreth them up continually to anger one with another.
 
Moroni 9:4 Behold, I am laboring with them continually; and when
I speak the word of God with sharpness they tremble and anger
against me; and when I use no sharpness they harden their hearts
against it; wherefore, I fear lest the Spirit of the Lord hath
ceased striving with them.
 
Moroni 9:5 For so exceedingly do they anger that it seemeth me
that they have no fear of death; and they have lost their love,
one towards another; and they thirst after blood and revenge
continually.
 
Moroni 9:6 And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their
hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to
labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a
labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may
conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the
kingdom of God.
 
Moroni 9:7 And now I write somewhat concerning the sufferings of
this people. For according to the knowledge which I have received
from Amoron, behold, the Lamanites have many prisoners, which
they took from the tower of Sherrizah; and there were men, women,
and children.
 
Moroni 9:8 And the husbands and fathers of those women and
children they have slain; and they feed the women upon the flesh
of their husbands, and the children upon the flesh of their
fathers; and no water, save a little, do they give unto them.
 
Moroni 9:9 And notwithstanding this great abomination of the
Lamanites, it doth not exceed that of our people in Moriantum.
For behold, many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they
taken prisoners; and after depriving them of that which was most
dear and precious above all things, which is chastity and virtue-
- Moroni 9:10 And after they had done this thing, they did murder
them in a most cruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto
death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh
like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts;
and they do it for a token of bravery.
 
Moroni 9:11 O my beloved son, how can a people like this, that
are without civilization--
 
Moroni 9:12 (And only a few years have passed away, and they were
a civil and a delightsome people)
 
Moroni 9:13 But O my son, how can a people like this, whose
delight is in so much abomination--
 
Moroni 9:14 How can we expect that God will stay his hand in
judgment against us?
 
Moroni 9:15 Behold, my heart cries: Wo unto this people. Come out
in judgment, O God, and hide their sins, and wickedness, and
abominations from before thy face!
 
Moroni 9:16 And again, my son, there are many widows and their
daughters who remain in Sherrizah; and that part of the
provisions which the Lamanites did not carry away, behold, the
army of Zenephi has carried away, and left them to wander
whithersoever they can for food; and many old women do faint by
the way and die.
 
Moroni 9:17 And the army which is with me is weak; and the armies
of the Lamanites are betwixt Sherrizah and me; and as many as
have fled to the army of Aaron have fallen victims to their awful
brutality.
 
Moroni 9:18 O the depravity of my people! They are without order
and without mercy. Behold, I am but a man, and I have but the
strength of a man, and I cannot any longer enforce my commands.
 
Moroni 9:19 And they have become strong in their perversion; and
they are alike brutal, sparing none, neither old nor young; and
they delight in everything save that which is good; and the
suffering of our women and our children upon all the face of this
land doth exceed everything; yea, tongue cannot tell, neither can
it be written.
 
Moroni 9:20 And now, my son, I dwell no longer upon this horrible
scene. Behold, thou knowest the wickedness of this people; thou
knowest that they are without principle, and past feeling; and
their wickedness doth exceed that of the Lamanites.
 
Moroni 9:21 Behold, my son, I cannot recommend them unto God lest
he should smite me.
 
Moroni 9:22 But behold, my son, I recommend thee unto God, and I
trust in Christ that thou wilt be saved; and I pray unto God that
he will spare thy life, to witness the return of his people unto
him, or their utter destruction; for I know that they must perish
except they repent and return unto him.
 
Moroni 9:23 And if they perish it will be like unto the
Jaredites, because of the wilfulness of their hearts, seeking for
blood and revenge.
 
Moroni 9:24 And if it so be that they perish, we know that many
of our brethren have deserted over unto the Lamanites, and many
more will also desert over unto them; wherefore, write somewhat a
few things, if thou art spared and I shall perish and not see
thee; but I trust that I may see thee soon; for I have sacred
records that I would deliver up unto thee.
 
Moroni 9:25 My son, be faithful in Christ; and may not the things
which I have written grieve thee, to weigh thee down unto death;
but may Christ lift thee up, and may his sufferings and death,
and the showing his body unto our fathers, and his mercy and
long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and of eternal life,
rest in your mind forever.
 
Moroni 9:26 And may the grace of God the Father, whose throne is
high in the heavens, and our Lord Jesus Christ, who sitteth on
the right hand of his power, until all things shall become
subject unto him, be, and abide with you forever. Amen.
 
Moroni 10:0 Moroni's farewell to the Lamanites--Conditions on
which individual testimony of the truth of the Book of Mormon may
be obtained--Moroni seals up the record of his people.
 
Moroni 10:1 Now I, Moroni, write somewhat as seemeth me good; and
I write unto my brethren, the Lamanites; and I would that they
should know that more than four hundred and twenty years have
passed away since the sign was given of the coming of Christ.
 
Moroni 10:2 And I seal up these records, after I have spoken a
few words by way of exhortation unto you.
 
Moroni 10:3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read
these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them,
that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the
children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the
time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your
hearts.
 
Moroni 10:4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would
exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name
of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with
a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he
will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy
Ghost.
 
Moroni 10:5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the
truth of all things.
 
Moroni 10:6 And whatsoever thing is good is just and true;
wherefore, nothing that is good denieth the Christ, but
acknowledgeth that he is.
 
Moroni 10:7 And ye may know that he is, by the power of the Holy
Ghost; wherefore I would exhort you that ye deny not the power of
God; for he worketh by power, according to the faith of the
children of men, the same today and tomorrow, and forever.
 
Moroni 10:8 And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye deny
not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come from the
same God. And there are different ways that these gifts are
administered; but it is the same God who worketh all in all; and
they are given by the manifestations of the Spirit of God unto
men, to profit them.
 
Moroni 10:9 For behold, to one is given by the Spirit of God,
that he may teach the word of wisdom;
 
Moroni 10:10 And to another, that he may teach the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit;
 
Moroni 10:11 And to another, exceedingly great faith; and to
another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
 
Moroni 10:12 And again, to another, that he may work mighty
miracles;
 
Moroni 10:13 And again, to another, that he may prophesy
concerning all things;
 
Moroni 10:14 And again, to another, the beholding of angels and
ministering spirits;
 
Moroni 10:15 And again, to another, all kinds of tongues;
 
Moroni 10:16 And again, to another, the interpretation of
languages and of divers kinds of tongues.
 
Moroni 10:17 And all these gifts come by the Spirit of Christ;
and they come unto every man severally, according as he will.
 
Moroni 10:18 And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye
remember that every good gift cometh of Christ.
 
Moroni 10:19 And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye
remember that he is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and
that all these gifts of which I have spoken, which are spiritual,
never will be done away, even as long as the world shall stand,
only according to the unbelief of the children of men.
 
Moroni 10:20 Wherefore, there must be faith; and if there must be
faith there must also be hope; and if there must be hope there
must also be charity.
 
Moroni 10:21 And except ye have charity ye can in nowise be saved
in the kingdom of God; neither can ye be saved in the kingdom of
God if ye have not faith; neither can ye if ye have no hope.
 
Moroni 10:22 And if ye have no hope ye must needs be in despair;
and despair cometh because of iniquity.
 
Moroni 10:23 And Christ truly said unto our fathers: If ye have
faith ye can do all things which are expedient unto me.
 
Moroni 10:24 And now I speak unto all the ends of the earth--that
if the day cometh that the power and gifts of God shall be done
away among you, it shall be because of unbelief.
 
Moroni 10:25 And wo be unto the children of men if this be the
case; for there shall be none that doeth good among you, no not
one. For if there be one among you that doeth good, he shall work
by the power and gifts of God.
 
Moroni 10:26 And wo unto them who shall do these things away and
die, for they die in their sins, and they cannot be saved in the
kingdom of God; and I speak it according to the words of Christ;
and I lie not.
 
Moroni 10:27 And I exhort you to remember these things; for the
time speedily cometh that ye shall know that I lie not, for ye
shall see me at the bar of God; and the Lord God will say unto
you: Did I not declare my words unto you, which were written by
this man, like as one crying from the dead, yea, even as one
speaking out of the dust?
 
Moroni 10:28 I declare these things unto the fulfilling of the
prophecies. And behold, they shall proceed forth out of the mouth
of the everlasting God; and his word shall hiss forth from
generation to generation.
 
Moroni 10:29 And God shall show unto you, that that which I have
written is true.
 
Moroni 10:30 And again I would exhort you that ye would come unto
Christ, and lay hold upon every good gift, and touch not the evil
gift, nor the unclean thing.
 
Moroni 10:31 And awake, and arise from the dust, O Jerusalem;
yea, and put on thy beautiful garments, O daughter of Zion; and
strengthen thy stakes and enlarge thy borders forever, that thou
mayest no more be confounded, that the covenants of the Eternal
Father which he hath made unto thee, O house of Israel, may be
fulfilled.
 
Moroni 10:32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and
deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny
yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might,
mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by
his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God
ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
 
Moroni 10:33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in
Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ
by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ,
which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your
sins, that ye become holy, without spot.
 
Moroni 10:34 And now I bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to rest
in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again
reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to
meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the
Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 0:0 TESTIMONY OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES TO
THE TRUTH OF THE BOOK OF DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
 
Doctrine and Covenants 0:1 The Testimony of the Witnesses to the
Book of the Lord's Commandments, which commandments He gave to
His Church through Joseph Smith Jun., who was appointed by the
voice of the Church for this purpose:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 0:2 We, therefore, feel willing to bear
testimony to all the world of mankind, to every creature upon the
face of all the earth, that the Lord has borne record to our
souls, through the Holy Ghost shed forth upon us, that these
commandments were given by inspiration of God, and are profitable
for all men and are verily true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 0:3 We give this testimony unto the world,
the Lord being our helper; and it is through the grace of God the
Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, that we are permitted to have
this privilege of bearing this testimony unto the world, in the
which we rejoice exceedingly, praying the Lord always that the
children of men may be profited thereby.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 0:4 Thomas B. Marsh   Parley P. Pratt  
David W. Patten       Luke S. Johnson   Brigham Young   William
Smith  Heber C. Kimball      Orson Pratt       Orson Hyde     
John F. Boynton William E. M'Lellin   Lyman E. Johnson
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, during a special conference of Elders of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held at Hiram, Ohio,
November 1, 1831. Many revelations had been received from the
Lord prior to this time; and the compilation of these for
publication in book form was one of the principal subjects passed
upon at the conference. See History of the Church, vol. 1, page
222. This Section constitutes the Lord's Preface to the
doctrines, covenants, and commandments given in this
dispensation. -- Proclamation of warning and commandment to the
Church and to the inhabitants of the earth at large--The
authority of the Priesthood in this dispensation attested--Second
advent of the Lord Jesus Christ foretold-- Authenticity of the
Book of Mormon affirmed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:1 Hearken, O people of my church, saith
the voice of him who dwells on high, and whose eyes are upon all
men; yea, verily I say: Hearken ye people from afar; and ye that
upon the islands of the sea, listen together.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:2 For verily the voice of the Lord is
unto you all men, and there is none to escape; and there is no
eye that shall not see, neither ear that shall not hear, neither
heart that shall not be penetrated.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:3 And the rebellious shall be pierced
with much sorrow; for their iniquities shall be spoken upon the
housetops, and their secret acts shall be revealed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:4 And the voice of warning shall be unto
all people, by the mouths of my disciples, whom I have chosen in
these last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:5 And they shall go forth and none shall
stay them, for I the Lord have commanded them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:6 Behold this is mine authority, and the
authority of my servants, and my preface unto the books of my
commandments, which I have given them to publish unto you, O
inhabitants of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:7 Wherefore, fear and tremble, O ye
people, for what the Lord have decreed in them shall be
fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:8 And I say unto you, that they who go
forth, bearing these tidings unto the inhabitants of the earth,
to them is power given to seal both on earth and in heaven, the
unbelieving and the rebellious;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:9 Yea, verily, to seal them up unto the
day when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon the wicked
without measure--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:10 Unto the day when the Lord shall come
to recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure
to every man according to the measure which he has measured to
his fellow man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:11 Wherefore the voice of the Lord is
unto the ends of the earth, that all that will hear may hear:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:12 Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which
is to come, for the Lord is nigh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:13 And the anger of the Lord is kindled,
and his sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the
inhabitants of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:14 And the arm of the Lord shall be
revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the
voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither
give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut
off from among the people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:15 For they have strayed from mine
ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:16 For they seek not the Lord to
establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own
way, and after the image of his own God, whose image is in the
likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol,
which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon the great, which
shall fall.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:17 Wherefore, I the Lord, knowing the
calamity which should come upon the inhabitants of the earth,
called upon my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and spake unto him
from heaven, and gave him commandments;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:18 And also gave commandments to others,
that they should proclaim these things unto the world; and all
this that it might be fulfilled, which is written by the
prophets-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:19 The weak things of the world shall
come forth and break down the mighty and strong ones, that man
should counsel his fellow man, neither trust in the arm of 
flesh--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:20 But that every man might speak in the
name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:21 That faith might also increase in the
earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:22 That mine everlasting covenant might
be established;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:23 That the fulness of my gospel might
be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the
world, and before kings and rulers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:24 Behold, I am God and have spoken it;
these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in
their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they
might come to understanding.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:25 And inasmuch as they erred it might
be made known;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:26 And inasmuch as they sought wisdom
they might be instructed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:27 And inasmuch as they sinned they
might be chastened, that they might repent;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:28 And inasmuch as they were humble they
might be made strong, and blessed from on high, and receive
knowledge from time to time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:29 And after having received the record
of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., might
have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of
God, the Book of Mormon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:30 And also those whom these
commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation
of this church, and to bring it out of obscurity and out of
darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the
whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking
unto the church collectively and not individually-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:31 For I the Lord cannot look upon sin
with the least degree of allowance;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:32 Nevertheless, he that repents and
does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:33 And he that repents not, from him
shall be taken even the light which he has received; for my
Spirit shall not always strive with man, thus saith the Lord of
Hosts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:34 And again, verily I say unto you, O
inhabitants of the earth: I the Lord am willing to make these
things known unto all flesh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:35 For I am no respecter of persons, and
will that men shall know that the day speedily cometh; the hour
is not yet, but is nigh at hand, when peace shall be taken from
the earth, and the devil shall have power over his own dominion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:36 And also the Lord shall power over
his saints, and shall reign in their midst, and shall come down
in judgment upon Idumea, or the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:37 Search these commandments, for they
are true and faithful, and the prophecies and promises which are
in them shall be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:38 What I the Lord have spoken, I have
spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though heavens and the earth
pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be
fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my
servants, it is the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 1:39 For behold, and lo, the Lord is God,
and the Spirit beareth record, and the record is true, and the
truth abideth forever and ever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 2:0 Words spoken by Moroni, the Angel, to
Joseph Smith the Prophet, while in his father's house at
Manchester, New York, on the evening of September 21, 1823. See
History of the Church, vol. 1, page 12. Moroni was the last of a
long line of historians who had made the record that is now
before the world as the Book of Mormon. Compare Malachi 4:5, 6.
See also Sections 27:9 and 110:13-16.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 2:1 Behold, I will reveal unto the
Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming
and dreadful day of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 2:2 And he shall plant in the hearts of
children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the
children shall turn to their fathers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 2:3 If it were not so, the whole earth
would be utterly wasted at his coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, July, 1828, relating to the
loss of certain manuscripts of the first part of the Book of
Mormon, which Joseph had reluctantly allowed to pass from his
custody to that of Martin Harris, who had served for a brief
period as scribe in the translation of the Book of Mormon. This
revelation was given through the Urim and Thummim. See History of
the Church, vol. 1, p. 21. Compare Section 10.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:1 The works and the designs, and the
purposes cannot be frustrated, neither can they come to naught.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:2 For God doth not walk in crooked
paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left,
neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his
paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:3 Remember, remember that it is not the
work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:4 For although a man may have many
revelation, and have power to do mighty works, yet if he boasts
in his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and
follows after the dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he
must fall and incur the vengeance of a just God upon him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:5 Behold, you have been entrusted with
these things, but how strict were your commandments; and remember
also the promises which were made to you, if you did not
transgress them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:6 And behold, how oft you have
transgressed the commandments and the laws of God, and have gone
on in persuasions of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:7 For, behold, you should not have
feared man more than God. Although men set at naught the counsels
of God, and despise his words-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:8 Yet you should have been faithful; and
he would have extended his arm and supported you against all the
fiery darts of the adversary; and he would have been with you in
time of trouble.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:9 Behold, thou art Joseph, and thou wast
chosen to do the work of the Lord, but because of transgression,
if thou art not aware thou wilt fall.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:10 But remember, God is merciful;
therefore, repent of that which thou hast done which is contrary
to the commandments which I gave to you, and thou art still
chosen, and art again called to the work;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:11 Except thou do this, thou shalt be
delivered up and become as other men, and have no more gift.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:12 And when thou hast deliveredst up
that which God had given thee sight and power to translate, thou
deliveredst up that which was sacred into the hands of a wicked
man,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:13 Who has set at naught the counsels of
God, and has broken the most sacred promises which were made
before God, and has depended upon his own judgment and boasted in
his own wisdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:14 And this is the reason that thou hast
lost thy privileges for a season-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:15 For thou hast suffered the counsel of
thy director to be trampled upon from the beginning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:16 Nevertheless, my work shall go forth,
for inasmuch as the knowledge of a Savior has unto the world,
through the testimony of the Jews, even so shall the knowledge of
the Savior come unto my people-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:17 And to the Nephites, and the
Jacobites, and the Josephites, and the Zoramites, through the
testimony of their fathers-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:18 And this testimony shall come to the
knowledge of the Lamanites, and the Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites,
who dwindled in unbelief because of the iniquity of their
fathers, whom the Lord has suffered to destroy their brethren the
Nephites, because of their iniquities and their abominations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:19 And for this very purpose are these
plates preserved, which contain these records--that the promises
of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he made to his people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 3:20 And the Lamanites might come to the
knowledge of their fathers, that they might know the promises of
the Lord, and that they may believe the gospel and rely upon the
merits of Jesus Christ, and be glorified through faith in his
name, and through their repentance they might be saved. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to his father, Joseph Smith, Sen., at Harmony,
Pennsylvania, February, 1829. --Qualifications for the labors of
the ministry are set forth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:1 Now behold, a marvelous work is about
to come forth among the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:2 Therefore, O ye that embark in the
service of the God, see that ye serve him with all your heart,
mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the
last day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:3 Therefore, if ye have desires to serve
God ye are called to the work;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:4 For the field is white already to
harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might,
the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth
salvation to his soul;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:5 And faith, hope, charity and love,
with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:6 Remember faith, virtue, knowledge,
temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity,
humility, diligence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 4:7 Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, March, 1829. --Three
witnesses to the Book of Mormon are promised, of whom Martin
Harris is to be one if he shall prove himself worthy--Baptism is
foreshadowed, but as no one had at this time been ordained to
administer the ordinance, patient waiting is enjoined--Note that
ordination followed, a few weeks later; see Section 13.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:1 Behold, I say unto you, that as my
servant Martin Harris has desired a witness at my hand, that you,
my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., have got the plates of which you
have testified and borne record that you have received of me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:2 And now, behold, this shall you say
say unto him--he who spake unto you, said unto you: I, the Lord,
am God, and have given these things unto you, my servant Joseph
Smith, Jun., and have commanded you that you should stand as a
witness of these things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:3 And I have caused you that you should
enter into a covenant with me, that you should not show them
except to those persons to whom I commanded you; and you have no
power over them except I grant it unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:4 And you have a gift to translate the
plates; and this is the first gift that I bestowed upon you; and
I have commanded that you should pretend to no other gift until
my purpose is fulfilled in this; for I will grant unto you no
other gift until it is finished.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:5 Verily, I say unto you, that woe shall
come unto the inhabitants of the earth if they will not hearken
unto my words;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:6 For hereafter you shall be ordained
and go forth and deliver my words unto the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:7 Behold, if they will not believe my
words, they will not believe you, my servant Joseph, if it were
possible that you should show them all these things which I have
committed unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:8 Oh, this unbelieving and stiffnecked
generation--mine anger is kindled against them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:9 Behold, verily I say unto you, I have
reserved those things which I have entrusted unto you, my servant
Joseph, for a wise purpose in me, and it shall be made known unto
future generations;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:10 But this generation shall have my
word through you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:11 And in addition to your testimony,
the testimony of three of my servants, whom I shall call and
ordain, unto whom I will show these things, and they shall go
forth with my words that are given through you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:12 Yea, they shall know of a surety that
these things are true, for from heaven will I declare it unto
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:13 I will give them power that they may
behold and view these things as they are;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:14 And to none else will I grant this
power, to receive this same testimony among this generation, in
this the beginning of the rising up and the coming forth of my
church out of the wilderness--clear as the moon, and fair as the
sun, and terrible as an army with banners.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:15 And the testimony of three witnesses
will I send forth of my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:16 And behold, whosoever believeth on my
words, them will I visit with the manifestation of my Spirit; and
they shall be born of me, even of water and of the Spirit--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:17 And you must wait yet a little while,
for ye are not yet ordained--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:18 And their testimony shall go forth
unto the condemnation of this generation if they harden their
hearts against them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:19 For a desolating scourge shall go
forth among the inhabitants of the earth, and shall continue to
be poured out from time to time, if they repent not, until the
earth is empty, and the inhabitants thereof are consumed away and
utterly destroyed by the brightness of my coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:20 Behold, I tell you these things, even
as I also told the people of the destruction of Jerusalem; and my
word shall be verified at this time as it hath hitherto been
verified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:21 And now I command you, my servant
Joseph, to repent and walk more uprightly before me, and to yield
to persuasions of men no more;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:22 And that you be firm in keeping the
commandments wherewith I have commanded you; and if you do this,
behold I grant unto you eternal life, even if you should be
slain.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:23 And now, again, I speak unto you, my
servant Joseph, concerning the man that desires the witness--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:24 Behold, I say unto him, he exalts
himself and does not humble himself sufficiently before me; but
if he will bow down before me, and humble himself in mighty
prayer and faith, in the sincerity unto him a view of the things
which he desires to see.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:25 And then he shall say unto the
generation: Behold, I have seen the things which the Lord hath
shown unto Joseph Smith, Jun., and I know of a surety that they
are true, for I have seen them, for they have been shown unto me
by the power of God and not of man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:26 And I the Lord command him, my
servant Martin Harris, that he shall say no more unto them
concerning these things, except he shall say: I have seen them,
and they have been shown unto me by the power of God; and these
are the words which he shall say.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:27 But if he deny this he will break the
covenant which he has before covenanted with me, and behold, he
is condemned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:28 And now, except he humble himself and
acknowledge unto me the things that he hath done which are wrong,
and covenant with me that he will keep my commandments, and
exercise faith in me, behold, I say unto him, he shall have no
such views, for I will grant unto him no views of the things of
which I have spoken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:29 And if this be the case, I command
you, my servant Joseph, that you shall say unto him, that he
shall do no more concerning this matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:30 And if this be the case, behold, I
say unto thee Joseph, when thou hast translated a few more pages
thou shalt stop for a season, even until I command they again;
then thou mayest translate again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:31 And except thou do this, behold, thou
shalt have no more gift, and I will take away the things which I
have entrusted with thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:32 And now, because I foresee the lying
in wait to destroy thee, yea, I foresee that if my servant Martin
Harris humbleth not himself and receive a witness from my hand;
that he will fall into transgression;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:33 And there are many that lie in wait
to destroy thee from off the face of the earth; and for this
cause, that thy days may be prolonged, I have given unto thee
these commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:34 Yea, for this cause I have said:
Stop, and stand still until I command thee, and I will provide
means whereby thou mayest accomplish the thing which I have
commanded thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 5:35 And if thou art faithful in keeping
my commandments, thou shalt be lifted up at the last day. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Oliver Cowdery, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, April,
1829. Oliver Cowdery began his labors as scribe, in the
translation of the Book of Mormon, April 7, 1829. He had already
received a divine manifestation attesting the truth of Joseph's
testimony respecting the plates on which was engraved the Book of
Mormon record. Joseph inquired of the Lord through the Urim and
Thummim and received this response. See History of the Church,
vol. 1, pp. 32-35. --Oliver's willingness to serve is commended;
and both to him and to Joseph blessings of great import are
promised.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:1 A great and marvelous work is about to
come forth unto the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:2 Behold, I am God; give heed unto my
word, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged
sword, to the dividing asunder of both joints and marrow;
therefore give heed unto my words.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:3 Behold, the field is white already to
harvest; therefore, whoso desireth to reap, let him thrust in his
sickle with his might, and reap while the day lasts, that he may
treasure up for his soul everlasting salvation in the kingdom of
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:4 Yea, whosoever will thrust in his
sickle and reap, the same is called of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:5 Therefore, if you will ask of me you
shall receive; if you will knock it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:6 Now, as you have asked, behold, I say
unto you, keep my commandments, and seek to bring forth and
establish the cause of Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:7 Seek not for the riches but for
wisdom, and behold, the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto
you, then shall you be made rich. Behold, he that hath eternal
life is rich.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:8 Verily, verily, I say unto you, even
as you desire of me so it shall be unto you; and if you desire,
you shall be the means of doing much good in this generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:9 Say nothing but repentance unto this
generation; keep my commandments, and assist to bring forth my
work, according to the commandments, and you shall be blessed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:10 Thou hast a gift, and blessed art
thou because of thy gift. Remember it is sacred and cometh from
above-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:11 And if thou wilt inquire, thou shalt
know mysteries which are great and marvelous; therefore thou
shalt exercise thy gift, that thou mayest find out mysteries,
that thou mayest bring many to the knowledge of the truth, yea,
convince them of the error of their ways.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:12 Make not thy gift known unto any save
it be those who are of thy faith. Trifle not with sacred things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:13 If thou wilt do good, yea, and hold
out faithful to the end, thou shalt be saved in the kingdom of
God, which is the greatest of all the gifts of God; for there is
no gift greater than the gift of salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:14 Verily, Verily, I say unto thee,
blessed art thou for what thou hast done; for thou inquired of
me, and behold, as often as thou hast inquired thou hast received
instruction of my Spirit. If it had not been so, thou wouldst not
have come to the place where thou art at this time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:15 Behold, thou knowest that thou hast
inquired of me and I have enlightened thy mind; and now I tell
thee these things that thou mayest know that thou hast been
enlightened by the Spirit of truth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:16 Yea, I tell thee things, that thou
mayest know that there is none else save God that knowest thy
thoughts and of the intents of thy heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:17 I tell thee these things as a witness
unto thee--that the words or the work which thou hast been
writing are true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:18 Therefore be diligent; stand by my
servant Joseph, faithfully, in whatsoever difficult circumstances
he may be for the the word's sake.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:19 Admonish him in his faults, and also
receive admonition of him. Be patient; be sober; be temperate;
have patience, faith, hope and charity.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:20 Behold, thou art Oliver, and I have
spoken unto thee because of thy desires; therefore treasure up
these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the
commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my
love.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:21 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of
God. I am the same that came unto mine own, and mine own received
me not. I am the light which shineth in darkness, and the
darkness comprehendeth it not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:22 Verily, verily, I say unto you, if
you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that
you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning
the truth of these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:23 Did I not speak peace to your mind
concerning the matter? What greater witness can have than from
God?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:24 And now, behold, you have received a
witness; for if I have told you things which no man knoweth have
you not received a witness?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:25 And, behold, I grant unto you a gift,
if you desire of me, to translate, even as my servant Joseph.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:26 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that
there are records which contain much of my gospel, which have
been kept back because of the wickedness of the people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:27 And now I command you, that if you
have good desires--a desire to lay up treasures for yourself in
heaven--then shall you assist in bringing to light, with your
gift, those parts of my scriptures which have been hidden because
of iniquity.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:28 And now, behold, I give unto you, and
also unto my servant Joseph, the keys of this gift, which shall
bring to light this ministry; and in the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall every word be established.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:29 Verily, verily, I say unto you, if
they reject my words, and this part of my gospel and ministry,
blessed are ye, for they can do no more unto you than unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:30 And even if they do unto you even as
they have done unto me, blessed are ye, for you shall dwell with
me in glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:31 But if they reject not my words,
which shall be established by the testimony which shall be given,
blessed are they, and then shall ye have joy in the fruit of your
labors.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:32 Verily, verily, I say unto you, as I
said unto my disciples, where two or three are gathered together
in my name, as touching one thing, behold, there will I be in the
midst of them--even so am I in the midst of you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:33 Fear not to do good, my sons, for
whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap; therefore, if ye sow
good ye shall also reap good for your reward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:34 Therefore, fear not, little flock; do
good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built
upon my rock, they cannot prevail.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:35 Behold, I do not condemn you; go your
ways and sin no more; perform with soberness the work which I
have commanded you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:36 Look unto me in every thought; doubt
not, fear not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 6:37 Behold the wounds which pierced my
side, and also the prints of the nails in the hands and feet; be
faithful, keep my commandments, ye shall inherit the kingdom of
heaven. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Oliver Cowdery, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, April,
1829, when they inquired through the Urim and Thummim as to
whether John, the beloved disciple, tarried in the flesh or had
died. The revelation is the translated version of the record made
on parchment by John and hidden up by himself. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, pp. 35, 36.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:1 And the Lord said unto me: John, my
beloved, what desireth thou? For if you shall ask what you will,
it shall be granted unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:2 And I said unto him: Lord, give unto
me power over death, that I may live and bring souls unto thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:3 And the Lord said unto me: Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, because thou desirest this thou shalt
tarry until I come in my glory, and shalt prophesy before
nations, kindreds, tongues and people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:4 And for this cause the Lord said unto
Peter: If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
For he desired of me that he might bring souls unto me, but thou
desiredst that thou mightest speedily come unto me in my kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:5 I say unto thee, Peter, this was a
good desire; but my beloved has desired that he might do more, or
a greater work yet among men than what he has before done.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:6 Yea, he has undertaken a greater work;
therefore I will make him as flaming fire and a ministering
angel; he shall minister for those who shall be heirs of
salvation who dwell on the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:7 And I will make thee to minister for
him and for thy brother James; and unto you three I will give
this power and the keys of this ministry until I come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 7:8 Verily I say unto you, ye shall both
have according to your desires, for ye both joy in that which ye
have desired.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Oliver Cowdery, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, April,
1829. In the course of the translation of the Book of Mormon,
Oliver, who continued to serve as scribe, writing at the
prophet's dictation, desired to be endowed with the gift of
translation. The Lord responded to his supplication by granting
this revelation. --The spirit of revelation is defined, and the
gift of Aaron specified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:1 Oliver Cowdery, verily, verily, I say
unto you, that assuredly as the the Lord liveth, who is your God
and your Redeemer, even so surely shall you receive a knowledge
of whatsoever things you shall ask in faith, with an honest
heart, believing that you shall receive a knowledge concerning
the engravings of old records, which are ancient, which contain
those parts of my scripture of which has been spoken by the
manifestation of my Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:2 Yea, behold, I will tell you in your
mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon
you and which shall dwell in your heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:3 Now, behold, this is the spirit of
revelation; behold, this is the spirit by which Moses brought the
children of Israel through the Red Sea on dry ground.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:4 Therefore this is thy gift; apply unto
it, and blessed art thou, for it shall deliver you out of the
hands of your enemies, when, if it were not so, they would slay
you and bring your soul to destruction.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:5 Oh, remember these words, and keep my
commandments. Remember, this is your gift.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:6 Now this is not all thy gift; for you
have another gift, which is the gift, which is the gift of Aaron;
behold, it has told you many things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:7 Behold, there is no other power, save
the power of God, that can cause this gift of Aaron to be with
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:8 Therefore, doubt not, for it is the
gift of God; and you shall hold it in your hands, and do
marvelous works; and no power shall be able to take away out of
your hands, for it is the work of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:9 And, therefore, whatsoever you shall
ask me to tell you by any means, that will I grant unto you, and
you shall have knowledge concerning it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:10 Remember that without faith you can
do nothing; therefore ask in faith. Trifle not with these things;
do not ask for that which you ought not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:11 Ask that you may know the mysteries
of God, and that you may translate and receive knowledge from all
those ancient records which have been hid up, that are sacred;
and according to your faith shall it be done unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 8:12 Behold, it is I that have spoken it;
and I am the same that spake unto you from the beginning. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Oliver Cowdery, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, April,
1829. Oliver is admonished to patience, and is urged to be
content to write, for the time being, at the dictation of the
translator, rather than to attempt to translate. --It is not
sufficient for one merely to ask for a divine gift, without
prayerful thought and study--Oliver loses such small measure of
the gift of translation as he had temporarily possessed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:1 Behold, I say unto you, my son, that
because you did not translate according to that which you desired
of me, and did commence again to write for my servant, Joseph
Smith, Jun., even so I would that ye should continue until you
have finished this record, which I have entrusted unto him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:2 And then, behold, other records have
I, that I will give unto you power that you may assist to
translate.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:3 Be patient, my son, for it is wisdom
in me, and it is not expedient that you should translate at this
present time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:4 Behold, the work which you are called
to do is write for my servant Joseph.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:5 And, behold, it is because that you
did not continue as you commenced, when you began to translate,
that I have taken away this privilege from you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:6 Do not murmur, my son, for it is
wisdom in me that I have dealt with you after this manner.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:7 Behold, you have not understood; you
have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no
thought save it was to ask me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:8 But, behold, I say unto you, that you
must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be
right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn
within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:9 But if it is not right you shall have
no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that
shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong; therefore,
you cannot write that which is sacred save it be given you from
me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:10 Now, if you had known this you could
have translated; nevertheless, it is not expedient that you
should translate now.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:11 Behold, it was expedient when you
commenced; but you feared, and the time is past, and it is not
expedient now;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:12 For, do you not behold that I have
given unto my servant Joseph sufficient strength, whereby it is
made up? And neither of you have I condemned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:13 Do this thing which I have commanded
you, and you shall prosper. Be faithful, and yield to no
temptation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 9:14 Stand fast in the work wherewith I
called you, and a hair of your head shall not be lost, and you
shall be lifted up at the last day. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1828. --
Herein the Lord informs Joseph of alterations made by wicked men
in the 116 manuscript pages of the Book of Mormon, which had been
lost from the possession of Martin Harris, to whom the sheets had
been temporarily entrusted. Compare Section 3. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, pp. 21, 23. The evil design was to await the
expected re-translation of the matter covered by the stolen
pages, and then to discredit the translator by showing the
discrepancies created by the alterations. That this wicked
purpose had been conceived by the evil one, and was known to the
Lord even while Mormon, the ancient Nephite historian, was making
his abridgment of the accumulated plates is shown in the Book of
Mormon. See The Words of Mormon 3-7.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:1 Now, behold, I say unto you, that
because you have delivered up those writings which you had power
given unto you to translate by the means of the Urim and Thummim,
into the hands of a wicked man, you have lost them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:2 And you also lost your gift at the
same time, and your mind became darkened.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:3 Nevertheless, it is now restored unto
you again; therefore see that you are faithful and continue on in
finishing of the remainder of the work of translating as you have
begun.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:4 Do not run faster or labor more than
you have strength and means provided to enable you to translate;
but be diligent unto the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:5 Pray always, that you may come off
conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may
escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his
work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:6 Behold, they have sought to destroy
you; yea, even the man in whom you have trusted has sought to
destroy you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:7 And for this cause I said that he is
a wicked man, for he has sought to take away the things wherewith
you have been entrusted; and he has also sought to destroy your
gift.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:8 And because you have delivered the
writings into his hands, behold, wicked men have taken them from
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:9 Therefore, you have delivered them
up, yea, that which was sacred, into wickedness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:10 And, behold, Satan hath put it into
their hearts to alter the words which you have caused to be
written, or which you have translated, which have gone out of
your hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:11 And behold, I say unto you, that
because they have altered the words, they read contrary from that
which you translated and caused to be written;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:12 And, on this wise, the devil has
sought to lay a cunning plan, that he may destroy this work;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:13 For he hath, put into their hearts
to do this, that by lying they may say they have caught you in
the words which you have pretended to translate.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:14 Verily, I say unto you, that I will
not suffer the Satan shall accomplish his evil design in this
thing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:15 For behold, he has put it into their
hearts to get thee to tempt the Lord thy God, in asking to
translate it over again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:16 And then, behold, he has put it in
their hearts--We will see if God has given him power to
translate; if so, he will also give him power again;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:17 And if God giveth him power again,
or if he translates again, or, in other words, if he bringeth
forth the same words, behold, we have the same with us, and we
have altered them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:18 Therefore they will not agree, and
we will say that he has lied in his words, and he has no gift,
and that he has no power;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:19 Therefore we will destroy him, and
also the work; and we will do this that we may not be ashamed in
the end, and that we may get glory of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that
Satan has great hold upon their hearts; he stirreth them up to
iniquity against that which is good;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:21 And their hearts are corrupt, and
full of wickedness and abominations; and they love darkness
rather than light, because their deeds are evil; therefore they
will not ask of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:22 Satan stirreth them up, that he may
lead their souls to destruction.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:23 And thus he has laid a cunning plan,
thinking to destroy the work of God; but I will require this at
their hands, and it shall turn to their shame and condemnation in
the day of judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:24 Yea, he stirreth up their hearts to
anger against this work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:25 Yea, he saith unto them: Deceive and
lie in wait to catch, that ye may destroy; behold, this is no
harm. And thus he flattered them, and telleth them that it is no
sin to lie that that they may catch a man in a lie, that they may
destroy him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:26 And thus he flattered them, and
leadeth them along until he draggeth their souls down to hell;
and thus he causeth them to catch themselves in their own snare.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:27 And thus he goeth up and down, to
and fro in the earth, seeking to destroy the souls of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:28 Verily, verily, I say unto you, wo
be unto him that lieth to deceive because he supposeth that
another lieth to deceive, for such are not exempt from the
justice of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:29 Now, behold, they have altered these
words, because Satan saith unto them: He hath deceived you--and
thus he flattered them away to do iniquity, to get thee to tempt
the Lord thy God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:30 Behold, I say unto you, that you
shall not translate again those words which have gone forth out
of your hands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:31 For, behold, they shall not
accomplish their evil designs in lying against those words. For,
behold, if you should bring forth the same words they will say
that you have lied and that you have pretended to translate, but
that you contradicted yourself.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:32 And, behold, they will publish this,
and Satan will harden the hearts of the people to stir them up to
anger against you, that they will not believe my words.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:33 Thus Satan thinketh to overpower
your testimony in this generation, that the work may not come
forth in this generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:34 But behold, here is wisdom, and
because I show unto you wisdom, and give you commandments
concerning these things, what you shall do, show it not unto the
world until you accomplished the work of translation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:35 Marvel not that I said unto you:
Here is wisdom, show it not unto the world-- for I said, show it
not unto the world, that you may be preserved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:36 Behold, I do not say that you shall
not show it unto the righteous;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:37 But as you cannot always judge
righteous, or as you cannot always tell the wicked from the
righteous, therefore I say you, hold your peace until I shall see
fit to make all these things known unto the world concerning the
matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:38 And now, verily I say unto you, that
an account of these things that you have written, which have gone
out of your hands, is engraven upon the plates of Nephi;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:39 Yea, and you remember it was said in
those writings that a more particular account was given of these
things upon the plates of Nephi.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:40 And now, because the account which
is engraven upon the plates of Nephi is more particular
concerning the things which, in my wisdom, I would bring to the
knowledge of the people in this account-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:41 Therefore, you shall translate the
engravings which are on the plates of Nephi, down even till you
come to the reign of king Benjamin, or until you come to that
which you have translated, which you have retained;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:42 And behold, you shall publish it as
a record of Nephi; and thus I will confound those who have
altered my words.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:43 I will not suffer that they shall
destroy my work; yea, I will show unto them that my wisdom is
greater than the cunning of the devil.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:44 Behold, they have only got a part,
or an abridgment of the account of Nephi.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:45 Behold, there are many things
engraven upon the plates of Nephi which do throw greater views
upon my gospel; therefore, it is wisdom in me that you should
translate this first part of the engravings of Nephi, and send
forth in this work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:46 And, behold, all the remainder of
this work does contain all those parts of my gospel which my holy
prophets, yea, and also my disciples, desired in their prayers
should come forth unto this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:47 And I said unto them, that it should
be granted unto them according to their faith in their prayers;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:48 Yea, and this was their faith--that
my gospel, which I gave unto them that they might preach in their
days, might come unto their brethren the Lamanites, and also all
that had become Lamanites because of their dissensions.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:49 Now, this is not all--their faith in
their prayers was that this gospel should be known also, if it
were possible that other nations should also possess this land;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:50 And thus they did leave their
blessing upon this land in their prayers, that whosoever should
believe in this gospel in this land might have eternal life;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:51 Yea, that it might be free unto all
of whatsoever nation, kindred, tongue, or people they may be.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:52 And now, behold, according to their
faith in their prayers will I bring this part of my gospel to the
knowledge of my people. Behold, I do not bring it to destroy that
which they have received, but to build it up.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:53 And for this cause have I said: If
this generation harden not their hearts, I will establish my
church among them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:54 Now I do not say this to destroy my
church; but I say this to build up my church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:55 Therefore, whosoever belongeth to my
church need not fear, for such shall inherit the kingdom of
heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:56 But it is they who do not fear me,
neither keep my commandments but build up churches unto
themselves to get gain, yea, and all that do wickedly and build
up the kingdom of the devil--yea, verily, verily, I say unto you,
that it is they that I will disturb, and cause to tremble and
shake to the center.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:57 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son
of God. I came unto mine own, and mine own received me not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:58 I am the light which shineth in
darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:59 I am he who said--Other sheep have I
which are not of this fold--unto my disciples, and many there
were that understood me not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:60 And I will show unto this people
that I had other sheep, and that they were a branch of the house
of Jacob;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:61 And I will bring to light their
marvelous works, which they did in my name;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:62 Yea, and I will also bring to light
my gospel which was ministered unto them, and, behold, they shall
not deny that which you have received, but they shall build it
up, and shall bring to light the true points of my doctrine, yea,
and the only doctrine which is in me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:63 And this I do that I may establish
my gospel, that there may not be so much contention; yea, Satan
doth stir up the hearts of the people to the contention
concerning the points of my doctrine; and in these points they do
err, for they do wrest the scriptures and do not understand them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:64 Therefore, I will unfold unto them
this great mystery;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:65 For, behold, I will gather them as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, if they will not
harden their hearts;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:66 Yea, if they will come, they may,
and partake of the waters of life freely.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:67 Behold, this is my doctrine--
whosoever repenteth and cometh unto me, the same is my church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:68 Whosoever declareth more or less,
the same is not of me, but is against me; therefore he is not of
my church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:69 And now, behold, whosoever is of my
church, and endureth of my church to the end, him will I
establish upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 10:70 And now, remember the words of him
who is the life and light of the world, your Redeemer, you Lord
and your God. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to his brother, Hyrum Smith, at Harmony,
Pennsylvania, May, 1829. This revelation was received through the
Urim and Thummim in answer to Joseph's supplication and
inquiry. --The coming forth of a great and marvelous work
proclaimed--Hyrum restrained from preaching for the time being,
he not being yet baptized and ordained--He is assured of the gift
of God awaiting his preparation to receive--The organization of
the Church foreshadowed--Hyrum admonished to learn the word of
God before attempting to proclaim it--Warned against denying the
spirit of revelation and prophecy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:1 A great and marvelous work is about
to come forth among the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:2 Behold, I am God; give heed to my
word, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged
sword, to the dividing asunder of both joints and marrow;
therefore give heed unto my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:3 Behold, the field is white already to
harvest; therefore, whoso desireth to reap let him thrust in his
sickle with his might, and reap while the day lasts, that he may
treasure up for his soul everlasting salvation in the kingdom of
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:4 Yea, whosoever will thrust in his
sickle and reap, the same is called of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:5 Therefore, if you will ask of me you
shall receive; if you will knock it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:6 Now, as you have asked, behold, I say
unto you, keep my commandments, and seek to bring forth and
establish the cause of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:7 Seek not for riches but for wisdom;
and, behold, the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto you, and
then shall you be made rich. Behold, he that hath eternal life is
rich.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:8 Verily, verily, I say unto you, even
as you desire of me so it shall be done unto you; and, if you
desire, you shall be the means of doing much good in this
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:9 Say nothing but repentance unto this
generation. Keep my commandments, and assist to bring forth my
work, according to my commandments, and you shall be blessed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:10 Behold, thou hast a gift, of thou
shalt have a gift if thou wilt desire of me in faith, with an
honest heart, believing in the power of Jesus Christ, or in my
power which speaketh unto thee;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:11 For, behold, it is I that speak;
behold, I am the light which shineth in darkness, and by my power
I give these words unto thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:12 And now, verily, verily, I say unto
thee, put your trust in that Spirit which leadeth to do good--
yea, to do justly, to walk humbly, to judge righteously; and this
is my Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:13 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I
will impart unto you of my Spirit, which shall enlighten your
mind, which shall fill your soul with joy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:14 And then shall ye know, or by this
shall you know, all things whatsoever you desire of me, which are
pertaining unto things of righteousness, in faith believing in me
that you shall receive
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:15 Behold, I command you that you need
not suppose that you are called to preach until you are called.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:16 Wait a little longer, until you
shall have my word, my rock, my church, and my gospel, that you
may know of a surety my doctrine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:17 And then, behold, according to your
desires, yea, even according to your faith it shall be done unto
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:18 Keep my commandments; hold your
peace; appeal unto my Spirit;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:19 Yea, cleave unto me with all your
heart, that you might assist in bringing to light those things of
which has been spoken--yea, the translation of my work; be
patient until you shall accomplish it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:20 Behold, this is your work, to keep
my commandments, yea, with all your might, mind and strength.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:21 Seek not to declare my word, but
first seek to obtain my word, and then shall your tongue be
loosed; then, if you desire, you shall have my Spirit and my
word, yea, the power of God unto the convincing of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:22 But now hold your peace; study my
word which hath gone forth among the children of men, and also
study my word which shall come forth among the children of men,
or that which is now translating, yea, until you have obtained
all which I shall grant unto the children of men in this
generation, and then shall all things be added thereto.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:23 Behold thou art Hyrum, my son; seek
the kingdom of God, and all things shall be added according to
that which is just.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:24 Build upon my rock, which is my
gospel;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:25 Deny not the spirit of revelation,
nor the spirit of prophecy, for wo unto him that denieth these
things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:26 Therefore, treasure up in your heart
until the time which is in my wisdom that you shall go forth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:27 Behold, I speak unto all who have
good desires, and have thrust in their sickles to reap.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:28 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son
of God. I am the life and the light of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:29 I am the same who came unto my own
and mine own received me not;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 11:30 But verily, verily, I say unto you,
that as many as receive me, to them will I give power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on my name. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Joseph Knight, Sen., at Harmony, Pennsylvania,
May, 1829. Joseph Knight believed the declarations of Joseph
Smith, concerning his possession of the Book of Mormon plates,
and the work of translation then in progress, and had given
material assistance to the translator and his scribe. See History
of the Church, vol. 1, p. 47. --Great and marvelous character of
the Lord's work--Personal participation in the bringing forth and
establishment of the cause of Zion open to all who have earnest
desires and who possess the requisite qualifications.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:1 A great and marvelous work is about
to come forth among the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:2 Behold, I am God; give heed to my
word, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged
sword, to the dividing asunder of both joints and marrow;
therefore give heed unto my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:3 Behold, the field is white already to
harvest; therefore, whoso desireth to reap let him thrust in his
sickle with his might, and reap while the day lasts, that he may
treasure up for his soul everlasting salvation in the kingdom of
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:4 Yea, whosoever will thrust in his
sickle and reap, the same is called of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:5 Therefore, if you will ask of me you
shall receive; if you will knock it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:6 Now, as you have asked, behold, I say
unto you, keep my commandments, and seek to bring forth and
establish the cause of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:7 Behold, I speak unto you, and also to
all those who have desires to bring forth and establish this
work;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:8 And no one can assist in this work
except he shall be humble and full of love, having faith, hope,
and charity, being temperate in all things, whatsoever shall be
entrusted to his care.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 12:9 Behold, I am the light and the life
of the world, that speak these words, therefore give heed with
your might, and then you are called. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 13:0 Ordination of Joseph Smith and Oliver
Cowdery to the Aaronic Priesthood, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, May
15, 1829, under the hands of an Angel, who announced himself as
John, the same that is called John the Baptist in the New
Testament. The angelic visitant averred that he was acting under
the direction of Peter, James, and John, the ancient Apostles,
who held the keys of the higher Priesthood, which was called the
Priesthood of Melchizedek. The promise was given to Joseph and
Oliver that in due time the Priesthood of Melchizedek would be
conferred upon them. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 39.
Compare Section 27:7, 8, 12.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 13:1 Upon you my fellow servants, in the
name of Messiah I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the
keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of
repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of
sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth, until
the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in
righteousness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to David Whitmer, at Fayette, New York, June, 1829.
The Whitmer family had become greatly interested in the
translating of the Book of Mormon. Joseph changed his residence
to the Whitmer home, where he dwelt until the work of translation
was carried to completion and the copyright on the forthcoming
book secured. Each of the three sons, having received a testimony
as to the genuineness of the work, became deeply concerned over
the matter of his individual duty; and the Prophet inquired of
the Lord respecting the matter. This revelation and the two next
following (Sections 15 and 16) were given in answer, through the
Urim and Thummim. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 48. David
Whitmer later became one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of
Mormon. --Conditions of attaining eternal life specified--The
Lord's purpose of bringing the fulness of his Gospel from the
Gentiles to the house of Israel--David Whitmer informed of his
call to assist in the latter-day work--His reward, conditioned by
his faithfulness, is promised.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:1 A great and marvelous work is about
to come forth among the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:2 Behold, I am God; give heed to my
word, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged
sword, to the dividing asunder of both joints and marrow;
therefore give heed unto my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:3 Behold, the field is white already to
harvest; therefore, whoso desireth to reap let him thrust in his
sickle with his might, and reap while the day lasts, that he may
treasure up for his soul everlasting salvation in the kingdom of
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:4 Yea, whosoever will thrust in his
sickle and reap, the same is called of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:5 Therefore, if you will ask of me you
shall receive; if you will knock it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:6 Seek to bring forth and establish my
Zion. Keep my commandments in all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:7 And, if you keep my commandments and
endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the
greatest of all the gifts of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:8 And it shall come to pass, that if
you shall ask the Father in my name, in faith believing, you
shall receive the Holy Ghost, which giveth utterance, that you
may stand as a witness of the things of which you shall both hear
and see, and also that you may declare repentance unto this
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:9 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of
the living God, who created the heavens and the earth, a light
which cannot be hid in darkness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:10 Wherefore, I must bring forth the
fulness of my gospel from the Gentiles unto the house of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 14:11 And behold, thou art David, and thou
art called to assist; which thing if ye do, and are faithful, ye
shall be blessed both spiritually and temporally, and great shall
be your reward. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to John Whitmer, at Fayette, New York, June, 1829.
See heading to Section 14. John Whitmer later became one of the
Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon. --The message is
intimately and impressively personal, in that the Lord tells of
what was known only to John Whitmer and himself--The recipient
blessed for his worthy desire--The thing of greatest worth to
him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:1 Hearken, my servant John, and listen
to the words of Jesus Christ, your Lord and your Redeemer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:2 For behold, I speak unto you with
sharpness and with power, for mine arm is over all the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:3 And I will tell you that which no man
knoweth save me and thee alone-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:4 For many times you have desired of me
to know that which would be of the most worth unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:5 Behold, blessed are you for this
thing, and for speaking my words which I have given you according
to my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 15:6 And now, behold, I say unto you, that
the thing which will be of the most worth unto you will be to
declare repentance unto this people, that you may bring souls
unto me, that you may rest in the kingdom of my Father. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Peter Whitmer, Jun., at Fayette, New York, June,
1829. See heading to Section 14. Peter Whitmer, Jun., later
became one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:1 Hearken, my servant Peter, and listen
to the words of Jesus Christ, your Lord and your Redeemer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:2 For behold, I speak unto you with
sharpness and with power, for mine arm is over all the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:3 And I will tell you that which no man
knoweth save me and thee alone-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:4 For many times you have desired of me
to know that which would be of the most worth unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:5 Behold, blessed are you for this
thing, and for speaking my words which I have given you according
to my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 16:6 And now, behold, I say unto you, that
the thing which will be of the most worth unto you will be to
declare repentance unto this people, that you may bring souls
unto me, that you may rest in the kingdom of my Father. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris,
at Fayette, New York, June, 1829, prior to their viewing the
engraved plates that contained the Book of Mormon record. Joseph
and his scribe, Oliver Cowdery, had learned from the translation
of certain passages on the Book of Mormon plates that three
special witnesses would be designated. See Ether 5:2-4; also 2
Nephi 11:3, and 27:12. Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin
Harris were moved upon by an inspired desire to be the three
special witnesses. The Prophet inquired of the Lord, and this
revelation was given in answer, through the Urim and Thummim. See
History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 52. --The three conditionally
promised that they shall be permitted to view not only the plates
but also other sacred relics of Book of Mormon record--Only by
faith like unto that of the prophets of old can they be thus
privileged--They to testify of what they shall see--Joseph
Smith's solemn avowals to be supported--The Lord declares that as
he lives the translation is true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:1 Behold, I say unto you, that you must
rely upon my word, which if you do with a full purpose of heart,
you shall have a view of the plates, and also of the breastplate,
the sword of Laban, the Urim and Thummim, which were given to the
brother of Jared upon the mount, when he talked with the Lord
face to face, and the miraculous directors which were given to
Lehi while in the wilderness, on the borders of the Red Sea.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:2 And it is by your faith that you
shall obtain a view of them, even by that faith which was had by
the prophets of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:3 And after that you have obtained
faith, and have seen them with your eyes, you shall testify of
them, by the power of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:4 And this you shall do that my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun., may not be destroyed, that I may bring about
my righteous purposes unto the children of men in this work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:5 And ye shall testify that you have
seen them, even as my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., has seen them;
for it is by my power that he has seen them, and it is becaused
he had faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:6 And he has translated the book, even
that part which I have commanded him, and as your Lord and your
God liveth it is true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:7 Wherefore, you have received the same
power, and the same faith, and the same gift like unto him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:8 And if you do these last commandments
of mine, which I have given you, the gates of hell shall not
prevail against you; for my grace is sufficient for you, and you
shall be lifted up at the last day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 17:9 And I, Jesus Christ, your Lord and
your God, have spoken it unto you, that I might bring about my
righteous purposes unto the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:0 Revelation to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, given at Fayette, New
York, June, 1829: Making known the calling of Twelve Apostles in
these last days; and also containing instructions relative to
building up the Church of Christ according to the fulness of the
Gospel. When the Aaronic Priesthood was conferred, the bestowal
of the Melchizedek Priesthood was promised. See heading to
Section 13. In response to fervent supplication for greater
knowledge on the matter the Lord gave this revelation. See
History of the Church, vol. 1, pp. 60-64. --Diligence enjoined--
Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer called with the calling of Paul
the Apostle of old--The value of souls emphasized--The great joy
attending conversion of souls to the Gospel of Christ--The
calling of twelve to assist in the ministry foreshadowed--The
Twelve, here called disciples but later named Apostles, to be
chosen from among those who desire to take upon them the name of
Christ with full purpose of heart--Oliver Cowdery and David
Whitmer commissioned to search out the Twelve.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:1 Now, behold, because of the thing
which you, my servant Oliver Cowdery, have desired to know of me,
I give unto you these words:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:2 Behold, I have manifested unto you,
by my Spirit in many instances, that the things which you have
written are true; wherefore you know know that they are true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:3 And if you know that they are true,
behold, I give unto you a commandment, that you rely upon the
things which are written;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:4 For in them are all things written
concerning the foundation of my church, my gospel, and my rock.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:5 Wherefore, if you shall build up my
church, upon the foundation of my gospel and my rock, the gates
of hell shall not prevail against you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:6 Behold, the world is ripening in
iniquity; and it must needs be that the children of men are
stirred up unto repentance, both the Gentiles and also the house
of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:7 Wherefore, as thou hast been baptized
by the hands of my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., according to that
which I have commanded him, he hath fulfilled the thing which I
have commanded him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:8 And now, marvel not that I have
called him unto mine own purpose, which purpose is known in me;
wherefore, if he shall be diligent in keeping my commandments he
shall be blessed unto eternal life; and his name is Joseph.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:9 And now, Oliver Cowdery, I speak unto
you, and also unto David Whitmer, by the way of commandment; for,
behold, I command all men everywhere to repent, and I speak unto
you, even as unto Paul mine apostle, for you are called even with
that same calling with which he was called.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:10 Remember the worth of souls is great
in the sight of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:11 For, behold, the Lord your Redeemer
suffered death in the flesh; wherefore he suffered the pain of
all men, that all men might repent and come unto him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:12 And he hath risen again from the
dead, that he might bring all men unto him, on conditions of
repentance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:13 And how great is his joy in the soul
that repenteth!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:14 Wherefore, you are called to cry
repentance unto this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:15 And if it so be that you should
labor all your days in crying repentance unto unto this people,
and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your
joy with him in the kingdom of my father!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:16 And now, if your joy will be great
with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of
my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many
souls unto me!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:17 Behold, you have my gospel before
you, and my rock, and my salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:18 Ask the Father in my mane, in faith
believing that you shall receive, and you shall have the Holy
Ghost, which manifesteth all things which are expedient unto the
children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:19 And if you have not faith, hope and
charity, you can do nothing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:20 Contend against no church, save it
be the church of the devil.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:21 Take upon you the name of Christ,
and speak the truth in soberness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:22 And as many as repent and are
baptized in my name, which is Jesus Christ, and endure to the
end, the same shall be saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:23 Behold, Jesus Christ is the name
which is given of the Father, and there is none other name given
whereby man can be saved;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:24 Wherefore, all men must take upon
them the name which is given of the Father, for in that name
shall they be called at the last day;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:25 Wherefore, if they know not the name
by which they are called, they cannot have place in the kingdom
of my Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:26 And now, behold, there are others
who are called to declare my gospel, both unto Gentile and unto
Jew;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:27 Yea, even twelve; and the Twelve
shall be my disciples, and they shall take upon them my name; and
the Twelve are they who shall desire to take upon them my name
with full purpose of heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:28 And if they desire to take upon them
my name with full purpose of heart, they are called to go into
all the world to preach my gospel unto every creature.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:29 And they are they who are ordained
of me to baptize in my name, according to that which is written;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:30 And you have that which is written
before you; wherefore, you must perform it according to the words
which are written;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:31 And now I speak unto you, the
Twelve--Behold, my grace is sufficient for you; you walk
uprightly before me and sin not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:32 And, behold, you are they who are
ordained of me to ordain priests and teachers; to declare my
gospel, according to the power of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
and according to the callings and gifts of God unto men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:33 And I, Jesus Christ, your Lord and
your God, have spoken it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:34 These words are not of men nor of
man, but of me; wherefore, you shall testify they are of me and
not of man;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:35 For it is my voice which speaketh
them unto you; for they are given by my Spirit unto you, and by
my power you can read them one to another; and save it were by my
power you could not have them:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:36 Wherefore, you can testify that you
have heard my voice, and know my words.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:37 And now, behold, I give unto you,
Oliver Cowdery, and also unto David Whitmer, that you shall
search out the Twelve, who shall have the desires of which I have
spoken;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:38 And by their desires and their works
you shall know them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:39 And when you have found them you
shall show these things unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:40 And you shall fall down and worship
the Father in my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:41 And you must preach unto the world,
saying: You must repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus
Christ;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:42 For all men must repent and be
baptized, and not only men, but women, and children who have
arrive at the years of accountability.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:43 And now, after that you have
received this, you must keep my commandments in all things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:44 And by your hands I will work a
marvelous work among the children of men, unto the convincing of
many of their sins, that they may come unto repentance, and that
they may come unto the kingdom of my Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:45 Wherefore, the blessings which I
give unto you are above all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:46 And after that you have received
this, if you keep not my commandments you cannot be saved in the
kingdom of my Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 18:47 Behold, I, Jesus Christ, your Lord
and your God, and your Redeemer, by the power of my Spirit have
spoken it. Amen
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:0 A commandment of God, and not of man,
revealed through Joseph Smith the Prophet, to Martin Harris, at
Manchester, New York, March, 1830, by him who is Eternal. --
Christ affirms his omnipotence--Declares that punishment and
suffering are inevitable consequences of unrepented sins--
Explains the signification of endless torment and eternal
damnation--Reaffirms the actuality of his own suffering in the
flesh--Emphasizes the necessity of prayer--Gives specific
commandment to Martin Harris.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:1 I am Alpha and Omega, Christ the
Lord; yea, even I am he, the beginning and the end, the Redeemer
of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:2 I, having accomplished and finished
the will of him whose I am, even the Father, concerning me--
having dome this that I might subdue all things unto myself--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:3 Retaining all power, even to the
destroying of Satan and his works at the end of the world, and
the last great day of judgment, which I shall pass upon the
inhabitants thereof, judging every man according to his works and
the deeds which he hath done.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:4 And surely every man must repent or
suffer, for I, God, am endless.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:5 Wherefore, I revoke not the judgments
which I shall pass, but woes shall go forth, weeping, wailing and
gnashing of teeth, yea, to those who are found on my left hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:6 Nevertheless, it is not written that
there shall be no end to this torment, but it is written endless
torment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:7 Again, it is written eternal
damnation; wherefore it is more express than other scriptures,
that it might work upon the hearts of the children of men,
altogether for my name's glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:8 Wherefore, I will explain unto you
this mystery, for it is meet unto you to know even as mine
apostles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:9 I speak unto you that are chosen in
this thing, even as one, that you may enter into my rest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:10 For, behold, the mystery of
godliness, how great is it! For, behold, I am endless, and the
punishment which is given from my hand is endless punishment, for
Endless is my name. Wherefore-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:11 Eternal punishment is God's
punishment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:12 Endless punishment is God's
punishment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:13 Wherefore, I command you to repent,
and keep the commandments which you have received by the hand of
my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., in my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:14 And it is by my almighty power that
you have received them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:15 Therefore I command you to repent--
repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath,
and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore--how sore you know
not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know
not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:16 For behold, I, God, have suffered
these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would
repent;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:17 But if they would not repent they
must suffer even as I;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:18 Which suffering caused myself, even
God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to
bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit--and
would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:19 Nevertheless, glory be to the
Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the
children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:20 Wherefore, I command you again to
repent, lest I humble you with my almighty power; and that you
confess your sins, lest you suffer these punishments of which I
have spoken, of which in the smallest, yea, even in the least
degree you have tasted at the time I withdrew my Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:21 And I command you that you preach
naught but repentance, and show not these things unto the world
until it is wisdom in me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:22 For they cannot bear meat now, but
milk they must receive; wherefore, they must not know these
things, lest they perish.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:23 Learn of me, and listen to my words;
walk in meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:24 I am Jesus Christ; I came by the
will of the Father, and I do his will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:25 And again, I command thee that thou
shalt not covet they neighbor's wife; nor seek thy neighbor's
life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:26 And again, I command thee that thou
shalt not covet thine own property, but impart freely to the
printing of the Book of Mormon, which contains the truth and the
word of God-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:27 Which is my word to the gentile,
that soon it may go to the Jew, of whom the Lamanites are a
remnant, that they may believe the gospel, and look not for a
Messiah to come who has already come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:28 And again, I command thee that thou
shalt pray vocally as well as in thy heart; yea, before the world
as well as in secret, in public as well as in private.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:29 And thou shalt declare glad tidings,
yea, publish it upon the mountains, and upon every high place,
and among every people that thou shalt be permitted to see.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:30 And thou shalt do it with all
humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:31 And of tenets thou shalt not talk,
but thou shalt declare repentance and faith on the Savior, and
remission of sins by baptism, and by fire, yea, even the Holy
Ghost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:32 Behold, this is a great and the last
commandment which I shall give unto you concerning this matter;
for this shall suffice for thy daily walk, even unto the end of
thy life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:33 And misery thou shalt receive if
thou wilt slight these counsels, yea, even the destruction of
thyself and property.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:34 Impart a portion of thy property,
yea, even part of thy lands, and all save the support of thy
family.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:35 Pay the debt thou hast contracted
with the printer. Release thyself from bondage.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:36 Leave thy house and home, except
when thou shalt desire to see thy family;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:37 And speak freely to all; yea,
preach, exhort, declare the truth, even with a loud voice, with a
sound of rejoicing, crying--Hosanna, hosanna, blessed be the name
of the Lord God!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:38 Pray always, and I will pour out my
Spirit upon you, and great shall be your blessing--yea, even more
great than if you should obtain treasures of earth and
corruptibleness to the extent thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:39 Behold, canst thou read this without
rejoicing and lifting up thy heart for gladness?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:40 Or canst thou run about longer as a
blind guide?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 19:41 Or canst thou be humble and meek,
and conduct thyself wisely before me? Yea, come unto me thy
Savior. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:0 Revelation on Church Organization and
Government, given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, April, 1830.
Preceding his record of this revelation the Prophet wrote: We
obtained of him [Jesus Christ] the following, by the spirit of
prophecy and revelation; which not only gave us much information,
but also pointed out to us the precise day upon which, according
to his will and commandment, we should proceed to organize his
Church once more here upon the earth. --The Lord again attests
the genuineness of the Book of Mormon--He gives commandment
respecting baptism--Defines the functions of the several offices
in the Priesthood--Specifies the duties of members--Prescribes
the mode of baptism, and of administering the sacrament of bread
and wine--Directs the keeping of records of Church membership.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:1 The rise of the Church of Christ in
these last days, being one thousand eight hundred and thirty
years since the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in
the flesh, it being regularly organized and established agreeable
to the laws of our country, by the will and commandments of God,
in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month which is
called April-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:2 Which commandments were given to
Joseph Smith, Jun., who was called of God, and ordained an
apostle of Jesus Christ, to be the first elder of this church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:3 And to Oliver Cowdery, who was also
called of God, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to be the second elder
of this church, and ordained under his hand;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:4 And this according to the grace of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory, both now
and forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:5 After it was truly manifested unto
this first elder that he had received a remission of his sins, he
was entangled again in the vanities of the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:6 But after repenting, and humbling
himself sincerely, through faith, God ministered unto him by an
holy angel, whose countenance was as lighting, and whose garments
were pure and white above all other whiteness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:7 And gave unto him commandments which
inspired him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:8 And gave him power from on high, by
the means which were before prepared, to translate the Book of
Mormon;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:9 Which contains a record of a fallen
people, and the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the
Gentiles and to the Jews also;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:10 Which was given by inspiration, and
is confirmed to others by the ministering of angels, and is
declared unto the world by them-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:11 Proving to the world that the holy
scriptures are true, and that God does inspire men and call them
to his holy work in this age and generation, as well as in
generations of old;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:12 Thereby showing that he is the same
God yesterday, today, and forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:13 Therefore, having so great
witnesses, by them shall the world be judged, even as many as
shall hereafter come to a knowledge of this work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:14 And those who receive it in faith,
and work righteousness, shall receive a crown of eternal life;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:15 But those who harden their hearts in
unbelief, and reject it, it shall turn to their own 
condemnation-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:16 For the Lord God has spoken it; and
we, the elders of the church, have heard and bear witness to the
words of the glorious Majesty on high, to whom be glory forever
and ever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:17 By these things we know that there
is a God in heaven, who is infinite and eternal, from everlasting
to everlasting the same unchangeable God, the framer of heaven
and earth, and all things which are in them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:18 And that he created man, male and
female, after his own image and in his own likeness, created he
them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:19 And gave unto them commandments that
they should love and serve him, the only living and true God, and
that he should be the only being whom they should worship.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:20 But by the transgression of these
holy laws man became sensual and devilish, and became fallen man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:21 Wherefore, the Almighty God gave his
only Begotten Son, as it is written in those scriptures which
have been given of him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:22 He suffered temptations but gave no
head unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:23 He was crucified, died, and rose
again the third day;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:24 And ascended into heaven, to sit
down on the right hand of the Father, to reign with almighty
power according to the will of the Father;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:25 That as many as would believe and be
baptized in his holy name, and endure in faith to the end, should
be saved--Doctrine and Covenants 20:26 Not only those who believe
after he came in the meridian of time, in the flesh, but all
those from the beginning, even as many as were before he came,
who believed in the words of the holy prophets, who spake as they
were inspired by the gift of the Holy Ghost, who truly testified
of him in all things, should have eternal life,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:27 As well as those who should come
after, who should believe in the gifts and callings of God by the
Holy Ghost, which beareth record of the Father and of the Son;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:28 Which Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
are one God, infinite and eternal, without end. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:29 And we know that all men must repent
and believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and worship the Father
in his name, and endure in faith on his name to the end, or they
cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:30 And we know that justification
through the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is just and
true;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:31 And we know also, that
sanctification through the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ is just and true, to all those who love and serve God with
all their mights, minds and strength.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:32 But there is a possibility that man
may fall from grace and depart from the living God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:33 Therefore let the church take head
and pray always, lest they fall into temptation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:34 Yea, and even let those who are
sanctified take heed also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:35 And we know that these things are
true according to the revelations of John, neither adding to, nor
diminishing from the prophecy of his book, the holy scriptures,
or the revelations of God which shall come hereafter by the gift
and power of the Holy Ghost, the voice of God, or the ministering
of angels.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:36 And the Lord God has spoken it; and
honor, power and glory be rendered to his holy name, both now and
ever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 And again by the way of commandment
to the church concerning the manner of baptism--All those who
humble themselves before God, and desire to be baptized, and come
forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits, and witness before
the church that they have truly repented of all their sins, and
are willing to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ, having a
determination to serve him to the end, and truly manifest by
their works that they have received of the Spirit of Christ unto
the remission of their sins, shall be received by baptism into
his church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:38 The duty of the elders, priests,
teachers, deacons, and members of the church of Christ--An
apostle is an elder, and it is his calling to baptize;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:39 And to ordain other elders, priests,
teachers, and deacons;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:40 And to administer bread and wine--
the emblems of the flesh and blood of Christ-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:41 And to confirm those who are
baptized into the church, by the laying on of hands for the
baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, according to the scriptures;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:42 And to teach, expound, exhort,
baptize, and watch over the church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:43 And to confirm the church by the
laying on of the hands, and the giving of the Holy Ghost;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:44 And to take the lead of all
meetings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:45 The elders are to conduct the
meetings as they are led by the Holy Ghost, according to the
commandments and revelations of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:46 The priest's duty is to preach,
teach, expound, exhort, and baptize, and administer the
sacrament,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:47 And visit the house of each member,
and exhort them to pray vocally and in secret and attend to all
family duties.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:48 And he may also ordain other
priests, teachers, and deacons.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:49 And he is to take the lead of
meetings when there is no elder present;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:50 But where there is an elder present,
he is only to preach, teach, expound, exhort, and baptize,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:51 And visit the house of each member,
exhorting them to pray vocally and in secret and attend to all
family duties.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:52 In all these duties the priest is to
assist the elder if occasion requires.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:53 The teacher's duty is to watch over
the church always, and be with and strengthen them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:54 And see that there is no iniquity in
the church, neither hardness with each other, neither lying,
backbiting, nor evil speaking;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:55 And see that the church meet
together often, and also see that all the members do their duty.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:56 And he is to take the lead of
meetings in the absence of the elder or priest-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:57 And is to be assisted always, in all
his duties in the church, by the deacons, if occasion requires.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:58 But neither teachers nor deacons
have authority to baptize, administer the sacrament, or lay on
hands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:59 They are, however, to warn, expound,
exhort, and teach, and invite all to come unto Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:60 Every elder, priest, teacher, or
deacon is to be ordained according to the gifts and callings of
God unto him; and he is to be ordained by the power of the Holy
Ghost, which is in the one who ordains him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:61 The several elders comprising this
church of Christ are to meet in conference once in three months,
or from time to time as said conferences shall direct or appoint;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:62 And said conferences are to do
whatever church business is necessary to be done at the time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:63 The elders are to receive their
licenses from other elders, by vote of the church to which they
belong, or from the conferences.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:64 Each priest, teacher, or deacon, who
is ordained by a priest, may take a certificate from him at the
time, which certificate, when presented to an elder shall entitle
him to a license, which shall authorize him to perform the duties
of his calling, or he may receive it from a conference.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:65 No person is to be ordained to any
office in this church, where there is a regularly organized
branch of the same, without the vote of that church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:66 But the presiding elders, traveling
bishops, high councilors, high priests, and elders, may have the
privilege of ordaining, where there is no branch of the church
that a vote may be called.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:67 Every president of the high
priesthood (or presiding elder), bishop, high councilor, and high
priest, is to be ordained by the direction of a high council or
general conference.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:68 The duty of the members after they
are received by baptism.--The elders or priests are to have a
sufficient time to expound all things concerning the church of
Christ to their understanding, previous to their partaking of the
sacrament and being confirmed by the laying on of the hands of
the elders, so that all things may be done in order.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:69 And the members shall manifest
before the church, and also before the elders, by a godly walk
and conversation, that they are worthy of it, that there may be
works and faith agreeable to the holy scriptures--walking in
holiness before the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:70 Every member of the church of Christ
having children is to bring them unto the elders before the
church, who are to lay their hands upon them in the name of Jesus
Christ, and bless them in his name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:71 No one can be received into the
church of Christ unless he has arrived unto the years of
accountability before God, and is capable of repentance,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:72 Baptism is to be administered in the
following manner unto all those who repent-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:73 The person who is called of God and
has authority from Jesus Christ to baptize, shall go down into
the water with the person who has presented himself or herself
for baptism, and shall say, calling him or her by name: Having
been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:74 Then shall he immerse him or her in
the water, and come forth again out of the water.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:75 It is expedient that the church meet
together often to partake of bread and wine in the remembrance of
the Lord Jesus;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:76 And the elder or priest shall
administer it; and after this manner shall he administer it--he
shall kneel with the church and call upon the Father in solemn
prayer, saying:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:77 O God, the Eternal Father, we ask
the in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify
this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that they
may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto
thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take
upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep
his commandments which he has given them; that they may always
have his Spirit to be with them. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:78 The manner of administering the
wine--he shall take the cup also, and say:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:79 O God, the Eternal Father, we ask
thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify
this wine to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they
may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed
for them; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal
Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his
Spirit to be with them. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:80 Any member of the church of Christ
transgressing, or being overtaken in a fault, shall be dealt with
as the scriptures direct.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:81 It shall be the duty of the several
churches, composing the church of Christ, to send one or more of
their teachers to attend the several conferences held by the
elders of the church,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:82 With a list of the names of the
several members uniting themselves with the church since the last
conference; or send by the hand of some priest; so that a regular
list of all the names of the whole church may be kept in a book
by one of the elders whosoever the other elders shall appoint
from time to time;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:83 And also, if any have been expelled
from the church, so that their names may be blotted out of the
general church record of names.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 20:84 All members removing from the church
where they reside, if going to a church where they are not known,
may take a letter certifying that they are regular members and in
good standing, which certificate may be signed by any elder or
priest if the member receiving the letter is personally
acquainted with the elder or priest, or it may be signed by the
teachers or deacons of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Fayette, New York, April 6, 1830. This revelation was
given at the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, on the date names, at the home of Peter
Whitmer, Sen. Six men, who had previously been baptized,
participated. By unanimous vote these expressed their desire and
determination to organize, according to the commandment of God;
see Section 20. They also voted to accept and sustain Joseph
Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery as the presiding officers of the
Church. With the laying on of hands, Joseph then ordained Oliver
an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and
Oliver similarly ordained Joseph. After administration of the
sacrament, Joseph and Oliver laid hands upon the participants
individually, for the bestowal of the Holy Ghost, and for the
confirmation of each as a member of the Church. See History of
the Church, vol. 1, p. 75. --Church records--The Lord manifests
acceptance of the Church, and recognition of the presiding
officers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:1 Behold, there shall be a record kept
among you; and in it thou shalt be called a seer, a translator, a
prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ, an elder of the church
through the will of God the Father, and the grace of your Lord
Jesus Christ,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:2 Being inspired of the Holy Ghost to
lay the foundation thereof, and to build it up unto the most holy
faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:3 Which church was organized and
established in the year of your Lord eighteen hundred and thirty,
in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month which is
called April.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:4 Wherefore, meaning the church, thou
shalt give heed unto all his words and commandments which he
shall give unto you as he receiveth them, walking in all holiness
before me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:5 For his word ye shall receive, as if
from mine own mouth, in all patience and faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:6 For by doing these things the gates
of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will
disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the
heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:7 For thus saith the Lord God: Him have
I inspired to move the cause of Zion in mighty power for good,
and his diligence I know, and his prayers I have heard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:8 Yea, his weeping for Zion I have
seen, and I will cause that he shall mourn for her no longer; for
his days of rejoicing are come unto the remission of his sins,
and the manifestations of my blessings upon his works.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:9 For, behold, I will bless all those
who labor in my vineyard with a mighty blessing, and they shall
believe on his words, which are given him through me by the
Comforter, which manifesteth that Jesus was crucified by sinful
men for the sins of the world, yea, for the remission of sins
unto the contrite heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:10 Wherefore it behooveth me that he
should be ordained by you, Oliver Cowdery mine apostle;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:11 This being an ordinance unto you,
that you are an elder under his hand, he being the first unto
you, that you might be an elder unto this church of Christ,
bearing my name-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 21:12 And the first preacher of this
church unto the church, and before the world, yea, before the
Gentiles; yea, and thus saith the Lord God, lo, lo! to the Jews
also. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 22:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
which was estabilshed in these last days, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Given at Manchester, New
York, April, 1830, in consequence of some who had previously been
baptized desiring to unite with the Church without re-baptism. --
The indispensability of baptism in the way prescribed and through
the authority given by the Lord is set forth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 22:1 Behold, I say unto you that all old
covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing; and this
is a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from
the beginning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 22:2 Wherefore, although a man should be
baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot
enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your
dead works.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 22:3 For it is because of your dead works
that I have caused this last covenant and this church to be built
up unto me, even as in the days of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 22:4 Wherefore, enter ye in at the gate,
as I have commanded, and seek not to counsel your God. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Manchester, New York, April, 1830, to Oliver
Cowdery, Hyrum Smith, Samuel H. Smith, Joseph Smith, Sen., and
Joseph Knight, Sen. As the result of earnest desire on the part
of the five persons named, the Prophet inquired of the Lord, and
received this revelation in response.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:1 Behold, I speak unto you, Oliver, a
few words. Behold, thou art blessed, and art under no
condemnation. But beware of pride, lest thou shouldst enter into
temptation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:2 Make known thy calling unto the
church, and also before the world, and thy heart shall be opened
to preach the truth from henceforth and forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:3 Behold, I speak unto you, Hyrum, a
few words; for thou also art under no condemnation, and thy heart
is opened, and thy tongue loosed; and thy calling is to
exhortation, an to strengthen the church continually. Wherefore
thy duty is unto the church forever, and this because of thy
family. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:4 Behold, I speak a few words unto you,
Samuel; for thou also art under no condemnation, and thy calling
is to exhortation, and to strengthen the church; and thou art not
as yet called to preach before the world. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:5 Behold, I speak a few words unto you,
Joseph; for thou also art under no condemnation, and thy calling
also is to exhortation, and to strengthen the church; and this is
thy duty from henceforth and forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:6 Behold, I manifest unto you, Joseph
Knight, by these words, that you must take up your cross, in the
which you must pray vocally before the world as well as in
secret, and in your family, and among your friends, and in all
places.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 23:7 And, behold, it is your duty to unite
with the true church, and give your language to exhortation
continually, that you may receive the reward of the laborer.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet ad Oliver Cowdery, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, July, 1830.
Though less than four months had elapsed since the Church was
organized, persecution had become intense, and the leaders had to
seek safety in partial seclusion. See History of the Church, vol.
1, p. 101. --The Lord combines encouragement with reproof--Goves
individual commandments to Joseph and Oliver respectively.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:1 Behold, thou wast called and chosen
to write the Book of Mormon, and to my ministry; and I have
lifted thee up out of thine afflictions, and have counseled thee,
that thou hast been delivered from all thine enemies, and thou
hast been delivered from the powers of Satan and from darkness!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:2 Nevertheless, thou art not excusable
in thy transgressions; nevertheless, go thy way and sin no more.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:3 Magnify thine office; and after thou
has sowed thy fields and secured them, go speedily unto the
church which is in Colesville, Fayette, and Manchester, and they
shall support thee; and I will bless them both spiritually and
temporally;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:4 But if they receive thee not, I will
send upon them a cursing instead of a blessing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:5 And thou shalt continue in calling
upon God in my name, and writing the things which shall be given
thee by the Comforter, and expounding all scriptures unto the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:6 And it shall be given thee in the
very moment what thou shalt speak and write, and they shall hear
it, or I will send unto them a cursing instead of a blessing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:7 For thou shalt devote all thy service
in Zion; and in this thou shalt have strength.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:8 Be patient in afflictions, for thou
shalt have many; but endure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even
unto the end of thy days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:9 And in temporal labors thou shalt not
have strength, for this is not thy calling. Attend to thy calling
and thou shalt have wherewith to magnify thine office, and to
expound all scriptures, and continue in laying on of the hands
and confirming the churches.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:10 And thy brother Oliver shall
continue in bearing my name before the world, and also to the
church. And he shall not supposed that he can say enough in my
cause; and lo, I am with him to the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:11 In me he shall have glory, and not
of himself, whether in weakness or in strength, whether in bonds
or free.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:12 And at all times, and in all places,
he shall open his mouth and declare my gospel as with the voice
of a trump, both day and night. And I will give unto him strength
such as is not known among men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:13 Require not miracles, except I shall
command you, except casting out devils, healing the sick, and
against poisonous serpents, and against deadly poisons;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:14 And these things ye shall not do,
except it be required of you by them who desire it, that the
scriptures might be fulfilled; for ye shall do according to that
which is written.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:15 And in whatsoever place ye shall
enter, and they receive you not in my name, ye shall leave a
cursing instead of a blessing, by casting off the dust of your
feet against them as a testimony, and cleansing your feet by the
wayside.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:16 And it shall come to pass that
whosoever shall lay their hands upon you by violence, ye shall
command to be smitten in my name; and, behold, I will smite them
according to your words, in mine own due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:17 And whosoever shall go to law with
thee shall be cursed by the law.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:18 And thou shalt take no purse nor
scrip, neither staves, neither two coats, for the church shall
give unto thee in the very hour what thou needest for food and
for raiment, and for shoes and for money, and for scrip.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 24:19 For thou art called to prune my
vineyard with a mighty pruning, yea, even for the last time; yea,
and also for all those whom thou has ordained, and they shall do
even according to this pattern. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, July 1830. --The word of
the Lord directed to Emma Smith, the Prophet's wive--Her duties
defined, and glorious possibilities of achievement set forth--The
Lord's admonitions are applied to all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:1 Hearken unto the voice of the Lord
your God, while I speak unto you, Emma Smith, my daughter; for
verily I say unto you, all those who receive my gospel are sons
and daughters in my kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:2 A revelation I give unto you
concerning my will; and if thou art faithful and walk in the
paths of virtue before me, I will preserve thy life, and thou
shalt receive an inheritance in Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:3 Behold, thy sins are forgiven thee,
and thou art an elect lady, whom I have called.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:4 Murmur not because of the things
which thou hast not seen, for they are withheld from thee and
from the world, which is wisdom in me in a time to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:5 And the office of thy calling shall
be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy
husband, in his afflictions, with consoling words, in the spirit
of meekness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:6 And thou shalt go with him at the
time of his going, and be unto him for a scribe, while there is
no one to be a scribe for him, that I may send my servant, Oliver
Cowdery, whithersoever I will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:7 And thou shalt be ordained under his
hand to expound scriptures, and to exhort the church, according
as it shall be given thee by my Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:8 For he shall lay his hands upon thee,
and thou shalt receive the Holy Ghost, and thy time shall be
given to writing, and to learning much.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:9 And thou needest not fear, for thy
husband shall support thee in the church; for unto them is his
calling, that all things might be revealed unto them, whatsoever
I will, according to their faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:10 And verily I say unto thee that thou
shalt lay aside the things of this world, and seek for the things
of a better.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:11 And it shall be given thee, also, to
make a selection of sacred hymns, as it shall be given thee,
which is pleasing unto me, to be had in my church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:12 For my soul delighteth in the song
of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me,
and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:13 Wherefore, lift up thy heart and
rejoice, and cleave unto the covenants which thou hast made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:14 Continue in the spirit of meekness,
and beware of pride. Let thy soul delight in thy husband, and the
glory which shall come upon him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:15 Keep my commandments continually,
and a crown of righteousness thou shalt receive. And except thou
do this, where I am you cannot come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 25:16 And verily, verily, I say unto you,
that this is my voice unto all. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 26:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, Oliver Cowdery, and John Whitmer, at Harmony,
Pennsylvania, July, 1830. --Instructions as to immediate duty--
Reaffirmation of the principle of common consent in Church
affairs.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 26:1 Behold, I say unto that you shall let
your time be devoted to the studying of the scriptures, and to
preaching, and to confirming the church at Colesville, and to
performing your labors on the land, such as is required, until
after you shall go to the west to hold the next conference; and
then it shall be made known what you shall do.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 26:2 And all things shall be done by
common consent in the church, by much prayer and faith, for all
things you shall receive by faith. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, August, 1830. In preparation
for a religious service at which the sacrament of bread and wine
was to be administered, Joseph set out to procure wine for the
occasion. He was met by a heavenly messenger, and received this
revelation, the first four paragraphs of which were written at
the time, and the remainder in the September following. Water is
commonly used instead of wine in the sacramental services of the
Church. --Warning against the use of wine of unassured purity in
the sacrament--Many ancient prophets named, with whom, as with
the latter-day prophets, the Lord promises to partake at a time
yet to come--The prior ordination of Joseph Smith, Jun., and
Oliver Cowdery to the Apostleship avowed--Encouraging admonition
given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:1 Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ,
your Lord, your God, and your Redeemer, whose word is quick and
powerful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:2 For, behold, I say unto you, that it
mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye
partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye
single to my glory--remembering unto the Father my body which was
laid down for you, and my blood which was shed for the remission
of your sins.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:3 Wherefore, a commandment I give unto
you, that you shall not purchase wine neither strong drinks of
your enemies;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:4 Wherefore, you shall partake of none
except it is made new among you; yea, in this my Father's kingdom
which shall be built up on the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:5 Behold, this is wisdom in me;
wherefore, marvel not, for the hour cometh that I will drink of
the fruit of the vine with you on the earth, and with Moroni,
whom I have sent unto you to reveal the Book of Mormon,
containing the fulness of my everlasting gospel, to whom I have
committed the keys of the record of the stick of Ephraim;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:6 And also with Elias, to whom I have
committed the keys of bringing to pass the restoration of all
things spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the
world began, concerning the last days;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:7 And also John the son of Zacharias,
which Zacharias he (Elias) visited and gave promise that he
should have a son, and his name should be John, and he should be
filled with the spirit of Elias;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:8 Which John I have sent unto you, my
servants, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery, to ordain you
unto the first priesthood which you have received, that you might
be called and ordained even as Aaron;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:9 And also Elijah, unto whom I have
committed the keys of the power of turning the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the
fathers, that the whole earth may not be smitten with a curse;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:10 And also with Joseph and Jacob, and
Isaac, and Abraham, your fathers, by whom the promises remain;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:11 And also with Michael, or Adam, the
father of all, the prince of all, the ancient of days;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:12 And also with Peter, and James, and
John, whom I have sent unto you, by whom I have ordained you and
confirmed you to be apostles, and especial withnesses of my name,
and bear the keys of your ministry and of the same things which I
revealed unto them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:13 Unto whom I have committed the keys
of my kingdom, and a dispensation of the gospel for the last
times; and for the fulness of times, in the which I will gather
together in one all things, both which are in heaven, and which
are on earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:14 And also with all those whom my
Father hath given me out of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:15 Wherefore, lift up your hearts and
rejoice, and gird up your loins, and take upon you my whole
armor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day, having done
all, that ye may be able to stand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:16 Stand, therefore, having your loins
girt about with truth, having on the breastplate of
righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace, which I have sent mine angels to commit unto
you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith
ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 27:18 And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of my Spirit, which I will pour out upon you, and
my word which I reveal unto you, and be agreed as touching all
things whatsoever ye ask of me, and be faithful until I come, and
ye shall be caught up, that where I am ye shall be also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Oliver Cowdery, at Fayette, New York, September,
1830. Hiram Page, a member of the Church, had a certain stone,
and professed to be receiving revelations by its aid concerning
the upbuilding of Zion and the order of the Church. Several
members had been deceived by these claims, and even Oliver
Cowdery was wrongly influenced thereby. Just prior to an
appointed conference, the Prophet inquired earnestly of the Lord
concerning the matter and this revelation followed. See History
of the Church, vol. 1, p. 109. --Joseph's position of presidency
defined--Oliver warned against undue assumption--Oliver's mission
to the Lamanites stated--He to labor with Hiram Page, whom Satan
had deceived--Hiram Page not appointed by the Lord nor accepted
by the people as a revelator to the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:1 Behold, I say unto thee, Oliver, that
it shall be given unto thee that thou shalt be heard by the
church in all things whatsoever thou shalt teach them by the
Comforter, concerning the revelations and commandments which I
have given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:2 But, behold, verily, verily, I say
unto thee, no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and
revelations in this church excepting my servant Joseph Smith,
Jun., for he receiveth them even as Moses.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:3 And thou shalt be obedient unto the
things which I shall give unto him, even as Aaron, to declare
faithfully the commandments and the revelations, with power and
authority unto the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:4 And if thou art led at any time by
the Comforter to speak or to teach, ar at all times by the way of
commandments unto the church, thou mayest do it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:5 But thou shalt not write by way of
commandment, but by wisdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:6 And thou shalt not command him who is
at thy head, and at the head of the church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:7 For I have given him the keys of the
mysteries, and the revelations which are sealed, until I shall
appoint unto them another in his stead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:8 And now, behold, I say unto you that
you shall go unto the Lamanites and preach my gospel unto them;
and inasmuch as they receive thy teachings thou shalt cause my
church to be established among them; and thou shalt have
revelations, but write them not by way of commandment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:9 And now, behold, I say unto you that
it is not revealed, and no man knoweth where the city Zion shall
be built, but it shall be given hereafter. Behold, I say unto you
that it shall be on the borders by the Lamanites.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:10 Thou shalt not leave this place
until after the conference; and my servant Joseph shall be
appointed to preside over the conference by the voice of it, and
what he saith to thee thou shalt tell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:11 And again, thou shalt take thy
brother, Hiram Page, between him and thee alone, and tell him
that those things which he hath written from that stone are not
of me and that Satan deceiveth him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:12 For, behold, these things have not
been appointed unto him, neither shall anything be appointed unto
any of this church contrary to the church covenants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:13 For all things must be done in
order, and by common consent in the church, by the prayer of
faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:14 And thou shalt assist to settle all
these things, according to the covenants of the church, before
thou shalt take thy journey among the Lamanites.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:15 And it shall be given thee from the
time thous shalt go, until the time thou shalt return, what thou
shalt do.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 28:16 And thou must open thy mouth at all
times, declaring my gospel with the sound of rejoicing. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in the presence of six Elders, at Fayette, New York,
September, 1830. This revelation was given some days prior to the
conference beginning September 26, 1830. --The gathering of the
elect specified--The imminence of the Lord's advent affirmed--
Calamities incident to the sinful state of the world--the
Millennium and scenes of judgment to follow--Distinction between
the spiritual and temporal creations--Purpose of the mortal
probation--The agency of man--the assured redemption of children
who die in infancy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:1 Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ,
your Redeemer, the Great I Am, whoses arm of mercy hath atoned
for your sins;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:2 Who will gather his people even as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, even as many as will
hearken to my voice and humble themselves before me, and call
upon me in mighty prayer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:3 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto
you, that at this time your sins are forgiven you, therefore ye
receive these things; but remember to sin no more, lest perils
shall come upon you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:4 Verily, I say unto you that ye are
chosen out of the world to declare my gospel with the sound of
rejoicing, as with the voice of a trump.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:5 Lift up your hearts and be glad, for
I am in your midst, and am your advocate with the Father; and it
is his good will to give you the kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:6 And, as it is written--Whatsoever ye
shall ask in faith, being united in prayer according to my
command, ye shall receive.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:7 And ye are called to bring to pass
the gathering of mine elect; for mine elect hear my voice and
harden not their hearts;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:8 Wherefore the decree hath gone forth
from the Father that they shall be gathered in unto one place
upon the face of this land, to prepare their hearts and be
prepared in all things against the day when tribulation and
desolation are sent forth upon the wicked.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:9 For the hour is nigh and the day soon
at hand when the earth is ripe; and all the proud and they that
do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, saith
the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness shall not be upon the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:10 For the hour is nigh, and that which
was spoken by mine apostles must be fulfilled; for as they spoke
so shall it come to pass;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:11 For I will reveal myself from heaven
with power and great glory, with all the hosts thereof, and dwell
in righteousness with men on earth a thousand years, and the
wicked shall not stand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:12 And again, verily, verily, I say
unto you, and it hath gone forth in a firm decree, by the will of
the Father, that mine apostles, the Twelve which were with me in
my ministry at Jerusalem, shall stand at my right hand at the day
of my coming in a pillar of fire, being clothed with robes of
righteousness, with crowns upon their heads, in glory even as I
am, to judge the whole house of Israel, even as many as have
loved me and kept my commandments, and none else.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:13 For a trump shall sound both long
and loud, even as upon Mount Sinai, and all the earth shall
quake, and they shall come forth--yea, even the dead which died
in me, to receive a crown of righteousness, and to be clothed
upon, even as I am, to be with me, that we may be one.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:14 But, behold, I say unto you that
before this great day shall come the sun shall be darkened, and
the moon shall be turned into blood, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and there shall be greater signs in heaven above and
in the earth beneath;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:15 And there shall be weeping and
wailing among the hosts of men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:16 And there shall be a great hailstorm
sent forth to destroy the crops of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:17 And it shall come to pass, because
of the wickedness of the world, that I will take vengeance upon
the wicked, for they will not repent; for the cup of mine
indignation is full; for behold, my blood shall not cleanse them
if they hear me not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:18 Wherefore, I the Lord God will send
forth flies upon the face of the earth, which shall take hold of
the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat their flesh, and shall
cause maggots to come in upon them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:19 And their tongues shall be stayed
that they shall not utter against me; and their flesh shall fall
from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:20 And it shall come to pass that the
beasts of the forest and the fowls of the air shall devour them
up.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:21 And the great and abominable church,
which is the whore of all the earth, shall be cast down by
devouring fire, according as it is spoken by the mouth of Ezekiel
the prophet, who spoke of these things, which have not come to
pass but surely must, as I live, for abominations shall not
reign.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:22 And again, verily, verily, I say
unto you that when the thousand years are ended, and men again
begin to deny their God, then will I spare the earth but for a
little season;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:23 And the end shall come, and the
heaven and the earth shall be consumed and pass away, and there
shall be a new heaven and a new earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:24 For all old things shall pass away,
and all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth,
and all the fulness thereof, both men and beasts, the fowls of
the air, and the fishes of the sea;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:25 And not one hair, neither mote,
shall be lost, for it is the workmanship of mine hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:26 But, behold, verily I say unto you,
before the earth shall pass away, Michael, mine archangel, shall
sound his trump, and then shall all the dead awake, for their
graves shall be opened, and they shall come forth--yea, even all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:27 And the righteous shall be gathered
on my right hand unto eternal life; and the wicked on my left
hand will I be ashamed to own before my Father;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:28 Wherefore I will say unto them--
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:29 And now, behold, I say unto you,
never at any time have I declared from mine own mouth that they
should return, for where I am they cannot come, for they have no
power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:30 But remember that all my judgments
are not given unto men; and as the words have gone forth out of
my mouth even so shall they be fulfilled, that the first shall be
last, and that the last shall be first in all things whatsoever I
have created by the word of my power, which is the power of my
Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:31 For by the power of my Spirit
created I them; yea, all things both spiritual and temporal--
Doctrine and Covenants 29:31 First spiritual, secondly temporal,
which is the beginning of my work; and again, first temporal, and
secondly spiritual, which is the last of my work-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:33 Speaking unto you that you may
naturally understand; but unto myself my works have no end,
neither beginning; but it is given unto you that ye may
understand, because ye have asked it of me and are agreed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:34 Wherefore, verily I say unto you
that all things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I
given a law which was temporal; neither any man, nor the children
of men; neither Adam, your father, whom I created.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:35 Behold, I gave unto him that he
should be and agent unto himself; and I gave him commandment, but
no temporal commandment gave I unto him, for my commandments are
spiritual; they are not natural nor temporal, neither carnal nor
sensual.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:36 And it came to pass that Adam, being
tempted of the devil--for, behold, the devil was before Adam, for
he rebelled against me, saying, Give me thine honor, which is my
power; and also a third part of the hosts of heaven turned he
away from me because of their agency;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:37 And they were thrust down, and thus
came the devil and his angels;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:38 And, behold, there is a place
prepared for them from the beginning, which place is hell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:39 And it must needs be that the devil
should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents
unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could
not know the sweet--Doctrine and Covenants 29:40 Wherefore, it
came to pass that the devil tempted Adam, and he partook of the
forbidden fruit and transgressed the commandment, wherein he
became subject to the will of the devil, because he yielded unto
temptation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:41 Wherefore, I, the Lord God, caused
that he should be cast out from the Garden of Eden, from my
prescence, because of his transgress, wherein he became
spiritually dead, which is the first death, even that same death
which is the last death, which is spiritual, which shall be
pronounced upon the wicked when I shall say: Depart, ye cursed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:42 But, behold, I say unto you that I,
the Lord God, gave unto Adam and unto his seed, that they should
not die as to the temporal death, until I, the Lord God, should
send forth angels to declare unto them repentance and redemption,
through faith on the name of mine Only Begotten Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:43 And thus did I, the Lord God,
appoint unto man the days of his probation--that by his natural
death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even
as many as would believe;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:44 And they that believe not unto
eternal damnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their
spiritual fall, because they repent not;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:45 For they love darkness rather than
light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of
whom they list to obey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:46 But behold, I say unto you, that
little children are redeemed from the foundation of the world
through mine Only Begotten;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:47 Wherefore, they cannot sin, for
power is not given to Satan to tempt little children, until they
begin to become accountable before me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:48 For it is given unto them even as I
will, according to mine own pleasure, that great things may be
required at the hands of their fathers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:49 And, again, I say unto you, that
whoso having knowledge, have I not commanded to repent?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 29:50 And the that hath no understanding,
it remaineth in me to do according as it is written. And now I
declare no more unto you at this time. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to David Whitmer, Peter Whitmer, Jun., and John
Whitmer, at Fayette, New York, September, 1830, following the
three day's conference at Fayette, but before the Elders of the
Church had separated. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p.
115. --Individual instruction is given, and the fact of Oliver
Cowdery's mission to
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:1 Behold, I say unto you, David, that
you have feared man and have not relied on me for strength as you
ought.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:2 But you mind has been on the things
of the things of the earth more than on the things of me, your
Maker, and the ministry whereunto you have been called; and you
have given heed unto my Spirit, and to those who were set over
you, but have been persuaded by those whom I have not commanded.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:3 Wherefore, you are left to inquire
for yourself at my hand, and ponder upon the things which you
have received.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:4 And your home shall be at your
father's house, until I give unto you further commandments. And
you shall attend to the ministry in the church, and before the
world, and in the regions round about. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:5 Behold, I say unto you, Peter, that
you shall take your journey with your brother Oliver; for the
time has come that it is expedient in me that you shall open your
mouth to declare my gospel; therefore, fear not, but give heed
unto the words and advice of your brother, which he shall give
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:6 And be you afflicted in all his
afflictions, ever lifting up your heart unto me in prayer and
faith, for his and your deliverance; for I have unto him power to
build my church among the Lamanites;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:7 And none have I appointed to be his
counselor over him in the church, concerning church matters,
except it is his brother, Joseph Smith, Jun.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:8 Wherefore, give heed unto these
things and be diligent in keeping my commandments, and you shall
be blessed unto eternal life. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:9 Behold, I say unto you, my servant
John, that thou shalt commence from this time forth to proclaim
my gospel, as with the voice of a trump.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:10 And your labor shall be at your
brother Philip Burroughs', and in that region round about, yea,
wherever you can be heard, until I command you to go from hence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 30:11 And your whole labor shall be in
Zion, with all your soul, from henceforth; yea, you shall ever
open your mouth in my cause, not fearing what man can do, for I
am with you. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Thomas B. Marsh, September, 1830. Thomas B. Marsh
had been baptized earlier in the month, and had already been
ordained an Elder in the church when this revelation was given. -
-Commended for obedience and faithfulness--Assured as to the
welfare of his family--Appointed to preach and administer--
Promised the guidance of the Comforter in his ministry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:1 Thomas, my son, blessed are you,
because of your faith in my work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:2 Behold, you have had many afflictions
because of your family; nevertheless, I will bless you and your
family, yea, your little ones; and they cometh that they will
believe and know the truth and be one with you in my church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:3 Lift up your heart and rejoice, for
the hour of your mission is come; and your tongue shall be
loosed, and you shall declare glad tidings of great joy unto this
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:4 You shall declare the things which
have been revealed to my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun. You shall
begin to preach from this time forth, yea, to reap in the field
which is white already to be burned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:5 Therefore, thrust in your sickle with
all your soul, and your sins are forgiven you, and you shall be
laden with sheaves upon your back, for the laborer is worthy of
his hire. Wherefore, your family shall live.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:6 Behold, verily I say unto you, go
from them only for a little time, and declare my word, and I will
prepare a place for them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:7 Yea, I will open the hearts of the
people, and they will receive you. And I will establish a church
by your hand;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:8 And you shall strengthen them and
prepare them against the time when they shall be gathered.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:9 Be patient in afflictions, revile not
against those that revile. Govern your house in meekness, and be
steadfast.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:10 Behold, I say unto you that you
shall be a physician unto the church, but not unto the world for
they will not receive you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:11 Go your way whithersoever I will,
and it shall be given you by the Comforter what you shall do and
whither you shall go.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:12 Pray always, lest you enter into
temptation and lose your reward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 31:13 Be faithful unto the end, and lo, I
am with you. These words are not of man nor of men, but of me,
even Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, by the will of the Father.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 32:0 Revelation Given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Parley P. Pratt and Ziba Peterson, October, 1830.
Great interest and yearning desires were felt by the Elders
respecting the Lamanites, of whose predicted blessings the Church
had learned from the Book of Mormon. In consequence, supplication
was made that the Lord would indicate his will as to whether
Elders should be sent at that time to the Indian tribes in the
West. The revelation followed. See History of the Church, vol. 1,
p. 118. --The missionaries admonished to confine themselves to
the expounding of the written word, as they shall be given
understanding thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 32:1 And now concerning my servant Parley
P. Pratt, behold, I say unto him that as I live I will that he
shall declare my gospel and learn of me, and be meek and lowly in
heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 32:2 And that which I have appointed unto
him is that he shall go with my servants, Oliver Cowdery and
Peter Whitmer, Jun., into the wilderness among the Lamanites.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 32:3 And Ziba Peterson also shall go with
them; and I myself will go with them and be in their midst; and I
am their advocate with the Father, and nothing shall prevail
against them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 32:4 And they shall give heed to that
which is written, and pretend to no other revelation; and they
shall pray always that I may unfold the same to their
understanding.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 32:5 And they shall give heed unto words
and trifle not, and I will bless them. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Ezra Thayre and Northrop Sweet, at Fayette, New
York, October, 1830. In recording this revelation the Prophet
avers that the Lord is ever ready to instruct such as diligently
seek in faith. --The corrupted state of the world declared--Call
for laborers in the ministry--Bringing forth of the Church from
the wilderness and its establishment by the Lord--Commission of
the Elders to proclaim repentance and baptism--Imminence of the
Lord's coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:1 Behold, I say unto you, my servants
Ezra and Northrop, open ye your ears and hearken to the voice of
the Lord your God, whose word is quick and powerful, sharper than
a two-edged sword, to the dividing asunder of the joints and
marrow, soul and spirit; and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:2 For verily, verily, I say unto you
that ye are called to lift up your voices as with the sound of a
trump, to declare my gospel unto a crooked and perverse
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:3 For behold, the field is white
already to harvest; and it is the eleventh hour, and the last
time that I shall call laborers into my vineyard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:4 And my vineyard has become corrupted
every whit; and there is none which doeth good save it be a few;
and they err in many instances because of priestcrafts, all
having corrupt minds.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:5 And verily, verily, I say unto you,
that this church have I established and called forth out of the
wilderness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:6 And even so will I gather mine elect
from the four quarters of the earth, even as many as will believe
in me, and hearken unto my voice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:7 Yea, verily, verily, I say unto you,
that the field is white already to harvest; wherefore, thrust in
your sickles, and reap with all your might, mind, and strength.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:8 Open your mouths and they shall be
filled, and you shall become even as Nephi of old, who journeyed
from Jerusalem in the wilderness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:9 Yea, open your mouths and spare not,
and you shall be laden with sheaves upon your backs, for lo, I am
with you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:10 Yea, open your mouths and they shall
be filled, saying: Repent, repent, and prepare ye the way of the
Lord, and make his paths straight; for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:11 Yea, repent and be baptized, every
one of you, for a remission of your sins; yea, be baptized even
by water, and then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy
Ghost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:12 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto
you, this is my gospel; and remember that they shall faith in me
or they in nowise can be saved;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:13 And upon this rock I will build my
church; yea, upon this rock ye are built; and if ye continue, the
gates of hell shall not prevail against you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:14 And ye shall remember the church
articles and covenants to keep them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:15 And whoso having faith you shall
confirm in my church, by the laying on of hands, and I will
bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost upon them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:16 and the Book of Mormon and the holy
scriptures are given of me for your instruction; and the power of
my Spirit quickeneth all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:17 Wherefore, be faith, praying always,
having your lamps trimmed and burning, and oil with you, that you
may be ready at the coming of the Bridegroom-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 33:18 For behold, verily, verily, I say
unto you, that I come quickly. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith, the Prophet, to Orson Pratt, at Fayette, New York,
November 4, 1830. The recipient was nineteen years old at the
time. He had been converted and baptized when he first heard the
preaching of the restored Gospel by his brother, Parley P. Pratt,
six weeks before. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 127. --
Commended for obedience--Commanded to preach and to prophesy as
the Holy Ghost shall give utterance--Certainty of the Lord's
advent.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:1 My son Orson, hearken and hear behold
what I, the Lord God, shall say unto you, even Jesus Christ your
Redeemer;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:2 The light and the life of the world,
a light which shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth
it not;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:3 Who so loved the world that he gave
his own life, that as many as would believe might become the sons
of God. Wherefore you are my son;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:4 And blessed are you because you have
believed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:5 And more blessed are you because you
are called of me to preach the gospel-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:6 To lift up your voice as with the
sound of a trump, both long and loud, and cry repentance unto a
crooked and perverse generation, preparing the way of the Lord
for his second coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:7 For behold, verily, verily, I say
unto you, the time is soon at hand that I shall come in a cloud
with power and great glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:8 And it shall be a great day at the
time of my coming, for all nations shall tremble.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:9 But before that great day shall come,
the sun shall be darkened, and the moon be turned into blood; and
the stars shall refuse their shining, and some shall fall, and
great destructions await the wicked.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:10 Wherefore, lift up your voice and
spare not, for the Lord God hath spoken; therefore prophesy, and
it shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:11 And if you are faithful, behold, I
am with you until I come-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 34:12 And verily, verily, I say unto you,
I come quickly. I am your Lord and your Redeemer. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Sidney Rigdon, December, 1830. As a preface to his
record of this revelation the Prophet wrote: In December Sidney
Rigdon came to inquire of the Lord, and with him came Edward
Partridge; the latter was a pattern of piety, and one of the
Lord's great men. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 128. --
How men may become sons of God--Sidney is promised that through
him the Holy Ghost shall be given, as by the Apostles of old--
Directed to assist the Prophet Joseph, and assured of the
eventual redemption of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:1 Listen to the voice of the Lord your
God, even Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, whose
course is one eternal round, the same today as yesterday, and
forever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:2 I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will
believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even
one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father in one in me,
that we may be one.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:3 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto my
servant Sidney, I have looked upon thee and thy works. I have
heard thy prayers, and prepared thee for a greater work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:4 Thou art blessed, for thou shalt do
great things. Behold thou wast sent forth, even as John, to
prepare the way before me, and before Elijah which should come,
and thou knewest it not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:5 Thou didst baptize by water unto
repentance, but they received not the Holy Ghost;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:6 But I give thee a commandment, that
thou shall receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, even
as the apostles of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:7 And it shall come to pass that there
shall be a great work in the land, even among the Gentiles, for
their folly and their abominations shall be made manifest in the
eyes of all people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:8 For I am God, and mine arm is not
shortened; and I will show miracles, signs, and wonders, unto all
those who believe on my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:9 And whoso shall ask it in my name in
faith, they shall cast out devils; they shall heal the sick; they
shall cause the blind to receive their sight, and the deaf to
hear, and the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:10 And the time speedily cometh that
great are to be shown forth unto the children of men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:11 But without faith shall not anything
be shown forth except desolations upon Babylon, the same which
has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:12 And there are none that doeth good
except those who are ready to receive the fullness of my gospel,
which I have sent forth unto this generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:13 Wherefore, I call upon the weak
things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to
thrash the nations by the power of my Spirit;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:14 And their arm shall be my arm, and I
will be their shield and their buckler; I will gird up their
loins, and they shall fight manfully for me; and their enemies
shall be under their feet; and I will let fall the sword in their
behalf, and by the fire of my indignation will I preserve them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:15 And the poor and the meek shall have
the gospel preached unto them, and they shall be looking forth
for the time of my coming, for it is nigh at hand-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:16 And they shall learn the parable of
the fig-tree, for even now already summer is nigh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:17 And I have sent forth the fulness of
my gospel by the hand of servant Joseph; and in weakness I have
blessed him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:18 And I have given unto him the keys
of the mystery of those things which have been sealed, even which
where from the foundation of the world, and the things which
shall come from this time to the time of my coming, if he abide
in me, and if he not, another will I plant in his stead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:19 Wherefore, watch over him that his
faith fail not, and it shall be given by the Comforter, the Holy
Ghost, that knoweth all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:20 And a commandment I give unto thee--
that thou shalt write for him; and the scriptures shall be given,
even as they are in mine own bosom, to the salvation of mine own
elect;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:21 For they will hear my voice, and
shall see me, and shall not be asleep, and shall abide the day of
my coming; for they shall be purified, even as I am pure.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:22 And now I say unto you, tarry with
him, and he shall journey with you; forsake him not, and surely
these things shall be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:23 And inasmuch as ye do not write,
behold, it shall be given unto him to prophesy; and thou shalt
preach my gospel and call on the holy prophets to prove his
words, as they shall be given him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:24 Keep all the commandments and
covenants by which ye are bound; and I will cause the heavens to
shake for your good, and Satan shall tremble and Zion shall
rejoice upon the hills and flourish;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:25 And Israel shall be saved in mine
own due time; and by the keys which I have given shall they be
led, and no more be confounded at all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:26 Lift up your hearts and be glad,
your redemption draweth nigh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 35:27 Fear not, little flock, the kingdom
is yours until I come. Behold, I come quickly. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Edward Partridge, December, 1830. See heading to
Section 35. --The recipient instructed to preach--Every man may
be commissioned in the ministry if he will comply with the Lord's
requirements.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:1 Thus saith the Lord God, the Mighty
One of Israel: Behold, I say unto you, my servant Edward, that
you are blessed, and your sins are forgiven you, and you are
called to preach my gospel as with the voice of a trump;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:2 And I will lay my hand upon you by
the hand of my servant Sidney Rigdon, and you shall receive my
Spirit, the Holy Ghost, even the Comforter, which shall teach you
the peaceable things of the kingdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:3 And you shall declare it with a loud
voice, saying: Hosanna, blessed be the name of the most high God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:4 And now this calling and commandment
give I unto you concerning all men-- 
 

Doctrine and Covenants 36:5 That as many as shall come before my
servants Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith, Jun., embracing this
calling and commandment, shall be ordained and sent forth to
preach the everlasting gospel among the nations-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:6 Crying repentance, saying: Save
yourselves from this untoward generation, and come forth out of
the fire, hating even the garments spotted with the flesh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:7 And this commandment shall be given
unto the elders of my church, that every man which will embrace
it with singleness of heart may be ordained and sent forth, even
as I have spoken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 36:8 I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
wherefore, gird up your loins and I will suddenly come to my
temple. Even So. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 37:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Sidney Rigdon, December, 1830. Herein is given the
first commandment respecting gathering in this dispensation. --
The future migration of the Church westward--Duties of the Elders
in strengthening the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 37:1 Behold, I say unto you that it is not
expedient in me that ye should translate any more until ye shall
go to the Ohio, and this because of the enemy and for your sakes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 37:2 And again, I say unto you that ye
shall not go until ye have preached my gospel in those parts, and
have strengthened up the church whithersoever it is found, and
more especially in Colesville; for, behold, they pray unto me in
much faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 37:3 And again, a commandment I give unto
the church, that it is expedient in me that they should assemble
together at the Ohio, against the time that my servant Oliver
Cowdery shall return unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 37:4 Behold, here is wisdom, and let every
man choose for himself until I come. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Fayette, New York, January 2, 1831, at a
conference of the Church. --Jesus Christ proclaims himself as the
Creator--Doom of the wicked depicted--Goodly inheritance promised
to the righteous--Definite promise of endowment with power from
on high--The riches of eternity extolled--Diligent service
required of every member of the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:1 Thus saith the Lord your God, even
Jesus Christ, the Great I AM, Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the end, the same which looked upon the wide expanse of eternity,
and all the seraphic hosts of heaven, before the world was made;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:2 The same which knoweth all things,
for all things are present before mine eyes;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:3 I am the same which spake, and the
world was made, and all things came by me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:4 I am the same which have taken the
Zion of Enoch into mine own bosom; and verily, I say, even as
many as have believed in my name, for I am Christ, and in mine
own name, by the virtue of the blood which I have spilt, have I
pleaded before the Father for them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:5 But behold, the residue of the wicked
have I kept in chains of darkness until the judgment of the great
day, which shall come at the end of the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:6 And even so will I cause the wicked
to be kept, that will not hear my voice but harden their hearts,
and wo, wo, wo, is their doom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:7 But behold, verily, verily, I say
unto you that mine eyes are upon you. I am in your midst and ye
cannot see me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:8 But the day soon cometh that ye shall
see me, and know that I am; for the veil of darkness shall soon
be rent, and he that is not purified shall not abide the day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:9 Wherefore, gird up your loins and be
prepared. Behold, the kingdom is yours, and the enemy shall not
overcome.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:10 Verily I say unto you, ye are clean,
but not all; and there is none else with whom I am well pleased;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:11 For all flesh is corrupted before
me; and the powers of darkness prevail upon the earth, among the
children of men, in the presence of all the hosts of heaven--
Doctrine and Covenants 38:12 Which causeth silence to reign, and
all eternity is pained, and the angels are waiting the great
command to reap down the earth, to gather the tares that they may
be burned; and, behold, the enemy is combined.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:13 And now I show unto you a mystery, a
thing which is had in secret chambers, to bring to pass even your
destruction in process of time, and ye knew it not;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:14 But now I tell it unto you, and ye
are blessed, not because of your iniquity, neither your hearts of
unbelief; for verily some of you are guilty before me, but I will
be merciful unto your weakness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:15 Therefore, be ye strong from
henceforth; fear not, for the kingdom is yours.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:16 And for your salvation I give unto
you a commandment, for I have heard your prayers, and the poor
have complained before me, and the rich have I made, and all
flesh is mine, and I am no respecter of persons.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:17 And I have made the earth rich, and
behold it is my footstool, wherefore, again I will stand upon it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:18 And I hold forth and deign to give
unto you greater riches, even a land of promise, a land flowing
with milk and honey, upon which there shall be no curse when the
Lord cometh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:19 And I will give it unto you for the
land of your inheritance, if you seek it with all your hearts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:20 And this shall be my covenant with
you, ye shall have it for the land of your inheritance, and for
the inheritance of your children forever, while the earth shall
stand, and ye shall possess it again in eternity, no more to pass
away.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:21 But, verily I say unto you that in
time ye shall have not king nor ruler, for I will be your king
and watch over you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:22 Wherefore, hear my voice and follow
me, and you shall be a free people, and ye shall have no laws but
my laws when I come, for I am your lawgiver, and what can stay my
hand?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:23 But, verily I say unto you, teach
one another according to the office wherewith I have appointed
you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:24 And let every man esteem his brother
as himself, and practise virtue and holiness before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:25 And again I say unto you, let every
man esteem his brother as himself.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:26 For what man among you having twelve
sons, and is no respecter of them, and they serve him obediently,
and he saith unto the one: Be thou clothed in robes and sit thou
hear; and to the other: Be thou clothed in rags and sit thou
there--and looketh upon his sons and saith I am just?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:27 Behold, this I have given unto you
as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you, be one; and
if ye are not one ye are not mine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:28 And again, I say unto you that the
enemy in the secret chambers seeketh your lives.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:29 Ye hear of wars in far countries,
and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries,
but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:30 I tell you these things because of
your prayers; wherefore, treasure up wisdom in your bosoms, lest
the wickedness of men reveal these things unto you by their
wickedness, in a manner which shall speak in your ears with a
voice louder than that which shall shake the earth; but if ye are
prepared ye shall not fear.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:31 And that ye might escape the power
of the enemy, and be gathered unto me a righteous people, without
spot and blameless--Doctrine and Covenants 38:32 Wherefore, for
this cause I gave unto you the commandment that ye should go to
the Ohio; and there I will give unto you law; and there you shall
be endowed with power from on high;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:33 And from thence, whosoever I will
shall go forth among all nations, and it shall be told them what
they shall do; for I have a great work laid up in store, for
Israel shall be saved, and I will lead them whithersoever I will,
and no power shall stay my hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:34 And now, I give unto the church in
these parts a commandment, that certain men among them shall be
appointed, and they shall be appointed by the voice of the
church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:35 And they shall look to the poor and
the needy, and administer to their relief that they shall not
suffer; and send them forth to the place which I have commanded
them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:36 And this shall be their work, to
govern the affairs of the property of this church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:37 And they that have farms that cannot
be sold, let them be left or rented as seemeth them good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:38 See that all things are preserved;
and when men are endowed with power from on high and sent forth,
all these things shall be gathered unto the bosom of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:39 And if ye seek the riches which it
is the will of the Father to give unto you, ye shall be the
richest of all people, for ye shall have the riches of eternity;
and it must needs be that the riches of the earth are mine to
give; but beware of pride, lest ye become as the Nephites of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:40 And again, I say unto you, I give
unto you a commandment, that every man, both elder, priest,
teacher, and also member, go to with his might, with the labor of
his hands, to prepare and accomplish the things which I have
commanded.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:41 And let your preaching be the
warning voice, every man to his neighbor, in mildness and in
meekness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 38:42 And go ye out from among the wicked.
Save yourselves. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to James Covill, at Fayette, New York, January 5,
1831. James Covill covenanted that he would obey any command that
the Lord would give to him through Joseph the Prophet. See
History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 143. --The Lord Jesus Christ
specifies the conditions under which men may become his sons--
James Covill promised blessing beyond all he had ever known,
conditioned on his obedience to the Lord's commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:1 Hearken and listen to the voice of
him who is from all eternity to all eternity, the Great I AM,
even Jesus Christ--Doctrine and Covenants 39:2 The light and the
life of the world; a light which shineth in darkness and the
darkness comprehendeth it not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:3 The same which came in the meridian
of time unto mine own, and mine own received me not;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:4 But to as many as receive me, gave I
power to become my sons; and even so will I give unto as many as
will receive me, power to become my sons.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:5 And verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that receiveth my gospel receiveth me; and he that receiveth
not my gospel receiveth not me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:6 And this is my gospel--repentance and
baptism by water, and then cometh the baptism of fire and the
Holy Ghost, even the Comforter, which showeth all things, and
teacheth the peaceable things of the kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:7 And now, behold, I say unto you, my
servant James, I have looked upon thy works and I know thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:8 And verily I say unto thee, thine
heart is now right before me at this time; and, behold, I have
bestowed great blessings upon thy head;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:9 Nevertheless, thou has seen great
sorrow, for thou hast rejected me many times because of the pride
and the cares of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:10 But, behold, the days of thy
deliverance are come, if thou wilt hearken to my voice, which
saith unto thee: Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
calling on my name, and you shall receive my Spirit, and a
blessing so great as you never have known.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:11 And if thou do this, I have prepared
thee for a greater work. Thou shalt preach the fulness of my
gospel, which I have sent forth in these last days, the covenant
which I have sent forth to recover my people, which are of the
house of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:12 And it shall come to pass that power
shall rest upon thee; thou shalt have great faith, and I will be
with thee and go before thy face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:13 Thou are called to labor in my
vineyard, and to build up my church, and to bring forth Zion,
that it may rejoice upon the hills and flourish.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:14 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto
thee, thou are not called to go into the eastern countries, but
thou art called to go to the Ohio.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:15 And inasmuch as my people shall
assemble themselves at the Ohio, I have kept in store a blessing
such as is not known among the children of men, and it shall be
poured forth upon their heads. And from thence men shall go forth
into all nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:16 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto
you that the people in Ohio call upon me in much faith, thinking
I will stay my hand in judgment upon the nations, but I cannot
deny my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:17 Wherefore lay to with your might and
call faithful laborers into my vineyard, that it may be pruned
for the last time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:18 And inasmuch as they do repent and
receive the fulness of my gospel, and become sanctified, I will
stay mine hand in judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:19 Wherefore, go forth, crying with a
loud voice, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand; crying:
Hosanna! blessed be the name of the Most High God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:20 Go forth baptizing with water,
preparing the way before my face for the time of my coming;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:21 For the time is at hand; the day or
the hour no man knoweth; but it surely shall come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:22 And he that receiveth these things
receiveth me; and they shall be gathered unto me in time and in
eternity.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:23 And again, it shall come to pass
that on as many as ye shall baptize with water, ye shall lay your
hands, and they shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and
shall be looking forth for the signs of my coming, and shall know
me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 39:24 Behold, I come quickly. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 40:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet and Sidney Rigdon, at Fayette, New York, January, 1831.
Preceding the record of this revelation, the Prophet wrote: As
James Covill rejected the word of the Lord, and returned to his
former principles and people, the Lord gave unto me and
 
Doctrine and Covenants 40:1 Behold, verily I say unto you, that
the heart of my servant James Covill was right before me, for he
covenanted with me that he would obey my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 40:2 And he received the word with
gladness, but straightway Satan tempted him; and the fear of
persecution and the cares of the world caused him to reject the
word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 40:3 Wherefore he broke my covenant, and
it remaineth with me to do with him as seemeth me good. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 4, 1831.
The Kirtland brand of the Church at this time was rapidly
increasing in numbers, and the Saints generally wer striving to
live according to the commandments of the Lord; but, the Prophet
states, some strange notions and false spirits had crept in among
them. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 146. --Commandment
regarding the observace of the law of the Lord--Promise of
greater knowledge as to the government of the Church--Edward
Partridge named as the first Bishop unto the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:1 Hearken and hear, O ye my people,
saith the Lord and your God, ye whom I delight to bless with the
greatest of all blessings, ye that hear me; and ye that hear me
not will I curse, that have professed my name, with the heaviest
of all cursings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:2 Hearken, O ye elders of my church
whom I have called, behold I give unto you a commandment, that ye
shall assemble yourselves together to agree upon my word;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:3 And by the prayer of your faith ye
shall receive my law, that ye may know how to govern my church
and have all things right before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:4 And I will be your ruler when I come;
and behold, I come quickly, and ye shall see that my law is kept.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:5 He that receiveth my law and doeth
it, the same is my disciple; and he that saith he receiveth it
and doeth it not, the same is not my disciple, and shall be cast
out from among you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:6 For it is not meet that the things
which belong to the children of the kingdom should be given to
them that are not worthy, or to the dogs, or the pearls to be
cast before swine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:7 And again, it is meet that my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun., should have a house built, in which to live
and translate.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:8 And again, it is meet that my servant
Sidney Rigdon should live as seemeth him good, inasmuch as he
keepeth my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:9 And again, I have called my servant
Edward Partridge; and I give a commandment, that he should be
appointed by the voice of the church, and ordained a bishop unto
the church, to leave his merchandise and to spend all his time in
the labors of the church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:10 To see to all things as it shall be
appointed unto him in my laws in the day that I shall give them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:11 And this because his heart is pure
before me, for he is like unto Nathanael of old, in whom there is
no guile.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 41:12 These words are given unto you, and
they are pure before me; wherefore, beware how you hold them, for
they are to be answered upon your souls in the day of judgment.
Even so. Amen
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 9, 1831, in the presence
of twelve Elders, and in fulfilment of the Lord's promise
previously made; see Section 38:32. The Prophet specifies this
revelation as embracing the law of the Church. --Elders commanded
to go forth two by two westward, preaching and baptizing,
according to the Bible and the Book of Mormon, and according to
the latter-day revelations already given and to be given--Several
commandments comprised in the decalog reiterated--Church members
who commit crimes to be handed over to the law of the land--
Members required to impart of their substance for the needs of
the poor and the building up of the Church--Site of the New
Jerusalem to be revealed later--Pride of heart and costly apparel
forbidden--The idler denounced--Administration to the afflicted
by the laying on of hands of the Elders--Comforting assurance
concerning those who die in the Lord--Sexual sin proclaimed
against--The fundamental principles of Church discipline.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:1 Hearken, O ye elders of my church,
who have assembled yourselves together in my name, even Jesus
Christ the Son of the living God, the Savior of the world;
inasmuch as ye believe on my name and keep my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:2 Again I say unto you, hearken and
hear and obey the law which I shall give unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:3 For verily I say, as ye have
assembled yourselves together according to the commandment
wherewith I commanded you, and are agreed as touching this one
thing, and have asked the Father in my name, even so ye shall
receive.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:4 Behold, verily I say unto you, I give
unto you this first commandment, that ye shall go forth in my
name, every one of you, excepting my servants Joseph Smith, Jun.,
and Sidney Rigdon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:5 And I give unto them a commandment
that they shall go forth for a little season, and it shall be
given by the power of the Spirit when they shall return.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:6 And ye shall go forth in the power of
my Spirit, preaching my gospel, two by two, in my name, lifting
up your voices as with the sound of a trump, declaring my word
like unto angels of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:7 And ye shall go forth baptizing with
water, saying: Repent ye, repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:8 And from this place ye shall go forth
into the regions westward; and inasmuch as ye shall find them
that will receive you ye shall build up my church in every
region-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:9 Until the time shall come when it
shall be revealed unto you from on high, when the city of the New
Jerusalem shall be prepared, that ye may be gathered in one, that
ye may be my people and I will be your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:10 And again, I say unto you, that my
servant Edward Partridge shall stand in the office whereunto I
have appointed him. And it shall come to pass, that if he
transgress another shall be appointed in his stead. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:11 Again I say unto you, that it shall
not be given to any one to go forth to preach my gospel, or to
build up my church, except he be ordained by some one who has
authority, and it is known to the church that he has authority
and has been regularly ordained by the heads of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:12 And again, the elders, priests and
teachers of this church shall teach the principles of my gospel,
which are in the Bible and the Book of Mormon, in which is the
fulness of the gospel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:13 And they shall observe the covenants
and church articles to do them, and these shall be their
teachings, as they shall be directed by the Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:14 And the Spirit shall be given unto
you by the prayer of faith; and if ye receive not the Spirit ye
shall not teach.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:15 And all this ye shall observe to do
as I have commanded concerning your teaching, until the fulness
of my scriptures is given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:16 And as ye shall lift up your voices
by the Comforter, ye shall speak and prophesy as seemeth me good;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:17 For, behold, the Comforter knoweth
all things, and beareth record of the Father and of the Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:18 And now, behold, I speak unto the
church. Thou shalt not kill; and he that kills shall not have
forgiveness in this world, nor in the world to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:19 And again, I say, thou shall not
kill; but he that killeth shall die.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:20 Thou shalt not steal; and he that
stealeth and will not repent shall be cast out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:21 Thou shalt not lie; he that lieth
and will not repent shall be cast out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:22 Thou shalt love thy wife with all
thy heart, and shalt cleave unto her and none else.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:23 And he that looketh upon a woman to
lust after her shall deny the faith, and shall not have the
Spirit; and if he repents not he shall be cast out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:24 Thou shalt not commit adultery; and
he that committeth adultery, and repenteth not, shall be cast
out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:25 But he that has committed adultery
and repents with all his heart, and forsaketh it, and doeth it no
more, thou shalt forgive;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:26 But if he doeth it again, he shall
not be forgiven, but shall be cast out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:27 Thou shalt not speak evil of thy
neighbor; nor do him any harm.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:28 Thou knowest my laws concerning
these things are given in my scriptures; he that sinneth and
repenteth not shall be cast out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:29 If thou lovest me thou shalt serve
me and keep all my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:30 And behold, thou will remember the
poor, and consecrate of thy properties for their support that
which thou has to impart unto them, and a covenant and a deed
which cannot be broken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:31 And inasmuch as ye impart of your
substance unto the poor, ye will do it unto me; and they shall be
laid before the bishop of my church and his counselors, two of
the elders, or high priests, such as he shall appoint or has
appointed and set apart for that purpose.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:32 And it shall come to pass, that
after they are laid before the bishop of my church, and after
that he has received these testimonies concerning the
consecration of the properties of my church, that they cannot be
taken from the church, agreeable to my commandments, every man
shall be made accountable unto me, a steward over his own
property, or that which he has received by consecration, as much
as it sufficient for himself and family.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:33 And again, if there shall be
properties in the hands of the church, or any individuals of it,
more than is necessary for their support after this first
consecration, which is a residue to be consecrated unto the
bishop, it shall be kept to administer to those who have not,
from time to time, that every man who has need may be amply
supplied and receive according to his wants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:34 Therefore, the residue shall be kept
in my storehouse, to administer to the poor and the needy, as
shall be appointed by the high council of the church, and the
bishop and his council;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:35 And for the purpose of purchasing
lands for the public benefit of the church, and building houses
of worship, and building up of the New Jerusalem which is
hearafter to be revealed-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:36 And my covenant people may be
gathered in one in that day when I shall come to my temple, and
this I do for the salvation of my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:37 And it shall come to pass, that he
that sinneth and repenteth not shall be cast out of the church,
and shall not receive again that which he has consecrated unto
the poor and the needy of my church, or in other words, unto me--
Doctrine and Covenants 42:38 For inasmuch as ye do it unto the
least of these, ye do it unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:39 For it shall come to pass, that
which I spake by the mouths of my prophets shall be fulfilled;
for I will consecrate of the riches of those who embrace my
gospel among the Gentiles unto the poor of my people who are of
the house of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:40 And again, thou shalt not be proud
in thy heart; let all thy garments be plain, and their beauty be
the beauty of the work of thine own hands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:41 And let all things be done in
cleanliness before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:42 Thou shalt not be idle; for he that
is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the
laborer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:43 And whosoever among you are sick,
and have not faith to be healed, but believe, shall be nourished
with all tenderness, with herbs and mild food, and that not by
the hand of an enemy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:44 And the elders of the church, two or
more, shall be called, and shall pray for and lay their hands
upon them in my name; and if they die they shall die unto me, and
if they live they shall live unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:45 Thou shalt live together in love,
insomuch that thou shall weep for the loss of them that die, and
more especially of those that have not hope of a glorious
resurrection.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:46 And it shall come to pass that those
that die in me shall not taste of death, for it shall be sweet
unto them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:47 And they that die not in me, wo unto
them, for their death is bitter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:48 And again, it shall come to pass
that he that hath faith in me to be healed, and is not appointed
unto death, shall be healed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:49 He who hath faith to see shall see.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:50 He who hath faith to hear shall
hear.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:51 The lame who hath faith to leap
shall leap.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:52 And they who have not faith to do
these things, but believe in me, have power to become my sons;
and inasmuch as they break not my laws thou shalt bear their
infirmities.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:53 Thou shalt stand in the place of thy
stewardship.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:54 Thou shalt not take thy brother's
garment; thou shalt pay for that which thou shalt receive of thy
brother.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:55 And if thou obtainest more than that
which would be for thy support, thou shalt give it into my
storehouse, that all things may be done according to that which I
have said.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:56 Thou shalt ask, and my scriptures
shall be given as I have appointed, and they shall be preserved
in safety;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:57 And it is expedient that thou
shouldst hold thy peace concerning them, and not teach them until
ye have received them in full.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:58 And I give unto you a commandment
that then ye shall teach them unto all men; for they shall be
taught unto all nations, kindreds, tongues and people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:59 Thou shalt take the things which
thou hast received, which have been given unto thee in my
scriptures for a law, to be my law to govern my church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:60 And he that doeth according to these
things shall be saved, and he that doeth them not shall be damned
if he so continue.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:61 If thou shalt ask, thou shalt
receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge,
that thou mayest know the mysteries and peaceable things--that
which bringeth joy, that which bringeth life eternal.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:62 Thou shalt ask, and it shall be
revealed unto you in my own due time where the New Jerusalem
shall be built.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:63 And behold, it shall come to pass
that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west,
to the north and to the south.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:64 And even now, let him that goeth to
the east teach them that shall be converted to flee to the west,
and this in consequence of that which is coming on the earth, and
of secret combinations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:65 Behold, thou shalt observe all these
things, and great shall be thy reward; for unto you is given to
know the mysteries of the kingdom, but unto the world it is not
given to know them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:66 Ye shall observe the laws which ye
have received and be faithful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:67 And ye shall hereafter receive
church covenants, such as shall be sufficient to establish you,
both here and in the New Jerusalem.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:68 Therefore, he that lacketh wisdom,
let him ask of me, and I will give him liberally and upbraid him
not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:69 Lift up your hearts and rejoice, for
unto you the kingdom, or in other words, the keys of the church
have been given. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:70 The priests and teachers shall have
their stewardships, even as the members.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:71 And the elders or high priests who
are appointed to assist the bishop as counselors in all things,
are to have their families supported out of the property which is
consecrated to the bishop, for the good of the poor, and for
other purposes, as before mentioned;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:72 Or they are to receive a just
remuneration for all their services, either a stewardship or
otherwise, as may be thought best or decided by the counselors
and bishop.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:73 And the bishop, also, shall receive
his support, or as just remuneration for all his services in the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:74 Behold, verily I say unto you, that
whatever persons among you, having put away their companions for
the cause of fornication, or in other words, if they shall
testify before you in all lowliness of heart that this is the
case, ye shall not cast them out from among you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:75 But if ye shall find that any
persons have left their companions for the sake of adultery, and
they themselves are the offenders, and their companions are
living, they shall be cast out from among you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:76 And again, I say unto you, that ye
shall be watchful and careful, and with all inquiry, that ye
receive none such among you if they are married;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:77 And if they are not married, they
shall repent of all their sins or ye shall not receive them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:78 And again, every person who
belongeth to this church of Christ, shall observe to keep all the
commandments and covenants of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:79 And it shall come to pass that if
any persons among you shall kill they shall be delivered up and
dealt with according to the laws of the land; for remember that
he hath no forgiveness; and it shall be proved according to the
laws of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:80 And if any man or woman shall commit
adultery, he or she shall be tried before two elders of the
church, or more, and every word shall be established against him
or her by two witnesses of the church, and not of the enemy; but
if there are more than two witnesses it is better.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:81 But he or she shall be condemned by
the mouth of two witnesses; and the elders shall lay the case
before the church, and the church shall lift up their hands
against him or her, that they may be dealt with according to the
law of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:82 And if it can be, it is necessary
that the bishop be present also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:83 And thus ye shall do in all cases
which shall come before you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:84 And if a man or woman shall rob, he
or she shall be delivered up unto the law of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:85 And if he or she shall steal, he or
she shall be delivered up unto the law of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:86 And if he or she shall lie, he or
she shall be delivered up unto the law of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:87 And if he or she do anything manner
of iniquity, he or she shall be delivered up unto the law, even
that of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:88 And if thy brother or sister offend
thee, thou shalt take him or her between him or her and thee
alone; and if he or she confess thou shalt be reconciled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:89 And if he or she confess not thou
shall deliver him or her up unto the church, not to the members
but to the elders. And it shall be done in a meeting and that not
before the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:90 And if thy brother or sister offend
many, he or she shall be chastened before many.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:91 And if any one offend openly, he or
she shall be rebuked openly, that he or she may be ashamed. And
if he or she confess not, he or she shall be delivered up unto
the law of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:92 And if any shall offend in secret,
he or she shall be rebuked in secret, that he or she may have
opportunity to confess in secret to him or her whom he or she has
offended, and to God, that the church may not speak reproachfully
of him or her.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 42:93 And thus shall ye conduct in all
things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, in February, 1831. At this time
some members of the Church were disturbed by people making false
claims as revelators. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p.
154. --First part of the revelation addressed to the Elders of
the Church--Revelations to the Church given only through the one
appointed to receive such--Elders warned against spurious claims
and false teachings of others--Elders sent forth to teach
according to the spirit of revelation and not to be taught in the
precepts of men--Assurances of the Lord's future advent--
Calamities to precede his coming--Latter part of the revelation
addressed to the nation of the earth--Warning, proclamation, and
commandment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:1 O hearken, ye elders of my church,
and give ear to the words which I shall speak unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:2 For behold, verily, verily, I say
unto you, that ye have received a commandment for a law unto my
church, through him whom I have appointed unto you to receive
commandments and revelations from my hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:3 And this ye shall know assuredly--
that there is none other appointed unto you to receive
commandments and revelations until he be taken, if he abide in
me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:4 But verily, verily, I say unto you,
that none else shall be appointed unto this gift except it be
through him; for if it be taken from him he shall not have power
except to appoint another in his stead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:5 And this shall be a law unto you,
that ye receive not the teachings of any that shall come before
you as revelations or commandments;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:6 And this I give unto you that you may
not be deceived, that you may know they are not of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:7 For verily I say unto you, that he
that is ordained of me shall come in at the gate and be ordained
as I have told you before, to teach those revelations which you
have received and shall receive through him whom I have
appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:8 And now, behold, I give unto you a
commandment, that when ye are assembled together ye shall
instruct and edify each other, that ye may know how to act and
direct my church, how to act upon the points of my law and
commandments, which I have given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:9 And thus ye shall become instructed
in the law of my church, and be sanctified by that which ye have
received, and ye shall bind yourselves to act in all holiness
before me-- 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:10 That inasmuch as ye do this, glory
shall be added to the kingdom which ye have received. Inasmuch as
ye do it not, it shall be taken, even that which ye have
received.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:11 Purge ye out the iniquity which is
among you; sanctify yourselves before me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:12 And if ye desire the glories of the
kingdom, appoint ye my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and uphold him
before me by the prayer of faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:13 And again, I say unto you, that if
ye desire the mysteries of the kingdom, provide for him food and
raiment, and whatsoever thing he needeth to accomplish the work
wherewith I have commanded him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:14 And if ye do it not he shall remain
unto them that have received him, that I may reserve unto myself
a pure people before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:15 Again I say, hearken ye elders of my
church, whom I have appointed: Ye are not sent forth to be
taught, but to teach the children of men the things which I have
put into your hands by the power of my Spirit;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:16 And ye are to be taught from on
high. Sanctify yourselves and ye shall be endowed with power,
that ye may give even as I have spoken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:17 Hearken ye, for behold, the great
day of the Lord is nigh at hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:18 For the day cometh that the Lord
shall utter his voice out of heaven; the heavens shall shake and
the earth shall tremble, and the trump of God shall sound both
long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations: Ye saints
arise and live; ye sinners stay and sleep until I shall call
again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:19 Wherefore gird up your loins lest ye
be found among the wicked.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:20 Lift up your voices and spare not.
Call upon the nations to repent, both old and young, both bond
and free, saying: Prepare yourselves for the great day of the
Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:21 For if I, who am a man, do lift up
my voice and call upon you to repent, and ye hate me, what will
ye say when the day cometh when the thunders shall utter their
voices from the ends of the earth, speaking to the ears of all
that live, saying--Repent, and prepare for the great day of the
Lord?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:22 Yea, and again, when the lightnings
shall streak forth from the east unto the west, and shall utter
forth their voices unto all that live, and make the ears of all
tingle that hear, saying these words--Repent ye, for the great
day of the Lord is come?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:23 And again, the Lord shall utter his
voice out of heaven, saying: Hearken, O ye nations of the earth,
and hear the words of that God who made you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:24 O, ye nations of the earth, how
often would I have gathered you together as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, but ye would not!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:25 How oft have I called upon you by
the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and
by mine own voice, and by the voice of thunderings, and by the
voice of lightnings, and by the voice of tempests, and by the
voice of earthquakes, and great hailstorms, and by the voice of
famines and pestilences of every kind, and by the great sound of
a trump, and by the voice of judgment, and by the voice of mercy
all the day long, and by the voice of glory and honor and the
riches of eternal life, and would have saved you with an
everlasting salvation, but ye would not!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:26 Behold, the day has come, when the
cup of the wrath of mine indignation is full.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:27 Behold, verily I say unto you, that
these are the words of the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:28 Wherefore, labor ye, labor ye in my
vineyard for the last time--for the last time call upon the
inhabitants of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:29 For in mine own due time will I come
upon the earth in judgment, and my people shall be redeemed and
shall reign with me on earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:30 For the great Millennium, of which I
have spoken by the mouth of my servants, shall come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:31 For Satan shall be bound, and when
he is loosed again he shall only reign for a little season, and
then cometh the end of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:32 And he that liveth in righteousness
shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and the earth shall
pass away so as by fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:33 And the wicked shall go away into
unquenchable fire, and their end no man knoweth on earth, nor
ever shall know, until they come before me in judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:34 Hearken ye to these words. Behold, I
am Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. Treasure these things
up in your hearts, and let the solemnities of eternity rest upon
your minds.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 43:35 Be sober. Keep all my commandments.
Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:0 Revelation given to Jospeh Smith the
Prophet and Sidney Rigdon, at Kirtland, Ohio, in the latter part
of February, 1831. In compliance with the requirement herein set
forth the Church appointed a conference to be held early in the
month of June following. --The Elders to assemble to receive
further instruction--To organize according to the laws of the
land, thus strengthening themselves against the machinations of
the opponents.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto you
my servants, it is expedient in me that the elders of my church
should be called together, from the east and from the west, from
the north and from the south, by letter or some other way.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:2 And it shall come to pass, that
inasmuch as they are faithful, and exercise faith in me, I will
pour out my Spirit upon them in the day that they assemble
themselves together.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:3 And it shall come to pass that they
shall go forth into the regions round about, and preach
repentance unto the people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:4 And many shall be converted, insomuch
that ye shall obtain power to organize yourselves according to
the laws of man;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:5 That your enemies may not have power
over you; that you may be preserved in all things; that you may
be enabled to keep my laws; that every bond may be broken
wherewith the enemy seeketh to destroy my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 44:6 Behold, I say unto you, that ye must
visit the poor and the needy and administer to their relief, that
they may be kept until all things may be done according to my law
which ye have received. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, March 7, 1831.
Prefacing his record of this revelation, the Prophet states that
at this age of the Church many false reports and foolish stories
were published and circulated, to prevent people from
investigating the work or embracing the faith. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 158. --Jesus Christ the advocate for His
people with the Father-- Blessed state of Enoch and his people--
Prediction made to the disciples in former days cited--Times of
the Gentiles signalized by the light of the Gospel--In the same
generation the times of the Gentiles to be fulfilled--A
desolating sickness named among the many tribulations preceding
the coming of the Lord in judgment--Significance of the parable
of the fig-trees and that of the ten virgins--Gathering of the
people from the eastern lands into the western countries--Promise
of the establishment of the New Jerusalem--Eventual triumph of
Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:1 Hearken, O ye people of my church, to
whom the kingdom has been given; hearken ye and give to him who
laid the foundation of the earth, who made the heavens and all
the hosts thereof, and by whom all things were made which live,
and move, and have a being.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:2 And again I say, hearken unto my
voice, lest death shall overtake you; in an hour when ye think
not the summer shall be past, and the harvest ended, and your
souls not saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:3 Listen to him who is the advocate
with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:4 Saying: Father, behold the sufferings
and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased;
behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom
thou gavest that thyself might be glorified;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:5 Wherefore, Father, spare these my
brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and
have everlasting life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:6 Hearken, O ye people of my church,
and ye elders listen together, and hear my voice while it is
called today, and harden not your hearts;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:7 For verily I say unto you that I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the light and the
life of the world--a light that shineth in darkness and the
darkness comprehendeth it not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:8 I came unto mine own, and mine own
received me not; but unto as many as received me gave I power to
do many miracles, and to become the sons of God; and even unto
them that believed on my name gave I power to obtain eternal
life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:9 And even so I have sent mine
everlasting covenant into the world, to be a light to the world,
and to be a standard for my people, and for the Gentiles to seek
to it, and to be a messenger before my face to prepare the way
before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:10 Wherefore, come ye unto it, and with
him that cometh I will reason as with men in days of old, and I
will show unto you my strong reasoning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:11 Wherefore, hearken ye together and
let me show unto you even my wisdom--the wisdom of him whom ye
say is the God of Enoch, and his brethren,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:12 Who were separated from the earth,
and were received unto myself--a city reserved until a day of
righteousness shall come--a day which was sought for by all holy
men, and when they found it not because of wickedness and
abominations;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:13 And confessed they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:14 But obtained a promise that they
should find it and see it in their flesh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:15 Wherefore, hearken and I will reason
with you, and I will speak unto you and prophesy, as unto men in
days of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:16 And I will show it plainly as I
showed it unto my disciples as I stood before them in the flesh,
and spake unto them, saying: As ye have asked of me concerning
the signs of my coming, in the day when I shall come in my glory
in the clouds of heaven, to fulfil the promises that I have made
unto your fathers,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:17 For as ye have looked upon the long
absence of your spirits from your bodies to be a bondage, I will
show unto you how the day of redemption shall come, and also the
restoration of the scattered Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:18 And now ye behold this temple which
is in Jerusalem, which ye call the house of God, and your enemies
say that this house shall never fall.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:19 But, verily I say unto you, that
desolation shall come upon this generation as a thief in the
night, and this people shall be destroyed and scattered among all
nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:20 And this temple which ye now see
shall be thrown down that there shall not be left one stone upon
another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:21 And it shall come to pass, that this
generation of Jews shall not pass away until every desolation
which I have told you concerning them shall come to pass.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:22 Ye say that ye know that the end of
the world cometh; ye say also that ye know that the heavens and
the earth shall pass away;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:23 And in this ye say truly, for so it
is; but these things which I have told you shall not pass away
until all shall be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:24 And this I have told you concerning
Jerusalem; and when that day shall come, shall a remnant be
scattered among all nations;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:25 But they shall be gathered again;
but they shall remain until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:26 And in that day shall be heard of
wars and rumors of wars, and the whole earth shall be commotion,
and mens' hearts shall fail them, and they shall say that Christ
delayeth his coming until the end of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:27 And the love of men shall wax cold,
and iniquity shall abound.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:28 And when the times of the Gentiles
is come in, as light shall break forth among them that sit in
darkness, and it shall be the fulness of my gospel;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:29 But they receive it not; for they
perceive not the light, and they turn their hearts from me
because of the precepts of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:30 And in that generation shall the
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:31 And there shall be men standing in
that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an
overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the
land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:32 But my disciples shall stand in holy
places, and shall not be moved; but among the wicked, men shall
lift up their voices and curse God and die.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:33 And there shall be earthquakes also
in divers places, and many desolations; yet men will harden their
hearts against me, and they will take up the sword, one against
another, and they will kill one another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:34 And now, when I the Lord had spoken
these words unto my disciples, they were troubled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:35 And I said unto them: be not
troubled, for, when all these things shall come to pass, ye may
know that the promises which have been made unto you shall be
fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:36 And when the light shall begin to
break forth, it shall be with them like unto a parable which I
will show you--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:37 Ye look and behold the figtrees, and
ye see them with your eyes, and ye say when they begin to shoot
forth, and their leaves are yet tender, that the summer is now
nigh at hand;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:38 Even so it shall be in that day when
they shall see all these things, then shall they know that the
hour is nigh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:39 And it shall come to pass that he
that feareth me shall be looking forth for the great day of the
Lord to come, even for the signs of the coming of the Son of Man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:40 And they shall see signs and
wonders, for they shall be shown forth in the heavens above, and
in the earth beneath.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:41 And they shall behold blood, and
fire, and vapors of smoke.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:42 And before the day of the Lord shall
come, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon be turned into
blood, and the stars fall from heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:43 And the remnant shall be gathered
unto this place;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:44 And then they shall look for me,
and, behold, I will come; and they shall see me in the clouds of
heaven, clothed with power and great glory; with all the holy
angels; and he that watches not for me shall be cut off.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:45 But before the arm of the Lord shall
fall, an angel shall sound his trump, and the saints that have
slept shall come forth to meet me in the cloud.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:46 Wherefore, if ye have slept in peace
blessed are you; for as you now behold me and know that I am,
even so shall ye come unto me and your souls shall live, and your
redemption shall be perfected; and the saints shall come forth
from the four quarters of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:47 Then shall the arm of the Lord fall
upon the nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:48 And then shall the Lord set his foot
upon this mount, and it shall cleave in twain, and the earth
shall tremble, and reel to and fro, and the heavens also shall
shake.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:49 And the Lord shall utter his voice,
and all the ends of the earth shall hear it; and the nations of
the earth shall mourn, and they that have laughed shall see their
folly.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:50 And calamity shall cover the mocker,
and the scorner shall be consumed; and they that have watched for
iniquity shall be hewn down and cast into the fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:51 And then shall the Jews look upon me
and say: What are these wounds in thine hands and in thy feet?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:52 They shall then know that I am the
Lord; for I will say unto them: These wounds are the wounds with
which I was wounded in the house of my friends. I am he who was
lifted up. I am Jesus that was crucified. I am the Son of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:53 And then shall they weep because of
their iniquities; then shall they lament because they persecuted
their king.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:54 And then shall the heathen nations
be redeemed, and they that knew no law shall have a part in the
first resurrection; and it shall be tolerable for them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:55 And Satan shall be bound, that he
shall have no place in the hearts of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:56 And in that day, when I shall come
in my glory, shall the parable be fulfilled which I spake
concerning the ten virgins.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:57 For they that are wise and have
received the truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for their
guide, and have not been deceived--verily I say unto you, they
shall not be hewn down and cast into the fire, but shall abide
the day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:58 And the earth shall be given unto
them for an inheritance; and they shall multiply and wax strong,
and their children shall grow up without sin unto salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:59 For the Lord shall be in their
midst, and his glory shall be upon them, and he will be their
king and their lawgiver.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:60 And now, behold, I say unto you, it
shall not be given unto you to know any further concerning this
chapter, until the New Testament be translated, and in it all
these things shall be made known;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:61 Wherefore I give unto you that ye
may now translate it, that ye may be prepared for the things to
come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:62 For verily I say unto you, that
great things await you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:63 Ye hear of wars in foreign lands;
but, behold, I say unto you, they are nigh, even at your doors,
and not many years hence ye shall hear of wars in your own lands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:64 Wherefore I, the Lord have said,
gather ye out from the eastern lands, assemble ye yourselves
together ye elders of my church; go ye forth into the western
countries, call upon the inhabitants to repent, and inasmuch as
they do repent, build up churches unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:65 And with one heart and with one
mind, gather up your riches that ye may purchase an inheritance
which shall hereafter be appointed unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:66 And it shall be called the New
Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety
for the saints of the Most High God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:67 And the glory of the Lord shall be
there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be there, insomuch
that the wicked will not come unto it, and it shall be called
Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:68 And it shall come to pass among the
wicked, that every man that will not take his sword against his
neighbor must needs flee into Zion for safety.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:69 And there shall be gathered unto it
out of every nation under heaven; and it shall be the only people
that shall not be at war one with another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:70 And it shall be said among the
wicked: Let us not go up to battle against Zion, for the
inhabitants of Zion are terrible; wherefore we cannot stand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:71 And it shall come to pass that the
righteous shall be gathered out from among all nations, and shall
come to Zion, singing with songs of everlasting joy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:72 And now, I say unto you, keep these
things from going abroad unto the world until it is expedient in
me, that ye may accomplish this work in the eyes of your enemies,
that they may not know your works until ye have accomplished the
thing which I have commanded you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:73 That when they shall know it, that
they may consider these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:74 For when the Lord shall appear he
shall be terrible unto them, that fear may seize upon them, and
they shall stand afar off and tremble.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 45:75 And all the nations shall be afraid
because of the terror of the Lord and the power of his might.
Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8 1831. A
custom of admitting to the sacrament meetings and other
assemblies of the Church only members and earnest investigators
had become somewhat general. See History of the Church, vol. 1,
p. 163. --Meetings of the Church to be conducted as the Holy
Spirit shall guide-- Neither members nor earnest seekers after
the truth to be excluded from sacramental services--Many of the
gifts of the Holy Spirit enumerated--Power of discernment
promised so that manifestations not inspired by the Spirit of God
may be recognized.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:1 Hearken, O ye people of my church;
for verily I say unto you that these things were spoken unto you
for your profit and learning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:2 But notwithstanding those things
which are written, it always has been given to the elders of my
church from the beginning, and ever shall be, to conduct all
meetings as they are directed and guided by the Holy Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:3 Nevertheless ye are commanded never
to cast any one out from your public meetings, which are held
before the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:4 Ye are also commanded not to cast any
one who belongeth to the church out of your sacrament meetings;
nevertheless, if any have trespassed, let him not partake until
he makes reconciliation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:5 And again I say unto you, ye shall
not cast any out of your sacrament meetings who are earnestly
seeking the kingdom--I speak this concerning those who are not of
the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:6 And again I say unto you, concerning
your confirmation meetings, that if there be any that are not of
the church, that are earnestly seeking after the kingdom, ye
shall not cast them out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:7 But ye are commanded in all things to
ask of God, who giveth liberally; and that which the Spirit
testifies unto you even so I would that ye should do in all
holiness of heart, walking uprightly before me, considering the
end of your salvation, doing all things with prayer and
thanksgiving, that ye may not be seduced by evil spirits, or
doctrines of devils, or the commandments of men; for some are of
men, and others of devils.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:8 Wherefore, beware lest ye are
deceived; and that ye may not be deceived seek ye earnestly the
best gifts, always remembering for what they are given;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:9 For verily I say unto you, they are
given for the benefit of those who love me and keep all my
commandments, and him that seeketh so to do; that all may be
benefited that seek or that ask of me, that ask and not for a
sign that they may consume it upon their lusts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:10 And again, verily I say unto you, I
would that ye should always remember, and always retain in your
minds what those gifts are, that are given unto the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:11 For all have not every gift given
unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every man is given a
gift by the Spirit of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:12 To some is given one, and to some is
given another, that all may be profited thereby.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:13 To some it is given by the Holy
Ghost to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he
was crucified for the sins of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:14 To others it is given to believe on
their words, that they also might have eternal life if they
continue faithful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:15 And again, to some it is given by
the Holy Ghost to know the differences of administration, as it
will be pleasing unto the same Lord, according as the Lord will,
suiting his mercies according to the conditions of the children
of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:16 And again, it is given by the Holy
Ghost to some to know the diversities of operations, whether they
be of God, that the manifestations of the Spirit may be given to
every man to profit withal.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:17 And again, verily I say unto you, to
some is given, by the Spirit of God, the word of wisdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:18 To another is given the word of
knowledge, that all may be taught to be wise and to have
knowledge.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:19 And again, to some it is given to
have faith to be healed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:20 And to others it is given to have
faith to heal.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:21 And again, to some is given the
working of miracles;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:22 And to others it is given to
prophesy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:23 And to others the discerning of
spirits.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:24 And again, it is given to some to
speak with tongues;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:25 And to another is given the
interpretation of tongues.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:26 And all these gifts come from God,
for the benefit of the children of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:27 And unto the bishop of the church,
and unto such as God shall appoint and ordain to watch over the
church and to be elders unto the church, are to have it given
unto them to discern all those gifts lest there shall be any
among you professing and yet not be of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:28 And it shall come to pass that he
that asketh in the Spirit shall receive in the Spirit;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:29 That unto some it may be given to
have all those gifts, that there may be a head, in order that
every member may be profited thereby.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:30 He that asketh in the Spirit asketh
according to the will of God; wherefore it is done even as he
asketh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:31 And again, I say unto you, all
things must be done in the name of Christ, whatsoever you do in
the Spirit;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:32 And ye must give thanks unto God in
the Spirit for whatsoever blessing ye are blessed with.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 46:33 And ye must practice virtue and
holiness before me continually. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 47:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1831. Prior to this time
Oliver Cowdery had acted as Church historian and recorder. John
Whitmer had not sought an appointment as historian, but, being
desired to serve in this capacity had said that he would obey the
will of the Lord in the matter. See History of the Church, vol.
1, p. 166. --John Whitmer designated as the keeper of the history
of the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 47:1 Behold, it is expedient in me that my
servant John should write and keep a regular history, and assist
you, my servant Joseph, in transcribing all things which shall be
given you, until he is called to further duties.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 47:2 Again, verily I say unto you that he
can also lift up his voice in meetings, whenever it shall be
expedient.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 47:3 And again, I say unto you that it
shall be appointed unto him to keep the church record and history
continually; for Oliver Cowdery I have appointed to another
office.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 47:4 Wherefore, it shall be given him,
inasmuch as he is faithful, by the Comforter, to write these
things. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, March, 1831. Joseph had inquired
of the Lord as to the mode of procedure in procuring lands for
the settlement of the Saints, this being an important matter in
view of the mogration of members of the Church from New York
State, in obedience to the Lord's command that they should
assemble in Ohio. --The people already established in Ohio to
share their holdings with new arrivals--Lands to be purchased as
required--The people to follow the counsel of their presiding
officers in the matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:1 It is necessary that ye should remain
for the present time in your places of abode, as it shall be
suitable to your circumstances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:2 And inasmuch as ye have lands, ye
shall impart to the eastern brethren;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:3 And inasmuch as ye have not lands,
let them buy for the present time in those regions round about,
as seemeth them good, for it must needs be necessary that they
have places to live for the present time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:4 It must needs be necessary that ye
save all the money that ye can, and that ye obtain all the money
ye can in righteousness, that in time ye may be enabled to
purchase land for an inheritance, even the city.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:5 The place is not yet to be revealed;
but after your brethren come from the east there are to be
certain men appointed, and to them it shall be given to know the
place, or to them it shall be revealed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 48:6 And they shall be appointed to
purchase the lands, and to make a commencement to lay the
foundation of the city; and then shall ye begin to be gathered
with your families, every man according to his family, according
to his circumstances, and as is appointed to him by the
presidency and the bishop of the church, according to the laws
and commandments which ye have received, and which ye shall
hereafter receive. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt and Leman Copley,
at Kirtland, Ohio, March, 1831. See History of the Church, vol.
1, p. 167. Leman Copley had embraced the Gospel, but still held
to some of the teachings of the Shakers, or Shaking Quakers, of
whom he had formerly been one. Many of these people were honest-
hearted, and the Lord directed his servants to labor amongst
them. --Exact time of the Lord's advent not to be revealed prior
to the great event--Sanctity of marriage as a low of God unto
man--Complete abstinence from meat not required--Development of
Lamanites and establishment of Zion to precede the coming of the
great day of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:1 Hearken unto my word, my servants
Sidney, and Parley, and Leman; for behold, verily I say unto you,
that I give unto you a commandment that you shall go and preach
my gospel which ye have received, even as ye have received it,
unto the Shakers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:2 Behold, I say unto you, that they
desire to know the truth in part, but not all, for they are not
right before me and must needs repent.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:3 Wherefore, I send you, my servants
Sidney and Parley, to preach the gospel unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:4 And my servant Leman shall be
ordained unto this work, that he may reason with them, not
according to that which he has received of them, but according to
that which shall be taught him by you my servants; and by so
doing I will bless him, otherwise he shall not prosper.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:5 Thus saith the Lord; for I am God,
and have sent mine Only Begotten Son into the world for the
redemption of the world, and have decreed that he that receiveth
him shall be saved, and he that receiveth him not shall be
damned--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:6 And they have done unto the Son of
Man even as they listed; and he has taken his power on the right
hand of his glory, and now reigneth in the heavens, and will
reign till he descends on the earth to put all enemies under his
feet, which time is nigh at hand--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:7 I, the Lord God, have spoken it; but
the hour and the day no man knoweth, neither the angels in
heaven, nor shall they know until he comes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:8 Wherefore, I will that all men shall
repent, for all are under sin, except those which I have reserved
unto myself, holy men that ye know not of.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:9 Wherefore, I say unto you that I have
sent unto you mine everlasting covenant, even that which was from
the beginning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:10 And that which I have promised I
have so fulfilled, and the nations of the earth shall bow to it;
and, if not of themselves, they shall come down, for that which
is now exalted of itself shall be laid low of power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:11 Wherefore, I give unto you a
commandment that ye go among this people, and say unto them, like
unto mine apostle of old, whose name was Peter:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:12 Believe on the name of the Lord
Jesus, who was on the earth, and is to come, the beginning and
the end;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:13 Repent and be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ, according to the holy commandment, for the
remission of sins;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:14 And whoso doeth this shall receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost, by the laying on of the hands of the
elders of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:15 And again, verily I say unto you,
that whoso forbiddeth to marry is not ordained of God, for
marriage is ordained of God unto man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:16 Wherefore, it is lawful that he
should have one wife, and they twain shall be one flesh, and all
this that the earth might answer the end of its creation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:17 And that it might be filled with the
measure of men, according to his creation before the world was
made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:18 And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from
meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:19 For, behold, the beasts of the field
and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth, is
ordained for the use of man for food and for raiment, and that he
might have in abundance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:20 But it is not given that one man
should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world
lieth in sin.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:21 And wo be unto man that sheddeth
blood or that wasteth flesh and hath no need.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:22 And again, verily I say unto you,
that the Son of Man cometh not in the form of a woman, neither of
a man traveling on the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:23 Wherefore, be not deceived, but
continue in steadfastness, looking forth for the heavens to be
shaken, and the earth to tremble and to reel to and fro as a
drunken man, and for the valleys to be exalted, and for the
mountains to be made low, and for the rough places to become
smooth--and all this when the angel shall sound his trumpet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:24 But before the great day of the Lord
shall come, Jacob shall flourish in the wilderness, and the
Lamanites shall blossom as the rose.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:25 Zion shall flourish upon the hills
and rejoice upon the mountains, and shall be assembled together
unto the place which I have appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:26 Behold, I say unto you, go forth as
I have commanded you; repent of all your sins; ask and ye shall
receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:27 Behold, I will go before you and be
your rearward; and I will be in your midst, and you shall not be
confounded.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 49:28 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, and I
come quickly. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, May, 1831. The Prophet states
that some of the Elders present did not understand the
manifestations of different spirits abroad in the earth, and that
this revelation was given in response to his special inquiry on
the matter. So-called spiritual phenomena were not uncommon among
the members, some of whom claimed to be receiving visions and
revelations. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 170. --False
spirits deceiving the world--Means by which they may be detected-
-Between their manifestations and those of the Spirit of the Lord
there is difference as between light and darkness--Special
service required of certain Elders--Greater knowledge promised as
the people shall grow in grace and truth--The Lord is the Good
Shepherd and the Stone of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:1 Hearken, O ye elders of my church,
and give ear to the voice of the living God; and attend to the
words of wisdom which shall be given unto you, according as ye
have asked and are agreed as touching the church, and the spirits
which have gone abroad in the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:2 Behold, verily I say unto you, that
there are many spirits which are false spirits, which have gone
forth in the earth, deceiving the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:3 And also Satan hath sought to deceive
you, that he might overthrow you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:4 Behold, I, the Lord, have looked upon
you, and have seen abominations in the church that profess my
name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:5 But blessed are they who are faithful
and endure, whether in life or in death, for they shall inherit
eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:6 But wo unto them that are deceivers
and hypocrites, for, thus saith the Lord, I will bring them to
judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:7 Behold, verily I say unto you, there
are hypocrites among you, who have deceived some, which has given
the adversary power; but behold such shall be reclaimed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:8 But the hypocrites shall be detected
and shall be cut off, either in life or in death, even as I will;
and wo unto them who are cut off from my church, for the same are
overcome of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:9 Wherefore, let every man beware lest
he do that which is not in truth and righteousness before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:10 And now come, saith the Lord, by the
Spirit, unto the elders of his church, and let us reason
together, that ye may understand;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:11 Let us reason even as a man
reasoneth one with another face to face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:12 Now, when a man reasoneth he is
understood of man, because he reasoneth as a man; even so will I,
the Lord, reason with you that you may understand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:13 Wherefore, I the Lord ask you this
question--unto what were ye ordained?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:14 To preach my gospel by the Spirit,
even the Comforter which was sent forth to teach the truth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:15 And then received ye spirits which
ye could not understand, and received them to be of God; and in
this are ye justified?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:16 Behold ye shall answer this question
yourselves; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto you; he that is
weak among you hereafter shall be made strong.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:17 Verily I say unto you, he that is
ordained of me and sent forth to preach the word of truth by the
Comforter, in the Spirit of truth, doth he preach it by the
Spirit of truth or some other way?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:18 And if it be by some other way it is
not of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:19 And again, he that receiveth the
word of truth, doth he receive it by the Spirit of truth or some
other way?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:20 If it be some other way it is not of
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:21 Therefore, why is it that ye cannot
understand and know, that he that receiveth the word by the
Spirit of truth receiveth it as it is preached by the Spirit of
truth?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:22 Wherefore, he that preacheth and he
that receiveth, understand one another, and both are edified and
rejoice together.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:23 And that which doth not edify is not
of God, and is darkness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:24 That which is of God is light; and
he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more
light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the
perfect day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:25 And again, verily I say unto you,
and I say it that you may know the truth, that you may chase
darkness from among you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:26 He that is ordained of God and sent
forth, the same is appointed to be the greatest, notwithstanding
he is the least and the servant of all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:27 Wherefore, he is possessor of all
things; for all things are subject unto him, both in heaven and
on the earth, the life and the light, the Spirit and the power,
sent forth by the will of the Father through Jesus Christ, his
Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:28 But no man is possessor of all
things except he be purified and cleansed from all sin.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:29 And if ye are purified and cleansed
from all sin, ye shall ask whatsoever you will in the name of
Jesus and it shall be done.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:30 But know this, it shall be given you
what you shall ask; and as ye are appointed to the head, the
spirits shall be subject unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:31 Wherefore, it shall come to pass,
that if you behold a spirit manifested that you cannot
understand, and you receive not that spirit, ye shall ask of the
Father in the name of Jesus; and if he give not unto you that
spirit, then you may know that it is not of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:32 And it shall be given unto you,
power over that spirit; and you shall proclaim against that
spirit with a loud voice that it is not of God--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:33 Not with railing accusation, that ye
be not overcome, neither with boasting nor rejoicing, lest you be
seized therewith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:34 He that receiveth of God, let him
account it of God; and let him rejoice that he is accounted of
God worthy to receive.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:35 And by giving heed and doing these
things which ye have received, and which ye shall hereafter
receive--and the kingdom is given you of the Father, and power to
overcome all things which are not ordained of him--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:36 And behold, verily I say unto you,
blessed are you who are now hearing these words of mine from the
mouth of my servant, for your sins are forgiven you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:37 Let my servant Joseph Wakefield, in
whom I am well pleased, and my servant Parley P. Pratt go forth
among the churches and strengthen them by the word of
exhortation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:38 And also my servant John Corrill, or
as many of my servants as are ordained unto this office, and let
them labor in the vineyard; and let no man hinder them doing that
which I have appointed unto them--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:39 Wherefore, in this thing my servant
Edward Partridge is not justified; nevertheless let him repent
and he shall be forgiven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:40 Behold, ye are little children and
ye cannot bear all things now; ye must grow in grace and in the
knowledge of the truth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:41 Fear not, little children, for you
are mine, and I have overcome the world, and you are of them that
my Father hath given me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:42 And none of them that my Father hath
given me shall be lost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:43 And the Father and I are one. I am
in the Father and the Father in me; and inasmuch as ye have
received me, ye are in me and I in you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:44 Wherefore, I am in your midst, and I
am the good shepherd, and the stone of Israel. He that buildeth
upon this rock shall never fall.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:45 And the day cometh that you shall
hear my voice and see me, and know that I am.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 50:46 Watch, therefore, that ye may be
ready. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Thompson, Ohio, May, 1831. At this time the
Saints migrating from the State of New York began to arrive in
Ohio; and it became necessary to make definite arrangements for
their settlement. As this undertaking belonged particularly to
the bishop's office, Bishop Edward Partridge sought instruction
on the matter; and the Prophet inquired of the Lord. See History
of the Church, vol. 1, p. 173. --Provision made for the allotment
of property to the immigrant members--Care and proper use of
moneys and other possessions--Gathering place in Ohio consecrated
to the Church for a little season only.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:1 Hearken unto me, saith the Lord your
God, and I will speak unto my servant Edward Partridge, and give
unto him directions; for it must needs be that he receive
directions how to organize this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:2 For it must needs be that they be
organized according to my laws; if otherwise, they will be cut
off.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:3 Wherefore, let my servant Edward
Partridge, and those whom he has chosen, in whom I am well
pleased, appoint unto this people their portions, every man equal
according to his family, according to his circumstances and his
wants and needs.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:4 And let my servant Edward Partridge,
when he shall appoint a man his portion, give unto him a writing
that shall secure unto him his portion, that he shall hold it,
even this right and this inheritance in the church, until he
transgress and is not accounted worthy by the voice of the
church, according to the laws and covenants of the church to
belong to the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:5 And if he shall transgress and is not
accounted worthy to belong to the church, he shall not have power
to claim that portion which he has consecrated unto the bishop
for the poor and needy of my church; therefore, he shall not
retain the gift, but shall only have claim on that portion that
is deeded unto him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:6 And thus all things shall be made
sure, according to the laws of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:7 And let that which belongs to this
people be appointed unto this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:8 And the money which is left unto this
people--let there be an agent appointed unto this people, to take
the money to provide food and raiment, according to the wants of
this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:9 And let every man deal honestly, and
be alike among this people, and receive alike, that ye may be
one, even as I have commanded you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:10 And let that which belongeth to this
people not be taken and given unto that of another church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:11 Wherefore, if another church would
receive money of this church, let them pay unto this church again
according as they shall agree;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:12 And this shall be done through the
bishop or the agent, which shall be appointed by the voice of the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:13 And again, let the bishop appoint a
storehouse unto his church; and let all things both in money and
in meat, which are more than is needful for the wants of this
people, be kept in the hands of the bishop.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:14 And let him also reserve unto
himself for his own wants, and for the wants of his family, as he
shall be employed in doing this business.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:15 And thus I grant unto this people a
privilege of organizing themselves according to my laws.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:16 And I consecrate unto them this land
for a little season, until I, the Lord, shall provide for them
otherwise, and command them to go hence;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:17 And the hour and the day is not
given unto them, wherefore let them act upon this land as for
years, and this shall turn unto them for their good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:18 Behold, this shall be an example
unto my servant Edward Partridge, in other places, in all
churches.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:19 And whoso is found a faithful, a
just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord,
and shall inherit eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 51:20 Verily, I say unto you, I am Jesus
Christ, who cometh quickly, in an hour you think not. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to the Elders of the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, June
7, 1831. A conference had been held at Kirtland, beginning on the
3rd, and closing on the 6th. At this conference the first
distinctive ordinations to the office of High Priest were made;
and certain manifestations of false and deceiving spirits were
discerned and rebuked. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 175.
--Missouri designated as the place for the next succeeding
conference--Elders named with their respective appointments to
travel two by two, preaching and baptizing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto the
elders whom he hath called and chosen in these last days, by the
voice of his Spirit--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:2 Saying: I, the Lord, will make known
unto you what I will that ye shall do from this time until the
next conference, which shall be held in Missouri, upon the land
which I will consecrate unto my people, which are a remnant of
Jacob, and those who are heirs according to the covenant.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:3 Wherefore, verily I say unto you, let
my servants Joseph Smith, Jun, and Sidney Rigdon take their
journey as soon as preparations can be made to leave their homes,
and journey to the land of Missouri.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:4 And inasmuch as they are faithful
unto me, it shall be made known unto them what they shall do;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:5 And it shall also, inasmuch as they
are faithful, be made known unto them the land of your
inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:6 And inasmuch as they are not
faithful, they shall be cut off, even as I will, as seemeth me
good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:7 And again, verily I say unto you, let
my servant Lyman Wight and my servant John Corrill take their
journey speedily;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:8 And also my servant John Murdock, and
my servant Hyrum Smith, take their journey unto the same place by
the way of Detroit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:9 And let them journey from thence
preaching the word by the way, saying none other things than that
which the prophets and apostles have written, and that which is
taught them by the Comforter through the prayer of faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:10 Let them go two by two, and thus let
them preach by the way in every congregation, baptizing by water,
and the laying on of the hands by the water's side.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:11 For thus saith the Lord, I will cut
my work short in righteousness, for the days come that I will
send forth judgment unto victory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:12 And let my servant Lyman Wight
beware, for Satan desireth to sift him as chaff.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:13 And behold, he that is faithful
shall be made ruler over many things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:14 And again, I will give unto you a
pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived; for Satan is
abroad in the land, and he goeth forth deceiving the nations--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:15 Wherefore he that prayeth, whose
spirit is contrite, the same is accepted of me if he obey mine
ordinances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:16 He that speaketh, whose spirit is
contrite, whose language is meek and edifieth, the same is of God
if he obey mine ordinances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:17 And again, he that trembleth under
my power shall be made strong, and shall bring forth fruits of
praise and wisdom, according to the revelations and truths which
I have given you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:18 And again, he that is overcome and
bringeth not forth fruits, even according to this pattern, is not
of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:19 Wherefore, by this pattern ye shall
know the spirits in all cases under the whole heavens.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:20 And the days have come; according to
men's faith it shall be done unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:21 Behold, this commandment is given
unto all the elders whom I have chosen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:22 And again, verily I say unto you,
let my servant, Thomas B. Marsh and my servant Ezra Thayre take
their journey also, preaching the word by the way unto this same
land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:23 And again, let my servant Isaac
Morley and my servant Ezra Booth take their journey, also
preaching the word by the way unto this same land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:24 And again, let my servants Edward
Partridge and Martin Harris take their journey with my servants
Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith, Jun.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:25 Let my servants David Whitmer and
Harvey Whitlock also take their journey, and preach by the way
unto this same land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:26 And let my servants Parley P. Pratt
and Orson Pratt take their journey, and preach by the way, even
unto this same land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:27 And let my servants Solomon Hancock
and Simeon Carter also take their journey unto this same land,
and preach by the way.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:28 Let my servants Edson Fuller and
Jacob Scott also take their journey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:29 Let my servants Levi W. Hancock and
Zebedee Coltrin also take their journey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:30 Let my servants Reynolds Cahoon and
Samuel H. Smith also take their journey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:31 Let my servants Wheeler Baldwin and
William Carter also take their journey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:32 And let my servants Newel Knight and
Selah J. Griffin both be ordained, and also take their journey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:33 Yea, verily I say, let all these
take their journey unto one place, in their several courses, and
one man shall not build upon another's foundation, neither
journey in another's track.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:34 He that is faithful, the same shall
be kept and blessed with much fruit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:35 And again, I say unto you, let my
servants Joseph Wakefield and Solomon Humphrey take their journey
into the eastern lands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:36 Let them labor with their families,
declaring none other things than the prophets and apostles, that
which they have seen and heard and most assuredly believe, that
the prophecies may be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:37 In consequence of transgression, let
that which was bestowed upon Heman Basset be taken from him, and
placed upon the head of Simonds Ryder.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:38 And again, verily I say unto you,
let Jared Carter be ordained a priest, and also George James be
ordained a priest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:39 Let the residue of the elders watch
over the churches, and declare the word in the regions round
about them; and let them labor with their own hands that there be
no idolatry nor wickedness practised.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:40 And remember in all things the poor
and the needy, the sick and the afflicted, for he that doeth not
these things, the same is not my disciple.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:41 And again, let my servants Joseph
Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon and Edward Partridge take with
them a recommend from the church. And let there be one obtained
for my servant Oliver Cowdery also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:42 And thus, even as I have said, if ye
are faithful ye shall assemble yourselves together to rejoice
upon the land of Missouri, which is the land of your inheritance,
which is now the land of your enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:43 But, behold, I, the Lord, will
hasten the city in its time, and will crown the faithful with joy
and with rejoicing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 52:44 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, and I will lift them up at that last day. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Algernon Sidney Gilbert, at Kirtland, Ohio, June,
1831. The Prophet had inquired of the Lord as to Gilbert's work
and appointment in the Church. --Gilbert to be ordained an Elder-
-Also to be an agent unto the Church as the Bishop shall appoint.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:1 Behold, I say unto you, my servant
Sidney Gilbert, that I have heard your prayers; and you have
called upon me that it should be made known unto you, of the Lord
your God, concerning your calling and election in the church,
which I, the Lord, have raised up in these last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:2 Behold, I, the Lord, who was
crucified for the sins of the world, give unto you a commandment
that you shall forsake the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:3 Take upon you mine ordination, even
that of an elder, to preach faith and repentance and remission of
sins, according to my word, and the reception of the Holy Spirit
by the laying on of hands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:4 And also to be an agent unto this
church in the place which shall be appointed by the bishop,
according to commandments which shall be given hereafter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:5 And again, verily I say unto you, you
shall take your journey with my servants Joseph Smith, Jun., and
Sidney Rigdon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:6 Behold, these are the first
ordinances which you shall receive; and the residue shall be made
known in a time to come, according to your labor in my vineyard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 53:7 And again, I would that ye should
learn, that he only is saved who endureth unto the end. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to Newel Knight, at Kirtland, Ohio, June, 1831.
Members of the Church in the branch at Thompson, Ohio, were
divided on certain questions of Church administration, and
selfishness was manifest amongst them. Newel Knight and other
Elders had come to the Prophet asking how to proceed. See History
of the Church, vol. 1, p. 180. --Some who had entered the Church
had broken their covenants--Newel Knight to journey to Missouri.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord, even
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, even he who was
crucified for the sins of the world--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:2 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto
you, my servant Newel Knight, you shall stand fast in the office
whereunto I have appointed you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:3 And if your brethren desire to escape
their enemies, let them repent of all their sins, and become
truly humble before me and contrite.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:4 And as the covenant which they made
unto me has been broken, even so it has become void and of none
effect.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:5 And wo to him by whom this offense
cometh, for it had been better for him that he had been drowned
in the depth of the sea.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:6 But blessed are they who have kept
the covenant and observed the commandment, for they shall obtain
mercy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:7 Wherefore, go to now and flee the
land, lest your enemies come upon you; and take your journey, and
appoint whom you will to be your leader, and to pay moneys for
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:8 And thus you shall take your journey
into the regions westward, unto the land of Missouri, unto the
borders of the Lamanites.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:9 And after you have done journeying,
behold, I say unto you, seek ye a living like unto men, until I
prepare a place for you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 54:10 And again, be patient in tribulation
until I come; and, behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with
me, and they who have sought me early shall find rest to their
souls. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to William W. Phelps, at Kirtland, Ohio, June, 1831.
William W. Phelps and his family had just arrived at Kirtland;
and the Prophet sought of the Lord information concerning him. --
William W. Phelps designated as one called and chosen--Directed
to be baptized and confirmed--Ordination as an Elder to follow--
Appointed to assist Oliver Cowdery in literary work for the
Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto you,
my servant William, yea, even the Lord of the whole earth, thou
art called and chosen; and after thou hast been baptized by
water, which if you do with an eye single to my glory, you shall
have a remission of your sins and a reception of the Holy Spirit
by the laying on of hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:2 And then thou shalt be ordained by
the hand of my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., to be an elder unto
this church, to preach repentance and remission of sins by way of
baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:3 And on whomsoever you shall lay your
hands, if they are contrite before me, you shall have power to
give the Holy Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:4 And again, you shall be ordained to
assist my servant Oliver Cowdery to do the work of printing, and
of selecting and writing books for schools in this church, that
little children also may receive instruction before me as is
pleasing unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:5 And again, verily I say unto you, for
this cause you shall take your journey with my servants Joseph
Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, that you may be planted in the
land of your inheritance to do this work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 55:6 And again, let my servant Joseph Coe
also take his journey with them. The residue shall be made known
hereafter, even as I will, Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, June, 1831. Elder Ezra Thayre,
who had been appointed to travel in the ministry with Elder
Thomas B. Marsh, was unable to start on his mission when the
latter was ready, and the Lord answered the Prophet's inquiry on
the matter by giving this revelation. --The Lord may and does
revoke as well as command--Ezra Thayre rebuked for pride and
selfishness--Selah J. Griffin appointed in his place to travel
with Thomas B. Marsh--Offenders reproved, both rich and poor--
Necessity of repentance as expressed by the broken heart and
contrite spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:1 Hearken, O ye people who profess my
name, saith the Lord your God; for behold, mine anger is kindled
against the rebellious, and they shall know mine arm and mine
indignation, in the day of visitation and of wrath upon the
nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:2 And he that will not take up his
cross and follow me, and keep my commandments, the same shall not
be saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:3 Behold, I, the Lord, command; and he
that will not obey shall be cut off in mine own due time, after I
have commanded and the commandment is broken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:4 Wherefore I, the Lord, command and
revoke, as it seemeth me good; and all this to be answered upon
the heads of the rebellious, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:5 Wherefore, I revoke the commandment
which was given unto my servants Thomas B. Marsh and Ezra Thayre,
and give a new commandment unto my servant Thomas, that he shall
take up his journey speedily to the land of Missouri, and my
servant Selah J. Griffin shall also go with him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:6 For behold, I revoke the commandment
which was given unto my servants Selah J. Griffin and Newel
Knight, in consequence of the stiffneckedness of my people which
are in Thompson, and their rebellions.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:7 Wherefore, let my servant Newel
Knight remain with them; and as many as will go may go, that are
contrite before me, and be led by him to the land which I have
appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:8 And again, verily I say unto you,
that my servant Ezra Thayre must repent of his pride, and of his
selfishness, and obey the former commandment which I have given
him concerning the place upon which he lives.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:9 And if he will do this, as there
shall be do divisions made upon the land, he shall be appointed
still to go to the land of Missouri;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:10 Otherwise he shall receive the money
which he has paid, and shall leave the place, and shall be cut
off out of my church, saith the Lord God of hosts;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:11 And though the heaven and the earth
pass away, these words shall not pass away, but shall be
fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:12 And if my servant Joseph Smith,
Jun., must needs pay the money, behold, I, the Lord, will pay it
unto him again in the land of Missouri, that those of whom he
shall receive may be rewarded again according to that which they
do;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:13 For according to that which they do
they shall receive, even in lands for their inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:14 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my
people--you have many things to do and to repent of; for behold,
your sins have come up unto me, and are not pardoned, because you
seek to counsel in your own ways.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:15 And your hearts are not satisfied.
And ye obey not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:16 Wo unto you rich men, that will not
give your substance to the poor, for your riches will canker your
souls; and this shall be your lamentation in the day of
visitation, and of judgment, and of indignation: The harvest is
past, the summer is ended, and my soul is not saved!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:17 Wo unto you poor men, whose hearts
are not broken, whose spirits are not contrite, and whose bellies
are not satisfied, and whose hands are not stayed from laying
hold upon other men's goods, whose eyes are full of greediness,
and who will not labor with your own hands!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:18 But blessed are the poor who are
pure in heart, whose hearts are broken, and who spirits are
contrite, for they shall see the kingdom of God coming in power
and great glory unto their deliverance; for the fatness of the
earth shall be theirs.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:19 For behold, the Lord shall come, and
his recompense shall be with him, and he shall reward every man,
and the poor shall rejoice;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 56:20 And their generations shall inherit
the earth from generation to generation, forever and ever. And
now I make an end of speaking unto you. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, July, 1831. In
compliance with the Lord's command, the Elders had journeyed from
Kirtland to Missouri with many varied experiences and some
opposition. In contemplating the degraded state of the Lamanites
and the lack of civilization, refinement and religion among the
people generally, the Prophet exclaimed in yearning prayer: When
will the wilderness blossom as the rose? When will Zion be built
up in her glory, and where will thy Temple stand, unto which all
nations shall come in the last days? See History of the Church,
vol. 1, p. 189. --The land appointed and consecrated--The land of
promise--The place for the city of Zion--The center place
specified--The Saints directed to purchase land--Commanded to
make preparation for others who are to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:1 Hearken, O ye elders of my church,
saith the Lord your God, who have assembled yourselves together,
according to my commandments, in this land, which is the land of
Missouri, which is the land which I have appointed and
consecrated for the gathering of the saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:2 Wherefore, this is the land of
promise, and the place for the city of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:3 And thus saith the Lord your God, if
you will receive wisdom here is wisdom. Behold, the place which
is now called Independence is the center place; and a spot for
the temple is lying westward, upon a lot which is not far from
the courthouse.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:4 Wherefore, it is wisdom that the land
should be purchased by the saints, and also every tract lying
westward, even unto the line running directly between Jew and
Gentile;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:5 And also every tract bordering by the
prairies, inasmuch as my disciples are enabled to buy lands.
Behold, this is wisdom, that they may obtain it for an
everlasting inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:6 And let my servant Sidney Gilbert
stand in the office to which I have appointed him, to receive
moneys, to be an agent unto the church, to buy land in all the
regions round about, inasmuch as can be done in righteousness,
and as wisdom shall direct.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:7 And let my servant Edward Partridge
stand in the office to which I have appointed him, and divide
unto the saints their inheritance, even as I have commanded; and
also those whom he has appointed to assist him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:8 And again, verily I say unto you, let
my servant Sidney Gilbert plant himself in this place, and
establish a store, that he may sell goods without fraud, that he
may obtain money to buy lands for the good of the saints, and
that he may obtain whatsoever things the disciples may need to
plant them in their inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:9 And also let my servant Sidney
Gilbert obtain a license--behold here is wisdom, and whoso
readeth let him understand--that he may send goods also unto the
people, even by whom he will as clerks employed in his service.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:10 And thus provide for my saints, that
my gospel may be preached unto those who sit in darkness and in
the region and shadow of death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:11 And again, verily I say unto you,
let my servant William W. Phelps be planted in this place, and be
established as a printer unto the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:12 And lo, if the world receive his
writings--behold here is wisdom--let him obtain whatsoever he can
obtain in righteousness, for the good of the saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:13 And let my servant Oliver Cowdery
assist him, even as I have commanded, in whatsoever place I shall
appoint unto him, to copy, and to correct, and select, that all
things may be right before me, as it shall be proved by the
Spirit through him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:14 And thus let those of whom I have
spoken be planted in the land of Zion, as speedily as can be,
with their families, to do those things even as I have spoken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:15 And now concerning the gathering--
Let the bishop and the agent make preparations for those families
which have been commanded to come to this land, as soon as
possible, and plant them in their inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 57:16 And unto the residue of both elders
and members further directions shall be given hereafter. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 1, 1831.
On the first Sabbath after the arrival of the Prophet and party
in Jackson County, Missouri, a religious service was held and two
members were received by baptism. During that week, members of
the Colesville branch and others arrived. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 190. Many were eager to learn the will of the
Lord concerning them in the new place of gathering. --Great
things to follow, with glory, after much tribulation--Certain
duties of the Bishopric--The Bishop is warned--People instructed
to observe the laws of the land, and to regard the commandments
given through revelation as the laws of the Church--Servants not
to be compelled in all things but to be diligent and active--
Lands to be purchased in Independence--Some of the people to
stay, others to travel in the ministry--Assignment of duty to
individual Elders--Those returning to the East to bear record of
what they have seen and know concerning the land of Zion--
Gathering of the Saints not to be conducted in haste.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:1 Hearken, O ye elders of my church,
and give ear to my word, and learn of me what I will concerning
you, and also concerning this land unto which I have sent you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:2 For verily I say unto you, blessed is
he that keepeth my commandments, whether in life or in death; and
he that is faithful in tribulation, the reward of the same is
greater in the kingdom of heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:3 Ye cannot behold with your natural
eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning
those things which shall come hereafter, and the glory which
shall follow after much tribulation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:4 For after much tribulation come the
blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with
much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:5 Remember this, which I tell you
before, that you may lay it to heart, and receive that which is
to follow.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:6 Behold, verily I say unto you, for
this cause I have sent you-that you might be obedient, and that
your hearts might be prepared to bear testimony of the things
which are to come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:7 And also that you might be honored in
laying the foundation, and in bearing record of the land upon
which the Zion of God shall stand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:8 And also that a feast of fat things
might be prepared for the poor; yea, a feast of fat things, of
wine on the lees well refined, that the earth may know that the
mouths of the prophets shall not fail;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:9 Yea, a supper of the house of the
Lord, well prepared, unto which all nations shall be invited.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:10 First, the rich and the learned, the
wise and the noble;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:11 And after that cometh the day of my
power; then shall the poor, the lame, and the blind, and the
deaf, come in unto the marriage of the Lamb, and partake of the
supper of the Lord, prepared for the great day to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:12 Behold, I, the Lord, have spoken it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:13 And that the testimony might go
forth from Zion, yea, from the mouth of the city of the heritage
of God--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:14 Yea, for this cause I have sent you
hither, and have selected my servant, Edward Partridge, and have
appointed unto him his mission in the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:15 But if he repent not of his sins,
which are unbelief and blindness of heart, let him take heed lest
he fall.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:16 Behold his mission is given unto
him, and it shall not be given again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:17 And whoso standeth in this mission
is appointed to be a judge in Israel, like as it was in ancient
days, to divide the lands of the heritage of God unto his
children.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:18 And to judge his people by the
testimony of the just, and by the assistance of his counselors,
according to the laws of the kingdom which are given by the
prophets of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:19 For verily I say unto you, my law
shall be kept on this land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:20 Let no man think he is ruler; but
let God rule that judgeth, according to the counsel of his own
will, or, in other words, him that counseleth or sitteth upon the
judgment seat.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:21 Let no man break the laws of the
land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break
the laws of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:22 Wherefore, be subject to the powers
that be, until he reigns whose right it is to reign, and subdues
all enemies under his feet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:23 Behold, the laws which ye have
received from my hand are the laws of the church, and in this
light ye shall hold them forth. Behold, here is wisdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:24 And now, as I spake concerning my
servant Edward Partridge, this land is the land of his residence,
and those whom he has appointed for his counselors; and also the
land of the residence of him whom I have appointed to keep my
storehouse;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:25 Wherefore, let them bring their
families to this land, as they shall counsel between themselves
and me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:26 For behold, it is not meet that I
should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all
things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore
he receiveth no reward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:27 Verily, I say, men should be
anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their
own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:28 For the power is in them, wherein
they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they
shall in nowise lose their reward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:29 But he that doeth not anything until
he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart,
and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:30 Who am I that made man, saith the
Lord, that will hold him guiltless that obeys not my
commandments?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:31 Who am I, saith the Lord, that have
promised and have not fulfilled?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:32 I command and men obey not; I revoke
and they receive not the blessing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:33 Then they say in their hearts: This
is not the work of the Lord, for his promises are not fulfilled.
But wo unto such, for their reward lurketh beneath, and not from
above.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:34 And now I give unto you further
directions concerning this land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:35 It is wisdom in me that my servant
Martin Harris should be an example unto the church, in laying his
moneys before the bishop of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:36 And also, this is a law unto every
man that cometh unto this land to receive an inheritance; and he
shall do with his moneys according as the law directs.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:37 And it is wisdom also that there
should be lands purchased in Independence, for the place of the
storehouse, and also for the house of the printing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:38 And other directions concerning my
servant Martin Harris shall be given him of the Spirit, that he
may receive his inheritance as seemeth him good;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:39 And let him repent of his sins, for
he seeketh the praise of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:40 And also let my servant William W.
Phelps stand in the office to which I have appointed him, and
receive his inheritance in the land;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:41 And also he hath need to repent, for
I, the Lord, am not well pleased with him, for he seeketh to
excel, and he is not sufficiently meek before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:42 Behold, he who has repented of his
sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no
more.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:43 By this ye may know if a man
repenteth of his sins--behold, he will confess them and forsake
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:44 And now, verily, I say concerning
the residue of the elders of my church, the time has not yet
come, for many years, for them to receive their inheritance in
this land, except they desire it through the prayer of faith,
only as it shall be appointed unto them of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:45 For behold, they shall push the
people together from the ends of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:46 Wherefore, assemble yourselves
together; and they who are not appointed to stay in this land,
let them preach the gospel in the regions round about; and after
that let them return to their homes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:47 Let them preach by the way, and bear
testimony of the truth in all places, and call upon the rich, the
high and the low, and the poor to repent.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:48 And let them build up churches,
inasmuch as the inhabitants of the earth will repent.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:49 And let there be an agent appointed
by the voice of the church, unto the church in Ohio, to receive
moneys to purchase lands in Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:50 And I give unto my servant Sidney
Rigdon a commandment, that he shall write a description of the
land of Zion, and a statement of the will of God, as it shall be
made known by the Spirit unto him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:51 And an epistle and subscription, to
be presented unto all the churches to obtain moneys, to be put
into the hands of the bishop, of himself or the agent, as seemeth
him good or as he shall direct, to purchase lands for an
inheritance for the children of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:52 For, behold, verily I say unto you,
the Lord willeth that the disciples and the children of men
should open their hearts, even to purchase this whole region of
country, as soon as time will permit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:53 Behold, here is wisdom. Let them do
this lest they receive none inheritance, save it be by the
shedding of blood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:54 And again, inasmuch as there is land
obtained, let there be workmen sent forth of all kinds unto this
land, to labor for the saints of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:55 Let all these things be done in
order; and let the privileges of the lands be made known from
time to time, by the bishop or the agent of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:56 And let the work of the gathering be
not in haste, nor by flight; but let it be done as it shall be
counseled by the elders of the church at the conferences,
according to the knowledge which they receive from time to time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:57 And let my servant Sidney Rigdon
consecrate and dedicate this land, and the spot for the temple,
unto the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:58 And let a conference meeting be
called; and after that let my servants Sidney Rigdon and Joseph
Smith, Jun., return, and also Oliver Cowdery with them to
accomplish the residue of the work which I have appointed unto
them in their own land, and the residue as shall be ruled by the
conferences.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:59 And let no man return from this land
except he bear record by the way, of that which he knows and most
assuredly believes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:60 Let that which has been bestowed
upon Ziba Peterson be taken from him; and let him stand as a
member in the church, and labor with his own hands, with the
brethren, until he is sufficiently chastened for all his sins;
for he confesseth them not, and he thinketh to hide them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:61 Let the residue of the elders of
this church, who are coming to this land, some of whom are
exceedingly blessed, even above measure, also hold a conference
upon this land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:62 And let my servant Edward Partridge
direct the conference which shall be held by them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:63 And let them also return, preaching
the gospel by the way, bearing record of the things which are
revealed unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:64 For, verily, the sound must go forth
from this place into all the world, and unto the uttermost parts
of the earth--the gospel must be preached unto every creature,
with signs following them that believe.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 58:65 And behold the Son of Man cometh.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.
Preceding his record of this revelation, the Prophet writes
descriptively of the land of Zion wherein the people were then
assembled. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 196. The land
was consecrated, as the Lord had directed, and the site for the
future Temple was dedicated. The Lord makes these commandments
especially applicable to the Saints in Zion. --The people
commended for their obedience in gathering to Jackson County--
Certain of the commandments given in the decalog reiterated--
Sanctity of the Sabbath emphasized--Not confessing the hand of
God in all things a grievous offense.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:1 Behold, blessed, saith the Lord, are
they who have come up unto this land with an eye single to my
glory, according to my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:2 For those that live shall inherit the
earth, and those that die shall rest from all their labors, and
their works shall follow them; and they shall receive a crown in
the mansions of my Father, which I have prepared for them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:3 Yea, blessed are they whose feet
stand upon the land of Zion, who have obeyed my gospel; for they
shall receive for their reward the good things of the earth, and
it shall bring forth in its strength.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:4 And they shall also be crowned with
blessings from above, yea, and with commandments not a few, and
with revelations in their time--they that are faithful and
diligent before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:5 Wherefore, I give unto them a
commandment, saying thus: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, with all thy might, mind, and strength; and in the
name of Jesus Christ thou shalt serve him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:6 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself. Thou shalt not steal; neither commit adultery, nor kill,
nor do anything like unto it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:7 Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in
all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:8 Thou shalt offer a sacrifice unto the
Lord thy God in righteousness, even that of a broken heart and a
contrite spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:9 And that thou mayest more fully keep
thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of
prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:10 For verily this is a day appointed
unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto
the Most High.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:11 Nevertheless thy vows shall be
offered up in righteousness on all days and at all times;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:12 But remember that on this, the
Lord's day, thou shalt offer thine oblations and thy sacraments
unto the Most High, confessing thy sins unto thy brethren, and
before the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:13 And on this day thou shalt do none
other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of
heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that
thy joy may be full.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:14 Verily, this is fasting and prayer,
or in other words, rejoicing and prayer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:15 And inasmuch as ye do these things
with thanksgiving, with cheerful hearts and countenances, not
with much laughter, for this is sin, but with a glad heart and a
cheerful countenance--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:16 Verily I say, that inasmuch as ye do
this, the fulness of the earth is yours, the beasts of the field
and the fowls of the air, and that which climbeth upon the trees
and walketh upon the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:17 Yea, and the herb, and the good
things which come of the earth, whether for food or for raiment,
or for houses, or for barns, or for orchards, or for gardens, or
for vineyards;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:18 Yea, all things which come of the
earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the
use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:19 Yea, for food and for raiment, for
taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the
soul.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:20 And it pleaseth God that he hath
given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made
to be used, with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:21 And in nothing doth man offend God,
or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not
his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:22 Behold, this is according to the law
and the prophets; wherefore, trouble me no more concerning this
matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:23 But learn that he who doeth the
works of righteousness shall receive his reward, even peace in
this world, and eternal life in the world to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 59:24 I, the Lord, have spoken it, and the
Spirit beareth record. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in Jackson County, Missouri, August 8, 1831. The
occasion was that of the Elders who had been appointed to return
to the East desiring to know how they should proceed, and by what
route and manner they should travel. --Reproof for those who
neglect to use their talents and who fail to testify of the
knowledge they have received--Specific instructions as to the
return of Elders to Ohio--Others, yet to arrive in Zion, are to
return, proclaiming the word of God. 
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto the
elders of his church, who are to return speedily to the land from
whence they came; Behold, it pleaseth me, that you have come up
hither;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:2 But with some I am not well pleased,
for they will not open their mouths, but they hide the talent
which I have given unto them, because of the fear of man. Wo unto
such, for mine anger is kindled against them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:3 And it shall come to pass, if they
are not more faithful unto me, it shall be taken away, even that
which they have.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:4 For I, the Lord, rule in the heavens
above, and among the armies of the earth; and in the day when I
shall make up my jewels, all men shall know what it is that
bespeaketh the power of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:5 But, verily, I will speak unto you
concerning your journey unto the land from whence you came. Let
there be a craft made, or bought, as seemeth you good, it
mattereth not unto me, and take your journey speedily for the
place which is called St. Louis.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:6 And from thence let my servants,
Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery, take their
journey for Cincinnati;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:7 And in this place let them lift up
their voice and declare my word with loud voices, without wrath
or doubting, lifting up holy hands upon them. For I am able to
make you holy, and your sins are forgiven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:8 And let the residue take their
journey from St. Louis, two by two, and preach the word, not in
haste, among the congregations of the wicked, until they return
to the churches from whence they came.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:9 And all this for the good of the
churches; for this intent have I sent them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:10 And let my servant Edward Partridge
impart of the money which I have given him, a portion unto mine
elders who are commanded to return.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:11 And he that is able, let him return
it by the way of the agent; and he that is not, of him it is not
required.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:12 And now I speak of the residue who
are to come unto this land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:13 Behold, they have been sent to
preach my gospel among the congregations of the wicked;
wherefore, I give unto them a commandment, thus: Thou shalt not
idle away thy time, neither shalt thou bury thy talent that it
may not be known.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:14 And after thou hast come up unto the
land of Zion, and hast proclaimed my word, thou shalt speedily
return, proclaiming my word among the congregations of the
wicked, not in haste, neither in wrath nor with strife.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:15 And shake off the dust of thy feet
against those who receive thee not, not in their presence, lest
thou provoke them, but in secret; and wash thy feet, as a
testimony against them in the day of judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:16 Behold, this is sufficient for you,
and the will of him who hath sent you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 60:17 And by the mouth of my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun., it shall be made known concerning Sidney
Rigdon and Oliver Cowdery. The residue hereafter. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, on the bank of the Missouri river, McIlwaine's Bend,
August 12, 1831. The Prophet and ten Elders had traveled down the
river in canoes. On the first day of the journey many dangers
were experienced. Elder William W. Phelps, in daylight vision,
saw the destroyer riding in power upon the face of the waters.
See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 203. --Elders not to travel
swiftly upon the river, thus losing opportunity to preach--Elders
had been permitted to come thus far by boat that they might bear
record of the power of the destroyer over the waters--Those who
come later to Zion to be warned thereof--Attention of the First
Presidency needed in the organized branches--Special labor of
declaring the Gospel to non-members left to the Elders thereto
appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:1 Behold, and hearken unto the voice of
him who has all power, who is from everlasting to everlasting,
even Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:2 Behold, verily thus saith the Lord
unto you, O ye elders of my church, who are assembled upon this
spot, whose sins are now forgiven you, for I, the Lord, forgive
sins, and am merciful unto those who confess their sins with
humble hearts;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:3 But verily I say unto you, that it is
not needful for this whole company of mine elders to be moving
swiftly upon the waters, whilst the inhabitants on either side
are perishing in unbelief.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:4 Nevertheless, I suffered it that ye
might bear record; behold, there are many dangers upon the
waters, and more especially hereafter;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:5 For I, the Lord have decreed in mine
anger many destructions upon the waters; yea, and especially upon
these waters.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:6 Nevertheless, all flesh is in mine
hand, and he that is faithful among you shall not perish by the
waters.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:7 Wherefore, it is expedient that my
servant Sidney Gilbert and my servant William W. Phelps be in
haste upon their errand and mission.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:8 Nevertheless, I would not suffer that
ye should part until you were chastened for all your sins, that
you might be one, that you might not perish in wickedness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:9 But now, verily I say, it behooveth
me that ye should part. Wherefore let my servants Sidney Gilbert
and William W. Phelps take their former company, and let them
take their journey in haste that they may fill their mission, and
through faith they shall overcome;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:10 And inasmuch as they are faithful
they shall be preserved, and I, the Lord, will be with them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:11 And let the residue take that which
is needful for clothing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:12 Let my servant Sidney Gilbert take
that which is not needful with him, as you shall agree.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:13 And now, behold, for your good I
gave unto you a commandment concerning these things; and I, the
Lord, will reason with you as with men in days of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:14 Behold, I, the Lord, in the
beginning blessed the waters; but in the lasts days, by the mouth
of my servant John, I cursed the waters.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:15 Wherefore, the days will come that
no flesh shall be safe upon the waters.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:16 And it shall be said in days to come
that none is able to go up to the land of Zion upon the waters,
but he that is upright in heart.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:17 And, as I, the Lord, in the
beginning cursed the land, even so in the last days have I
blessed it, in its time, for the use of my saints, that they may
partake the fatness thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:18 And now I give unto you a
commandment that what I say unto one I say unto all, that you
shall forewarn your brethren concerning these waters, that they
come not in journeying upon them, lest their faith fall and they
are caught in snares;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:19 I, the Lord, have decreed, and the
destroyer rideth upon the face thereof, and I revoke not the
decree.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:20 I, the Lord, was angry with you
yesterday, but today mine anger is turned away.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:21 Wherefore, let those concerning whom
I have spoken, that should take their journey in haste--again I
say unto you, let them take their journey in haste.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:22 And it mattereth not unto me, after
a little, if it so be that they fill their mission, whether they
go by water or by land; let this be as it is made known unto them
according to their judgments hereafter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:23 And now, concerning my servants,
Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery, let them
come not again upon the canal, while journeying unto their homes;
or in other words they shall not come upon the waters to journey,
save upon the canal.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:24 Behold, I, the Lord, have appointed
a way for the journeying of my saints; and behold, this is the
way--that after they leave the canal they shall journey by land,
inasmuch as they are commanded to journey and go up unto the land
of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:25 And they shall do like unto the
children of Israel, pitching their tents by the way.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:26 And, behold, this commandment you
shall give unto all your brethren.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:27 Nevertheless, unto whom is given
power to command the waters, unto him it is given by the Spirit
to know all his ways;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:28 Wherefore, let him do as the Spirit
of the living God commandeth him, whether upon the land or upon
the waters, as it remaineth with me to do hereafter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:29 And unto you is given the course for
the Saints, or the way for the saints of the camp of the Lord, to
journey.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:30 And again, verily I say unto you, my
servants, Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery,
shall not open their mouths in the congregations of the wicked
until they arrive at Cincinnati;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:31 And in that place they shall lift up
their voices unto God against that people, yea, unto him whose
anger is kindled against their wickedness, a people who are well-
nigh ripened for destruction.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:32 And from thence let them journey for
the congregations of their brethren, for their labors even now
are wanted more abundantly among them than among the
congregations of the wicked.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:33 And now, concerning the residue, let
them journey and declare the word among the congregations of the
wicked, inasmuch as it is given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:34 And inasmuch as they do this they
shall rid their garments, and they shall rid their garments, and
they shall be spotless before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:35 And let them journey together, or
two by two, as seemeth them good, only let my servant Reynolds
Cahoon, and my servant Samuel H. Smith, with whom I am well
pleased, be not separated until they return to their homes, and
this for a wise purpose in me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:36 And now, verily I say unto you, and
what I say unto one I say unto all, be of good cheer, little
children; for I am in your midst, and I have not forsaken you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:37 And inasmuch as you have humbled
yourselves before me, the blessings of the kingdom are yours.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:38 Gird up your loins and be watchful
and be sober, looking forth for the coming of the Son of Man, for
he cometh in an hour you think not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 61:39 Pray always that you enter not into
temptation, that you may abide the day of his coming, whether in
life or in death. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, on the bank of the Missouri River, August 13, 1831.
On this day the Prophet and his Counselors met several Elders who
were on their way to the land of Zion, and, after joyful
salutations, received this revelation to the encouragement of
all. --Labors of faithful Elders commended--Those on their way to
Zion told of their prospective return in continuation of their
ministry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:1 Behold, and hearken, O ye elders of
my church, saith the Lord your God, even Jesus Christ, your
advocate, who knoweth the weakness of man and how to succor them
who are tempted.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:2 And verily mine eyes are upon those
who have not as yet gone up unto the land of Zion; wherefore your
mission is not yet full.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:3 Nevertheless, ye are blessed, for the
testimony which ye have borne is recorded in heaven for the
angels to look upon; and they rejoice over you, and your sins are
forgiven you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:4 And now continue your journey.
Assemble yourselves upon the land of Zion; and hold a meeting and
rejoice together, and offer a sacrament unto the Most High.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:5 And then you may return to bear
record, yea, even altogether, or two by two, as seemeth you good,
it mattereth not unto me; only be faithful, and declare good
tidings unto the inhabitants of the earth, or among the
congregations of the wicked.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:6 Behold, I, the Lord, have brought you
together that the promise might be fulfilled, that the faithful
among you should be preserved and rejoice together in the land of
Missouri. I, the Lord, promise the faithful and cannot lie.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:7 I, the Lord, am willing, if any among
you desire to ride upon horses, or upon mules, or in chariots, he
shall receive the blessing, if he receive it from the hand of the
Lord, with a thankful heart in all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:8 These things remain with you to do
according to judgment and the directions of the Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 62:9 Behold, the kingdom is yours. And
behold, and lo, I am with the faithful always. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, August, 1831. Prefacing his
record of this revelation the Prophet wrote: In these infant days
of the Church, there was a great anxiety to obtain the word of
the Lord upon every subject that in any way concerned our
salvation; and as the land of Zion was now the most important
temporal object in view, I inquired of the Lord for further
information upon the gathering of the Saints, and the purchase of
the land, and other matters. See History of the Church, vol. 1,
p. 207. --Solemn warning to the wicked--Divine manifestations,
and signs wrought by evil powers--Sin of adultery especially
condemned--Saints commanded to gather to Zion as they are able,
but not with undue haste lest confusion result--Lands to be
secured by purchase and not by seizure--Blessed are they who die
in the Lord--Condition of those who shall die during the
Millennium--Sidney Rigdon rebuked for pride--those who use the
name of the Lord without authority declared to be under
condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:1 Hearken, O ye people, and open your
hearts and give ear from afar; and listen, you that call
yourselves the people of the Lord, and hear the word of the Lord
and his will concerning you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:2 Yea, verily, I say, hear the word of
him whose anger is kindled against the wicked and rebellious;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:3 Who willeth to take even them whom he
will take, and preserveth in life them whom he will preserve.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:4 Who buildeth up at his own will and
pleasure; and destroyeth when he pleases, and is able to cast the
soul down to hell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:5 Behold, I, the Lord, utter my voice,
and it shall be obeyed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:6 Wherefore, verily I say, let the
wicked take heed, and let the rebellious fear and tremble; and
let the unbelieving hold their lips, for the day of wrath shall
come upon them as a whirlwind, and all flesh shall know that I am
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:7 And he that seeketh signs shall see
signs, but not unto salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:8 Verily, I say unto you, there are
those among you who seek signs, and there have been such even
from the beginning;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:9 But, behold, faith cometh not by
signs, but signs follow those who believe.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:10 Yea, signs come by faith, not by the
will of men, nor as they please, but by the will of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:11 Yea, signs come by faith, unto
mighty works, for without faith no man pleaseth God; and with
whom God is angry he is not well pleased; wherefore, unto such he
showeth no signs, only in wrath unto their condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:12 Wherefore, I, the Lord, am not
pleased with those among you who have sought after signs and
wonders for faith, and not for the good of man unto my glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:13 Nevertheless, I give commandments,
and many have turned away from my commandments and have not kept
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:14 There were among you adulterers and
adulteresses; some of whom have turned away from you, and others
remain with you that hereafter shall be revealed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:15 Let such beware and repent speedily,
lest judgment shall come upon them as a snare, and their folly
shall be made manifest, and their works shall follow them in the
eyes of the people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:16 And verily I say unto you, as I have
said before, he that looketh on a woman to lust after her, or if
any shall commit adultery in their hearts, they shall not have
the Spirit, but shall deny the faith and shall fear.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:17 Wherefore, I, the Lord, have said
that the fearful, and the unbelieving, and all liars, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie, and the whoremonger, and the
sorcerer, shall have their part in that lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:18 Verily I say, that they shall not
have part in the first resurrection.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:19 And now behold, I, the Lord, say
unto you that ye are not justified, because these things are
among you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:20 Nevertheless, he that endureth in
faith and doeth my will, the same shall overcome, and shall
receive an inheritance upon the earth when the day of
transfiguration shall come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:21 When the earth shall be
transfigured, even according to the pattern which was shown unto
mine apostles upon the mount; of which account the fulness ye
have not yet received.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:22 And now, verily I say unto you, that
as I said that I would make known my will unto you, behold I will
make known unto you, not by the way of commandment, for there are
many who observe not to keep my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:23 But unto him that keepeth my
commandments I will give the mysteries of my kingdom, and the
same shall be in him a well of living water, springing up unto
everlasting life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:24 And now, behold, this is the will of
the Lord your God concerning his saints, that they should
assemble themselves together unto the land of Zion, not in haste,
lest there should be confusion, which bringeth pestilence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:25 Behold, the land of Zion--I, the
Lord, hold it in mine own hands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:26 Nevertheless, I, the Lord, render
unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:27 Wherefore, I the Lord will that you
should purchase the lands, that you may have advantage of the
world, that you may have claim on the world, that they may not be
stirred up unto anger.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:28 For Satan putteth it into their
hearts to anger against you, and to the shedding of blood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:29 Wherefore, the land of Zion shall
not be obtained but by purchase or by blood, otherwise there is
none inheritance for you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:30 And if by purchase, behold you are
blessed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:31 And if by blood, as you are
forbidden to shed blood, lo, your enemies are upon you, and ye
shall be scourged from city to city, and from synagogue to
synagogue, and but few shall stand to receive an inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:32 I, the Lord, am angry with the
wicked; I am holding my Spirit from the inhabitants of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:33 I have sworn in my wrath, and
decreed wars upon the face of the earth, and the wicked shall
slay the wicked, and fear shall come upon every man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:34 And the Saints also shall hardly
escape; nevertheless, I, the Lord, am with them, and will come
down in heaven from the presence of my Father and consume the
wicked with unquenchable fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:35 And behold, this is not yet; but by
and by.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:36 Wherefore, seeing that I, the Lord,
have decreed all these things upon the face of the earth, I will
that my saints should be assembled upon the land of Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:37 And that every man should take
righteousness in his hands and faithfulness upon his loins, and
lift a warning voice unto the inhabitants of the earth; and
declare both by word and by flight that desolation shall come
upon the wicked.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:38 Wherefore, let my disciples in
Kirtland arrange their temporal concerns, who dwell upon this
farm.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:39 Let my servant Titus Billings, who
has the care thereof, dispose of the land, that he may be
prepared in the coming spring to take his journey up unto the
land of Zion, with those that dwell upon the face thereof,
excepting those whom I shall reserve unto myself, that shall not
go until I shall command them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:40 And let all the moneys which can be
spared, it mattereth not unto me whether it be little or much, be
sent up unto the land of Zion, unto them whom I have appointed to
receive.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:41 Behold, I, the Lord, will give unto
my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., power that he shall be enabled to
discern by the Spirit those who shall go up unto the land of
Zion, and those of my disciples who shall tarry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:42 Let my servant Newel K. Whitney
retain his store, or in other words, the store, yet for a little
season.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:43 Nevertheless, let him impart all the
money which he can impart, to be sent up unto the land of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:44 Behold, these things are in his own
hands, let him do according to wisdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:45 Verily I say, let him be ordained as
an agent unto the disciples that shall tarry, and let him be
ordained unto this power;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:46 And now speedily, visit the
churches, expounding these things unto them, with my servant
Oliver Cowdery. Behold, this is my will, obtaining moneys even as
I have directed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:47 He that is faithful and endureth
shall overcome the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:48 He that sendeth up treasures unto
the land of Zion shall receive an inheritance in this world, and
his works shall follow him, and also a reward in the world to
come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:49 Yea, and blessed are the dead that
die in the Lord, from henceforth, when the Lord shall come, and
old things shall pass away, and all things become new, they shall
rise from the dead and shall not die after, and shall receive an
inheritance before the Lord, in his hold city.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:50 And he that liveth when the Lord
shall come, and hath kept the faith, blessed is he; nevertheless,
it is appointed to him to die at the age of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:51 Wherefore, children shall grow up
until they become old; old men shall die; but they shall not
sleep in the dust, but they shall be changed in the twinkling of
an eye.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:52 Wherefore, for this cause preached
the apostles unto the world the resurrection of the dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:53 These things are the things that ye
must look for; and, speaking after the manner of the Lord, they
are now nigh at hand, and in a time to come, even in the day of
the coming of the Son of Man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:54 And until that hour there will be
foolish virgins among the wise; and at that hour cometh an entire
separation of the righteous and the wicked; and in that day will
I send mine angels to pluck out the wicked and cast them into
unquenchable fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:55 And now behold, verily I say unto
you, I, the Lord, am not pleased with my servant Sidney Rigdon;
he exalted himself in his heart, and received not counsel, but
grieved the Spirit;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:56 Wherefore his writing is not
acceptable unto the Lord, and he shall make another; and if the
Lord receive it not, behold he standeth no longer in the office
to which I have appointed him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:57 And again, verily I say unto you,
those who desire in their hearts, in meekness, to warn sinners to
repentance, let them be ordained unto this power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:58 For this is a day of warning, and
not a day of many words. For I, the Lord, am not to be mocked in
the last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:59 Behold, I am from above, and my
power lieth beneath. I am over all, and in all, and through all,
and search all things, and the day cometh that all things shall
be subject unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:60 Behold, I am Alpha and Omega, even
Jesus Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:61 Wherefore, let all men beware how
they take my name in their lips--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:62 For behold, verily I say, that many
there be who are under this condemnation, who use the name of the
Lord, and use it in vain, having not authority.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:63 Wherefore, let the church repent of
their sins, and I, the Lord, will own them; otherwise they shall
be cut off.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:64 Remember that that which cometh from
above is sacred, and must be spoken with care, and by constraint
of the Spirit; and in this there is no condemnation, and ye
receive the Spirit through prayer; wherefore, without this there
remaineth condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:65 Let my servants, Joseph Smith, Jun.,
and Sidney Rigdon, seek them a home, as they are taught through
prayer by the Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 63:66 These things remain to overcome
through patience, that such may receive a more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory, otherwise, a greater condemnation. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to the Elders of the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio,
September 11, 1831. A company of brethren who had been commanded
to journeyed to Zion were busily engaged in making preparations
to leave in October. --The Lord's rebuke to sinners--Forgiveness
for the repentant sinner whose sin is not unto death--Forgive one
another, and all men--Instruction to individuals--The intervening
time, until the coming of the Son of Man, called today--This a
time of sacrifice and for the tithing of the people--The Saints
warned against debt--Liars, hypocrites, and those who falsely
pretend to be Apostles and Prophets to be exposed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord, your God
unto you, O ye elders of my church, hearken ye and heart, and
receive my will concerning you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:2 For verily I say unto you, I will
that ye should overcome the world; wherefore I will have
compassion upon you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:3 There are those among you who have
sinned; but verily I say, for this once, for mine own glory, and
for the salvation of souls, I have forgiven you your sins.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:4 I will be merciful unto you, for I
have given unto you the kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:5 And the keys of the mysteries of the
kingdom shall not be taken from my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.,
through the means I have appointed, while he liveth, inasmuch as
he obeyeth mine ordinances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:6 There are those who have sought
occasion against him without cause;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:7 Nevertheless, he has sinned; but
verily I say unto you, I, the Lord, forgive sins unto those who
confess their sins before me and ask forgiveness, who have not
sinned unto death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:8 My disciples, in days of old, sought
occasion against one another and forgave not one another in their
hearts; and for this evil they were afflicted and sorely
chastened.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:9 Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye
ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his
brother his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for
there remaineth in him the greater sin.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:10 I, the Lord, will forgive whom I
will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:11 And ye ought to say in your hearts--
let God judge between me and thee, and reward thee according to
thy deeds.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:12 And him that repenteth not of his
sins, and confesseth them not, ye shall bring before the church,
and do with him as the scripture saith unto you, either by
commandment or by revelation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:13 And this ye shall do that God may be
glorified--not because ye forgive not, having not compassion, but
that ye may be justified in the eyes of the law, that ye may not
offend him who is your lawgiver--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:14 Verily I say, for this cause ye
shall do these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:15 Behold, I, the Lord, was angry with
him who was my servant Ezra Booth, and also my servant Isaac
Morley, for they kept not the law, neither the commandment;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:16 They sought evil in their hearts,
and I, the Lord, withheld my Spirit. They condemned for evil that
thing in which there was no evil; nevertheless I have forgiven my
servant Isaac Morley.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:17 And also my servant Edward
Partridge, behold, he hath sinned, and Satan seeketh to destroy
his soul; but when these things are made known unto them, and
they repent of the evil, they shall be forgiven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:18 And now, verily I say that it is
expedient in me that my servant Sidney Gilbert, after a few
weeks, shall return upon his business, and to his agency in the
land of Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:19 And that which he hath seen and
heard may be made known unto my disciples, that they perish not.
And for this cause have I spoken these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:20 And again, I say unto you, that my
servant Isaac Morley may not be tempted above that which he is
able to bear, and counsel wrongfully to your heart, I gave
commandment that his farm should be sold.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:21 I will not that my servant Frederick
G. Williams should sell his farm, for I, the Lord, will to retain
a strong hold in the land of Kirtland, for the space of five
years, in the which I will not overthrow the wicked, that thereby
I may save some.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:22 And after that day, I, the Lord,
will not hold any guilty that shall go with an open heart up to
the land of Zion; for I, the Lord, require the hearts of the
children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:23 Behold, now it is called today until
the coming of the Son of Man, and verily it is a day of
sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my people; for he that is
tithed shall not be burned at his coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:24 For after today cometh the burning--
this is speaking after the manner of the Lord--for verily I say,
tomorrow all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as
stubble; and I will burn them up, for I am the Lord of Hosts; and
I will not spare any that remain in Babylon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:25 Wherefore, if ye believe me, ye will
labor while it is called today.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:26 And it is not meet that my servants,
Newel K. Whitney and Sidney Gilbert, should sell their store and
their possessions here; for this is not wisdom until the residue
of the church, which remaineth in this place, shall go up unto
the land of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:27 Behold, it is said in my laws, or
forbidden, to get in debt to thine enemies;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:28 But behold, it is not said at any
time that the Lord should not take when he please, and pay as
seemeth him good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:29 Wherefore, as ye are agents, ye are
on the Lord's errand; and whatever ye do according to the will of
the Lord is the Lord's business.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:30 And he hath set you to provide for
his saints in these last days, that they may obtain an
inheritance in the land of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:31 And behold, I, the Lord, declare
unto you, and my words are sure and shall not fail, that they
shall obtain it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:32 But all things must come to pass in
their time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:33 Wherefore, be not weary in well-
doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out
of small things proceedeth that which is great.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:34 Behold, the Lord requireth the heart
and a willing mind; and the willing and obedient shall eat the
good of the land of Zion in these last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:35 And the rebellious shall be cut off
out of the land of Zion, and shall be sent away, and shall not
inherit the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:36 For, verily I say that the
rebellious are not of the blood of Ephraim, wherefore they shall
be plucked out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:37 Behold, I the lord, have made my
church in these last days like unto a judge sitting on a hill, or
in a high place, to judge the nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:38 For it shall come to pass that the
inhabitants of Zion shall judge all things pertaining to Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:39 And liars and hypocrites shall be
proved by them, and they who are not apostles and prophets shall
be known.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:40 And even the bishop, who is a judge,
and his counselors, if they are not faithful in their
stewardships shall be condemned, and others shall be planted in
their stead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:41 For, behold, I say unto you that
Zion shall flourish, and the glory of the Lord shall be upon her;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:42 And she shall be an ensign unto the
people, and there shall come unto her out of every nation under
heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 64:43 And the day shall come when the
nations of the earth shall tremble because of her, and shall fear
because of her terrible ones. The Lord hath spoken it. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, October, 1831. The Prophet
designates his revelation as a prayer. --Commitment of the keys
of the kingdom of God unto man--The kingdom of God and the
kingdom of Heaven named separately--Supplication that the kingdom
of God, already on earth, may go forth that the kingdom of Heaven
may come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:1 Hearken, and lo, a voice as of one
sent down from on high, who is mighty and powerful, whose going
forth is unto the ends of the earth, yea, whose voice is unto
men--Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:2 The keys of the kingdom of God are
committed unto man on the earth, and from thence shall the gospel
roll forth unto the ends of the earth, as the stone which is cut
out of the mountain without hands shall roll forth, until is has
filled the whole earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:3 Yea, a voice crying--Prepare ye the
way of the Lord, prepare ye the supper of the Lamb, make ready
for the Bridegroom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:4 Pray unto the Lord, call upon his
holy name, make known his wonderful works among the people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:5 Call upon the Lord, that this kingdom
may go forth upon the earth, that the inhabitants thereof may
receive it, and be prepared for the days to come, in the which
the Son of Man shall come down in heaven, clothed in the
brightness of his glory, to meet the kingdom of God which is set
up on the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 65:6 Wherefore, may the kingdom of God go
forth, that the kingdom of heaven may come, that thou, O God,
mayest be glorified in heaven so on earth, that thine enemies may
be subdued; for thine is the honor, power and glory, forever and
ever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, to William E. M'Lellin, at Orange, Ohio, October 25,
1831. This was the first day of an important conference. See
History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 219. --The recipient commended
for his repentance and reformation--Warning against personal
weaknesses and liability to specific temptation--Great
achievements in righteousness, with consequent blessings,
predicted on condition of devotion to the work of the ministry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my
servant William E. McLellin--Blessed are you, inasmuch as you
have turned away from your iniquities, and have received my
truths, saith the Lord your Redeemer, the Savior of the world,
even of as many as believe on my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:2 Verily I say unto you, blessed are
you for receiving mine everlasting covenant, even the fulness of
my gospel, sent forth unto the children of men, that they might
have life and be made partakers of the glories which are to be
revealed in the last days, as it was written by the prophets and
apostles in days of old.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:3 Verily I say unto you, my servant
William, that you are clean, but not all; repent, therefore, of
those things which are not pleasing in my sight, saith the Lord,
for the Lord will show them unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:4 And now, verily, I, the Lord, will
show unto you what I will concerning you, or what is my will
concerning you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:5 Behold, verily I say unto you, that
it is my will that you should proclaim my gospel from land to
land, and from city to city, yea, in those regions round about
where it has not been proclaimed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:6 Tarry not many days in this place; go
not up unto the land of Zion as yet; but inasmuch as you can
send, send; otherwise, think not of thy property.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:7 Go unto the eastern lands, bear
testimony in every place, unto every people and in their
synagogues, reasoning with the people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:8 Let my servant Samuel H. Smith go
with you, and forsake him not, and give him thine instructions;
and he that is faithful shall be made strong in every place; and
I, the Lord, will go with you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:9 Lay your hands upon the sick, and
they shall recover. Return not till I, the Lord, shall send you.
Be patient in affliction. Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:10 Seek not to be cumbered. Forsake all
unrighteousness. Commit not adultery--a temptation with which
thou hast been troubled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:11 Keep these sayings, for they are
true and faithful; and thou shalt magnify thine office, and push
many people to Zion with songs of everlasting joy upon their
heads.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:12 Continue in those things even unto
the end, and you shall have a crown of eternal life at the right
hand of my Father, who is full of grace and truth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 66:13 Verily, thus saith the Lord your
God, your Redeemer, even Jesus Christ. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, November, 1831. The occasion was
that of a special conference, and the publication of the
revelations already received from the Lord through Joseph Smith
the Prophet was considered and acted upon. See heading to Section
1. Many of the brethren bore solemn testimony that the
revelations then compiled for publication are verily true as was
witnessed unto them by the Holy Ghost shed forth upon them. The
Prophet records that after the revelation known as Section 1 had
been received, some conversation was had concerning revelations
and language. The present revelation followed. --The Lord affirms
the truth of the commandments--Secret ambitions of some there
present to express themselves in language superior to that of the
revelations exposed--The Lord's challenge to even the wisest to
imitate the least of the revelations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:1 Behold and hearken, O ye elders of my
church, who have assembled yourselves together, whose prayers I
have heard, and whose hearts I know, and whose desires have come
up before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:2 Behold and lo, mine eyes are upon
you, and the heavens and the earth are in mine hands, and the
riches of eternity are mine to give.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:3 Ye endeavored to belief that ye
should receive the blessing which was offered unto you; but
behold, verity I say unto you there were fears in your hearts,
and verily this is the reason that ye did not receive.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:4 And now I, the Lord, give unto you a
testimony of the truth of these commandments which are lying
before you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:5 Your eyes have been upon my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun, and his language you have known, and his
imperfections you have known; and you have sought in your hearts
knowledge that you might express beyond his language; this you
also know.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:6 Now, seek ye out of the Book of
Commandments, even the least that is among them, and appoint him
that is the most wise among you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:7 Or, if there be any among you that
shall make one like unto it, then ye are justified in saying that
ye do not know that they are true;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:8 But if ye cannot make one like unto
it, ye are under condemnation if ye do not bear record that they
are true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:9 For ye know that there is no
unrighteousness in them, and that which is righteous cometh down
from above, from the Father of lights.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:10 And again, verily I say unto you
that it is your privilege, and a promise I give unto you that
have been ordained unto this ministry, that inasmuch as you strip
yourselves from jealousies and fears, and humble yourselves
before me, for ye are not sufficiently humble, the veil shall be
rent and you shall see me and know that I am--not with the carnal
neither natural mind, but with the spiritual.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:11 For no man has seen God at any time
in the flesh, except quickened by the Spirit of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:12 Neither can any natural man abide
the presence of God, neither after the carnal mind.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:13 Ye are not able to abide the
presence of God now; neither the ministering of angels;
wherefore, continue in patience until ye are perfected.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 67:14 Let not your minds turn back; and
when ye are worthy, in mine own due time, ye shall see and know
that which was conferred upon you by the hands of my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, November, 1831, concerning Orson
Hyde, Luke S. Johnson, Lyman E. Johnson, and William E. M'Lellin.
This was given in response to supplication that the mind of the
Lord be made known concerning the Elders named. --Utterances of
men ordained to the Holy Priesthood when they speak as moved upon
by the Holy Ghost designated as Scripture--Ordination of
additional Bishops foreshadowed--Right of literal descendants of
Aaron--High Priests may be ordained Bishops--Duties of parents
respecting their children, particularly as to the teaching of the
principles of the Gospel--Observance of the Sabbath as a holy
day--Idleness and greed for worldly things condemned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:1 My servants, Orson Hyde, was called
by his ordination to proclaim the everlasting gospel, by the
Spirit of the living God, from people to people, and from land to
land, in the congregations of the wicked, in their synagogues,
reasoning with and expounding all scriptures unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:2 And, behold, and lo, this is an
ensample unto all those who were ordained unto this priesthood,
whose mission is appointed unto them to go forth--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:3 And this is the ensample unto them,
that they shall speak as they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:4 And whatsoever they shall speak when
moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the
will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the
word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power
of God unto salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:5 Behold, this is the promise of the
Lord unto you, O ye my servants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:6 Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do
not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you; and
ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son
of the living God, that I was, that I am, and that I am to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:7 This is the word of the Lord unto
you, my servant Orson Hyde, and also unto my servant Luke
Johnson, and unto my servant Lyman Johnson, and unto my servant
William E. McLellin, and unto all the faithful elders of my
church--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:8 Go ye into all the world, preach the
gospel to every creature, acting in the authority which I have
given you, baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:9 And he that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:10 And he that believeth shall be blest
with signs following, even as it is written.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:11 And unto you it shall be given to
know the signs of the times, and the signs of the coming of the
Son of Man;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:12 And of as many as the Father shall
bear record, to you shall be given power, to seal them up unto
eternal life. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:13 And now, concerning the items in
addition to the covenants and commandments, they are these--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:14 There remain hereafter, in the due
time of the Lord, other bishops to be set apart unto the church,
to minister even according to the first;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:15 Wherefore they shall be high priests
who are worthy, and they shall be appointed by the First
Presidency of the Melchizedek Priesthood, except they be literal
descendants of Aaron.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:16 And if they be literal descendants
of Aaron they have a legal right to the bishopric, if they are
the firstborn among the sons of Aaron;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:17 For the firstborn holds the right of
the presidency over this priesthood, and the keys or authority of
the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:18 No man has a legal right to this
office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a
literal descendant and the firstborn of Aaron.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:19 But, as a high priest of the
Melchizedek Priesthood has authority to officiate in all the
lesser offices he may officiate in the office of bishop when no
literal descendant of Aaron can be found, provided he is called
and set apart and ordained unto this power, under the hands of
the First Presidency of the Melchizedek Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:20 And a literal descendant of Aaron,
also, must be designated by this Presidency, and found worthy,
and anointed, and ordained under the hands of this Presidency,
otherwise they are not legally authorized to officiate in their
priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:21 But, by virtue of the decree
concerning their right of the priesthood descending from father
to son, they may claim their anointing if at any time they can
prove their lineage, or do ascertain it by revelation from the
Lord under the hands of the above named Presidency.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:22 And again, no bishop or high priest
who shall be set apart for this ministry shall be tried or
condemned for any crime, save it be before the First Presidency
of the church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:23 And inasmuch as he is found guilty
before this Presidency, by testimony that cannot be impeached, he
shall be condemned;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:24 And if he repent he shall be
forgiven, according to the covenants and commandments of the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:25 And again, inasmuch as parents have
children in Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized,
that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentance,
faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the
gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight
years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:26 For this shall be a law unto the
inhabitants of Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:27 And their children shall be baptized
for the remission of their sins when eight years old, and receive
the laying on of the hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:28 And they shall also teach their
children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:29 And the inhabitants of Zion shall
also observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:30 And the inhabitants of Zion also
shall remember their labors, inasmuch as they are appointed to
labor, in all faithfulness; for the idler shall be had in
remembrance before the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:31 Now, I, the Lord, am not well
pleased with the inhabitants of Zion, for there are idlers among
them; and their children are also growing up in wickedness; they
also seek not earnestly the riches of eternity, but their eyes
are full of greediness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:32 These things ought not to be, and
must be done away from among them, wherefore, let my servant
Oliver Cowdery carry these sayings unto the land of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:33 And a commandment I give unto them--
that he that observeth not his prayers before the Lord in the
season thereof, let him be had in remembrance before the judge of
my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:34 These sayings are true and faithful;
wherefore, transgress them not, neither take therefrom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 68:35 Behold, I am Alpha and Omega, and I
come quickly. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, November, 1831. The compilation of
revelations intended for early publication had been passed upon
at the special conference of November 1st. On the 3rd the
revelation herein appearing as Section 133 was added to the
Doctrine and Covenants, and called the Appendix. By action of the
conference, Oliver Cowdery was appointed to carry the manuscript
of the compiled revelations and commandments to Independence,
Missouri, for printing. He was also to take with him moneys that
had been contributed for the building up of the Church in
Missouri. The course of travel would lead him through a sparsely
settled country to the frontier. A traveling companion was
desirable. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 234. --John
Whitmer to accompany Oliver Cowdery, for the latter's safety and
sake--John Whitmer to continue his duties as historian and
recorder--Reports and accounts from the traveling Elders to be
forwarded to the land of Zion, of which Independence, Missouri,
was the center place.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:1 Hearken unto me, saith the Lord your
God, for my servant Oliver Cowdery's sake. It is not wisdom in me
that he should be entrusted with the commandments and the moneys
which he shall carry unto the land of Zion, except one go with
him who will be true and faithful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:2 Wherefore, I, the Lord, will that my
servant, John Whitmer, should go with my servant Oliver Cowdery;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:3 And also that he shall continue in
writing and making a history of all the important things which he
shall observe and know concerning my church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:4 And also that he receive counsel and
assistance from my servant Oliver Cowdery and others.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:5 And also, my servants who are abroad
in the earth should send forth the accounts of their stewardships
to the land of Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:6 For the land of Zion shall be a seat
and a place to receive and do all these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:7 Nevertheless, let my servant John
Whitmer travel many times from place to place, and from church to
church, that he may the more easily obtain knowledge--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 69:8 Preaching and expounding, writing,
copying, selecting, and obtaining all things which shall be for
the good of the church, and for the rising generations that shall
grow up on the land of Zion, to possess it from generation to
generation, forever and ever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November, 1831. The documentary
history written by the Prophet states that four special
conferences were held from the 1st to the 12th of November,
inclusive. In the last of these assemblies the great importance
of the Book of Commandments, later called the Doctrine and
Covenants, was considered; and the Prophet refers to it as being
the foundation of the Church in these last days, and a benefit to
the world, showing that the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom
of our Savior are again entrusted to man. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 235. --Management of printing and distributing
the books entrusted to the Prophet and the other Elders named--
Any surplus means accruing from the undertaking to be consecrated
for the benefit of the Church--Provision to be made for the
temporal support of the ministry--The diligent laborer worthy of
his hire, whether appointed to temporal or spiritual duties.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:1 Behold, and hearken, O ye inhabitants
of Zion, and all ye people of my church who are afar off, and
hear the word of the Lord which I give unto my servant Joseph
Smith, Jun., and also unto my servant Martin Harris, and also
unto my servant Sidney Rigdon, and also unto my servant William
W. Phelps, by the way of commandment unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:2 For I give unto them a commandment;
wherefore hearken and hear, for thus saith the Lord unto them--
Doctrine and Covenants 70:3 I, the Lord, have appointed them, and
ordained them to be stewards over the revelations and
commandments which I have given unto them, and which I shall
hereafter give unto them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:4 And an account of this stewardship
will I require of them in the day of judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:5 Wherefore, I have appointed unto
them, and this is their business in the church of God, to manage
them and the concerns thereof, yea, the benefits thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:6 Wherefore, a commandment I give unto
them, that they shall not give these things unto the church,
neither unto the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:7 Nevertheless, inasmuch as they
receive more than is needful for their necessities and their
wants, it shall be given into my storehouse;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:8 And the benefits shall be consecrated
unto the inhabitants of Zion, and unto their generations,
inasmuch as they become heirs according to the laws of the
kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:9 Behold, this is what the Lord
requires of every man in his stewardship, even as I, the Lord,
have appointed or shall hereafter appoint unto any man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:10 And behold, none are exempt from
this law who belong to the church of the living God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:11 Yea, neither the bishop, neither the
agent who keepeth the Lord's storehouse, neither he who is
appointed in a stewardship over temporal things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:12 He who is appointed to administer
spiritual things, the same is worthy of his hire, even as those
who are appointed to a stewardship to administer in temporal
things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:13 Yea, even more abundantly, which
abundance is multiplied unto them through the manifestations of
the Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:14 Nevertheless, in your temporal
things you shall be equal, and this not grudgingly, otherwise the
abundance of the manifestations of the Spirit shall be withheld.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:15 Now, this commandment I give unto my
servants for their benefit while they remain, for a manifestation
of my blessings upon their heads, and for a reward of their
diligence and for their security;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:16 For food and for raiment; for an
inheritance; for houses and for lands, in whatsoever
circumstances I, the Lord, shall place them, and whithersoever I,
the Lord, shall send them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:17 For they have been faithful over
many things, and have done well inasmuch as they have not sinned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 70:18 Behold, I, the Lord, am merciful and
will bless them, and they shall enter into the joy of these
things. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet and Sidney Rigdon, at Hiram, Ohio, December 1, 1831. The
Prophet had resumed the translation of the Scriptures with Sidney
Rigdon as his scribe; and the two so labored until this
revelation was received. --Circumstances of the times required
that the two devote themselves to travel and preaching for a
season--To meet the opponents of the Church, both in public and
in private--To bear testimony of the commandments that have been
received and in preparation for others yet to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto you
my servants Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, that the time
has verily come that it is necessary and expedient in me that you
should open your mouths in proclaiming my gospel, the things of
the kingdom, expounding the mysteries thereof out of the
scriptures, according to that portion of Spirit and power which
shall be given unto you, even as I will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:2 Verily I say unto you, proclaim unto
the world in the regions round about, and in the church also, for
the space of a season, even until lit shall be made known unto
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:3 Verily this is a mission for a
season, which I give unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:4 Wherefore, labor ye in my vineyard.
Call upon the inhabitants of the earth, and bear record, and
prepare the way for the commandments and revelations which are to
come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:5 Now, behold this is wisdom; whoso
readeth, let him understand and receive also;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:6 For unto him that receiveth it shall
be given more abundantly, even power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:7 Wherefore, confound your enemies;
call upon them to meet you both in public and in private; and
inasmuch as ye are faithful their shame shall be made manifest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:8 Wherefore, let them bring forth their
strong reasons against the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:9 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you-
-there is no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:10 And if any man lift his voice
against you he shall be confounded in mine own due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 71:11 Wherefore, keep my commandments;
they are true and faithful. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, December 4, 1831. Several Elders
and members had assembled to learn their duty and to be further
edified in the teachings of the Church. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 239. --The need of another Bishop being
appointed, he to attend to the affairs pertaining to the
Bishopric in the eastern branches--His records to be delivered to
the Bishop in Zion--Newel K. Whitney named as the second Bishop
to be ordained in the Church--Duties of the Bishop enlarged upon-
-Certificates of membership provided for.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:1 Hearken, and listen to the voice of
the Lord, O ye who have assembled yourselves together, who are
the high priests of my church, to whom the kingdom and power have
been given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:2 For verily thus saith the Lord, it is
expedient in me for a bishop to be appointed unto you, or of you,
unto the church in this part of the Lord's vineyard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:3 And verily in this thing ye have done
wisely, for it is required of the Lord, at the hand of every
steward, to render an account of his stewardship, both in time
and in eternity.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:4 For he who is faithful and wise in
time is accounted worthy to inherit the mansions prepared for him
of my Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:5 Verily I say unto you, the elders of
the church in this part of my vineyard shall render an account of
their stewardship unto the bishop, who shall be appointed of me
in this part of my vineyard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:6 These things shall be had on record,
to be handed over unto the bishop in Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:7 And the duty of the bishop shall be
made known by the commandments which have been given, and the
voice of the conference.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:8 And now, verily I say unto you, my
servant Newel K. Whitney is the man who shall be appointed and
ordained unto this power. This is the will of the Lord your God,
your Redeemer. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:9 The word of the Lord, in addition to
the law which has been given, making known the duty of the bishop
who has been ordained unto the church in this part of the
vineyard, which is verily this--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:10 To keep the Lord's storehouse; to
receive the funds of the church in this part of the vineyard;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:11 To take an account of the elders as
before has been commanded; and to administer to their wants, who
shall pay for that which they receive, inasmuch as they have
wherewith to pay;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:12 That this also may be consecrated to
the good of the church, to the poor and needy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:13 And he who hath not wherewith to
pay, an account shall be taken and handed over to the bishop of
Zion, who shall pay the debt out of that which the Lord shall put
into his hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:14 And the labors of the faithful who
labor in spiritual things, in administering the gospel and the
things of the kingdom unto the church, and unto the world, shall
answer the debt unto the bishop in Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:15 Thus it cometh out of the church,
for according to the law every man that cometh up to Zion must
lay all things before the bishop in Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:16 And now, verily I say unto you, that
as every elder in this part of the vineyard must give an account
of his stewardship unto the bishop in this part of the vineyard--
Doctrine and Covenants 72:17 A certificate from the judge or
bishop in this part of the vineyard, unto the bishop in Zion,
rendereth every man acceptable, and answereth all things, for an
inheritance, and to be received as a wise steward and as a
faithful laborer;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:18 Otherwise he shall not be accepted
of the bishop of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:19 And now, verily I say unto you, let
every elder who shall give an account unto the bishop of the
church in this part of the vineyard be recommended by the church
or churches, in which he labors, that he may render himself and
his accounts approved in all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:20 And again, let my servants who are
appointed as stewards over the literary concerns or my church
have claim for assistance upon the bishop or bishops in all
things--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:21 That the revelations may be
published, and go forth unto the ends of the earth; that they
also may obtain funds which shall benefit the church in all
things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:22 That they also may render themselves
approved in all things, and be accounted as wise stewards.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:23 And now, behold, this shall be an
ensample for all the extensive branches of my church, in
whatsoever land they shall be established. And now I make an end
of my sayings. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:24 A few words in addition to the laws
of the kingdom, respecting the members of the church--they that
are appointed by the Holy Spirit to go up unto Zion, and they who
are privileged to go up unto Zion--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:25 Let them carry up unto the bishop a
certificate from three elders of the church, or a certificate
from the bishop;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 72:26 Otherwise he who shall go up unto
the land of Zion shall not be accounted as a wise steward. This
is also an ensample. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Sidney Rigdon, at Hiram, Ohio, January 10, 1832.
Since the early part of the preceding December, Joseph and Sidney
had been engaged in preaching, and by these means much was
accomplished in allaying the excited feelings that had been
aroused through the publication of scandalous communications to
the press. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 241. --Elders
instructed to continue their preaching and exhortation--Joseph
Smith and Sidney Rigdon to resume the work of translation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:1 For verily, thus saith the Lord, it
is expedient in me that they should continue preaching the
gospel, and in exhortation to the churches in the regions round
about, until conference;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:2 And then, behold, it shall be made
known unto them, by the voice of the conference, their several
missions.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:3 Now, verily I say unto you my
servants, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, saith the Lord,
it is expedient to translate again;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:4 And, inasmuch as it is practicable,
to preach in the regions round about until conference; and after
that it is expedient to continue the work of translation until it
be finished.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:5 And let this be a pattern unto the
elders until further knowledge, even as it is written.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 73:6 Now I give no more unto you at this
time. Gird up your loins and be sober. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:0 By Revelation to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, this explanation of the First Epistle of Paul to the
Corinthians, chapter 7, verse 14, was given, at Hiram, Ohio,
January, 1832.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:1 For the unbelieving husband is
sanctified by the wife, and the wife is sanctified by the
husband; else were your children unclean, but now are they holy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:2 Now, in the days of the apostles the
law of circumcision was had among all the Jews who believed not
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:3 And it came to pass that there arose
a great contention among the people concerning the law of
circumcision, for the unbelieving husband was desirous that his
children should be circumcised and become subject to the law of
Moses, which law was fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:4 And it came to pass that the
children, being brought up in subjection to the law of Moses,
gave heed to the traditions of their fathers and believed not the
gospel of Christ, wherein they became unholy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:5 Wherefore, for this cause the apostle
wrote unto the church, giving unto them a commandment, not of the
Lord, but of himself, that a believer should not be united to an
unbeliever; except the law of Moses should be done away among
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:6 That their children might remain
without circumcision; and that the tradition might be done away,
which saith that little children are unholy; for it was had among
the Jews;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 74:7 But little children are holy being
sanctified through the atonement of Jesus Christ; and this is
what the scriptures mean.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Amherst, Ohio, January 25, 1832. The occasion was
that of a conference before appointed. Certain Elders, who had
encountered difficulty in bringing men to an understanding of
their message, desired to learn more in detail as to their
immediate duties. This revelation followed. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 242. --Instructions for individual guidance of
Elders who are to travel two by two--Necessity of constant prayer
and unwavering faith--Directions for the care and support of the
families of absent Elders.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I who
speak even by the voice of my Spirit, even Alpha and Omega, your
Lord and your God--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:2 Hearken, O ye who have given your
names to go forth to proclaim my gospel, and to prune my vineyard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:3 Behold, I say unto you that it is my
will that you should go forth and not tarry, neither be idle but
labor with your might--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:4 Lifting up your voices as with the
sound of a trump, proclaiming the truth according to the
revelations and commandments which I have given you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:5 And thus, if ye are faithful ye shall
be laden with many sheaves, and crowned with honor, and glory,
and immortality, and eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:6 Therefore, verily I say unto my
servant William E. McLellin, I revoke the commission which I gave
unto him to go unto the eastern countries;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:7 And I give unto him a new commission
and a new commandment, in the which I, the Lord, chasten him for
the murmurings of his heart;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:8 And he sinned; nevertheless, I
forgive him and say unto him again, Go ye into the south
countries.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:9 And let my servant Luke Johnson go
with him, and proclaim the things which I have commanded them--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:10 Calling on the name of the Lord for
the Comforter, which shall teach them all things that are
expedient for them--Doctrine and Covenants 75:11 Praying always
that they faint not; and inasmuch as they do this, I will be with
them even unto the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:12 Behold, this is the will of the Lord
your God concerning you. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:13 And again, verily thus saith the
Lord, let my servant Orson Hyde and my servant Samuel H. Smith
take their journey into the eastern countries, and proclaim the
things which I have commanded them; and inasmuch as they are
faithful, lo, I will be with them even unto the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:14 And again, verily I say unto my
servant Lyman Johnson, and unto my servant Orson Pratt, they
shall also take their journey into the eastern countries; and
behold, and lo, I am with them also, even unto the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:15 And again, I say unto my servant Asa
Dodds, and unto my servant Calves Wilson, that they also shall
take their journey unto the western countries, and proclaim my
gospel, even as I have commanded them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:16 And he who is faithful shall
overcome all things, and shall be lifted up at the last day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:17 And again, I say unto my servant
Major N. Ashley, and my servant Burr Riggs, let them take their
journey also into the south country.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:18 Yea, let all those take their
journey, as I have commanded them, going from house to house, and
from village to village, and from city to city.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:19 And in whatsoever house ye enter,
and they receive you, leave your blessing upon that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:20 And in whatsoever house ye enter,
and they receive you not, ye shall depart speedily from that
house, and shake off the dust of your feet as a testimony against
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:21 And you shall be filled with joy and
gladness; and know this, that in the day of judgment you shall be
judges of that house, and condemn them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:22 And it shall be more tolerable for
the heathen in the day of judgment, than for that house;
therefore, gird up your loins and be faithful, and ye shall
overcome all things, and be lifted up at the last day. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:23 And again, thus saith the Lord unto
you, O ye elders of my church, who have given you names that you
might know his will concerning you--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:24 Behold, I say unto you, that it is
the duty of the church to assist in supporting the families of
those, and also to support the families of those who are called
and must needs be sent unto the world to proclaim the gospel unto
the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:25 Wherefore, I, the Lord, give unto
you this commandment, that ye obtain places for your families,
inasmuch as your brethren are willing to open their hearts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:26 And let all such as can obtain
places for their families, and support of the church for them,
not fall to go into the world, whether to the east or to the
west, or to the north, or to the south.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:27 Let them ask and they shall receive,
knock and it shall be opened unto them, and be made known from on
high, even by the Comforter, whither they shall go.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:28 And again, verily I say unto you,
that every man who is obliged to provide for his own family, let
him provide, and he shall in nowise lose his crown; and let him
labor in the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:29 Let every man be diligent in all
things. And the idler shall not have place in the church, except
he repent and mend his ways.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:30 Wherefore, let my servant Simeon
Carter and my servant Emer Harris be united in the ministry;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:31 And also my servant Ezra Thayre and
my servant Thomas B. Marsh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:32 Also my servant Hyrum Smith and my
servant Reynolds Cahoon;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:33 And also my servant Daniel Stanton
and my servant Seymour Brunson;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:34 And also my servant Sylvester Smith
and my servant Gideon Carter;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:35 And also my servant Ruggles Eames
and my servant Stephen Burnett;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 75:36 And also my servant Micah B. Welton
and also my servant Eden Smith. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:0 A Vision, given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Sidney Rigdon, at Hiram, Ohio, February 16, 1832.
Prefacing his record of this vision the Prophet wrote: "From
sundry revelations which had been received, it was apparent that
many important points touching the salvation of man had been
taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled. It appeared
self-evident from what truths were left, that if God rewarded
every one according to the deeds done in the body, the term
Heaven, as intended for the Saints' eternal home, must include
more kingdoms than one." While he and Sidney Rigdon were engaged
in studious and doubtless prayerful consideration of this matter,
the glorious vision here recorded was given them. See History of
the Church, vol.1, p. 245. --Revelation of truth, wisdom, and
even mysteries promised unto those who are worthy--The eventual
resurrection of both just and unjust--The two Elders bear solemn
personal testimony that Jesus Christ lives--The expulsion of
Lucifer, and his evil activities as Satan on the earth--Awful
fate of those who become sons of perdition--Distinctive glories
of the celestial, the terrestrial, and the telestial states--
Qualifications of souls that shall be assigned to each--Glorious
consummation of the Savior's work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:1 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O
earth, and rejoice ye inhabitants thereof, for the Lord is God,
and beside him there is no Savior.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:2 Great is his wisdom, marvelous are
his ways, and the extent of his doings none can find out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:3 His purposes fail not, neither are
there any who can stay his hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:4 From eternity to eternity he is the
same, and his years never fail.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:5 For thus saith the Lord--I, the Lord,
am merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, and delight to
honor those who serve me in righteousness and in truth unto the
end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:6 Great shall be their reward and
eternal shall be their glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:7 And to them will I reveal all
mysteries, yea, all the hidden mysteries of my kingdom from days
of old, and for ages to come, will I make known unto them the
good pleasure of my will concerning all things pertaining to my
kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:8 Yea, even the wonders of eternity
shall they know, and things to come will I show them, even the
things of many generations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:9 And their wisdom shall be great, and
their understanding reach to heaven; and before them the wisdom
of the wise shall perish, and the understanding of the prudent
shall come to naught.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:10 For by my Spirit will I enlighten
them, and by my power will I make known unto them the secrets of
my will--yea, even those things which eye has not seen, nor ear
heard, nor yet entered into the heart of man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:11 We, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney
Rigdon, being in the Spirit on the sixteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two--
Doctrine and Covenants 76:12 By the power of the Spirit our eyes
were opened and our understandings were enlightened, so as to see
and understand the things of God--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:13 Even those things which were from
the beginning before the world was, which were ordained of the
Father, through his Only Begotten Son, who was in the bosom of
the Father, even from the beginning;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:14 Of whom we bear record; and the
record which we bear is the fulness of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, who is the Son, whom we saw with whom we conversed in the
heavenly vision.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:15 For while we were doing the work of
translation, which the Lord had appointed unto us, we came to the
twenty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of John, which was given
unto us as follows--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:16 Speaking of the resurrection of the
dead, concerning those who shall hear the voice of the Son of
Man:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:17 And shall come forth; they who have
done good, in the resurrection of the just; and they who have
done evil, in the resurrection of the unjust.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:18 Now this caused us to marvel, for it
was given unto us of the Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:19 And while we meditated upon these
things, the Lord touched the eyes of our understandings and they
were opened, and the glory of the Lord shone round about.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:20 And we beheld the glory of the Son,
on the right hand of the Father, and received of his fulness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:21 And saw the holy angels, and them
who are sanctified before his throne, worshiping God, and the
Lamb, who worship him forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:22 And now, after the many testimonies
which have been given of him, this is the testimony last of all
which we give of him: That he lives!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:23 For we saw him, even on the right
hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the
Only Begotten of the Father--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:24 That by him, and through him, and of
him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof
are begotten sons and daughters unto God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:25 And this we saw also, and bear
record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence
of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the
Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust
down from the presence of God and the Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:26 And was called Perdition, for the
heavens wept over him--he was Lucifer, a son of the morning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:27 And we beheld, and lo, he is fallen!
is fallen, even a son of the morning!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:28 And while we were yet in the Spirit,
the Lord commanded us that we should write the vision; for we
beheld Satan, that old serpent, even the devil, who rebelled
against God, and sought to take the kingdom of our God and his
Christ--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:29 Wherefore, he maketh war with the
saints of God, and encompasseth them round about.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:30 And we saw a vision of the suffering
of those with whom he made war and overcame, for thus came the
voice of the Lord unto us:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:31 Thus saith the Lord concerning all
those who know my power, and have been made partakers thereof,
and suffered themselves through the power of the devil to be
overcome, and to deny the truth and defy my power--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:32 They are they who are the sons of
perdition, of whom I say that it had been better for them never
to have been born;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:33 For they are vessels of wrath,
doomed to suffer the wrath of God, with the devil and his angels
in eternity;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:34 Concerning whom I have said there is
no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to come--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:35 Having denied the Holy Spirit after
having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of
the Father, having crucified him unto themselves and put him to
an open shame.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:36 These are they who shall go away
into the lake of fire and brimstone, with the devil and his
angels
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:37 And the only ones on whom the second
death shall have any power;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:38 Yea, verily, the only ones who shall
not be redeemed in the due time of the Lord, after the sufferings
of his wrath.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:39 For all the rest shall be brought
forth by the resurrection of the dead, through the triumph and
the glory of the Lamb, who was slain, who was in the bosom of the
Father before the worlds were made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:40 And this is the gospel, the glad
tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us--
Doctrine and Covenants 76:41 That he came into the world, even
Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear the sins of the
world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all
unrighteousness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:42 That through him all might be saved
whom the Father had put into his power and made by him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:43 Who glorifies the Father, and saves
all the works of his hands, except those sons of perdition who
deny the Son after the Father has revealed him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:44 Wherefore, he saves all except them-
-they shall go away into everlasting punishment, which is endless
punishment, which is eternal punishment, to reign with the devil
and his angels in eternity, where their worm dieth not, and the
fire is not quenched, which is their torment--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:45 And the end thereof, neither the
place thereof, nor their torment, no man knows;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:46 Neither was it revealed, neither is,
neither will be revealed unto man, except to them who are made
partakers thereof;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:47 Nevertheless, I, the Lord, show it
by vision unto many, but straightway shut it up again;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:48 Wherefore, the end, the width, the
height, the depth, and the misery thereof, they understand not,
neither any man except those who are ordained unto this
condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:49 And we heard the voice, saying:
Write the vision, for lo, this is the end of the vision of the
sufferings of the ungodly.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:50 And again we bear record--for we saw
and heard, and this is the testimony of the gospel of Christ
concerning them who shall come forth in the resurrection of the
just--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:51 They are they who received the
testimony of Jesus, and believed on his name and were baptized
after the manner of his burial, being buried in the water in his
name, and this according to the commandment which he has given--
Doctrine and Covenants 76:52 That by keeping the commandments
they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and
receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who
is ordained and sealed unto this power;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:53 And who overcome by faith, and are
sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father sheds
forth upon all those who are just and true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:54 They are they who are the church of
the Firstborn.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:55 They are they into whose hands the
Father has given all things--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:56 They are they who are priests and
kings, who have received of his fulness, and of his glory;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:57 And are priests of the Most High,
after the order of Melchizedek, which was after the order of
Enoch, which was after the order of the Only Begotten Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:58 Wherefore, as it is written, they
are gods, even the sons of God--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:59 Wherefore, all things are theirs,
whether life or death, or things present, or things to come, all
are theirs and they are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:60 And they shall overcome all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:61 Wherefore, let no man glory in man,
but rather let him glory in God, who shall subdue all enemies
under his feet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:62 These shall dwell in the presence of
God and his Christ forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:63 These are they whom he shall bring
with him, when he shall come in the clouds of heaven to reign on
the earth over his people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:64 These are they who shall have part
in the first resurrection.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:65 These are they who shall come forth
in the resurrection of the just.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:66 These are they who are come unto
Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
place, the holiest of all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:67 These are they who have come to an
innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church
of Enoch, and of the Firstborn.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:68 These are they whose names are
written in heaven, where God and Christ are the judge of all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:69 These are they who are just men made
perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who
wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his
own blood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:70 These are they whose bodies are
celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God,
the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is
written of as being typical.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:71 And again, we saw the terrestrial
world, and behold and lo, these are they who are of the
terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of the church of the
Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even as
that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:72 Behold, these are they who died
without law;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:73 And also they who are the spirits of
men kept in prison, whom the Son visited, and preached the gospel
unto them, that they might be judged according to men in the
flesh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:74 Who received not the testimony of
Jesus in the flesh, but afterwards received it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:75 These are they who are honorable men
of the earth, who were blinded by the craftiness of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:76 These are they who receive of his
glory, but not of his fulness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:77 These are they who receive of the
presence of the Son, but not of the fulness of the Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:78 Wherefore, they are bodies
terrestrial, and not bodies celestial, and differ in glory as the
moon differs from the sun.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:79 These are they who are not valiant
in the testimony of Jesus; wherefore, they obtain not the crown
over the kingdom of our God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:80 And now is the end of the vision
which we saw of the terrestrial, that the Lord commanded us to
write while we were yet in the Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:81 And again, we saw the glory of the
telestial, which glory is that of the lesser, even as the glory
of the stars differs from that of the glory of the moon in the
firmament.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:82 These are they who received not the
gospel of Christ, neither the testimony of Jesus.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:83 These are they who deny not the Holy
Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:84 These are they who are thrust down
to hell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:85 These are they who shall not be
redeemed from the devil until the last resurrection, until the
Lord, even Christ the Lamb, shall have finished his work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:86 These are they who receive not of
his fulness in the eternal world, but of the Holy Spirit through
the ministration of the terrestrial;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:87 And the terrestrial through the
ministration of the celestial.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:88 And also the telestial receive it of
the administering of angels who are appointed to minister for
them, or who are appointed to be ministering spirits for them;
for they shall be heirs of salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:89 And thus we saw, in the heavenly
vision, the glory of the telestial, which surpasses all
understanding;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:90 And no man knows it except him to
whom God has revealed it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:91 And thus we saw the glory of the
terrestrial which excels in all things the glory of the
telestial, even in glory, and in power, and in might, and in
dominion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:92 And thus we saw the glory of the
celestial, which excels in all things--where God, even the
Father, reigns upon his throne forever and ever;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:93 Before whose throne all things bow
in humble reverence, and give him glory forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:94 They who dwell in his presence are
the church of the Firstborn; and they see as they are seen, and
know as they are known, having received of his fulness and of his
grace;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:95 And he makes them equal in power,
and in might, and in dominion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:96 And the glory of the celestial is
one, even as the glory of the sun is one.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:97 And the glory of the terrestrial is
one, even as the glory of the sun is one.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:98 And the glory of the telestial is
one, even as the glory of the stars is one; for as one star
differs from another star in glory, even so differs one from
another in glory in the telestial world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:99 For these are they who are of Paul,
and of Apollos, and of Cephas.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:100 These are they who say they are
some of one and some of another---some of Christ and some of
John, and some of Moses, and some of Elias, and some of Isaiah,
and some of Enoch;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:101 But received not the gospel,
neither the testimony of Jesus, neither the prophets, neither the
everlasting covenant.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:102 Last of all, these all are they who
will not be gathered with the saints, to be caught up unto the
church of the Firstborn, and received into the cloud.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:103 These are they who are liars, and
sorcerers, and adulterers, and whoremongers, and whosoever loves
and makes a lie.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:104 These are they who suffer the wrath
of God on earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:105 These are they who suffer the
vengeance of eternal fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:106 These are they who are cast down to
hell and suffer the wrath of Almighty God, until the fulness of
times, when Christ shall have subdued all enemies under his feet,
and shall have perfected his work;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:107 When he shall deliver up the
kingdom, and present it unto the Father, spotless, saying: I have
overcome and have trodden the wine-press alone, even the wine-
press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:108 Then shall he be crowned with the
crown of his glory, to sit on the throne of his power to reign
forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:109 But behold, and lo, we saw the
glory and the inhabitants of the telestial world, that they were
as innumerable as the stars in the firmament of heaven, or as the
sand upon the seashore;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:110 And heard the voice of the Lord
saying: These all shall bow the knee, and every tongue shall
confess to him who sits upon the throne forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:111 For they shall be judged according
to their works, and every man shall receive according to his own
works, his own dominion, in the mansions which are prepared;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:112 And they shall be servants of the
Most High; but where God and Christ dwell they cannot come,
worlds without end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:113 This is the end of the vision which
we saw, which we were commanded to write while we were yet in the
Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:114 But great and marvelous are the
works of the Lord, and the mysteries of his kingdom which he
showed unto us, which surpass all understanding in glory, and in
might, and in dominion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:115 Which he commanded us we should not
write while we were yet in the Spirit; and are not lawful for man
to utter;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:116 Neither is man capable to make them
known, for they are only to be seen and understood by the power
of the Holy Spirit, which God bestows on those who love him, and
purify themselves before him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:117 To whom he grants this privilege of
seeing and knowing for themselves;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:118 That through the power and
manifestation of the Spirit, while in the flesh, they may be able
to bear his presence in the world of glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 76:119 And to God and the Lamb be glory,
and honor, and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March, 1832. --An explanation of part of
the Revelation of John.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:1 Q. What is the sea of glass spoken of
by John, 4th chapter, and 6th verse of the Revelation?   A. It is
the earth, in its sanctified, immortal, and eternal state.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:2 Q. What are we to understand by the
four beasts, spoken of in the same verse?   A. They are
figurative expressions, used by the Revelator, John, in
describing heaven, the paradise of God, the happiness of man, and
of beasts, and of creeping things, and of the fowls of the air;
that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is
temporal; and that which is temporal in the likeness of that
which is spiritual; the spirit of man in the likeness of his
person, as also the spirit of the beasts, and every other
creature which God has created.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:3 Q. Are the four beasts limited to
individual beasts, or do they represent classes or orders?   A.
They are limited to four individual beasts, which were shown to
John, to represent the glory of the classes of beings in their
destined order or sphere of creation, in the enjoyment of their
eternal felicity.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:4 Q. What are we to understand by the
eyes and wings, which the beasts had?   A. Their eyes are a
representation of light and knowledge, that is, they are full of
knowledge; and their wings are a representation of power, to
move, to act, etc.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:5 Q. What are we to understand by the
four and twenty elders, spoken of by John?   A. We are to
understand that these elders whom John saw, were elders who had
been faithful in the work of the ministry and were dead; who
belonged to the seven churches, and were then in the paradise of
God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 Q. What are we to understand by the
book which John saw, which was sealed on the back with seven
seals?   A. We are to understand that it contains the revealed
will, mysteries, and the works of God; the hidden things of his
economy concerning this earth during the seven thousand years of
its continuance, or its temporal existence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:7 Q. What are we to understand by the
seven seals with which it was sealed?   A. We are to understand
that the first seal contains the things of the first thousand
years, and the second also of the second thousand years, and so
on until the seventh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:8 Q. What are we to understand by the
four angels, spoken of in the 7th chapter and 1st verse of
Revelation?   A. We are to understand that they are four angels
sent forth from God, to whom is given power over the four parts
of the earth, to save life and to destroy; these are they who
have the everlasting gospel to commit to every nation, kindred,
tongue, and people; having power to shut up the heavens, to seal
up unto life, or to cast down to the regions of darkness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:9 Q. What are we to understand by the
angel ascending from the east, Revelation 7th chapter and 2nd
verse?   A. We are to understand that the angel ascending from
the east is he to whom is given the seal of the living God over
the twelve tribes of Israel; wherefore, he crieth unto the four
angels having the everlasting gospel, saying: Hurt not the earth,
neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants
of our God in their foreheads. And, if you will receive it, this
is Elias which was to come to gather together the tribes of
Israel and restore all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:10 Q. What time are the things spoken
of in this chapter to be accomplished?   A. They are to be
accomplished in the sixth thousand years, or the opening of the
sixth seal.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:11 Q. What are we to understand by
sealing the one hundred and forty-four thousand, out of all the
tribes of Israel--twelve thousand out of every tribe?   A. We are
to understand that those who are sealed are high priests,
ordained unto the holy order of God, to administer the
everlasting gospel; for they are they who are ordained out of
every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, by the angels to whom
is given power over the nations of the earth, to bring as many as
will come to the church of the Firstborn.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:12 Q. What are we to understand by the
sounding of the trumpets, mentioned in the 8th chapter of
Revelation?   A. We are to understand that as God made the world
in six days, and on the seventh day he finished his work, and
sanctified it, and also formed man out of the dust of the earth,
even so, in the beginning of the seventh thousand years will the
Lord God sanctify the earth, and complete the salvation of man,
and judge all things, and shall redeem all things, except that
which he hath not put into his power, when he shall have sealed
all things, unto the end of all things; and the sounding of the
trumpets of the seven angels, are the preparing and finishing of
his work, in the beginning of the seventh thousand years--the
preparing of the way before the time of his coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:13 Q. When are the things to be
accomplished, which are written in the 9th chapter of Revelation? 
 A. They are to be accomplished after the opening of the seventh
seal, before the coming of Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:14 Q. What are we to understand by the
little book which was eaten by John, as mentioned in the 10th
chapter of Revelation?   A. We are to understand that it was a
mission, and an ordinance, for him to gather the tribes of
Israel; behold, this is Elias, who, as it is written, must come
and restore all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 77:15 Q. What is to be understood by the
two witnesses, in the eleventh chapter of Revelation?   A. They
are two prophets that are to be raised up to the Jewish nation in
the last days, at the time of the restoration, and to prophesy to
the Jews after they are gathered and have built the city of
Jerusalem in the land of their fathers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March 1832. The Order given of the
Lord to Enoch [Joseph Smith, Jun.] for the purpose of
establishing the poor. In the documentary history of the Church,
vol. 1, p. 255, appears this note: It was not always desirable
that the individuals whom the Lord addressed in revelations
should at the time be known by the world, and hence in this and
in some subsequent revelations the brethren were addressed by
other than their own names. The temporary necessity having passed
for keeping the names of the individuals addressed unknown, their
real names were subsequently given in brackets. --A fuller
organization of the people for the regulation of their temporal
affairs necessary--Spirit of equality among the Saints
inculcated--Additional revelation from time to time to be given--
Membership in the Church of the Firstborn defined.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:1 The Lord spake unto Joseph Smith,
Jun., saying: Hearken unto me, saith the Lord your God, who are
ordained unto the high priesthood of my church, who have
assembled yourselves together;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:2 And listen to the counsel of him who
has ordained you from on high, who shall speak in your ears the
words of wisdom, that salvation may be unto you in that thing
which you have presented before me, saith the Lord God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:3 For verily I say unto you, the time
has come, and is now at hand; and behold, and lo, it must needs
by that there be an organization of my people, in regulating and
establishing the affairs of the storehouse for the poor of my
people, both in this place and in the land of Zion--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:4 For a permanent and everlasting
establishment and order unto my church, to advance the cause,
which ye have espoused; to the salvation of man, and to the glory
of your Father who is in heaven;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:5 That you may be equal in the bonds of
heavenly things, yea, and earthly things also, for the obtaining
of heavenly things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:6 For if ye are not equal in earthly
things ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:7 For if you will that I give unto you
a place in the celestial world, you must prepare yourselves by
doing the things which I have commanded you and required of you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:8 And now, verily thus saith the Lord,
it is expedient that all things be done unto my glory, by you who
are joined together in this order;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:9 Or, in other words, let my servant
Newel K. Whitney and my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and my
servant Sidney Rigdon sit in council with the saints which are in
Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:10 Otherwise Satan seeketh to turn
their hearts away from the truth, that they become blinded and
understand not the things which are prepared for them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:11 Wherefore, a commandment I give unto
you, to prepare and organize yourselves by a bond or everlasting
covenant that cannot be broken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:12 And he who breaketh it shall lose
his office and standing in the church, and shall be delivered
over to the buffetings of Satan until the day of redemption.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:13 Behold, this is the preparation
wherewith I prepare you, and the foundation, and the ensample
which I give unto you, whereby you may accomplish the
commandments which are given you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:14 That through my providence,
notwithstanding the tribulation which shall descend upon you,
that the church may stand independent above all other creatures
beneath the celestial world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:15 That you may come up unto the crown
prepared for you, and be made rulers over many kingdoms, saith
the Lord God, the Holy One of Zion, who hath established the
foundations of Adam-ondi-Ahman;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:16 Who hath appointed Michael your
prince, and established his feet, and set him upon high, and
given unto him the keys of salvation under the counsel and
direction of the Holy One, who is without beginning of days or
end of life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:17 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye
are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great
blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:18 And ye cannot bear all things now;
nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The
kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the
riches of eternity are yours.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:19 And he who receiveth all things with
thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth
shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:20 Wherefore, do the things which I
have commanded you, saith your Redeemer, even the Son Ahman, who
prepareth all things before he taketh you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:21 For ye are the church of the
Firstborn, and he will take you up in a cloud, and appoint every
man his portion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 78:22 And he that is a faithful and wise
steward shall inherit all things. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 79:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March, 1832. --Jared Carter directed
to go again into the eastern country--Conditional promise of
great reward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 79:1 Verily I say unto you, that it is my
will that my servant Jared Carter should go again into the
eastern countries, from place to place, and from city to city, in
the power of the ordination wherewith he has been ordained,
proclaiming glad tidings of great joy, even the everlasting
gospel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 79:2 And I will send upon him the
Comforter, which shall teach him the truth and the way whither he
shall go;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 79:3 And inasmuch as he is faithful, I
will crown him again with sheaves.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 79:4 Wherefore, let your heart be glad, my
servant Jared Carter, and fear not, saith your Lord, even Jesus
Christ. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 80:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March, 1832. --Commandment
concerning ministerial labors to Stephen Burnett and Eden Smith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 80:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
my servant Stephen Burnett: Go ye, go ye into the world and
preach the gospel to every creature that cometh under the sound
of your voice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 80:2 And inasmuch as you desire a
companion, I will give unto you my servant Eden Smith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 80:3 Wherefore, go ye and preach my
gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to the east or to
the west, it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 80:4 Therefore, declare the things which
ye have heard, and verily believe, and know to be true.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 80:5 Behold, this is the will of him who
hath called you, your Redeemer, even Jesus Christ. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March, 1832. --Frederick G. Williams
called to be a High Priest and a Counselor in the First
Presidency of the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you my
servant Frederick G. Williams: Listen to the voice of him who
speaketh, to the word of the Lord your God, and hearken to the
calling wherewith you are called, even to be a high priest in my
church, and a counselor unto my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:2 Unto whom I have given the keys of
the kingdom, which belong always unto the Presidency of the High
Priesthood:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:3 Therefore, verily I acknowledge him
and will bless him, and also thee, inasmuch as thou art faithful
in counsel, in the office which I have appointed unto you, in
prayer always, vocally and in thy heart, in public and in
private, also in thy ministry in proclaiming the gospel in the
land of the living, and among thy brethren.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:4 And in doing these things thou wilt
do the greatest good unto thy fellow beings, and wilt promote the
glory of him who is your Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:5 Wherefore, be faithful; stand in the
office which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, lift up
the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:6 And if thou art faithful unto the end
thou shalt have a crown of immortality, and eternal life in the
mansions which I have prepared in the house of my Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 81:7 Behold, and lo, these are the words
of Alpha and Omega, even Jesus Christ. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, in Jackson County, Missouri, April 26, 1832, showing the
order given to Enoch, and the Church in his day. The occasion was
a general council of the Church at which Joseph Smith the Prophet
was sustained as the President of the High Priesthood, to which
office he had previously been ordained at a conference of High
Priests, Elders and members, at Amherst, Ohio, January 25, 1832.
See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 267. For explanation of
unusual names see heading to Section 78. --The Lord reproves for
sin and commends for repentance--Those who seek the mind of the
Lord and then fail to abide by it are transgressors--The Lord is
bound when his commandments are complied with--The Saints
commanded to enter into covenant in the administration of their
stewardships--Selfishness to be curbed and every man to seek the
interest of his neighbor.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, my
servants, that inasmuch as you have forgiven one another your
trespasses, even so I, the Lord, forgive you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:2 Nevertheless, there are those among
you who have sinned exceedingly; yea, even all of you have
sinned; but verily I say unto you, beware from henceforth, and
refrain from sin, lest sore judgments fall upon your heads.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:3 For of him unto whom much is given
much is required; and he who sins against the greater light shall
receive the greater condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:4 Ye call upon my name for revelations,
and I give them unto you; and inasmuch as ye keep not my sayings,
which I give unto you, ye become transgressors; and justice and
judgment are the penalty which is affixed unto my law.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:5 Therefore, what I say unto one I say
unto all: Watch, for the adversary spreadeth his dominions, and
darkness reigneth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:6 And the anger of God kindleth against
the inhabitants of the earth; and none doeth good, for all have
gone out of the way.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:7 And now, verily I say unto you, I,
the Lord, will not lay any sin to your charge; go your ways and
sin no more; but unto that soul who sinneth shall the former sins
return, saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:8 And again, I say unto you, I give
unto you a new commandment, that you may understand my will
concerning you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:9 Or, in other words, I give unto you
directions how you may act before me, that it may turn to you for
your salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:10 I, the Lord, am bound when ye do
what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:11 Therefore, verily I say unto you,
that it is expedient for my servants Edward Partridge and Newel
K. Whitney, A. Sidney Gilbert and Sidney Rigdon, and my servant
Joseph Smith, and John Whitmer and Oliver Cowdery, and W. W.
Phelps and Martin Harris to be bound together by a bond and
covenant that cannot be broken by transgression, except judgments
shall immediately follow, in your several stewardships--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:12 To manage the affairs of the poor,
and all things pertaining to the bishopric both in the land of
Zion and in the land of Kirtland;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:13 For I have consecrated the land of
Kirtland in mine own due time for the benefit of the saints of
the Most High, and for a stake to Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:14 For Zion must increase in beauty,
and in holiness; her borders must be enlarged; her stakes must be
strengthened; yea, verily I say unto you, Zion must arise and put
on her beautiful garments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:15 Therefore, I give unto you this
commandment, that ye bind yourselves by this covenant, and it
shall be done according to the laws of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:16 Behold, here is wisdom also in me
for your good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:17 And you are to be equal, or in other
words, you are to have equal claims on the properties, for the
benefit of managing the concerns of your stewardships, every man
according to his wants and his needs, inasmuch as his wants are
just--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:18 And all this for the benefit of the
church of the living God, that every man may improve upon his
talent, that every man may gain other talents, yea, even an
hundred fold, to be cast into the Lord's storehouse, to become
the common property of the whole church--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:19 Every man seeking the interest of
his neighbor, and doing all things with an eye single to the
glory of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:20 This order I have appointed to be an
everlasting order unto you, and unto your successors, inasmuch as
you sin not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:21 And the soul that sins against this
covenant, and hardeneth his heart against it, shall be dealt with
according to the laws of my church, and shall be delivered over
to the buffetings of Satan until the day of redemption.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:22 And now, verily I say unto you, and
this is wisdom, make unto yourselves friends with the mammon of
unrighteousness, and they will not destroy you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:23 Leave judgment alone with me, for it
is mine and I will repay. Peace be with you; my blessings
continue with you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 82:24 For even yet the kingdom is yours,
and shall be forever, if you fall not from your steadfastness.
Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Independence, Missouri, April 30, 1832. This
revelation was received as the Prophet sat in council with his
brethren. --Claims of women and children for support upon their
husbands and fathers--Claims of widows and orphans upon the
Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord, in
addition to the laws of the church concerning women and children,
those who belong to the church, who have lost their husbands or
fathers:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:2 Women have claim on their husbands
for the maintenance, until their husbands are taken; and if they
are not found transgressors they shall have fellowship in the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:3 And if they are not faithful they
shall not have fellowship in the church; yet they may remain upon
their inheritances according to the laws of the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:4 All children have claim upon their
parents for their maintenance until they are of age.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:5 And after that, they have claim upon
the church, or in other words, upon the Lord's storehouse, if
their parents have not wherewith to give them inheritances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 83:6 And the storehouse shall be kept by
the consecrations of the church; and widows and orphans shall be
provided for, as also the poor. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, September 22 and 23, 1832. During
the month of September, Elders had begun to return from their
missions in the eastern States, and to make reports of their
labors. It was while they were together in this season of joy
that the following communication was received. The Prophet
designates it a Revelation on Priesthood. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 286. --A Temple to be built in the land of
Zion during this generation--The line of the Holy Priesthood from
Moses back to Adam--Relation between the Holy Priesthood and the
Lesser Priesthood--Bearers of these two Priesthoods called the
sons of Moses and of Aaron respectively--Blessings and privileges
of those who attain to these Priesthoods--The bondage of sin--The
new and everlasting covenant--Gifts of the spirit specified--The
Lord calls his servants, friends--Missionary service imperative--
Plagues impending because of wickedness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:1 A revelation of Jesus Christ unto his
servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and six elders, as they united their
hearts and lifted their voices on high.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:2 Yea, the word of the Lord concerning
his church, established in the last days for the restoration of
his people, as he has spoken by the mouth of his prophets, and
for the gathering of his saints to stand upon Mount Zion, which
shall be the city of New Jerusalem.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:3 Which city shall be built, beginning
at the temple lot, which is appointed by the finger of the Lord,
in the western boundaries of the State of Missouri, and dedicated
by the hand of Joseph Smith, Jun., and others with whom the Lord
was well pleased.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:4 Verily this is the word of the Lord,
that the city New Jerusalem shall be built by the gathering of
the saints, beginning at this place, even the place of the
temple, which temple shall be reared in this generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:5 For verily this generation shall not
all pass away until an house shall be built unto the Lord, and a
cloud shall rest upon it, which cloud shall be even the glory of
the Lord, which shall fill the house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:6 And the sons of Moses, according to
the Holy Priesthood which he received under the hand of his
father-in-law, Jethro.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:7 And Jethro received it under the hand
of Caleb;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:8 And Caleb received it under the hand
of Elihu;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:9 And Elihu under the hand of Jeremy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:10 And Jeremy under the hand of Gad;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:11 And Gad under the hand of Esaias;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:12 And Esaias received it under the
hand of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:13 Esaias also lived in the days of
Abraham, and was blessed of him--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:14 Which Abraham received the
priesthood from Melchizedek, who received it through the lineage
of his fathers, even till Noah;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:15 And from Noah till Enoch, through
the lineage of their fathers;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:16 And from Enoch to Abel, who was
slain by conspiracy of his brother, who received the priesthood
by the commandments of God, by the hand of his father Adam, who
was the first man--Doctrine and Covenants 84:17 Which priesthood
continueth in the church of God in all generations, and is
without beginning of days or end of years.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:18 And the Lord confirmed a priesthood
also upon Aaron and his seed, throughout all their generations,
which priesthood also continueth and abideth forever with the
priesthood which is after the holiest order of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:19 And this greater priesthood
administereth the gospel and holdeth the key of the mysteries of
the kingdom, even the key of the knowledge of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:20 Therefore, in the ordinances
thereof, the power of godliness is manifest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:21 And without the ordinances thereof,
and the authority of priesthood, the power of godliness is not
manifest unto men in the flesh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:22 For without this no man can see the
face of God, even the Father, and live.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:23 Now this Moses plainly taught to the
children of Israel in the wilderness, and sought diligently to
sanctify his people that they might behold the face of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:24 But they hardened their hearts and
could not endure his presence; therefore, the Lord in his wrath,
for his anger was kindled against them, swore that they should
not enter into his rest while in the wilderness, which rest is
the fulness of his glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:25 Therefore, he took Moses out of
their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:26 And the lesser priesthood continued,
which priesthood holdeth the key of the ministering of angels and
the preparatory gospel;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:27 Which gospel is the gospel of
repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law
of carnal commandments, which the Lord in his wrath caused to
continue with the house of Aaron among the children of Israel
until John, whom God raised up, being filled with the Holy Ghost
from his mother's womb.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:28 For he was baptized while he was yet
in his childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the
time he was eight days old unto this power, to overthrow the
kingdom of the Jews, and to make straight the way of the Lord
before the face of his people, to prepare them for the coming of
the Lord, in whose hand is given all power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:29 And again, the offices of elder and
bishop are necessary appendages belonging unto the high
priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:30 And again, the offices of teacher
and deacon are necessary appendages belonging to the lesser
priesthood, which priesthood was confirmed upon Aaron and his
sons.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:31 Therefore, as I said concerning the
sons of Moses--for the sons of Moses and also the sons of Aaron
shall offer an acceptable offering and sacrifice in the house of
the Lord, which house shall be built unto the Lord in this
generation, upon the consecrated spot as I have appointed--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:32 And the sons of Moses and of Aaron
shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, upon Mount Zion in
the Lord's house, whose sons are ye; and also many whom I have
called and sent forth to build up my church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:33 For whoso is faithful unto the
obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the
renewing of their bodies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:34 They become the sons of Moses and of
Aaron and the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom, and
the elect of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:35 And also all they who receive this
priesthood receive me, saith the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:36 For he that receiveth my servants
receiveth me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:37 And he that receiveth me receiveth
my Father;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:38 And he that receiveth my Father
receiveth my Father's kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath
shall be given unto him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:39 And this is according to the oath
and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:40 Therefore, all those who receive the
priesthood, receive this oath and covenant of my Father, which he
cannot break, neither can it be moved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:41 But whoso breaketh this covenant
after he hath received it, and altogether turneth therefrom,
shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world
to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:42 And wo unto all those who come not
unto this priesthood which ye have received, which I now confirm
upon you who are present this day, by mine own voice out of the
heavens; and even I have given the heavenly hosts and mine angels
charge concerning you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:43 And I now give unto you a
commandment to beware concerning yourselves, to give diligent
heed to the words of eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:44 For you shall live by every word
that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:45 For the word of the Lord is truth,
and whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is
Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:46 And the Spirit giveth light to every
man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit enlighteneth every
man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the
Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:47 And every one that hearkeneth to the
voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:48 And the Father teacheth him of the
covenant which he has renewed and confirmed upon you, which is
confirmed upon you for your sakes, and not for your sakes only,
but for the sake of the whole world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:49 And the whole world lieth in sin,
and groaneth under darkness and under the bondage of sin.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:50 And by this you may know they are
under the bondage of sin, because they come not unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:51 For whoso cometh not unto me is
under the bondage of sin.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:52 And whoso receiveth not my voice is
not acquainted with my voice, and is not of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:53 And by this you may know the
righteous from the wicked, and that the whole world groaneth
under sin and darkness even now.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:54 And your minds in times past have
been darkened because of your unbelief, and because you have
treated lightly the things you have received--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:55 Which vanity and unbelief have
brought the whole church under condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:56 And this condemnation resteth upon
the children of Zion, even all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:57 And they shall remain under this
condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant,
even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have
given them, not only to say, but to do according to that which I
have written--Doctrine and Covenants 84:58 That they may bring
forth fruit meet for their Father's kingdom; otherwise there
remaineth a scourge and judgment to be poured out upon the
children of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:59 For shall the children of the
kingdom pollute my holy land? Verily, I say unto you. Nay.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:60 Verily, verily, I say unto you who
now hear my words, which are my voice, blessed are ye inasmuch as
you receive these things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:61 For I will forgive you of your sins
with this commandment--that you remain steadfast in your minds in
solemnity and the spirit of prayer, in bearing testimony to all
the world of those things which are communicated unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:62 Therefore, go ye into all the world;
and unto whatsoever place ye cannot go ye shall send, that the
testimony may go from you into all the world unto every creature.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:63 And as I said unto mine apostles,
even so I say unto you, for you are mine apostles, even God's
high priests; ye are they whom my Father hath given me; ye are my
friends.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:64 Therefore, as I said unto mine
apostles I say unto you again, that every soul who believeth on
your words, and is baptized by water for the remission of sins,
shall receive the Holy Ghost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:65 And these signs shall follow them
that believe--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:66 In my name they shall do many
wonderful works;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:67 In my name they shall cast out
devils;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:68 In my name they shall heal the sick;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:69 In my name they shall open the eyes
of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:70 And the tongue of the dumb shall
speak;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:71 And if any man shall administer
poison unto them it shall not hurt them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:72 And the poison of a serpent shall
not have power to harm them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:73 But a commandment I give unto them,
that they shall not boast themselves of these things, neither
speak them before the world; for these things are given unto you
for your profit and for your salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:74 Verily, verily, I say unto you, they
who believe not on your words, and are not baptized in water in
my name, for the remission of their sins, that they may receive
the Holy Ghost, shall be damned, and shall not come into my
Father's kingdom where my Father and I am.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:75 And this revelation unto you, and
commandment, is in force from this very hour upon all the world,
and the gospel is unto all who have not received it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:76 But, verily I say unto all those to
whom the kingdom has been given--from you it must be preached
unto them, that they shall repent of their former evil works; for
they are to be upbraided for their evil hearts of unbelief, and
your brethren in Zion for their rebellion against you at the time
I sent you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:77 And again I say unto you, my
friends, for from henceforth I shall call you friends, it is
expedient that I give unto you this commandment, that ye become
even as my friends in days when I was with them, traveling to
preach the gospel in my power;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:78 For I suffered them not to have
purse or scrip, neither two coats.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:79 Behold, I send you out to prove the
world, and the laborer is worthy of his hire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:80 And any man that shall go and preach
this gospel of the kingdom, and fail not to continue faithful in
all things, shall not be weary in mind, neither darkened, neither
in body, limb, nor joint; and a hair of his head shall not fall
to the ground unnoticed. And they shall not go hungry, neither
athirst.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:81 Therefore, take no thought for the
morrow, for what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, or
wherewithal ye shall be clothed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:82 For, consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin; and
the kingdoms of the world, in all their glory, are not arrayed
like one of these.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:83 For your Father, who is in heaven,
knoweth that you have need of all these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:84 Therefore, let the morrow take
thought for the things of itself.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:85 Neither take ye thought beforehand
what ye shall say; but treasure up in your minds continually the
words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that
portion that shall be meted unto every man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:86 Therefore, let no man among you, for
this commandment is unto all the faithful who are called of God
in the church unto the ministry, from this hour take purse or
scrip, that goeth forth to proclaim this gospel of the kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:87 Behold, I send you out to reprove
the world of all their unrighteous deeds, and to teach them of a
judgment which is to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:88 And whoso receiveth you, there I
will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your
right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your
hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:89 Whoso receiveth you receiveth me;
and the same will feed you, and clothe you, and give you money.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:90 And he who feeds you, or clothes
you, or gives you money, shall in nowise lose his reward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:91 And he that doeth not these things
is not my disciple; by this ye may know my disciples.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:92 He that receiveth you not, go away
from him alone by yourselves, and cleanse your feet even with
water, pure water, whether in heat or in cold, and bear testimony
of it unto your Father which is in heaven, and return not again
unto that man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:93 And in whatsoever village or city ye
enter, do likewise.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:94 Nevertheless, search diligently and
spare not; and wo unto that house, or that village or city that
rejecteth you, or your words, or your testimony of me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:95 Wo, I say again, unto that house, or
that village or city that rejecteth you, or your words, or your
testimony of me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:96 For I, the Almighty, have laid my
hands upon the nations, to scourge them for their wickedness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:97 And plagues shall go forth, and they
shall not be taken from the earth until I have completed my work,
which shall be cut short in righteousness--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:98 Until all shall know me, who remain,
even from the least unto the greatest, and shall be filled with
the knowledge of the Lord, and shall see eye to eye, and shall
lift up their voice, and with the voice together sing this new
song, saying:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:99 The Lord hath brought again Zion;
The Lord hath redeemed his people, Israel, According to the
election of grace, Which was brought to pass by faith And
covenant of their fathers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:100 The Lord hath redeemed his people;
And Satan is bound and time is no longer. The Lord hath gathered
all things in one. The Lord hath brought down Zion from above.
The Lord hath brought up Zion from beneath.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:101 The earth hath travailed and
brought forth her strength; And truth is established in her
bowels; And the heavens have smiled upon her; And she is clothed
with the glory of her God; For he stands in the midst of his
people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:102 Glory, and honor, and power, and
might, Be ascribed to our God; for he is full of mercy, Justice,
grace and truth, and peace, Forever and ever, Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:103 And again, verily, verily, I say
unto you, it is expedient that every man who goes forth to
proclaim mine everlasting gospel, that inasmuch as they have
families, and receive money by gift, that they should send it
unto them or make use of it for their benefit, as the Lord shall
direct them, for thus it seemeth me good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:104 And let all those who have not
families, who receive money, send it up unto the bishop in Zion,
or unto the bishop in Ohio, that it may be consecrated for the
bringing forth of the revelations and the printing thereof, and
for establishing Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:105 And if any man shall give unto any
of you a coat, or a suit, take the old and cast it unto the poor,
and go on your way rejoicing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:106 And if any man among you be strong
in the Spirit, let him take with him him that is weak, that he
may be edified in all meekness, that he may became strong also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:107 Therefore, take with you those who
are ordained unto the lesser priesthood, and send them before you
to make appointments, and to prepare the way, and to fill
appointments that you yourselves are not able to fill.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:108 Behold, this is the way that mine
apostles, in ancient days, built up my church unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:109 Therefore, let every man stand in
his own office, and labor in his own calling; and let not the
head say unto the feet it hath no need of the feet; for without
the feet how shall the body stand?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:110 Also the body hath need of every
member, that all may be edified together, that the system may be
kept perfect.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:111 And behold, the high priests should
travel, and also the elders, and also the lesser priests; but the
deacons and teachers should be appointed to watch over the
church, to be standing ministers unto the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:112 And the bishop, Newel K. Whitney,
also should travel round about and among all the churches,
searching after the poor to administer to their wants by humbling
the rich and the proud.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:113 He should also employ an agent to
take charge and to do his secular business as he shall direct.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:114 Nevertheless, let the bishop go
unto the city of New York, also to the city of Albany, also to
the city of Boston, and warn the people of those cities with the
sound of the gospel, with a loud voice, of the desolation and
utter abolishment which await them if they do reject these
things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:115 For if they do reject these things
the hour of their judgment is nigh, and their house shall be left
unto them desolate.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:116 Let him trust in me and he shall
not be confounded; and a hair of his head shall not fall to the
ground unnoticed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:117 And verily I say unto you, the rest
of my servants, go ye forth as your circumstances permit, in your
several callings, unto the great and notable cities and villages,
reproving the world in righteousness of all their unrighteous and
ungodly deeds, setting forth clearly and understandingly the
desolation of abomination in the last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:118 For, with you saith the Lord
Almighty, I will rend their kingdoms; I will not only shake the
earth, but the starry heavens shall tremble.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:119 For I, the Lord, have put forth my
hand to exert the powers of heaven; ye cannot see it now, yet a
little while and ye shall see it, and know that I am, and that I
will come and reign with my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 84:120 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 27, 1832, concerning the
Saints in Zion, Missouri. See History of the Church, vol. 1, p.
298. -- Inheritances in Zion to be received through consecration-
- Provision made for the assignment of inheritances among the
Saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:1 It is the duty of the Lord's clerk,
whom he has appointed, to keep a history, and a general church
record of all things that transpire in Zion, and of all those who
consecrate properties, and receive inheritances legally from the
bishop;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:2 And also their manner of life, their
faith, and works; and also of the apostates who apostatize after
receiving their inheritances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:3 It is contrary to the will and
commandment of God that those who receive not their inheritance
by consecration, agreeable to his law, which he has given, that
he may tithe his people, to prepare them against the day of
vengeance and burning, should have their names enrolled with the
people of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:4 Neither is their genealogy to be
kept, or to be had where it may be found on any of the records or
history of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:5 Their names shall not be found,
neither the names of the fathers, nor the names of the children
written in the book of the law of God, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:6 Yea, thus saith the still small
voice, which whispereth through and pierceth all things, and
often times it maketh my bones to quake while it maketh manifest,
saying:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:7 And it shall come to pass that I, the
Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of
power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth
shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a
fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God, and to
arrange by lot the inheritances of the saints whose names are
found, and the names of their fathers, and of their children,
enrolled in the book of the law of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:8 While that man, who was called of God
and appointed, that putteth forth his hand to steady the ark of
God, shall fall by the shaft of death, like as a tree that is
smitten by the vivid shaft of lightning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:9 And all they who are not found
written in the book of remembrance shall find none inheritance in
that day, but they shall be cut asunder, and their portion shall
be appointed them among unbelievers, where are wailing and
gnashing of teeth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:10 These things I say not of myself;
therefore, as the Lord speaketh, he will also fulfil.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:11 And they who are of the High
Priesthood, whose names are not found written in the book of the
law, or that are found to have apostatized, or to have been cut
off from the church, as well as the lesser priesthood, or the
members, in that day shall not find an inheritance among the
saints of the Most High;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 85:12 Therefore, it shall be done unto
them as unto the children of the priest, as will be found
recorded in the second chapter and sixty-first and second verses
of Ezra.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, December 6, 1832. --Exposition of
the Lord's parable concerning the wheat and the tares--Its
application to the latter days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
my servants, concerning the parable of the wheat and of the
tares;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:2 Behold, verily I say, the field was
the world, and the apostles were the sowers of the seed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:3 And after they have fallen asleep the
great persecutor of the church, the apostate, the whore, even
Babylon, that maketh all nations to drink of her cup, in whose
hearts the enemy, even Satan, sitteth to reign--behold he soweth
the tares; wherefore, the tares choke the wheat and drive the
church into the wilderness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:4 But behold, in the last days, even
now while the Lord is beginning to bring forth the word, and the
blade is springing up and is yet tender--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:5 Behold, verily I say unto you, the
angels are crying unto the Lord day and night, who are ready and
waiting to be sent forth to reap down the fields;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:6 But the Lord saith unto them, pluck
not up the tares while the blade is yet tender (for verily your
faith is weak), lest you destroy the wheat also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:7 Therefore, let the wheat and the
tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe; then ye
shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, and after
the gathering of the wheat, behold and lo, the tares are bound in
bundles, and the field remaineth to be burned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:8 Therefore, thus saith the Lord unto
you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage
of your fathers--Doctrine and Covenants 86:9 For ye are lawful
heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world
with Christ in God--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:10 Therefore your life and the
priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and
your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the
mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 86:11 Therefore, blessed are ye if ye
continue in my goodness, a light unto the Gentiles, and through
this priesthood, a savior unto my people Israel. The Lord hath
said it. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:0 Revelation and Prophecy on War, given
through Joseph Smith the Prophet, December 25, 1832. --Wars
predicted--Division between the Northern States and the Southern
States--Great calamities in manifestation of the chastening hand
of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord
concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at
the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate
in the death and misery of many souls;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:2 And the time will come that war will
be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:3 For behold, the Southern States shall
be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States
will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as
it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in
order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war
shall be poured out upon all nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:4 And it shall come to pass, after many
days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be
marshaled and disciplined for war.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:5 And it shall come to pass also that
the remnants who are left of the land will marshal themselves,
and shall become exceedingly angry, and shall vex the Gentiles
with a sore vexation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:6 And thus, with the sword and by
bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with
famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven,
and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of
the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and
chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed
hath made a full end of all nations;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:7 That the cry of the saints, and of
the blood of the saints, shall cease to come up into the ears of
the Lord of Sabaoth, from the earth, to be avenged of their
enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 87:8 Wherefore, stand ye in holy places,
and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it
cometh quickly, saith the Lord. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, December 27, 1832. Designated by
the Prophet, the Olive Leaf. See History of the Church, vol. 1,
p. 302. -- Ministrations of the Comforter--The light of truth is
the light of Christ--The spirit and the body constitute the soul-
-Parable of the man sending his servants into the field and
visiting them in turn--Search for the truth through study and
prayer enjoined--Testimony of the Elders to be followed by that
calamity--Scenes incident to the Lord's coming--The angels
sounding their trumpets in turn as appointed--Duties of the
Presidency of the School of the Prophets--The ordinance of
washing of feet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
who have assembled yourselves together to receive his will
concerning you:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:2 Behold, this is pleasing unto your
Lord, and the angels rejoice over you; the alms of your prayers
have come up into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, and are
recorded in the book of the names of the sanctified, even them of
the celestial world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:3 Wherefore, I now send upon you
another Comforter, even upon you my friends, that it may abide in
your hearts, even the Holy Spirit of promise; which other
Comforter is the same that I promised unto my disciples, as is
recorded in the testimony of John.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:4 This Comforter is the promise which I
give unto you of eternal life, even the glory of the celestial
kingdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:5 Which glory is that of the church of
the Firstborn, even of God, the holiest of all, through Jesus
Christ his Son--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:6 He that ascended up on high, as also
he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all
things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light
of truth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:7 Which truth shineth. This is the
light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the
sun, and the power thereof by which it was made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:8 As also he is in the moon, and is the
light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:9 As also the light of the stars, and
the power thereof by which they were made;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:10 And the earth also, and the power
thereof, even the earth upon which you stand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:11 And the light which shineth, which
giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes,
which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:12 Which light proceedeth forth from
the presence of God to fill the immensity of space--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:13 The light which is in all things,
which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all
things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his
throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of
all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:14 Now, verily I say unto you, that
through the redemption which is made for you is brought to pass
the resurrection from the dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:15 And the spirit and the body are the
soul of man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:16 And the resurrection from the dead
is the redemption of the soul.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:17 And the redemption of the soul is
through him that quickeneth all things, in whose bosom it is
decreed that the poor and the meek of the earth shall inherit it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:18 Therefore, it must needs be
sanctified from all unrighteousness, that it may be prepared for
the celestial glory;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:19 For after it hath filled the measure
of its creation, it shall be crowned with glory, even with the
presence of God the Father;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:20 That bodies who are of the celestial
kingdom may possess it forever and ever; for, for this intent was
it made and created, and for this intent are they sanctified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:21 And they who are not sanctified
through the law which I have given unto you, even the law of
Christ, must inherit another kingdom, even that of a terrestrial
kingdom, or that of a telestial kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:22 For he who is not able to abide the
law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:23 And he who cannot abide the law of a
terrestrial kingdom cannot abide a terrestrial glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:24 And he who cannot abide the law of a
telestial kingdom cannot abide a telestial glory; therefore he is
not meet for a kingdom of glory. Therefore he must abide a
kingdom which is not a kingdom of glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:25 And again, verily I say unto you,
the earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth
the measure of its creation, and transgresseth not the law--
Doctrine and Covenants 88:26 Wherefore, it shall be sanctified;
yea, notwithstanding it shall die, it shall be quickened again,
and shall abide the power by which it is quickened, and the
righteous shall inherit it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:27 For notwithstanding they die, they
also shall rise again, a spiritual body.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:28 They who are of a celestial spirit
shall receive the same body which was a natural body; even ye
shall receive your bodies, and your glory shall be that glory by
which your bodies are quickened.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:29 Ye who are quickened by a portion of
the celestial glory shall then receive of the same, even a
fulness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:30 And they who are quickened by a
portion of the telestial glory shall then receive of the same,
even a fulness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:31 And also they who are quickened by a
portion of the telestial glory shall then receive of the same,
even a fulness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:32 And they who remain shall also be
quickened; nevertheless, they shall return again to their own
place, to enjoy that which they are willing to receive, because
they were not will to enjoy that which they might have received.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:33 For what doth it profit a man if a
gift is bestowed upon him, and he receive not the gift? Behold,
he rejoices not in that which is given unto him, neither rejoices
in him who is the giver of the gift.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:34 And again, verily I say unto you,
that which is governed by law is also preserved by law and
perfected and sanctified by the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:35 That which breaketh a law, and
abideth not by law, but seeketh to become a law unto itself, and
willeth to abide in sin, cannot be sanctified by law, neither by
mercy, justice, nor judgment. Therefore, they must remain filthy
still.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:36 All kingdoms have a law given;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:37 And there are many kingdoms; for
there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is
no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a
lesser kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:38 And unto every kingdom is given a
law; and unto every law there are certain bounds also and
conditions.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:39 All beings who abide not in those
conditions are not justified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:40 For intelligence cleaveth unto
intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth;
virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; mercy hath
compassion on mercy and claimeth her own; justice continueth its
course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of
him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all
things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:41 He comprehendeth all things, and all
things are before him, and all things are round about him; and he
is above all things, and in all things, and is through all
things, and is round about all things; and all things are by him,
and of him, even God, forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:42 And again, verily I say unto you, he
hath given a law unto all things, by which they move in their
times and seasons;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:43 And their courses are fixed, even
the courses of the heavens and the earth, which comprehend the
earth and all the planets.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:44 And they give light to each other in
their times and in their seasons, in their minutes, in their
hours, in their days, in their weeks, in their months, in their
years--all these are but one year with God, but not with man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:45 The earth rolls upon her wings, and
the sun giveth his light by day, and the moon giveth her light by
night, and the stars also give their light, as they roll upon
their wings in their glory, in the midst of the power of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:46 Unto what shall I liken these
kingdoms, that ye may understand?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:47 Behold, all these are kingdoms, and
any man who hath seen any or the least of these hath seen God
moving in his majesty and power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:48 I say unto you, he hath seen him;
nevertheless, he who came unto his own was not comprehended.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:49 The light shineth in darkness, and
the darkness comprehendeth it not; nevertheless, the day shall
come when you shall comprehend even God, being quickened in him
and by him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:50 Then shall ye know that ye have seen
me, that I am, and that I am the true light that is in you, and
that you are in me; otherwise ye could not abound.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:51 Behold, I will liken these kingdoms
unto a man having a field, and he sent forth his servants into
the field to dig in the field.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:52 And he said unto the first: Go ye
and labor in the field, and in the first hour I will come unto
you, and ye shall behold the joy of my countenance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:53 And he said unto the second: Go ye
also into the field, and in the second hour I will visit you with
the joy of my countenance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:54 And also unto the third, saying: I
will visit you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:55 And unto the fourth, and so on unto
the twelfth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:56 And the lord of the field went unto
the first in the first hour, and tarried with him all that hour,
and he was made glad with the light of the countenance of his
lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:57 And then he withdrew from the first
that he might visit the second also, and the third, and the
fourth, and so on unto the twelfth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:58 And thus they all received the light
of the countenance of their lord, every man in his hour, and in
his time, and in his season--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:59 Beginning at the first, and so on
unto the last, and from the last unto the first, and from the
first unto the last;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:60 Every man in his own order, until
his hour was finished, even according as his lord had commanded
him, that his lord might be glorified in him, and he in his lord,
that they all might be glorified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:61 Therefore, unto this parable I will
liken all these kingdoms, and the inhabitants thereof--every
kingdom in its hour, and in its time, and in its season, even
according to the decree which God hath made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:62 And again, verily I say unto you, my
friends, I leave these sayings with you to ponder in your hearts,
with this commandment which I give unto you, that ye shall call
upon me while I am near--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:63 Draw near unto me and I will draw
near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me; ask, and
ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:64 Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my
name it shall be given unto you, that is expedient for you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:65 And if ye ask anything that is not
expedient for you, it shall turn unto your condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:66 Behold, that which you hear is the
voice of one crying in the wilderness--in the wilderness, because
you cannot see him--my voice, because my voice is Spirit; my
Spirit is truth; truth abideth and hath no end; and if it be in
you it shall abound.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:67 And if your eye be single to my
glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there
shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with
light comprehendeth all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:68 Therefore, sanctify yourselves that
your minds become single to God, and the days will come that you
shall see him; for he will unveil his face unto you, and it shall
be in his own time, and in his own way, and according to his own
will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:69 Remember the great and last promise
which I have made unto you; cast away your idle thoughts and your
excess of laughter far from you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:70 Tarry ye, tarry ye in this place,
and call a solemn assembly, even of those who are the first
laborers in this last kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:71 And let those whom they have warned
in their traveling call on the Lord, and ponder the warning in
their hearts which they have received, for a little season.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:72 Behold, and lo, I will take care of
your flocks, and will raise up elders and send unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:73 Behold, I will hasten my work in its
time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:74 And I give unto you, who are the
first laborers in this last kingdom, a commandment that you
assemble yourselves together, and organize yourselves, and
prepare yourselves, and sanctify yourselves; yea, purify your
hearts, and cleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I
may make you clean;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:75 That I may testify unto your Father,
and your God, and my God, that you are clean from the blood of
this wicked generation; that I may fulfill this promise, this
great and last promise, which I have made unto you, when I will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:76 Also, I give unto you a commandment
that ye shall continue in prayer and fasting from this time
forth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:77 And I give unto you a commandment
that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:78 Teach ye diligently and my grace
shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in
theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in
all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are
expedient for you to understand;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:79 Of things both in heaven and in the
earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which
are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at
home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of
the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a
knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:80 That ye may be prepared in all
things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling
whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have
commissioned you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:81 Behold, I sent you out to testify
and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been
warned to warn his neighbor.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:82 Therefore, they are left without
excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:83 He that seeketh me early shall find
me, and shall not be forsaken.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:84 Therefore, tarry ye, and labor
diligently, that you may be perfected in your ministry to go
forth among the Gentiles for the last time, as many as the mouth
of the Lord shall name, to bind up the law and seal up the
testimony, and to prepare the saints for the hour of judgment
which is to come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:85 That their souls may escape the
wrath of God, the desolation of abomination which awaits the
wicked, both in this world and in the world to come. Verily, I
say unto you, let those who are not the first elders continue in
the vineyard until the mouth of the Lord shall call them, for
their time is not yet come; their garments are not clean from the
blood of this generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:86 Abide ye in the liberty wherewith ye
are made free; entangle not yourselves in sin, but let your hands
be clean, until the Lord comes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:87 For not many days hence and the
earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man; and the
sun shall hide his face, and shall refuse to give light; and the
moon shall be bathed in blood; and the stars shall become
exceedingly angry, and shall cast themselves down as a fig that
falleth from off a fig-tree.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:88 And after your testimony cometh
wrath and indignation upon the people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:89 For after your testimony cometh the
testimony of earthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst
of her, and men shall fall upon the ground and shall not be able
to stand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:90 And also cometh the testimony of the
voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice
of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving
themselves beyond their bounds.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:91 And all things shall be in
commotion; and surely, men's hearts shall fail them; for fear
shall come upon all people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:92 And angels shall fly through the
midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of
God, saying: Prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth;
for the judgment of our God is come. Behold, and lo, the
Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:93 And immediately there shall appear a
great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:94 And another angel shall sound his
trump, saying: That great church, the mother of abominations,
that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, that persecuteth the saints of God, that shed their
blood--she who sitteth upon many waters, and upon the islands of
the sea-- behold, she is the tares of the earth; she is bound in
bundles; her bands are made strong, no man can loose them;
therefore, she is ready to be burned. And he shall sound his
trump both long and loud, and all nations shall hear it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:95 And there shall be silence in heaven
for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the
curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a scroll in unfolded after it
is rolled up, and the face of the Lord shall be unveiled;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:96 And the saints that are upon the
earth, who are alive, shall be quickened and be caught up to meet
him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:97 And they who have slept in their
graves shall come forth, for their graves shall be opened; and
they also shall be caught up to meet him in the midst of the
pillar of heaven--Doctrine and Covenants 88:98 They are Christ's,
the first fruits, they who shall descend with him first, and they
who are on the earth and in their graves, who are first caught up
to meet him; and all this by the voice of the sounding of the
trump of the angel of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:99 And after this another angel shall
sound, which is the second trump; and then cometh the redemption
of those who are Christ's at his coming; who have received their
part in that prison which is prepared for them, that they might
receive the gospel, and be judged according to men in the flesh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:100 And again, another trump shall
sound, which is the third trump; and then come the spirits of men
who are to be judged, and are found under condemnation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:101 And these are the rest of the dead;
and they live not again until the thousand years are ended,
neither again, until the end of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:102 And another trump shall sound,
which is the fourth trump, saying: There are found among those
who are to remain until that great and last day, even the end,
who shall remain filthy still.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:103 And another trump shall sound,
which is the fifth trump, which is the fifth angel who committeth
the everlasting gospel--flying through the midst of heaven, unto
all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:104 And this shall be the sound of his
trump, saying to all people, both in heaven and in earth, and
that are under the earth--for every ear shall hear it, and every
knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, while they hear
the sound of the trump, saying: Fear God, and give glory to him
who sitteth upon the throne, forever and ever; for the hour of
his judgment is come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:105 And again, another angel shall
sound his trump, which is the sixth angel, saying: She is fallen
who made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication; she is fallen, is fallen!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:106 And again, another angel shall
sound his trump, which is the seventh angel, saying: It is
finished; it is finished! The Lamb of God hath overcome and
trodden the wine-press alone, even the wine-press of the
fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:107 And then shall the angels be
crowned with the glory of his might, and the saints shall be
filled with his glory, and receive their inheritance and be made
equal with him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:108 And then shall the first angel
again sound his trump in the ears of all living, and reveal the
secret acts of men, and the mighty works of God in the first
thousand years.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:109 And then shall the second angel
sound his trump, and reveal the secret acts of men, and thoughts
and intents of their hearts, and the mighty works of God in the
second thousand years--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:110 And so on, until the seventh angel
shall sound his trump; and he shall stand forth upon the land and
upon the sea, and swear in the name of him who sitteth upon the
throne, that there shall be time no longer; and Satan shall be
bound, that old serpent, who is called the devil, and shall not
be loosed for the space of a thousand years.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:111 And then he shall be loosed for a
little season, that he may gather together his armies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:112 And Michael, the seventh angel,
even the archangel, shall gather together his armies, even the
hosts of heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:113 And the devil shall gather together
his armies; even the hosts of hell, and shall come up to battle
against Michael and his armies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:114 And then cometh the battle of the
great God; and the devil and his armies shall be cast away into
their own place, that they shall not have power over the saints
any more at all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:115 For Michael shall fight their
battles, and shall overcome him who seeketh the throne of him who
sitteth upon the throne, even the Lamb.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:116 This is the glory of God, and the
sanctified; and they shall not any more see death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:117 Therefore, verily I say unto you,
my friends, call your solemn assembly, as I have commanded you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118 And as all have not faith, seek ye
diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye
out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by
study and also by faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:119 Organize yourselves; prepare every
needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a
house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house
of glory, a house of order, a house of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:120 That your incomings may be in the
name of the Lord; that your outgoings may be in the name of the
Lord; that all your salutations may be in the name of the Lord,
with uplifted hands unto the Most High.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:121 Therefore, cease from all your
light speeches, from all laughter, from all your lustful desires,
from all your pride and light-mindedness, and from all your
wicked doings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:122 Appoint among yourselves a teacher,
and let not all be spokesmen at once; but let one speak at a time
and let all listen unto his sayings, that when all have spoken
that all may be edified of all, and that every man may have an
equal privilege.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:123 See that ye love one another; cease
to be covetous; learn to impart one to another as the gospel
requires.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:124 Cease to be idle; cease to find
fault one with another; cease to sleep longer than is needful;
retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early,
that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:125 And above all things, clothe
yourselves with the bond of charity, as with a mantle, which is
the bond of perfectness and peace.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:126 Pray always, that ye may not faint,
until I come. Behold, and lo, I will come quickly, and receive
you unto myself. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:127 And again, the order of the house
prepared for the presidency of the school of the prophets,
established for their instruction in all things that are
expedient for them, even for all the officers of the church, or
in other words, those who are called to the ministry in the
church, beginning at the high priests, even down to the deacons--
Doctrine and Covenants 88:128 And this shall be the order of the
house of the presidency of the school: He that is appointed to be
president, or teacher, shall be found standing in his place, in
the house which shall be prepared for him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:129 Therefore, he shall be first in the
house of God, in a place that the congregation in the house may
hear his words carefully and distinctly, not with loud speech.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:130 And when he cometh into the house
of God, for he should be first in the house--behold, this is
beautiful, that he may be an example--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:131 Let him offer himself in prayer
upon his knees before God, in token or remembrance of the
everlasting covenant.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:132 And when any shall come in after
him, let the teacher arise, and with uplifted hands to heaven,
yea, even directly, salute his brother or brethren with these
words:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:133 Art thou a brother or brethren? I
salute you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in token or
remembrance of the everlasting covenant, in which covenant I
receive you to fellowship, in a determination that is fixed,
immovable, and unchangeable, to be your friend and brother
through the grace of God in the bonds of love, to walk in all the
commandments of God blameless, in thanksgiving, forever and ever.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:134 And he that is found unworthy of
this salutation shall not have place among you; for ye shall not
suffer that mine house shall be polluted by him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:135 And he that cometh in and is
faithful before me, and is a brother, or if they be brethren,
they shall salute the president or teacher with uplifted hands to
heaven, with this same prayer and covenant, or by saying Amen, in
token of the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:136 Behold, verily, I say unto you,
this is an ensample unto you for a salutation to one another in
the house of God, in the school of the prophets.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:137 And ye are called to do this by
prayer and thanksgiving, as the Spirit shall give utterance in
all your doings in the house of the Lord, in the school of the
prophets, that it may become a sanctuary, a tabernacle of the
Holy Spirit to your edification.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:138 And ye shall not receive any among
you into this school save he is clean from the blood of this
generation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:139 And he shall be received by the
ordinance of the washing of feet, for unto this end was the
ordinance of the washing of feet instituted.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:140 And again, the ordinance of washing
feet is to be administered by the president, or presiding elder
of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 88:141 It is to be commenced with prayer;
and after partaking of bread and wine, he is to gird himself
according to the pattern given in the thirteenth chapter of
John's testimony concerning me. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 27, 1933, known as the
Word of Wisdom. --Abstinence from wine, strong drink, tobacco and
hot drinks enjoined--Moderation in the eating of meat--Wholesome
foods--Promises to those who live according to these precepts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:1 A Word of Wisdom, for the benefit of
the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the
church, and also to the saints in Zion--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:2 To be sent greeting; not be
commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the word of
wisdom, showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal
salvation of all saints in the last days--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:3 Given for a principle with promise,
adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all
saints, who are or can be called saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord
unto you: In consequence of evils and designs which do and will
exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have
warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of
wisdom by revelation--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:5 That inasmuch as any man drinketh
wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither
meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves
together to offer up your sacraments before him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:6 And, behold, this should be wine,
yea, pure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:7 And, again, strong drinks are not for
the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:8 And again, tobacco is not for the
body, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an
herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment
and skill.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:9 And again, hot drinks are not for the
body or belly.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:10 And again, verily I say unto you,
all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution,
nature, and use of man--Doctrine and Covenants 89:11 Every herb
in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all
these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the
fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man
with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:13 And it is pleasing unto me that they
should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or
famine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:14 All grain is ordained for the use of
man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but
for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all
wild animals that run or creep on the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:15 And these hath God made for the use
of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:16 All grain is good for the food of
man; as also the fruit of the vine; that which yieldeth fruit,
whether in the ground or above the ground--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and
corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls
and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for
all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:18 And all saints who remember to keep
and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments,
shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:19 And shall find wisdom and great
treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:20 And shall run and not be weary, and
shall walk and not faint.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 89:21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a
promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the
children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:0 Revelation to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, given at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1833. Position of
Joseph as President of the Church reaffirmed. --Accountability of
those who receive the oracles of God--The Gospel to be preached
throughout the world--Worthy servants commended and offenders
reproved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:1 Thus saith the Lord, verily, verily I
say unto you my son, thy sins are forgiven thee, according to thy
petition, for thy prayers and the prayers of thy brethren have
come up into my ears.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:2 Therefore, thou art blessed from
henceforth that bear the keys of the kingdom given unto you;
which kingdom is coming forth for the last time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:3 Verily I say unto you, the keys of
this kingdom shall never be taken from you, while thou art in the
world, neither in the world to come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:4 Nevertheless, through you shall the
oracles be given to another, yea, even unto the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:5 And all they who receive the oracles
of God, let them beware how they hold them lest they are
accounted as a light thing, and are brought under condemnation
thereby, and stumble and fall when the storms descend, and the
winds blow, and the rains descend, and beat upon their house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:6 And again, verily I say unto thy
brethren, Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams, their sins are
forgiven them also, and they are accounted as equal with thee in
holding the keys of this last kingdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:7 As also through your administration
the keys of the school of the prophets, which I have commanded to
be organized;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:8 That thereby they may be perfected in
their ministry for the salvation of Zion, and of the nations of
Israel, and of the Gentiles, as many as will believe;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:9 That through your administration they
may receive the word, and through their administration the word
may go forth unto the ends of the earth, unto the Gentiles first,
and then, behold, and lo, they shall turn unto the Jews.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:10 And then cometh the day when the arm
of the Lord shall be revealed in power in convincing the nations,
the heathen nations, the house of Joseph, of the gospel of their
salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:11 For it shall come to pass in that
day, that every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his
own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are
ordained unto this power, by the administration of the Comforter,
shed forth upon them for the revelation of Jesus Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:12 And now, verily I say unto you, I
give unto you a commandment that you continue in the ministry and
presidency.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:13 And when you have finished the
translation of the prophets, you shall from thenceforth preside
over the affairs of the church and the school;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:14 And from time to time, as shall be
manifested by the Comforter, receive revelations to unfold the
mysteries of the kingdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:15 And set in order the churches, and
study and learn, and become acquainted with all good books, and
with languages, tongues, and people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:16 And this shall be your business and
mission in all your lives, to preside in council, and set in
order all the affairs of this church and kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:17 Be not ashamed, neither confounded;
but be admonished in all your high-mindedness and pride, for it
bringeth a snare upon your souls.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:18 Set in order your houses; keep
slothfulness and uncleanness far from you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:19 Now, verily I say unto you, let
there be a place provided, as soon as it is possible, for the
family of thy counselor and scribe, even Frederick G. Williams.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:20 And let mine aged servant, Joseph
Smith, Sen., continue with his family upon the place where he now
lives; and let it not be sold until the mouth of the Lord shall
name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:21 And let my counselor, even Sidney
Rigdon, remain where he now resides until the mouth of the Lord
shall name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:22 And let the bishop search diligently
to obtain an agent, and let him be a man who has got riches in
store--a man of God, and of strong faith--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:23 That thereby he may be enabled to
discharge every debt; that the storehouse of the Lord may not be
brought into disrepute before the eyes of the people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:24 Search diligently, pray always, and
be believing, and all things shall work together for your good,
if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have
covenanted one with another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:25 Let your families be small,
especially mine aged servant Joseph Smith's, Sen., as pertaining
to those who do not belong to your families;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:26 That those things that are provided
for you, to bring to pass my work, be not taken from you and
given to those that are not worthy--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:27 And thereby you be hindered in
accomplishing those things which I have commanded you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:28 And again, verily I say unto you, it
is my will that my handmaid Vienna Jaques should receive money to
bear her expenses, and go up unto the land of Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:29 And the residue of the money may be
consecrated unto me, and she be rewarded in mine own due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:30 Verily I say unto you, that it is
meet in mine eyes that she should go up unto the land of Zion,
and receive an inheritance from the hand of the bishop;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:31 That she may settle down in peace
insomuch as she is faithful, and not be idle in her days from
thenceforth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:32 And behold, verily I say unto you,
that ye shall write this commandment, and say unto your brethren
in Zion, in love greeting, that I have called you also to preside
over Zion in mine own due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:33 Therefore, let them cease wearying
me concerning this matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:34 Behold, I say unto you that your
brethren in Zion begin to repent, and the angels rejoice over
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:35 Nevertheless, I am not well pleased
with many things; and I am not well pleased with my servant
William E. McLellin, neither with my servant Sidney Gilbert; and
the bishop also, and others have many things to repent of.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:36 But verily I say unto you, that I,
the Lord, will contend with Zion, and plead with her strong ones,
and chasten her until she overcomes and is clean before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 90:37 For she shall not be removed out of
her place. I, the Lord, have spoken it. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, March 9, 1833. The Prophet was at
this time engaged in the study of the ancient writings regarded
by some as Scripture and known distinctively as the Apocrypha. --
These writings not to be accepted as Scripture--Enlightenment of
the Spirit requisite to discernment of the truth contained in
these books.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
concerning the Apocrypha -- There are many things contained
therein that are true, and it is mostly translated correctly;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:2 There are many things contained
therein that are not true, which are interpolations by the hands
of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:3 Verily I say unto you, that it is not
needful that the Apocrypha should be translated.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:4 Therefore, whoso readeth it, let him
understand, for the Spirit manifesteth truth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:5 And whoso is enlightened by the
Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 91:6 And whoso receiveth not by the
Spirit, cannot be benefited. Therefore it is not needful that it
should be translated. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 92:0 Revelation given to Enoch [Joseph
Smith the Prophet], at Kirtland, Ohio, March 15, 1833. For
explanation of unusual names see heading to Section 78. --
Commandment regarding admission to the United Order.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 92:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord, I give
unto the united order, organized agreeable to the commandment
previously given, a revelation and commandment concerning my
servant Frederick G. Williams, that ye shall receive him into the
order. What I say unto one I say unto all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 92:2 And again, I say unto you my servant
Frederick G. Williams, you shall be a lively member in this
order; and inasmuch as you are faithful in keeping all former
commandments you shall be blessed forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1833. --The Lord defines
the relation between himself and the Father--The record of John,
the Apostle and Revelator--Jesus Christ the Firstborn--Man was in
the beginning with God--The elements are eternal--The glory of
God is intelligence--Man innocent in the beginning--Erring ones,
even though in high authority in the Church, reproved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord: It shall
come to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh
unto me, and calleth on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and
keepeth my commandments, shall see my face and know that I am;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:2 And that I am the true light that
lighteth every man that cometh into the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:3 And that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me, and the Father and I are one --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:4 The Father because he gave me of his
fulness, and the Son because I was in the world and made flesh my
tabernacle, and dwelt among the sons of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:5 And I was in the world and received
of my Father, and the works of him were plainly manifest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:6 And John saw and bore record of the
fulness of my glory, and the fulness of John's record is
hereafter to be revealed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:7 And he bore record, saying: I saw his
glory, that he was in the beginning, before the world was;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:8 Therefore, in the beginning the Word
was, for he was the Word, even the messenger of salvation --
Doctrine and Covenants 93:9 The light and the Redeemer of the
world; the Spirit of truth, who came into the world, because the
world was made by him, and in him was the life of men and the
light of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:10 The worlds were made by him; men
were made by him; all things were made by him, and through him,
and of him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:11 And I, John bear record that I
beheld his glory, as the glory of the Only Begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth, even the Spirit of truth, which
came and dwelt in the flesh, and dwelt among us.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:12 And I, John saw that he received not
of the fulness at first, but received grace for grace;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:13 And he received not of the fulness
at first, but continued from grace to grace, until he received a
fulness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:14 And thus he was called the Son of
God, because he received not of the fulness at the first.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:15 And I, John, bear record, and lo,
the heavens were opened, and the Holy Ghost descended upon him in
the form of a dove, and sat upon him, and there came a voice out
of heaven saying: This is my beloved Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:16 And I, John, bear record that he
received a fulness of the glory of the Father;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:17 And he received all power, both in
heaven and on earth, and the glory of the Father was with him,
for he dwelt in him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:18 And it shall come to pass, that if
you are faithful you shall receive the fulness of the record of
John.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:19 I give unto you these sayings that
you may understand and know how to worship, and know what you
worship, that you may come unto the Father in my name, and in due
time receive of his fulness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:20 For if you keep my commandments you
shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in
the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive grace
for grace.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:21 And now, verily I say unto you, I
was in the beginning with the Father, and am the Firstborn;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:22 And all those who are begotten
through me are partakers of the glory of the same, and are the
church of the Firstborn.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:23 Ye were also in the beginning with
the Father; that which is Spirit, even the Spirit of truth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:24 And truth is knowledge of things as
they are, and as they were, and as they are to come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:25 And whatsoever is more or less than
this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the
beginning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:26 The Spirit of truth is of God. I am
the Spirit of truth, and John bore record of me, saying: He
received a fulness of truth, yea, even of all truth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:27 And no man receiveth a fulness
unless he keepeth his commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:28 He that keepeth his commandments
receiveth truth and light, until he is glorified in truth and
knoweth all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:29 Man was also in the beginning with
God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or
made, neither indeed can be.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:30 All truth is independent in that
sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all
intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:31 Behold, here is the agency of man,
and here is the condemnation of man; because that which was from
the beginning is plainly manifest unto them, and they receive not
the light.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:32 And every man whose spirit receiveth
not the light is under condemnation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:33 For man is spirit. The elements are
eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a
fulness of joy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:34 And when separated, man cannot
receive a fullness of joy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:35 The elements are the tabernacle of
God; yea, man is the tabernacle of God, even temples; and
whatsoever temple is defiled, God shall destroy that temple.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:36 The glory of God is intelligence,
or, in other words, light and truth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:37 Light and truth forsake that evil
one.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:38 Every spirit of man was innocent in
the beginning; and God having redeemed man from the fall, men
became again, in their infant state, innocent before God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:39 And that wicked one cometh and
taketh away light and truth, through disobedience, from the
children of men, and because of the tradition of their fathers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:40 But I have commanded you to bring up
your children in light and truth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:41 But verily I say unto you, my
servant Frederick G. Williams, you have continued under this
condemnation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:42 You have not taught your children
light and truth, according to the commandments; and that wicked
one hath power, as yet, over you, and this is the cause of your
affliction.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:43 And now a commandment I give unto
you -- if you will be delivered you shall set in order your own
house, for there are many things that are not right in your
house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:44 Verily, I say unto my servant Sidney
Rigdon, that in some things he hath not kept the commandments
concerning his children; therefore, first set in order thy house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:45 Verily, I say unto my servant Joseph
Smith, Jun., or in other words, I will call you friends, for you
are my friends, and ye shall have an inheritance with me --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:46 And I called you servants for the
world's sake, and ye are their servants for my sake --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:47 And now, verily I say unto Joseph
Smith, Jun. -- You have not kept the commandments, and must needs
stand rebuked before the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:48 Your family must needs repent and
forsake some things, and give more earnest heed unto your
sayings, or be removed out of their place.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:49 What I say unto one I say unto all;
pray always lest that wicked one have power in you, and remove
you out of your place.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:50 My servant Newel K. Whitney also, a
bishop of my church, hath need to be chastened, and set in order
his family, and see that they are more diligent and concerned at
home, and pray always, or they shall be removed out of their
place.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:51 Now, I say unto you, my friends, let
my servant Sidney Rigdon go on his journey, and make haste, and
also proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the gospel of
salvation, as I shall give him utterance; and by your prayer of
faith with one consent I will uphold him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:52 And let my servants Joseph Smith,
Jun., and Frederick G. Williams make haste also, and it shall be
given them even according to the prayer of faith; and inasmuch as
you keep my sayings you shall not be confounded in this world,
nor in the world to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 93:53 And, verily I say unto you, that is
is my will that you should hasten to translate my scriptures, and
to obtain a knowledge of history, and of countries, and of
kingdoms, of laws of God and man, and all this for the salvation
of Zion. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1833. --Directions
regarding the erection of a house for the work of the Presidency-
-A printing house to be built--Assignments of certain
inheritances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:1 And again, verily I say unto you, my
friends, a commandment I give unto you, that ye shall commence a
work of laying out and preparing a beginning and foundation of
the city of the stake of Zion, here in the land of Kirtland,
beginning at my house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:2 And behold, it must be done according
to the pattern which I have given you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:3 And let the first lot of the south be
consecrated unto me for the building of a house for the
presidency, for the work of the presidency, in obtaining
revelations; and for the work of the ministry of the presidency,
in all things pertaining to the church and kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:4 Verily I say unto you, that it shall
be built fifty-five by sixty-five feet in the width thereof and
in the length thereof, in the inner court.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:5 And there shall be a lower court and
a higher court, according to the pattern which shall be given
unto you hereafter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:6 And it shall be dedicated unto the
Lord from the foundation thereof, according to the order of the
priesthood, according to the pattern which shall be given unto
your hereafter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:7 And it shall be wholly dedicated unto
the Lord for the work of the presidency.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:8 And ye shall not suffer any unclean
thing to come in unto it; and my glory shall be there, and my
presence shall be there.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:9 But if there shall come into it any
unclean thing, my glory shall not be there; and my presence shall
not come into it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:10 And again, verily I say unto you,
the second lot on the south shall be dedicated unto me for the
building of a house unto me, for the work of the printing of the
translation of my scriptures, and all things whatsoever I shall
command you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:11 And it shall be fifty-five by sixty-
five feet in the width thereof and the length thereof, in the
inner court; and there shall be a lower and a higher court.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:12 And this house shall be wholly
dedicated unto the Lord from the foundation thereof, for the work
of the printing, in all things whatsoever I shall command you, to
be holy, undefiled, according to the pattern in all things as it
shall be given unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:13 And on the third lot shall my
servant Hyrum Smith receive his inheritance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:14 And on the first and second lots on
the north shall my servants Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter
receive their inheritances --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:15 That they may do the work which I
have appointed unto them, to be a committee to build mine houses,
according to the commandment, which I, the Lord God, have given
unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:16 These two houses are not to be built
until I give unto you a commandment concerning them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 94:17 And now I give unto you no more at
this time. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, June 1, 1833. --The people are
chastened for their neglect in failing to build the house
according to prior command--They are yet promised power to build
it if they will abide by the Lord's commandments--Provision to be
made for the School of the Apostles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
whom I love, and whom I love I also chasten that their sins may
be forgiven, for with the chastisement I prepare a way for their
deliverance in all things out of temptation, and I have loved you
--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:2 Wherefore, ye must needs be chastened
and stand rebuked before my face;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:3 For ye have sinned against me a very
grievous sin, in that ye have not considered the great
commandment in all things, that I have given unto concerning the
building of mine house;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:4 For the preparation wherewith I
design to prepare mine apostles to prune my vineyard for the last
time, that I may bring to pass my strange act, that I may pour
out my Spirit upon all flesh --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:5 But behold, verily I say unto you,
that there are many who have been ordained among you, whom I have
called but few of them are chosen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:6 They who are not chosen have sinned a
very grievous sin, in that they are walking in darkness at noon-
day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:7 And for this cause I gave unto you a
commandment that you should call your solemn assembly, that your
fastings and your mourning might come up into the ears of the
Lord of Sabaoth, which is by interpretation, the creator of the
first day, the beginning and the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:8 Yea, verily I say unto you, I gave
unto you a commandment that you should build a house, in the
which house I design to endow those whom I have chosen with power
from on high;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:9 For this is the promise of the Father
unto you; therefore I command you to tarry, even as mine apostles
at Jerusalem.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:10 Nevertheless, my servants sinned a
very grievous sin; and contentions arose in the school of the
prophets; which was very grievous unto me, saith your Lord;
therefore I sent them forth to be chastened.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:11 Verily I say unto you, it is my will
that you should build a house. If you keep my commandments you
shall have power to build it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:12 If you keep not my commandments, the
love of the Father shall not continue with you, therefore you
shall walk in darkness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:13 Now here is wisdom, and the mind of
the Lord -- let the house be built, not after the manner of the
world, for I give not unto you that ye shall live after the
manner of the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:14 Therefore, let it be built after the
manner which I shall show unto three of you, whom ye shall
appoint and ordain unto this power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:15 And the size thereof shall be fifty
and five feet in width, and let it be sixty-five feet in length,
in the inner court thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:16 And let the lower part of the inner
court be dedicated unto me for your sacrament offering, and for
your preaching, and your fasting, and your praying, and the
offering up of your most holy desires unto me, saith your Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 95:17 And let the higher part of the inner
court be dedicated unto me for the school of mine apostles, saith
Son Ahman; or, in other words, Alphus; or in other words Omegus;
even Jesus Christ your Lord. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:0 Revelation given to Enoch [Joseph
Smith the Prophet], showing the order of the City or Stake of
Zion, Shinehah [Kirtland], at Kirtland, Ohio, June 4, 1833. Given
as an ensample to the Saints in Kirtland. For explanation of
unusual names see heading to Section 78. The occasion was a
conference of High Priests; and the chief subject of
consideration was that of certain lands possessed by the
Church. --The Kirtland Stake of Zion to be made strong--Admission
to the United Order.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:1 Behold, I say unto you, here is
wisdom, where by ye may know how to act concerning this matter,
for it is expedient in me that this stake that I have set for the
strength of Zion should be made strong.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:2 Therefore, let my servant Newel K.
Whitney take charge of the place which is named among you, upon
which I design to build mine holy house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:3 And again, let it be divided into
lots, according to wisdom, for the benefit of those who seek
inheritances, as it shall be determined in council among you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:4 Therefore, take heed that ye see to
this matter, and that portion that is necessary to benefit mine
order, for the purpose of bringing forth my word to the children
of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:5 For behold, verily I say unto you,
this is the most expedient in me, that my word should go forth
unto the children of men, for the purpose of subduing the hearts
of the children of men for your good. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:6 And again, verily I say unto you, it
is wisdom and expedient in me, that my servant John Johnson whose
offering I have accepted, and whose prayers I have heard, unto
whom I give a promise of eternal life inasmuch as he keepeth my
commandments from henceforth--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:7 For he is a descendant of Joseph and
a partaker of the blessings of the promise made unto his fathers-
-
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:8 Verily I say unto you, it is
expedient in me that he should become a member of the order, that
he may assist in bringing forth my word unto the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 96:9 Therefore ye shall ordain him unto
this blessing, and he shall seek diligently to take away
incumbrances that are upon the house named among you, that he may
dwell therein. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, August 2, 1833. Ten days before
this time the corner stones of the Lord's House in Kirtland were
laid, after the order of the Holy Priesthood. See History of the
Church, vol. 1, p. 400. This revelation deals particularly with
the affairs of the Saints in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri. --
Many of the Labors of the Saints in Zion are commended--
Commendation of the school in Zion--The Lord's will that a house
should be built unto him in the land of Zion--Great blessings
promised to Zion if her people shall obey this commandment--Zion
defined as the pure in heart--Zion to escape the indignation the
Lord if the people are faithful, otherwise many calamities to
fall upon them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:1 Verily I say unto you my friends, I
speak unto you with my voice, even the voice of my Spirit, that I
may show unto you my will concerning your brethren in the land of
Zion, many of whom are truly humble and are seeking diligently to
learn wisdom and to find truth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:2 Verily, verily I say unto you,
blessed are such, for they shall obtain; for I, the Lord, show
mercy unto all the meek, and upon all whomsoever I will, that I
may be justified when I shall bring them unto judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:3 Behold, I say unto you, concerning
the school in Zion, I, the Lord, am well pleased that there
should be a school in Zion, and also with my servant Parley P.
Pratt, for he abideth in me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:4 And inasmuch as he continueth to
abide in me he shall continue to preside over the school in the
land of Zion until I shall give unto him other commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:5 And I will bless him with a
multiplicity of blessings, in expounding all scriptures and
mysteries to the edification of the school, and of the church in
Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:6 And to the residue of the school, I,
the Lord, am willing to show mercy; nevertheless, there are those
that must needs be chastened, and their works shall be made
known.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:7 The ax is laid at the root of the
trees; and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be
hewn down and cast into the fire. I, the Lord, have spoken it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:8 Verily I say unto you, all among them
who know their hearts are honest, and are broken, and their
spirits contrite, and are willing to observe their covenants by
sacrifice--yea, every sacrifice which I, the Lord, shall command-
-they are accepted of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:9 For I, the Lord, will cause them to
bring forth as a very fruitful tree which is planted in a goodly
land, by a pure stream, that yieldeth much precious fruit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:10 Verily I say unto you, that it is my
will that a house should be built unto me in the land of Zion,
like unto the pattern which I have given you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:11 Yea, let it be built speedily, by
the tithing of my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:12 Behold, this is the tithing and the
sacrifice which I, the Lord, require at their hands, that there
may be a house built unto me for the salvation of Zion--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:13 For a place of thanksgiving for all
saints, and for a place of instruction for all those who are
called to the work of the ministry in all their several callings
and offices;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:14 That they may be perfected in the
understanding of their ministry, in theory, in principle, and in
doctrine, in all things pertaining to the kingdom of God on the
earth, the keys of which kingdom have been conferred upon you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:15 And inasmuch as my people build a
house unto me in the name of the Lord, and do not suffer any
unclean thing to come into it, that it be not defiled, my glory
shall rest upon it;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:16 Yea, and my presence shall be there,
for I will come into it, and all the pure in heart that shall
come into it shall see God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:17 But if it be defiled I will not come
into it, and my glory shall not be there; for I will not come
into unholy temples.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:18 And, now, behold, if Zion do these
things she shall prosper, and spread herself and become very
glorious, very great, and very terrible.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:19 And the nations of the earth shall
honor her, and shall say: Surely Zion is the city of our God, and
surely Zion cannot fall, neither be moved out of her place, for
God is there, and the hand of the Lord is there;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:20 And he hath sworn by the power of
his might to be her salvation and her high tower.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:21 Therefore, verily, thus saith the
Lord, let Zion rejoice, for this is Zion--THE PURE IN HEART;
therefore, let Zion rejoice, while all the wicked shall mourn.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:22 For behold, and lo, vengeance cometh
speedily upon the ungodly as the whirlwind; and who shall escape
it?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:23 The Lord's scourge shall pass over
by night and by day, and the report thereof shall vex all people;
yea, it shall not be stayed until the Lord come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:24 For the indignation of the Lord is
kindled against their abominations and all their works.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:25 Nevertheless, Zion shall escape if
she observe to do all things whatsoever I have commanded her.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:26 But if she observe not to do
whatsoever I have commanded her, I will visit her according to
all her works, with sore affliction, with pestilence, with plague
with sword, with vengeance, with devouring fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:27 Nevertheless, let it be read this
once to her ears, that I, the Lord, have accepted her offering;
and if she sin no more none of these things shall come upon her;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 97:28 And I will bless her with blessings,
and multiply a multiplicity of blessings upon her, and upon her
generations forever and ever, saith the Lord your God. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, August 6, 1833. --Patience in
persecution enjoined--Good to come out of affliction--The
constitutional law of the land to be supported by the Saints--
Good men to be supported for secular office--The Saints to
proclaim peace--Offenders in the Church at Kirtland reproved--The
Saints to forgive their enemies--When resistance is justified--
The Saints to be blessed if they will forgive their enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:1 Verily I say unto you my friends,
fear not, let your hearts be comforted; yea, rejoice evermore,
and in everything give thanks;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:2 Waiting patiently on the Lord, for
your prayers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth,
and are recorded with this seal and testament--the Lord hath
sworn and decreed that they shall be granted.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:3 Therefore, he giveth this promise
unto you, with an immutable covenant that they shall be
fulfilled; and all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall
work together for your good, and to my name's glory, saith the
Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:4 And now, verily I say unto you
concerning the laws of the land, it is my will that my people
should observe to do all things whatsoever I command them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:5 And that law of the land which is
constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in
maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is
justifiable before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:6 Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you,
and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is
the constitutional law of the land;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:7 And as pertaining to law of man,
whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:8 I, the Lord God, make you free,
therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:9 Nevertheless, when the wicked rule
the people mourn.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:10 Wherefore, honest men and wise men
should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye
should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these
cometh of evil.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:11 And I give unto you a commandment,
that ye shall forsake all evil and cleave unto all good, that ye
shall live by every word which proceedeth forth out of the mouth
of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:12 For he will give unto the faithful
line upon line, precept upon precept; and I will try you and
prove you herewith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:13 And whoso layeth down his life in my
cause, for my name's sake, shall find it again, even life
eternal.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:14 Therefore, be not afraid of your
enemies, for I have decreed in my heart, saith the Lord, that I
will prove you in all things, whether you will abide in my
covenant, even unto death, that you may be found worthy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:15 For if ye will not abide in my
covenant ye are not worthy of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:16 Therefore, renounce war and proclaim
peace, and seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to
their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:17 And again, the hearts of the Jews
unto the prophets, and the prophets unto the Jews; lest I come
and smite the whole earth with a curse, and all flesh be consumed
before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:18 Let not your hearts be troubled; for
in my Father's house are many mansions, and I have prepared a
place for you; and where my Father and I am, there ye shall be
also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:19 Behold, I, the Lord, am not well
pleased with many who are in the church at Kirtland;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:20 For they do not forsake their sins,
and their wicked ways, the pride of their hearts, and their
covetousness, and all their detestable things, and observe the
words of wisdom and eternal life which I have given them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:21 Verily I say unto you, that I, the
Lord, will chasten them and will do whatsoever I list, if they do
not repent and observe all things whatsoever I have said unto
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:22 And again I say unto you, if ye
observe to do whatsoever I command you, I, the Lord, will turn
away all wrath and indignation from you, and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:23 Now, I speak unto you concerning
your families--if men will smite you, or your families, once, and
ye bear it patiently and revile not against them, neither seek
revenge, ye shall be rewarded.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:24 But if ye bear it not patiently, it
shall be accounted unto you as being meted out as a just measure
unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:25 And again, if your enemy shall smite
you the second time, and you revile not against your enemy, and
bear it patiently, your reward shall be an hundredfold.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:26 And again, if he shall smite you the
third time, and ye bear it patiently, your reward shall be
doubled unto you four-fold;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:27 And these three testimonies shall
stand against your enemy if he repent not, and shall not be
blotted out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:28 And now, verily I say unto you, if
that enemy shall escape my vengeance, that he be not brought into
judgment before me, then ye shall see to it that ye warn him in
my name, that he come no more upon you, neither upon your family,
even your children's children unto the third generation and
fourth generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:29 And then, if he shall come upon you
or your children, or your children's children unto the third and
fourth generation, I have delivered thine enemy into thine hands;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:30 And then if thou wilt spare him,
thou shalt be rewarded for thy righteousness; and also they
children and they children's children unto the third and fourth
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:31 Nevertheless, thine enemy is in
thine hands; and if thou rewardest him according to his works
thou art justified; if he has sought thy life, and thy life is
endangered by him, thine enemy is in thine hands and thou art
justified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:32 Behold, this is the law I gave unto
my servant Nephi, and thy fathers, Joseph, and Jacob, and Isaac,
and Abraham, and all mine ancient prophets and apostles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:33 And again, this is the law that I
gave unto mine ancients, that they should not go out unto battle
against any nation, kindred, tongue, or people, save I, the Lord,
commanded them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:34 And if any nation, tongue, or people
should proclaim war against them, they should first lift a
standard of peace unto that people, nation, or tongue;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:35 And if that people did not accept
the offering of peace, neither the second nor the third time,
they should bring these testimonies before the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:36 Then I, the Lord, would give unto
them a commandment, and justify them in going out to battle
against that nation, tongue, or people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:37 And I, the Lord, would fight their
battles, and their children's battles and their children's
children's, until they had avenged themselves on all their
enemies, to the third and fourth generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:38 Behold, this is an ensample unto all
people, saith the Lord your God, for justification before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:39 And again, verily I say unto you, if
after thine enemy has come upon thee the first time, he repent
and come unto thee praying they forgiveness, thou shalt forgive
him, and shalt hold it no more as a testimony against thine
enemy--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:40 And so on unto the second and third
time; and as oft as thine enemy repenteth of the trespass
wherewith he has trespassed against thee, thou shalt forgive him,
until seventy times seven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:41 And if he trespass against thee, and
repent not the first time, nevertheless thou shalt forgive him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:42 And if he trespass against thee the
second time, and repent not, nevertheless thou shalt forgive him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:43 And he trespass against thee the
third time, and repent not, thou shalt also forgive him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:44 But if he trespass against thee the
fourth time thou shalt not forgive him, but shalt bring these
testimonies before the Lord; and they shall not be blotted out
until he repent and reward thee four-fold in all things wherewith
he has trespassed against thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:45 And if he do this, thou shalt
forgive him with all thine heart; and if he do not this, I, the
Lord, will avenge thee of thine enemy an hundred-fold;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:46 And upon his children, and upon his
children's children of all them that hate me, unto the third and
fourth generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:47 But if the children shall repent, or
the children's children, and turn to the Lord their God, with all
their hearts and with all their might, mind, and strength, and
restore four-fold for all their trespasses wherewith they have
trespassed, or wherewith their fathers have trespassed, or their
father's fathers, then thine indignation shall be turned away;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 98:48 And vengeance shall no more come
upon them, saith the Lord thy God, and their trespasses shall
never be brought any more as a testimony before the Lord against
them. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:0 Revelation given through Joseph Smith
the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, August, 1833. --Directions to
John Murdock concerning his work in the ministry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my
servant John Murdock--thou art called to go into the eastern
countries from house to house, from village to village, and from
city to city, to proclaim mine everlasting gospel unto the
inhabitants thereof, in the midst of persecution and wickedness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:2 And who receiveth you receiveth me;
and you shall have power to declare my word in the demonstration
of my Holy Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:3 And who receiveth you as a little
child, receiveth my kingdom; and blessed are they, for they shall
obtain mercy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:4 And whoso rejecteth you shall be
rejected of my Father and his house; and you shall cleanse your
feet in the secret places by the way for a testimony against
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:5 And behold, and lo, I come quickly to
judgment, to convince all of their ungodly deeds which they have
committed against me, as it is written of me in the volume of the
book.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:6 And now, verily I say unto you, that
it is not expedient that you should go until your children are
provided for, and sent up kindly unto the bishop of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:7 And after a few years, if thou
desirest of me, thou mayest go up also unto the goodly land, to
possess thine inheritance;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 99:8 Otherwise thou shalt continue
proclaiming my gospel until thou be taken. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and Sidney Rigdon, at Perrysburg, New York, October 12,
1833. The two had been long absent from their families and felt
some concern over them. --Comforting assurances as to their
families--Many of the Lord's people in that region--Sidney Rigdon
to be a spokesman unto the Prophet and to be mighty in expounding
the Scriptures--Assurances concerning affairs in Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto
you, my friends Sidney and Joseph, your families are well; they
are in mine hands, and I will do with them as seemeth me good;
for in me there is all power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:2 Therefore, follow me, and listen to
the counsel which I shall give unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:3 Behold, and lo, I have much people
in this place, in the regions round about; and an effectual door
shall be opened in the regions round about in this eastern land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:4 Therefore, I, the Lord, have
suffered you to come unto this place; for thus it was expedient
in me for the salvation of souls.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:5 Therefore, verily I say unto you,
lift up your voices unto this people; speak the thoughts that I
shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded
before men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:6 For it shall be given you in the
very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:7 But a commandment I give unto you,
that ye shall declare whatsoever thing ye declare in my name, in
solemnity of heart, in the spirit of meekness, in all things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:8 And I give unto you this promise,
that inasmuch as ye do this the Holy Ghost shall be shed forth in
bearing record unto all things whatsoever ye shall say.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:9 And it is expedient in me that you,
my servant Sidney, should be a spokesman unto this people; yea,
verily, I will ordain you unto this calling, even to be a
spokesman unto my servant Joseph.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:10 And I will give unto him power to
be mighty in testimony.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:11 And I will give unto thee power to
be mighty in expounding all scriptures, that thou mayest be a
spokesman unto him, and he shall be a revelator unto thee, that
thou mayest know the certainty of all things pertaining to the
things of my kingdom on the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:12 Therefore, continue your journey
and let your hearts rejoice; for behold, and lo, I am with you
even unto the end.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:13 And now I give unto you a word
concerning Zion. Zion shall be redeemed, although she is
chastened for a little season.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:14 Thy brethren, my servants Orson
Hyde and John Gould, are in my hands; and inasmuch as they keep
my commandments they shall be saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:15 Therefore, let your hearts be
comforted; for all things shall work together for good to them
that walk uprightly, and to the sanctification of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:16 For I will raise up unto myself a
pure people, that will serve me in righteousness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 100:17 And all that call upon the name of
the Lord, and keep his commandments, shall be saved. Even so.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, December 16, 1933. At this time the
Saints who had gathered in Missouri were suffering great
persecution. Mobs had driven them from their homes in Jackson
County, and some of the Saints had tried to establish themselves
in Van Buren County, but persecution followed them. The main body
of the Church was at that time in Clay County, Missouri. Threats
of death against individuals of the Church were many. The people
had lost household furniture, clothing, livestock and other
personal property, and many of their crops had been destroyed.
See History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 456. --Affliction permitted
to befall the Saints because of their transgression--The Lord's
indignation to be poured out upon all nations--The pure in heart
among those who had been expelled from Zion to return--Other
states of Zion to be established--Blessed state incident to the
millennial era of peace--Parable of the nobleman and the olive-
tree--Gathering of the Saints to be continued--Those who have
been oppressed by their enemies to importune for redress--
Creation of the Constitution of the United States directed by the
Lord--Parable of the woman and the unjust judge.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:1 Verily I say unto you, concerning
your brethren who have been afflicted, and persecuted, and cast
out from the land of their inheritance--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:2 I, the Lord, have suffered the
affliction to come upon them, wherewith they have been afflicted,
in consequence of their transgressions;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:3 Yet I will own them, and they shall
be mine in that day when I shall come to make up my jewels.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:4 Therefore, they must needs be
chastened and tried, even as Abraham, who was commanded to offer
up his only son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:5 For all those who will not endure
chastening, but deny me, cannot be sanctified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:6 Behold, I say unto you, there were
jarrings, and contentions, and envyings, and strifes, and lustful
and covetous desires among them; therefore by these things they
polluted their inheritances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:7 They were slow to hearken unto the
voice of the Lord their God; therefore, the Lord their God is
slow to hearken unto their prayers, to answer them in the day of
their trouble.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:8 In the day of their peace they
esteemed lightly my counsel; but, in the day of their trouble, of
necessity they feel after me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:9 Verily I say unto you,
notwithstanding their sins, my bowels are filled with compassion
towards them. I will not utterly cast them off; and in the day of
wrath I will remember mercy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:10 I have sworn, and the decree hath
gone forth by a former commandment which I have given unto you,
that I would let fall the sword of mine indignation in behalf of
my people; and even as I have said, it shall come to pass.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:11 Mine indignation is soon to be
poured out without measure upon all nations; and this will I do
when the cup of their iniquity is full.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:12 And in that day all who are found
upon the watch-tower, or in other words, all mine Israel, shall
be saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:13 And they that have been scattered
shall be gathered.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:14 And all they who have mourned shall
be comforted.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:15 And all they who have given their
lives for my name shall be crowned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:16 Therefore, let your hearts be
comforted concerning Zion; for all flesh is in mine hands; be
still and know that I am God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:17 Zion shall not be moved out of her
place, notwithstanding her children are scattered.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:18 They that remain, and are pure in
heart, shall return, and come to their inheritances, they and
their children, with songs of everlasting joy, to build up the
waste places of Zion--Doctrine and Covenants 101:19 And all these
things that the prophets might be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:20 And, behold, there is none other
place appointed than that which I have appointed; neither shall
there be any other place appointed than that which I have
appointed, for the work of the gathering of my saints--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:21 Until the day cometh when there is
found no more room for them; and then I have other places which I
will appoint unto them, and they shall be called stakes, for the
curtains or the strength of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:22 Behold, it is my will, that all
they who call on my name, and worship me according to mine
everlasting gospel, should gather together, and stand in holy
places;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:23 And prepare for the revelation
which is to come, when the veil of the covering of my temple, in
my tabernacle, which hideth the earth, shall be taken off, and
all flesh shall see me together.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:24 And every corruptible thing, both
of man, or of the beasts of the field, or of the fowls of the
heavens, or of the fish of the sea, that dwells upon all the face
of the earth, shall be consumed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:25 And also that of element shall melt
with fervent heat; and all things shall become new, that my
knowledge and glory may dwell upon all the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:26 And in that day the enmity of man,
and the enmity of beasts, yea, the enmity of all flesh, shall
cease from before my face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:27 And in that day whatsoever any man
shall ask, it shall be given unto him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:28 And in that day Satan shall not
have power to tempt any man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:29 And there shall be no sorrow
because there is no death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:30 In that day an infant shall not die
until he is old; and his life shall be as the age of a tree;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:31 And when he dies he shall not
sleep, that is to say in the earth, but shall be changed in the
twinkling of an eye, and shall be caught up, and his rest shall
be glorious.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:32 Yea, verily I say unto you, in that
day when the Lord shall come, he shall reveal all things--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:33 Things which have passed, and
hidden things which no man knew, things of the earth, by which it
was made, and the purpose and the end thereof--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:34 Things most precious, things that
are above, and things that are beneath, things that are in the
earth, and upon the earth, and in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:35 And all they who suffer persecution
for my name, and endure in faith, though they are called to lay
down their lives for my sake yet shall they partake of all this
glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:36 Wherefore, fear not even unto
death; for in this world your joy is not full, but in me your joy
is full.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:37 Therefore, care not for the body,
neither the life of the body; but care for the soul, and for the
life of the soul.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:38 And seek the face of the Lord
always, that in patience ye may possess your souls, and ye shall
have eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:39 When men are called into mine
everlasting gospel, and covenant with an everlasting covenant,
they are accounted as the salt of the earth and the savor of men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:40 They are called to be the savor of
men; therefore, if that salt of the earth lose its savor, behold,
it is thenceforth good for nothing only to be cast out and
trodden under the feet of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:41 Behold, here is wisdom concerning
the children of Zion, even many, but not all; they were found
transgressors, therefore they must needs be chastened--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:42 He that exalteth himself shall be
abased, and he that abaseth himself shall be exalted.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:43 And now, I will show unto you a
parable, that you may know my will concerning the redemption of
Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:44 A certain nobleman had a spot of
land, very choice; and he said unto his servants: Go ye unto my
vineyard, even upon this very choice piece of land, and plant
twelve olive-trees;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:45 And set watchmen round about them,
and build a tower, that one may overlook the land round about, to
be a watchman upon the tower, that mine olive-trees may not be
broken down when the enemy shall come to spoil and take upon
themselves the fruit of my vineyard.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:46 Now, the servants of the nobleman
went and did as their lord commanded them, and planted the olive-
trees, and built a hedge round about, and set watchmen, and began
to build a tower.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:47 And while they were yet laying the
foundation thereof, they began to say among themselves: And what
need hath my lord of this tower?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:48 And consulted for a long time,
saying among themselves: What need hath my lord of this tower,
seeing this is a time of peace?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:49 Might not this money be given to
the exchangers? For there is no need of these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:50 And while they were at variance one
with another they became very slothful, and they hearkened not
unto the commandments of their lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:51 And the enemy came by night, and
broke down the hedge; and the servants of the nobleman arose and
were affrighted, and fled; and the enemy destroyed their works,
and broke down the olive-trees.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:52 Now, behold, the nobleman, the lord
of the vineyard, called upon his servants, and said unto them,
Why! what is the cause of this great evil?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:53 Ought ye not to have done even as I
commanded you, and--after ye had planted the vineyard, and built
the hedge round about, and set watchmen upon the walls thereof--
built the tower also, and set a watchman upon the tower, and
watched for my vineyard, and not have fallen asleep, lest the
enemy should come upon you?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:54 And behold, the watchman upon the
tower would have seen the enemy while he was yet afar off; and
then ye could have made ready and kept the enemy from breaking
down the hedge thereof, and saved my vineyard from the hands of
the destroyer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:55 And the lord of the vineyard said
unto one of his servants: Go and gather together the residue of
my servants, and take all the strength of mine house, which are
my warriors, my young men, and they that are of middle age also
among all my servants, who are the strength of mine house, save
those only whom I have appointed to tarry;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:56 And go ye straightway unto the land
of my vineyard, and redeem my vineyard; for it is mine; I have
bought it with money.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:57 Therefore, get ye straightway unto
my land; break down the walls of mine enemies; throw down their
tower, and scatter their watchmen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:58 And inasmuch as they gather
together against you, avenge me of mine enemies, that by and by I
may come with the residue of mine house and possess the land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:59 And the servant said unto his lord:
When shall these things be?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:60 And he said unto his servant: When
I will; go ye straightway, and do all things whatsoever I have
commanded you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:61 And this shall be my seal and
blessing upon you--a faithful and wise steward in the midst of
mine house, a ruler in my kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:62 And his servant went straightway,
and did all things whatsoever his lord commanded him; and after
many days all things were fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:63 Again, verily I say unto you, I
will show unto you wisdom in me concerning all the churches,
inasmuch as they are willing to be guided in a right and proper
way for their salvation--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:64 That the work of the gathering
together of my saints may continue, that I may build them up unto
my name upon holy places; for the time of harvest is come, and my
word must needs be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:65 Therefore, I must gather together
my people, according to the parable of the wheat and the tares,
that the wheat may be secured in the garners to possess eternal
life, and be crowned with celestial glory, when I shall come in
the kingdom of my Father to reward every man according as his
work shall be;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:66 While the tares shall be bound in
bundles, and their bands made strong, that they may be burned
with unquenchable fire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:67 Therefore, a commandment I give
unto all the churches, that they shall continue to gather
together unto the places which I have appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:68 Nevertheless, as I have said unto
you in a former commandment, let not your gathering be in haste,
nor by flight; but let all things be prepared before you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:69 And in order that all things be
prepared before you, observe the commandment which I have given
concerning these things--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:70 Which saith, or teacheth, to
purchase all the lands with money, which can be purchased for
money, in the region round about the land which I have appointed
to be the land of Zion, for the beginning of the gathering of my
saints;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:71 All the land which can be purchased
in Jackson county, and the counties round about, and leave the
residue in mine hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:72 Now, verily I say unto you, let all
the churches gather together all their moneys; let these things
be done in their time, but not in haste; and observe to have all
things prepared before you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:73 And let honorable men be appointed,
even wise men, and send them to purchase these lands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:74 And the churches in the eastern
countries, when they are built up, if they will hearken unto this
counsel they may buy lands and gather together upon them; and in
this way they may establish Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:75 There is even now already in store
sufficient, yea, even an abundance, to redeem Zion, and establish
her waste places, no more to be thrown down, were the churches,
who call themselves after my name, willing to hearken to my
voice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:76 And again I say unto you, those who
have been scattered by their enemies, it is my will that they
should continue to importune for redress, and redemption, by the
hands of those who are placed as rulers and are in authority over
you--Doctrine and Covenants 101:77 According to the laws and
constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be
established, and should be maintained for the rights and
protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:78 That every man act in doctrine and
principle pertaining to futurity, according to the moral agency
which I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable
for his own sins in the day of judgment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:79 Therefore, it is not right that any
man should be in bondage one to another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:80 And for this purpose have I
established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise
men whom I have raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed
the land by the shedding of blood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:81 Now, unto what shall I liken the
children of Zion? I will liken them unto the parable of the woman
and the unjust judge, for men ought always to pray and not to
faint, which saith--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:82 There was in a city a judge which
feared not God, neither regarded man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:83 And there was a widow in that city,
and she came unto him, saying: Avenge me of mine adversary.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:84 And he would not for a while, but
afterward he said within himself: Though I fear not God, nor
regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me I will avenge
her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:85 Thus will I liken the children of
Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:86 Let them importune at the feet of
the judge;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:87 And if he heed them not, let them
importune at the feet of the governor;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:88 And if the governor heed them not,
let them importune at the feet of the president;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:89 And if the president heed them not,
then will the Lord arise and come forth out of his hiding place,
and in his fury vex the nation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:90 And in his hot displeasure, and in
his fierce anger, in his time, will cut off those wicked,
unfaithful, and unjust stewards, and appoint them their portion
among hypocrites, and unbelievers;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:91 Even in outer darkness, where there
is weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:92 Pray ye, therefore, that their ears
may be opened unto your cries, that I may be merciful unto them,
that these things may not come upon them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:93 What I have said unto you must
needs be, that all men may be left without excuse;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:94 That wise men and rulers may hear
and know that which they have never considered;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:95 That I may proceed to bring to pass
my act, my strange act, and perform my work, my strange work,
that men may discern between the righteous and the wicked, saith
your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:96 And again, I say unto you, it is
contrary to my commandment and my will that my servant Sidney
Gilbert should sell my storehouse, which I have appointed unto my
people, into the hands of mine enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:97 Let not that which I have appointed
be polluted by mine enemies, by the consent of those who call
themselves after my name;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:98 For this is a very sore and
grievous sin against me, and against my people, in consequence of
those things which I have decreed and which are soon to befall
the nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:99 Therefore, it is my will that my
people should claim, and hold claim upon that which I have
appointed unto them, though they should not be permitted to dwell
thereon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:100 Nevertheless, I do not say they
shall not dwell thereon; for inasmuch as they bring forth fruit
and works meet for my kingdom they shall dwell thereon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 101:101 They shall build, and another
shall not inherit it; they shall plant vineyards, and they shall
eat the fruits thereof. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:0 Minutes of the organization of the
first High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day
Saints, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 17, 1834.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:1 This day a general council of
twenty-four high priests assembled at the house of Joseph Smith,
Jun., by revelation, and proceeded to organize the high council
of the church of Christ, which was to consist of twelve high
priests, and one or three presidents as the case might require.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:2 The high council was appointed by
revelation for the purpose of settling important difficulties
which might arise in the church, which could not be settled by
the church or the bishop's council to the satisfaction of the
parties.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:3 Joseph Smith, Jun., Sidney Rigdon
and Frederick G. Williams were acknowledged presidents by the
voice of the council; and Joseph Smith, Sen., John Smith, Joseph
Coe, John Johnson, Martin Harris, John S. Carter, Jared Carter,
Oliver Cowdery, Samuel H. Smith, Orson Hyde, Sylvester Smith, and
Luke Johnson, high priests, were chosen to be a standing council
for the church, by the unanimous voice of the council.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:4 The above-named councilors were then
asked whether they accepted their appointments, and whether they
would act in that office according to the law of heaven, to which
they all answered that they accepted their appointments, and
would fill their offices according to the grace of God bestowed
upon them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:5 The number composing the council,
who voted in the name and for the church in appointing the above-
named councilors were forty-three, as follows: nine high priests,
seventeen elders, four priests, and thirteen members.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:6 Voted: that the high council cannot
have power to act without seven of the above-named councilors, or
their regularly appointed successors are present.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:7 These seven shall have power to
appoint other high priests, whom they may consider worthy and
capable to act in the place of absent councilors.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:8 Voted: that whenever any vacancy
shall occur by the death, removal from office for transgression,
or removal from the bounds of this church government, of any one
of the above-named councilors, it shall be filled by the
nomination of the president or presidents, and sanctioned by the
voice of a general council of high priests, convened for that
purpose, to act in the name of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:9 The president of the church, who is
also the president of the council, is appointed by revelation,
and acknowledged in his administration by the voice of the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:10 And it is according to the dignity
of his office that he should preside over the council of the
church; and it is his privilege to be assisted by two other
presidents, appointed after the same manner that he himself was
appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:11 And in case of the absence of one
or both of those who are appointed to assist him, he has power to
preside over the council without an assistant; and in case he
himself is absent, the other presidents have power to preside in
his stead, both or either of them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:12 Whenever a high council of the
church of Christ is regularly organized, according to the
foregoing pattern, it shall be the duty of the twelve councilors
to cast lots by numbers, and there by ascertain who of the twelve
shall speak first, commencing with number one and so in
succession to number twelve.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:13 Whenever this council convenes to
act upon any case, the twelve councilors shall consider whether
it is a difficult one or not; if it is not, two only of the
councilors shall speak upon it, according to the form above
written.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:14 But if it is thought to be
difficult, four shall be appointed; and if more difficult, six;
but in no case shall more than six be appointed to speak.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:15 The accused, in all cases, has a
right to one-half of the council, to prevent insult or injustice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:16 And the councilors appointed to
speak before the council are to present the case, after the
evidence is examined, in its true light before the council; and
every man is to speak according to equity and justice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:17 Those councilors who draw even
numbers, that is, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12, are the individuals who
are to stand up in behalf of the accused, and prevent insult and
injustice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:18 In all cases the accuser and the
accused shall have a privilege of speaking for themselves before
the council, after the evidences are heard and the councilors who
are appointed to speak on the case have finished their remarks.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:19 After the evidences are heard, the
councilors, accuser and accused have spoken, the president shall
give a decision according to the understanding which he shall
have of the case, and call upon the twelve councilors to sanction
the same by their vote.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:20 But should the remaining
councilors, who have not spoken, or any one of them, after
hearing the evidences and pleadings impartially, discover an
error in the decision of the president, they can manifest it, and
the case shall have a re-hearing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:21 And if, after a careful re-hearing,
any additional light is shown upon the case, the decision shall
be altered accordingly.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:22 But in case no additional light is
given, the first decision shall stand, the majority of the
council having power to determine the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:23 In case of difficulty respecting
doctrine or principle, if there is not a sufficiency written to
make the case clear to the minds of the council, the president
may inquire and obtain the mind of the Lord by revelation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:24 The high priests, when abroad, have
power to call and organize a council after the manner of the
foregoing, to settle difficulties, when the parties or either of
them shall request it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:25 And the said council of high
priests shall have power to appoint one of their own number to
preside over such council for the time being.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:26 It shall be the duty of said
council to transmit, immediately, a copy of their proceedings,
with a full statement of the testimony accompanying their
decision, to the high council of the seat of the First Presidency
of the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:27 Should the parties or either of
them be dissatisfied with the decision of said council, they may
appeal to the high council of the seat of the First Presidency of
the Church, and have a re-hearing, which case shall there be
conducted, according to the former pattern written, as though no
such decision had been made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:28 This council of high priests abroad
is only to be called on the most difficult cases of church
matters; and no common or ordinary case is to be sufficient to
call such council.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:29 The traveling or located high
priests abroad have power to say whether it is necessary to call
such a council or not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:30 There is a distinction between the
high council or traveling high priests abroad, and the traveling
high council composed of the twelve apostles, in their decisions.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:31 From the decision of the former
there can be an appeal; but from the decision of the latter there
cannot.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:32 The latter can only be called in
question by the general authorities of the church in case of
transgression.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:33 Resolved: that the president or
presidents of the seat of the First Presidency of the Church
shall have power to determine whether any such case, as may be
appealed, is justly entitled to a re-hearing, after examining the
appeal and the evidences and statements accompanying it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:34 The twelve councilors then
proceeded to cast lots or ballot, to ascertain who should speak
first, and the following was the result, namely: 1, Oliver
Cowdery; 2, Joseph Coe; 3, Samuel H. Smith; 4, Luke Johnson; 5,
John S. Carter; 6, Sylvester Smith; 7, John Johnson; 8, Orson
Hyde; 9, Jared Carter; 10, Joseph Smith, Sen.; 11, John Smith;
12, Martin Harris. After prayer the conference adjourned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 102:00 Oliver Cowdery, Orson Hyde, Clerks
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 24, 1934. For
explanation of unusual names see heading to Section 78. --Cause
of the persecutions permitted against the Saints in Jackson
County, Missouri--The Saints to prevail if they follow the
counsel of the Lord-- Otherwise the powers of the world to
prevail against them--The angel of the Lord and the Lord's
presence to go before the people--Moneys to be collected and set
up to Zion for the purchase of lands--Individual instructions to
certain Elders.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:1 Verily I say unto you, my friends,
behold, I will give unto you a revelation and commandment, that
you may know how to act in the discharge of your duties
concerning the salvation and redemption of your brethren, who
have been scattered on the land of Zion;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:2 Being driven and smitten by the
hands of mine enemies, on whom I will pour out my wrath without
measure in mine own time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:3 For I have suffered them thus far,
that they might fill up the measure of their iniquities, that
their cup might be full;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:4 And that those who call themselves
after my name might be chastened for a little season with a sore
and grievous chastisement, because they did not hearken
altogether unto the precepts and commandments which I gave unto
them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:5 But verily I say unto you, that I
have decreed a decree which my people shall realize, inasmuch as
they hearken from this very hour unto the counsel which I, the
Lord their God, shall give unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:6 Behold they shall, for I have
decreed it, begin to prevail against mine enemies from this very
hour.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:7 And by hearkening to observe all the
words which I, the Lord their God, shall speak unto them, they
shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the world are
subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to
possess it forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:8 But inasmuch as they keep not my
commandments, and hearken not to observe all my words, the
kingdoms of the world shall prevail against them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:9 For they were set to be a light unto
the world, and to be the saviors of men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:10 And inasmuch as they are not the
saviors of men, they are as salt that has lost its savor, and is
thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under
foot of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:11 But verily I say unto you, I have
decreed that your brethren which have been scattered shall return
to the lands of their inheritances, and shall build up the waste
places of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:12 For after much tribulation, as I
have said unto you in a former commandment, cometh the blessing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:13 Behold, this is the blessing which
I have promised after your tribulations, and the tribulations of
your brethren--your redemption, and the redemption of your
brethren, even their restoration to the land of Zion, to be
established, no more to be thrown down.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:14 Nevertheless, if they pollute their
inheritances they shall be thrown down; for I will not spare them
if they pollute their inheritances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:15 Behold, I say unto you, the
redemption of Zion must needs come by power;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:16 Therefore, I will raise up unto my
people a man, who shall lead them like as Moses led the children
of Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:17 For ye are the children of Israel,
and of the seed of Abraham, and ye must needs be led out of
bondage by power, and with a stretched-out arm.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:18 And as your fathers were led at the
first, even so shall the redemption of Zion be.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:19 Therefore, let not your hearts
faint, for I say not unto you as I said unto your fathers: Mine
angel shall go up before you, but not my presence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:20 But I say unto you: Mine angels
shall go up before you, and also my presence, and in time ye
shall possess the goodly land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:21 Verily, verily I say unto you, that
my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., is the man to whom I likened the
servant to whom the Lord of the vineyard spake in the parable
which I have given unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:22 Therefore let my servant Joseph
Smith, Jun., say unto the strength of my house, my young men and
the middle aged--Gather yourselves together unto the land of
Zion, upon the land which I have bought with money that has been
consecrated unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:23 And let all the churches send up
wise men with their moneys, and purchase lands even as I have
commanded them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:24 And inasmuch as mine enemies come
against you to drive you from my goodly land, which I have
consecrated to be the land of Zion, even from your own lands
after these testimonies, which ye have brought before me against
them, ye shall curse them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:25 And whomsoever ye curse, I will
curse, and ye shall avenge me of mine enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:26 And my presence shall be with you
even in avenging me of mine enemies, unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:27 Let no man be afraid to lay down
his life for my sake; for whoso layeth down his life for my sake
shall find it again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:28 And whoso is not willing to lay
down his life for my sake is not my disciple.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:29 It is my will that my servant
Sidney Rigdon shall lift up his voice in the congregations in the
eastern countries, in preparing the churches to keep the
commandments which I have given unto them concerning the
restoration and redemption of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:30 It is my will that my servant
Parley P. Pratt and my servant Lyman Wight should not return to
the land of their brethren, until they have obtained companies to
go up unto the land of Zion, by tens, or by twenties, or by
fifties, or by an hundred, until they have obtained to the number
of five hundred of the strength of my house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:31 Behold this is my will; ask and ye
shall receive; but men do not always do my will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:32 Therefore, if you cannot obtain
five hundred, seek diligently that peradventure you may obtain
three hundred.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:33 And if ye cannot obtain three
hundred, seek diligently that peradventure ye may obtain one
hundred.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:34 But verily I say unto you, a
commandment I give unto you, that ye shall not go up unto the
land of Zion until you have obtained a hundred of the strength of
my house, to go up with you unto the land of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:35 Therefore, as I said unto you, ask
and ye shall receive; pray earnestly that peradventure my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun., may go with you, and preside in the midst of
my people, and organize my kingdom upon the consecrated land, and
establish the children of Zion upon the laws and commandments
which have been and which shall be given unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:36 All victory and glory is brought to
pass unto you through your diligence, faithfulness, and prayers
of faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:37 Let my servant Parley P. Pratt
journey with my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:38 Let my servant Lyman Wight journey
with my servant Sidney Rigdon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:39 Let my servant Hyrum Smith journey
with my servant Frederick G. Williams.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 103:40 Let my servant Orson Hyde journey
with my servant Orson Pratt, whithersoever my servant Joseph
Smith, Jun., shall counsel them, in obtaining the fulfilment of
these commandments which I have given unto you, and leave the
residue in my hands. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:0 Revelation given to Enoch [Joseph
Smith the Prophet] April 23, 1834, concerning the United Order,
or the order of the Church for the benefit of the poor. The
occasion was that of a council meeting of the First Presidency
and other High Priests, in which the pressing temporal needs of
the people and been given consideration. For explanation of
unusual names see heading to Section 78. --Some who had broken
their covenants in the United Order had come under condemnation--
The Lord will not be mocked--Care of the poor an imperative duty
of the Saints--The United Order in Kirtland was segregated from
that in Zion, Missouri--This separation partly because of
transgression on the part of members, and partly because of the
scattered condition of the Saints in Missouri--A treasury for the
order provided for--On conditions of faith and humility, the Lord
promises to deliver his people this once out of financial
bondage.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:1 Verily I say unto you, my friends, I
give unto you counsel, and a commandment, concerning all the
properties which belong to the order which I commanded to
organized and established, to be a united order, and an
everlasting order for the benefit of my church, and for the
salvation of men until I come--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:2 With promise immutable and
unchangeable, that inasmuch as those whom I commanded were
faithful they should be blessed with a multiplicity of blessings;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:3 But inasmuch as they were not
faithful they were night unto cursing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:4 Therefore, inasmuch as some of my
servants have not kept the commandment, but have broken the
covenant through covetousness, and with feigned words, I have
cursed them with a very sore and grievous curse.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:5 For I, the Lord, have decreed in my
heart, that inasmuch as any man belonging to the order shall be
found a transgressor, or, in other words, shall break the
covenant with which ye are bound, he shall be cursed in his life,
and shall be trodden down by whom I will;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:6 For I, the Lord, am not to be mocked
in these things--Doctrine and Covenants 104:7 And all this that
the innocent among you may not be condemned with the unjust; and
that the guilty among you may not escape; because I, the Lord,
have promised unto you a crown of glory at my right hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:8 Therefore, inasmuch as you are found
transgressors, you cannot escape my wrath in your lives.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:9 Inasmuch as ye are cut off for
transgression, ye cannot escape the buffetings of Satan until the
day of redemption.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:10 And I now give unto you power from
this very hour, that if any man among you, of the order, is found
a transgressor and repenteth not of the evil, that ye shall
deliver him over unto the buffetings of Satan; and he shall not
have power to bring evil upon you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:11 It is wisdom in me; therefore, a
commandment I give unto you, that ye shall organize yourselves
and appoint every man his stewardship;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:12 That every man may give an account
unto me of the stewardship which is appointed unto him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:13 For it is expedient that I, the
Lord, should make every man accountable, as a steward over
earthly blessings, which I have made and prepared for my
creatures.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:14 I, the Lord, stretched out the
heavens, and built the earth, my very handiwork; and all things
therein are mine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:15 And it is my purpose to provide for
my saints, for all things are mine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:16 But it must needs be done in mine
own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have
decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted,
in that the rich are made low.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:17 For the earth is full, and there is
enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given
unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:18 Therefore, if any man shall take of
the abundance which I have made, and impart not his portion,
according to the law of my gospel, unto the poor and the needy,
he shall, with the wicked, lift up his eyes in hell, being in
torment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:19 And now, verily I say unto you,
concerning the properties of the order--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:20 Let my servant Sidney Rigdon have
appointed unto him the place where he now resides, and the lot of
the tannery for his stewardship, for his support while he is
laboring in my vineyard, even as I will, when I shall command
him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:21 And let all things be done
according to the counsel of the order, and united consent or
voice of the order, which dwell in the land of Kirtland.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:22 And this stewardship and blessing,
I, the Lord, confer upon my servant Sidney Rigdon for a blessing
upon him, and his seed after him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:23 And I will multiply blessings upon
him, inasmuch as he will be humble before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:24 And again, let my servant Martin
Harris have appointed unto him, for his stewardship, the lot of
land which my servant John Johnson obtained in exchange for his
former inheritance, for him and his seed after him;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:25 And inasmuch as he is faithful, I
will multiply blessings upon him and his seed after him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:26 And let my servant Martin Harris
devote his moneys for the proclaiming of my words, according as
my servant Joseph Smith, Jun,. shall direct.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:27 And again, let my servant Frederick
G. Williams have the place upon which he now dwells.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:28 And let my servant Oliver Cowdery
have the lot which is set off joining the house, which is to be
for the printing office, which is lot number one, and also the
lot upon which his father resides.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:29 And let my servants Frederick G.
Williams and Oliver Cowdery have the printing office and all
things that pertain unto it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:30 And this shall be their stewardship
which shall be appointed unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:31 And inasmuch as they are faithful,
behold I will bless, and multiply blessings upon them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:32 And this is the beginning of the
stewardship which I have appointed them, for them and their seed
after them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:33 And, inasmuch as they are faithful,
I will multiply blessings upon them and their seed after them,
even a multiplicity of blessings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:34 And again, let my servant John
Johnson have the house in which he lives, and the inheritance,
all save the ground which has been reserved for the building of
my houses, which pertains to that inheritance, and those lots
which have been named for my servant Oliver Cowdery.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:35 And inasmuch as he is faithful, I
will multiply blessings upon him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:36 And it is my will that he should
sell the lots that are laid off for the building up of the city
of my saints, inasmuch as it shall be made known to him by the
voice of the Spirit, and according to the counsel of the order,
and by the voice of the order.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:37 And this is the beginning of the
stewardship which I have appointed unto him, for a blessing unto
him and his seed after him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:38 And inasmuch as he is faithful, I
will multiply a multiplicity of blessings upon him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:39 And again, let my servant Newel K.
Whitney have appointed unto him the houses and lot where he now
resides, and the lot and building on which the mercantile
establishment stands, and also the lot which is on the corner
south of the mercantile establishment, and also the lot on which
the ashery is situated.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:40 And all this I have appointed unto
my servant Newel K. Whitney for his stewardship, for a blessing
upon him and his seed after him, for the benefit of the
mercantile establishment of my order which I have established for
my stake in the land of Kirtland.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:41 Yea, verily, this is the
stewardship which I have appointed unto my servant N. K. Whitney,
even this whole mercantile establishment, him and his agent, and
his seed after him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:42 And inasmuch as he is faithful in
keeping my commandments, which I have given unto him, I will
multiply blessings upon him and his seed after him, even a
multiplicity of blessings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:43 And again, let my servant Joseph
Smith, Jun., have appointed unto him the lot which is laid off
for the building of my house, which is forty rods long and twelve
wide, and also the inheritance upon which his father now resides;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:44 And this is the beginning of the
stewardship which I have appointed unto him, for a blessing upon
him, and upon his father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:45 For behold, I have reserved an
inheritance for his father, for his support; therefore he shall
be reckoned in the house of my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:46 And I will multiply blessings upon
the house of my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., inasmuch as he is
faithful, even a multiplicity of blessings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:47 And now, a commandment I give unto
you concerning Zion, that you shall no longer be bound as a
united order to your brethren of Zion, only on this wise--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:48 After you are organized, you shall
be called the United Order of the Stake of Zion, the City of
Kirtland. And your brethren, after they are organized, shall be
called the United Order of the City of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:49 And they shall be organized in
their own names, and in their own name; and they shall do their
business in their own name, and in their own names;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:50 And you shall do your business in
your own name, and in your own names.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:51 And this I have commanded to be
done for your salvation, and also for their salvation, in
consequence of their being driven out and that which is to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:52 The covenants being broken through
transgression, by covetousness and feigned words--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:53 Therefore, you are dissolved as a
united order with your brethren, that you are not bound only up
to this hour unto them, only on this wise, as I said, by loan as
shall be agreed by this order in council, as your circumstances
will admit and the voice of the council direct.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:54 And again, a commandment I give
unto you concerning your stewardship which I have appointed unto
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:55 Behold, all these properties are
mine, or else your faith is vain, and ye are found hypocrites,
and the covenants which ye have made unto me are broken;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:56 And if the properties are mine,
then ye are stewards; otherwise ye are no stewards.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:57 But, verily I say unto you, I have
appointed unto you to be stewards over mine house, even stewards
indeed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:58 And for this purpose I have
commanded you to organize yourselves, even to print my words, the
fulness of my scriptures, the revelations which I have given unto
you, and which I shall, hereafter, from time to time give unto
you--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:59 For the purpose of building up my
church and kingdom on the earth, and to prepare my people for the
time when I shall dwell with them, which is nigh at hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:60 And ye shall prepare for yourselves
a place for a treasury, and consecrate it unto my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:61 And ye shall appoint one among you
to keep the treasury, and he shall be ordained unto this
blessing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:62 And there shall be a seal upon the
treasury, and all the sacred things shall be delivered into the
treasury; and no man among you shall call it his own, or any part
of it, for it shall belong to you all with one accord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:63 And I give it unto you from this
very hour; and now see to it, that ye go to and make use of the
stewardship which have appointed unto you, exclusive of the
sacred things, for the purpose of printing these sacred things as
I have said.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:64 And the avails of the sacred things
shall be had in the treasury, and a seal shall be upon it; and it
shall not be used or taken out of the treasury by any one,
neither shall the seal be loosed which shall be placed upon it,
only by the voice of the order, or by commandment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:65 And thus shall ye preserve the
avails of the sacred things in the treasury, for sacred and holy
purposes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:66 And this shall be called the sacred
treasury of the Lord; and a seal shall be kept upon it that it
may be holy and consecrated unto the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:67 And again, there shall be another
treasury prepared, and a treasurer appointed to keep the
treasury, and a seal shall be placed upon it;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:68 And all moneys that you receive in
your stewardships, by improving upon the properties which I have
appointed unto you, in houses, or in lands, or in cattle, or in
all things save it be the holy and sacred writings, which I have
reserved unto myself for holy and sacred purposes, shall be cast
into the treasury as fast as you receive moneys, by hundreds, or
by fifties, or by twenties, or by tens, or by fives.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:69 Or in other words, if any man among
you obtain five dollars let him cast them into the treasury; or
if he obtain ten, or twenty, or fifty, or an hundred, let him do
likewise;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:70 And let not any among you say that
it is his own; for it shall not be called his, nor any part of
it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:71 And there shall not any part of it
be used, or taken out of the treasury, only by the voice and
common consent of the order.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:72 And this shall be the voice and
common consent of the order--that any man among you say to the
treasurer: I have need of this to help me in my stewardship--
Doctrine and Covenants 104:73 If it be five dollars, or if it be
ten dollars, or twenty, or fifty, or a hundred, the treasurer
shall give unto him the sum which he requires to help him in his
stewardship--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:74 Until he be found a transgressor,
and it is manifest before the council of the order plainly that
he is an unfaithful and an unwise steward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:75 But so long as he is in full
fellowship, and is faithful and wise in his stewardship, this
shall be his token unto the treasurer that the treasurer shall
not withhold.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:76 But in case of transgression, the
treasurer shall be subject unto the council and voice of the
order.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:77 And in case the treasurer is found
an unfaithful and an unwise steward, he shall be subject to the
council and voice of the order, and shall be removed out of his
place, and another shall be appointed in his stead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:78 And again, verily say unto you,
concerning your debts--behold it is my will that you shall pay
all your debts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:79 And it is my will that you shall
humble yourselves before me, and obtain this blessing by your
diligence and humility and the prayer of faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:80 And inasmuch as you are diligent
and humble, and exercise the prayer of faith, behold, I will
soften the hearts of those to whom you are in debt, until I shall
send means unto you for your deliverance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:81 Therefore write speedily to New
York and write according to that which shall be dictated by my
Spirit; and I will soften the hearts of those to whom you are in
debt, that it shall be taken away out of their minds to bring
affliction upon you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:82 And inasmuch as ye are humble and
faithful and call upon my name, behold, I will give you the
victory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:83 I give unto you a promise, that you
shall be delivered this once out of your bondage.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:84 Inasmuch as you obtain a chance to
loan money by hundreds, or thousands, even until you shall loan
enough to deliver yourself from bondage, it is your privilege.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:85 And pledge the properties which
have I put into your hands, this once, by giving your names by
common consent or otherwise, as it shall seem good unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 104:86 I give unto you this privilege,
this once; and behold, if you proceed to do the things which I
have laid before you, according to my commandments, all these
things are mine, and ye are my stewards, and the master will not
suffer his house to be broken up. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, on Fishing River, Missouri, June 22, 1834. Mob
violence against the Saints in Missouri had increased; and
organized bodies from several counties had declared their intent
to destroy the people. The Prophet had come from Kirtland, at the
head of a party known as Zion's Camp, bringing clothing and
provisions. While this party was encamped on Fishing River the
Prophet received this revelation. See History of the Church, vol.
2, chaps. 5 to 8 inclusive. For explanation of unusual names see
heading to Section 78. --But for their transgressions the people
might have been redeemed from their enemies--Unwillingness to
impart to the poor condemned--The redemption of Zion deferred--
The people to appeal to the officers of the law for redress--
Lands in Jackson and adjoining counties to be purchased--
Endowment to be given in the House of the Lord in process of
erection at Kirtland--The day of calling followed by the day of
choosing--The Saints to lift an ensign of peace.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:1 Verily I say unto you who have
assembled yourselves together that you may learn my will
concerning the redemption of mine afflicted people--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:2 Behold, I say unto you, were it not
for the transgressions of my people, speaking concerning the
church and not individuals, they might have been redeemed even
now.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:3 But behold, they have not learned to
be obedient to the things which I required at their hands, but
are full of all manner of evil, and do not impart of their
substance, as becometh saints, to the poor and afflicted among
them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:4 And are not united according to the
union required by the law of the celestial kingdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:5 And Zion cannot be built up unless
it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom;
otherwise I cannot receive her unto myself.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:6 And my people must needs be
chastened until they learn obedience, if it must needs be, by the
things which they suffer.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:7 I speak not concerning those who are
appointed to lead my people, who are the first elders of my
church, for they are not all under this condemnation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:8 But I speak concerning my churches
abroad--there are many who will say: Where is their God? Behold,
he will deliver them in time of trouble, otherwise we will not go
up unto Zion, and will keep our moneys.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:9 Therefore, in consequence of the
transgressions of my people, it is expedient in me that mine
elders should wait for a little season for the redemption of
Zion--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:10 That they themselves may be
prepared, and that my people may be taught more perfectly, and
have experience, and know more perfectly concerning their duty,
and the things which I require at their hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:11 And this cannot be brought to pass
until mine elders are endowed with power from on high.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:12 For behold, I have prepared a great
endowment and blessing to be poured out upon them, inasmuch as
they are faithful and continue in humility before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:13 Therefore it is expedient in me
that mine elders should wait for a little season, for the
redemption of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:14 For behold, I do not require at
their hands to fight the battles of Zion; for, as I said in a
former commandment, even so will I fulfill--I will fight your
battles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:15 Behold, the destroyer I have sent
forth to destroy and lay waste mine enemies; and not many years
hence they shall not be left to pollute mine heritage, and to
blaspheme my name upon the lands which I have consecrated for the
gathering together of my saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:16 Behold, I have commanded my servant
Joseph Smith, Jun., to say unto the strength of my house, even my
warriors, my young men, and middle-aged, to gather together for
the redemption of my people, and throw down the towers of mine
enemies, and scatter their watchmen;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:17 But the strength of mine house have
not hearkened unto my words.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:18 But inasmuch as there are those who
have hearkened unto my words, I have prepared a blessing and an
endowment for them, if they continue faithful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:19 I have heard their prayers, and
will accept their offering; and it is expedient in me that they
should be brought thus far for a trial of their faith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:20 And now, verily I say unto you, a
commandment I give unto you, that as many as have come up hither,
that can stay in the region round about, let them stay;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:21 And those that cannot stay, who
have families in the east, let them tarry for a little season,
inasmuch as my servant Joseph shall appoint unto them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:22 For I will counsel him concerning
this matter, and all things whatsoever he shall appoint unto them
shall be fulfilled.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:23 And let all my people who dwell in
the regions round about be very faithful, and prayerful, and
humble before me, and reveal not the things which I have revealed
unto them, until it is wisdom in me that they should be revealed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:24 Talk not of judgments, neither
boast of faith nor of mighty works, but carefully gather
together, as much in one region as can be, consistently with the
feelings of the people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:25 And behold, I will give unto you
favor and grace in their eyes, that you may rest in peace and
safety, while you are saying unto the people: Execute judgment
and justice for us according to law, and redress us of our
wrongs.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:26 Now, behold, I say unto you, my
friends, in this way you may find favor in the eyes of the
people, until the army of Israel becomes very great.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:27 And I will soften the hearts of the
people, as I did the heart of Pharaoh, from time to time, until
my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and mine elders, whom I have
appointed, shall have time to gather up the strength of my house,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:28 And to have sent wise men, to
fulfil that which I have commanded concerning the purchasing of
all the lands in Jackson county that can be purchased, and in the
adjoining counties round about.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:29 For it is my will that these lands
should be purchased; and after they are purchased that my saints
should possess them according to the laws of consecration which I
have given.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:30 And after these lands are
purchased, I will hold the armies of Israel guiltless in taking
possession of their own lands, which they have previously
purchased with their moneys, and of throwing down the towers of
mine enemies that may be upon them, and scattering their
watchmen, and avenging me of mine enemies unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:31 But first let my army become very
great, and let it be sanctified before me, that it may become
fair as the sun, and clear as the moon, and that her banners may
be terrible unto all nations;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:32 That the kingdoms of this world may
be constrained to acknowledge that the kingdom of Zion is in very
deed the kingdom of our God and his Christ; therefore, let us
become subject unto her laws.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:33 Verily I say unto you, it is
expedient in me that the first elders of my church should receive
their endowment from on high in my house, which I have commanded
to be built unto my name in the land of Kirtland.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:34 And let those commandments which I
have given concerning Zion and her law be executed and fulfilled,
after her redemption.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:35 There has been a day of calling,
but the time has come for a day of choosing; and let those be
chosen that are worthy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:36 And it shall be manifest unto my
servant, by the voice of the Spirit, those that are chosen; and
they shall be sanctified;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:37 And inasmuch as they follow the
counsel which they receive, they shall have power after many days
to accomplish all things pertaining to Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:38 And again I say unto you, sue for
peace, not only to the people that have smitten you, but also to
all people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:39 And lift up an ensign of peace, and
make a proclamation of peace unto the ends of the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:40 And make proposals for peace unto
those who have smitten you, according to the voice of the Spirit
which is in you, and all things shall work together for your
good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 105:41 Therefore, be faithful; and behold,
and lo, I am with you even unto the end. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 25, 1834. --Warren
A Cowdery is named local presiding officer--Great blessings
promised him on condition of his obedience--Nearness and
suddenness of the Lord's future advent.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:1 It is my will that my servant Warren
A. Cowdery should be appointed and ordained a presiding high
priest over my church, in the land of Freedom and the regions
round about;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:2 And should preach my everlasting
gospel, and lift up his voice and warn the people, not only in
his own place, but in the adjoining counties;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:3 And devote his whole time to this
high and holy calling, which I now give unto him, seeking
diligently the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness, and all
things necessary shall be added thereunto; for the laborer is
worthy of his hire.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:4 And again, verily I say unto you,
the coming of the Lord draweth nigh, and it overtaketh the world
as a thief in the night--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:5 Therefore, gird up your loins, that
you may be the children of light, and that day shall not overtake
you as a thief.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:6 And again, verily I say unto you,
there was joy in heaven when my servant Warren bowed to my
scepter, and separated himself from the crafts of men;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:7 Therefore, blessed is my servant
Warren, for I will have mercy on him; and, notwithstanding the
vanity of his heart, I will lift him up inasmuch as he will
humble himself before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 106:8 And I will give him grace and
assurance wherewith he may stand; and if he continue to be a
faithful witness and a light unto the church I have prepared a
crown for him in the mansions of my Father. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:0 Revelation on Priesthood, given
through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, dated March
28, 1835. On the date named the Twelve met in council, confessing
their individual weaknesses and shortcomings, expression
repentance, and seeking the further guidance of the Lord. They
were about to separate on missions to districts assigned. See
History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 209. --Distinction between the
Aaronic and the Melchizedek Priesthoods--The right of presidency
belongs to the Melchizedek Priesthood--High authority of the
Presidency of the High Priesthood--The Bishopric as the
presidency of the Aaronic Priesthood--Duties of the several
quorums and of the presiding officers thereof--The Twelve
constitute the Traveling Presiding High Council--The Twelve to
ordain evangelical ministers, or Patriarchs--Descent of the
patriarchal order from Adam to Noah--Bishops to be chosen from
the High Priesthood unless literal descendants of Aaron are made
known--The order of Church tribunals--No on in the Church exempt
from accountability.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:1 There are, in the church, two
priesthoods, namely, the Melchizedek and Aaronic, including the
Levitical Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:2 Why the first is called the
Melchizedek Priesthood is because Melchizedek was such a great
high priest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:3 Before his day it was called the
Holy Priesthood, after the Order of the Son of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:4 But out of respect or reverence to
the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent
repetition of his name, they, the church, in ancient days, called
that priesthood after Melchizedek, or the Melchizedek Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:5 All other authorities or offices in
the church are appendages to this priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:6 But there are two divisions or grand
heads--one is the Melchizedek Priesthood, and the other is the
Aaronic or Levitical Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:7 The office of an elder comes under
the priesthood of Melchizedek.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:8 The Melchizedek Priesthood holds the
right of presidency, and has power and authority over all the
offices in the church in all ages of the world, to administer in
spiritual things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:9 The Presidency of the High
Priesthood, after the order of Melchizedek, have a right to
officiate in all the offices in the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:10 High priests after the order of the
Melchizedek Priesthood have a right to officiate in their own
standing, under the direction of the presidency, in administering
spiritual things, and also in the office of an elder, priest (of
the Levitical order), teacher, deacon, and member.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:11 An elder has a right to officiate
in his stead when the high priest is not present.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:12 The high priest and elder are to
administer in spiritual things, agreeable to the covenants and
commandments of the church; and they have a right to officiate in
all these offices of the church when there are no higher
authorities present.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:13 The second priesthood is called the
Priesthood of Aaron, because it was conferred upon Aaron and his
seed, throughout all their generations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:14 Why it is called the lesser
priesthood is because it is an appendage to the greater, or the
Melchizedek Priesthood, and has power in administering outward
ordinances.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:15 The bishopric is the presidency of
this priesthood, and holds the keys or authority of the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:16 No man has a legal right to this
office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a
literal descendant of Aaron.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:17 But as a high priest of the
Melchizedek Priesthood has authority to officiate in all the
lesser offices, he may officiate in the office of bishop when no
literal descendant of Aaron can be found, provided he is called
and set apart and ordained unto this power by the hands of the
Presidency of the Melchizedek Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:18 The power and authority of the
higher, or Melchizedek Priesthood, is to hold the keys of all the
spiritual blessings of the church--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:19 To have the privilege of receiving
the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, to have the heavens
opened unto them, to commune with the general assembly and church
of the Firstborn, and to enjoy the communion and presence of God
the Father, and Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:20 The power and authority of the
lesser, or Aaronic Priesthood, is to hold the keys of the
ministering of angels, and to administer in outward ordinances,
the letter of the gospel, the baptism of repentance for the
remission of sins, agreeable to the covenants and commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:21 Of necessity there are presidents,
or presiding officers growing out of, or appointed of or from
among those who are ordained to the several offices in these two
priesthoods.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:22 Of the Melchizedek Priesthood,
three Presiding High Priests, chosen by the body, appointed and
ordained to that office, and upheld by the confidence, faith, and
prayer of the church, form a quorum of the Presidency of the
Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:23 The twelve traveling councilors are
called to be the Twelve Apostles, or special witnesses of the
name of Christ in all the world--thus differing from other
officers in the church in the duties of their calling.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:24 And they form a quorum, equal in
authority and power to the three presidents previously mentioned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:25 The Seventy are also called to
preach the gospel, and to be especial witnesses unto the Gentiles
and in all the world--thus differing from other officers in the
church in the duties of their calling.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:26 And they form a quorum, equal in
authority to that of the Twelve special witnesses or Apostles
just named.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:27 And every decision made by either
of these quorums must be by the unanimous voice of the same; that
is, every member in each quorum must be agreed to its decisions,
in order to make their decisions of the same power or validity
one with the other--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:28 A majority may form a quorum when
circumstances render it impossible to be otherwise--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:29 Unless this is the case, their
decisions are not entitled to the same blessings which the
decisions of a quorum of three presidents were anciently, who
were ordained after the order of Melchizedek, and were righteous
and holy men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:30 The decisions of these quorums, or
either of them, are to be made in all righteousness, in holiness,
and lowliness of heart, meekness and long suffering, and in
faith, and virtue, and knowledge, temperance, patience,
godliness, brotherly kindness and charity;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:31 Because the promise is, if these
things abound in them they shall not be unfruitful in the
knowledge of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:32 And in case that any decision of
these quorums is made in unrighteousness, it may be brought
before a general assembly of the several quorums, which
constitute the spiritual authorities of the church; otherwise
there can be no appeal from their decision.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:33 The Twelve are a Traveling
Presiding High Council, to officiate in the name of the Lord,
under the direction of the First Presidency of the Church,
agreeable to the institution of heaven; to build up the church,
and regulate all the affairs of the same in all nations, first
unto the Gentiles and secondly unto the Jews.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:34 The Seventy are to act in the name
of the Lord, under the direction of the Twelve or the traveling
high council, in building up the church and regulating all the
affairs of the same in all nations, first unto the Gentiles and
then to the Jews.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:35 The Twelve being sent out, holding
the keys, to open the door by the proclamation of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, and first unto the Gentiles and then unto the Jews.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:36 The standing high councils, at the
stakes of Zion, form a quorum equal in authority in the affairs
of the church, in all their decisions, to the quorum of the
presidency, or to the traveling high council.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:37 The high council in Zion form a
quorum equal in authority in the affairs of the church, in all
their decisions, to the councils of the Twelve at the stakes of
Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:38 It is the duty of the traveling
high council to call upon the Seventy, when they need assistance,
to fill the several calls for preaching and administering the
gospel, instead of any others.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:39 It is the duty of the Twelve, in
all large branches of the church, to ordain evangelical
ministers, as they shall be designated unto them by revelation--
Doctrine and Covenants 107:40 The order of this priesthood was
confirmed to be handed down from father to son, and rightly
belongs to the literal descendants of the chosen seed, to whom
the promises were made.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:41 This order was instituted in the
days of Adam, and came down by lineage in the following manner:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:42 From Adam to Seth, who was ordained
by Adam at the age of sixty-nine years, and was blessed by him
three years previous to his (Adam's) death, and received the
promise of God by his father, that his posterity should be the
chosen of the Lord, and that they should be preserved unto the
end of the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:43 Because he (Seth) was a perfect
man, and his likeness was the express likeness of his father,
insomuch that he seemed to be like unto his father in all things,
and could be distinguished from him only by his age.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:44 Enos was ordained at the age of one
hundred and thirty-four years and four months, by the hand of
Adam.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:45 God called upon Cainan in the
wilderness in the fortieth year of his age; and he met Adam in
journeying to the place Shedolamak. He was eighty-seven years old
when he received his ordination.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:46 Mahalaleel was four hundred and
ninety-six years and seven days old when he was ordained by the
hand of Adam, who also blessed him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:47 Jared was two hundred years old
when he was ordained under the hand of Adam, who also blessed
him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:48 Enoch was twenty-five years old
when he was ordained under the hand of Adam; and he was sixty-
five and Adam blessed him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:49 And he saw the Lord, and he walked
with him, and was before his face continually; and he walked with
God three hundred and sixty-five years, making him four hundred
and thirty years old when he was translated.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:50 Methuselah was one hundred years
old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:51 Lamech was thirty-two years old
when he was ordained under the hand of Seth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:52 Noah was ten years old when he was
ordained under the hand of Methuselah.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:53 Three years previous to the death
of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch
and Methuselah, who were all high priests, with the residue of
his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adam-ondi-
Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:54 And the Lord appeared unto them,
and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the
prince, the archangel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:55 And the Lord administered comfort
unto Adam, and said unto him: I have set thee to be at the head;
a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a prince
over them forever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:56 And Adam stood up in the midst of
the congregation; and, notwithstanding he was bowed down with
age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should
befall his posterity unto the latest generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:57 These things were all written in
the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:58 It is the duty of the Twelve, also,
to ordain and set in order all the other officers of the church,
agreeable to the revelation which says:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:59 To the church of Christ in the land
of Zion, in addition to the church laws respecting church
business--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:60 Verily, I say unto you, saith the
Lord of Hosts, there must needs be presiding elders to preside
over those who are of the office of an elder;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:61 And also priests to preside over
those who are of the office of a priest;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:62 And also teachers to preside over
those who are of the office of a teacher, in like manner, and
also the deacons--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:63 Wherefore, from deacon to teacher,
and from teacher to priest, and from priest to elder, severally
as they are appointed, according to the covenants and
commandments of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:64 Then comes the High Priesthood,
which is the greatest of all.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:65 Wherefore, it must needs be that
one be appointed of the High Priesthood to preside over the
priesthood, and he shall be called President of the High
Priesthood of the Church;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:66 Or, in other words, the Presiding
High Priest over the High Priesthood of the Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:67 From the same comes the
administering of ordinances and blessings upon the church, by the
laying on of the hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:68 Wherefore, the office of a bishop
is not equal unto it; for the office of a bishop is in
administering all temporal things;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:69 Nevertheless a bishop must be
chosen from the High Priesthood, unless he is a literal
descendant of Aaron.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:70 For unless he is a literal
descendant of Aaron he cannot hold the keys of that priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:71 Nevertheless, a high priest, that
is, after the order of Melchizedek, may be set apart unto the
ministering of temporal things, having a knowledge of them by the
Spirit of truth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:72 And also to be a judge in Israel,
to do the business of the church, to sit in judgment upon
transgressors upon testimony as it shall be laid before him
according to the laws, by the assistance of his counselors, whom
he has chosen or will choose among the elders of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:73 This is the duty of a bishop who is
not a literal descendant of Aaron, but has been ordained to the
High Priesthood after the order of Melchizedek.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:74 Thus shall he be a judge, even a
common judge among the inhabitants of Zion, or in a stake of
Zion, or in any branch of the church where he shall be set apart
unto this ministry, until the borders of Zion are enlarged and it
becomes necessary to have other bishops or judges in Zion or
elsewhere.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:75 And inasmuch as there are other
bishops appointed they shall act in the same office.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:76 But a literal descendant of Aaron
has a legal right to the presidency of this priesthood, to the
keys of this ministry, to act in the office of bishop
independently, without counselors, except in a case where a
President of the High Priesthood, after the order of Melchizedek,
is tried, to sit as a judge in Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:77 And the decision of either of these
councils, agreeable to the commandment which says:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:78 Again, verily, I say unto you, the
most important business of the church, and the most difficult
cases of the church, inasmuch as there is not satisfaction upon
the decision of the bishop or judges, it shall be handed over and
carried up unto the council of the church, before the Presidency
of the High Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:79 And the Presidency of the council
of the High Priesthood shall have power to call other high
priests, even twelve, to assist as counselors; and thus the
Presidency of the High Priesthood and its counselors shall have
power to decide upon testimony according to the laws of the
church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:80 And after this decision it shall be
had in remembrance no more before the Lord; for this is the
highest council of the church of God, and a final decision upon
controversies in spiritual matters.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:81 There is not any person belonging
to the church who is exempt from this council of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:82 And inasmuch as a President of the
High Priesthood shall transgress, he shall be had in remembrance
before the common council of the church, who shall be assisted by
twelve counselors of the High Priesthood;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:83 And their decision upon his head
shall be an end of controversy concerning him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:84 Thus, none shall be exempted from
the justice and the laws of God, that all things may be done in
order and in solemnity before him, according to truth and
righteousness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:85 And again, verily I say unto you,
the duty of a president over the office of a deacon is to preside
over twelve deacons, to sit in council with them, and to teach
them their duty, edifying one another, as it is given according
to the covenants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:86 And also the duty of the president
over the office of the teachers is to preside over twenty-four of
the teachers, and to sit in council with them, teaching them the
duties of their office, as given in the covenants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:87 Also the duty of the president over
the Priesthood of Aaron is to preside over forty-eight priests,
and sit in council with them, to teach them the duties of their
office, as is given in the covenants--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:88 This president is to be a bishop;
for this is one of the duties of this priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:88 Again, the duty of the president
over the office of elders is to preside over ninety-six elders,
and to sit in council with them, and to teach them according to
the covenants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:90 This presidency is a distinct one
from that of the seventy, and is designed for those who do not
travel into all the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:91 And again, the duty of the
President of the office of the High Priesthood is to preside over
the whole church, and to be like unto Moses--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:92 Behold, here is wisdom; yea, to be
a seer, a revelator, a translator, and a prophet, having all the
gifts of God which he bestows upon the head of the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:93 And it is according to the vision
showing the order of the Seventy, that they should have seven
presidents to preside over them, chosen out of the number of the
seventy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:94 And the seventh president of these
presidents is to preside over the six;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:95 And these seven presidents are to
choose other seventy besides the first seventy to whom they
belong, and are to preside over them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:96 And also other seventy, until seven
times seventy, if the labor in the vineyard of necessity requires
it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:97 And these seventy are to be
traveling ministers, unto the Gentiles first and also unto the
Jews.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:98 Whereas other officers of the
church, who belong not unto the Twelve, neither to the Seventy,
are not under the responsibility to travel among all nations, but
are to travel as their circumstances shall allow, notwithstanding
they may hold as high and responsible offices in the church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:99 Wherefore, now let every man learn
his duty, and to act in the office in which he is appointed, in
all diligence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 107:100 He that is slothful shall not be
counted worthy to stand, and he that learns not his duty and
shows himself not approved shall not be counted worthy to stand.
Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, December 26, 1835. --Lyman
Sherman is commended and admonished--His ordination to the office
of Elder promised.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:1 Verily thus saith the Lord unto you,
my servant Lyman: Your sins are forgiven you, because you have
obeyed my voice in coming up hither this morning to receive
counsel of him whom I have appointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:2 Therefore, let your soul be at rest
concerning your spiritual standing, and resist no more my voice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:3 And arise up and be more careful
henceforth in observing your vows, which you have made and do
make, and you shall be blessed with exceeding great blessings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:4 Wait patiently until the solemn
assembly shall be called of my servants, then you shall be
remembered with the first of mine elders and receive right by
ordination with the rest of mine elders whom I have chosen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:5 Behold, this is the promise of the
Father unto you if you continue faithful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:6 And it shall be fulfilled upon you
in that day that you shall have right to preach my gospel
wheresoever I shall send you, from henceforth from that time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:7 Therefore, strengthen your brethren
in all your conversation, in all your prayers, in all your
exhortations, and in all your doings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 108:8 And behold, and lo, I am with you to
bless you and deliver you forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:0 Prayer offered at the dedication of
the Temple at Kirtland, Ohio, March 27, 1836. According to the
Prophet's written statement, this prayer was given to him by
revelation. See History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 410.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:1 Thanks be to thy name, O Lord God of
Israel, who keepest covenant and showest mercy unto thy servants
who walk uprightly before thee, with all their hearts--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:2 Thou who hast commanded thy servants
to build a house to thy name in this place [Kirtland].
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:3 And now thou beholdest, O Lord, that
thy servants have done according to thy commandment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:4 And now we ask thee, Holy Father, in
the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of thy bosom, in whose name
alone salvation can be administered to the children of men, we
ask thee, O, Lord, to accept of this house, the workmanship of
the hands of us, thy servants, which thou didst command us to
build.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:5 For thou knowest that we have done
this work through great tribulation; and out of our poverty we
have given of our substance to build a house to thy name, that
the Son of Man might have a place to manifest himself to his
people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:6 And as thou hast said in a
revelation, given to us, calling us thy friends, saying--Call
your solemn assembly, as I have commanded you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:7 And as all have not faith, seek ye
diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye
out of the best books words of wisdom, seek learning even by
study and also by faith;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:8 Organize yourselves; prepare every
needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a
house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house
of glory, a house of order, a house of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:9 That your incomings may be in the
name of the Lord, that your outgoings may be in the name of the
Lord, that all your salutations may be in the name of the Lord,
with uplifted hands unto the Most High--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:10 And now, Holy Father, we ask thee
to assist us, thy people, with thy grace, in calling our solemn
assembly, that it may be done to thine honor and to thy divine
acceptance;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:11 And in a manner that we may be
found worthy, in thy sight, to secure a fulfilment of the
promises which thou hast made unto us, thy people, in the
revelations given unto us;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:12 That thy glory may rest down upon
thy people, and upon this thy house, which we now dedicate to
thee, that it may be sanctified and consecrated to be holy, and
that thy holy presence may be continually in this house;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:13 And that all people who shall enter
upon the threshold of the Lord's house may feel thy power, and
feel constrained to acknowledge that thou hast sanctified it, and
that it is thy house, a place of thy holiness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:14 And do thou grant, Holy Father,
that all those who shall worship in this house may be taught
words of wisdom out of the best books, and that they may seek
learning even by study, and also by faith, as thou hast said;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:15 And that they may grow up in thee,
and receive a fulness of the Holy Ghost, and be organized
according to thy laws, and be prepared to obtain every needful
thing;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:16 And that this house may be a house
of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of
glory, and of God, even thy house;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:17 That all the incomings of thy
people, into this house, may be in the name of the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:18 That all their outgoings from this
house may be in the name of the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:19 And that all their salutations may
be in the name of the Lord, with holy hands, uplifted to the Most
High;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:20 And that no unclean thing shall be
permitted to come into thy house to pollute it;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:21 And when thy people transgress, any
of them, they may speedily repent and return unto thee, and find
favor in thy sight, and be restored to the blessings which thou
hast ordained to be poured out upon those who shall reverence
thee in thy house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:22 And we ask thee, Holy Father, that
thy servants may go forth from this house armed with thy power,
and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory be round about
them, and thine angels have charge over them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:23 And from this place they may bear
exceedingly great and glorious tidings, in truth, unto the ends
of the earth, that they may know that this is thy work, and that
thou hast put forth thy hand, to fulfill that which thou hast
spoken by the mouths of the prophets, concerning the last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:24 We ask thee, Holy Father, to
establish the people that shall worship, and honorably hold a
name and standing in this thy house, to all generations and for
eternity;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:25 That no weapon formed against them
shall prosper; that he who diggeth a pit for them shall fall into
the same himself;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:26 That no combination of wickedness
shall have power to rise up and prevail over thy people upon whom
thy name shall be put in this house;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:27 And if any people shall rise
against this people, that thine anger be kindled against them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:28 And if they shall smite this people
thou wilt smite them; thou wilt fight for thy people as thou
didst in the day of battle, that they may be delivered from the
hands of all their enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:29 We ask thee, Holy Father, to
confound, and astonish, and to bring to shame and confusion, all
those who have spread lying reports abroad, over the world,
against thy servant or servants, if they will not repent, when
the everlasting gospel shall be proclaimed in their ears;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:30 And that all their works may be
brought to naught, and be swept away by the hail, and by the
judgments which thou wilt send upon them in thine anger, that
there may be an end to lyings and slanders against thy people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:31 For thou knowest, O Lord, that thy
servants have been innocent before thee in bearing record of thy
name, for which they have suffered these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:32 Therefore we plead before thee for
a full and complete deliverance from under this yoke;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:33 Break it off, O Lord; break it off
from the necks of thy servants, by thy power, that we may rise up
in the midst of this generation and do thy work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:34 O Jehovah, have mercy upon this
people, and as all men sin forgive the transgressions of thy
people, and let them be blotted out forever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:35 Let the anointing of thy ministers
be sealed upon them with power from on high.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:36 Let it be fulfilled upon them, as
upon those on the day of Pentecost; let the gift of tongues be
poured out upon thy people, even cloven tongues as of fire, and
the interpretation thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:37 And let thy house be filled, as
with a rushing mighty wind, with thy glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:38 Put upon thy servants the testimony
of the covenant, that when they go out and proclaim thy word they
may seal up the law, and prepare the hearts of thy saints for all
those judgments thou art about to send, in thy wrath, upon the
inhabitants of the earth, because of their transgressions, that
thy people may not faint in the day of trouble.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:39 And whatsoever city thy servants
shall enter, and the people of that city receive their testimony,
let thy peace and thy salvation be upon that city; that they may
gather out of that city the righteous, that they may come forth
to Zion, or to her stakes, the places of thine appointment, with
songs of everlasting joy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:40 And until this be accomplished, let
not thy judgments fall upon that city.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:41 And whatsoever city thy servants
shall enter, and the people of that city receive not the
testimony of thy servants, and thy servants warn them to save
themselves from this untoward generation, let it be upon that
city according to that which thou hast spoken by the mouths of
thy prophets.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:42 But deliver thou, O Jehovah, we
beseech thee, thy servants from their hands, and cleanse them
from their blood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:43 O Lord, we delight not in the
destruction of our fellow men; their souls are precious before
thee;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:44 But thy word must be fulfilled.
Help thy servants to say, with thy grace assisting them: Thy will
be done, O Lord, and not ours.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:45 We know that thou hast spoken by
the mouth of thy prophets terrible things concerning the wicked,
in the last days--that thou wilt pour out thy judgments, without
measure;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:46 Therefore, O Lord, deliver thy
people from the calamity of the wicked; enable thy servants to
seal up the law, and bind up the testimony, that they may be
prepared against the day of burning.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:47 We ask thee, Holy Father, to
remember those who have been driven by the inhabitants of Jackson
county, Missouri, from the lands of their inheritance, and break
off, O Lord, this yoke of affliction that has been put upon them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:48 Thou knowest, O Lord, that they
have been greatly oppressed and afflicted by wicked men; and our
hearts flow out with sorrow because of their grievous burdens.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:49 O Lord, how long wilt thou suffer
this people to bear this affliction, and the cries of their
innocent ones to ascend up into thine ears, and their blood come
up in testimony before thee, and not make a display of thy
testimony in their behalf?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:50 Have mercy, O Lord, upon the wicked
mob, who have driven thy people, that they may cease to spoil,
that they may repent of their sins if repentance is to be found;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:51 But if they will not, make bare
thine arm, O Lord, and redeem that which thou didst appoint a
Zion unto thy people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:52 And if it cannot be otherwise, that
the cause of thy people may not fail before thee may thine anger
be kindled, and thine indignation fall upon them, that they may
be wasted away, both root and branch, from under heaven;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:53 But inasmuch as they will repent,
thou art gracious and merciful, and wilt turn away thy wrath when
thou lookest upon the face of thine Anointed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:54 Have mercy, O Lord, upon all the
nations of the earth; have mercy upon the rulers of our land; may
those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended,
namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be
established forever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:55 Remember the kings, the princes,
the nobles, and the great ones of the earth, and all people, and
the churches, all the poor, the needy, and afflicted ones of the
earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:56 That their hearts may be softened
when thy servants shall go out from thy house, O Jehovah, to bear
testimony of thy name; that their prejudices may give way before
the truth, and thy people may obtain favor in the sight of all;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:57 That all the ends of the earth may
know that we, thy servants, have heard thy voice, and that thou
hast sent us;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:58 That from among all these, thy
servants, the sons of Jacob, may gather out the righteous to
build a holy city to thy name, as thou hast commanded them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:59 We ask thee to appoint unto Zion
other stakes besides this one which thou hast appointed, that the
gathering of thy people may roll on in great power and majesty,
that thy work may be cut short in righteousness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:60 Now these words, O Lord, we have
spoken before thee, concerning the revelations and commandments
which thou hast given unto us, who are identified with the
Gentiles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:61 But thou knowest that thou hast a
great love for the children of Jacob, who have been scattered
upon the mountains for a long time, in a cloudy and dark day.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:62 We therefore ask thee to have mercy
upon the children of Jacob, that Jerusalem, from this hour, may
begin to be redeemed;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:63 And the yoke of bondage may begin
to be broken off from the house of David;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:64 And the children of Judah may begin
to return to the lands which thou didst give to Abraham, their
father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:65 And cause that the remnants of
Jacob, who have been cursed and smitten because of their
transgression, be converted from their wild and savage condition
to the fulness of the everlasting gospel;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:66 That they may lay down their
weapons of bloodshed, and cease their rebellions.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:67 And may all the scattered remnants
of Israel, who have been driven to the ends of the earth, come to
a knowledge of the truth, believe in the Messiah, and be redeemed
from oppression, and rejoice before thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:68 O Lord, remember thy servant,
Joseph Smith, Jun., and all his afflictions and persecutions--how
he has covenanted with Jehovah, and vowed to thee, O Mighty God
of Jacob--and the commandments which thou hast given unto him,
and that he hath sincerely striven to do thy will.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:69 Have mercy, O Lord, upon his wife
and children, that they may be exalted in thy presence, and
preserved by thy fostering hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:70 Have mercy upon all their immediate
connections, that their prejudices may be broken up and swept
away as with a flood; that they may be converted and redeemed
with Israel, and know that thou art God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:71 Remember, O Lord, the presidents,
even all the presidents of thy church, that thy right hand may
exalt them, with all their families, and their immediate
connections, that their names may be perpetuated and had in
everlasting remembrance from generation to generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:72 Remember all thy church, O Lord,
with all their families, and all their immediate connections,
with all their sick and afflicted ones, with all the poor and
meek of the earth; that the kingdom, which thou hast set up
without hands, may become a great mountain and fill the whole
earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:73 That thy church may come forth out
of the wilderness of darkness, and shine forth fair as the moon,
clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:74 And be adorned as a bride for that
day when thou shalt unveil the heavens, and cause the mountains
to flow down at thy presence, and the valleys to be exalted, the
rough places made smooth; that thy glory may fill the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:75 That when the trump shall sound for
the dead, we shall be caught up in the cloud to meet thee, that
we may ever be with the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:76 That our garments may be pure, that
we may be clothed upon with robes of righteousness, with palms in
our hands, and crowns of glory upon our heads, and reap eternal
joy for all our sufferings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:77 O Lord God Almighty, hear us in
these our petitions, and answer us from heaven, thy holy
habitation, where thou sittest enthroned, with glory, honor,
power, majesty, might, dominion, truth, justice, judgment, mercy,
and an infinity of fulness, from everlasting to everlasting.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:78 O hear, O hear, O hear us, O Lord!
And answer these petitions, and accept the dedication of this
house unto thee, the work of our hands, which we have built unto
thy name;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:79 And also this church, to put upon
it thy name. And help us by the power of thy Spirit, that we may
mingle our voices with those bright, shining seraphs around thy
throne, with acclamations of praise, singing Hosanna to God and
the Lamb!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 109:80 And let these, thine anointed ones,
be clothed with salvation, and thy saints shout aloud for joy.
Amen, and Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:0 Visions manifested to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, and Oliver Cowdery, in the Temple at Kirtland, Ohio,
April 3, 1836. The occasion was that of a Sabbath day meeting.
The Prophet prefaces his record of the manifestations with these
words: IN the afternoon, I assisted the other presidents in
distributing the Lord's Supper to the Church, receiving it from
the Twelve, whose privilege it was to officiate at the sacred
desk this day. After having performed this service to my
brethren, I retired to the pulpit, the veils being dropped, and
bowed myself, with Oliver Cowdery, in solemn and silent prayer.
After rising from prayer, the following vision was opened to both
of us. --Personal manifestations of the Lord Jesus Christ--His
acceptance of the Temple--Visitation by Moses and his commitment
of the keys of the gathering--Visitation by Elias and his
conferment of authority--Visitation by Elijah in direct
fulfilment of Malachi's prediction.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:1 The veil was taken from our minds,
and the eyes of our understanding were opened.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:2 We saw the Lord standing upon the
breastwork of the pulpit, before us; and under his feet was a
paved work of pure gold, in color like amber.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:3 His eyes were as a flame of fire;
the hair of his head was white like the pure snow; his
countenance shone above the brightness of the sun; and his voice
was as the sound of the rushing of great waters, even the voice
of Jehovah, saying:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:4 I am the first and the last; I am he
who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the
Father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:5 Behold, your sins are forgiven you;
you are clean before me; therefore, lift up your heads and
rejoice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:6 Let the hearts of your brethren
rejoice, and let the hearts of all my people rejoice who have,
with their might, built this house to my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:7 For behold, I have accepted this
house, and my name shall be here; and I will manifest myself to
my people in mercy in this house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:8 Yea, I will appear unto my servants,
and speak unto them with mine own voice, if my people will keep
my commandments, and do not pollute this holy house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:9 Yea the hearts of thousands and tens
of thousands shall greatly rejoice in consequence of the
blessings which shall be poured out, and the endowment with which
my servants have been endowed in this house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:10 And the fame of this house shall
spread to foreign lands; and this is the beginning of the
blessing which shall be poured out upon the heads of my people.
Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:11 After this vision closed, the
heavens were again opened unto us; and Moses appeared before us,
and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from
the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes
from the land of the north.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:12 After this, Elias appeared, and
committed the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying that
in us and our seed all generations after us should be blessed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:13 After this vision had closed,
another great and glorious vision burst upon us; for Elijah the
prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood
before us, and said:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:14 Behold, the time has fully come,
which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi -- testifying that he
[Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the
Lord come --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:15 To turn the hearts of the fathers
to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole
earth be smitten with a curse --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 110:16 Therefore, the keys of this
dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye may
know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at
the doors.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Salem, Massachusetts, August 6, 1836. The
Prophet with one of his Counselors and two other Elders had
journeyed from Kirtland, Ohio, to Salem, Massachusetts; and, at
their destination had entered upon the work of teaching the
people from house to house, and preaching publicly as opportunity
presented. See History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 463. --
Directions for further labor--The Lord's assurances as to Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:1 I, the Lord your God, am not
displeased with your coming this journey, notwithstanding your
follies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:2 I have much treasure in this city
for you, for the benefit of Zion, and many people in this city,
whom I will gather out in due time for the benefit of Zion,
through your instrumentality.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:3 Therefore, it is expedient that you
should form acquaintance with men in this city, as you shall be
led, and as it shall be given you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:4 And it shall come to pass in due
time that I will give this city into your hands, that you shall
have power over it, insomuch that they shall not discover your
secret parts; and its wealth pertaining to gold and sliver shall
be yours.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:5 Concern not yourselves about your
debts, for I will give you power to pay them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:6 Concern not yourselves about Zion,
for I will deal mercifully with her.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:7 Tarry in this place, and in the
regions round about;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:8 And the place where it is my will
that you should tarry, for the main, shall be signalized unto you
by the peace and power of my Spirit, that shall flow unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:9 This place you may obtain by hire.
And inquire diligently concerning the more ancient inhabitants
and founders of this city;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:10 For there are more treasures than
one for you in this city.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 111:11 Therefore, be ye as wise as
serpents and yet with out sin; and I will order all things for
your good, as fast as ye are able to receive them. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, to Thomas B. Marsh, at Kirtland, Ohio, July
23, 1837.o The word of the Lord unto Thomas B. Marsh, concerning
the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb. The Prophet records that this
revelation was received on the day on which the Gospel was first
preached in England. Thomas B. Marsh was at this time president
of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles. --The Twelve to send the
gospel abroad among all nations--They are to act under the
direction of the First Presidency--Others may be authorized by
the Twelve for ministry among the nations--The keys of power in
the Priesthood committed to the First Presidency and the Twelve--
The present designated as the dispensation of the fulness of
times.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:1 Verily thus saith the Lord unto you
my servant Thomas: I have heard thy prayers; and thine alms have
come up as a memorial before me, in behalf of those, thy
brethren, who were chosen to bear testimony of my name and to
send it abroad among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people,
and ordained through the instrumentality of my servants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:2 Verily I say unto you, there have
been some few things in thine heart and with thee with which I,
the Lord, was not well pleased.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:3 Nevertheless, inasmuch as thou hast
abased thyself thou shalt be exalted; therefore, all thy sins are
forgiven thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:4 Let thy heart be of good cheer
before my face; and thou shalt bear record of my name, not only
unto the Gentiles, but also unto the Jews; and thou shalt send
forth my word unto the ends of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:5 Contend thou, therefore, morning by
morning; and day after day let thy warning voice go forth; and
when the night cometh let not the inhabitants of the earth
slumber, because of thy speech.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:6 Let thy habitation be known in Zion,
and remove not thy house; for I, the Lord, have a great work for
thee to do, in publishing my name among the children of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:7 Therefore, gird up thy loins for the
work. Let thy feet be shod also, for thou art chosen, and thy
path lieth among the mountains, and among many nations.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:8 And by thy word many high ones shall
be brought low, and by thy word many low ones shall be exalted.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:9 Thy voice shall be a rebuke unto the
transgressor; and at thy rebuke let the tongue of the slanderer
cease its perverseness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:10 Be thou humble; and the Lord thy
God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy
prayers.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:11 I know thy heart, and have heard
thy prayers concerning thy brethren. Be not partial towards them
in love above many others, but thy love be for them as for thy
self; and let thy love abound unto all men, and unto all who love
my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:12 And pray for thy brethren of the
Twelve. Admonish them sharply for my name's sake, and let them be
admonished for all their sins, and be ye faithful before me unto
my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:13 And after their temptations, and
much tribulation, behold, I, the Lord, will feel after them, and
if they harden not their hearts, and stiffen not their necks
against me, they shall be converted, and I will heal them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:14 Now, I say unto you, and what I say
unto you, I say unto all the Twelve: Arise and gird up your
loins, take up your cross, follow me, and feed my sheep.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:15 Exalt not yourselves; rebel not
against my servant Joseph; for verily I say unto you, I am with
him, and my hand shall be over him; and the keys which I have
given unto him, and also to youward, shall not be taken from him
till I come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:16 Verily I say unto you, my servant
Thomas, thou art the man whom I have chosen to hold the keys of
my kingdom, as pertaining to the Twelve, abroad among all nations
--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:17 That thou mayest be my servant to
unlock the door of the kingdom in all places where my servant
Joseph, and my servant Sidney, and my servant Hyrum, cannot come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:18 For on them have I laid the burden
of all the churches for a little season.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:19 Wherefore, whithersoever they shall
send you, go ye, and I will be with you; and in whatsoever place
ye shall proclaim my name an effectual door shall be opened unto
you, that they may receive my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:20 Whosoever receiveth my word
receiveth me, and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth those, the
First Presidency, whom I have sent, whom I have made counselors
for my name's sake unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:21 And again, I say unto you, that
whosoever ye shall send in my name, by the voice of your
brethren, the Twelve, duly recommended and authorized by you,
shall have power to open the door of my kingdom unto any nation
whithersoever ye shall send them --
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:22 Inasmuch as they shall humble
themselves before me, and abide in my word, and hearken to the
voice of my Spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:23 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the
people, and all flesh has come corrupt before my face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:24 Behold, vengeance cometh speedily
upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of
burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of
lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face
of the earth, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:25 And upon my house shall it begin,
and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:26 First among those among you, saith
the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known
me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house,
saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:27 Therefore, see to it that ye
trouble not yourselves concerning the affairs of my church in
this place, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:28 But purify your hearts before me;
and then go ye into all the world, and preach my gospel unto
every creature who has not received it;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:29 And he that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not, and is not
baptized, shall be damned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:30 For unto you, the Twelve, and
those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be
your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this last
priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the
which is the dispensation of the fulness of times.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:31 Which power you hold, in connection
with all those who have received a dispensation at any time from
the beginning of the creation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:32 For verily I say unto you, the keys
of the dispensation, which ye have received, have come down from
the fathers, and last of all, being sent down from heaven unto
you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:33 Verily I say unto you, behold how
great is your calling. Cleanse your hearts and your garments,
lest the blood of this generation be required at your hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 112:34 Be faithful until I come, for I
come quickly; and my reward is with me to recompense every man
according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:0 Answers to certain questions on
Scripture, given by Joseph Smith the Prophet, March 1938.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:1 Who is the Stem of Jesse spoken of
in the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th verses of the 11th chapter of
Isaiah?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:2 Verily thus saith the Lord: It is
Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:3 What is the rod spoken of in the
first verse of the 11th chapter of Isaiah, that should come of
the Stem of Jesse?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:4 Behold, thus saith the Lord: It is a
servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of
Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph, on home
there is laid much power.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:5 What is the root of Jesse spoken of
in the 10th verse of the 11th chapter?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:6 Behold, thus saith the Lord, it is a
descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly
belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the kingdom, for an
ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:7 Questions by Elias Higbee: What is
meant by the command in Isaiah, 52d chapter, 1st verse, which
saith: Put on thy strength, O Zion -- and what people had Isaiah
reference to?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:8 He had reference to those whom God
should call in the last days, who should hold the power of
priesthood to bring again Zion, and the redemption of Israel; and
to put on her strength is to put on the authority of the
priesthood, which she, Zion, has a right to by lineage; also to
return to that power which she had lost.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:9 What are we to understand by Zion
loosing herself from the bands of her neck; 2d verse?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 113:10 We are to understand that the
scattered remnants are exhorted to return to the Lord from whence
they have fallen; which if they do, the promise of the Lord is
that he will speak to them, or give them revelation. See the 6th,
7th, and 8th verses. The bands of her neck are the curses of God
upon her, or the remnants of Israel in their scattered condition
among the Gentiles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 114:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, April 17, 1838. --
Directions to David W. Patten--Positions occupied by the
unfaithful to be given to others.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 114:1 Verily thus saith the Lord: It is
wisdom in my servant David W. Patten, that he settle up all his
business as soon as he possible can, and make a disposition of
his merchandise, that he may perform a mission unto me next
spring, in company with others, even twelve including himself, to
testify of my name and bear glad tidings unto all the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 114:2 For verily thus saith the Lord, that
inasmuch as there are those among you who deny my name, others
shall be planted in their stead and receive their bishopric.
Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, April 26, 1838, making
known the will of God concerning the building up of that place,
and of the Lord's house. This revelation is addressed to the
presiding officers of the Church. --The official name, The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, confirmed by the Lord--Far
West to be a holy and consecrated place--Commandment to build a
house of the Lord there--The First Presidency not to incur debts
for the building of a house unto the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:1 Verily thus saith the Lord unto you,
my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and also my servant Sidney Rigdon,
and also my servant Hyrum Smith, and your counselors who are and
shall be appointed hereafter;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:2 And also unto you, my servant Edward
Partridge, and his counselors;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:3 And also unto my faithful servants
who are of the high council of my church in Zion, for thus it
shall be called, and unto all the elders and people of my Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, scattered abroad in all the
world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:4 For thus shall my church be called
in the last days, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:5 Verily I say unto you all: Arise and
shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:6 And that the gathering together upon
the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be for a defense, and
for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it shall be
poured out without mixture upon the whole earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:7 Let the city, Far West, be a holy
and consecrated land unto me; and it shall be called most holy,
for the ground upon which thou standest is holy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:8 Therefore, I command you to build a
house unto me, for the gathering together of my saints, that they
may worship me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:9 And let there be a beginning of this
work, and a foundation, and a preparatory work, this following
summer;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:10 And let the beginning be made on
the fourth day of July next; and from that time forth let my
people labor diligently to build a house unto my name;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:11 And in one year from this day let
them re-commence laying the foundation of my house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:12 Thus let them from that time forth
labor diligently until it shall be finished, from the corner
stone thereof unto the top thereof, until there shall not
anything remain that is not finished.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:13 Verily I say unto you, let not my
servant Joseph, neither my servant Sidney, neither my servant
Hyrum, get in debt any more for the building of a house unto my
name;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:14 But let a house be built unto my
name according to the pattern which I will show them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:15 And if my people build it not
according to the pattern which I shall show unto their
presidency, I will not accept it at their hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:16 But if my people do build it
according to the pattern which I shall show unto their
presidency, even my servant Joseph and his counselors, then I
will accept it at the hands of my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:17 And again, verily I say unto you,
it is my will that the city of Far West should be built up
speedily by the gathering of my saints;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:18 And also that other places should
be appointed for stakes in the regions round about, as they shall
be manifested unto my servant Joseph, from time to time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 115:19 For behold, I will be with him, and
I will sanctify him before the people; for unto him have I given
the keys of this kingdom and ministry. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 116:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, near Wight's Ferry, at a place called Spring Hill,
Daviess County, Missouri, May 19, 1838, wherein Spring Hill is
named by the Lord:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 116:1 Spring Hill is named by the Lord
Adam-ondi-Ahman, because, said he, it is the place where Adam
shall come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit,
as spoken of by Daniel the prophet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838,
concerning the immediate duties of certain Elders, William Marks,
Newel K. Whitney, Oliver Granger. --Imperative commands--What is
property unto the Lord?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:1 Verily thus saith the Lord unto my
servant William Marks, and also unto my servant Newel K. Whitney,
let them settle up their business speedily and journey from the
land of Kirtland, before I, the Lord, send again the snows upon
the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:2 Let them awake, and arise, and come
forth, and not tarry, for I, the Lord, command it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:3 Therefore, if they tarry it shall
not be well with them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:4 Let them repent of all their sins,
and of all their covetous desires, before me, saith the Lord; for
what is property unto me? saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:5 Let the properties of Kirtland be
turned out for debts, saith the Lord. Let them go, saith the
Lord, and whatsoever remaineth, let it remain in your hands,
saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:6 For have I not the fowls of heaven,
and also the fish of the sea, and the beasts of the mountains?
Have I not made the earth? Do I not hold the destinies of all the
armies of the nations of the earth?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:7 Therefore, will I not make solitary
places to bud and to blossom, and to bring forth in abundance?
saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:8 Is there not room enough on the
mountains of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and on the plains of Olaha
Shinehah, or the land where Adam dwelt, that you should covet
that which is but the drop, and neglect the more weighty matters?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:9 Therefore, come up hither unto the
land of my people, even Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:10 Let my servant William Marks be
faithful over a few things, and he shall be a ruler over many.
Let him preside in the midst of my people in the city of Far
West, and let him be blessed with the blessings of my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:11 Let my servant Newel K. Whitney be
ashamed of the Nicolaitane band and of all their secret
abominations, and of all his littleness of soul before me, saith
the Lord, and come up to the land of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and be a
bishop unto my people, saith the Lord, not in the name but in
deed, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:12 And again, I say unto you, I
remember my servant Oliver Granger; behold, verily I say unto him
that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation
to generation, forever and ever, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:13 Therefore, let him contend
earnestly for the redemption of the First Presidency of my
Church, saith the Lord; and when he falls he shall rise again,
for his sacrifice shall be more sacred unto me than his increase,
saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:14 Therefore, let him come up hither
speedily, unto the land of Zion; and in the due time he shall be
made a merchant unto my name, saith the Lord, for the benefit of
my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:15 Therefore let no man despise my
servant Oliver Granger, but let the blessings of my people be on
him forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 117:16 And again, verily I say unto you,
let all my servants in the land of Kirtland remember the Lord
their God, and mine house also, to keep and preserve it holy, and
to overthrow the moneychangers in mine own due time, saith the
Lord. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838, in
response to the supplication: Show us thy will, O Lord,
concerning the Twelve. --Commandment given to fill the places of
those who had fallen--Future mission of the Twelve beyond the
seas--Date of their departure fixed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord: Let a
conference be held immediately; let the Twelve be organized; and
let men be appointed to supply the place of those who are fallen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:2 Let my servant Thomas remain for a
season in the land of Zion, to publish my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:3 Let the residue continue to preach
from that hour, and if they will do this in all lowliness of
heart, in meekness and humility, and long-suffering, I, the Lord,
give unto them a promise that I will provide for their families;
and an effectual door shall be opened for them, from henceforth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:4 And next spring let them depart to
go over the great waters, and there promulgate my gospel, the
fulness thereof, and bear record of my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:5 Let them take leave of my saints in
the city of Far West, on the twenty-sixth day of April next, on
the building-spot of my house, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 118:6 Let my servant John Taylor, and also
my servant John E. Page, and also my servant Wilford Woodruff,
and also my servant Willard Richards, be appointed to fill the
places of those who have fallen, and be officially notified of
their appointment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838, in
response to the supplication: O Lord, show unto thy servants how
much thou requirest of the properties of thy people for a
tithing.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord, I
require all their surplus property to be put into the hands of
the bishop of my church in Zion,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:2 For the building of mine house, and
for the laying of the foundation of Zion and for the priesthood,
and for the debts of the Presidency of my Church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:3 And this shall be the beginning of
the tithing of my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:4 And after that, those who have thus
been tithed shall pay one-tenth of all their interest annually;
and this shall be a standing law unto them forever, for my holy
priesthood, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:5 Verily I say unto you, it shall come
to pass that all those who gather unto the land of Zion shall be
tithed of their surplus properties, and shall observe this law,
or they shall not be found worthy to abide among you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:6 And I say unto you, if my people
observe not this law, to keep it holy, and by this law sanctify
the land of Zion unto me, that my statues and my judgments may be
kept thereon, that it may be most holy, behold, verily I say unto
you, it shall not be a land of Zion unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 119:7 And this shall be an ensample unto
all the stakes of Zion. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 120:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, July 18, 1838, making
known the disposition of the properties tithed as named in the
preceding revelation, Section 119.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 120:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord, the
time is now come, that it shall be disposed of by a council,
composed of the First Presidency of my Church, and of the bishop
and his council, and by my high council; and by mine own voice
unto them, saith the Lord. Even So. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:0 Prayer and prophecies, written by
Joseph Smith the Prophet, while a prisoner in the jail at
Liberty, Missouri, dated March 20, 1839. The Prophet with several
companions had been months in prison. Their petitions and appeals
directed to the executive officers and the judiciary had failed
to bring them relief. See History of the Church, vol. 3, p.
289. --Fervent appeals to the Lord in behalf of the suffering
Saints--The curse of the Lord to fall upon those who contend
against his will--Men though called may not be chosen--The rights
of the Priesthood inseparably connected with the powers of
heaven--Unrighteous exercise of the powers of the Priesthood
leads to apostasy--Powers of the Priesthood to be exercised in
justice and mercy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:1 O God, where are thou? And where is
the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:2 How long shall thy hand be stayed,
and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens
the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants, and thine ear be
penetrated with their cries?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:3 Yea, O Lord, how long shall they
suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions, before thine heart
shall be softened toward them, and thy bowels be moved with
compassion toward them?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:4 O Lord God Almighty, maker of
heaven, earth, and seas, and of all things that in them are, and
who controllest and subjectest the devil, and the dark and
benighted dominion of Sheol--stretch forth thy hand; let thine
eye pierce; let thy pavilion be taken up; let thy hiding place no
longer be covered; let thine ear be inclined; let thine heart be
softened, and thy bowels moved with compassion toward us.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:5 Let thine anger be kindled against
your enemies; and, in the fury of thine heart, with thy sword
avenge us of our wrongs.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:6 Remember thy suffering saints, O our
God; and thy servants will rejoice in thy name forever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:7 My son, peace be unto thy soul;
thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small
moment;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:8 And then, if thou endure it well,
God shall exalt thee on high; thou shall triumph over all thy
foes.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:9 Thy friends do stand by thee, and
they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:10 Thou art not yet as Job; thy
friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with
transgression, as they did Job.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:11 And they who do charge thee with
transgression, their hope shall be blasted, and their prospects
shall melt away as the hoar frost melteth before the burning rays
of the rising sun;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:12 And also that God hath set his hand
and seal to change the times and seasons, and to blind their
minds, that they may not understand his marvelous workings; that
he may prove them also and take them in their own craftiness;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:13 Also because their hearts are
corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon
others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves
to the very uttermost;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:14 That they may be disappointed also,
and their hopes may be cut off;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:15 And not many hears hence, that they
and their posterity shall be swept from under the heaven, saith
God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:16 Cursed are all those that shall
lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord, and cry
they have sinned when they have not sinned before me, saith the
Lord, but have done that which was meet in mine eyes, and which I
commanded them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:17 But those who cry transgression do
it because they are the servants of sin, and are the children of
disobedience themselves.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:18 And those who swear falsely against
my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death--
Doctrine and Covenants 121:19 Wo unto them; because they have
offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances
of mine house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:20 Their basket shall not be full,
their houses and their barns shall perish, and they themselves
shall be despised by those that flattered them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:21 They shall not have right to the
priesthood, nor their posterity after them from generation to
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:22 It had been better for them that a
millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in
the depth of the sea.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:23 Wo unto all those that discomfort
my people, and drive, and murder, and testify against them, saith
the Lord of Hosts; a generation of vipers shall not escape the
damnation of hell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:24 Behold, mine eyes see and know all
their works, and I have in reserve a swift judgment in the season
thereof, for them all;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:25 For there is a time appointed for
every man, according as his works shall be.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:26 God shall give unto you knowledge
by his Holy Spirit, yea, by the unspeakable gift of the Holy
Ghost, that has not been revealed since the world was until now;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:27 Which our forefathers have awaited
with anxious expectation to be revealed in the last times, which
their minds were pointed to by the angels, as held in reserve for
the fulness of their glory;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:28 A time to come in the which nothing
shall be withheld, whether there be one God or many gods, they
shall be manifest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:29 All thrones and dominions,
principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon
all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:30 And also, if there be bounds set to
the heavens or to the seas, or to the dry land, or to the sun,
moon, or stars--Doctrine and Covenants 121:31 All the times of
their revolutions, all the appointed days, months, and years, and
all the days of their days, months, and years and all their
glories, laws, and set times, shall be revealed in the days of
the dispensation of the fulness of times--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:32 According to that which was
ordained in the midst of the Council of the Eternal God of all
other gods before this world was, that should be reserved unto
the finishing and the end thereof, when every man shall enter
into his eternal presence and into his immortal rest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:33 How long can rolling waters remain
impure? What power shall stay the heavens? As well might man
stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its
decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the
Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads
of the Latter-day Saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:34 Behold, there are many called, but
few are chosen. And why are they not chosen?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:35 Because their hearts are set so
much upon the things of this world, and aspire to the honors of
men, that they do not learn this one lesson--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:36 That the rights of the priesthood
are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the
powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon
principles of righteousness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:37 That they may be conferred upon us,
it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to
gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or
dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in
any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw
themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is
withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:38 Behold, ere he is aware, he is left
unto himself, to kick against the pricks, to persecute the
saints, and to fight against God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:39 We have learned by sad experience
that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon
as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will
immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:40 Hence many are called, but few are
chosen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:41 Now power or influence can or ought
to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion,
by long- suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love
unfeigned;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:42 By kindness, and pure knowledge,
which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and
without guile--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:43 Reproving betimes with sharpness,
when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth
afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou has reproved,
lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:44 That he may know that thy
faithfulness is stronger than the cords of death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:45 Let thy bowels also be full of
charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let
virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy
confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of
the priesthood shall distill upon thy soul as the dews from
heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 121:46 The Holy Ghost shall be thy
constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of
righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting
dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee
forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:0 The Word of The Lord to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, while a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri,
March, 1839. See History of the Church, vol. 3, p. 300.  --
Comforting assurances--Further persecutions of the Prophet and
his possible martyrdom foreshadowed--The Son of Man had likewise
suffered.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:1 The ends of the earth shall inquire
after thy name, and fools shall have thee in derision, and hell
shall rage against thee;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:2 While the pure in heart, and the
wise, and the noble, and the virtuous, shall seek counsel, and
authority, and blessings constantly from under thy hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:3 And thy people shall never be turned
against thee by the testimony of traitors.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:4 And although their influence shall
cast thee into trouble, and into bars and walls, thou shalt be
had in honor; and but for a small moment and thy voice shall be
more terrible in the midst of thine enemies than the fierce lion,
because of thy righteousness; and thy God shall stand by thee
forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:5 If thou are called to pass through
tribulation; if thou are in perils among false brethren; if thou
are in perils among robbers; if thou are in perils by land or by
sea;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:6 If thou are accused with all manner
of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they
tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren
and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee
from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine
elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy
garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can't you stay
with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and
if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be
dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like
wolves for the blood of the lamb;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:7 And if thou shouldst be cast into
the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of
death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the
billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become
thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the
elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very
jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know
thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience,
and shall be for thy good.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:8 The Son of Man hath descended below
them all. Are thou greater than he?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 122:9 Therefore, hold on thy way, and the
priesthood shall remain with thee; for their bounds are set, they
cannot pass. Thy days are known, and thy years shall not be
numbered less; therefore, fear not what man can do, for God shall
be with you forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:0 Duty of The Saints in relation to
their persecutors, as set forth by Joseph Smith the Prophet,
while a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri, March, 1839.
See History of the Church, vol. 3, p. 302. --All facts relating
to the sufferings and abuses of the people by their persecutors
to be recorded--The record of persecution to be published.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:1 And again, we would suggest for your
consideration the propriety of all the saints gathering up a
knowledge of all the facts, and sufferings and abuses put upon
them by the people of this State;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:2 And also of all the property and
amount of damages which they have sustained, both of character
and person injuries, as well as real property;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:3 And also the names of all persons
that have had a hand in their oppressions, as far as they can get
hold of them and find them out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:4 And perhaps a committee can be
appointed to find out these things, and to take statements and
affidavits; and also to gather up the libelous publications that
are afloat;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:5 And all that are in the magazines,
and in the encyclopedias, and all the libelous histories that are
published, and are writing, and by whom, and present the whole
concatenation of diabolical rascality and nefarious and murderous
impositions that have been practiced upon this people--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:6 That we may not only publish to all
the world, but present them to the heads of government in all
their dark and hellish hue, as the last effort which is enjoined
on us by our Heavenly Father, before we can fully and completely
claim that promise which shall call him forth from his hiding
place; and also that the whole nation may be left without excuse
before he can send forth the power of his mighty arm.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:7 It is an imperative duty that we owe
to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and
also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made
to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning
hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on
and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly
riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon
the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion,
and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very
mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under
the weight of its iniquity.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:8 It is an iron yoke, it is a strong
band; they are the very handcuffs, and chains, and shackles, and
fetters of hell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:9 Therefore it is an imperative duty
that we owe, not only to our own wives and children, but to the
widows and fatherless, whose husbands and fathers have been
murdered under its iron hand;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:10 Which dark and blackening deeds are
enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale,
and the hands of the very devil to tremble and palsy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:11 And also it is an imperative duty
that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in
heart--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:12 For there are many yet on the earth
among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by
the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know
not where to find it--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:13 Therefore, that we should waste and
wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of
darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from
heaven--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:14 These should then be attended to
with great earnestness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:15 Let no man count them as small
things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to
the saints, which depends upon these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:16 You know, brethren, that a very
large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the
time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the
waves.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 123:17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren,
let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then
may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the
salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, January 19, 1841. Because of
increasing persecutions and illegal procedures against them by
public officers, the Saints had been compelled to leave Missouri.
The exterminating order issued by Lilburn W. Boggs, Governor of
Missouri, dated October 27, 1838, had left them no alternative.
See History of the Church, vol. 3, p. 175. In 1841, when this
revelation was given, the city of Nauvoo, occupying the site of
the former village of Commerce, Illinois, had been built up by
the Saints, and here the headquarters of the Church had been
established. --Proclamation to the president of the United
States, the governors of the States, and to the rulers of all
nations--Blessed state of former members of the Church who had
died--George Miller called to the bishopric--A house of
entertainment for strangers to be erected--A Temple to be built
at Nauvoo--No baptismal font upon the earth for the
administration of baptisms for the dead--Reason for the command
to Moses to build a tabernacle in the wilderness--Promise of
revelations concerning sacred things thus far hidden--Men who
prevent the Saints from carrying out the commandments of God to
be held accountable--Delay in building a Temple in Jackson
county, Missouri, tolerated--The house of entertainment to be
known as Nauvoo House--Directions for its building and
administration--William Law called to be a counselor in the First
Presidency--Hyrum Smith called to be the Patriarch to the Church-
-His great powers and privileges--He receives the same office in
the Priesthood once conferred upon Oliver Cowdery--General, stake
and local officers of the Church named.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto
you, my servant Joseph Smith, I am well pleased with your
offering and acknowledgments, which you have made; for unto this
end have I raised you up, that I might show forth my wisdom
through the weak things of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:2 Your prayers are acceptable before
me; and in answer to them I say unto you, that you are now called
immediately to make a solemn proclamation of my gospel, and of
this stake which I have planted to be a cornerstone of Zion,
which shall be polished with the refinement which is after the
similitude of a palace.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:3 This proclamation shall be made to
all the kings of the world, to the four corners thereof, to the
honorable president-elect, and the high-minded governors of the
nation in which you live, and to all the nations of the earth
scattered abroad.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:4 Let it be written in the spirit of
meekness and by the power of the Holy Ghost, which shall be in
you at the time of the writing of the same;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:5 For it shall be given you by the
Holy Ghost to know my will concerning those kings and
authorities, even what shall befall them in a time to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:6 For, behold, I am about to call upon
them to give heed to the light and glory of Zion, for the set
time has come to favor her.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:7 Call ye, therefore, upon them with
loud proclamation, and with your testimony, fearing them not, for
they are as grass, and all their glory as the flower thereof
which soon falleth, that they may be left also without excuse--
Doctrine and Covenants 124:8 And that I may visit them in the day
of visitation, when I shall unveil the face of my covering, to
appoint the portion of the oppressor among hypocrites, where
there is gnashing of teeth, if they reject my servants and my
testimony which I have revealed unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:9 And again, I will visit and soften
their hearts, many of them for your good, that ye may find grace
in their eyes, that they may come to the light of truth, and the
Gentiles to the exaltation or lifting up of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:10 For the day of my visitation cometh
speedily, in an hour when ye think not of; and where shall be the
safety of my people, and refuge for those who shall be left of
them?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:11 Awake, O kings of the earth! Come
ye, O, come ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help of my
people, to the house of the daughters of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:12 And again, I say unto you, let my
servant Robert B. Thompson help you to write this proclamation,
for I am well pleased with him, and that he should be with you;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:13 Let him, therefore, hearken to your
counsel, and I will bless him with a multiplicity of blessings;
let him be faithful and true in all things from henceforth, and
he shall be great in mine eyes;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:14 But let him remember that his
stewardship will I require at his hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:15 And again, verily I say unto you,
blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him
because of the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that
which is right before me, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:16 Again, let my servant John C.
Bennett help you in your labor in sending my word to the kings
and people of the earth, and stand by you, even you my servant
Joseph Smith, in the hour of affliction; and his reward shall not
fail if he receive counsel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:17 And for his love he shall be great,
for he shall be mine if he do this, saith the Lord. I have seen
the work which he hath done, which I accept if he continue, and
will crown him with blessings and great glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:18 And again, I say unto you that it
is my will that my servant Lyman Wight should continue in
preaching for Zion, in the spirit of meekness, confessing me
before the world; and I will bear him up as on eagles' wings; and
he shall beget glory and honor to himself and unto my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:19 That when he shall finish his work
I may receive him unto myself, even as I did my servant David
Patten, who is with me at this time, and also my servant Edward
Partridge, and also my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen., who
sitteth with Abraham at his right hand, and blessed and holy is
he, for he is mine.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:20 And again, verily I say unto you,
my servant George Miller is without guile; he may be trusted
because of the integrity of his heart; and for the love which he
has to my testimony I, the Lord, love him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:21 I therefore say unto you, I seal
upon his head the office of a bishopric, like unto my servant
Edward Partridge, that he may receive the consecrations of mine
house, that he may administer blessings upon the heads of the
poor of my people, saith the Lord. Let no man despise my servant
George, for he shall honor me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:22 Let my servant George, and my
servant Lyman, and my servant John Snider, and others, build a
house unto my name, such a one as my servant Joseph shall show
unto them, upon the place which he shall show unto them also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:23 And it shall be for a house for
boarding, a house that strangers may come from afar to lodge
therein; therefore let it be a good house, worthy of all
acceptation, that the weary traveler may find health and safety
while he shall contemplate the word of the Lord; and the corner-
stone I have appointed for Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:24 This house shall be a healthful
habitation if it be built unto my name, and if the governor which
shall be appointed unto it shall not suffer any pollution to come
upon it. It shall be holy, or the Lord your God will not dwell
therein.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:25 And again, verily I say unto you,
let all my saints come from afar.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:26 And send ye swift messengers, yea,
chosen messengers, and say unto them: Come ye, with all your
gold, and your silver, and your precious stones, and with all
your antiquities; and with all who have knowledge of antiquities,
that will come, may come, and bring the box-tree, and the fir-
tree, and the pine-tree, together with all the precious trees of
the earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:27 And with iron, with copper, and
with brass, and with zinc, and with all your precious things of
the earth; and build a house to my name, for the Most High to
dwell therein.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:28 For there is not a place found on
earth that he may come to and restore again that which was lost
unto you, or which he hath taken away, even the fulness of the
priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:29 For a baptismal font there is not
upon the earth, that they, my saints, may be baptized for those
who are dead--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:30 For this ordinance belongeth to my
house, and cannot be acceptable to me, only in the days of your
poverty, wherein ye are not able to build a house unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:31 But I command you, all ye my
saints, to build a house unto me; and I grant unto you a
sufficient time to build a house unto me; and during this time
your baptisms shall be acceptable unto me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:32 But behold, at the end of this
appointment your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable
unto me; and if you do not these things at the end of the
appointement ye shall be rejected as a church, with your dead,
saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:33 For verily I say unto you, that
after you have had sufficient time to build a house to me,
wherein the ordinance of baptizing for the dead belongeth, and
for which the same was instituted from before the foundation of
the world, your baptisms for your dead cannot be acceptable unto
me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:34 For therein are the keys of the
holy priesthood ordained, that you may receive honor and glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:35 And after this time, your baptisms
for the dead, by those who are scattered abroad, are not
acceptable unto me, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:36 For it is ordained that in Zion,
and in her stakes, and in Jerusalem, those places which I have
appointed for refuge, shall be the places for your baptisms for
your dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:37 And again, verily I say unto you,
how shall your washings be acceptable unto me, except ye perform
them in a house which you have built to my name?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:38 For, this cause I commanded Moses
that he should build a tabernacle, that they should bear it with
them in the wilderness, and to build a house in the land of
promise, that those ordinances might be revealed which had been
hid from before the world was.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:39 Therefore, verily I say unto you,
that your anointings, and your washings, and your baptisms for
the dead, and your solemn assemblies, and your memorials for your
sacrifices by the sons of Levi, and for your oracles in your most
holy places wherein you receive conversations, and your statutes
and judgments, for the beginning of the revelations and the
foundation of Zion, and for the glory, honor, and endowment of
all her municipals, are ordained by the ordinance of my holy
house, which my people are always commanded to build unto my holy
name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:40 And verily I say unto you, let this
house be built unto my name, that I may reveal mine ordinances
therein unto my people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:41 For I deign to reveal unto my
church things which have been kept hid from before the foundation
of the world, things that pertain to the dispensation of the
fulness of times.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:42 And I will show unto my servant
Joseph all things pertaining to this house, and the priesthood
thereof, and the place whereon it shall be built.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:43 And ye shall build it on the place
where you have contemplated building it, for that is the spot
which I have chosen for you to build it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:44 If ye labor with all your might, I
will consecrate that spot that it shall be made holy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:45 And if my people will hearken unto
my voice, and unto the voice of my servants whom I have appointed
to lead my people, behold, verily I say unto you, they shall not
be moved out of their place.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:46 But if they will not hearken to my
voice, nor unto the voice of these men whom I have appointed,
they shall not be blest, because they pollute mine holy grounds,
and mine holy ordinances, and charters, and my holy words which I
give unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:47 And it shall come to pass that if
you build a house unto my name, and do not the things that I say,
I will not perform the oath which I make unto you, neither fulfil
the promises which ye expect at my hands, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:48 For instead of blessings, ye, by
your own works, bring cursings, wrath, indignation, and judgments
upon your own heads, by your follies, and by all your
abominations, which you practise before me, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:49 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
that when I give a commandment to any of the sons of men to do a
work unto my name, and those sons of men go with all their might
and with all they have to perform that work, and cease not their
diligence, and their enemies come upon them and hinder them from
performing that work, behold, it behooveth me to require that
work no more at the hands of those sons of me, but to accept of
their offerings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:50 And the iniquity and transgression
of my holy laws and commandments I will visit upon the heads of
those who hindered my work, unto the third and fourth generation,
so long as they repent not, and hate me, saith the Lord God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:51 Therefore, for this cause have I
accepted the offerings of those whom I commanded to build up a
city and a house unto my name, in Jackson county, Missouri, and
were hindered by their enemies, saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:52 And I will answer judgment, wrath,
and indignation, wailing, and anguish, and gnashing of teeth upon
their heads, unto the third and fourth generation, so long as
they repent not, and hate me, saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:53 And this I make an example unto
you, for your consolation concerning all those who have been
commanded to do a work and have been hindered by the hands of
their enemies, and by oppression, saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:54 For I am the Lord your God, and
will save all those of your brethren who have been pure in heart,
and have been slain in the land of Missouri, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:55 And again, verily I say unto you, I
command you again to build a house to my name, even in this
place, that you may prove yourselves unto me that ye are faithful
in all things whatsoever I command you, that I may bless you, and
crown you with honor, immortality, and eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:56 And now I say unto you, as
pertaining to my boarding house which I have commanded you to
build for the boarding of strangers, let it be built unto my
name, and let my name be named upon it, and let my servant Joseph
and his house have place therein, from generation to generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:57 For this anointing have I put upon
his head, that his blessing shall also be put upon the head of
his posterity after him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:58 And as I said unto Abraham
concerning the kindreds of the earth, even so I say unto my
servant Joseph: In thee and in thy seed shall the kindred of the
earth be blessed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:59 Therefore, let my servant Joseph
and his seed after him have place in that house, from generation
to generation, forever and ever, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:60 And let the name of that house be
called Nauvoo House; and let it be a delightful habitation for
man, and a resting-place for the weary traveler, that he may
contemplate the glory of Zion, and the glory of this, the corner-
stone thereof;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:61 That he may receive also the
counsel from those whom I have set to be as plants of renown, and
as watchmen upon her walls.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:62 Behold, verily I say unto you, let
my servant George Miller, and my servant Lyman Wight, and my
servant John Snider, and my servant Peter Haws, organize
themselves, and appoint one of them to be a president over their
quorum for the purpose of building that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:63 And they shall form a constitution,
whereby they may receive stock for the building of that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:64 And they shall not receive less
than fifty dollars for a share of stock in that house, and they
shall be permitted to receive fifteen thousand dollars from any
one man for stock in that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:65 But they shall not be permitted to
receive over fifteen thousand dollars stock from any one man.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:66 And they shall not be permitted to
receive under fifty dollars for a share of stock from any one man
in that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:67 And they shall not be permitted to
receive any man, as a stockholder in this house, except the same
shall pay his stock in to their hands at the time he receives
stock;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:68 And in proportion to the amount of
stock he pays into their hands he shall receive stock in that
house; but if he pays nothing into their hands he shall not
receive any stock in that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:69 And if any pay stock into their
hands it shall be for stock in that house, for himself, and for
his generation after him, from generation to generation, so long
as he and his heirs shall hold that stock, and do not sell or
convey the stock out of their hands by their own free will and
act, if you will do my will, saith the Lord you God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:70 And again, verily I say unto you,
if my servant George Miller, and my servant Lyman Wight, and my
servant John Snider, and my servant Peter Haws, receive any stock
into their hands, in moneys, or in properties wherein they
receive the real value of moneys, they shall not appropriate any
portion of that stock to any other purpose, only in that house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:71 And if they do appropriate any
portion of that stock anywhere else, only in that house, without
the consent of the stockholder, and do not repay fourfold for the
stock which they appropriate anywhere else, only in that house,
they shall be accursed, and shall be moved out of their place,
saith the Lord God; for I, the Lord, am God, and cannot be mocked
in any of these things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:72 And there are others also who wish
to know my will concerning them, for they have asked it at my
hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:74 Therefore, I say unto you
concerning my servant Vinson Knight, if he will do my will let
him put stock into that house for himself, and for his generation
after him, from generation to generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:75 And let him lift up his voice long
and loud, in the midst of the people, to plead the cause of the
poor and the needy; and let him not fall neither let his heart
faint; and I will accept of his offerings, for they shall not be
unto me as the offerings of Cain, for he shall be mine, saith the
Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:76 Let his family rejoice and turn
away their hearts from affliction; for I have chosen him and
anointed him, and he shall be honored in the midst of his house,
for I will forgive all his sins, saith the Lord. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:77 Verily I say unto you, let my
servant Hyrum put stock into that house as seemeth him good, for
himself and his generation after him, from generation to
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:78 Let my servant Isaac Galland put
stock into that house; for I, the Lord, love him for the work he
hath done, and will forgive all his sins; therefore, let him be
remembered for an interest in that house from generation to
generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:79 Let my servant Isaac Galland be
appointed among you, and be ordained by my servant William Marks,
and be blessed of him, to go with my servant Hyrum to accomplish
the work that my servant Joseph shall point out to them, and they
shall be greatly blessed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:80 Let my servant William Marks pay
stock into that house, as seemeth him good, for himself and his
generation, from generation to generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:81 Let my servant Henry G. Sherwood
pay stock into that house, as seemeth him good, for himself and
his seed after him, from generation to generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:82 Let my servant William Law pay
stock into that house, for himself and his seed after him, from
generation to generation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:83 If he will do my will let him not
take his family unto the eastern lands, even unto Kirtland;
nevertheless, I, the Lord, will build up Kirtland, but I, the
Lord, have a scourge prepared for the inhabitants thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:84 And with my servant Almon Babbitt,
there are many things with which I am not pleased; behold, he
aspireth to establish his counsel instead of the counsel which I
have ordained, even that of the Presidency of my Church; and he
setteth up a golden calf for the worship of my people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:85 Let no man go from this place who
has come here essaying to keep my commandments.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:86 If they live here let them live
unto me; and if they die let them die unto me; for they shall
rest from all their labors here, and shall continue their works.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:87 Therefore, let my servant William
put his trust in me, and cease to fear concerning his family,
because of the sickness of the land. If ye love me, keep my
commandments; and the sickness of the land shall redound to your
glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:88 Let my servant William go and
proclaim my everlasting gospel with a loud voice, and with great
joy, as he shall be moved upon by my Spirit, unto the inhabitants
of Warsaw, and also unto the inhabitants of Burlington, and also
unto the inhabitants of Madison, and await patiently and
diligently for further instructions at my general conference,
saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:89 If he will do my will let him from
henceforth hearken to the counsel of my servant Joseph, and with
his interest support the cause of the poor, and publish the new
translation of my holy word unto the inhabitants of the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:90 And if he will do this I will bless
him with a multiplicity of blessings, that he shall not be
forsaken, nor his seed be found begging bread.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:91 And again, verily I say unto you,
let my servant William be appointed, ordained, and anointed, as
counselor unto my servant Joseph, in the room of my servant
Hyrum, that my servant Hyrum may take the office of Priesthood
and Patriarch, which was appointed unto him by his father, by
blessing and also by right;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:92 That from henceforth he shall hold
the keys of the patriarchal blessings upon the heads of all my
people,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:93 That whoever he blesses shall be
blessed, and whoever he curses shall be cursed; that whatsoever
he shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; an whatsoever he
shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:94 And from this time forth I appoint
unto him that he may be a prophet, and a seer, and a revelator
unto my church, as well as my servant Joseph;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:95 That he may act in concert also
with my servant Joseph; and that he shall receive counsel from my
servant Joseph, who shall show him the keys whereby he may ask
and receive, and be crowned with the same blessing, and glory,
and honor, and priesthood, and gifts of the priesthood, that once
were put upon him that was my servant Oliver Cowdery;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:96 That my servant Hyrum may bear
record of the things which I shall show him, that his name may be
had in honorable remembrance from generation to generation,
forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:97 Let my servant William Law also
receive the keys by which he may ask and receive blessings; let
him be humble before me, and be without guile, and he shall
receive of my Spirit, even the Comforter, which shall manifest
unto him the truth of all things, and shall give him, in the very
hour, what he shall say.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:98 And these signs shall follow him--
he shall heal the sick, he shall cast out devils, and shall be
delivered from those who would administer unto him deadly poison;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:99 And he shall be led in paths where
the poisonous serpent cannot lay hold upon his heel, and he shall
mount up in the imagination of his thoughts as upon eagles'
wings.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:100 And what if I will that he should
raise the dead, let him not withhold his voice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:101 Therefore, let my servant William
cry aloud and spare not, with joy and rejoicing, and with
hosannas to him that sitteth upon the throne forever and ever,
saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:102 Behold, I say unto you, I have a
mission in store for my servant Hyrum, and for them alone; and
let my servant Joseph tarry at home, for he is needed. The
remainder I will show unto you hereafter. Even so. Amen
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:103 And again, verily I say unto you,
if my servant Sidney will serve me and be counselor unto my
servant Joseph, let him arise and come up and stand in the office
of his calling, and humble himself before me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:104 And if he will offer unto me an
acceptable offering, and acknowledgments, and remain with my
people, behold, I, the Lord your God, will heal him that he shall
be healed; and he shall lift up his voice again on the mountains,
and be a spokesman before my face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:105 Let him come and locate his family
in the neighborhood in which my servant Joseph resides.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:106 And in all his journeyings let him
lift up his voice as with the sound of a trump, and warn the
inhabitants of the earth to flee the wrath to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:107 Let him assist my servant Joseph,
and also let my servant William Law assist my servant Joseph, in
making a solemn proclamation unto the kings of the earth, even as
I have before said unto you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:108 If my servant Sidney will do my
will, let him not remove his family unto the eastern lands, but
let him change their habitation, even as I have said.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:109 Behold, it is not my will that he
shall seek to find safety and refuge out of the city which I have
appointed unto you, even the city of Nauvoo.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:110 Verily I say unto you, even now,
if he will hearken unto my voice, it shall be well with him. Even
so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:111 And again verily I say unto you,
let my servant Amos Davies pay stock into the hands of those whom
I have appointed to build a house for boarding, even the Nauvoo
House.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:112 This let him do if he will have an
interest; and let him hearken unto the counsel of my servant
Joseph, and labor with his own hands that he may obtain the
confidence of men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:113 And when he shall prove himself
faithful in all things that shall be entrusted unto his care,
yea, even a few things, he shall be made ruler over many;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:114 Let him therefore abase himself
that he may be exalted. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:115 And again, verily I say unto you,
if my servant Robert D. Foster will obey my voice, let him build
a house for my servant Joseph, according to the contract which he
has made with him, as the door shall be open to him from time to
time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:116 And let him repent of all his
folly, and clothe himself with charity; and cease to do evil, and
lay aside all his hard speeches;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:117 And pay stock also into the hands
of the quorum of the Nauvoo House, for himself and for his
generation after him, from generation to generation;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:118 And hearken unto the counsel of my
servants Joseph, and Hyrum, and William Law, and unto the
authorities which I have called to lay the foundation of Zion;
and it shall be well with him forever and ever. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:119 And again, verily I say unto you,
let no man pay stock to the quorum of the Nauvoo House unless he
shall be a believer in the Book of Mormon, and the revelations I
have given unto you, saith the Lord your God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:120 For that which is more or less
than this cometh of evil, and shall be attended with cursings and
not blessings, saith the Lord your God. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:121 And again, verily I say unto you,
let the quorum of the Nauvoo House have a just recompense of
wages for all their labors which they do in building the Nauvoo
House; and let there wages be as shall be agreed among themselves
as pertaining to the price thereof.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:122 And let every man who pays stock
bear his proportion of their wages, if it must needs be, for
their support, saith the Lord; otherwise, their labors shall be
accounted unto them for stock in that house. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:123 Verily I say unto you, I now give
unto you the officers belonging to my Priesthood, that ye may
hold the keys thereof, even the Priesthood which is after the
order of Melchizedek, which is after the order of mine Only
Begotten Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:124 First, I give unto you Hyrum Smith
to be a patriarch unto you, to hold the sealing blessings of my
church, even the Holy Spirit of promise, whereby ye are sealed up
unto the day of redemption, that ye may not fall notwithstanding
the hour of temptation that may come upon you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:125 I give unto you my servant Joseph
to be a presiding elder over all my church, to be a translator, a
revelator, a seer, and a prophet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:126 I give unto him for counselors my
servant Sidney Rigdon and my servant William Law, that these may
constitute a quorum and First Presidency, to receive the oracles
for the whole church.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:127 I give unto you my servant Brigham
Young to be a president over the Twelve traveling council;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:128 Which Twelve hold the keys to open
up the authority of my kingdom upon the four corners of the
earth, and after that to send my word to every creature.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:129 They are Heber C. Kimball, Parley
P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde, William Smith, John Taylor,
John E. Page, Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards, George A.
Smith;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:130 David Patten I have taken unto
myself; behold, his priesthood no man taketh from him; but,
verily I say unto you, another may be appointed unto the same
calling.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:131 And again, I say unto you, I give
unto you a high council, for the corner-stone of Zion--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:132 Namely, Samuel Bent, Henry G.
Sherwood, George W. Harris, Charles C. Rich, Thomas Grover, Newel
Knight, David Dort, Dunbar Wilson--Seymour Brunson I have taken
unto myself; no man taketh his priesthood, but another may be
appointed unto the same priesthood in his stead; and verily I say
unto you, let my servant Aaron Johnson be ordained unto this
calling in his stead--David Fullmer, Alpheus Cutler, William
Huntington.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:133 And again, I give unto you Don C.
Smith to be a president over a quorum of high priests;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:134 Which ordinance is instituted for
the purpose of qualifying those who shall be appointed standing
presidents or servants over different stakes scattered abroad;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:135 And they may travel also if they
choose, but rather be ordained for standing presidents; this is
the office of their calling, saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:136 I give unto him Amasa Lyman and
Noah Packard for counselors, that they may preside over the
quorum of high priests of my church saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:137 And again, I say unto you, I give
unto you John A Hicks, Samuel Williams, and Jesse Baker, which
priesthood is to preside over the quorum of elders, which quorum
is instituted for standing ministers; nevertheless they may
travel, yet they are ordained to be standing ministers to my
church, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:138 And again, I give unto you Joseph
Young, Josiah Butterfield, Daniel Miles, Henry Herriman, Zera
Pulsipher, Levi Hancock, James Foster, to preside over the quorum
of seventies;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:139 Which quorum is instituted for
traveling elders to bear record of my name in all the world,
wherever the traveling high council, mine apostles, shall send
them to prepare a way before my face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:140 The difference between this quorum
and the quorum of elders is that one is to travel continually,
and the other is to preside over the churches from time to time;
the one has the responsibility of presiding from time to time,
and the other has no responsibility of presiding, saith the Lord
your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:141 And again, I say unto you, I give
unto you Vinson Knight, Samuel H. Smith, and Shadrach Roundy, if
he will receive it, to preside over the bishopric; a knowledge of
said bishopric is given unto you in the book of Doctrine and
Covenants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:142 And again, I say unto you, Samuel
Rolfe and his counselors for priests, and the president of the
teachers and his counselors, and also the president of the
deacons and his counselors, and also the president of the stake
and his counselors.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:143 The above offices I have given
unto you, and the keys thereof, for helps and for governments,
for the work of the ministry and the perfecting of my saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:144 And a commandment I give unto you,
that you should fill all these offices and approve of those names
which I have mentioned, or else disapprove of them at my general
conference;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 124:145 And that ye should prepare rooms
for all these offices in my house when you build it unto my name,
saith the Lord your God. Even so. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 125:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, March, 1841, concerning
the Saints in the Territory of Iowa.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 125:1 What is the will of the Lord
concerning the saints in the Territory of Iowa?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 125:2 Verily, thus saith the Lord, I say
unto you, if those who call themselves by my name and are
essaying to be my saints, if they will do my will and keep my
commandments concerning them, let them gather themselves together
unto the places which I shall appoint unto them by my servant
Joseph, and build up cities unto my name, that they may be
prepared for that which is in store for a time to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 125:3 Let them build up a city unto my
name upon the land opposite the city of Nauvoo, and let the name
of Zarahemla be named upon it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 125:4 And let all those who come from the
east, and the west, and the north, and the south, that have
desires to dwell therein, take up their inheritance in the same,
as well as in the city of Nashville, or in the city of Nauvoo,
and in all the stakes which I have appointed, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 126:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, in the house of Brigham Young, at Nauvoo,
Illinois, July 9, 1841. At this time Brigham Young was president
of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 126:1 Dear and well-beloved brother,
Brigham Young, verily thus saith the Lord unto you: My servant
Brigham, it is no more required at your hand to leave your family
as in times past, for your offering is acceptable to me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 126:2 I have seen your labor and toil in
journeyings for my name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 126:3 I therefore command you to send my
word abroad, and take especial care of your family from this
time, henceforth and forever. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:0 An Epistle from Joseph Smith the
Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing
directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1,
1842. --Because of intense persecution and consequent
interference with his labors, the Prophet purposes to go into
retirement for a short period--He rejoices in the eventual
triumph of the cause of God--He gives the word of the Lord
respecting the records to be mad of baptisms for the dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:1 Forasmuch as the Lord has revealed
unto me that my enemies, both in Missouri and this State, were
again in the pursuit of me; and inasmuch as they pursue me
without a cause, and have not the least shadow or coloring of
justice or right on their side in the getting up of their
prosecutions against me; and inasmuch as their pretensions are
all founded in falsehood of the blackest dye, I have thought it
expedient and wisdom in me to leave the place for a short season,
for my own safety and the safety of this people. I would say to
all those with whom I have business, that I have left my affairs
with agents and clerks who will transact all business in a prompt
and proper manner, and will see that all my debts are canceled in
due time, by turning out property, or otherwise, as the case may
require, or as the circumstances may admit of. When I learn that
the storm is fully blown over, then I will return to you again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:2 And as for the perils which I am
called to pass through, they seem but a small thing to me, as the
envy and wrath of man have been my common lot all the days of my
life; and for what cause it seems mysterious, unless I was
ordained from before the foundation of the world for some good
end, or bad, as you may choose to call it. Judge ye for
yourselves. God knoweth all these things, whether it be good or
bad. But nevertheless, deep water is what I am wont to swim in.
It all has become a second nature to me; and I feel, like Paul,
to glory in tribulation; for to this day has the God of my
fathers delivered me out of them all, and will deliver me from
henceforth; for behold, and lo, I shall triumph over all my
enemies, for the Lord God hath spoken it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:3 Let all the saints rejoice,
therefore, and be exceedingly glad; for Israel's God is their
God, and he will mete out a just recompense of reward upon the
heads of all their oppressors.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:4 And again, verily thus saith the
Lord; Let the work of my temple, and all the works which I have
appointed unto you, be continued on and not cease; and let your
diligence, and your perseverance, and patience, and your works be
redoubled, and you shall in nowise lose your reward, saith the
Lord of Hosts. And if they persecute you, so persecuted they the
prophets and righteous men that were before you. For all this
there is a reward in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:5 And again, I give unto you a word in
relation to the baptism for your dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:6 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
concerning your dead: When any of you are baptized for your dead,
let there be a recorder, and let him be eye-witness of your
baptisms; let him hear with his ears, that he may testify of a
truth, saith the Lord;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:7 That in all your recordings it may
be recorded in heaven; whatsoever you bind on earth, may be bound
in heaven; whatsoever you loose on earth, may be loosed in
heaven;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:8 For I am about to restore many
things to the earth, pertaining to the priesthood, saith the Lord
of Hosts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:9 And again, let all the records be
had in order, that they may be put in the archives of my holy
temple to be held in remembrance from generation to generation,
saith the Lord of Hosts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:10 I will say to all the saints, that
I desired, with exceedingly great desire, to have addressed them
from the stand on the subject of baptism for the dead, on the
following Sabbath. But inasmuch as it is out of my power to do
so, I will write the word of the Lord from time to time, on that
subject, and send it to you by mail, as well as many other
things.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:11 I now close my letter for the
present, for the want of more time; for the enemy is on the
alert, and as the Savior said, the prince of this world cometh,
but he hath nothing in me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:12 Behold, my prayer to God is that
you all may be saved. And I subscribe myself your servant in the
Lord, prophet and seer of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 127:13 Joseph Smith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:0 An Epistle from Joseph Smith the
Prophet to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
containing further directions on baptism for the dead; dated at
Nauvoo, Illinois, September 6, 1842. --More detailed instructions
concerning the general recorder, local recorders, and their
duties--Witnesses required--The keeping of records shown to be in
conformity with the ordinances of the Lord--Records kept on earth
as well as those kept in heaven to be used in judgment--What is
bound on earth by the power of the Holy Priesthood is bound in
heaven, and what is loosed here is loosed there--The baptismal
font a similitude of the grave--The mission of Elijah the
Prophet--Baptism for the dead a welding link between the departed
fathers and the living children--The Prophet's gladsome summary
of heavenly visitations to him--The voice of gladness--Glad
tidings for the dead--Glad tidings from Cumorah--The voice of the
Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon--The voice of Michael,
Peter, James and John--Records of the work done for the dead to
be made acceptable to the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:1 As I stated to you in my letter
before I left my place, that I would write to you from time to
time and give you information in relation to many subjects, I now
resume the subject of the baptism for the dead, as that subject
seems to occupy my mind, and press itself upon my feelings the
strongest, since I have been pursued by my enemies.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:2 I wrote a few words of revelation to
you concerning a recorder. I have had a few additional views in
relation to this matter, which I now certify. That is, it was
declared in my former letter that there should be a recorder, who
should be eye-witness, and also to hear with his ears, that he
might make a record of a truth before the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:3 Now, in relation to this matter, it
would be very difficult for one recorder to be present at all
times, and to do all the business. To obviate this difficulty,
there can be a recorder appointed in each ward of the city, who
is well qualified for taking accurate minutes; and let him be
very particular and precise in taking the whole proceedings,
certifying in his record that he saw with his eyes, and heard
with his ears giving the date, and names, and so forth, and the
history of the whole transaction; naming also some three
individuals that are present, if there be any present, who can at
any time when called upon certify to the same, that in the mouth
of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:4 Then, let there be a general
recorder, to whom these other records can be handed, being
attended with certificates over their own signatures, certifying
that the record they have made is true. Then the general church
recorder can enter the record on the general church book, with
the certificates and all the attending witnesses, with his own
statement that he verily believes the above statement and records
to be true, from his knowledge of the general character and
appointment of those men by the church. And when this is done on
the general church book, the record shall be just as holy, and
shall answer the ordinance just the same as if he had seen with
his eyes and heard with his ears, and made a record of the same
on the general church book.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:5 You may think this order of things
to be very particular; but let me tell you that it is only to
answer the will of God, by conforming to the ordinance and
preparation that the Lord ordained and prepared before the
foundation of the world, for the salvation of the dead who should
die without a knowledge of the gospel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:6 And further, I want you to remember
that John the Revelator was contemplating this very subject in
relation to the dead, when he declared, as you will find recorded
in Revelation 20:12 -- And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened; and another book was
opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in the books, according to
their works.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:7 You will discover in this quotation
that the books were opened; and another book was opened, which
was the book of life; but the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, according to their works;
consequently, the books which contained the record of their
works, and refer to the records which are kept on the earth. And
the book which was the book of life is the record which is kept
in heaven; the principle agreeing precisely with the doctrine
which is commanded you in the revelation contained in the letter
which I wrote to you previous to my leaving my place--that in all
your recordings it may be recorded in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:8 Now, the nature of this ordinance
consists in the power of the priesthood, by the revelation of
Jesus Christ, wherein it is granted that whatsoever you bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven. Or, in other words, taking a different
view of the translation, whatsoever you record on earth shall be
recorded in heaven; for out of the books shall your dead be
judged, according to their own words, whether they themselves
have attended to the ordinances in their own propria persona, or
by the means of their own agents, according to the ordinance
which God has prepared for their salvation from before the
foundation of the world, according to the records which they have
kept concerning their dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:9 It may seem to some to be a very
bold doctrine that we talk of -- a power which records or binds
on earth and binds in heaven. Nevertheless, in all ages of the
world, whenever the Lord has given a dispensation of the
priesthood to any man by actual revelation, or any set of men,
this power has always been given. Hence, whatsoever those men did
in authority, in the name of the Lord, and did it truly and
faithfully, and kept a proper and faithful record of the same, it
became a law on earth and in heaven, and could not be annulled,
according to the decrees of the great Jehovah. This is a faithful
saying. Who can hear it?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:10 And again, for the precedent,
Matthew 16:18,19: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys
of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on
earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:11 Now the great and grand secret of
the whole matter, and the summum bonum of the whole subject that
is lying before us, consists in obtaining the powers of the Holy
Priesthood. For him to whom these keys are given there is no
difficulty in obtaining a knowledge of facts in relation to the
salvation of the children of men, both as well for the dead as
for the living.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:12 Herein is glory and honor, and
immortality and eternal life -- The ordinance of baptism by
water, to be immersed therein in order to answer to the likeness
of the dead, that one principle might accord with the other; to
be immersed in the water and come forth out of the water is in
the likeness of the resurrection of the dead in coming forth out
of their graves; hence, this ordinance was instituted to form a
relationship with the ordinance of baptism for the dead, being in
likeness of the dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:13 Consequently, the baptismal font
was instituted as a similitude of the grave, and was commanded to
be in a place underneath where the living are wont to assemble,
to show forth the living and the dead, and that all things may
have their likeness, and that they may accord one with another--
that which is earthly conforming to that which is heavenly, as
Paul hath declared, 1 Corinthians 15:46, 47, and 48:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:14 Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is
spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man
is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also
that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that
are heavenly. And as are the records on the earth in relation to
your dead, which are truly made out, so also are the records in
heaven. This, therefore, is the sealing and binding power, and,
in one sense of the word, the keys of the kingdom, which consist
in the key of knowledge.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:15 And now, my dearly beloved brethren
and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in
relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed
over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is
necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning
the fathers--that they without us cannot be made perfect--neither
can we without our dead be made perfect.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:16 And now, in relation to the baptism
for the dead, I will give you another quotation of Paul, 1
Corinthians 15:29: Else what shall they do which are baptized for
the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized
for the dead?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:17 And again, in connection with this
quotation I will give you a quotation from one of the prophets,
who had his eye fixed on the restoration of the priesthood, the
glories to be revealed in the last days, and in an especial
manner this most glorious of all subjects belonging to the
everlasting gospel, namely, the baptism for the dead; for Malachi
says, last chapter, verses 5th and 6th: Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to
the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:18 I might have rendered a plainer
translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my
purpose as it stands. It is sufficient to know, in this case,
that the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a
welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the
children, upon some subject or other--and behold what is that
subject? It is the baptism for the dead. For we without them
cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made
perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those
who have died in the gospel also; for it is necessary in the
ushering in of the dispensation of the fulness of times, which
dispensation is now beginning to usher in, that a whole and
complete and perfect union, and welding together of
dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories should take
place, and be revealed from the days of Adam even to the present
time. And not only this, but those things which never have been
revealed from the foundation of the world, but have been kept hid
from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed unto babes and
sucklings in this, the dispensation of the fulness of times.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:19 Now, what do we hear in the gospel
which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy
from heaven; and a voice of truth out of the earth; glad tidings
for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead;
glad tidings of great joy. How beautiful upon the mountains are
the feet of those that bring glad tidings of good things, and
that say unto Zion: Behold, thy God reigneth! As the dews of
Carmel, so shall the knowledge of God descend upon them!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:20 And again, what do we hear? Glad
tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the
fulfilment of the prophets--the book to be revealed. A voice of
the Lord in the wilderness of Fayette, Seneca county, declaring
the three witnesses to bear record of the book! The voice of
Michael on the bands of the Susquehanna, detecting the devil when
he appeared as an angel of light! The voice of Peter, James, and
John in the wilderness between Harmony, Susquehanna county, and
Colesville, Broome county, on the Susquehanna river, declaring
themselves as possessing the keys of the kingdom, and of the
dispensation of the fulness of times!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:21 And again, the voice of God in the
chamber of old Father Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at
sundry times, and in divers places through all the travels and
tribulations of this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!
And the voice of Michael, the archangel; the voice of Gabriel,
and of Raphael, and of divers angels, from Michael or Adam down
to the present time, all declaring their dispensations, their
rights, their keys, their honors, their majesty and glory, and
the power of their priesthood; giving line upon line, precept
upon precept; here a little, and there a little; giving us
consolation by holding forth that which is to come, confirming
our hope!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:22 Brethren, shall we not go on in so
great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren;
and on, on to the victory! Let your hearts rejoice, and be
exceedingly glad. Let the earth break forth into singing. Let the
dead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the King Immanuel,
who hath ordained, before the world was, that which would enable
us to redeem them out of their prison; for the prisoners shall go
free.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:23 Let the mountains shout for joy,
and all ye valleys cry aloud; and all ye seas and dry lands tell
the wonders of your Eternal King! And ye river, and brooks, and
rills, flow down with gladness. Let the woods and all the trees
of the field praise the Lord; and ye solid rocks weep for joy!
And let the sun, moon, and the morning stars sing together, and
let all the sons of God shout for joy! And let the eternal
creation declare his name forever and ever! And again I say, how
glorious is the voice we hear from heaven, proclaiming in our
ears, glory, and salvation, and honor, and immortality, and
eternal life; kingdoms, principalities, and powers!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:24 Behold, the great day of the Lord
is at hand; and who can abide the day of his coming, and who can
stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiners fire, and like
fuller's soap; and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as
gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness. Let us, therefore, as a church and a people, and
as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness; and let us present in his holy temple, when it is
finished, a book containing the records of our dead, which shall
be worthy of all acceptation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 128:25 Brethren, I have many things to say
to you on the subject; but shall now close for the present, and
continue the subject another time. I am, as ever, your humble
servant and never deviating friend, Joseph Smith.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:0 Revelation given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet at Nauvoo, Illinois, February 9, 1843, making known the
three grand keys by which good or bad angels or spirits may be
distinguished. --Two kinds of beings besides mortals--Resurrected
personages having bodies of flesh and bones--Disembodied spirits
and spirits that have never been embodied--Means of detection.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:1 There are two kinds of beings in
heaven, namely: Angels, who are resurrected personages, having
bodies of flesh and bones--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:2 For instance, Jesus said: Handle me
and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:3 Secondly: the spirits of just men
made perfect, they who are not resurrected, but inherit the same
glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:4 When a messenger comes saying he has
a message from God, offer him your hand and request him to shake
hands with you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:5 If he be an angel he will do so, and
you will feel his hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:6 If he be the spirit of a just man
made perfect he will come in his glory; for that is the only way
he can appear--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:7 Ask him to shake hands with you, but
he will not move, because it is contrary to the order of heaven
for a just man to deceive; but he will still deliver his message.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:8 If it be the devil as an angel of
light, when you ask him to shake hands he will offer you his hand
and you will not feel anything; you may therefore detect him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 129:9 These are three grand keys whereby
you may know whether any administration is from God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:0 Important Items of Instruction given
by Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Ramus, Illinois, April 2, 1843. -
-When the Savior appears he will be in his true form, that of a
man--The abode of the angels--The earth in its sanctified and
immortalized condition--Prophecy of great difficulties involving
much bloodshed to begin in South Carolina--Time of the Lord's
coming not definitely made known--Intelligence acquired in this
life will abide with its possessor--The law decreed in heaven,
that blessings are obtained only by obedience to the laws on
which they are predicated--The Father and the Son possess bodies
of flesh and bones--The Holy Ghost a personage of spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:1 When the Savior shall appear we
shall see him as he is. We shall see that he is a man like
ourselves.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:2 And that same sociality which exists
among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled
with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:3 John 14:23--The appearing of the
Father and the Son, in that verse, is a personal appearance; and
the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man's heart is an
old sectarian notion, and is false.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:4 In answer to the question--Is not
the reckoning of God's time, and man's time, according to the
planet on which they reside?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:5 I answer, Yes. But there are no
angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have
belonged to it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:6 The angels do not reside on a planet
like this earth;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:7 But they reside in the presence of
God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things
for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are
continually before the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:8 The place where God resides is a
great Urim and Thummim.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:9 This earth, in its sanctified and
immortal state, will be made like unto crystal and will be a Urim
and Thummim to the inhabitants who dwell thereon, whereby all
things pertaining to an inferior kingdom, or all kingdoms of a
lower order, will be manifest to those who dwell on it; and this
earth will be Christ's.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:10 Then the white stone mentioned in
Revelation 2:17, will become a Urim and Thummim to each
individual who receives one, whereby things pertaining to a
higher order of kingdoms will be made known;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:11 And a white stone is given to each
of those who come into the celestial kingdom, whereon is a new
name written, which no man knoweth save he that receiveth it. The
new name is the key word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:12 I prophesy, in the name of the Lord
God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause
much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be
in South Carolina.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:13 It may probably arise through the
slave question. This a voice declared to me, while I was praying
earnestly on the subject, December 25th, 1832.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:14 I was once praying very earnestly
to know the time of the coming of the Son of Man, when I heard a
voice repeat the following:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:15 Joseph, my son, if thou livest
until thou art eighty-five years old, thou shalt see the face of
the Son of Man; therefore let this suffice, and trouble me no
more on this matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:16 I was left thus, without being able
to decide whether this coming referred to the beginning of the
millenium or to some previous appearing, or whether I should die
and thus see his face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:17 I believe the coming of the Son of
Man will not be any sooner than that time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:18 Whatever principle of intelligence
we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the
resurrection.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:19 And if a person gains more
knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and
obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the
world to come.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:20 There is a law, irrevocably decreed
in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all
blessings are predicated--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:21 And when we obtain any blessing
from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is
predicated.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:22 The Father has a body of flesh and
bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has
not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were
it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 130:23 A man may receive the Holy Ghost,
and it may descend upon him and not tarry with him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:0 Instructions by Joseph Smith the
Prophet, given at Ramus, Illinois, May 16 and 17, 1843. See
History of the Church, vol. 5, pp. 392, 393. --Degrees in the
celestial glory-- Significance of the new and everlasting
covenant of marriage--The more sure word of prophecy--
Impossibility of a man being saved in ignorance--Spirit is
matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:1 In the celestial glory there are
three heavens or degrees;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:2 And in order to obtain the highest,
a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the
new and everlasting covenant of marriage];
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:3 And if he does not, he cannot obtain
it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:4 He may enter into the other, but
that is the end of his kingdom; he cannot have an increase.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:5 (May 17, 1843.) The more sure word
of prophecy means a man's knowing that he is sealed up unto
eternal life, by revelation and the spirit of prophecy, through
the power of the Holy Priesthood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:6 It is impossible for a man to be
saved in ignorance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:7 There is no such thing as immaterial
matter. All spirit is matter but it is more fine or pure, and can
only be discerned by purer eyes;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 131:8 We cannot see it; but when our
bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843,
relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the
eternity of the marriage covenant, as also plurality of wives. --
The prophets inquiry of the Lord--He is told to prepare himself
to receive the new and everlasting covenant--Conditions of this
law--The power of the Holy Priesthood instituted by the Lord must
be operative in ordinances to be in effect beyond the grave--
Marriage by secular authority is of effect during mortality only-
-Though the form of marriage should make it appear to be for time
and eternity, the ordinance is not valid beyond the grave unless
solemnized by the authority of the Holy Priesthood as the Lord
directs--Marriage duly authorized for time and eternity to be
attended by surpassing blessings--Essentials for the attainment
of the status of godhood--The meaning of eternal lives--Plurality
of wives acceptable only when commanded by the Lord--The sin of
adultery--Commandment to Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you
my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand
to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my
servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having
many wives and concubines--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:2 Behold, and lo, I am the Lord thy
God, and will answer thee as touching this matter.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:3 Therefore, prepare thy heart to
receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto
you; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey
the same.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:4 For behold, I reveal unto you a new
and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant,
then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be
permitted to enter into my glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:5 For all who will have a blessing at
my hands shall abide the law which was appointed for that
blessing, and the conditions thereof, as were instituted from
before the foundation of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:6 And as pertaining to the new and
everlasting covenant, it was instituted for the fulness of my
glory; and he that receiveth a fulness thereof must and shall
abide the law, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:7 And verily I say unto you, that the
conditions of this law are these: All covenants, contracts,
bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections,
associations, or expectations, that are not made and entered into
and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, of him who is anointed,
both as well for time and for all eternity, and that too most
holy, by revelation and commandment through the medium of mine
anointed, whom I have appointed on the earth to hold this power
(and I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power
in the last days, and there is never but one on the earth at a
time on whom this power and the keys of this priesthood are
conferred), are of no efficacy, virtue, or force in and after the
resurrection from the dead; for all contracts that are not made
unto this end have an end when men are dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:8 Behold, mine house is a house of
order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:9 Will I accept of an offering, saith
the Lord, that is not made in my name?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:10 Or will I receive at your hands
that which I have not appointed?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:11 And will I appoint unto you, saith
the Lord, except it be by law, even as I and my Father ordained
unto you, before the world was?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:12 I am the Lord thy God; and I give
unto you this commandment--that no man shall come unto the Father
but by me or by my word, which is my law, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:13 And everything that is in the
world, whether it be ordained of men, by thrones, or
principalities, or powers, or things of name, whatsoever they may
be, that are not by me or by my word, saith the Lord, shall be
thrown down, and shall not remain after men are dead, neither in
nor after the resurrection, saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:14 For whatsoever things remain are by
me; and whatsoever things are not by me shall be shaken and
destroyed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:15 Therefore, if a man marry him a
wife in the world, and he marry her not by me nor by my word, and
he covenant with her so long as he is in the world and she with
him, their covenant and marriage are not of force when they are
dead, and when they are out of the world; therefore, they are not
bound by any law when they are out of the world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:16 Therefore, when they are out of the
world they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are
appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering
servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and
an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:17 For these angels did not abide my
law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately
and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all
eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are angels of God
forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:18 And again, verily I say unto you,
if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and
for all eternity, if that covenant is not by me or by my word,
which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise,
through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power,
then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the
world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither
by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received
there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by
whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory;
for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:19 And again, verily I say unto you,
if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new
and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy
Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have
appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and it
shall be said unto them--Ye shall come forth in the first
resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the
next resurrection; and shall inherit thrones, kingdoms,
principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths--
then shall it be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he
shall commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, and if ye
abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed
innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things
whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through
all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the
world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are
set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath
been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and
a continuation of the seeds forever and ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:20 Then shall they be gods, because
they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to
everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all,
because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be
gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject
unto them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:21 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
except ye abide my law ye cannot attain to this glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:22 For strait is the gate, and narrow
the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the
lives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not
in the world neither do ye know me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:23 But if ye receive me in the world,
then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that
where I am ye shall be also.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:24 This is eternal lives--to know the
only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent. I am
he. Receive ye, therefore, my law.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:25 Broad is the gate, and wide the way
that leadeth to the deaths; and many there are that go in there
at, because they receive me not, neither do they abide in my law.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:26 Verily, verily, I say unto you, if
a man marry a wife according to my word, and they are sealed by
the Holy Spirit of promise, according to mine appointment, and he
or she shall commit any sin or transgression of the new and
everlasting covenant whatever, and all manner of blasphemies, and
if they commit no murder wherein they shed innocent blood, yet
they shall come forth in the first resurrection, and enter into
their exaltation; but they shall be destroyed in the flesh, but
shall be delivered unto the buffetings of Satan unto the day of
redemption, saith the Lord God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:27 The blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost, which shall not be forgiven in the world nor out of the
world, is in that ye commit murder wherein ye shed innocent
blood, and assent unto my death, after ye have received my new
and everlasting covenant, saith the Lord God; and he that abideth
not this law can in nowise enter into my glory, but shall be
damned, saith the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:28 I am the Lord thy God, and will
give unto thee the law of my Holy Priesthood, as was ordained by
me and my Father before the world was.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:29 Abraham received all things,
whatsoever he received, by revelation and commandment, by my
word, saith the Lord, and hath entered into his exaltation and
sitteth upon his throne.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:30 Abraham received promises
concerning his seed, and of the fruit of his loins--from whose
loins ye are, namely, my servant Joseph--which were to continue
so long as they were in the world; and as touching Abraham and
his seed, out of the world they should continue; both in the
world and out of the world should they continue as innumerable as
the stars; or, if ye were to count the sand upon the seashore ye
could not number them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:31 This promise is yours also, because
ye are of Abraham, and the promise was made unto Abraham; and by
this law is the continuation of the works of my Father, wherein
he glorifieth himself.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:32 Go ye, therefore, and do the works
of Abraham; enter ye into my law and ye shall be saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:33 But if ye enter not into my law ye
cannot receive the promise of my Father, which he made unto
Abraham.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:34 God commanded Abraham, and Sarah
gave Hagar to Abraham to wife. And why did she do it? Because
this was the law; and from Hagar sprang many people. This,
therefore, was fulfilling, among other things, the promises.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:35 Was Abraham, therefore, under
condemnation? Verily I say unto you, Nay; for I, the Lord,
commanded it.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:36 Abraham was commanded to offer his
son Isaac; nevertheless, it was written: Thou shalt not kill.
Abraham, however, did not refuse, and it was accounted unto him
for righteousness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:37 Abraham received concubines, and
they bore him children; and it was accounted unto him for
righteousness, because they were given unto him, and he abode in
my law; as Isaac also and Jacob did none other things than that
which they were commanded; and because they did none other things
than which they were commanded, they have entered into their
exaltation, according to the promises, and sit upon thrones, and
are not angels but gods.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:38 David also received many wives and
concubines, and also Solomon and Moses my servants, as also many
others of my servants, from the beginning of creation until this
time; and in nothing did they sin save in those things which they
received not of me.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:39 David's wives and concubines were
given unto him of me, by the hand of Nathan, my servant, and
others of the prophets who had the keys of this power; and in
none of these things did he sin against me save in the case of
Uriah and his wife; and, therefore he hath fallen from his
exaltation, and received his portion; and he shall not inherit
them out of the world, for I gave them unto another, saith the
Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:40 I am the Lord thy God, and I gave
unto thee, my servant Joseph, an appointment, and restore all
things. Ask what ye will, and it shall be given unto you
according to my word.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:41 And as ye have asked concerning
adultery, verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man receiveth a
wife in the new and everlasting covenant, and if she be with
another man, and I have not appointed unto her by the holy
anointing, she hath committed adultery and shall be destroyed.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:42 If she be not in the new and
everlasting covenant, and she be with another man, she has
committed adultery.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:43 And if her husband be with another
woman, and he was under a vow, he hath broken his vow and hath
committed adultery.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:44 And if she hath not committed
adultery, but is innocent and hath not broken her vow, and she
knoweth it, and I reveal it unto you, my servant Joseph, then
shall you have power, by the power of my Holy Priesthood, to take
her and give her unto him that hath not committed adultery but
hath been faithful; for he shall be made ruler over many.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:45 For I have conferred upon you the
keys and power of the priesthood, wherein I restore all things,
and make known unto you all things in due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:46 And verily, verily, I say unto you,
that whatsoever you seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; and
whatsoever you bind on earth, in my name and by my word, saith
the Lord, it shall be eternally bound in the heavens; and
whosoever sins you remit on earth shall be remitted eternally in
the heavens; and whosesoever sins you retain on earth shall be
retained in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:47 And again, verily I say, whomsoever
you bless I will bless, and whomsoever you curse I will curse,
saith the Lord; for I, the Lord, am thy God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:48 And again, verily I say unto you,
my servant Joseph, that whatsoever you give on earth, and to
whomsoever you give any one on earth, by my word and according to
my law, it shall be visisted with blessings and not cursings, and
with my power, saith the Lord, and shall be without condemnation
on earth and in heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:49 For I am the Lord thy God, and will
be with thee even unto the end of the world, and through all
eternity; for verily I seal upon you your exaltation, and prepare
a throne for you in the kingdom of my Father, with Abraham your
father.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:50 Behold, I have seen your
sacrifices, and will forgive all your sins; I have seen your
sacrifices in obedience to that which I have told you. Go,
therefore, and I make a way for your escape, as I accepted the
offering of Abraham of his son Isaac.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:51 Verily, I say unto you: A
commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife,
whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not
of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it,
saith the Lord, to prove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I
might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and
sacrifice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith,
receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph,
and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not
pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the
Lord God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye
shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he
shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been faithful
over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:54 And I command mine handmaid, Emma
Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none
else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be
destroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will
destroy her if she abide not in my law.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:55 But if she will not abide this
commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her,
even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and
give unto him an hundredfold in this world, of fathers and
mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and land, wives and
children, and crowns of eternal lives in the eternal worlds.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:56 And again, verily I say, let mine
handmaid forgive my servant Joseph his trespass; and then shall
she be forgiven her trespasses, wherein she has trespassed
against me; and I; the Lord thy God, will bless her, and multiply
her, and make her heart to rejoice.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:57 And again, I say, let not my
servant Joseph put his property out of his hands, lest an enemy
come and destroy him; for Satan seeketh to destroy; for I am the
Lord thy God, and he is my servant; and behold, and lo, I am with
him, as I was with Abraham, thy father, even unto his exaltation
and glory.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:58 Now, as touching the law of the
priesthood, there are many things pertaining thereunto.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:59 Verily, if a man be called of my
Father, as was Aaron, by mine own voice, and by the voice of him
that sent me, and I have endowed him with the keys of the power
of this priesthood, if he do anything in my name, and according
to my law and by my word, he will not commit sin, and I will
justify him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:60 Let no one, therefore, set on my
servant Joseph; for I will justify him; for he shall do the
sacrifice which I require at his hands for his transgressions,
saith the Lord your God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:61 And again, as pertaining to the law
of the priesthood--if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to
espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he
espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no
other man, then he is justified; he cannot commit adultery for
they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that
that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:62 And if he have ten virgins given
unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong
to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:63 But if one or either of the ten
virgins, after she is espoused, shall be with another man, she
has committed adultery, and shall be destroyed; for they are
given unto him to multiply and replenish the earth according to
my commandment, and to fulfil the promise which was given by my
Father before the foundation of the world, and for their
exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of
men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may
be glorified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:64 And again, verily, verily, I say
unto you, if any man have a wife, who holds the keys of this
power, and he teaches unto her the law of my priesthood, as
pertaining to these things, then shall she believe and administer
unto him, or she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord your God; for
I will destroy her; for I will magnify my name upon all those who
receive and abide in my law.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:65 Therefore, it shall be lawful in
me, if she receive not this law, for him to receive all things
whatsoever I, the Lord his God, will give unto him, because she
did not believe and administer unto him according to my word; and
she then becomes the transgressor; and he is exempt from the law
of Sarah, who administered to the law when I commanded Abraham to
take Hagar to wife.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 132:66 And now, as pertaining to this law,
verily, verily, I say unto you, I will reveal more unto you,
hereafter; therefore, let this suffice for the present. Behold, I
am Alpha and Omega. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:0 Revelation given through Joseph
Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, November 3, 1831. Prefacing
this revelation the Prophet wrote: At this time there were many
things which the Elders desired to know, relative to preaching
the Gospel to the inhabitants of the earth, and concerning the
gathering; and in order to walk by the true light, and be
instructed from on high, on the 3rd of November, 1831, I inquired
of the Lord and received the following important revelation,
which has since been added to the book of Doctrine and Covenants
and called the Appendix. --A proclamation to the people of the
Church to gather to Zion--This proclamation to be carried by the
Elders to the peoples of the world--Zion and Jerusalem both to be
established--The voice of the Lord to issue from each of these
centers--The Lost Tribes to be remembered by the Lord and to be
brought forth from the north countries--These to receive their
blessings at the hand of Ephraim--Graves of the Saints to be
opened at the coming of the Lord--The doom of those who reject
the Lord's message.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:1 Hearken, O ye people of my church,
saith the Lord your God, and hear the word of the Lord concerning
you--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:2 The Lord who shall suddenly come to
his temple; the Lord who shall come down upon the world with a
curse to judgment; yea, upon all the nations that forget God, and
upon all the ungodly among you.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:3 For he shall make bare his holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of their God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:4 Wherefore, prepare ye, prepare ye, O
my people; sanctify yourselves; gather ye together, O ye people
of my church, upon the land of Zion, all you that have not been
commanded to tarry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:5 Go ye out from Babylon. Be ye clean
that bear the vessels of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:6 Call your solemn assemblies, and
speak often one to another. And let every man call upon the name
of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:7 Yea, verily I say unto you again,
the time has come when the voice of the Lord is unto you: Go ye
out of Babylon; gather ye out from among the nations, from the
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:8 Send forth the elders of my church
unto the nations which are afar off; unto the islands of the sea;
send forth unto foreign lands; call upon all nations, first upon
the Gentiles, and then upon the Jews.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:9 And behold, and lo, this shall be
their cry, and the voice of the Lord unto all people; Go ye forth
unto the land of Zion, that the borders of my people may be
enlarged, and that her stakes may be strengthened, and that Zion
may go forth unto the regions round about.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:10 Yea, let the cry go forth among all
people: Awake and arise and go forth to meet the Bridegroom;
behold and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Prepare yourselves for the great day of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:11 Watch, therefore, for ye know
neither the day nor the hour.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:12 Let them, therefore, who are among
the Gentiles flee unto Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:13 And let them who be of Judah flee
unto Jerusalem, unto the mountains of the Lord's house.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:14 Go ye out from among the nations,
even from Babylon, from the midst of wickedness, which is
spiritual Babylon.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:15 But verily, thus saith the Lord,
let not your flight be in haste, but let all things be prepared
before you; and he that goeth, let him not look back lest sudden
destruction shall come upon him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:16 Hearken and hear, O ye inhabitants
of the earth. Listen, ye elders of my church together, and hear
the voice of the Lord; for he calleth upon all men, and he
commandeth all men to repent.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:17 For behold, the Lord God hath sent
forth the angel crying through the midst of heaven, saying:
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight, for
the hour of his coming is nigh--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:18 When the Lamb shall stand upon
Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand,
having his Father's name written on their foreheads.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:19 Wherefore, prepare ye for the
coming of the Bridegroom; go ye, go ye out to meet him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:20 For behold, he shall stand upon the
mount of Olivet, and upon the mighty ocean, even the great deep
and upon the islands of the sea, and upon the land of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:21 And he shall utter his voice out of
Zion, and he shall speak from Jerusalem, and his voice shall be
heard among all people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:22 And it shall be a voice as the
voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, which
shall break down the mountains, and the valleys shall not be
found.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:23 He shall command the great deep,
and it shall be driven back into the north countries and the
islands shall become one land;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:24 And the land of Jerusalem and the
land of Zion shall be turned back into their own place, and the
earth shall be like as it was in the days before it was divided.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:25 And the Lord, even the Savior,
shall stand in the midst of his people, and shall reign over all
flesh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:26 And they who are in the north
countries shall come in remembrance before the Lord; and their
prophets shall hear his voice, and shall not longer stay
themselves; and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall
flow down at their presence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:27 And an highway shall be cast up in
the midst of the great deep.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:28 Their enemies shall become a prey
unto them,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:29 And in the barren deserts there
shall come forth pools of living water; and the parched ground
shall no longer be a thirsty land.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:30 And they shall bring forth their
rich treasures unto the children of Ephraim, my servants.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:31 And the boundaries of the
everlasting hills shall tremble at their presence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:32 And there shall they fall down and
be crowned with glory, even in Zion, by the hands of the servants
of the Lord, even the children of Ephraim.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:33 And they shall be filled with songs
of everlasting joy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:34 Behold, this is the blessing of the
everlasting God upon the tribes of Israel, and the richer
blessing upon the head of Ephraim and his fellows.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:35 And they also of the tribe of
Judah, after their pain, shall be sanctified in holiness before
the Lord, to dwell in his presence day and night, forever and
ever.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:36 And now, verily saith the Lord,
that these things might be known among you, O inhabitants of the
earth, I have sent forth mine angel flying through the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting gospel who hath appeared unto some
and hath committed it unto man, who shall appear unto many that
dwell on the earth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:37 And this gospel shall be preached
unto every nation, and kindred and tongue, and people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:38 And the servants of God shall go
forth, saying with a loud voice: Fear God and give glory to him,
for the hour of his judgment is come;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:39 And worship him that made heaven,
and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:40 Calling upon the name of the Lord
day and night, saying: O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that
thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at
they presence.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:41 And it shall be answered upon their
heads; for the presence of the Lord shall be as melting fire that
burneth, and as the fire which causeth the waters to boil.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:42 O Lord, thou shalt come down to
make thy name known to thine adversaries, and all nations shall
tremble at thy presence--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:43 When thou doest terrible things,
things they look not for;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:44 Yea, when thou comest down, and the
mountains flow down at thy presence, thou shalt meet him who
rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, who remembereth thee in thy
ways.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:45 For since the beginning of the
world have not men heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath
any eye seen, O God, besides thee, how great things thou hast
prepared for him that waiteth for thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:46 And it shall be said: Who is this
that cometh down from God in heaven with dyed garments; yea from
the regions which are not known, clothed in his glorious apparel,
traveling in the greatness of his strength?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:47 And he shall say: I am he who spake
in righteousness, mighty to save.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:48 And the Lord shall be red in his
apparel, and his garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:49 And so great shall be the glory of
his presence that the sun shall hide his face in shame, and the
moon shall withhold its light, and the stars shall be hurled from
their places.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:50 And his voice shall be heard: I
have trodden the wine-press alone, and have brought judgment upon
all people; and none were with me;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:60 And for this cause these
commandments were given; they were commanded to be kept from the
world in the day that they were given, but now are to go forth
unto all flesh--
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:61 And this according to the mind and
will of the Lord, who ruleth over all flesh.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:62 And unto him that repenteth and
sanctifieth himself before the Lord shall be given eternal life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:63 And upon them that hearken not to
the voice of the Lord shall be fulfilled that which was written
by the prophet Moses, that they should be cut off from among the
people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:64 And also that which was written by
the prophet Malachi: For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn
as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root
nor branch.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:65 Wherefore, this shall be the answer
of the Lord unto them:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:66 In that day when I came unto mine
own, no man among you received me, and you were driven out.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:67 When I called again there was none
of you to answer; yet my arm was not shortened at all that I
could not redeem, neither my power to deliver.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:68 Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
sea. I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink, and die
for thirst.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:69 I clothe the heavens with
blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:70 And this shall ye have of my hand--
ye shall lie down in sorrow.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:71 Behold, and lo, there are none to
deliver you; for ye obeyed not my voice when I called to you out
of the heavens; ye believed not my servants, and when they were
sent unto you ye received them not.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:72 Wherefore, they sealed up the
testimony and bound up the law, and ye were delivered over unto
darkness.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:73 These shall go away into outer
darkness, where there is weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of
teeth.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 133:74 Behold the Lord your God hath
spoken it. Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:0 A Declaration of Belief regarding
Governments and Laws in general, adopted by unanimous vote at a
general assembly of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, held at Kirtland, Ohio, August 17, 1835, with the
following preamble: That our belief with regard to earthly
governments and laws in general may not be misinterpreted nor
misunderstood, we have thought proper to present at the close of
this volume our opinion concerning the same. --This was inserted
near the end of the Book of Commandments, as compiled at that
time. See History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 247.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:1 We believe that governments were
instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men
accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making
laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:2 We believe that no government can
exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as
will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience,
the right and control of property, and the protection of life.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:3 We believe that all governments
necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the
laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in
equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice
of the people if a republic, or the will of the sovereign.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:4 We believe that religion is
instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him
only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions
prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others;
but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in
prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor
dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil
magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience;
should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:5 We believe that all men are bound to
sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they
reside while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights
by the laws of such governments; and that sedition and rebellion
are unbecoming every citizen thus protected, and should be
punished accordingly; and that all governments have a right to
enact such laws as in their judgments are best calculated to
secure the public interest; at the same time, however, holding
sacred the freedom of conscience.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:6 We believe that every man should be
honored in his station, rulers and magistrates as such, being
placed for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of
the guilty; and that to the laws all men show respect and
deference, as without them peace and harmony and would be
supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for
the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals
and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of
heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and
worship, both to be answered by man to his Maker.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 We believe that rulers, states, and
governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the
protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their
religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in
justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them
in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to
the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor
conspiracy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:8 We believe that the commission of
crime should be punished according to the nature of the offense;
that murder, treason, robbery, theft, and the breach of the
general peace, in all respects, should be punished according to
their criminality and their tendency to evil among men, by the
laws of that government in which the offense is committed; and
for the public peace and tranquility all men should step forward
and use their ability in bringing offenders against good laws to
punishment.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:9 We do not believe it just to mingle
religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious
society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual
privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as
citizens, denied.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 We believe that all religious
societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly
conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such
societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good
standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has
authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take
from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of
either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon
them. They can only excommunicate them from their society, and
withdraw from them their fellowship.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:11 We believe that men should appeal
to the civil law for redress of all wrongs and grievances, where
personal abuse is inflicted or the right of property or character
infringed, where such laws exist as will protect the same; but we
believe that all men are justified in defending themselves, their
friends and property, and the government, from the unlawful
assaults of all persons in times of exigency, where immediate
appeal cannot be made to the laws, and relief afforded.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 134:12 We believe it just to preach the
gospel to the nations of the earth, and warn the righteous to
save themselves from the corruption of the world; but we do not
believe it right to interfere with bond-servants, neither preach
the gospel to, nor baptize them contrary to the will and wish of
their masters, nor to meddle with or influence them in the least
to cause them to be dissatisfied with their situations in this
life, thereby jeopardizing the lives of men; such interference we
believe to be unlawful and unjust, and dangerous to the peace of
every government allowing human beings to be held in servitude.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:0 Martyrdom of Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and his brother, Hyrum Smith the Patriarch, at Carthage,
Illinois, June 27, 1844. See History of the Church, vol. 6, p.
612.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:1 To seal the testimony of this book
and the Book of Mormon, we announce the martyrdom of Joseph Smith
the Prophet, and Hyrum Smith the Patriarch. They were shot in
Carthage jail, on the 27th of June, 1844, about five o'clock
p.m., by an armed mob--painted black--of from 150 to 200 persons.
Hyrum was shot first and fell calmly, exclaiming: I am a dead
man! Joseph leaped from the window, and was shot dead in the
attempt, exclaiming: O Lord my God! They were both shot after
they were dead, in a brutal manner, and both received four balls.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:2 John Taylor and Willard Richards,
two of the Twelve, were the only persons in the room at the time;
the former was wounded in a savage manner with four balls, but
has since recovered; the latter, through the providence of God,
escaped, without even a hole in his robe.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:3 Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of
men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. In
the short space of twenty years, he has brought forth the Book of
Mormon, which he translated by the gift and power of God, and has
been the means of publishing it on two continents; has sent the
fulness of the everlasting gospel, which it contained to the four
quarters of the earth; has brought forth the revelations and
commandments which compose this book of Doctrine and Covenants,
and many other wise documents and instructions for the benefit of
the children of men; gathered many thousands of the Latter-day
Saints, founded a great city, and left a fame and name that
cannot be slain. He lived great, and he died great in the eyes of
God and his people; and like most of the Lord's anointed in
ancient times, has sealed his mission and his words with his own
blood; and so has his brother Hyrum. In life they were not
divided, and in death they were not separated!
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:4 When Joseph went to Carthage to
deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two
or three days previous to his assassination, he said: "I am going
like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's
morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and
towards all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND IT SHALL YET BE SAID
OF ME--HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD."--The same morning, after
Hyrum had made ready to go--shall it be said to the slaughter?
yes, for so it was--he read the following paragraph, near the
close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and
turned down the leaf upon it:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:5 And it came to pass that I prayed
unto the Lord that he would give unto the Gentiles grace, that
they might have charity. And it came to pass that the Lord said
unto me: If they have not charity it mattereth not unto thee,
thou hast been faithful; wherefore thy garments shall be made
clean. And because thou hast seen thy weakness, thou shalt be
made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have
prepared in the mansions of my Father. And now I...bid farewell
unto the Gentiles; yea, and also unto my brethren whom I love,
until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ, where all
men shall know that my garments are not spotted with your blood.
The testators are now dead, and their testament is in force.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:6 Hyrum Smith was forty-four years old
in February, 1844, and Joseph Smith was thirty-eight in December,
1843; and henceforward their names will be classed among the
martyrs of religion; and the reader in every nation will be
reminded that the Book of Mormon, and this book of Doctrine and
Covenants of the church, cost the best blood of the nineteenth
century to bring them forth for the salvation of a ruined world;
and that if the fire can scathe a green tree for the glory of
God, how easy it will burn up the dry trees to purify the
vineyard of corruption. They lived for glory; they died for
glory; and glory is their eternal reward. From age to age shall
their names go down to posterity as gems for the sanctified.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 135:7 They were innocent of any crime, as
they had often been proved before and were only confined in jail
by the conspiracy of traitors and wicked men; and their innocent
blood on the floor of Carthage jail is a broad seal affixed to
"Mormonism" that cannot be rejected by any court on earth, and
their innocent blood on the escutcheon of the State of Illinois,
with the broken faith of the State as pledged by the governor, is
a witness to the truth of the everlasting gospel that all the
world cannot impeach; and their innocent blood on the banner of
liberty, and on the magna charta of the United States, is an
ambassador for the religion of Jesus Christ, that will touch the
hearts of honest men among all nations; and their innocent blood,
with the innocent blood of all the martyrs under the altar that
John saw, will cry unto the Lord of Hosts till he avenges that
blood on the earth, Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:0 The Word and Will of the Lord, given
through President Brigham Young, at the Winter Quarters of the
Camp of Israel, Omaha Nation, West Bank of Missouri River, near
Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 14, 1847. --Plan of organization
for migration to the West--Admonitions to righteousness--The Lord
to be praised both in times of joy and of sorrow--Needful that
Joseph Smith the Prophet should have sealed his testimony with
his blood.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:1 The Word and Will of the Lord
concerning the Camp of Israel in their journeyings to the West:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:2 Let all the people of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and those who journey with
them, be organized into companies, with a covenant and promise to
keep all the commandments and statutes of the Lord our God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:3 Let the companies be organized with
captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, and captains of tens,
with a president and his two counselors at their head, under the
direction of the Twelve Apostles.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:4 And this shall be our covenant--that
we will walk in all the ordinances of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:5 Let each company provide themselves
with all the teams, wagons, provisions, clothing, and other
necessaries for the journey, that they can.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:6 When the companies are organized let
them go with their might, to prepare for those who are to tarry.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:7 Let each company, with their
captains and presidents, decide how many can go next spring; then
choose out a sufficient number of able-bodied and expert men, to
take teams, seeds, and farming utensils, to go as pioneers to
prepare for putting in spring crops.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:8 Let each company bear an equal
proportion, according to the dividend of their property, in
taking the poor, the widows, the fatherless, and the families of
those who have gone into the army, that the cries of the widow
and the fatherless come not up into the ears of the Lord against
this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:9 Let each company prepare houses, and
fields for raising grain, for those who are to remain behind this
season; and this is the will of the Lord concerning this people.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:10 Let every man use all his influence
and property to remove this people to the place where the Lord
shall locate a stake of Zion.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:11 And if ye do this with a pure
heart, in all faithfulness, ye shall be blessed; you shall be
blessed in your flocks, and in your herds, and in your fields,
and in your houses, and in your families.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:12 Let my servants Ezra T. Benson and
Erastus Snow organize a company.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:13 And let my servants Orson Pratt and
Wilford Woodruff organize a company.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:14 Also, let my servants Amasa Lyman
and George A. Smith organize a company.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:15 And appoint presidents, and
captains of hundreds, and of fifties and of tens.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:16 And let my servants that have been
appointed go and teach this, my will, to the saints, that they
may be ready to go to a land of peace.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:17 Go thy way and do as I have told
you, and fear not thine enemies; for they shall not have power to
stop my work.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:18 Zion shall be redeemed in mine own
due time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:19 And if any man shall seek to build
up himself, and seeketh not my counsel, he shall have no power,
and his folly shall be made manifest.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:20 Seek ye; and keep all your pledges
one with another; and covet not that which is thy brother's.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:21 Keep yourselves from evil to take
the name of the Lord your God, even the God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:22 I am he who led the children out of
the land of Egypt; and my arm is stretched out in the last days,
to save my people Israel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:23 Cease to contend one with another;
cease to speak evil one of another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:24 Cease drunkenness; and let your
words tend to edifying one another.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:25 If thou borrowest of thy neighbor,
thou shalt restore that which thou has borrowed; and if thou
canst not repay then go straightway and tell thy neighbor, lest
he condemn thee.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:26 If thous shalt find that which thy
neighbor has lost, thou shalt make diligent search till thou
shalt deliver it to him again.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:27 Thou shalt be diligent in
preserving what thou hast, that thou mayest be a wise steward;
for it is the free gift of the Lord thy God, and thou art his
steward.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:28 If thou art merry, praise the Lord
with singing, with music, with dancing, and with a prayer of
praise and thanksgiving.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:29 If thou art sorrowful, call on the
Lord thy God with supplication, that your souls may be joyful.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:30 Fear not thine enemies, for they
are in mine hand and I will do my pleasure with them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:31 My people must be tried in all
things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I
have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he will not bear
chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:32 Let him that is ignorant learn
wisdom by humbling himself and calling upon the Lord his God,
that his eyes may be opened that he may see, and his ears opened
that he may hear;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:33 For my Spirit is sent forth into
the world to enlighten the humble and contrite, and to the
condemnation of the ungodly.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:34 Thy brethren have rejected you and
your testimony, even the nation that has driven you out;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:35 And now cometh the day of their
calamity, even the days of sorrow, like a woman that is taken in
travail; and their sorrow shall be great unless they speedily
repent, yea, very speedily.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:36 For they killed the prophets and
them that were sent unto them; and they have shed innocent blood,
which crieth from the ground against them.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:37 Therefore, marvel not at these
things, for ye are not yet pure; ye can not yet bear my glory;
but ye shall behold it if ye are faithful in keeping all my words
that I have gmven you, from the days of Adam to Abraham, from
Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus and his apostles, and from
Jesus and his apostles to Joseph Smith, whom I did call upon by
mine angels, my ministering servants, and by mine own voice out
of the heavens, to bring forth my work;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:38 Which foundation he did lay, and
was faithful; and I took him to myself.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:39 Many have marveled because of his
death; but it was needful that he should seal his testimony with
his blood, that he might be honored and the wicked might be
condemned.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:40 Have I not delivered you from your
enemies, only in that I have left a witness of my name?
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:41 Now, therefore, hearken, O ye
people of my church; and ye elders listen together; you have
received my kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 136:42 Be diligent in keeping all my
commandments, lest judgments come upon you, and your faith fail
you, and your enemies triumph over you. So no more at present.
Amen and Amen.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:0 A Vision, given to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio, January 21, 1836. The
occasion was the administration of the ordinances of the
endowment as far as they had then been revealed. See History of
the Church, vol. 2, pp. 380-381. --Vision of the celestial
kingdom--Doctrine of salvation for the dead revealed--All
children saved in the celestial kingdom.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:1 The heavens were opened upon us, and
I behold the celestial kingdom of God, and the glory thereof,
whether in the body or out I cannot tell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:2 I saw the transcendent beauty of the
gate through which the heirs of that kingdom will enter, which
was like unto circling flames of fire;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:3 Also the blazing throne of God,
whereon was seated the Father and the Son.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:4 I saw the beautiful streets of that
kingdom, which had the appearance of being paved with gold.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:5 I saw Father Adam and Abraham; and
my father and my mother; my brother Alvin, that has long since
slept;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:6 And marveled how it was that he had
obtained an inheritance in that kingdom, seeing that he had
departed this life before the Lord had set his hand to gather
Israel the second time, and had not been baptized for the
remission of sins.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:7 Thus came the voice of the Lord unto
me saying: All who have died without a knowledge of this gospel,
who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry,
shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:8 Also all that shall die henceforth
without a knowledge of it, who would have received it with all
their hearts, shall be heirs of that kingdom;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:9 For I, the Lord, will judge all men
according to their works, according to the desire of their
hearts.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 137:10 And I also beheld that all children
who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are
saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:0 A Vision, given to President Joseph
F. Smith, in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 3, 1918, showing
the visit of the Lord Jesus Christ in the spirit world, and
setting forth the doctrine of the redemption of the dead. --
President Joseph F. Smith ponders upon the writings of Peter and
our Lord's visit to the spirit world--He sees the righteous dead
assembled in paradise and Christ's ministry among them--Preaching
of the gospel organized among the spirits--Righteous dead of this
day continue their labors in the spirit world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:1 On the third of October, in the year
nineteen hundred and eighteen, I sat in my room pondering over
the scriptures;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:2 And reflecting upon the great
atoning sacrifice that was made by the Son of God, for the
redemption of the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:3 And the great and wonderful love
made manifest by the Father and the Son in the coming of the
Redeemer into the world;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:4 That through his atonement, and by
obedience to the principles of the gospel, mankind might be
saved.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:5 While I was thus engaged, my mind
reverted to the writings of the apostle Peter, to the primitive
saints scattered abroad throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
and the other parts of Asia, where the gospel had been preached
after the crucifixion of the Lord.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:6 I opened the Bible and read the
third and fourth chapters of the first epistle of Peter, and as I
read I was greatly impressed, more than I had ever been before,
with the following passages:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:7 "For Christ also hath once suffered
for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:8 "By which also he went and preached
unto the spirits in prison;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:9 "Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls
were saved by water." (1 Peter 3:18-20.)
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:10 "For for this cause was the gospel
preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged
according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the
spirit." (1 Peter 4:6.)
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:11 As I pondered over these things
which are written, the eyes of my understanding were opened, and
the Spirit of the Lord rested upon me, and I saw the hosts of the
dead, both small and great.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:12 And there were gathered together in
one place an innumerable company of the spirits of the just, who
had been faithful in the testimony of Jesus while they lived in
mortality;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:13 And who had offered sacrifice in
the similitude of the great sacrifice of the Son of God, and had
suffered tribulation in their Redeemer's name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:14 All these had departed the mortal
life, firm in the hope of a glorious resurrection, through the
grace of God the Father and his Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:15 I beheld that they were filled with
joy and gladness, and were rejoicing together because the day of
their deliverance was at hand.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:16 They were assembled awaiting the
advent of the Son of God into the spirit world, to declare their
redemption from the bands of death.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:17 Their sleeping dust was to be
restored unto its perfect frame, bone to his bone, and the sinews
and the flesh upon them, the spirit and the body to be united
never again to be divided, that they might receive a fulness of
joy.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:18 While this vast multitude waited
and conversed, rejoicing in the hour of their deliverance from
the chains of death, the Son of God appeared, declaring liberty
to the captives who had been faithful;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:19 And there he preached to them the
everlasting gospel, the doctrine of the resurrection and the
redemption of mankind from the fall, and from individual sins on
conditions of repentance.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:20 But unto the wicked he did not go,
and among the ungodly and the unrepentant who had defiled
themselves while in the flesh, his voice was not raised;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:21 Neither did the rebellious who
rejected the testimonies and the warnings of the ancient prophets
behold his presence, nor look upon his face.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:22 Where these were, darkness reigned,
but among the righteous there was peace;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:23 And the saints rejoiced in their
redemption, and bowed the knee and acknowledged the Son of God as
their Redeemer and Deliverer from death and the chains of hell.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:24 Their countenances shone, and the
radiance from the presence of the Lord rested upon them, and they
sang praises unto his holy name.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:25 I marveled, for I understood that
the Savior spent about three years in his ministry among the Jews
and those of the house of Israel, endeavoring to teach them the
everlasting gospel and call them unto repentance;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:26 And yet, notwithstanding the mighty
works, and miracles, and proclamation of the truth, in great
power and authority, there were but few who hearkened to his
voice, and rejoiced in his presence, and received salvation at
his hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:27 But his ministry among those who
were dead was limited to the brief time intervening between the
crucifixion and his resurrection;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:28 And I wondered at the words of
Peter--wherein he said that the Son of God preached unto the
spirits in prison, who sometime were disobedient, when once the
long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah--and how it was
possible for him to preach to those spirits and perform the
necessary labor among them in so short a time.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:29 And as I wondered, my eyes were
opened, and my understanding quickened, and I perceived that the
Lord went not in person among the wicked and the disobedient who
had rejected the truth, to teach them;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:30 But behold, from among the
righteous, he organized his forces and appointed messengers,
clothed with power and authority, and commissioned them to go
forth and carry the light of the gospel to them that were in
darkness, even to all the spirits of men; and thus was the gospel
preached to the dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:31 And the chosen messengers went
forth to declare the acceptable day of the Lord and proclaim
liberty to the captives who were bound, even unto all who would
repent of their sins and receive the gospel.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:32 Thus was the gospel preached to
those who had died in their sins, without a knowledge of the
truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:33 These were taught faith in God,
repentance from sin, vicarious baptism for the remission of sins,
the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:34 And all other principles of the
gospel that were necessary for them to know in order to qualify
themselves that they might be judged according to men in the
flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:35 And so it was made known among the
dead, both small and great, the unrighteous as well as the
faithful, that redemption had been wrought through the sacrifice
of the Son of God upon the cross.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:36 Thus was it made known that our
Redeemer spent his time during his sojourn in the world of
spirits, instructing and preparing the faithful spirits of the
prophets who had testified of him in the flesh;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:37 That they might carry the message
of redemption unto all the dead, unto whom he could not go
personally, because of their rebellion and transgression, that
they through the ministration of his servants might also hear his
words.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:38 Among the great and mighty ones who
were assembled in this vast congregation of the righteous were
Father Adam, the Ancient of Days and father of all,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:39 And our glorious Mother Eve, with
many of her faithful daughters who had lived through the ages and
worshiped the true and living God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:40 Abel, the first martyr, was there,
and his brother Seth, one of the mighty ones, who was in the
express image of his father, Adam.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:41 Noah, who gave warning of the
flood; Shem, the great high priest; Abraham, the father of the
faithful; Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, the great law- giver of
Israel;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:42 And Isaiah, who declared by
prophecy that the Redeemer was anointed to bind up the broken-
hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to them that were bound, were also there.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:43 Moreover, Ezekiel, who was shown in
vision the great valley of dry bones, which were to be clothed
upon with flesh, to come forth again in the resurrection of the
dead, living souls;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:44 Daniel, who foresaw and foretold
the establishment of the kingdom of God in the latter days, never
again to be destroyed nor given to other people;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:45 Elias, who was with Moses on the
Mount of Transfiguration;
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:46 And Malachi, the prophet who
testified of the coming of Elijah--of whom also Moroni spake to
the Prophet Joseph Smith, declaring that he should come before
the great and dreadful day of the Lord--were also there.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:47 The Prophet Elijah was to plant in
the hearts of the children the promises made to their fathers,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:48 Foreshadowing the great work to be
done in the temples of the Lord in the dispensation of the
fulness of times, for the redemption of the dead, and the sealing
of the children to their parents, lest the whole earth be smitten
with a curse and utterly wasted at his coming.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:49 All these and many more, even the
prophets who dwelt among the Nephites and testified of the coming
of the Son of God, mingled in the vast assembly and waited for
their deliverance,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:50 For the dead had looked upon the
long absence of their spirits from their bodies as a bondage.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:51 These the Lord taught, and gave
them power to come forth, after his resurrection from the dead,
to enter into his Father's kingdom, there to be crowned with
immortality and eternal life,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:52 And continue thenceforth their
labor as had been promised by the Lord, and be partakers of all
blessings which were held in reserve for them that love him.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:53 The Prophet Joseph Smith, and my
father, Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford
Woodruff, and other choice spirits who were reserved to come
forth in the fulness of times to take part in laying the
foundations of the great latter-day work,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:54 Including the building of the
temples and the performance of ordinances therein for the
redemption of the dead, were also in the spirit world.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:55 I observed that they were also
among the noble and great ones who were chosen in the beginning
to be rulers in the Church of God.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:56 Even before they were born, they,
with many others, received their first lessons in the world of
spirits and were prepared to come forth in the due time of the
Lord to labor in his vineyard for the salvation of the souls of
men.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:57 I behold that the faithful elders
of this dispensation, when they depart from mortal life, continue
their labors in the preaching of the gospel of repentance and
redemption, through the sacrifice of the Only Begotten Son of
God, among those who are in darkness and under the bondage of sin
in the great world of the spirits of the dead.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:58 The dead who repent will be
redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of
God,
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:59 And after they have paid the
penalty of their transgressions, and are washed clean, shall
receive a reward according to their works, for they are heirs of
salvation.
 
Doctrine and Covenants 138:60 Thus was the vision of the
redemption of the dead revealed to me, and I bear record, and I
know that this record is true, through the blessing of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ, even so. Amen.
 
Declaration 1:0 OFFICIAL DECLARATION -- 1
 
Declaration 1:1 To Whom It May Concern:
 
Declaration 1:2 Press dispatches having been sent for political
purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published,
to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to
the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are
still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have
been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year,
also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have
taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of
polygamy-- 
 
Declaration 1:3 I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn
manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching
polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter
into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other
number of plural marriages have during that period been
solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.
 
Declaration 1:4 One case has been reported, in which the parties
allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in
Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have been able to
learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this
matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged
occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken
down without delay.
 
Declaration 1:5 Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress
forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced
constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my
intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with
the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do
likewise.
 
Declaration 1:6 There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or
in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can
be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and
when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to
convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I
now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is
to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of
the land.
 
Declaration 1:7 WILFORD WOODRUFF President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 
Declaration 1:8 President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:
 
Declaration 1:9 "I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and
the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys
of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by
virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been red
in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that
as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his
declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and
binding." The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.
 
Declaration 1:10 Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890
 
Declaration 1:11 EXCERPTS FROM THREE ADDRESSES BY PRESIDENT
WILFORD WOODRUFF REGARDING THE MANIFESTO
 
Declaration 1:12 The Lord will never permit me or any other man
who stands as President of the Church to lead you astray. It is
not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to
attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He
will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men
astray from the oracles of God and from their duty. (Sixty-first
Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6,
1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News,
October 11, 1890, p. 2.)
 
Declaration 1:13 It matters not who lives or who dies, or who is
called to lead this Church, they have got to lead it by the
inspiration of Almighty God. If they do not do it that way, they
cannot do it at all....
 
Declaration 1:14 I have had some revelations of late, and very
important ones to me, and I will tell you what the Lord has said
to me. Let me bring your minds to what is termed the
manifesto....
 
Declaration 1:15 The Lord has told me to ask the Latter-day
Saints a question, and He also told me that if they would listen
to what I said to them and answer the question put to them, by
the Spirit and power of God, they would all answer alike, and
they would all believe alike with regard to this matter.
 
Declaration 1:16 The question is this: Which is the wisest course
for the Latter-day Saints to pursue--to continue to attempt to
practice plural marriage, with the laws of the nation against it
and the opposition of sixty millions of people, and at the cost
of the confiscation and loss of all the Temples, and the stopping
of all the ordinances therein, both for the living and the dead,
and the imprisonment of the First Presidency and the Twelve and
the heads of all families in the Church, and the confiscation of
personal property of the people (all of which of themselves would
stop the practice); or, after doing that and suffering what we
have through our adherence to this principle to cease the
practice and submit to the law, and through doing so leave the
Prophets, Apostles and fathers at home, so that they can instruct
the people and attend to the duties of the Church, and also leave
the Temples in the hands of the Saints, so that they can attend
to the ordinances of the Gospel, both for the living and the
dead?
 
Declaration 1:17 The Lord showed me by vision and revelation
exactly what would take place if we did not stop this practice.
If we had not stopped it, you would have had no use for ... any
of the men in this temple at Logan; for all ordinances would be
stopped throughout the land of Zion. Confusion would reign
throughout Israel, and many men would be made prisoners. This
trouble would have come upon the whole Church, and we should have
been compelled to stop the practice. Now, the question is,
whether is should be stopped in this manner, or in the way the
Lord has manifested to us, and leave our Prophets and Apostles
and fathers free men, and the temples in the hands of the people,
so that the dead may be redeemed. A large number has already been
delivered from the prison house in the spirit world by this
people, and shall the work go on or stop? This is the question I
lay before the Latter-day Saints. You have to judge for
yourselves. I want you to answer it for yourselves. I shall not
answer it; but I say to you that that is exactly the condition we
as a people would have been in had we not taken the course we
have.
 
Declaration 1:18 ...I saw exactly what would come to pass if
there was not something done. I have had this spirit upon me for
a long time. But I want to say this: I should have let all the
temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself,
and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven
commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I
was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before
the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write....
 
Declaration 1:19 I leave this with you, for you to contemplate
and consider. The Lord is at work with us. (Cache Stake
Conference, Logan, Utah, Sunday, November 1, 1891. Reported in
Deseret Weekly, November 14, 1891.)
 
Declaration 1:20 Now I will tell you what was manifested to me
and what the Son of God performed in this thing.... All these
things would have come to pass, as God Almighty lives, had not
that Manifesto been given. Therefore, the Son of God felt
disposed to have that thing presented to the Church and to the
world for purposes in his own mind. The Lord had decreed the
establishment of Zion. He had decreed the finishing of this
temple. He had decreed that the salvation of the living and the
dead should be given in these valleys of the mountains. And
Almighty God decreed that the Devil should not thwart it. If you
can understand that, that is a key to it. (From a discourse at
the sixth session of the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple,
April 1893. Typescript of Dedicatory Services, Archives, Church
Historical Department, Salt Lake City, Utah.)
 
Declaration 2:0 OFFICIAL DECLARATION -- 2
 
Declaration 2:1 To Whom It May Concern:
 
Declaration 2:2 On September 30, 1978, at the 148th Semiannual
General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, the following was presented by President N. Eldon Tanner,
First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church:
 
Declaration 2:3 In early June of this year, the First Presidency
announced that a revelation had been received by President
Spencer W. Kimball extending priesthood and temple blessings to
all worthy male members of the Church. President Kimball has
asked that I advise the conference that after he had received
this revelation, which came to him after extended meditation and
prayer in the sacred rooms of the holy temple, he presented it to
his counselors, who accepted it and approved it. It was then
presented to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who unanimously
approved it, and was subsequently presented to all other General
Authorities, who likewise approved it unanimously.
 
Declaration 2:4 President Kimball has asked that I now read this
letter:
 
Declaration 2:5 June 8, 1978 To all general and local priesthood
officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
throughout the world:
 
Declaration 2:6 Dear Brethren: As we have witnessed the expansion
of the work of the Lord over the earth, we have been grateful
that people of many nations have responded to the message of the
restored gospel, and have joined the Church in ever-increasing
numbers. This, in turn, has inspired us with a desire to extend
to every worthy member of the Church all of the privileges and
blessings which the gospel affords.
 
Declaration 2:7 Aware of the promises made by the prophets and
presidents of the Church who have preceded us that at some time,
in God's eternal plan, all of our brethren who are worthy may
receive the priesthood, and witnessing the faithfulness of those
from whom the priesthood has been withheld, we have pleaded long
and earnestly in behalf of these, our faithful brethren, spending
many hour in the Upper Room of the Temple supplicating the Lord
for divine guidance.
 
Declaration 2:8 He has heard our prayers, and by revelation has
confirmed that the long-promised day has come when every
faithful, worthy man in the Church may receive the holy
priesthood, with power to exercise its divine authority, and
enjoy with his loved ones every blessing that flows therefrom,
including the blessings of the temple. Accordingly, all worthy
members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without
regard for race or color. Priesthood leaders are instructed to
follow the policy of carefully interviewing all candidates for
ordination to either the Aaronic or the Melchizedek Priesthood to
insure that they meet the established standards for worthiness.
 
Declaration 2:9 We declare with soberness that the Lord has now
made known his will for the blessing of all his children
throughout the earth who will hearken to the voice of his
authorized servants, and prepare themselves to receive every
blessing of the gospel.
 
Declaration 2:10 Sincerely yours, SPENCER W. KIMBALL N. ELDON
TANNER MARION G. ROMNEY The First Presidency
 
Declaration 2:11 Recognizing Spencer W. Kimball as the prophet,
seer, and revelator, and president of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, it is proposed that we as a constituent
assembly accept this revelation as the word and will of the Lord.
All in favor please signify by raising your right hand. Any
opposed by the same sign.
 
Declaration 2:12 The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was
unanimous in the affirmative.
 
Declaration 2:13 Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30, 1978

THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
 
THE BOOK OF MOSES
 
Moses 0:0 The Book of Moses 
 
Moses 1:0 VISIONS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith the
Prophet, in June, 1830.
 
Moses 1:1 The words of God, which he spake unto Moses at a time
when Moses was caught up into an exceedingly high mountain,
 
Moses 1:2 And he saw God face to face, and he talked with him,
and the glory of God was upon Moses; therefore Moses could endure
his presence.
 
Moses 1:3 And God spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I am the Lord
God Almighty, and Endless is my name; for I am without beginning
of days or end of years; and is not this endless?
 
Moses 1:4 And, behold, thou art my son; wherefore look, and I
will show unto thee the workmanship of mine hands; but not all,
for my works are without end, and also my words, for they never
cease.
 
Moses 1:5 Wherefore, no man can behold all my works, except he
behold all my glory; and no man can behold all my glory, and
afterwards remain in the flesh on the earth.
 
Moses 1:6 And I have a work for thee, Moses my son; and thou art
in the similitude of mine Only Begotten; and mine Only Begotten
is and shall be the Savior, for he is full of grace and truth;
but there is no God beside me, and all things are present with
me, for I know them all.
 
Moses 1:7 And now, behold, this one thing I show unto thee,
Moses, my son, for thou art in the world, and now I show it unto
thee.
 
Moses 1:8 And it came to pass that Moses looked, and beheld the
world upon which he was created; and Moses beheld the world and
all the ends thereof, and all the children of men which are, and
which were created; of the same he greatly marveled and wondered.
 
Moses 1:9 And the presence of God withdrew from Moses, that his
glory was not upon Moses; and Moses was left unto himself. And as
he was left unto himself, he fell unto the earth.
 
Moses 1:10 And it came to pass that it was for the space of many
hours before Moses did again receive his natural strength like
unto man; and he said unto himself: Now, for this cause I know
that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed.
 
Moses 1:11 But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my
natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not
have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence;
but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was
transfigured before him.
 
Moses 1:12 And it came to pass that when Moses had said these
words, behold, Satan came tempting him, saying: Moses, son of
man, worship me.
 
Moses 1:13 And it came to pass that Moses looked upon Satan and
said: Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God, in the
similitude of his Only Begotten; and where is thy glory, that I
should worship thee?
 
Moses 1:14 For behold, I could not look upon God, except his
glory should come upon me, and I were transfigured before him.
But I can look upon thee in the natural man. Is it not so,
surely?
 
Moses 1:15 Blessed be the name of my God, for his Spirit hath not
altogether withdrawn from me, or else where is thy glory, for it
is darkness unto me? And I can judge between thee and God; for
God said unto me: Worship God, for him only shalt thou serve.
 
Moses 1:16 Get thee hence, Satan; deceive me not; for God said
unto me: Thou are after the similitude of mine Only Begotten.
 
Moses 1:17 And he also gave me commandments when he called unto
me out of the burning bush, saying: Call upon God in the name of
mine Only Begotten, and worship me.
 
Moses 1:18 And again Moses said: I will not cease to call upon
God, I have other things to inquire of him: for his glory has
been upon me, wherefore I can judge between him and thee. Depart
hence, Satan.
 
Moses 1:19 And now, when Moses had said these words, Satan cried
with a loud voice, and ranted upon the earth, and commanded,
saying: I am the Only Begotten, worship me.
 
Moses 1:20 And it came to pass that Moses began to fear
exceedingly; and as he began to fear, he saw the bitterness of
hell. Nevertheless, calling upon God, he received strength, and
he commanded, saying: Depart from me, Satan, for this one God
only will I worship, which is the God of glory.
 
Moses 1:21 And now Satan began to tremble, and the earth shook;
and Moses received strength, and called upon God, saying: In the
name of the Only Begotten, depart hence, Satan.
 
Moses 1:22 And it came to pass that Satan cried with a loud
voice, with weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth; and he
departed hence, even from the presence of Moses, that he beheld
him not.
 
Moses 1:23 And now of this thing Moses bore record; but because
of wickedness it is not had among the children of men.
 
Moses 1:24 And it came to pass that when Satan had departed from
the presence of Moses, that Moses lifted up his eyes unto heaven,
being filled with the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of the
Father and the Son;
 
Moses 1:25 And calling upon the name of God, he beheld his glory
again, for it was upon him; and he heard a voice, saying: Blessed
art thou, Moses, for I, the Almighty, have chosen thee, and thou
shalt be made stronger than many waters; for they shall obey thy
command as if thou wert God.
 
Moses 1:26 And lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of thy days;
for thou shalt deliver my people from bondage, even Israel my
chosen.
 
Moses 1:27 And it came to pass, as the voice was still speaking,
Moses cast his eyes and beheld the earth, yea, even all of it;
and there was not a particle of it which he did not behold,
discerning it by the spirit of God.
 
Moses 1:28 And he beheld also the inhabitants thereof, and there
was not a soul which he beheld not; and he discerned them by the
Spirit of God; and their numbers were great, even numberless as
the sand upon the sea shore.
 
Moses 1:29 And he beheld many lands; and each land was called
earth, and there were inhabitants on the face thereof.
 
Moses 1:30 And it came to pass that Moses called upon God,
saying: Tell me, I pray thee, why these things are so, and by
what thou madest them?
 
Moses 1:31 And behold, the glory of the Lord was upon Moses, so
that Moses stood in the presence of God, and talked with him face
to face. And the Lord God said unto Moses: For mine own purpose
have I made these things. Here is wisdom and it remaineth in me.
 
Moses 1:32 And by the word of my power, have I created them,
which is mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth.
 
Moses 1:33 And worlds without number have I created; and I also
created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them,
which is mine Only Begotten.
 
Moses 1:34 And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which
is many.
 
Moses 1:35 But only an account of this earth, and the inhabitants
thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that
have passed away by the word of my power. And there are many that
now stand, and innumerable are they unto man; but all things are
numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them.
 
Moses 1:36 And it came to pass that Moses spake unto the Lord,
saying: Be merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me
concerning this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, and also the
heavens, and then thy servant will be content.
 
Moses 1:37 And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The
heavens, they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but
they are numbered unto me, for they are mine.
 
Moses 1:38 And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens
thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my
works, neither to my words.
 
Moses 1:39 For behold, this is my work and my glory to bring to
pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
 
Moses 1:40 And now, Moses, my son, I will speak unto thee
concerning this earth upon which thou standest; and thou shalt
write the things which I shall speak.
 
Moses 1:41 And in a day when the children of men shall esteem my
words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou
shalt write, behold, I will raise up another like unto thee; and
they shall be had again among the children of men among as many
as shall believe.
 
Moses 1:42 (These words were spoken unto Moses in the mount, the
name of which shall not be known among the children of men. And
now they are spoken unto you. Show them not unto any except them
that believe. Even so. Amen.)
 
Moses 2:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December 1830.
 
Moses 2:1 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven, and
this earth; write the words which I speak. I am the Beginning and
the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only Begotten I created these
things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth
upon which thou standest.
 
Moses 2:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and I caused
darkness to come up upon the face of the deep; and my Spirit
moved upon the face of the water; for I am God.
 
Moses 2:3 And I, God, said: Let there be light; and there was
light.
 
Moses 2:4 And I, God, saw the light; and that light was good. And
I, God, divided the light from the darkness.
 
Moses 2:5 And I, God, called the light Day; and the darkness, I
called Night; and this I did by the word of my power, and it was
done as I spake; and the evening and the morning were the first
day.
 
Moses 2:6 And again, I, God, said: Let there be a firmament in
the midst of the water, and it was so, even as I spake; and I
said: Let it divide the waters from the waters; and it was done;
 
Moses 2:7 And I, God, made the firmament and divided the waters,
yea, the great waters under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament, and it was so even as I spake.
 
Moses 2:8 And I, God, called the firmament Heaven; and the
evening and the morning were the second day.
 
Moses 2:9 And I, God, said: Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and it was so; and I, God,
said: Let there be dry land; and it was so.
 
Moses 2:10 And I, God, called the dry land Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters, called I the Sea; and I, God,
saw that all things which I had made were good.
 
Moses 2:11 And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself
upon the earth, and it was so even as I spake.
 
Moses 2:12 And the earth brought forth grass, every herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed
should be in itself, after his kind; and I, God, saw that all
things which I had made were good;
 
Moses 2:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
 
Moses 2:14 And I, God, said: Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven, to divide the day from the night, and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years;
 
Moses 2:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so.
 
Moses 2:16 And I, God, made two great lights; the greater light
to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the
greater light was the sun, and the lesser light was the moon; and
the stars also were made even according to my word.
 
Moses 2:17 And I, God, set them in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth.
 
Moses 2:18 And the sun to rule over the day, and the moon to rule
over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and I,
God, saw that all things which I had made were good;
 
Moses 2:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
 
Moses 2:20 And I, God, said: Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl which may
fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
 
Moses 2:21 And I, God, created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and I,
God, saw that all things which I had created were good.
 
Moses 2:22 And I, God, blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the sea; and let fowl multiply
in the earth;
 
Moses 2:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
 
Moses 2:24 And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts
of the earth after their kind, and it was so;
 
Moses 2:25 And I, God, made the beasts of the earth after their
kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything which creepeth
upon the earth after his kind; and I, God, saw that all these
things were good.
 
Moses 2:26 And I, God, said unto mine Only Begotten, which was
with me from the beginning: Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let them have
dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
 
Moses 2:27 And I, God, created man in mine own image, in the
image of mine Only Begotten created I him; male and female
created I them.
 
Moses 2:28 And I, God, blessed them, and said unto them: Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it,
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 
Moses 2:29 And I, God, said unto man: Behold, I have given you
every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree in the which shall be the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for meat.
 
Moses 2:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of
the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein
I grant life, there shall be given every clean herb for meat; and
it was so, even as I spake.
 
Moses 2:31 And I, God, saw everything that I had made, and,
behold, all things which I had made were very good; and the
evening and the morning were the sixth day.
 
Moses 3:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December, 1830--Continued.
 
Moses 3:1 Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them.
 
Moses 3:2 And on the seventh day I, God, ended my work, and all
things which I had made; and I rested on the seventh day from all
my work, and all things which I had made were finished, and I,
God, saw that they were good;
 
Moses 3:3 And I, God, blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it;
because that in it I had rested from all my work which I, God,
had created and made.
 
Moses 3:4 And now, behold, I say unto you, that these are the
generations of the heaven and of the earth, when they were
created, in the day that I, the Lord God, made the heaven and the
earth,
 
Moses 3:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the
earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. For I, the
Lord God, created all things of which I have spoken, spiritually,
before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. For I, the
Lord God, had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth.
And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not
yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and
there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water,
neither in the air;
 
Moses 3:6 But I, the Lord God, spake, and there went up a mist
from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
 
Moses 3:7 And I, the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the
first man also; nevertheless, all things were before created; but
spiritually were they created and made according to my word.
 
Moses 3:8 And I, the Lord God, planted a garden eastward in Eden,
and there I put the man whom I had formed.
 
Moses 3:9 And out of the ground made I, the Lord God, to grow
every tree, naturally, that is pleasant to the sight of man; and
man could behold it. And it became also a living soul. For it was
spiritual in the day that I created it; for it remaineth in the
sphere in which I, God, created it, yea, even all things which I
prepared for the use of man; and man saw that it was good for
food. And I, the Lord God, planted the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and
evil.
 
Moses 3:10 And I, the Lord God, caused a river to go out of Eden
to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became
into four heads.
 
Moses 3:11 And I, the Lord God, called the name of the first
Pison, and it compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where I, the
Lord God, created much gold;
 
Moses 3:12 And the gold of that land was good, and there was
bdellium and the onyx stone.
 
Moses 3:13 And the name of the second river was called Gihon; the
same that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
 
Moses 3:14 And the name of the third river was Hiddekel; that
which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river was
the Euphrates.
 
Moses 3:15 And I, the Lord God, took the man, and put him into
the Garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it.
 
Moses 3:16 And I, the Lord God, commanded the man, saying: Of
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
 
Moses 3:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for
thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid
it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
 
Moses 3:18 And I, the Lord God, said unto mine Only Begotten,
that it was not good that the man should be alone; wherefore, I
will make an help meet for him.
 
Moses 3:19 And out of the ground I, the Lord God, formed every
beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and commanded that
they should come unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and
they were also living souls; for I, God, breathed into them the
breath of life, and commanded that whatsoever Adam called every
living creature, that should be the name thereof.
 
Moses 3:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of
the air, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, there
was not found an help meet for him.
 
Moses 3:21 And I, the Lord God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam; and he slept, and I took one of his ribs and closed up the
flesh in the stead thereof;
 
Moses 3:22 And the rib which I, the Lord God, had taken from man,
made I a woman, and brought her unto the man.
 
Moses 3:23 And Adam said: This I know now is bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of man.
 
Moses 3:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.
 
Moses 3:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
 
Moses 4:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December, 1830--Continued.
 
Moses 4:1 And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That
Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only
Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came
before me, saying--Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son,
and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost,
and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.
 
Moses 4:2 But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and
Chosen from the beginning, said unto me, Father, thy will be
done, and the glory be thine forever.
 
Moses 4:3 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and
sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had
given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power;
by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be
cast down;
 
Moses 4:4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of
all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive
at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
 
Moses 4:5 And now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of
the field, which I, the Lord God, had made.
 
Moses 4:6 And Satan put it into the heart of the serpent, (for he
had drawn away many after him,) and he sought also to beguile
Eve, for he knew not the mind of God, wherefore he sought to
destroy the world.
 
Moses 4:7 And he said unto the woman: Yea, hath God said ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden? (And he spake by the mouth
of the serpent.)
 
Moses 4:8 And the woman said unto the serpent: We may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the garden;
 
Moses 4:9 But of the fruit of the tree which thou beholdest in
the midst of the garden, God hath said ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
 
Moses 4:10 And the serpent said unto the woman: Ye shall not
surely die;
 
Moses 4:11 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good
and evil.
 
Moses 4:12 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, and that it became pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make her wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did
eat, and also gave unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
 
Moses 4:13 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew
that they had been naked. And they sewed fig-leaves together and
made themselves aprons.
 
Moses 4:14 And they heard the voice of the Lord God, as they were
walking in the garden, in the cool of the day; and Adam and his
wife went to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden.
 
Moses 4:15 And I, the Lord God, called unto Adam, and said unto
him: Where goest thou?
 
Moses 4:16 And he said: I heard thy voice in the garden, and I
was afraid, because I beheld that I was naked, and I hid myself.
 
Moses 4:17 And I, the Lord God, said unto Adam: Who told thee
thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldst not eat, if so thou shouldst surely die?
 
Moses 4:18 And the man said: The woman thou gavest me, and
commanded that she should remain with me, she gave me of the
fruit of the tree and I did eat.
 
Moses 4:19 And I, the Lord God, said unto the woman: What is this
thing which thou hast done? And the woman said: The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
 
Moses 4:20 And I, the Lord God, said unto the serpent: Because
thou hast done this thou shalt be cursed above all cattle, and
above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life;
 
Moses 4:21 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
between thy seed and her seed; and he shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
 
Moses 4:22 Unto the woman, I, the Lord God, 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.
 
Moses 4:23 And unto Adam, I, the Lord God, said: Because thou
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying--Thou shalt
not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
 
Moses 4:24 Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
 
Moses 4:25 By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until
thou shalt return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.
 
Moses 4:26 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was
the mother of all living; for thus have I, the Lord God, called
the first of all women, which are many.
 
Moses 4:27 Unto Adam, and also unto his wife, did I, the Lord
God, make coats of skins, and clothed them.
 
Moses 4:28 And I, the Lord God, said unto mine Only Begotten:
Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil; and
now lest he put forth his hand and partake also of the tree of
life, and eat and live forever,
 
Moses 4:29 Therefore I, the Lord God, will send him forth from
the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken;
 
Moses 4:30 For as I, the Lord God, liveth, even so my words
cannot return void, for as they go forth out of my mouth they
must be fulfilled.
 
Moses 4:31 So I drove out the man, and I placed at the east of
the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword, which turned
every way to keep the way of the tree of life.
 
Moses 4:32 (And these are the words which I spake unto my servant
Moses, and they are true even as I will; and I have spoken them
unto you. See thou show them unto no man, until I command you,
except to them that believe. Amen.)
 
Moses 5:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December, 1830--Continued.
 
Moses 5:1 And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had
driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have
dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread
by the sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had commanded him. And
Eve, also, his wife, did labor with him.
 
Moses 5:2 And Adam knew his wife, and she bare unto him sons and
daughters, and they began to multiply and to replenish the earth.
 
Moses 5:3 And from that time forth, the sons and daughters of
Adam began to divide two and two in the land, and to till the
land, and to tend flocks, and they also begat sons and daughters.
 
Moses 5:4 And Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the
Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward
the Garden of Eden, speaking unto them, and they saw him not; for
they were shut out from his presence.
 
Moses 5:5 And he gave unto them commandments, that they should
worship the Lord their God, and should offer the firstlings of
their flocks, for an offering unto the Lord. And Adam was
obedient unto the commandments of the Lord.
 
Moses 5:6 And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto
Adam, saying: Why dost thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And
Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me.
 
Moses 5:7 And then the angel spake, saying: This thing is a
similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father,
which is full of grace and truth.
 
Moses 5:8 Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the
name of the Son, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the
name of the Son forevermore.
 
Moses 5:9 And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which
beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the Only
Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and
forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and
all mankind, even as many as will.
 
Moses 5:10 And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, and
began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth,
saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my
transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have
joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.
 
Moses 5:11 And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was
glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should
have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the
joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto
all the obedient.
 
Moses 5:12 And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they
made all things known unto their sons and their daughters.
 
Moses 5:13 And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of
God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they
believed it not; and they loved Satan more than God. And men
began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish.
 
Moses 5:14 And the Lord God called upon men by the Holy Ghost
everywhere and commanded them that they should repent;
 
Moses 5:15 And as many as believed in the Son, and repented of
their sins, should be saved; and as many as believed not and
repented not, should be damned; and the words went forth out of
the mouth of God in a firm decree; wherefore they must be
fulfilled.
 
Moses 5:16 And Adam and Eve, his wife, ceased not to call upon
God. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain,
and said: I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not
reject his words. But behold, Cain hearkened not, saying: Who is
the Lord that I should know him?
 
Moses 5:17 And she again conceived and bare his brother Abel. And
Abel hearkened unto the voice of the Lord. And Abel was a keeper
or sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
 
Moses 5:18 And Cain loved Satan more than God. And Satan
commanded him, saying: Make an offering unto the Lord.
 
Moses 5:19 And in process of time it came to pass that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
 
Moses 5:20 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his
flock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto
Abel, and to his offering;
 
Moses 5:21 But unto Cain, and to his offering, he had not
respect. Now Satan knew this, and it pleased him. And Cain was
very wroth, and his countenance fell.
 
Moses 5:22 And the Lord said unto Cain: Why are thou wroth? Why
is thy countenance fallen?
 
Moses 5:23 If thou doest well, thou shalt be accepted. And if
thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and Satan desireth to
have thee; and except thou shalt hearken unto my commandments, I
will deliver thee up, and it shall be unto thee according to his
desire. And thou shalt rule over him;
 
Moses 5:24 For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of
his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also
before the world.
 
Moses 5:25 And it shall be said in time to come that these
abominations were had from Cain; for he rejected the greater
counsel which was had from God; and this is a cursing which I
will put upon thee, except thou repent.
 
Moses 5:26 And Cain was wroth, and listened not any more to the
voice of the Lord, neither to Abel, his brother, who walked in
holiness before the Lord.
 
Moses 5:27 And Adam and his wife mourned before the Lord, because
of Cain and his brethren.
 
Moses 5:28 And it came to pass that Cain took one of his
brothers' daughters to wife, and they loved Satan more than God.
 
Moses 5:29 And Satan said unto Cain: Swear unto me by thy throat,
and if thou tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy brethren by
their heads, and by the living God, that they tell it not; for if
they tell it, they shall surely die; and this that thy father may
not know it; and this day I will deliver thy brother Abel into
thine hands.
 
Moses 5:30 And Satan sware unto Cain that he would do according
to his commands. And all these things were done in secret.
 
Moses 5:31 And Cain said: Truly I am Mahan, the master of this
great secret, that I may murder and get gain. Wherefore Cain was
called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.
 
Moses 5:32 And Cain went into the field, and Cain talked with
Abel, his brother. And it came to pass that while they were in
the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him.
 
Moses 5:33 And Cain gloried in that which he had done, saying: I
am free; surely the flocks of my brother falleth into my hands.
 
Moses 5:34 And the Lord said unto Cain: Where is Abel, thy
brother? And he said: I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?
 
Moses 5:35 And the Lord said: What hast thou done? The voice of
thy brother's blood cries unto me from the ground.
 
Moses 5:36 And now thou shalt be cursed from the earth which hath
opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
 
Moses 5:37 When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth
yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt
thou be in the earth.
 
Moses 5:38 And Cain said unto the Lord: Satan tempted me because
of my brother's flocks. And I was wroth also; for his offering
thou didst accept and not mine; my punishment is greater than I
can bear.
 
Moses 5:39 Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face
of the Lord, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass,
that he that findeth me will slay me, because of mine iniquities,
for these things are not hid from the Lord.
 
Moses 5:40 And I the Lord said unto him: Whosoever slayeth thee,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And I the Lord set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
 
Moses 5:41 And Cain was shut out from the presence of the Lord,
and with his wife and many of his brethren dwelt in the land of
Nod, on the east of Eden.
 
Moses 5:42 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare
Enoch, and he also begat many sons and daughters. And he builded
a city, and he called the name of the city after the name of his
son, Enoch.
 
Moses 5:43 And unto Enoch was born Irad, and other sons and
daughters. And Irad begat Mahujael, and other sons and daughters.
And Mahujael begat Methusael, and other sons and daughters. And
Methusael begat Lamech.
 
Moses 5:44 And Lamech took unto himself two wives; the name of
the one being Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
 
Moses 5:45 And Adah bare Jabal; he was the father of such as
dwell in tents, and they were keepers of cattle; and his
brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.
 
Moses 5:46 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal Cain, an instructor of
every artificer in brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal Cain
was called Naamah.
 
Moses 5:47 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah: Hear
my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have
slain a main to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
 
Moses 5:48 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech shall
be seventy and seven fold;
 
Moses 5:49 For Lamech having entered into a covenant with Satan,
after the manner of Cain, wherein he became Master Mahan, master
of that great secret which was administered unto Cain by Satan;
and Irad, the son of Enoch, having known their secret, began to
reveal it unto the sons of Adam;
 
Moses 5:50 Wherefore Lamech, being angry, slew him, not like unto
Cain, his brother Abel, for the sake of getting gain, but he slew
him for the oath's sake.
 
Moses 5:51 For, from the days of Cain, there was a secret
combination, and their works were in the dark, and they knew
every man his brother.
 
Moses 5:52 Wherefore the Lord cursed Lamech, and his house, and
all them that had covenanted with Satan; for they kept not the
commandments of God, and it displeased God, and he ministered not
unto them, and their works were abominations, and began to spread
among all the sons of men. And it was among the sons of men.
 
Moses 5:53 And among the daughters of men these things were not
spoken, because that Lamech had spoken the secret unto his wives,
and they rebelled against him, and declared these things abroad,
and had not compassion;
 
Moses 5:54 Wherefore Lamech was despised, and cast out, and came
not among the sons of men, lest he should die.
 
Moses 5:55 And thus the works of darkness began to prevail among
all the sons of men.
 
Moses 5:56 And God cursed the earth with a sore curse, and was
angry with the wicked, with all the sons of men whom he had made;
 
Moses 5:57 For they would not hearken unto his voice, nor believe
on his Only Begotten Son, even him whom he declared should come
in the meridian of time, who was prepared from before the
foundation of the world.
 
Moses 5:58 And thus the Gospel began to be preached, from the
beginning, being declared by holy angels sent forth from the
presence of God, and by his own voice, and by the gift of the
Holy Ghost.
 
Moses 5:59 And thus all things were confirmed unto Adam, by an
holy ordinance, and the Gospel preached, and a decree sent forth,
that it should be in the world, until the end thereof; and thus
it was. Amen.
 
Moses 6:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December, 1830--Continued.
 
Moses 6:1 And Adam hearkened unto the voice of God, and called
upon his sons to repent.
 
Moses 6:2 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and
he called his name Seth. And Adam glorified the name of God; for
he said: God hath appointed me another seed, instead of Abel,
whom Cain slew.
 
Moses 6:3 And God revealed himself unto Seth, and he rebelled
not, but offered an acceptable sacrifice, like unto his brother
Abel. And to him also was born a son, and he called his name
Enos.
 
Moses 6:4 And then began these men to call upon the name of the
Lord, and the Lord blessed them;
 
Moses 6:5 And a book of remembrance was kept, in the which was
recorded, in the language of Adam, for it was given unto as many
as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration;
 
Moses 6:6 And by them their children were taught to read and
write, having a language which was pure and undefiled.
 
Moses 6:7 Now this same Priesthood, which was in the beginning,
shall be in the end of the world also.
 
Moses 6:8 Now this prophecy Adam spake, as he was moved upon by
the Holy Ghost, and a genealogy was kept of the children of God.
And this was the book of the generations of Adam, saying: In the
day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
 
Moses 6:9 In the image of his own body, male and female, created
he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day
when they were created and became living souls in the land upon
the footstool of God.
 
Moses 6:10 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begat
a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and called his
name Seth.
 
Moses 6:11 And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were
eight hundred years, and he begat many sons and daughters;
 
Moses 6:12 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and
thirty years, and he died.
 
Moses 6:13 Seth lived one hundred and five years, and begat Enos,
and prophesied in all his days, and taught his son Enos in the
ways of God; wherefore Enos prophesied also.
 
Moses 6:14 And Seth lived, after he begat Enos, eight hundred and
seven years, and begat many sons and daughters.
 
Moses 6:15 And the children of men were numerous upon all the
face of the land. And in those days Satan had great dominion
among men, and raged in their hearts; and from thenceforth came
wars and bloodshed; and a man's hand was against his own brother,
in administering death, because of secret works, seeking for
power.
 
Moses 6:16 All the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve
years, and he died.
 
Moses 6:17 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. And
Enos and the residue of the people of God came out from the land,
which was called Shulon, and dwelt in a land of promise, which he
called after his own son, whom he had named Cainan.
 
Moses 6:18 And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat many sons and daughters. And all the
days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
 
Moses 6:19 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel;
and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and
forty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of
Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
 
Moses 6:20 And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begat
Jared; and Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred
and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days
of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he
died.
 
Moses 6:21 And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and
begat Enoch; and Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters. And Jared taught Enoch in
all the ways of God.
 
Moses 6:22 And this is the genealogy of the sons of Adam, who was
the son of God, with whom God, himself, conversed.
 
Moses 6:23 And they were preachers of righteousness, and spake
and prophesied, and called upon all men, everywhere, to repent;
and faith was taught unto the children of men.
 
Moses 6:24 And it came to pass that all the days of Jared were
nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
 
Moses 6:25 And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begat
Methuselah.
 
Moses 6:26 And it came to pass that Enoch journeyed in the land,
among the people; and as he journeyed, the Spirit of God
descended out of heaven, and abode upon him.
 
Moses 6:27 And he heard a voice from heaven, saying: Enoch, my
son, prophesy unto this people, and say unto them--Repent, for
thus saith the Lord: I am angry with this people, and my fierce
anger is kindled against them; for their hearts have waxed hard,
and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes cannot see
afar off;
 
Moses 6:28 And for these many generations, ever since the day
that I have created them, have they gone astray, and have denied
me, and have sought their own counsels in the dark; and in their
own abominations have they devised murder, and have not kept the
commandments, which I gave unto their father, Adam.
 
Moses 6:29 Wherefore, they have foresworn themselves, and, by
their oaths, they have brought upon themselves death; and a hell
I have prepared for them, if they repent not;
 
Moses 6:30 And this is a decree, which I have sent forth in the
beginning of the world, from my own mouth, from the foundation
thereof, and by the mouths of my servants, thy fathers, have I
decreed it, even as it shall be sent forth in the world, unto the
ends thereof.
 
Moses 6:31 And when Enoch had heard these words, he bowed himself
to the earth, before the Lord, and spake before the Lord, saying:
Why is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad,
and all the people hate me; for I am slow of speech; wherefore am
I thy servant?
 
Moses 6:32 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Go forth and do as I
have commanded thee, and no man shall pierce thee. Open thy
mouth, and it shall be filled, and I will give thee utterance,
for all flesh is in my hands, and I will do as seemeth me good.
 
Moses 6:33 Say unto this people: Choose ye this day, to serve the
Lord God who made you.
 
Moses 6:34 Behold my Spirit is upon you, wherefore all thy words
will I justify; and the mountains shall flee before you, and the
rivers shall turn from their course; and thou shalt abide in me,
and I in you; therefore walk with me.
 
Moses 6:35 And the Lord spake unto Enoch, and said unto him:
Anoint thine eyes with clay, and wash them, and thou shalt see.
And he did so.
 
Moses 6:36 And he beheld the spirits that God had created; and he
beheld also things which were not visible to the natural eye; and
from thenceforth came the saying abroad in the land: A seer hath
the Lord raised up unto his people.
 
Moses 6:37 And it came to pass that Enoch went forth in the land,
among the people, standing upon the hills and the high places,
and cried with a loud voice, testifying against their works; and
all men were offended because of him.
 
Moses 6:38 And they came forth to hear him, upon the high places,
saying unto the tent-keepers: Tarry ye here and keep the tents,
while we go yonder to behold the seer, for he prophesieth, and
there is a strange thing in the land; a wild man hath come among
us.
 
Moses 6:39 And it came to pass when they heard him, no man laid
hands on him; for fear came on all them that heard him; for he
walked with God.
 
Moses 6:40 And there came a man unto him, whose name was Mahijah,
and said unto him: Tell us plainly who thou art, and from whence
thou comest?
 
Moses 6:41 And he said unto them: I came out from the land of
Cainan, the land of my fathers, a land of righteousness unto this
day. And my father taught me in all the ways of God.
 
Moses 6:42 And it came to pass, as I journeyed from the land of
Cainan, by the sea east, I beheld a vision; and lo, the heavens I
saw, and the Lord spake with me, and gave me commandment;
wherefore, for this cause, to keep the commandment, I speak forth
these words.
 
Moses 6:43 And Enoch continued his speech, saying: The Lord which
spake with me, the same is the God of heaven, and he is my God,
and your God, and ye are my brethren, and why counsel ye
yourselves, and deny the God of heaven?
 
Moses 6:44 The heavens he made; the earth is his footstool; and
the foundation thereof is his. Behold, he laid it, an host of men
hath he brought in upon the face thereof.
 
Moses 6:45 And death hath come upon our fathers; nevertheless we
know them, and cannot deny, and even the first of all we know,
even Adam.
 
Moses 6:46 For a book of remembrance we have written among us,
according to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is
given in our language.
 
Moses 6:47 And as Enoch spake forth the words of God, the people
trembled, and could not stand in his presence.
 
Moses 6:48 And he said unto them: Because that Adam fell, we are;
and by his fall came death; and we are made partakers of misery
and woe.
 
Moses 6:49 Behold Satan hath come among the children of men, and
tempteth them to worship him; and men have become carnal,
sensual, and devilish, and are shut out from the presence of God.
 
Moses 6:50 But God hath made known unto our fathers that all men
must repent.
 
Moses 6:51 And he called upon our father Adam by his own voice,
saying: I am God; I made the world, and men before they were in
the flesh.
 
Moses 6:52 And he also said unto him: If thou wilt turn unto me,
and hearken unto my voice, and believe, and repent of all thy
transgressions, and be baptized, even in water, in the name of
mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth, which is
Jesus Christ, the only name which shall be given under heaven,
whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men, ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, asking all things in his
name, and whatsoever ye shall ask, it shall be given you.
 
Moses 6:53 And our father Adam spake unto the Lord, and said: Why
is it that men must repent and be baptized in water? And the Lord
said unto Adam: Behold I have forgiven thee thy transgression in
the Garden of Eden.
 
Moses 6:54 Hence came the saying abroad among the people, that
the Son of God hath atoned for original guilt, wherein the sins
of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the children,
for they are whole from the foundation of the world.
 
Moses 6:55 And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch as thy
children are conceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow
up, sin conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the bitter,
that they may know to prize the good.
 
Moses 6:56 And it is given unto them to know good and evil;
wherefore they are agents unto themselves, and I have given unto
you another law and commandment.
 
Moses 6:57 Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men,
everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the
kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in
his presence; for, in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is
his name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the Son of Man,
even Jesus Christ, a righteous Judge, who shall come in the
meridian of time.
 
Moses 6:58 Therefore I give unto you a commandment, to teach
these things freely unto your children, saying:
 
Moses 6:59 That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which
fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world
by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so
became of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again into
the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be
cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; that ye
might be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal
life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even
immortal glory;
 
Moses 6:60 For by the water ye keep the commandment; by the
Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified;
 
Moses 6:61 Therefore it is given to abide in you; the record of
heaven; the Comforter; the peaceable things of immortal glory;
the truth of all things; that which quickeneth all things, which
maketh alive all things; that which knoweth all things, and hath
all power according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice, and
judgment.
 
Moses 6:62 And now, behold, I say unto you: This is the plan of
salvation unto all men, through the blood of mine Only Begotten,
who shall come in the meridian of time.
 
Moses 6:63 And behold, all things have their likeness, and all
things are created and made to bear record of me, both things
which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which
are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and
things which are in the earth, and things which are under the
earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.
 
Moses 6:64 And it came to pass, when the Lord had spoken with
Adam, our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was
caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into
the water, and was laid under the water, and was brought forth
out of the water.
 
Moses 6:65 And thus he was baptized, and the Spirit of God
descended upon him, and thus he was born of the Spirit, and
became quickened in the inner man.
 
Moses 6:66 And he heard a voice out of heaven, saying: Thou are
baptized with fire, and with the Holy Ghost. This is the record
of the Father, and the Son, from henceforth and forever;
 
Moses 6:67 And thou art after the order of him who was without
beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all
eternity.
 
Moses 6:68 Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may
all become my sons. Amen.
 
Moses 7:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December, 1830--Continued.
 
Moses 7:1 And it came to pass that Enoch continued his speech,
saying: Behold, our father Adam taught these things, and many
have believed and become the sons of God, and many have believed
not, and have perished in their sins, and are looking forth with
fear, in torment, for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God
to be poured out upon them.
 
Moses 7:2 And from that time forth Enoch began to prophesy,
saying unto the people, that: As I was journeying, and stood upon
the place Mahujah, and cried unto the Lord, there came a voice
out of heaven, saying--Turn ye, and get ye upon the mount Simeon.
 
Moses 7:3 And it came to pass that I turned and went up on the
mount; and as I stood upon the mount, I beheld the heavens open,
and I was clothed upon with glory;
 
Moses 7:4 And I saw the Lord; and he stood before my face, and he
talked with me, even as a man talketh one with another, face to
face; and he said unto me: Look, and I will show unto thee the
world for the space of many generations.
 
Moses 7:5 And it came to pass that I beheld in the valley of
Shum, and lo, a great people which dwelt in tents, which were the
people of Shum.
 
Moses 7:6 And again the Lord said unto me: Look; and I looked
towards the north, and I beheld the people of Canaan, which dwelt
in tents.
 
Moses 7:7 And the Lord said unto me: Prophesy; and I prophesied,
saying: Behold the people of Canaan, which are numerous, shall go
forth in battle array against the people of Shum, and shall slay
them that they shall utterly be destroyed; and the people of
Canaan shall divide themselves in the land, and the land shall be
barren and unfruitful, and none other people shall dwell there
but the people of Canaan;
 
Moses 7:8 For behold, the Lord shall curse the land with much
heat, and the barrenness thereof shall go forth forever; and
there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that
they were despised among all people.
 
Moses 7:9 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: Look;
and I looked, and I beheld the land of Sharon, and the land of
Enoch, and the land of Omner, and the land of Heni, and the land
of Shem, and the land of Haner, and the land of Hanannihah, and
all the inhabitants thereof;
 
Moses 7:10 And the Lord said unto me: Go to this people, and say
unto them--Repent, lest I come out and smite them with a curse,
and they die.
 
Moses 7:11 And he gave unto me a commandment that I should
baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, which is full
of grace and truth, and of the Holy Ghost, which beareth record
of the Father and the Son.
 
Moses 7:12 And it came to pass that Enoch continued to call upon
all the people, save it were the people of Canaan, to repent;
 
Moses 7:13 And so great was the faith of Enoch that he led the
people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and
he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the
mountains fled, even according to his command; and the rivers of
water were turned out of their course; and the roar of the lions
was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly,
so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of
the language which God had given him.
 
Moses 7:14 There also came up a land out of the depth of the sea,
and so great was the fear of the enemies of the people of God,
that they fled and stood afar off and went upon the land which
came up out of the depth of the sea.
 
Moses 7:15 And the giants of the land, also, stood afar off; and
there went forth a curse upon all people that fought against God;
 
Moses 7:16 And from that time forth there were wars and bloodshed
among them; but the Lord came and dwelt with his people, and they
dwelt in righteousness.
 
Moses 7:17 The fear of the Lord was upon all nations, so great
was the glory of the Lord, which was upon his people. And the
Lord blessed the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains,
and upon the high places, and did flourish.
 
Moses 7:18 And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were
of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there
were no poor among them.
 
Moses 7:19 And Enoch continued his preaching in righteousness
unto the people of God. And it came to pass in his days, that he
built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even ZION.
 
Moses 7:20 And it came to pass that Enoch talked with the Lord;
and he said unto the Lord: Surely Zion shall dwell in safety
forever. But the Lord said unto Enoch: Zion have I blessed, but
the residue of the people have I cursed.
 
Moses 7:21 And it came to pass that the Lord showed unto Enoch
all the inhabitants of the earth; and he beheld, and lo, Zion, in
process of time, was taken up into heaven. And the Lord said unto
Enoch: Behold mine abode forever.
 
Moses 7:22 And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which
were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of
Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were
black, and had not place among them.
 
Moses 7:23 And after that Zion was taken up into heaven, Enoch
beheld, and lo, all the nations of the earth were before him;
 
Moses 7:24 And there came generation upon generation; and Enoch
was high and lifted up, even in the bosom of the Father, and of
the Son of Man; and behold, the power of Satan was upon all the
face of the earth.
 
Moses 7:25 And he saw angels descending out of heaven; and he
heard a loud voice saying: Wo, wo be unto the inhabitants of the
earth.
 
Moses 7:26 And he beheld Satan; and he had a great chain in his
hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with darkness;
and he looked up and laughed, and his angels rejoiced.
 
Moses 7:27 And Enoch beheld angels descending out of heaven,
bearing testimony of the Father and Son; and the Holy Ghost fell
on many, and they were caught up by the powers of heaven into
Zion.
 
Moses 7:28 And it came to pass that the God of heaven looked upon
the residue of the people, and he wept; and Enoch bore record of
it, saying: How is it that the heavens weep, and shed forth their
tears as the rain upon the mountains?
 
Moses 7:29 And Enoch said unto the Lord: How is it that thou
canst weep, seeing thou art holy, and from all eternity to all
eternity?
 
Moses 7:30 And were it possible that man could number the
particles of the earth, yea, millions of earths like this, it
would not be a beginning to the number of thy creations; and thy
curtains are stretched out still; and yet thou art there, and thy
bosom is there; and also thou are just; thou are merciful and
kind forever;
 
Moses 7:31 And thou hast taken Zion to thine own bosom, from all
thy creations, from all eternity to all eternity; and naught but
peace, justice, and truth is the habitation of thy throne; and
mercy shall go before thy face and have no end; how is it thou
canst weep?
 
Moses 7:32 The Lord said unto Enoch: Behold these thy brethren;
they are the workmanship of mine own hands, and I gave unto them
their knowledge, in the day I created them; and in the Garden of
Eden, gave I unto man his agency;
 
Moses 7:33 And unto thy brethren have I said, and also given
commandment, that they should love one another, and that they
should choose me, their Father; but behold, they are without
affection, and they hate their own blood;
 
Moses 7:34 And the fire of mine indignation is kindled against
them; and in my hot displeasure will I send in the floods upon
them, for my fierce anger is kindled against them.
 
Moses 7:35 Behold, I am God; Man of Holiness is my name; Man of
Counsel is my name; and Endless and Eternal is my name, also.
 
Moses 7:36 Wherefore, I can stretch forth mine hands and hold all
the creations which I have made; and mine eye can pierce them
also, and among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not
been so great wickedness as among thy brethren.
 
Moses 7:37 But behold, their sins shall be upon the heads of
their fathers; Satan shall be their father, and misery shall be
their doom; and the whole heavens shall weep over them, even all
the workmanship of mine hands; wherefore should not the heavens
weep, seeing these shall suffer?
 
Moses 7:38 But behold, these which thine eyes are upon shall
perish in the floods; and behold, I will shut them up; a prison
have I prepared for them.
 
Moses 7:39 And That which I have chosen hath pled before my face.
Wherefore, he suffereth for their sins; inasmuch as they will
repent in the day that my Chosen shall return unto me, and until
that day they shall be in torment;
 
Moses 7:40 Wherefore, for this shall the heavens weep, yea, and
all the workmanship of mine hands.
 
Moses 7:41 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Enoch,
and told Enoch all the doings of the children of men; wherefore
Enoch knew, and looked upon their wickedness, and their misery,
and wept and stretched forth his arms, and his heart swelled wide
as eternity; and his bowels yearned; and all eternity shook.
 
Moses 7:42 And Enoch also saw Noah, and his family; that the
posterity of all the sons of Noah should be saved with a temporal
salvation;
 
Moses 7:43 Wherefore Enoch saw that Noah built an ark; and that
the Lord smiled upon it, and held it in his own hand; but upon
the residue of the wicked the floods came and swallowed them up.
 
Moses 7:44 And as Enoch saw this, he had bitterness of soul, and
wept over his brethren, and said unto the heavens: I will refuse
to be comforted; but the Lord said unto Enoch: Lift up your
heart, and be glad; and look.
 
Moses 7:45 And it came to pass that Enoch looked; and from Noah,
he beheld all the families of the earth; and he cried unto the
Lord, saying: When shall the day of the Lord come? When shall the
blood of the Righteous be shed, that all they that mourn may be
sanctified and have eternal life?
 
Moses 7:46 And the Lord said: It shall be in the meridian of
time, in the days of wickedness and vengeance.
 
Moses 7:47 And behold, Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son
of Man, even in the flesh; and his soul rejoiced, saying: The
Righteous is lifted up, and the Lamb is slain from the foundation
of the world; and through faith I am in the bosom of the Father,
and behold, Zion is with me.
 
Moses 7:48 And it came to pass that Enoch looked upon the earth;
and he heard a voice from the bowels thereof, saying: Wo, wo is
me, the mother of men; I am pained, I am weary, because of the
wickedness of my children. When shall I rest, and be cleansed
from the filthiness which is gone forth out of me? When will my
Creator sanctify me, that I may rest, and righteousness for a
season abide upon my face?
 
Moses 7:49 And when Enoch heard the earth mourn, he wept, and
cried unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, wilt thou not have
compassion upon the earth? Wilt thou not bless the children of
Noah?
 
Moses 7:50 And it came to pass that Enoch continued his cry unto
the Lord, saying: I ask thee, O Lord, in the name of thine Only
Begotten, even Jesus Christ, that thou wilt have mercy upon Noah
and his seed, that the earth might never more be covered by the
floods.
 
Moses 7:51 And the Lord could not withhold; and he covenanted
with Enoch, and sware unto him with an oath, that he would stay
the floods; that he would call upon the children of Noah;
 
Moses 7:52 And he sent forth an unalterable decree, that a
remnant of his seed should always be found among all nations,
while the earth should stand;
 
Moses 7:53 And the Lord said: Blessed is he through whose seed
Messiah shall come; for he saith I am Messiah, the King of Zion,
the Rock of Heaven, which is broad as eternity; whose cometh in
at the gate and climbeth up by me shall never fall; wherefore,
blessed are they of whom I have spoken, for they shall come forth
with songs of everlasting joy.
 
Moses 7:54 And it came to pass that Enoch cried unto the Lord,
saying: When the Son of Man cometh in the flesh, shall the earth
rest? I pray thee, show me these things.
 
Moses 7:55 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Look, and he looked and
beheld the Son of Man lifted up on the cross, after the manner of
men;
 
Moses 7:56 And he heard a loud voice; and the heavens were
veiled; and all the creations of God mourned; and the earth
groaned; and the rocks were rent; and the saints arose, and were
crowned at the right hand of the Son of Man, with crowns of
glory;
 
Moses 7:57 And as many of the spirits as were in prison came
forth, and stood on the right hand of God; and the remainder were
reserved in chains of darkness until the judgment of the great
day.
 
Moses 7:58 And again Enoch wept and cried unto the Lord, saying:
When shall the earth rest?
 
Moses 7:59 And Enoch beheld the Son of Man ascend up unto the
Father; and he called unto the Lord, saying: Wilt thou not come
again upon the earth? Forasmuch as thou art God, and I know thee,
and thou hast sworn unto me, and commanded me that I should ask
in the name of thine Only Begotten; thou hast made me, and given
unto me a right to thy throne, and not of myself, but through
thine own grace; wherefore, I ask thee if thou wilt not come
again on the earth.
 
Moses 7:60 And the Lord said unto Enoch: As I live, even so will
I come in the last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance,
to fulfill the oath which I have made unto you concerning the
children of Noah;
 
Moses 7:61 And the day shall come that the earth shall rest, but
before that day the heavens shall be darkened, and a veil of
darkness shall cover the earth; and the heavens shall shake, and
also the earth; and great tribulations shall be among the
children of men, but my people will I preserve;
 
Moses 7:62 And righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and
truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of
mine Only Begotten; his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also
the resurrection of all men; and righteousness and truth will I
cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine
elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I
shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up their
loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there
shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New
Jerusalem.
 
Moses 7:63 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Then shalt thou and all
thy city meet them there, and we will receive them into our
bosom, and they shall see us; and we will fall upon their necks,
and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other;
 
Moses 7:64 And there shall be mine abode, and it shall be Zion,
which shall come forth out of all the creations which I have
made; and for the space of a thousand years the earth shall rest.
 
Moses 7:65 And it came to pass that Enoch saw the day of the
coming of the Son of Man, in the last days, to dwell on the earth
in righteousness for the space of a thousand years;
 
Moses 7:66 But before that day he saw great tribulations among
the wicked; and he also saw the sea, that it was troubled, and
men's hearts failing them, looking forth with fear for the
judgments of the Almighty God, which should come upon the wicked.
 
Moses 7:67 And the Lord showed Enoch all things, even unto the
end of the world; and he saw the day of the righteous, the hour
of their redemption, and received a fulness of joy;
 
Moses 7:68 And all the days of Zion, in the days of Enoch, were
three hundred and sixty-five years.
 
Moses 7:69 And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he
dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was
not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from thence
went forth the saying, ZION IS FLED.
 
Moses 8:0 THE WRITINGS OF MOSES. As revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, in December, 1830--Concluded.
 
Moses 8:1 And all the days of Enoch were four hundred and thirty
years.
 
Moses 8:2 And it came to pass that Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
was not taken, that the covenants of the Lord might be fulfilled,
which he made to Enoch; for he truly covenanted with Enoch that
Noah should be of the fruit of his loins.
 
Moses 8:3 And it came to pass that Methuselah prophesied that
from his loins should spring all the kingdoms of the earth
(through Noah), and he took glory unto himself.
 
Moses 8:4 And there came forth a great famine into the land, and
the Lord cursed the earth with a sore curse, and many of the
inhabitants thereof died.
 
Moses 8:5 And it came to pass that Methuselah lived one hundred
and eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech;
 
Moses 8:6 And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven
hundred and eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters;
 
Moses 8:7 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and
sixty-nine years, and he died.
 
Moses 8:8 And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and
begat a son,
 
Moses 8:9 And he called his name Noah, saying: This son shall
comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of
the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
 
Moses 8:10 And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred
and ninety-five years, and begat sons and daughters;
 
Moses 8:11 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and
seventy-seven years, and he died.
 
Moses 8:12 And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old, and
begat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat Shem of her
who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years
old he begat Ham.
 
Moses 8:13 And Noah and his sons hearkened unto the Lord, and
gave heed, and they were called the sons of God.
 
Moses 8:14 And when these men began to multiply on the face of
the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the sons of men saw
that those daughters were fair, and they took them wives, even as
they chose.
 
Moses 8:15 And the Lord said unto Noah: The daughters of thy sons
have sold themselves; for behold mine anger is kindled against
the sons of men, for they will not hearken to my voice.
 
Moses 8:16 And it came to pass that Noah prophesied, and taught
the things of God, even as it was in the beginning.
 
Moses 8:17 And the Lord said unto Noah: My Spirit shall not
always strive with man, for he shall know that all flesh shall
die; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years; and if
men do not repent, I will send in the floods upon them.
 
Moses 8:18 And in those days there were giants on the earth, and
they sought Noah to take away his life; but the Lord was with
Noah, and the power of the Lord was upon him.
 
Moses 8:19 And the Lord ordained Noah after his own order, and
commanded him that he should go forth and declare his Gospel unto
the children of men, even as it was given unto Enoch.
 
Moses 8:20 And it came to pass that Noah called upon the children
of men that they should repent; but they hearkened not unto his
words;
 
Moses 8:21 And also, after that they had heard him, they came up
before him, saying: Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not
taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not eating
and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives
bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are
like unto men of old, men of great renown. And they hearkened not
unto the words of Noah.
 
Moses 8:22 And God saw that the wickedness of men had become
great in the earth; and every man was lifted up in the
imagination of the thoughts of his heart, being only evil
continually.
 
Moses 8:23 And it came to pass that Noah continued his preaching
unto the people, saying: Hearken, and give heed unto my words;
 
Moses 8:24 Believe and repent of your sins and be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, even as our fathers, and ye
shall receive the Holy Ghost, that ye may have all things made
manifest; and if ye do not this, the floods will come in upon
you; nevertheless they hearkened not.
 
Moses 8:25 And it repented Noah, and his heart was pained that
the Lord had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at the
heart.
 
Moses 8:26 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 things, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth Noah
that I have created them, and that I have made them; and he hath
called upon me; for they have sought his life.
 
Moses 8:27 And thus Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord; for
Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation; and he walked
with God, as did also his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
Moses 8:28 The earth was corrupt before God, and it was filled
with violence.
 
Moses 8:29 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was
corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
 
Moses 8:30 And God said unto Noah: The end of all flesh is come
before me, for all the earth is filled with violence, and behold
I will destroy all flesh from off the earth.
 
THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM
 
Abraham 0:0 THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM. Translated from the Papyrus, by
Joseph Smith. A Translation of some ancient Records, that have
fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt.--The writings
of Abraham while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham,
written by his own hand, upon papyrus. See History of the Church,
vol. 2, pp. 235, 236, 348-351.
 
Abraham 1:1 In the land of the Chaldeans, at the residence of my
fathers, I, Abraham, saw that it was needful for me to obtain
another place of residence;
 
Abraham 1:2 And finding there was greater happiness and peace and
rest for me, I sought for the blessings of the fathers, and the
right whereunto I should be ordained to administer the same;
having been myself a follower of righteousness, desiring also to
be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater
follower of righteousness, and to possess a greater knowledge,
and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and
desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of
God, I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right
belonging to the fathers.
 
Abraham 1:3 It was conferred upon me from the fathers; it came
down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from
the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the
present time, even the right of the firstborn, or the first man,
who is Adam, or first father, through the fathers unto me.
 
Abraham 1:4 I sought for mine appointment unto the Priesthood
according to the appointment of God unto the fathers concerning
the seed.
 
Abraham 1:5 My fathers, having turned from their righteousness,
and from the holy commandments which the Lord their God had given
unto them, unto the worshiping of the gods of the heathen,
utterly refused to hearken to my voice;
 
Abraham 1:6 For their hearts were set to do evil, and were wholly
turned to the god of Elkenah, and the god of Libnah, and the god
of Mahmackrah, and the god of Korash, and the god of Pharaoh,
king of Egypt;
 
Abraham 1:7 Therefore they turned their hearts of the sacrifice
of the heathen in offering up their children unto these dumb
idols, and hearkened not unto my voice, but endeavored to take
away my life by the hand of the priest of Elkenah was also the
priest of Pharaoh.
 
Abraham 1:8 Now, at this time it was the custom of the priest of
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to offer up upon the altar which was
built in the land of Chaldea, for the offering unto these strange
gods, men, women, and children.
 
Abraham 1:9 And it came to pass that the priest made an offering
unto the god of Pharaoh, and also unto the god of Shagreel, even
after the manner of the Egyptians. Now the god of Shagreel was
the sun.
 
Abraham 1:10 Even the thank-offering of a child did the priest of
Pharaoh offer upon the altar which stood by the hill called
Potiphar's Hill, at the head of the plain of Olishem.
 
Abraham 1:11 Now, this priest had offered upon this altar three
virgins at one time, who were the daughters of Onitah, one of the
royal descent directly from the loins of Ham. These virgins were
offered up because of their virtue; they would not bow down to
worship gods of wood or of stone, therefore they were killed upon
this altar, and it was done after the manner of the Egyptians.
 
Abraham 1:12 And it came to pass that the priests laid violence
upon me, that they might slay me also, as they did those virgins
upon this altar; and that you may have a knowledge of this altar,
I will refer you to the representation at the commencement of
this record.
 
Abraham 1:13 It was made after the form of a bedstead, such as
was had among the Chaldeans, and it stood before the gods of
Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmackrah, Korash, and also a god like unto
that of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
 
Abraham 1:14 That you may have an understanding of these gods, I
have given you the fashion of them in the figures at the
beginning, which manner of figures is called by the Chaldeans
Rahleenos, which signifies hieroglyphics.
 
Abraham 1:15 And as they lifted up their hands upon me, that they
might offer me up and take away my life, behold, I lifted up my
voice unto the Lord my God, and the Lord hearkened and heard, and
he filled me with the vision of the Almighty, and the angel of
his presence stood by me, and immediately unloosed my bands;
 
Abraham 1:16 And his voice was unto me: Abraham, Abraham, behold,
my name is Jehovah, and I have heard thee, and have come down to
deliver thee, and to take thee away from thy father's house, and
from all thy kinsfolk, into a strange land which thou knowest not
of;
 
Abraham 1:17 And this because they have turned their hearts away
from me, to worship the god of Elkenah, and the god of Libnah,
and the god of Mahmackrah, and the god of Korash, and the god of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt; therefore I have come down to visit them,
and to destroy him who hath lifted up against thee, Abraham, my
son, to take away thy life.
 
Abraham 1:18 Behold, I will lead thee by my hand, and I will take
thee, to put upon thee my name, even the Priesthood of thy
father, and my power shall be over thee.
 
Abraham 1:19 As it was with Noah so shall it be with thee; but
through thy ministry my name shall be known in the earth forever,
for I am thy God.
 
Abraham 1:20 Behold, Potiphar's Hill was in the land of Ur, of
Chaldea. And the Lord broke down the altar of Elkenah, and of the
gods of the land, and utterly destroyed them, and smote the
priest that he died; and there was great mourning in Chaldea, and
also in the court of Pharaoh; which Pharaoh signifies king by
royal blood.
 
Abraham 1:21 Now this king of Egypt was a descendant from the
loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites
by birth.
 
Abraham 1:22 From this descent sprang all the Egyptians, and thus
the blood of the Canaanites was preserved in the land.
 
Abraham 1:23 The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman,
who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which
in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is
forbidden;
 
Abraham 1:24 When this woman discovered the land it was under
water, who afterward settled her sons in it; and thus, from Ham,
sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land.
 
Abraham 1:25 Now the first government of Egypt was established by
Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it
was after the manner of the government of Ham, which was
patriarchal.
 
Abraham 1:26 Pharaoh, being a righteous man, established his
kingdom and judged his people wisely and justly all his days,
seeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the
fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first
patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah,
his father, who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, and
with the blessings of wisdom, but cursed him as pertaining to the
Priesthood.
 
Abraham 1:27 Now, Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could
not have the right of Priesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs
would fain claim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father
was led away by their idolatry;
 
Abraham 1:28 But I shall endeavor, hereafter, to delineate the
chronology running back from myself to the beginning of the
creation, for the records have come into my hands, which I hold
unto this present time.
 
Abraham 1:29 Now, after the priest of Elkenah was smitten that he
died, there came a fulfillment of those things which were said
unto me concerning the land of Chaldea, that there should be a
famine in the land.
 
Abraham 1:30 Accordingly a famine prevailed throughout all the
land of Chaldea, and my father was sorely tormented because of
the famine, and he repented of the evil which he had determined
against me, to take away my life.
 
Abraham 1:31 But the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs,
concerning the right of Priesthood, the Lord my God preserved in
mine own hands; therefore a knowledge of the beginning of the
creation, and also of the planets, and of the stars, as they were
made known unto the fathers, have I kept even unto this day, and
I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon this record,
for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me.
 
Abraham 2:1 Now the Lord God caused the famine to wax sore in the
land of Ur, insomuch that Haran, my brother, died; but Terah, my
father, yet lived in the land of Ur, of the Chaldees.
 
Abraham 2:2 And it came to pass that I, Abraham, took Sarai to
wife, and Nehor, my brother, took Milcah to wife, who was the
daughter of Haran.
 
Abraham 2:3 Now the Lord had said unto me: Abraham, get thee out
of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's
house, unto a land that I will show thee.
 
Abraham 2:4 Therefore I left the land of Ur, of the Chaldees, to
go into the land of Canaan; and I took Lot, my brother's son, and
his wife, and Sarai my wife; and also my father followed after
me, unto the land which we denominated Haran.
 
Abraham 2:5 And the famine abated; and my father tarried in Haran
and dwelt there, as there were many flocks in Haran; and my
father turned again unto his idolatry, therefore he continued in
Haran.
 
Abraham 2:6 But I, Abraham, and Lot, my brother's son, prayed
unto the Lord, and the Lord appeared unto me, and said unto me:
Arise, and take Lot with thee; for I have purposed to take thee
away out of Haran, and to make of thee a minister to bear record
of my name in a strange land which I will give unto thy seed
after thee for an everlasting possession, when they hearken to my
voice.
 
Abraham 2:7 For I am the Lord thy God; I dwell in heaven; the
earth is my footstool; I stretch my hand over the sea, and it
obeys my voice; I cause the wind and the fire to be my chariot; I
say to the mountains depart hence, and behold, they are taken
away by a whirlwind, in an instant, suddenly.
 
Abraham 2:8 My name is Jehovah, and I know the end from the
beginning; therefore my hand shall be over thee.
 
Abraham 2:9 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will
bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all
nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee,
that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood
unto all nations;
 
Abraham 2:10 And I will bless them through thy name; for as many
as receive this Gospel shall be called after thy name, and shall
be accounted thy seed, and shall rise up and bless thee, as their
father;
 
Abraham 2:11 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
them that curse thee; and in thee (that is, in thy Priesthood)
and in thy seed (that is, thy Priesthood), for I give unto thee a
promise that this right shall continue in thee, and in thy seed
after thee (that is to say, the literal seed, or the seed of the
body) shall all the families of the earth be blessed, even with
the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of
salvation, even of life eternal.
 
Abraham 2:12 Now, after the Lord had withdrawn from speaking to
me, and withdrawn his face from me, I said in my heart: Thy
servant has sought thee earnestly; now I have found thee;
 
Abraham 2:13 Thou didst send thine angel to deliver me from the
gods of Elkenah, and I will do well to hearken unto thy voice,
therefore let thy servant rise up and depart in peace.
 
Abraham 2:14 So I, Abraham, departed as the Lord had said unto
me, and Lot with me; and I, Abraham, was sixty and two years old
when I departed out of Haran.
 
Abraham 2:15 And I took Sarai, whom I took to wife when I was in
Ur, in Chaldea, and Lot, my brother's son, and all our substance
that we had gathered, and the souls that we had won in Haran, and
came forth in the way to the land of Canaan, and dwelt in tents
as we came on our way;
 
Abraham 2:16 Therefore, eternity was our covering, and our rock
and our salvation, as we journeyed from Haran by the way of
Jershon, to come to the land of Canaan.
 
Abraham 2:17 Now I, Abraham, built an altar in the land of
Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the
famine might be turned away from my father's house, that they
might not perish.
 
Abraham 2:18 And then we passed from Jershon through the land
unto the place of Sechem; it was situated in the plains of Moreh,
and we had already come into the borders of the land of the
Canaanites, and I offered sacrifice there in the plains of Moreh,
and called on the Lord devoutly, because we had already come into
the land of this idolatrous nation.
 
Abraham 2:19 And the Lord appeared unto me in answer to my
prayers, and said unto me: Unto thy seed will I give this land.
 
Abraham 2:20 And I, Abraham, arose from the place of the altar
which I had built unto the Lord, and removed from thence unto a
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched my tent there, Bethel
on the west, and Hai on the east; and there I built another altar
unto the Lord, and called again upon the name of the Lord.
 
Abraham 2:21 And I, Abraham, journeyed, going on still towards
the south; and there was a continuation of a famine in the land;
and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt, to sojourn
there, for the famine became very grievous.
 
Abraham 2:22 And it came to pass when I was come near to enter
into Egypt, the Lord said unto me: Behold, Sarai, thy wife, is a
very fair woman to look upon;
 
Abraham 2:23 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians
shall see her, they will say--She is his wife; and they will kill
you, but they will save her alive; therefore see that ye do on
this wise:
 
Abraham 2:24 Let her say unto the Egyptians, she is thy sister,
and thy soul shall live.
 
Abraham 2:25 And it came to pass that I, Abraham, told Sarai, my
wife, all that the Lord had said unto me--Therefore say unto
them, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with
me for thy sake, and my soul shall live because of thee.
 
Abraham 3:1 And I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the
Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees;
 
Abraham 3:2 And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and
that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there
were many great ones which were near unto it;
 
Abraham 3:3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing
ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near
unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern
all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou
standest.
 
Abraham 3:4 And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim,
that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its
times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution
was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being
one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that
whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time,
according to the reckoning of Kolob.
 
Abraham 3:5 And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the
lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the
night, is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in
point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in
order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou
standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as
to its number of days, and of months, and of years.
 
Abraham 3:6 And the Lord said unto me: Now, Abraham, these two
facts exist, behold thine eyes see it; it is given unto thee to
know the times of reckoning, and the set time, yea, the set time
of the earth upon which thou standest, and the set time of the
greater light which is set to rule the day, and the set time of
the lesser light which is set to rule the night.
 
Abraham 3:7 Now the set time of the lesser light is a longer time
as to its reckoning than the reckoning of the time of the earth
upon which thou standest.
 
Abraham 3:8 And where these two facts exist, there shall be
another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet
whose reckoning of time shall be longer still;
 
Abraham 3:9 And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of
one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which
Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord's time; which Kolob is
set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets
which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.
 
Abraham 3:10 And it is given unto thee to know the set time of
all the stars that are set to give light, until thou come near
unto the throne of God.
 
Abraham 3:11 Thus I, Abraham, talked with the Lord, face to face,
as one man talketh with another; and he told me of the works
which his hands had made;
 
Abraham 3:12 And he said unto me: My son, my son (and his hand
was stretched out), behold I will show you all these. And he put
his hand upon mine eyes, and I saw those things which his hands
had made, which were many; and they multiplied before mine eyes,
and I could not see the end thereof.
 
Abraham 3:13 And he said unto me: This is Shinehah, which is the
sun. And he said unto me: Kokob, which is star. And he said unto
me: Olea, which is the moon. And he said unto me: Kokaubeam,
which signifies stars, or all the great lights, which were in the
firmament of heaven.
 
Abraham 3:14 And it was in the night time when the Lord spake
these words unto me: I will multiply thee, and thy seed after
thee, like unto these; and if thou canst count the number of
sands, so shall be the number of thy seeds.
 
Abraham 3:15 And the Lord said unto me: Abraham, I show these
things unto thee before ye go into Egypt, that ye may declare all
these words.
 
Abraham 3:16 If two things exist, and there be one above the
other, there shall be greater things above them; therefore Kolob
is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam that thou hast seen, because
it is nearest unto me.
 
Abraham 3:17 Now, if there be two things, one above the other,
and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or
a star may exist above it; and there is nothing that the Lord thy
God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it.
 
Abraham 3:18 Howbeit that he made the greater star; as, also, if
there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent that the
other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more
intelligent that the other, have no beginning; they existed
before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they
are gnolaum, or eternal.
 
Abraham 3:19 And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist,
that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the
other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am
the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all.
 
Abraham 3:20 The Lord thy God sent his angel to deliver thee from
the hands of the priest of Elkenah.
 
Abraham 3:21 I dwell in the midst of them all; I now, therefore,
have come down unto thee to declare unto thee the works which my
hands have made, wherein my wisdom excelleth them all, for I rule
in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, in all wisdom and
prudence, over all the intelligences thine eyes have seen from
the beginning; I came down in the beginning in the midst of all
the intelligences thou hast seen.
 
Abraham 3:22 Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the
intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among
all these there were many of the noble and great ones;
 
Abraham 3:23 And God saw these souls that they were good, and he
stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my
rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw
that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one
of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.
 
Abraham 3:24 And there stood one among them that was like unto
God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down,
for there is space there, and we will take of these materials,
and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell;
 
Abraham 3:25 And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will
do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;
 
Abraham 3:26 And they who keep their first estate shall be added
upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have
glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate;
and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon
their heads for ever and ever.
 
Abraham 3:27 And the Lord said: Whom shall I send? And one
answered like unto the Son of Man: Here am I, send me. And
another answered and said: Here am I, send me. And the Lord said:
I will send the first.
 
Abraham 3:28 And the second was angry, and kept not his first
estate; and, at that day, many followed after him.
 
Abraham 4:1 And then the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went
down at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and
formed the heavens and the earth.
 
Abraham 4:2 And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and
desolate, because they had not formed anything but the earth; and
darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the
Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.
 
Abraham 4:3 And they (the Gods) said: Let there be light; and
there was light.
 
Abraham 4:4 And they (the Gods) comprehended the light, for it
was bright; and they divided the light, or caused it to be
divided, from the darkness.
 
Abraham 4:5 And the Gods called the light Day, and the darkness
they called Night. And it came to pass that from the evening
until morning they called night; and from the morning until the
evening they called day; and this was the first, or the
beginning, of that which they called day and night.
 
Abraham 4:6 And the Gods also said: Let there be an expanse in
the midst of the waters, and it shall divide the waters from the
waters.
 
Abraham 4:7 And the Gods ordered the expanse, so that it divided
the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which
were above the expanse; and it was so, even as they ordered.
 
Abraham 4:8 And the Gods called the expanse, Heaven. And it came
to pass that it was from evening until morning that they called
night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening
that they called day; and this was the second time that they
called night and day.
 
Abraham 4:9 And the Gods ordered, saying: Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the earth
come up dry; and it was so as they ordered;
 
Abraham 4:10 And the Gods pronounced the dry land, Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters, pronounced they, Great Waters;
and the Gods saw that they were obeyed.
 
Abraham 4:11 And the Gods said: Let us prepare the earth to bring
forth grass; the herb yielding seed; the fruit tree yielding
fruit, after his kind, whose seed in itself yieldeth its own
likeness upon the earth; and it was so, even as they ordered.
 
Abraham 4:12 And the Gods organized the earth to bring forth
grass from its own seed, and the herb to bring forth herb from
its own seed, yielding seed after his kind; and the earth to
bring forth the tree from its own seed, yielding fruit, whose
seed could only bring forth the same in itself, after his kind;
and the Gods saw that they were obeyed.
 
Abraham 4:13 And it came to pass that they numbered the days;
from the evening until the morning they called night; and it came
to pass, from the morning until the evening they called day; and
it was the third time.
 
Abraham 4:14 And the Gods organized the lights in the expanse of
the heaven, and caused them to divide the day from the night; and
organized them to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and
for years;
 
Abraham 4:15 And organized them to be for lights in the expanse
of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so.
 
Abraham 4:16 And the Gods organized the two great lights, the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night; with the lesser light they set the stars also;
 
Abraham 4:17 And the Gods set them in the expanse of the heavens,
to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over
the night, and to cause to divide the light from the darkness.
 
Abraham 4:18 And the Gods watched those things which they had
ordered until they obeyed.
 
Abraham 4:19 And it came to pass that it was from evening until
morning that is was night; and it came to pass that it was from
morning until evening that it was day; and it was the fourth
time.
 
Abraham 4:20 And the Gods said: Let us prepare the waters to
bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life; and
the fowl, that they may fly above the earth in the open expanse
of heaven.
 
Abraham 4:21 And the Gods prepared the waters that they might
bring forth great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters were to bring forth abundantly after their
kinds; and every winged fowl after their kind. And the Gods saw
that they would be obeyed, and that their plan was good.
 
Abraham 4:22 And the Gods said: We will bless them, and cause
them to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas
or great waters; and cause the fowl to multiply in the earth.
 
Abraham 4:23 And it came to pass that it was from evening until
morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it was
from morning until evening that they called day; and it was the
fifth time.
 
Abraham 4:24 And the Gods prepared the earth to bring forth the
living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things, and
beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so, as they had
said.
 
Abraham 4:25 And the Gods organized the earth to bring forth the
beasts after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and every
thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind; and the Gods
saw they would obey.
 
Abraham 4:26 And the Gods took counsel among themselves and said:
Let us go down and form man in our image, after our likeness; and
we will give them 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.
 
Abraham 4:27 So the Gods went down to organize man in their own
image, in the image of the Gods to form they him, male and female
to form they them.
 
Abraham 4:28 And the Gods said: We will bless them. And the Gods
said: We will cause them to be fruitful and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it, and to 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.
 
Abraham 4:29 And the Gods said: Behold, we will give them every
herb bearing seed that shall come upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree which shall have fruit upon it; yea, the fruit of
the tree yielding seed to them we will give it; it shall be for
their meat.
 
Abraham 4:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
behold, we will give them life, and also we will give to them
every green herb for meat, and all these things shall be thus
organized.
 
Abraham 4:31 And the Gods said: We will do everything that we
have said, and organize them; and behold, they shall be very
obedient. And it came to pass that it was from evening until
morning they called night; and it came to pass that it was from
morning until evening that they called day; and they numbered the
sixth time.
 
Abraham 5:1 And thus we will finish the heavens and the earth,
and all the hosts of them.
 
Abraham 5:2 And the Gods said among themselves: On the seventh
time we will end our work, which we have counseled; and we will
rest on the seventh time from all our work which we have
counseled.
 
Abraham 5:3 And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because
that on the seventh time they would rest from all their works
which they (the Gods) counseled among themselves to form; and
sanctified it. And thus were their decisions at the time that
they counseled among themselves to form the heavens and the
earth.
 
Abraham 5:4 And the Gods came down and formed these the
generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were
formed in the day that the Gods formed the earth and the heavens,
 
Abraham 5:5 According to all that which they had said concerning
every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every
herb of the field before it grew; for the Gods had not caused it
to rain upon the earth when they counseled to do them, and had
not formed a man to till the ground.
 
Abraham 5:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground.
 
Abraham 5:7 And the Gods formed man from the dust of the ground,
and took his spirit (that is, the man's spirit), and put it into
him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man
became a living soul.
 
Abraham 5:8 And the Gods planted a garden, eastward in Eden, and
there they put the man, whose spirit they had put into the body
which they had formed.
 
Abraham 5:9 And out of the ground made the Gods to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of
life, also, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
 
Abraham 5:10 There was a river running out of Eden, to water the
garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
 
Abraham 5:11 And the Gods took the man and put him in the Garden
of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
 
Abraham 5:12 And the Gods commanded the man, saying: Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
 
Abraham 5:13 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the
Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the
Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning.
 
Abraham 5:14 And the Gods said: Let us make an help meet for the
man, for it is not good that the man should be alone, therefore
we will form an help meet for him.
 
Abraham 5:15 And the Gods caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam;
and he slept, and they took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh in the stead thereof;
 
Abraham 5:16 And of the rib which the Gods had taken from man,
formed they a woman, and brought her unto the man.
 
Abraham 5:17 And Adam said: This was bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh; now she shall be called Woman, because she was taken
out of man;
 
Abraham 5:18 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one
flesh.
 
Abraham 5:19 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
 
Abraham 5:20 And out of the ground the Gods formed every beast of
the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam
to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every
living creature, that should be the name thereof.
 
Abraham 5:21 And Adam gave names to all cattle, to the fowl of
the air, to every beast of the field; and for Adam, there was
found an help meet for him.
 
JOSEPH SMITH MATTHEW
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:0 An extract from the translation of the
Bible. Being the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, commencing
with the last verse of the twenty-third chapter, King James
Version.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:1 For I say unto you, that ye shall not
see me henceforth and know that I am he of whom it is written by
the prophets, until ye shall say: Blessed is he who cometh in the
name of the Lord, in the clouds of heaven, and all the holy
angels with him. Then understood his disciples that he should
come again on the earth, after that he was glorified and crowned
on the right hand of God.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:2 And Jesus went out, and departed from
the temple; and his disciples came to him, for to hear him,
saying: Master, show us concerning the buildings of the temple,
as thou hast said they shall be thrown down, and left unto you
desolate.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:3 And Jesus said unto them: See ye not all
these things, and do ye not understand them? Verily I say unto
you, there shall not be left here, upon this temple, one stone
upon another that shall not be thrown down.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:4 And Jesus left them, and went upon the
Mount of Olives. And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the
disciples came unto him privately, saying: Tell us when shall
these things be which thou hast said concerning the destruction
of the temple, and the Jews; and what is the sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world, or the destruction of the wicked,
which is the end of the world?
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:5 And Jesus answered, and said unto them:
Take heed that no man deceive you;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:6 For many shall come in my name, saying--
I am Christ and shall deceive many;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:7 Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all
nations, for my name's sake;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:8 And then shall many be offended, and
shall betray one another, and shall hate one another;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:9 And many false prophets shall arise, and
shall deceive many;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:10 And because iniquity shall abound, the
love of many shall wax cold;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:11 But he that remaineth steadfast and is
not overcome, the same shall be saved.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:12 When you, therefore, shall see the
abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, then you shall stand in
the holy place; whoso readeth let him understand.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:13 Then let them who are in Judea flee
into the mountains;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:14 Let him who is on the housetop flee,
and not return to take anything out of his house;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:15 Neither let him who is in the field
return back to take his clothes;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:16 And wo unto them that are with child,
and unto them that give suck in those days;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:17 Therefore, pray ye the Lord that your
flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:18 For then, in those days, shall be great
tribulation on the Jews, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
such as was not before sent upon Israel, of God, since the
beginning of their kingdom until this time; no, nor ever shall be
sent again upon Israel.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:19 And things which have befallen them are
only the beginning of the sorrows which shall come upon them.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:20 And except those days should be
shortened, there should none of their flesh be saved; but for the
elect's sake, according to the covenant, those days shall be
shortened.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:21 Behold, these things I have spoken unto
you concerning the Jews; and again, after the tribulation of
those days which shall come upon Jerusalem, if any man shall say
unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe him not;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:22 For in those days there shall also
arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great
signs and wonders, insomuch, that, if possible, they shall
deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the
covenant.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:23 Behold, I speak these things unto you
for the elect's sake; and you also shall hear of wars, and rumors
of wars; see that ye be not troubled, for all I have told you
must come to pass; but the end is not yet.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:24 Behold, I have told you before;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:25 Wherefore, if they shall say unto you:
Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: Behold, he is in the
secret chambers; believe it not;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:26 For as the light of the morning cometh
out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, and covereth the
whole earth, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:27 And now I show unto you a parable.
Behold, wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be
gathered together; so likewise shall mine elect be gathered from
the four quarters of the earth.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:28 And they shall hear of wars, and rumors
of wars.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:29 Behold I speak for mine elect's sake;
for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
earthquakes, in divers places.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:30 And again, because iniquity shall
abound, the love of men shall wax cold; but he that shall not be
overcome, the same shall be saved.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:31 And again, this Gospel of the Kingdom
shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all the
nations, and then shall the end come, or the destruction of the
wicked;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:32 And again shall the abomination of
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, be fulfilled.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:33 And immediately after the tribulation
of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the
powers of heaven shall be shaken.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:34 Verily, I say unto you, this
generation, in which these things shall be shown forth, shall not
pass away until all I have told you shall be fulfilled.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:35 Although, the days will come that
heaven and earth shall pass away; yet my words shall not pass
away, but all shall be fulfilled.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:36 And, as I said before, after the
tribulation of those days, and the powers of heaven shall be
shaken, then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven,
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they shall
see the Son of Man coming the clouds of heaven, with power and
great glory;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:37 And whoso treasureth up my word, shall
not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he shall send
his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:38 Now learn a parable of the fig-tree--
When its branches are yet tender, and it begins to put forth
leaves, you know that summer is nigh at hand;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:39 So likewise, mine elect, when they
shall see all these things, they shall know that he is near, even
at the doors;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:40 But of that day, and hour, no man
knoweth; no, not the angels of God in heaven, but my Father only.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:41 But as it was in the days of Noah, so
it shall be also at the coming of the Son of Man;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:42 For it shall be with them, as it was in
the days which were before the flood; for until the day that Noah
entered into the ark they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:43 And knew not until the flood came, and
took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man
be.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:44 Then shall be fulfilled that which is
written, that in the last days, two shall be in the field, the
one shall be taken, and the other left;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:45 Two shall be grinding at the mill, the
one shall be taken, and the other left;
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:46 And what I say unto one, I say unto all
men: watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord
doth come.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:47 But know this, if the good man of the
house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have
watched, and would not have suffered his house to have been
broken up, but would have been ready.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:48 Therefore be ye also ready, for in such
an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:49 Who, then, is a faithful and wise
servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to
give them meat in due season?
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:50 Blessed is that servant whom his lord,
when he cometh, shall find so doing; and verily I say unto you,
he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:51 But if that evil servant shall say in
his heart: My lord delayeth his coming,
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:52 And shall begin to smith his fellow-
servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken,
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:53 The lord of that servant shall come in
a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not
aware of,
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:54 And shall cut him asunder, and shall
appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 
Joseph Smith Matthew 1:55 And thus cometh the end of the wicked,
according to the prophecy of Moses, saying: They shall be cut off
from among the people; but the end of the earth is not yet, but
by and by.
 
JOSEPH SMITH HISTORY
 
Joseph Smith History 0:0 Joseph Smith--History. Extracts from the
History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet. For a complete record see
History of the Church, Vol. 1, Chapters 1 to 5 inclusive.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:1 Owing to the many reports which have
been put in circulation by evil-disposed and designing persons,
in relation to the rise and progress of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, all of which have been designed by
the authors thereof to militate against its character as a Church
and its progress in the world--I have been induced to write this
history, to disabuse the public mind, and put all inquirers after
truth in possession of the facts, as they have transpired, in
relation both to myself and the Church, so far as I have such
facts in my possession.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:2 In this history I shall present the
various events in relation to this Church, in truth and
righteousness, as they have transpired, or as they at present
exist, being now [1838] the eighth year since the organization of
the said Church.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:3 I was born in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of
December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, State of Vermont
. . . My father, Joseph Smith, Sen., left the State of Vermont,
and moved to Palmyra, Ontario (now Wayne) county, in the State of
New York, when I was in my tenth year, or thereabouts. In about
four years after my father's arrival in Palmyra, he moved with
his family into Manchester in the same county of Ontario--
 
Joseph Smith History 1:4 His family consisting of eleven souls,
namely, my father, Joseph Smith; my mother, Lucy Smith (whose
name, previous to her marriage, was Mack, daughter of Solomon
Mack); my brothers, Alvin (who died November 19th, 1823, in the
26th year of his age), Hyrum, myself, Samuel Harrison, William,
Don Carlos; and my sisters, Sophronia, Catherine, and Lucy.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:5 Some time in the second year after our
removal to Manchester, there was in the place where we lived an
unusual excitement on the subject of religion. It commenced with
the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in
that region of country. Indeed, the whole district of country
seemed affected by it, and great multitudes united themselves to
the different religious parties, which created no small stir and
division amongst the people, some crying "Lo, here!" and others,
"Lo, there!" Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some
for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:6 For, notwithstanding the great love
which the converts to the different faiths expressed at the time
of their conversion, and the great zeal manifested by the
respective clergy, who were active in getting up and promoting
this extraordinary scene of religious feeling, in order to have
everybody converted, as they were pleased to call it; yet when
the converts began to file off, some to one party and some to
another, it was seen that the seemingly good feelings of both the
priests and the converts were more pretended than real; for a
scene of great confusion and bad feeling ensued--priest
contending against priest, and convert against convert; so that
all their good feelings one for another, if they ever had any,
were entirely lost in a strife of words and a contest about
opinions.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:7 I was at this time in my fifteenth year.
My father's family were proselyted to the Presbyterian faith, and
four of them joined that church, namely, my mother, Lucy; my
brothers Hyrum and Samuel Harrison; and my sister Sophronia.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:8 During this time of great excitement my
mind was called up to serious reflection and great uneasiness;
but though my feelings were deep and ofter poignant, still I keep
aloof from all these parties, though I attended their several
meetings as often as occasion would permit. In process of time my
mind became somewhat partial to the Methodist sect, and I felt
some desire to be united with them; but so great were the
confusion and strife among the different denominations, that it
was impossible for a person young as I was, and so unacquainted
with men and things, to come to any certain conclusion who was
right and who was wrong.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:9 My mind at times was greatly excited,
the cry and tumult were so great and incessant. The Presbyterians
were most decided against the Baptists and Methodists, and used
all the powers of both reason and sophistry to prove their
errors, or, at least, to make the people think they were in
error. On the other hand, the Baptists and Methodists in their
turn were equally zealous in endeavoring to establish their own
tenets and disprove all others.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:10 In the midst of this war of words and
tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done?
Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong
together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall
I know it?
 
Joseph Smith History 1:11 While I was laboring under the
difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of
religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first
chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom,
let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:12 Never did any passage of scripture come
with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to
mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of
my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any
person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not
know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would
never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects
understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to
destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to
the Bible.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:13 At length I came to the conclusion that
I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do
as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the
determination to "ask of God," concluding that if he gave wisdom
to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not
upbraid, I might venture.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:14 So, in accordance with this, my
determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the
attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early
in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first
time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all
my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:15 After I had retired to the place where
I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and
finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the
desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when
immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely
overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to
bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered
around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to
sudden destruction.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:16 But, exerting all my powers to call
upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had
seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink
into despair and abandon myself to destruction--not to some
imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the
unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before
felt in any being--just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a
pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the
sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:17 It no sooner appeared than I found
myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the
light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and
glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of
them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the
other--This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
 
Joseph Smith History 1:18 My object in going to inquire of the
Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might
know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of
myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages
who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right
(for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all
were wrong)--and which I should join.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:19 I was answered that I must join none of
them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me
said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that
those professors were all corrupt; that: "they draw near to me
with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for
doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness,
but they deny the power thereof.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:20 He again forbade me to join with any of
them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot
write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself
lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had
departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree,
I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired
what the matter was. I replied, "Never mind, all is well--I am
well enough off." I then said to my mother, "I have learned for
myself that Presbyterianism is not true." It seems as though the
adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I
was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom;
else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why
the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in
my infancy?
 
Joseph Smith History 1:21 Some few days after I had this vision,
I happened to be in company with one of the Methodist preachers,
who was very active in the before mentioned religious excitement;
and, conversing with him on the subject of religion, I took
occasion to give him an account of the vision which I had had. I
was greatly surprised at his behavior; he treated my
communication not only lightly, but with great contempt, saying
it was all of the devil, that there were no such things as
visions or revelations in these days; that all such things had
ceased with the apostles, and that there would never be any more
of them.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:22 I soon found, however, that my telling
the story had excited a great deal of prejudice against me among
professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution,
which continued to increase; and though I was an obscure boy,
only between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and my
circumstances in life such as to make a boy of no consequence in
the world, yet men of high standing would take notice sufficient
to excite the public mind against me, and create a bitter
persecution; and this was common among all the sects--all united
to persecute me.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:23 It caused me serious reflection then,
and often has since, how very strange it was that an obscure boy,
of a little over fourteen years of age, and one, too, who was
doomed to the necessity of obtaining a scanty maintenance by his
daily labor, should be thought a character of sufficient
importance to attract the attention of the great ones of the most
popular sects of the day, and in a manner to create in them a
spirit of the most bitter persecution and reviling. But strange
or not, so it was, and it was often the cause of great sorrow to
myself.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:24 However, it was nevertheless a fact
that I had beheld a vision. I have thought since, that I felt
much like Paul, when he made his defense before King Agrippa, and
related the account of the vision he had when he saw a light, and
heard a voice; but still there were but few who believed him;
some said he was dishonest, others said he was mad; and he was
ridiculed and reviled. But all this did not destroy the reality
of his vision. He had seen a vision, he knew he had, and all the
persecution under heaven could not make it otherwise; and though
they should persecute him unto death, yet he knew, and would know
to his latest breath, that he had both seen a light and heard a
voice speaking unto him, and all the world could not make him
think or believe otherwise.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:25 So it was with me. I had actually seen
a light, and in the midst of that light I saw two Personages, and
they did in reality speak to me; and though I was hated and
persecuted for saying that I had seen a vision, yet it was true;
and while they were persecuting me, reviling me, and speaking all
manner of evil against me for so saying, I was led to say in my
heart: Why persecute me for telling the truth? For I had seen a
vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not
deny it, neither dared I do it; at least I knew that by so doing
I would offend God, and come under condemnation.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:26 I had now got my mind satisfied so far
as the sectarian world was concerned--that it was not my duty to
join with any of them, but to continue as I was until further
directed. I had found the testimony of James to be true--that a
man who lacked wisdom might ask of God, and obtain, and not be
upbraided.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:27 I continued to pursue my common
vocations in life until the twenty-first of September, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, all the time suffering
severe persecution at the hands of all classes of men, both
religious and irreligious, because I continued to affirm that I
had seen a vision.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:28 During the space of time which
intervened between the time I had the vision and the year
eighteen hundred and twenty-three--having been forbidden to join
any of the religious sects of the day, and being of very tender
years, and persecuted by those who ought to have been my friends
and to have endeavored in a proper and affectionate manner to
have reclaimed me--I was left to all kinds of temptations; and,
mingling with all kinds of society, I frequently fell into
errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of
human nature; which, I am sorry to say, led me into divers
temptations, offensive in the sight of God. In making this
confession, no one need suppose me guilty of any great or
malignant sins. A disposition to commit such was never in my
nature. But I was guilt of levity, and sometimes associated with
jovial company, etc., not consistent with that character which
ought to be maintained by one who was called of God as I had
been. But this will not seem very strange to any one who
recollects my youth, and is acquainted with my native cheery
temperament.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:29 In consequence of these things, I often
felt condemned for my weakness and imperfections; when, on the
evening of the above-mentioned twenty-first of September, after I
had retired to my bed for the night, I betook myself to prayer
and supplication to Almighty God for forgiveness of all my sins
and follies, and also for a manifestation to me, that I might
know of my state and standing before him; for I had full
confidence in obtaining a divine manifestation, as I previously
had one.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:30 While I was thus in the act of calling
upon God, I discovered a light appearing in my room, which
continued to increase until the room was lighter than at noonday,
when immediately a personage appeared at my bedside, standing in
the air, for his feet did not touch the floor.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:31 He had on a loose robe of most
exquisite whiteness. It was a whiteness beyond anything earthly I
had ever seen; nor do I believe that any earthly thing could be
made to appear so exceedingly white and brilliant. His hands were
naked, and his arms also, a little above the wrist; so, also,
were his feet naked, as were his legs, a little above the ankles.
His head and neck were also bare. I could discover that he had no
other clothing on but this robe, as it was open, so that I could
see into his bosom.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:32 Not only was his robe exceedingly
white, but his whole person was glorious beyond description, and
his countenance truly like lightning. The room was exceedingly
light, but not so very bright as immediately around his person.
When I first looked upon him, I was afraid; but the fear soon
left me.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:33 He called me by name, and said unto me
that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and
that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and
that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations,
kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil
spoken of among all people.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:34 He said there was a book deposited,
written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former
inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they
sprang. He also said that the fulness of the everlasting Gospel
was contained in it, as delivered by the Savior to the ancient
inhabitants;
 
Joseph Smith History 1:35 Also, that there were two stones in
silver bows--and these stones, fastened to a breastplate,
constituted what is called the Urim and Thummim--deposited with
the plates; and the possession and use of these stones were what
constituted "seers" in ancient or former times; and that God had
prepared them for the purpose of translating the book.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:36 After telling me these things, he
commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He first
quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi; and he quoted also
the fourth or last chapter of the same prophecy, though with a
little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles. Instead of
quoting the first verse as it reads in our books, he quoted it
thus:
 
Joseph Smith History 1:37 For behold, the day cometh that shall
burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly
shall burn as stubble; for they that come shall burn them, saith
the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:38 And again, he quoted the fifth verse
thus: Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand
of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:39 He also quoted the next verse
differently: And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the
promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children
shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth
would be utterly wasted at his coming.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:40 In addition to these, he quoted the
eleventh chapter of Isaiah, saying that it was about to be
fulfilled. He quoted also the third chapter of Acts, twenty-
second and twenty-third verses, precisely as they stand in our
New Testament. He said that that prophet was Christ; but the day
had not yet come when "they who would not hear his voice should
be cut off from among the people," but soon would.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:41 He also quoted the second chapter of
Joel, from the twenty-eighth verse to the last. He also said that
this was not yet fulfilled, but was soon to be. And he further
stated that the fulness of the Gentiles was soon to come in. He
quoted many other passages of scripture, and offered many
explanations which cannot be mentioned here.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:42 Again, he told me, that when I got
those plates of which he had spoken--for the time that they
should be obtained was not yet fulfilled--I should not show them
to any person; neither the breastplate with the Urim and Thummim;
only to those to whom I should be commanded to show them; if I
did I should be destroyed. While he was conversing with me about
the plates, the vision was opened to my mind that I could see the
place where the plates were deposited, and that so clearly and
distinctly that I knew the place again when I visited it.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:43 After this communication, I saw the
light in the room begin to gather immediately around the person
of him who had been speaking to me, and it continued to do so
until the room was again left dark, except just around him; when,
instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit open right up into heaven,
and he ascended till he entirely disappeared, and the room was
left as it had been before this heavenly light had made its
appearance.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:44 I lay musing on the singularity of the
scene, and marveling greatly at what had been told to me by this
extraordinary messenger; when, in the midst of my meditation, I
suddenly discovered that my room was again beginning to get
lighted, and in an instant, as it were, the same heavenly
messenger was again by my bedside.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:45 He commenced, and again related the
very same things which he had done at his first visit, without
the least variation; which having done, he informed me of great
judgments which were coming upon the earth, with great
desolations by famine, sword, and pestilence; and that these
grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation.
Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done
before.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:46 By this time, so deep were the
impressions made on my mind, that sleep had fled from my eyes,
and I lay overwhelmed in astonishment at what I had both seen and
heard. But what was my surprise when again I beheld the same
messenger at my bedside, and heard him rehearse or repeat over
again to me the same things as before; and added a caution to me,
telling me that Satan would try to tempt me (in consequence of
the indigent circumstances of my father's family), to get the
plates for the purpose of getting rich. This he forbade me,
saying that I must have no other object in view in getting the
plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any
other motive than that of building his kingdom; otherwise I could
not get them.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:47 After this third visit, he again
ascended into heaven as before, and I was again left to ponder on
the strangeness of what I had just experienced; when almost
immediately after the heavenly messenger had ascended from me for
the third time, the cock crowed, and I found that day was
approaching, so that our interviews must have must occupied the
whole of that night.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:48 I shortly after arose from my bed, and,
as usual, went to the necessary labors of the day; but, in
attempting to work as at other times, I found my strength so
exhausted as to render me entirely unable. My father, who was
laboring along with me, discovered something to be wrong with me,
and told me to go home. I started with the intention of going to
the house; but, in attempting to cross the fence out of the field
where we were, my strength entirely failed me, and I fell
helpless on the ground, and for a time was quite unconscious of
anything.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:49 The first thing that I can recollect
was a voice speaking unto me, calling me by name. I looked up,
and beheld the same messenger standing over my head, surrounded
by light as before. He then again related unto me all that he had
related to me the previous night, and commanded me to go to my
father and tell him of the vision and commandments which I had
received.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:50 I obeyed; I returned to my father in
the field, and rehearsed the whole matter to him. He replied to
me that it was of God, and told me to go and do as commanded by
the messenger. I left the field, and went to the place where the
messenger had told me the plates were deposited; and owing to the
distinctness of the vision which I had had concerning it, I knew
the place the instant that I arrived there.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:51 Convenient to the village of
Manchester, Ontario county, New York, stands a hill of
considerable size, and the most elevated of any in the
neighborhood. On the west side of this hill, not far from the
top, under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates,
deposited in a stone box. This stone was thick and rounding in
the middle on the upper side, and thinner towards the edges, so
that the middle part of it was visible above the ground, but the
edge all around was covered with earth.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:52 Having removed the earth, I obtained a
lever, which I got fixed under the edge of the stone, and with a
little exertion raised it up. I looked in, and there indeed did I
behold the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate, as
stated by the messenger. The box in which they lay was formed by
laying stones together in some kind of cement. In the bottom of
the box were laid two stones crossways of the box, and on these
stones lay the plates and the other things with them.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:53 I made an attempt to take them out, but
was forbidden by the messenger, and was again informed that the
time for bringing them forth had not yet arrived, neither would
it, until four years from that time; but he told me that I should
come to that place precisely in one year from that time, and that
he would there meet with me, and that I should continue to do so
until the time should come for obtaining the plates.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:54 Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I
went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same
messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from
him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going
to do, and how and in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted
in the last days.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:55 As my father's worldly circumstances
were very limited, we were under the necessity of laboring with
our hands, hiring out by day's work and otherwise, as we could
get opportunity. Sometimes we were at home, and sometimes abroad,
and by continuous labor were enabled to get a comfortable
maintenance.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:56 In the year 1823 my father's family met
with a great affliction by the death of my eldest brother, Alvin.
In the month of October, 1825, I hired with an old gentleman by
the name of Josiah Stoal, who lived in Chenango county, State of
New York. He had heard something of a silver mine having been
opened by the Spaniards in Harmony, Susquehanna county, State of
Pennsylvania; and had, previous to my hiring to him, been
digging, in order, if possible, to discover the mine. After I
went to liver with him, he took me, with the rest of his hands,
to dig for the silver mine, at which I continued to work for
nearly a month, without success in our undertaking, and finally I
prevailed with the old gentleman to cease digging after it. Hence
arose the very prevalent story of my having been a money-digger.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:57 During the time that I was thus
employed, I was put to board with a Mr. Isaac Hale, of that
place; it was there I first saw my wife (his daughter), Emma
Hale. On the 18th of January, 1827, we were married, while I was
yet employed in the service of Mr. Stoal.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:58 Owing to my continuing to assert that I
had seen a vision, persecution still followed me, and my wife's
father's family were very much opposed to our being married. I
was, therefore, under the necessity of taking her elsewhere; so
we went and were married at the house of Squire Tarbill, in South
Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York. Immediately after my
marriage, I left Mr. Stoal's, and went to my father's, and farmed
with him that season.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:59 At length the time arrived for
obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate.
On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year
to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly
messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should
be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly,
or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if
I would preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for
them, they should be protected.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:60 I soon found out the reason why I had
received such strict charges to keep them safe, and why it was
that the messenger had said that when I had done what was
required at my hand, he would call for them. For no sooner was it
known that I had them, than the most strenuous exertions were
used to get them from me. Every stratagem that could be invented
was resorted to for that purpose. The persecution became more
bitter and severe than before, and multitudes were on the alert
continually to get them from me if possible. But by the wisdom of
God, they remained safe in my hands, until I had accomplished by
them what was required at my hand. When, according to
arrangements, the messenger called for them, I delivered them up
to him; and he has them in his charge until this day, being the
second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:61 The excitement, however, still
continued, and rumor with her thousand tongues was all the time
employed in circulating falsehoods about my father's family, and
about myself. If I were to relate a thousandth part of them, it
would fill up volumes. The persecution, however, became so
intolerable that I was under the necessity of leaving Manchester,
and going with my wife to Susquehanna county, in the State of
Pennsylvania. While preparing to start--being very poor, and the
persecution so heavy upon us that there was no probability that
we would ever be otherwise--in the midst of our afflictions we
found a friend in a gentleman by the name of Martin Harris, who
came to us and gave me fifty dollars to assist us on our journey.
Mr. Harris was a resident of Palmyra township, Wayne county, in
the State of New York, and a farmer of respectability.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:62 By this timely aid was I enabled to
reach the place of my destination in Pennsylvania; and
immediately after my arrival there I commenced copying the
characters off the plates. I copied a considerable number of
them, and by means of the Urim and Thummim I translated some of
them, which I did between the time I arrived at the house of my
wife's father, in the month of December, and the February
following.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:63 Sometime in this month of February, the
aforementioned Mr. Martin Harris came to our place, got the
characters which I had drawn off the plates, and started with
them to the city of New York. For what took place relative to him
and the characters, I refer to his own account of the
circumstances, as he related them to me after his return, which
was as follows:
 
Joseph Smith History 1:64 "I went to the city of New York, and
presented the characters which had been translated, with the
translation thereof, to Professor Charles Anthon, a gentleman
celebrated for his literary attainments. Professor Anthon stated
that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before
seen translated from the Egyptian. I then showed him those which
were not yet translated, and he said that they were Egyptian,
Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic; and he said they were true
characters. He gave me a certificate to the people of Palmyra
that they were true characters, and that the translation of such
of them as had been translated was also correct. I took the
certificate and put it into my pocket, and was just leaving the
house, when Mr. Anthon called me back, and asked me how the young
man found out that there were gold plates in the place where he
found them. I answered that an angel of God had revealed it unto
him.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:65 "He then said to me, `Let me see that
certificate.' I accordingly took it out of my pocket and gave it
to him, when he took it and tore it to pieces, saying that there
was no such thing now as ministering of angels, and that if I
would bring the plates to him he would translate them. I informed
him that part of the plates were sealed, and that I was forbidden
to bring them. He replied, `I cannot read a sealed book.' I left
him and went to Dr. Mitchell, who sanctioned what Professor
Anthon had said respecting both the characters and the
translation."
 
Joseph Smith History 1:66 On the 5th day of April, 1829, Oliver
Cowdery came to my house, until which time I had never seen him.
He stated to me that having been teaching school in the
neighborhood where my father resided, and my father being one of
those who sent to the school, he went to board for a season at
his house, and while there the family related to him the
circumstances of my having received the plates, and accordingly
he had come to make inquiries of me.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:67 Two days after the arrival of Mr.
Cowdery (being the 7th of April) I commenced to translate the
Book of Mormon, and he began to write for me.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:68 We still continued the work of
translation, when, in the ensuing month (May, 1829), we on a
certain day went into the woods to pray and inquire of the Lord
respecting baptism for the remission of sins, that we found
mentioned in the translation of the plates. While we were thus
employed, praying and calling upon the Lord, a messenger from
heaven descended in a cloud of light, and having laid his hands
upon us, he ordained us, saying:
 
Joseph Smith History 1:69 Upon you my fellow servants, in the
name of Messiah, I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds
the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of
repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of
sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth until
the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in
righteousness.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:70 He said this Aaronic Priesthood had not
the power of laying on hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, but
that this should be conferred on us hereafter; and he commanded
us to go and be baptized, and gave us directions that I should
baptize Oliver Cowdery, and that afterwards he should baptize me.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:71 Accordingly we went and were baptized,
I baptized him first, and afterwards he baptized me--after which
I laid my hands upon his head and ordained him to the Aaronic
Priesthood, and afterwards he laid his hands on me and ordained
me to the same Priesthood--for so we were commanded.*
 
Joseph Smith History 1:72 The messenger who visited us on this
occasion and conferred this Priesthood upon us, said that his
name was John, the same that is called John the Baptist in the
New Testament, and that he acted under the direction of Peter,
James and John, who held the keys of the Priesthood of
Melchizedek, which Priesthood, he said, would in due time be
conferred on us, and that I should be called the first Elder of
the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the
fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand
of this messenger, and baptized.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:73 Immediately on our coming up out of the
water after we had been baptized, we experienced great and
glorious blessings from our Heavenly Father. No sooner had I
baptized Oliver Cowdery, than the Holy Ghost fell upon him, and
he stood up and prophesied many things which should shortly come
to pass. And again, so soon as I had been baptized by him, I also
had the spirit of prophecy, when, standing up, I prophesied
concerning the rise of this Church, and many other things
connected with the Church, and this generation of the children of
men. We were filled with the Holy Ghost, and rejoiced in the God
of our salvation.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:74 Our minds being now enlightened, we
began to have the scriptures laid open to our understandings, and
true meaning and intention of their more mysterious passages
revealed unto us in a manner which we never could attain to
previously, nor ever before had thought of. In the meantime we
were forced to keep secret the circumstances of having received
the Priesthood and our having been baptized, owing to a spirit of
persecution which had already manifested itself in the
neighborhood.
 
Joseph Smith History 1:75 We had been threatened with being
mobbed, from time to time, and this, too, by professors of
religion. And their intentions of mobbing us were only
counteracted by the influence of my wife's father's family (under
Divine providence), who had become very friendly to me, and who
were opposed to mobs, and were willing that I should continue the
work of translation without interruption; and therefore offered
and promised us protection from all unlawful proceedings, as far
as in them lay.
 
Joseph Smith History F:1 Oliver Cowdery describes these events
thus: "These were days never to be forgotten--to sit under the
sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened
the utmost gratitude of this bosom! Day after day I continued,
uninterrupted, to write from his mouth, as he translated with the
Urim and Thummim, or, as the Nephites would have said,
`Interpreters,' the history or record called `The Book of
Mormon.'
 
Joseph Smith History F:2 "To notice, in even few words, the
interesting account given by Mormon and his faithful son, Moroni,
of a people once beloved and favored of heaven, would supersede
my present design; I shall therefore defer this to a future
period, and, as I said in the introduction, pass more directly to
some few incidents immediately connected with the rise of this
Church, which may be entertaining to some thousands who have
stepped forward, amid the frowns of bigots and the calumny of
hypocrites, and embraced the Gospel of Christ.
 
Joseph Smith History F:3 "No men, in their sober senses, could
translate and write the directions given to the Nephites from the
mouth of the Savior, of the precise manner in which men should
build up His Church, and especially when corruption had spread an
uncertainty over all forms and systems practiced among men,
without desiring a privilege of showing the willingness of the
heart by being buried in the liquid grave, to answer a `good
conscience by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.'
 
Joseph Smith History F:4 "After writing the account given of the
Savior's ministry to the remnant of the seed of Jacob, upon this
continent, it was easy to be seen, as the prophet said it would
be, that darkness covered the earth and gross darkness the minds
of the people. On reflecting further it was as easy to be seen
that amid the great strife and noise concerning religion, none
had authority from God to administer the ordinances of the
Gospel. For the question might be asked, have men authority to
administer in the name of Christ, who deny revelations, when His
testimony is no less than the spirit of prophecy, and His
religion based, built, and sustained by immediate revelations, in
all ages of the world when He has had a people on earth? If these
facts were buried, and carefully concealed by men whose craft
would have been in danger if once permitted to shine in the faces
of men, they were no longer to us; and we only waited for the
commandment to be given `Arise and be baptized.'
 
Joseph Smith History F:5 "This was not long desired before it was
realized. The Lord, who is rich in mercy, and ever willing to
answer the consistent prayer of the humble, after we had called
upon Him in a fervent manner, aside from the abodes of men,
condescended to manifest to us His will. On a sudden, as from the
midst of eternity, the voice of the Redeemer spake peace to us,
while the veil was parted and the angel of God came down clothed
with glory, and delivered the anxiously looked for message, and
the keys of the Gospel of repentance. What joy! what wonder! what
amazement! While the world was racked and distracted--while
millions were groping as the blind for the wall, and while all
men were resting upon uncertainty, as a general mass, our eyes
beheld, our ears heard, as in the `blaze of day'; yes, more--
above the glitter of the May sunbeam, which then shed its
brilliancy over the face of nature! Then his voice, though mild,
pierced to the center, and his words, `I am thy fellow-servant,'
dispelled every fear. We listened, we gazed, we admired! 'Twas
the voice of an angel from glory, 'twas a message from the Most
High! And as we heard we rejoiced, while His love enkindled upon
our souls, and we were wrapped in the vision of the Almighty!
Where was room for doubt? Nowhere; uncertainty had fled, doubt
had sunk no more to rise, while fiction and deception had fled
forever!
 
Joseph Smith History F:6 "But, dear brother, think, further think
for a moment, what joy filled our hearts, and with what surprise
we must have bowed, (for who would not have bowed the knee for
such a blessing?) when we received under his hand the Holy
Priesthood as he said, `Upon you my fellow-servants, in the name
of Messiah, I confer this Priesthood and this authority, which
shall remain upon earth, that the Sons of Levi may yet offer an
offering unto the Lord in righteousness!'
 
Joseph Smith History F:7 "I shall not attempt to paint to you the
feelings of this heart, nor the majestic beauty and glory which
surrounded us on this occasion; but you will believe me when I
say, that earth, nor men, with the eloquence of time, cannot
begin to clothe language in as interesting and sublime a manner
as this holy personage. No; nor has this earth power to give the
joy, to bestow the peace, or comprehend the wisdom which was
contained in each sentence as they were delivered by the power of
the Holy Spirit! Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may
follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have
power to seduce the foolish and untaught, till naught but fiction
feeds the many, and the fruit of falsehood carries in its current
the giddy to the grave; but one touch with the finger of his
love, yes, one ray of glory from the upper world, or one word
from the mouth of the Savior, from the bosom of eternity, strikes
it all into insignificance, and blots it forever from the mind.
The assurance that we were in the presence of an angel, the
certainty that we heard the voice of Jesus, and the truth
unsullied as it flowed from a pure personage, dictated by the
will of God, is to me past description, and I shall ever look
upon this expression of the Savior's goodness with wonder and
thanksgiving while I am permitted to tarry; and in those mansions
where perfection dwells and sin never comes, I hope to adore in
that day which shall never cease."--Times and Seasons, vol. 2, p.
201.
 
ARTICLES OF FAITH
 
Articles of Faith 0 The Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints. History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp.
535-541
 
Articles of Faith 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in
His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
 
Articles of Faith 2 We believe that men will be punished for
their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
 
Articles of Faith 3 We believe that through the atonement of
Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and
ordinances of the Gospel.
 
Articles of Faith 4 We believe that the first principles and
ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the
remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the
Holy Ghost.
 
Articles of Faith 5 We believe that a man must be called of God,
by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in
authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances
thereof.
 
Articles of Faith 6 We believe in the same organization that
existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets,
pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
 
Articles of Faith 7 We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy,
revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so
forth.
 
Articles of Faith 8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as
far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of
Mormon to be the word of God.
 
Articles of Faith 9 We believe all that God has revealed, all the
He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many
great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
 
Articles of Faith 10 We believe in the literal gathering of
Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the
New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that
Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth
will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
 
Articles of Faith 11 We claim the privilege of worshiping the
Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and
allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or
what they may.
 
Articles of Faith 12 We believe in being subject to kings,
presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and
sustaining the law.
 
Articles of Faith 13 We believe in being honest, true, chaste,
benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we
may say that we follow the admonition of Paul--We believe all
things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope
to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous,
lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these
things.
 
Articles of Faith 00 Joseph Smith.
 
